- God’s “name” means his nature and character.- God’s Transcendence —> God’s nature of Awe-Filling Greatness- Transcendence only belongs to God.- Yahweh is my name and I will not share my glory with another. **Isaiah 42:8**- I am the LORD, and there is no other, besides me there is no God… **Isaiah 45:5**- “Thus you will know that I am in the midst of Israel, And that I am the LORD your God, And there is no other; And My people will never be put to shame. **Joel 2:27**- Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen. **1 Timothy 1:17**- Transcendence means everyone and everything. - “There is not a square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!” ― *Abraham Kuyper*- God’s Transcendence forces us to consider how little we are.- Dress for action like a man; I will question you, and you make it known to me. “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements—surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone, when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy? **Job 38:4-7**- “Can you lift up your voice to the clouds, that a flood of waters may cover you? Can you send forth lightnings, that they may go and say to you, ‘Here we are’? Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind? **Job 38:34–36**- God’s Transcendence forces us to consider how sinful we are.- The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun. Psalm 19:4- The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds; there is none who does good. The Lord looks down from heaven on the children of man, to see if there are any who understand, who seek after God. They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one. Have they no knowledge, all the evildoers who eat up my people as they eat bread and do not call upon the Lord? **Psalm 14:1-4**- God’s mindfulness about us is not about us but God.- Use everything as a way to see the Transcendence of God. - The awe-filling greatness of God gets established through the weakness, not in the strength.- On behalf of this man I will boast, but on my own behalf I will not boast, except of my weaknesses— though if I should wish to boast, I would not be a fool, for I would be speaking the truth; but I refrain from it, so that no one may think more of me than he sees in me or hears from me. So to keep me from becoming conceited because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, a thorn was given me in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to harass me, to keep me from becoming conceited. Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong. **2 Corinthians 12:5-10**- Because of the Transcendence of God, we don’t have to fear weakness, but we can boast in God through weakness. - Worship is the Transcendence of God through the work of our everyday life. - For “God has put all things in subjection under his feet.” But when it says, “all things are put in subjection,” it is plain that he is excepted who put all things in subjection under him. When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will also be subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him, that God may be all in all. **1 Corinthians 15:27-28**