1This is one of the most fundamental of all God’s attributes. The attribute of Aseity means that God has no needs (Acts 17:25) and since God is completely self-sufficient, it is impossible for Him to be selfish or self-centered. Instead, the Father loves and gives of Himself entirely to Son and Spirit, and the Son loves and gives of Himself entirely to Father and Spirit, and the Spirit gives of Himself entirely to Father and Son. It is God’s aseity that leads to God’s self-giving to us. It is also why each Person of the Godhead delights in praising the other members of the Godhead, and calls us to praise and adore them.↩

2On the fundamental importance of this attribute, and on how it colors every other attribute, consider the fact that it is the only one that is repeated three times – “holy, holy, holy” (Is. 6:3; Rev. 4:8). Sproul says, “only once in sacred Scripture is an attribute of God elevated to the third degree… The Bible never says that God is love, love, love” (R.C. Sproul, The Holiness of God (Scripture Press Foundation, 1986), 38).↩

3God’s immanence and transcendence help us to avoid heresy. To hold to immanence and not transcendence can lead to pantheism. To hold to transcendence and not immanence can lead to Deism.↩

4This means that God’s attributes are not parts of God that can be divided. God is a unity that is indivisible and each Person is all of God and each attribute characterizes all of God. Theologians speak of this as a “unity of singularity.”↩

5Wayne Grudem correctly notes that “if God loves all that is right and good, and all that conforms to his moral character, then it should not be surprising that he would hate everything that is opposed to his moral character.” (Wayne Grudem, Systematic Theology, 205).↩

6Words: Reginald Heber, 1826, Public Domain.↩

7Mark Bubeck, “Warfare Prayer for Revival,” in Phillip Kayser and Mark Bubeck, Prayers For Spiritual Warfare (Omaha, NE: Biblical Blueprints, 2009).↩

8Psalm 51:5↩

91 Chronicles 29:10-14↩

10Psalm 18:49↩

11Psalm 118:29↩