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May 6, 2025 • 17 mins
Discover 10 amazing attributes of God that reveal His divine nature and character. This podcast explores what these attributes mean, including God's omnipotence, love, justice, and mercy, and why they matter in our spiritual journey.

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Welcome to Christian Talk with Eric Thompson, a thoughtful podcast
helping Christians navigate life. A podcast for christ bring faith, family,
political issues using God's word the Bible.

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The victory is ours.

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Let our lights shine before others so they may glorify
our Father in Heaven. Welcome to Christian and Talk with
Eric Thompson.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Hi, Welcome to Christian Talk. Thank you so much for
joining me. I'm out here in the beautiful state of Oklahoma.
This is going to be kind of a topical podcast.
I did mark chapter seven today, but we're getting new
people that are downloading the podcasts, and I wanted to

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brief you do a shorter podcast over what is God like?
Who is God? What are God's attributes? Those type of
questions that you may be asking, or if somebody ask
you who is God or what is he like? Well,
we know that God according to the Bible Genesis one,
we know in John one, Hebrews one, Colossians one, Deuteronomy

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four thirty five, four thirty nine. We know there's only
one God, manifested in three distinct personalities, Father, Son, Holy Spirit.

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We know that before anything was God is.

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We know that God with this foreknowledge and predestination and
doing everything in accordance to the counsel of his own will,
God is sovereign.

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God is love. But we're going to go.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
Through some of the main attributes some things. It's if
you want to if you've ever asked what kind of
God is he? Now they call him attributes. An attribute
of God is something true about his characteristics Through the scriptures.
The Bible was penned by forty men over fifteen hundred

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years on three continents. That is how that's how we
learn about God. And then the Holy Spirit comes in
us when we are born from above and illuminates it.
And then through life. We see God working, and we
see God's attributes on display. Hebrews four or twelve, one
of the forty men who wrote the Bible, said that

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the word of God is living an act of It's
sharper than any double edged sword. It pierces even to
dividing soul and spirit joined tomorrow. God's word is a
discerner of the thoughts and attentions of the heart. God's
word us points out some of the attributes of God
we can see in the general revelation. God's creative is creation.

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But fully understanding who God is is impossible. A full
understanding is impossible for limited humans. We are the creatures
of God. But God does make himself known through the
Word and in creation, so we can kind of wrap
our minds around how awesome our creator and God is.

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Now.

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God is unlike anything, There's only one. There's not multiple gods.
There's not God's before God. I'm not like Mormonism where
you can become gods. And there's Eloheim how to God,
and there's and and Allah is not God.

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God is.

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He calls himself, identifies himself as Yahweh, the existing one.

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There's one God.

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There's one way to get to God, and that is
to God the Son, because the thing about God is holy,
and we'll get to that. But God is unique without
comparison everything, Even describing him with mere words falls short
of who he actually is. A word simply cannot do
justice to describe the Holy God. Still, God possesses attributes

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that we can know. So here is a list of
Here's a list of fifteen of some of God's attributes. Okay, Ready,
God is infinite, which means he's self existing without origin.
Without origin, God is self existing. God was, God was

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actually completely satisfied and content before he made anything. Those
of us who have been born from above, that are
the children of God, the bride of Christ, are so
blessed that an infinite God chose to like it. Says
in Romans five eight. God demonstrated his love for us,

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and that while we were sinning, Christ died for us
cautions once seventeen. And he Jesus says, before all things
and in him all things hold together Psalm one five.

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Great is our Lord and abundant in power.

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His understanding is beyond measure, the fact that God is
self existent, that he was created by nothing and always
has always existed is one of the hardest attributes of
God for the believer to understand.

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A w Tozer, one of the.

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Just one of the more recent theologians and Bible teachers
that we can reference. He wrote about this confusing and
head spinning and this characteristic of God of his infinity.
Toza wrote, to admit, there is one who lies beyond us,

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who exist outside of all of our categories, who will
not be dismissed with the name, who will not appear
before the bar of our reason, nor submit to our
curious inquiries. This requires a great deal of humility, more
than most of us possess. So we say face by
thinking God down to our level, or least down to

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where we can manage him Unquote, we gotta we have
to make God smaller to try to understand, which is
why you'll hear me sometimes on Christian talk saying, if
your problems are big, you've made your God too small.
Doctor Adrian Rogers, who's gone off to the Lord, a

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Southern Baptist preacher I think out of Tennessee. He wrote
about the existence of God. Quote the name Jehovah, which
is one of the names of God. When it comes
to God provides Jehovah Jirah is you sixty eight.

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Hundred times in the Bible.

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It is the personal covenant name of Israel's God and
the King James version of Bible translates Lord God. Not
only does it speak of God's strength, but it also
speaks of the sovereignty of God and the goodness of God,
the root of his amens self existing, one who never
came into being, the one who always will be. When

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Moses asked, God, who shall I tell Pharaoh has sent me?
God said, I am that.

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I am.

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Yahweh is the most intensely sacred name to Jewish scribes
will not even pronounce the name. When possible, they use
another name. So you're here Jehovah or Yahweh.

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End quote.

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So God is without origin. God is immutable, which means
he never changes. We'll have a T shirt coming out
a word around that says God is not progressive. He
does not change Malachi three to six.

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I am the Lord. I the Lord do not change.

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So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed because
you don't want God.

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To have a bad day or change his character.

