GOD DOES NOT CHANGE. We will look at the constant character of God.

He is the same yesterday, today, and Forever. Question: Sino and best friend mo noon? Bakit hindi na kayo best friend ngayon? In this world, everything changes. Nothing is permanent. The only thing that remains the same is God. MALACHI 3:6. I the Lord do not change. THE WORLD CHANGES. 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) FASHION CHANGES, hair, clothes, cars, slippers (islander) TECHNOLOGY CHANGES cellphone, dvd, computers, telephone, typewriters MONETARY VALUE CHANGES FAME CHANGES Singers, Game shows, TV shows, success EDUCATION CHANGES PEOPLE CHANGE. Best friends, relationships, boss, kids will leave.

CHANGE occurs only for better or for worse. NUMBERS 23:19 God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? REASONS WHY GOD CANNOT and WILL NOT CHANGE 1) That is his promise. Malachi 3:6 and he is faithful to his promise. Numbers 23:19 (chicken and egg). Isaac and Gerar. (Tithes) King David (repent and I will forgive). Adam, if you sin, God will punish you. Joshua ( I will never leave you nor forsake you), Moses (obey God, and he will provide) 2) God is perfect. Change occurs because there is room for improvement. God does not need to improve anything. He is at the peak of invincibility. 3) God is all knowledgeable. All knowing. For change to occur, there must be something new or information or technology applied to the old for change to happen but God knows everything already. Medically, circumcision, 8days old. Science, Isaiah 40:22, the circle of the earth. Galileo. Food. Do not eat pork Deuteronomy 14:8. Sodom and Gomorrah. He destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of sexual immorality. LET US ARGUE 1) God has changed. In the old testament, God was a god of wrath, death, genocide, mass murder, punishment. God is Love:

God punished Adam and Eve because he loved them. If God did not love Adam and Eve, he would have just allowed them to go to hell and not allow them to repent. Sodom and Gomorrah. God is love because he didnt want the entire human race to be inflicted with diseases. Genocide Assyrians. Kill them all. God is love. Because they were all trained to wipe out the entire Jewish race. To enable Jesus Christ to be born.

IN the new Testament, God became the God of Love, offering his son Jesus to die for us. Still, God is love pa rin. God saw thats the only way, for all mankind to be saved. But bakit natin sinabi God changed? Not God but it is us who has changed. When we were yet sinners, nakita natin si God, sadista, stricto, boring but when we got to know God, we realized, God loves us. He cares for us. He will provide for us. It all comes back to having relationship with God. When we Grow deeper in God, it is not God who will change but our perception of God will change. We will realize who he really is. Illustration: Basketball. Dati pag maka score 6 points, ok na. but now, sanay ka mag score 20 points, pag nagscore ka 6 points, bad game ka na.

God is Love. (1 John 4:16) There is no greater love than this, than a man would give his life for a friend. Yesterday, He loved you. Today, He loves you. Tomorrow, He will love you. Nothing will change. (Hebrews 13:8) The question is, you loved him yesterday, you love him today, tomorrow, will you still love God? Last week, excited ka to read the bible. This week, chamba chamba, bukas, bubuksan mo pa ba?

Let me end with the story of Hosea. Illustration: EYE ball textmate or Next morning date. God will never change. Tell your story of transcription.