God is infinite, eternal, and unchangeable.

1. God is Infinite.
John Flavel writes, “God is infinite or boundless in three respects.
First, In respect of the perfection of his Nature; his Wisdom, Power, and Holiness, exceed all measures and limits; as 1 Samuel 2:2, ‘There is none Holy as the Lord’, etc. Secondly,in respect of time and place; no time can measure him, Isaiah 57:15, ‘Thus saith the high, and lofty one, that inhabiteth eternity’. 1 Kings 8:27, ‘Behold the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain thee.’ The Heaven of Heavens contains all created Beings; but not the Creator. Thirdly, In respect of his incomprehensibility, by the understanding of all Creatures, Job 11:7. ‘Canst thou by searching find out God?’
a) His Perfections
God is infinite in all of His attributes and divine perfections. He is not only infinite in mercy, and goodness, but infinite in justice and righteous judgment. He is infinite in power, strength and might, infinite in wisdom, and knowledge, infinite in Holiness, and righteousness, infinite in truth. God is infinitely perfect, and perfectly infinite. In this regard, His communicable attributes are incommunicable so much as they are part of God’s infinite perfections. We may know what Wisdom is, but we cannot search our infinite. We may comprehend Strength, but not infinite Strength which is only of God.
We may comprehend Knowledge, but not Omniscience.
There is not a thought that man can conceive, but God knows it before it comes to mind. There is not a mountain so tall, or a city so fortified but God cannot bring it crashing down. There is no will so strong, but God can break it by His almighty power. And there is no sin so hidden, but God will bring it to light, judge it according to the Word, and condemn it. You cannot hide from the eyes of the infinite God; nor can you run from Him. You cannot answer him one in a thousand. You cannot contend with Him.
He is infinite, almighty and all-powerful.
The pagan gods of old were said to be mighty, but God is Almighty. His power and might knows no limits, and whatever power man can conceive of, God exceeds it infinitely.
God is also infinitely holy. Men may rave and cry out against injustice in the world, accusing God of wrong, but the arrows they shoot at God will fall on their own face. The evils in this world come from within man as Jesus says in Matthew 15:18-20, and God cannot be charged with wrong. He is infinitely perfect in His holiness, and whatever may ever come to pass will bring Him glory – either to the praise of His mercy, or His wrath and indignation.
God’s decrees are also a product of His infinite wisdom and power.
“There are many plans in a man’s heart, Nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand.” (Prov. 19:21)
God overrides the finite counsels of men, and accomplishes His will with infinite perfection and precision. Is there anything that God cannot do seeing He is infinite?
Jeremiah 32:17 says, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.”
Man boasts of free will, but what can finite man accomplish against the infinite Majesty of heaven? What can weakness do against Almighty power? What can chaff do against fire, or straw do against wind?
For man to elevate himself, and boast against God’s will is like a piece of dry stubble boasting against a vehement fire before it is consumed. There is no plan so carefully weighed, nor act so violently or rashly performed, but God’s infinite and immutable will shall be done. Yet God’s perfect holiness is not marred by this, for God’s word will be accomplished in the enacting of vengeance and wrath against sin. Man who defies God does so because he desires it, and God will rain fire upon Him for it. God’s infinite perfections are no more marred by man’s sin than the sun is in danger of losing its light because it shines upon a dunghill.
b) His Omnipresence
God being infinite also means that He is everywhere. “Behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee.” [1 Kings 8:27]
There is no place in heaven and earth, but God is there. He is the glory of heaven, and the terror of hell. What makes heaven so full of love but that God is there in His glory, or hell so full of torment, but that God is there in His active wrath!?
“Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?
If I ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.” (Ps. 139:7-8) God fills all of space, and stretches the universe by His might, and power.
