#367 – Transcendent and Immanent (Psalm 11:4)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 12 August 2018
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:05.6 | Psalm chapter 11, verse 4. |
| 0:08.7 | The Lord is in his holy temple. |
| 0:11.8 | The Lord's throne is in heaven. |
| 0:15.0 | His eyes see, his eyelids test the children of man. |
| 0:21.2 | What a picture. |
| 0:22.9 | This verse really summarizes what theologically is often called God's transcendence and eminence. |
| 0:33.1 | So God is transcendent in the sense that he is separate from his creation. |
| 0:38.6 | He is over his creation. |
| 0:41.8 | He doesn't depend on anything in creation in any way. |
| 0:46.4 | He's sovereign over everything. |
| 0:48.6 | He is mighty above everything. |
| 0:52.0 | So he is glorious above creation, transcending everyone and everything. |
| 0:58.6 | At the same time, he is imminent, which means God is present in the universe that he is made. |
| 1:06.6 | He is working. So this is not like pantheism, like creation is God, but God is at work in all of creation, |
| 1:15.1 | and he is at work in every single detail in our lives. |
| 1:19.1 | So you put that together here in Psalm 11, verse 4, the Lord is in His Holy Temple, the Lord's |
| 1:24.3 | throne is in heaven. |
| 1:25.3 | That's a picture of his transcendence. He reigns |
| 1:29.3 | holy above all on a throne. Yet his eyes see, his eyelids test, the children of man. |
| 1:39.3 | He knows every single detail in our lives. He's not distant from us. He is with us. He knows everything about |
| 1:47.0 | us. He knows every thought that you've had today in ways that you can't even remember. He knows every |
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