Sinclair Ferguson

And in some ways I would rather they had asked the question, who is God?

But the answer to that question would be in terms of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

And so that question, they're really saying, so what is God like?

Just if I, if somebody said to me, what is Nathan W. Bingham like?

I could say, well, he has the following attributes.

They are inseparable from him.

He has an Australian accent.

He's about nine foot tall.

He works out in the morning because I saw him this morning with a perspiration-filled T-shirt on.

And yet I could go through your characteristics.

I won't embarrass you by doing that, but that's how we think about people.

I sometimes say I like people with horns, and I don't mean bullish people, but people

that you feel you can tell who they really are because they have these certain characteristics.

They're not bland.

And so with some people you feel, I don't really know who he is or who she is.

And so what the Westminster divines were actually saying to us there is, here are the things about God that you can know and rely on.

These are ways into thinking, well, what is he really like?

And the wonderful thing, I think, is he is all of these attributes.

He's all of them simultaneously.

And at the end of the day, these are not like seven or eight different sticky notes on God.