The Only Self Sufficient One

Feb. 15, 2022

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Chapter 2 of the 1689 confession on God and the Holy Trinity says, self. Is alone, in and unto Himself, all sufficient, not standing in need of any creature which He hath made, nor deriving any glory from them, but only manifesting His own glory in, by, unto, and upon them." So when we talk about the self-sufficiency of God, we are saying that God is sufficient in and of himself. God needs nothing else. God needs no cause for himself. He is his own cause.

And he says in the Psalms, if I were hungry, what I tell you? No, I own the cattle on a thousand hills. Because our God is self-sufficient. He's all sufficient unto himself.

"God, having all life, glory, goodness, blessedness, in and of himself, is alone in and unto himself all-sufficient, not standing in need of any creature which he hath made, nor deriving any glory from them, but only manifesting his own glory in, by, unto, and upon them..." ~ 1689 Baptist Confession Chapter 2

When we talk about the self-sufficiency of God, we are saying that He needs nothing else. He needs no cause for Himself. He is His own cause. He is not even in need of us giving Him glory because He is glorious in and of Himself.

"For every beast of the forest is Mine,
And the cattle on a thousand hills.

I know all the birds of the mountains,
And the wild beasts of the field are Mine.

If I were hungry, I would not tell you;
For the world is Mine, and all its fullness." Psalm 50:10-12

Speaker

MD

Mike Davenport is a member of Hope Baptist Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. He and his wife Judith have been married since 1992 and have five children - four boys and one girl. Mike currently works for an engineering firm in the Raleigh-Durham area and has spent more than 25 years in the architectural/engineering fields.

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