R.C. Sproul

Because whatever we are is never permanent.

Whatever we are is always changing.

I'm different now than I was when I started this message.

If I'm only 13 minutes and 54 seconds older than I was when we started, I am always in process.

I am always becoming.

My being is not pure being.

It is not perfect being.

Because what I do not have and what you do not have is the power of being in yourself.

You can't exist for the next five minutes without oxygen, without something preserving your existence.

You have to eat, you have to drink water, you have to breathe air, you have all these needs.

We're all like that.

We're all dependent on external things to keep us alive.

God and God alone

has the power to be within himself.

In theology, we use two different words or phrases to describe this attribute of God.

The most common one we hear is the attribute of self-existence.

I'm reminded of the two little children that were engaged in a debate.

And the first little boy asked the second little boy, where did the trees come from?

And the second little boy said, God made the trees.

The first little boy said, well, where'd the sky come from?