The Attributes of God - with study questions

by Arthur W. Pink

Christ died not in order to make God love us, but because He did love His people. Calvary is the supreme demonstration of divine love. Whenever you are tempted to doubt the love of God, Christian reader, go back to Calvary.

It began not in time, but bears the date of eternity. “I have loved thee with an everlasting love” (Jer 31:3).

All the acts of God to His people in time are the expressions of the love He bore them from eternity.

It is because God loves us in Christ, and has done so from everlasting, that the gifts of His love are irrevocable.

Even when He chastens us, it is in love (Heb 12:6), since He has our good in view.

Such is God’s love to His people—invincible, unquenchable. Not only is there no possibility of its expiring, but also the black waters of backsliding cannot extinguish it, nor the floods of unbelief put it out.

Make God’s wondrous love to you the incentive of your obedience to Him—gratitude requires nothing less.

A study of the concordance will show that there are more references in Scripture to the anger, fury, and wrath of God, than there are to His love and tenderness. Because God is holy, He hates all sin; and because He hates all sin, His anger burns against the sinner (Psa 7:11).

The very nature of God makes Hell as real a necessity, as imperatively and eternally requisite, as Heaven is.

We are ever prone to regard sin lightly, to gloss over its hideousness, to make excuses for it. But the more we study and ponder God’s abhorrence of sin and His frightful vengeance upon it, the more likely are we to realize its heinousness.

in a soon-coming Day, God will make a most glorious display of His wrath by taking vengeance upon all who now oppose Him,

(William Gurnall, 1660).

Faithfulness demands that we speak as plainly about hell as about heaven.

When we turn our thoughts to God’s eternity, His immateriality, His omnipresence, His almightiness, our minds are overwhelmed.

Nothing will so enlarge the intellect, nothing so magnify the whole soul of man, as a devout, earnest, continued, investigation of the great subject of the Deity. The most excellent study for expanding the soul is the science of Christ and Him crucified and the knowledge of the Godhead in the glorious Trinity (C.H. Spurgeon).

The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest philosophy, which can engage the attention of a child of God is the name, the nature, the person, the doings, and the existence of the great God which he calls his Father.

It is a subject so vast, that all our thoughts are lost in its immensity; so deep, that our pride is drowned in its infinity.

when ages after ages have passed away, He will still be the incomprehensible God (John Dick, 1840).

He makes use of means and instruments to accomplish His ends, yet not from a deficiency of power, but oftentimes to more strikingly display His power through the feebleness of the instruments.

He is the Supreme Sovereign of the universe.

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