He is everywhere, even where He is blatantly denied and rejected. He is revealed to His saints, but hidden from the world. Psalm 14:1 says, “The fool has said in his heart, “there is no God.” But see the irony, and profundity of this error! He has already admitted there is a God by saying there is no God! He has admitted to a higher power, a Creator, and a sovereign Lord, but does not want to admit that he himself is the creature, the created being, the servant. In denying God, man thinks of himself as infinite and absolute, but this is nothing more than bloated and reprehensible pride. God is not in the thoughts of the wicked, for they live in error and rebellion against Him, but He is there hiding from them, and forgoing to reveal Himself to them. They do not seek Him because He does not allow them to. He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts so that they cannot. But we will talk more of this on the power of God.
There are also some things to consider regarding the transcendent immanence of God’s presence. God is everywhere, and upholding all things by the Word of His power, but He is not “in everything” as pertaining to His nature and being. This is the error of Pantheism. They deny God’s unity, and assert that God is a part of everything and everything is a part of God. This is a grievous heresy, and in no way agreeable to the testimony of Holy Scripture. There is also a point to be made about heaven, where God is said to dwell. “The Lord is in His holy temple, The Lord’s throne is in heaven.” (Psalm 11:4)
“The Lord has established His throne in heaven, And His kingdom rules over all.” (Psalm 103:19)
Though it may be said that God dwells in heaven, yet He is not restricted or limited in presence to it. Heaven is the glory and splendor of His creation, and He has made it His throne. God rules in heaven, and from heaven, but He is not confined to heaven.
Therefore Jeremiah 23:23-24, says, “Am I a God near at hand,” says the Lord,
“And not a God afar off?
Can anyone hide himself in secret places,
So I shall not see him?” says the Lord;
“Do I not fill heaven and earth?” says the Lord.”
c) His incomprehensibleness.
We cannot fathom the depths of God’s Spiritual nature. Our minds cannot hold even a part of the infinite being of God. Our minds are finite and therefore can never fully comprehend God. He is hidden from all sinners, known to a few, but fully known by none. “Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?” (Job 11:7)
In regards to His essence, Chrysostom says, “A comprehended God is no god at all.”
Even should our minds stretch beyond what any man has accomplished, and we be endowed with such angelic wisdom as to understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though we should comprehend all the secrets on earth, yet should we come infinitely short of fully knowing God. Our knowledge of Him is like a grain of sand compared to infinitely grand and ever expanding space.
“Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!” (Rom. 11:33)
“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
“For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts.” (Isa. 55:8-9)
Application.
Seeing that God is infinite, let us be humble before Him. It is not proper for finite man who is smaller than dust, and lower in nature than a worm to be proud, and lift himself up. “For You will save the humble people, but will bring down haughty looks.”
(Ps. 18:27)
“If even the moon does not shine,
And the stars are not pure in His sight,
 How much less man, who is a maggot,
And a son of man, who is a worm?” (Job 25:5-6)
Let us acknowledge our lowliness, and exalt the Lord who made us, and who alone has all power and glory in Himself. He is exalted above the heavens, and therefore we should bow ourselves to the earth. Abraham showed proper reverence and humility when he prostrated himself before the Lord. [Gen. 18:2] This should be the direction of our hearts- the abasement of ourselves, and the exaltation of God.
Let us also be humble and consider the unfathomable privilege it is to know and be known by God. He who is infinite in honor, glory and power has so set His love upon only a few souls. How many in the great span of history are left to their misery! How many are cast from His presence? How many will wallow under chains of darkness forever? Set your mind on this, O Christian, that God who is infinite in perfections, expanse, and incomprehensibility has set His everlasting love upon you. Shall the Lord of glory set His heart upon such feeble dust as we, and shall not we set our minds on things above? Let it never be! Let us be single-minded, and let us have this goal in mind, even the glory of God.

Seeing that God is infinite, this rebukes those who sin against Him and break His laws.
“Those who plow iniquity
And sow trouble reap the same.
By the blast of God they perish,
And by the breath of His anger they are consumed.” (Job 4:8-9)
Oh, how quickly the wicked perish from before Him! They are as a vapor which appears for a moment and then vanishes! Their sins and iniquities are like smoke which rises from the fire of their lusts, but how quickly they will be put out. They will be consumed by the infinite power of the Almighty, and vanish in obscure darkness.
