Second Baptist Church, Griffin, Ga

“Children sometimes ask, ‘Who made God?’ The clearest answer is that God never needed to be made, because he was always there. He exists in a different way from us: we, his creatures, exist in a dependent, derived, finite, fragile way, but our Maker exists in an eternal, self-sustaining, necessary way - necessary, that is, in the sense that God does not have it in him to go out of existence, just as we do not have it in us to live forever. We necessarily age and die, because it is our present nature to do that; God necessarily continues forever unchanged, because it is his eternal nature to do that. This is one of many contrasts between creature and Creator.”
~J.I. Packer

Before the mountains were born Or You gave birth to the earth and the world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.
Psalm 90:2


Your throne is established from of old; You are from everlasting.
Psalm 93:2

…“is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else.”
Acts 17:23-25


For just as the Father has life in Himself, even so He gave to the Son also to have life in Himself…
John 5:26


“I AM WHO I AM"
Exodus 3:14

All other things derive being - their ‘is-ness’ is secondary. But God did not derive His being from any other - His ‘is-ness’ is underived, original, eternal! He was, and is, and is to come, the eternal ‘I Am.’ Rather than concealing His identity, this Name reveals the deepest mystery of His being, and rocks our minds with the discovery that we cannot begin to fathom the mind and life of this eternal God.
~Sinclair Ferguson

- What is Aseity?
Aseity: (Latin a , from; se , itself) the property by which a being exists of and from itself.*

*The Catholic Encyclopedia

“God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure.”
~A.W. Pink

Romans 11:33-36
Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways! For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor? Or who has first given to Him that it might be paid back to him again? For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever. Amen.

I. God Created Everything:

Verse 36
For from Him…

“The supreme justification for all creation is that God has willed it to be.”
~ Hans Rookmaaker

II. God Controls Everything:

Verse 36
For from Him and through Him…

…all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Psalm 139:16 (NIV)

Everything that has moved or shall move in heaven, and earth, and hell, has been, is, and shall be according to the counsel and foreknowledge of God, fulfilling a holy, just, wise and unalterable purpose!
~Charles H. Spurgeon

The God who made the world and all things in it… Acts 17:24


All things came into being through Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being.
John 1:3


There is but one God, the Father, from whom are all things and we exist for Him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we exist through Him.
1 Corinthians 8:6

“God loves each one of us as if there were only one of us to love.”
~Augustine

III. God Has a Purpose For Everything:

Verse 36
For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things…

Q. What is the chief end of man?
A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and enjoy Him forever.

~Westminster Shorter Catechism

“‘In him we live and move and have our being”….
Acts 17:28

He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.
John 1:10


Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.
1 John 2:22

For by Him all things were created, both in the heavens and on earth…all things have been created through Him and for Him.
Colossians 1:16


All things originate from God.
1 Corinthians 11:12

“But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you;
And the birds of the heavens, and let them tell you.
“Or speak to the earth, and let it teach you;
And let the fish of the sea declare to you.

“Who among all these does not know
That the hand of the LORD has done this,
In whose hand is the life of every living thing,
And the breath of all mankind?
Job 12:7-10

IV. God Is Worthy of Praise And Glory:

Verse-36
To Him be the glory forever [aiṓn]. Amen.

aiṓn (ahee-ohn'): for ever, an unbroken age, perpetuity of time, eternity*

*Thayer

“When I see Thee as Thou art, I’ll praise Thee as I ought.”
~John Newton


“Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of biblical worship.”
~John Piper