In 2 Chron. 16:9 we are told that +"The eyes of Jehovah run to and
fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf
of them whose heart is perfect toward him,"+ and in Ps. 94:9, 10 we
read: +"He that planteth the ear, shall he not hear? He that formed
the eye, shall he not see? He that punisheth nations, shall not he
correct? Even he that teacheth men knowledge?"+ This is clearly
the representation of a personal God and not a mere abstraction like
"The Absolute," or "The Infinite," or "The Supreme Being." The clear
distinction between God, who is immanent in all things, and dwells in
believers, and the beings and persons in whom He dwells, is brought
out very clearly by our Lord Himself in John 14:10: +"Believest thou
not that I am in the Father and the Father in me? The words that I say
unto you I speak not from myself: But the Father abiding in me doeth
his work."+ And again in the 24th verse of the same chapter where
our Lord Jesus distinguishes between His own personality and that of
the Father, who dwelt in Him, in these words: +"He that loveth me not
keepeth not my words: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the
Father's who sent me."+ This conception of God pervades the entire
Bible. The view of God presented in the Bible is utterly different
from the conception of Pantheism and Buddhism and Theosophy and
Christian Science. This conception is found in the opening words of the
Bible, Gen. 1:1: +"In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth."+ Here the God of the Bible is clearly differentiated from
the so-called God of Pantheism, and the God of Christian Science. And
this same conception of God is found in the last chapter of the Bible,
and it is found in every chapter of the Bible between the first and the
last. The God of the Bible is a Personal Being Who, while He created
all things and is in all things, is a distinct personality separate
from the persons and things He has created.
III. GOD'S PRESENT RELATION TO THE WORLD AND TO MEN
We turn now to a consideration of the present relation of this Personal
God presented to us in the Bible, to the world He has created and to
the men whom He has created.
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