“The lamp of the wicked will be put out.” [Prov. 13:9]
The prosperity of the wicked is a finite prosperity, neither infinitely gathered, nor enjoyed. They trade the infinite pleasures of heaven for their few morsels of sin.
God’s graces however are infinitely bestowed, and infinitely enjoyed. What God gives here He gives by His immense power, and those gifts will be ours to keep in the life to come. Righteousness, peace, love and joy are finitely enjoyed here, but shall be infinitely enjoyed in heaven. Who can comprehend infinite joy!?
Therefore this infinity of God encourages such as walk in faith, and love to God.
Are you filled with the Spirit? Then by God’s grace you will be filled with infinite pleasure and delight in heaven. “In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.” [Psa. 16:11]
David here expresses the fullness of joy that accompanies God’s presence. When God bestows the gift of grace upon a soul, it is a gift of infinite value. Who can set a value upon infinity? It is beyond mortal comprehension, and cannot be known until we reach the gates of heaven, and even then we will spend eternity searching out this infinity. There we will know perfectly that God has been blessing us all the time we thought he was afflicting us. He pressed us sore that we might be free of those fleshly comforts which are finite, and receive the graces and virtues that are infinite.

This also rebukes such as try to hide their sins in hypocrisy.
Woe to that rebel who meets the wrath of a king, but ten thousand woes to him who meets the fiery wrath of an infinitely Holy King. He thought to hide himself under the cover of a seeming moral life. He accompanied the saints in the congregations, and sang hymns with them, but in his heart he was no more than a devil. How can one hide from Almighty God!? He searches the hearts and knows the minds of men. He knows if your heart is not yet converted, and He will bring infinite misery and punishment upon those who do not serve Him in truth.
Oh, if this is your case, let there be a great and bitter cry of repentance! Your sins are before Him, and cannot be washed away but by the blood of Christ. It is not enough to pray, to go to church, or to read the scriptures. You must be converted! You must be a new creature, and desire the things of God. He who does not serve the infinite God will receive the wages of iniquity- an infinite death.

Finally, this rebukes such as hold to man’s autonomy.
“Indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?” (Rom. 9:20-21)
Shall finite man boast against almighty power? Shall the clay say to the potter, “I am your master?” Is this not rank madness? Such is man who glories that he chose Christ of his own free will. God’s infinite essence rebukes him and sets things in order. The sovereignty of God is written all over scripture. Should man deny it, he must deny the scriptures. He cannot have both free will, and faith, for faith is against man’s free will, and the message of the gospel is to despair of self, and find your refuge in God. What profound error to say that our will is infinite and God’s finite!? Who acted first? Is man stronger than God? 1 Cor. 1:25 says that ‘the weakness of God is stronger than men.”
And if it be so, what is the strength of God? It is an easy thing for God to wrestle with men and prevail. Joseph’s brothers thought to sell him and be rid of him, but God used it to exalt him over them all. The nation of Israel thought to rebel against God and set up idols, worshiping the gods of the heathen and defiling the temple, but God used another nation much stronger than they to carry them to captivity. Jonah sought to flee from God because he did not want to preach to Nineveh, but God sent a great fish to swallow him up that he might be rebuked, afflicted and effectually persuaded to do the Lord’s will.
And how many other instances are in scripture demonstrating God’s infinite power, and sovereign will, and also in history? I say if they should all be recalled they are more in number than the sand of the sea. God’s will shall stand firm whatever man speaks against it, for if it should fail, God would not be infinite.
Therefore let us adore and worship God for His infinite perfections.
Is this not the center of our worship, and praise? That God is worthy of all our worship because He is infinite in His being, wisdom, power holiness, justice goodness and truth!
