The Godhood of God # 1

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The Godhood of God # 1

INTRODUCTION

The Godhood of God! What is meant by this expression? Ah, sad it is that such a question needs to be asked and answered. And yet it does - for a generation has arisen that is well near universally ignorant of the important truth which this term connotes.

That which is popular today in the colleges, in the pulpits, and in the press - is the dignity, the power, and the attainment of MAN. But this is only the corrupt fruit that has issued from the Evolutionary teachings of fifty years ago. When Christian theologians accepted the Darwinian hypothesis, which excluded God from the realm of Creation, it was only to be expected that more and more God would be banished from the realm of human affairs. This it has proven.

To the twentieth century mind, God is little more than an abstraction, an impersonal "First Cause," or if a Being at all. One far removed from this world and having little or nothing to do with mundane affairs. Man, forsooth, is a "God" unto himself. [true, that's what we are being taught now! Awful!!] Man is a free agent and therefore the regulator of his own life and the determiner of his own destiny. [I'm sorry, Heavenly Father. Please forgive us!!] Such was the devil's lie at the beginning, "You shall be as God" (Genesis 3:5). But from human speculation and satanic insinuation, we turn to Divine revelation.

The Godhood of God! What is meant by the expression? This: the omnipotence of God, and absolute sovereignty of God. When we speak of the Godhood of God we affirm that God is God. We affirm that God is something more than an empty title - that God is something more than a mere figure-head - that God is something more than a far-distant Spectator, looking helplessly on at the suffering which sin has wrought. When we speak of the Godhood of God we affirm that He is "King of kings and Lord of lords." We affirm that God is something more than a disappointed, dissatisfied, defeated Being, who is filled with benevolent desires, but lacking in power to carry them out. When we speak of the Godhood of God we affirm that He is "the Most High God." We affirm that God is something more than One who has endowed man with the power of choice, and because He has done this is therefore unable to compel man to do His bidding. We affirm that God is something more than One who has waged a protracted war with the devil and has been worsted. When we speak of the Godhood of God we affirm that He is the ALMIGHTY.

To speak of the Godhood of God then, is to say that God is on the Throne, on the Throne of His universe as a fact and not as a say so; on a Throne that is high above all. To speak of the Godhood of God is to say that the Helm is in His hand, and that He is steering according to His own good pleasure. To speak of the Godhood of God is to say that He is the Potter, that we are the clay, and that out of the clay He shapes one as a vessel to honor and another as a vessel to dishonor according to His own sovereign rights. To speak of the Divine Monarch doing "according to His will in the army of Heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay His hand, or say unto Him what do You?" (Daniel 4:35).

Therefore, to speak of the Godhood of God is to give the mighty Creator His rightful place; it is to recognize His exalted majesty; it is to own His universal scepter.

The Godhood of God stands at the base of Divine revelation: "in the beginning God" - to solemn majesty, eternal un-caused, self-sufficient. This is the foundation doctrine, and upon it all other doctrines must be built, and any other doctrine which is not built upon it will inevitably fail and fall in the day of testing. At the beginning of all true theology lies the postulate that God is God - absolute and irresistible. It must be so. Without this, we face a closed door: with it, we have a key which unlocks every mystery.

This is true Creation - exclude an Almighty God and nothing is left but blind and illogical materialism!

This is true Revelation - the Bible is the solitary miracle in the realm of literature; exclude God from it and you have a miracle and no miracle-worker to produce it.

This is true Salvation. Salvation is "of the Lord," entirely so; exclude God from any aspect or part of salvation, and salvation vanishes!

This is true History, for history is His story; it is the outworking in time of His eternal purpose. Exclude God from history and all is meaningless and purposeless. The absolute Godhood of God is the only guaranty that in the end it shall be fully and finally demonstrated that God is "All in all." (1 Cor. 15:28).

~A. W. Pink~

(continued with # 2)