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God is for better or for worse, however you want
to look at God in our finite minds. God does
not change. This should be incredible joy for us. A
writer wrote of the good news of God's unchanging nature

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named sam Storms quote. What all this means, very simply
is that God is dependable. Our trust in Him is
therefore our confident trust, for we know that He will not,
indeed cannot change. His purposes are unfailing, His promise is unsilentable.
It is because of God, who promised us eternal life

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is immutable, that we may rest assured that nothing, not
trouble or hardship, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness or
danger or sword, shall separate us from the love of God.
In Christ Jesus Woman's eight thirty five through thirty nine,
nothing can separate us from the love of God.

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Neither depth look at us.

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Is because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today and forever,
that neither angels nor demons, either the present nor the future,
not even power us, hight, depth, nor anything in all
creation be able to separate us from the love of God.
Is in Christ Jesus, our Lord. God is self sufficient.
He has no needs John five twenty six. For as
the Father has life in himself. So he has granted

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the son also to have life in himself. Tim Temple writes,
God is perfectly quote God is perfectly complete without his
own within his own being unquote Fijians three twenty. Because
God is so sufficient we can go to We can
go to him to satisfy all of our needs. So

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the Pesian three twenty says, now to him who is
able to do him measurely more than we can ask
or imagine, according to his power that is work within us.
God is omnipotent. God is all powerful Psalm thirty three six.

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By the word of the Lord, the heavens were made
their starry host by the breath of his mouth Joeb
eleventh seven to eleven. Can you fathom the mysteries of God?
Can you probe the limb of the Almighty? They are
higher than the heavens above, What can you do? They're
deeper than the depths below? What can you know? Their

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measure is longer than the earth and wider than the sea.
If he comes along and can find you in prison
and convenes a court who can oppose him? Surely he
recognizes deceivers, And when he sees evil, does he not
take note. God is omniscient. He's all knowing, as they

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have forty six nine to ten, remember the former things,
those of long ago. I am God. There is no
other God. I am God, and there is none like me.
God all knowing. I make know the ends of the
from the beginning, from ancient times, what is still to come.
I say, my purpose will stand, and I will do that.

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I please all that I please. God is omnipresent, he
is all. He's everywhere Psalm one thirty nine, seven through ten.
Where can I go from your spirit? Or where can
I flee from your presence? If I ascend to heaven,
you are there. If I make my bed and shoal
in hell, behold, you're there. If I take my wings
of the dawn, if I dwell in the remotest parts

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of the sea, even there, your hand will lead me,
and your right hand will lay hold of me. Jeremiah
twenty three, twenty three through twenty four. I am I
A God at hand, declares the Lord, and Nod a
god far off? Can a mad hide himself in secret
places so that I cannot see him?

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Declares the Lord? Do I not feel heaven and earth?
Declares the Lord? God is wise.

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He's full of perfect, unchanging wisdom Romans eleven thirty three, Oh,
the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and
knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments? Unfathomable His way?
God is faithful. He is infinitely unchangingly true two Timothy

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two thirteen. If we are faithless, he remains faithful, for
he cannot deny himself Deuteronomy for seven Deuteronomy seven nine.
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God. He's
the faithful God keeping us covenant of love to a
thousand generations, to those who love him and keep his commands.

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God is good.

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He is infinitely unchangeably kind and full of goodwill. Saw
I'm thirty four eight. Oh, see and taste and see
that the Lord is good Again, Tosar said, concerning the
goodness of God. Quote disposes him to be kind because
God is good. It disposes him to be kind, cordial, benevolent,

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and full of good will toward men. He is tenderhearted
and of quick sympathy, and is his unfailing attitude toward
all moral beings. Is good, frankly and friendly. By his nature,
he is inclined to bestow blessedness, and he takes holy
pleasure in the happiness of his people unquote. And we'll

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do one more on this podcast. We'll do ten this time,
we'll do five next time.

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God is just.

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He is infinitely, unchangeably right and perfect in all he does.
This is why we don't argue with God. God is
always right. If you have a disagreement with God, you're
always wrong. If your opinion is different than God's, You're
always wrong. Deuteronomy thirty two five The Rock. His work
is perfect, for all his ways are just a God

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of faithfulness and without injustice, righteousness and injustice. I'm sorry,
Righteous and upright is he again? Deuteronomy thirty two to
four The Rock. His work is perfect, for all his
ways are just a good and fate and a God
of faithfulness and without injustice, Righteous.

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And upright is he? Is he?

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What does it mean that God is just? It means
more than he's simply fair. Means that He always does
what is right and good toward all men. Likewise, although
this is hard for me, he to accept. His sentencing
of evil odd repentant sinners to hell is also right

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and good. RCI Sproul wrote this quote. Let's assume that
all men are guilty of sin in the side of God.
From the mass of humanity. Of humanity, God sovereignly decides
to get mercy to some of them. What do the
rest get? They get justice, the saved get mercy, and
the unsaved get justice. Nobody gets unjustice because God.

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Is just.

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Welcome to Christian wrong button there, but you get to
That's all I wanted to do as we're heading out
all right so quickly. As a reminder top here ten
of the attributes of God. Ready, God is infinites self

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existing without origin. God is immutable, he never changes. God
is self sufficient, He has no needs. God is omnipotent.
He's all powerful. God is omniscient. He is all knowing.

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God is omnipresent, He is always everywhere. God is wise.
He is full of perfect, unchanging wisdom. God is faithful.
He is infinitely unchangingly true.

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God is good and infinitely unchangingly kind, full of goodwill.

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God is just.

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He is infinitely unchangeably right and perfect and all that
he does. Thank you for listening, he spent Part one.
Then the attributes to God. God bless you guys. Thank
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