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Immutable The Attributes is eternally unchangeable. of God The Immutability of God

Malachi 3:6a James 1:17 “For I do not change;” Every 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.

Immutability is an attribute that God is immutably omniscient. belongs to all of God’s attributes. The result of His immutability in God is immutably omnipotent. power and knowledge is that His plan and purposes are immutable as well.

Numbers 23:19 God is not man, that he should lie, or a son of man, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Do you ever change your mind? Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? If so, why?

1 Samuel 15:29 “And also the Glory of Israel will not lie or have regret, for he is not a man, that he should have regret.” Isaiah 55:8-11 Job 42:2 “I know that you can do all things, and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted.”

Isaiah 46:8-11

Hebrews 6:17-20 Psalm 33:10-12

Psalm 102:25-27 Isaiah 40:6-8 These passages remind us of the unstableness and temporary state of 1. Security of Salvation everything while also reminding us to turn to the One who is permanently changeless.

Security of Salvation Security of Salvation

Even though you are saved, do you still have doubts whether or not 1 Peter 1:3-6 you will truly be saved in the end?

Security of Salvation John 10:28-30

“I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is 2. Your Purpose in Life able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one.” Your Purpose in Life Your Purpose in Life 1 John 2:15-17

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If How foolish is it for us to spend all of anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh our efforts and days on that which is and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not perishing, and give little thought to from the Father but is from the world. And the world is the One who is eternally immutable. passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

How You Face Suffering and Various Trials

3. How You Face Suffering Job 1:22 and Various Trials

Trust in the Authority of Scripture

4. Trust in the Authority of Scripture 2 Timothy 3:16 Resting in the Love of God

Our salvation is not, “He loves me, 5. Resting in the Love of God He loves me not.” Instead, it is “He loves me immutably and eternally.

Resting in the Love of God

Jeremiah 31:3 6. Trust in God Should Increase

Trust in God Should Increase Isaiah 26:4

Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock. 7. God is Immutably Just God is Immutably Just Romans 2:5-6

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. 8. Our Praise and Worship of God He will render to each one according to his works:

Our Praise and Worship of God Revelation 4:8

And the four living creatures, each of them with six wings, are full of eyes all around and within, and day and night they never cease to say, “Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord God Almighty, who was and is and is to come!”