‘Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the glory, and the majesty, and thou art exalted as head above all.’ (1 Chron. 29:11)
Thomas Watson says,
“Well may the Scripture display the greatness of his glory, who is infinite in all places. He is infinitely above all our praises. Neh 9:9. ‘Blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all blessing and praise.’ Oh what a poor nothing is man, when we think of God’s infiniteness! As the stars disappear at the rising of the sun, oh, how does a man shrink into nothing when infinite majesty shines forth in its glory! Isa 40:15. ‘The nations are as a drop of the bucket, or the small dust of the balance!’ On what a little of that drop are we!”

2. God is eternal.
“Before the mountains were brought forth,
Or ever You had formed the earth and the world,
Even from everlasting to everlasting, You are God.” (Ps. 90:2)
God is also eternal, being self existent, and self-dependant, He was before time, He is now, and will be forever. Man cannot comprehend the depths of eternity, but God is eternity. Therefore it is said of Him, “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, Who was and is and is to come!” (Rev. 4:8)
He is called, “King Eternal.” [1 Tim. 1:17] He is a King whose reign knows no beginning nor shall ever know an end, for God was always sovereign ruler, and always will be.
Therefore the Psalm says, “Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.” [Ps. 45:6]
Jehovah: the name that God reveals Himself to Moses by designates this eternity. God says to Moses, “I AM THAT I AM.” How else to describe God’s eternity but by declaring that HE IS? Therefore Christ says in Revelation, “I AM the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last.” Christ therefore proclaims Himself to be the eternal God, and commands all the reverence and obedience that is due the Eternal King.
Seven times in the book of John Jesus says, “I AM” The most striking of which (the eighth) He says to the Jews, “Before Abraham was, I AM.” Then the Jews took up stones to kill him, because not only did Jesus here proclaim Himself to be the Eternal God, but He used the very name which the Jews feared and dreaded, the name which they did not dare speak with their lips. There he proclaimed Himself to be Jehovah, the God of their fathers, and the God of Israel. So we see here that Jesus constantly identifies Himself as the Eternal God. Therefore Paul says in Hebrews 13:8, “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.” If we believe in Jesus Christ as the Son of God, we have faith in the eternal God, and have hope in an eternal inheritance.
Therefore seeing that God is eternal, let us see that His judgments and rewards are also eternal.
Heaven is the paradise that God has promised to those who love Him, and He has made heaven glorious by His nature, and attributes. Heaven would not be a proper gift for God to give if it was not eternal like Him. Therefore since we are united to Jesus Christ and made one with Him, all things in heaven are ours through Him: The blessedness, the joy, the love, and eternity itself. “For all things are yours: whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come—all are yours. And you are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s.” [1 Cor. 3:21-23]
Therefore heaven is spoken of quite frequently as, “eternal life” as Jesus says in His High Priestly prayer, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.” [John 17:1-3]
Truly eternal life flows from a true, and saving knowledge of Jesus Christ the eternal Son of God. Without Jesus Christ as our Priest and Advocate, the only expectation there is- is an eternity of death.
So we see also that rebellion against this eternal God will invoke His eternal wrath.
God is the eternal King, and those who offend Him offend the infinite and eternal majesty of heaven. It is no small thing to personally offend or contemn a great and noble king, even a human one. Surely his anger will be kindled, and there will be great measures of judgment on the offender. “The wrath of a king is like the roaring of a lion; whoever provokes him to anger sins against his own life.” (Prov. 20:2)
But whoever offends the Eternal King shall not go unpunished. He sins against eternal life, and will be confined to an eternal prison. Eternity is both the glory of heaven and the sting of hell. Inasmuch as the children of God will be praising God’s glorious name for all eternity, so will the wicked be cursing, and they will be held under chains of darkness forever. “But he who sins against me (says the Lord) wrongs his own soul;
All those who hate me love death.” [Prov. 8:36]
Application.
