James Meyer - Sermon - What would it like to be God?

What Would It Be Like To Be God?

• How can God know everything and be everywhere?• How can God have a relationship with everyone individually?• How does God decide who goes to heaven, is a single

repentance enough to put aside a life of sin? • Why did Jesus not know when the world was going to end?• Why did Jesus say He couldn’t do anything by himself if He’s

God?

In The Beginning

John 1:1 - "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God."

Colossians 1:17

1 Corinthians 2:7

2 Timothy 1:9

Titus 1:2

Who Created God? Where Did God Come From?

Every finite and contingent being has a cause.

A causal loop cannot exist.

A causal chain cannot be of infinite length.

Therefore, a First Cause (or something that is not an effect) must exist.

Cosmological Argument

Whatever begins to exist has a cause.

The Universe began to exist.

Therefore, the Universe had a cause.

Omnipresence and Omniscience

Jeremiah 23: 23-24

Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off? Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the Lord. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the Lord.

1 Kings 8

But will God indeed dwell on the earth? Behold, the heaven, and heaven of heavens, cannot contain Thee: how much less this house that I have builded.

Acts 17:27

God be not far from every one of us, for in Him we live and move and have our being.

Prov. 15:3

The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding good and evil.

2 Peter 3:8

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

“I am the Alpha and the Omega," says the Lord God, "who is, and who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” – Revelations 22:13

“…But you remain the same, and your years will never end.” - Hebrews 1:12b, Psalm 102:27

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. - Hebrews 13:8

What Is It Like To Be God

• God Pre-Exists Space and Time– First Cause

• God Exists Outside of Space-Time– Omniscience– Omnipresence– Judgement– Listen To Prayer/Maintain Relationships

What Is It Like To Be Jesus

• You can see everything• You have the ability to have relationships with

everyone who ever existed• You know everything• You were there at the birth of creation, even

participated• You understand 11th dimensional mechanics,

and as such can manipulate space and time to your will.

John 1:14a

And the Word was made flesh

Omniscience

"No one knows about that day or hour, not even the angels in heaven, nor the son (i.e Jesus) but only the Father” [Matthew 24:36]

Omnipresence

Jesus Wept – John 11:35

Omnipotent

John 11:41-43 So they took away the stone from the place where the dead man was lying. Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, "Father, I thank you that you listened to me. I know that you always listen to me, but because of the multitude that stands around I said this, that they may believe that you sent me." When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

John 5:19-21

Jesus therefore answered them, "Most assuredly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing of himself, but what he sees the Father doing. For whatever things he does, these the Son also does likewise. For the Father has affection for the Son, and shows him all things that he himself does. He will show him greater works than these, that you may marvel. For as the Father raises the dead and gives them life, even so the Son also gives life to whom he desires.

An Example

John 14:12-14 Most assuredly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these, because I am going to my Father. Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.

John 13:15

For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.

1 Peter 2:21

For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving you an example, that you should follow his steps,