God is Everywhere!

GOD IS EVERYWHERE!

Jeremiah 23:24- Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him? Declares the Lord. Do I not fill heaven and earth? Declares the Lord.

Omnipresence means that since God’s power and knowledge extend to all parts of his creation, He himself is present everywhere.

The Bible does not put limits on God’s omnipresence……

Note: God is everywhere and can appear in any form He chooses to anyone He chooses. First, God appeared to some Old Testament believers, as taught in these specific scriptures: Genesis 3:8, Genesis 18:1, Genesis 26:23, Exodus 3:2, Exodus 33:11, Exodus 33:21-23, Numbers 11:16, Joshua 5:13-14, Judges 6:12, 1st Kings 3:5, just to name a few.

Acts 7:30- “Now when forty years had passed, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

Matthew 28:18- And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me.”

Because God is omnipresent, we are never alone. Jesus Christ promises to be with us always and everywhere. The Holy Spirit indwells everyone who is a true Christian.

God does not have a body; he is immaterial, meaning God is not made of any physical matter, does not have a physical body, and is considered a spiritual being entirely separate from the material world.

 How can we tell when God is present or absent?

Scripture’s answer is that God is present everywhere, because, as we have seen, His power and knowledge are everywhere. If every event, everywhere, takes place by God’s power, and if He has exhaustive knowledge of everything His power has brought to pass, then certainly He is not absent, but present in each event, though His presence is not quite the same as the presence of physical beings. God’s omnipotence and omniscience imply His omnipresence.

The attributes of God have been arranged in several ways. Sometimes we divide them according to “attributes of greatness and attributes of goodness.” Probably the three most well-known in the first category begin with the prefix omni, from the Latin for all. They are omniscience, omnipotence, and omnipresence.

Of these three, all incomprehensible to the finite and fallen human mind, omnipresence may be the hardest for us to grasp.

Note: To say that God dwells in heaven is not to say that He is contained there. It is uniquely His home, His center of operations, His command post. It is the place where His throne resides, and it is where the most perfect worship of Him occurs. It is in that sense that we say heaven is His dwelling place. We must not conclude that Scripture intends to equate heaven with God Himself. The terms are not synonyms. God transcends heaven.

Though God’s essence is everywhere, He never mingles with impurity. In a similar way, Jesus lived among sinners and was “tempted in all things as we are, yet [He was] without sin.”

“The Lord is far from the wicked.”

How can He be near some people and far from others when He is everywhere all the time?

To answer this, we must distinguish between God’s essence and His relation to people. He is everywhere in His essence, but with specific individuals He is far or near relationally. When we become Christians, Christ dwells in us. God can fill us with His fullness (Ephesians 3:19), and the Spirit who lives in us can also fill us (1:13; 5:18), but before God’s Spirit indwelt us relationally, His essence convicted us of sin and saved us.

God’s omnipresence is not just a theoretical conclusion. It is a precious truth of redemption. Although we have sinned and deserve God’s judgment, God comes to His faithful people and declares to them “I will be with you.” This means that God is here, wherever we are, but also that God is on our side.