Seeing that God is eternal, let us serve Him with diligence and readiness. It does not honor an eternal God for us to set our minds on earthly things. Therefore Paul says, “If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.” [Col. 3:1-4]
Our citizenship is in heaven, and the glories there are eternal. Therefore we are most unwise to set our thoughts and cares on earthly things, and not on heaven.
We ought to have our minds constantly engaged with heavenly subjects. We should read the Word of God constantly, pray fervently, and meditate on God devotedly. If we would receive a full reward as John says, we must be full of goodness, sincerity, love, joy, peace, righteousness, holiness, and godliness. We must pursue heaven, and run for it as if we ran for an eternal substance. Do you not see how athletes run? They train, prepare, practice, exercise, diet, and do all kinds of things to help them excel in that one race that is over in a moment. But we do not run for a perishable crown. We run for heaven. We run for eternity. We run under the banner of love for the glory of our Savior Jesus Christ. “Do you not know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run in such a way that you may obtain it. And everyone who competes for the prize is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a perishable crown, but we for an imperishable crown.” (1 Cor. 9:24-25) Here Paul says to run the race as if you had to run to obtain it. Although our works can never merit salvation, we ought to work, labor, strive, and pursue holiness as if it did. We ought to serve God as if we were saved by it. Not as though we work according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit who works life in us, and enables us to pursue that eternal goal: through faith in Christ, striving according to his working as Paul says in Colossians 1.
“Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so easily ensnares us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith…”  [Heb. 12:1-2]

We should also see that the punishments of God are eternal- having no end.
“But the cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.” (Rev. 21:8)
“And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
(Matt. 25:46)
Seeing that God is eternal, woe to them who make this world and its pleasures their god! Satan is called, “the god of this world” because he owns all the things that are delightful to men in their state of sinfulness. He is the master of power, fame, wealth, lust, and carnal entertainment, all of which will be the millstone that will drag those who indulge in them into the blackness of oblivion. They will enjoy it for but a moment, but then pain and misery. Upon their death, all of their delight will work to their damnation and suffering. They will be wealthy on earth, but then have nothing in hell. They will be famous, and suddenly alone, happy for a second, but forever miserable. Men have a saying that goes, “live for the moment.” How this fully reveals their madness! They are in a crazed frenzy for momentary pleasure which ends only in destruction. They make sport of offending God, and breaking His commandments, and then they are consumed forever. What is a second to a minute? What is a minute to a day, or an hour to a year? What is a nanosecond to a millennium? What is a lifetime of pleasure to an eternity of pain!? How astonishingly foolish are men who reject the gospel, reject salvation, and reject God to live for themselves. They sow sin and iniquity and reap doom upon their own heads. They plant transgression, and heap judgment upon themselves. Woe to them, for they cannot see the light. They are blindly walking toward damnation held by the devil’s will, and shackled by his desire. For where he goes is further into hell, and those who follow him know not how far he takes them; until it is too late and their soul is claimed. They die and suddenly realize their error. They wail in astonishment, weeping and wailing and crying out, “how foolish was I? How many times I was warned to flee from the wrath to come. How I spurned it, thought it silly, thought the final judgment a fancy of my conscience! And now I am to be confined to an eternal prison to be tormented forever. And why was the gospel not preached to me louder? Why did not my Christian acquaintances beckon me, and persuade me that I might not come here!? Oh, the fires of hell, the fires of hell! They are not for a day, or a year but forever! and how I should have ran from them instead of running to my pleasures!”
But alas, there is no mourning, no lamentation, no excuse, no plea to be made; for the wrath of God will be meted out in full measure upon those who sin against Him, and there is no one to stand up for them and plead with God on their behalf. Woe to those souls who live for the moment. Woe to those souls who have not Christ.

3. God is unchangeable.
“God is not a man, that He should lie,
Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
Has He said, and will He not do?
Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?” (Num. 23:19)
“I am the LORD, I change not.” [Mal. 3:6]
A perfect God cannot be a changing God. He cannot be infinite and eternal, and also liable to change. Therefore His immutability is inseparable from His deity. Louis Berkhof writes, “Even reason teaches us that no change is possible in God, since a change is either for better or for worse. But in God, as the absolute Perfection, improvement and deterioration are both equally impossible.”
