1. Knowing God
Immutability

2. Knowing God: Immutability
Malachi 3:6 I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.

3. Knowing God: Immutability
Immutability means that God doesn’t change

4. Knowing God: Immutability
Defining God’s Immutability
1) God’s life does not change
Psalm 102: In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain; they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. But you remain the same, and your years will never end.

5. Knowing God: Immutability
Defining God’s Immutability
1) God’s life does not change
Exodus 3:13,14  Moses said to God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ Then what shall I tell them?” God said to Moses, “I am who I am. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I am has sent me to you.’”

6. Knowing God: Immutability
Defining God’s Immutability
2) God’s character does not change
Ex 34:5-7 - Then the Lord came down in the cloud and stood there with him and proclaimed his name, the Lord. And he passed in front of Moses, proclaiming, “The Lord, the Lord, the compassionate and gracious God, slow to anger, abounding in love and faithfulness, maintaining love to thousands, and forgiving wickedness, rebellion and sin. Yet he does not leave the guilty unpunished; he punishes the children and their children for the sin of the parents to the third and fourth generation.”

7. Knowing God: Immutability
Defining God’s Immutability
3) God’s truth does not change
Isaiah 40:6-8 - A voice says, “Cry out.” And I said, “What shall I cry?” “All people are like grass, and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field. The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of the Lord blows on them. Surely the people are grass. The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God endures forever.”

8. Knowing God: Immutability
Defining God’s Immutability
3) God’s truth does not change
Psalm 119:89 - Your word, Lord, is eternal; it stands firm in the heavens.

9. Knowing God: Immutability
Defining God’s Immutability
4) God’s ways do not change
Malachi 3:6 - I the Lord do not change. So you, the descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.

10. Knowing God: Immutability
Defining God’s Immutability
4) God’s ways do not change
James 1:17 -  Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.

11. Knowing God: Immutability
Defining God’s Immutability
5) God’s plans do not change
Psalm 33:11 - But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.

12. Knowing God: Immutability
Defining God’s Immutability
5) God’s plans do not change
1 Samuel 15:29 -  He who is the Glory of Israel does not lie or change his mind; for he is not a human being, that he should change his mind.”

13. Knowing God: Immutability
Defining God’s Immutability
6) God’s Son does not change
Hebrews 13:8 - Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

14. Knowing God: Immutability
Does God Change His Mind?
Sodom and Gomorrah – Gen 18
Golden Calf – Ex 32
Nineveh – Jonah 3

15. Knowing God: Immutability
Does God Change His Mind?
Ex. 32:14 - Then the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
Jonah 3:10 - When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he relented and did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.

16. Knowing God: Immutability
Does God Change His Mind?
1) Anthropomorphism – a literary device in a story about God that gives him human attributes

17. Knowing God: Immutability
Does God Change His Mind?
1) Anthropomorphism – a literary device in a story about God that gives him human attributes
2) God is Just and Merciful

18. Knowing God: Immutability
Does God Change His Mind?
1) Anthropomorphism – a literary device in a story about God that gives him human attributes
2) God is Just and Merciful
3) Our Decisions Matter

19. Knowing God: Immutability
What God’s Immutability Means for Us
1) God himself is the bridge that connects us with the story of the Bible

20. Knowing God: Immutability
What God’s Immutability Means for Us
1) God himself is the bridge that connects us with the story of the Bible
2) Embrace Mutability

21. Knowing God: Immutability
What God’s Immutability Means for Us
1) God himself is the bridge that connects us with the story of the Bible
2) Embrace Mutability
3) Cling to the Unchanging One

22. Knowing God: Immutability
What God’s Immutability Means for Us
Psalm 18: 2 - The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.

23. Knowing God
Immutability