We've been in the seventh chapter of Don's book titled Basic Bible Doctrine for a couple of weeks now, and we've studied the attributes of God, as he brings out from John 17, verse 3, and this is eternal life, that they might know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent. And we thought about... the different characteristics of God's attributes.

Don writes, he goes, what are the attributes of God? The attributes of God are the perfections of his nature. And we considered 13 different attributes of God's nature, the perfections of his nature, and he's perfect in being self-existent. That was our first one. I got my pages mixed up here.

Secondly, we looked at his spirituality. The unity of the three, the great three in one, the Godhead. The eternity, the eternality, if I can say that word correctly, of God. He's eternal. There is no ending, there is no beginning. He is the great I Am, as we looked at. His immutability, His unchangeability, unchanging characteristic. When the Scriptures declare that God changes not, we're taught that though He changes all things, nothing moves or changes Him.

Our actions don't change God. We don't add to or take away one thing from His salvation for us. We don't add to or take away one thing of God's love for His people. We think of His immutability, His omnipresence, He's everywhere at all times. He's here today just as He was there that day that He walked this earth. Only today He sits on His throne after completing, after finishing the work that God the Father had sent Him to do here on this earth.

He's omniscient. He's all-powerful. There's nothing, nothing that can turn His hand. Nothing is more powerful than God. He's all-faithful.

So this morning, I want to wrap up chapter 7 of Don's book by reading the last part of it, which is titled, How Does God Reveal His Attributes? Those attributes that we just went through. How does He reveal them to us?

We see some of our God's great attributes in creation, as Roger was just saying a moment ago. Everything we look at that God created, we can see His attributes in it. We can see some of what His attributes are in His creation. Everything our eyes see, our ears hear, our hands handle in heaven and earth is filled with the glory of the Lord to God's people.

You recall the story of giving many a time where Kathy and I were on our motorcycles going through what's called the ice fields of Canada. The wonders of these cliffs that were thousands of feet high on each side of the valley. And then above the rock, the hard rock cliffs of the mountain edges was another thousand or so feet of turquoise colored ice. Or Kathy, one time she was sitting here and she ran outside to get a picture on her phone of the clouds because she said, look what God has made in the clouds.

We see it, as you said, Roger, in the creation, in his creation. Even the unbelieving, writes Don, the heathen have God's attributes sufficiently revealed to them to render them Romans chapter 1 for just a moment. Turn over to Romans chapter 1 and let's see what the Lord says in His Word here.

Romans chapter 1. Just a couple of verses. 19 and 20. Romans 1 verse 19, Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them, that God hath showed it unto them. Speaking of the heathens, speaking of those who know not God. The unrighteous, as it says in verse 18. For the invisible things of Him from creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse.

We also see the Lord's attributes are revealed to us in His Word, even before the fall. In the innocence of Adam and Eve, they were ruled by the Word of God. Remember who it was who spoke to them personally in the garden. By his revealed will and God's revelation of himself in the revelation of his attributes.

The attributes of God are somewhat revealed in the character even of fallen men who are created in the image of God. Without question, the image of God still reflects His Creator. The law of God is stamped on the hearts of all men. That's why those who had never received the law through Israel, through Moses, they still knew what was right from wrong. Those who have never abided to what we call the commandments of God, the Ten Commandments, they know what's right from wrong. You don't have to teach a child what's wrong. They know. They cower.

The law of God is stamped on the hearts of all men. And man is so much a reflection of God, even in his foulest state, that those who abuse, malign, or murder their neighbors incur the wrath of God in doing so.

Look over at James chapter 3 verse 9. Over to James. Verse chapter 3. Verse 9 says, Therewith bless we God, even the Father, and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude, the likeness of God.

