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Renewing Your Mind

Incommunicable Attributes

Renewing Your Mind

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.85.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2023

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

As mutable creatures, we are always changing. But God is forever the same. Today, R.C. Sproul studies the unique attributes of God that we do not share, characteristics that should propel us to worship the Lord in all His holiness and glory.

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0:00.0

Today on renewing your mind,

0:01.6

Arcee Sproul explains the attributes of God.

0:04.9

We are dependent beings.

0:06.8

We are created beings.

0:08.8

But God is not dependent, not created, not finite.

0:16.6

But He has the power of being in and of Himself.

0:21.3

He doesn't derive it from something else.

0:24.3

To understand who God is, we must study His attributes.

0:33.8

He shares some of those attributes with us, like His love, goodness, and kindness.

0:38.9

We call those His communicable attributes.

0:41.8

But today, Arcee Sproul will focus on those attributes that God alone possesses.

0:47.5

And although we are not all powerful, all knowing, or self-existent, those attributes

0:52.7

have a profound impact on how we should live,

0:55.6

Koram Dale, before the face of God.

0:59.2

Here's Arcee.

1:03.2

Sometimes when I go into a store and want to make a purchase or into the bank and want

1:07.8

to cash a check, people will request some form of identification.

1:13.4

And I usually open up my wallet and show them my picture on my Florida driver's license.

1:21.0

And on the side of that license, it tells what color my eyes are, what color my air is,

1:26.8

and all that sort of thing.

1:28.6

I'm old, I am.

1:30.2

In other words, what is being done here in trying to identify me as a person is that a

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