Scripture: Isaiah 40.12-31
Confession: Chapter 2, God and the Holy Trinity
1. 1There is but one, and only one, living and true God. 2He is self-existent and infinite in His being and His perfections. 3None but He can comprehend or understand His essence. 4He is pure spirit, invisible, and without body, parts, or the changeable feelings of men. 5He alone possesses immortality, and dwells amid the light insufferably bright to mortal men. 6He never changes. 7He is great beyond all our conceptions, eternal, incomprehensible, almighty and infinite. 8He is most holy, wise, free and absolute. 9All that He does is the outworking of His changeless, righteous will, and for His own glory. 10He is most loving, gracious, merciful, and compassionate. 11He abounds in goodness and truth. 12He forgives iniquity, transgression and sin. 13He rewards those who seek Him diligently. 14But He hates sin. 15He will not overlook guilt or spare the guilty, and He is perfectly just in executing judgment.
Gen. 17.1, Ex. 3.14, 34.6-7, Deut. 4.15,16, 6.4, 1 Ki. 8.27, Neh. 9.32, 33, Ps. 5.5,6, 90.2, 115.3, Prov. 16.4, Is. 6.3, 46.10, 48.12, Jer. 10.10, 23.23, 24, Nah. 1.2, 3, Mal. 3.6, Jn. 4.24, Ro. 11.36, 1 Cor. 8.4, 6. 1 Tim. 1.17, Heb. 11.6
2. 1God is all-sufficient, and life, glory, goodness and blessedness are found in Him and in Him alone. 2He does not stand in need of any of the creatures that He has made, nor does He receive any part of His glory from them. 3On the contrary, 4He manifests His own glory in and by them, He is the fountain-head of all being, and the origin, channel and end of all things. 5Over all His creatures He is sovereign. 6He uses them as He pleases, and does for them or to them all that He wills. 7His sight penetrates to the heart of all things. 8His knowledge is infinite and infallible. 9No single thing is to Him at risk or uncertain, for He is not dependent upon created things. 10In all His decisions, doings and demands He is most holy. 11Angels and men owe to Him as their Creator all worship, service and obedience, and whatever else He may require at their hands.
Job 22.2,3, Ps. 119.68, 145.17, 148.13, Ezek. 11.5, Dan. 4.25, 34, 35, Jn. 5.26, Ac. 15.18, Ro. 11.34,36, Heb. 4.13, Rev. 5.12-14
Study Group Questions:
1. “What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.” Comment, please!
2. Look at the whole paragraph of Conf. 1. Underline in your notes all that God is in His Being which we are not in our humanity. Why do we need to know these truths, and why did Isaiah’s first hearers?
3. Now underline the aspects of God’s character which are totally different from ours. How should we think and feel differently about God in the light of all of these truths?
4. God is ‘self-existent’ (Conf. 1.2). What does this mean, and how should we react to it?
5. Read Conf. 2.5-9. How do these truths help you to approach what’s ahead of you this week?
6. Read Conf. 2.10. What does it mean that God is ‘Holy’? What confidence in God can you derive from the statement of Conf. 2.10?
7. Check Conf. 2.11. What do we owe to God, and why?
8. Look at Isaiah 40.25. Can you comment on that verse, in the light of what we’ve seen this in this study?
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