Certainly, Don writes, we see the attributes of our God in the Lord Jesus Christ. our great and glorious Redeemer, the Incarnate God Himself as we read in John 1.14. But it also speaks of that very thing in Colossians. Look over at Colossians. Go back past Hebrews and past the 3 Ts to Colossians. You've got Philippians and then Colossians. Look at Colossians 2.9. For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily, it says in Colossians 2, verse 9. This is speaking of Christ, God Almighty.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was made flesh, as it says in John 1, verse 14. Though our Lord Jesus veiled His glorious attributes as God Himself, emptying Himself of any display of His dazzling, essential glory, as God puts it, as God. Still, God had beamed forth and radiated from him while he walked on this earth as a man. All the miracles that he did, men were amazed, but they said, only God could do those kind of miracles. And now, the exalted Christ is worthy as a man to receive all honor. of His divine attributes as it is heaped upon Him in glory.

Look over Revelation chapter 5. Turn over to Revelation 5. This is how our Lord is seen with all of His attributes. Now look at verse 12. Saying worthy. This is Revelation 5 verse 12. Saying worthy. Saying with a loud voice, worthy is the Lamb that was slain receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven and on earth and under the earth and such are in the sea. And all that are in them heard I saying, blessing and honor and glory and power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb forever and ever.

God is another way we see His great attributes. We see it in a great measure displaying the attributes of His being. The precepts of the law are a mirror in which we see the reflection of God's perfections. Each commandment is an expression of His nature. The book of the laws reveals that God loves reveals what God loves and what He hates, what He approves of and what He despises, thus revealing in some measure what His character is.

Still in all these things, creation, law, men, even the incarnation, as Job puts Look over at Job. That's the quotation there in Job 26, verse 14. We only see parts of His ways. The Scriptures talk about seeing through glass darkly.

The only total, full, complete revelation of God's glory as God, the only full display of His glorious attributes is the gospel of our great and glorious Savior, Jesus Christ. I was thinking about this as I was getting ready this morning for today's services. She has to go out and preach the gospel. Folks, the gospel is a person. Jesus Christ and Him crucified is the gospel. That's the good news to sinners. When we wake up every day facing the sin that is in this flesh, our only hope, our only hope of glory is found in our Savior, the Lord Jesus.

What a wonderful thing to see all of God's perfections in Him, all of His characters in Him, all of the Godhead bodily in Him. The only place in the world, writes Don, where God is fully sacrifice of Christ at Calvary for the salvation of God's elect. With regard to all other manifestations of God's glory, it must be said that no man has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, He hath declared Him. It is only in the death of Christ as our substitute that every attribute of God being meets and is revealed in perfect harmony.

Don says, I do not suggest for a moment that God's attributes ever conflict with one another. They do not. But everywhere else they appear to conflict with man. and of mercy, love, and grace, but only in our glorious Christ do we see them all displayed fully and perfectly.

Look over at Psalm 85. Turn over to Psalm 85. Surely His salvation, verse 9. Psalm 85, verse 9. Surely His salvation is nigh them that fear Him. that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together. Righteousness and peace have kissed each other. Truth shall spring out of the earth, and righteousness shall look down from heaven. Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good, and our land shall yield her increase. Righteousness shall go before Him, and shall set us in the way of His steps.

In closing, Don writes this, he says, we see justice in the flood and the mercy in the ark. We see justice in Sodom's destruction and mercy in Lot's deliverance. We see justice in the slaying of the firstborn and mercy in the salvation of Israel. We see mercy in the parting of the sea and justice overflowing Pharaoh's army. But only in the crucified Son of God, slain as our substitute for the saving of our souls do we see mercy and justice and peace and truth shining forth brilliantly unto the glory of God.

Look over at Romans chapter 3. Turn over to Romans chapter 3. Beginning at verse 24, we read these words, being justified freely by His grace. This is Romans chapter 3, verse 24, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God has set forth to be a propitiation through faith in His blood, to declare His righteousness for the remission of sins that are passed through the forbearance of God, to declare, I say at this time, His righteousness and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

One more, if you would, turn to the... And Don closes with this statement before we read. This is the glory of the gospel, writes Don. It reveals the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. We're talking about, for our brother who just came in, we're talking about all of those characteristics that we've been talking about, they are all seen in the face of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Over here, the glory, Don writes, the glory of the Gospel is revealed. Look over at 2 Corinthians 4 verse 6. We're talking about the glory of God, the characteristics of God, all being revealed to us in the face of the Lord Jesus. For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God.