Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the Doctrine of God Part 9.

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Today we come to some thoughts of application concerning the attribute of divine omnipresence that we've been talking about.

What application does it have to our lives to know that God is everywhere present?

Well, let me just mention a couple of things. First, it means that we can contact God at every location. No matter where we are, we can call upon God,

and he is there. You may remember when you were in grade school, the teacher would sometimes

call the role, and each student would respond present when his name was called.

Well, that's similar to our ability to call upon God.

No matter where we are, we call upon his name, and he answers present.

If you're in San Francisco, God calls out present.

If you're in Munich, God answers present. If you're in Rio de Janeiro, he says present. If you're in Munich, God answers, present. If you're in Iod de Janeiro, he says,

present there as well. Everywhere that we need to call upon God, we will find him present there.

And I must say that when Jan and I first began to travel abroad and to live in Europe, I wondered, how would it be? Would God be equally real

there, or would we have left him behind in the United States? It may sound like a silly question,

but I did wonder. And what we found was no matter where we traveled and lived, the Lord was present there equally, as we had

known him back in the United States. So God can be contacted. He is present. He's available there at

every place that you are. And secondly, that implies then that we should practice the presence of God.

We should be aware and constantly conscious of His presence with us.

Now I'm not talking about trying to crank up some sort of emotion, but just a kind of

awareness that God is there, that he's not some distant being

far away, but he is there with you.

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