God's Beginning

 1. God was in the beginning.

Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth."
Note: "In the beginning God" = All other philosophies of man begin with man in search for a God if there be one.  He was the creator of all things.

John 1:1-3 "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  The same was in the beginning with God.  All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made."
Note: This is a reference to Jesus.  Everything that was made was made by Him. This indicates ownership and authority.

2. God is the total.

Revelation 1:8, 11    "I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. (11)  Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Asia; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea."
Note:  He is the total alphabet (A-Z).

Colossians 1:17 "And he is before all things and by him all things consist."
Note: The idea is that all things are held together by Him.

3. There is no God but God.

Deuteronomy 4:35  "Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the LORD he is God; there is none else beside him."

Deuteronomy 6:4  "Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD: "

II Samuel 7:22  "Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears."

I Chronicles 17:20  "O LORD, there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears."

Psalms 86:10  "For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone."

4. No other God was formed before or after God.

Isaiah 43:10   "Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me."
Note: God is the creator, and he created no gods.  Man by his imagination creates gods.

Isaiah 46:9-10  "Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,  Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:"
Note:  Nothing compares to God.

5. God is one God.

Psalms 83:18  "That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth."
Note: "Jehovah" = Yehweh = "I AM"

Mark 12:29  "And Jesus answered him, The first of all the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God is one Lord:"

I Corinthians 8:4-6  "As concerning therefore the eating of those things that are offered in sacrifice unto idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is none other God but one.   For though there be that are called gods, whether in heaven or in earth, (as there be gods many, and lords many,)   But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him."

6. God is eternal.

 Deuteronomy 33:27  "The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them."

Hebrews 13:8 "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever."
Note: God never changes.

7. God's kingdom is sovereign and eternal.

 Psalms 45:6   "Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of thy kingdom is a right sceptre."

Psalms 47:2  "For the LORD most high is terrible; he is a great King over all the earth.

Psalms 75:6-7   "For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.   But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another."

Daniel 4:17  "This matter is by the decree of the watchers, and the demand by the word of the holy ones: to the intent that the living may know that the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will, and setteth up over it the basest of men."
Note: Governments and world leaders rise and fall, but God remains the sovereign forever.