God's unchangeableness/Immutability

Immutability/unchangeableness; “We can define the unchangeableness of God as follows; God is unchangeable in His being, perfections, purposes, and promises, yet God does act and feel emotions, and He acts and feels differently in response to different situations. This attribute of God is also called God’s immutability”. (Gruden, Wayne, Systematic Theology, page163)

I want to deal with the second half of the definition first, “When speaking of Himself, God frequently accommodates His language to our limited capacities. He describes Himself as clothed with bodily members, as eyes, ears, hands, etc.” (Pink, Attributes of God, page38). Although God can see, He does not have an eye, He is spirit, not flesh, not like man. This is an example of God speaking in a way that we can understand. Now Gods emotions. In God decreeing the beginning from the end, all His emotions were involved and weighed out in the exact right proportions. God is not controlled by emotion, or desire like men are. God’s emotions are governed by His holiness, His all-knowingness, His Love balances His wrath, His mercy balances His justice. I hope you understand my point here. The created can lose control; God is under control.

God is Immutable;

1)      Psalm 102: 25-27, Of old you laid the foundation of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you endure; they will all wear out like a garment. You Change them like raiment, and they pass away; but you are the same, and your years have no end

2)      Malachi 3:6, For I the Lord do not change; therefore you, O sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

3)      James 1:17, Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change. ESV.

God is unchangeable in His attributes, unchangeable in His person, unchangeable in His purpose. To this generation, that thinks that somehow they have found a new and different God that is all the sudden tolerant of what He has always called sin. You are wrong. There is no shadow of turning with God. Jesus is not a new God; He is God incarnate. He is as much the God of the old testament as He is the God of the new testament, Mathew 1:23, Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel, (Which means God with us).

Gods immutability is just another reason why God Chose His elect from before the foundations of the earth were formed. The creature is mutable and can not be trusted to make the right decision if he was able, evidence Adam in the garden. Adam had it all, and he walked in the garden with God and talked with God, Adam had a far more intimate relationship with God then any human can have before salvation, he still made the wrong choice.   So, you see that God would not send His son to die for undependable men to make a choice. He chose His elect before the foundations of the world. We will see more as we get into the other attributes of God.

May God have mercy on us, and Lord willing He will use this.