God is infinitely and eternally perfect. It is foolishness to assert that God can change, but surprisingly enough the god of Islam is this object of foolish worship. Their god can both lie, and change. This means nothing else but that their god is the devil, because Jesus has spoken saying, “he [the devil] is the father of lies.”
The immutability of God relates to all His being, attributes and decrees. He is unchangeably perfect, good, righteous, holy, and just; the reasonable conclusion to this being that His decrees are also immutable. God has from the beginning of the world predestined, and foreordained whatever is to come to pass. It is a product of His immutability. He who cannot change has set the world’s history so that it cannot change.
Yet God’s immutability does not mean that we should continue on in the way we please because God does not change. No, we should realize that if God is unchangeable, then His desires do not change. He always delights in repentance and holiness, and that is that path we should follow. Even though we are mutable and subject to change, we should apply ourselves to the study of scripture, and strive to walk always in the ways of the Lord, for the way of the righteous will prosper, but the way of the ungodly will perish.
God’s immutability does not only regard His knowledge of events, but His ordaining of events. Man’s will can never be free when God remains immutable. Man’s will is subject to change, and liable to error. “They will change, but you are the same.” [Ps. 102:26-27] God’s decrees are perfect and immutable. The justification of God’s righteous will is in the end established. God is not the author of sin, neither does God do wrong. Man sins and God punishes. Man rebels and God puts down. Man lifts himself up and God brings down. Man repents and God forgives. Man obeys and God rewards.
God is always the same. It is man who changes. A perfect example of this is found in Genesis 6:6-8, “And the Lord was sorry that He had made man on the earth, and He was grieved in His heart. So the Lord said, “I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing and birds of the air, for I am sorry that I have made them.” But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.” Here we do not see a change in God’s nature, and will, but a change in man’s ways, and the complete degradation and total corruption of society. Man’s sinfulness always grieves God, and invokes His wrath and judgment.
The Hebrew word used in this verse (6) for “sorry”: וַיִּנָּ֣חֶם (root: nacham) does not denote that God did wrong, and changed His will, but that He changed His attitude towards man in response to man’s sinfulness in the preparation of His anger being poured out on them. It is the same word used when Esau “comforted” himself when he planned to take vengeance on Jacob for stealing his birthright. Here, Esau’s wrath was unjust, but in Genesis, God’s wrath was most just. God’s countenance changed, and He became sorry that He had made man. But it was all according to His purpose.
Therefore the Lord was sorry, not that His will is tainted with mutability, but the very opposite.
God is sorry when man sins, because He is unchangeably holy, and it angers Him that man sins, and therefore He judges them according to the immutability of His righteous decree. Also we see here in this verse that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord. Noah was called by God, and was favored apart from any works Noah did, but he did the works that pleased the Lord, because the Lord favored him. God’s immutability means that the righteous will please Him, and the wicked will not. Therefore in the record of the flood we see a type and figure of the righteousness of Christ (apart from which no one can please God) which is the true Ark of salvation, and the final judgment in which all the wicked who anger God will be cast into hell, but the righteous who verily were, “appointed unto eternal life” and find grace in the eyes of the Lord will enjoy His glorious presence forever.
Application.
Seeing that God is immutable, this rebukes such as continue in their sin. God remains good, but men remain wicked. They have been preached to and commanded to repent from their abominations, but they do not repent. Their hearts do not stir; neither do their consciences correct them. They are stubborn and hard-hearted. Therefore it is written that before conversion, men have hearts of stone. [Ezk. 36:26] Their being is mutable, and ever-changing, but their state remains the same. They are held captive to do the devil’s will, and abide in those chains until they are set free by the gospel.
Jesus says to the Pharisees in John 8:34, 44, “Most assuredly, I say to you, whoever commits sin is a slave of sin… You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do.” Woe to those souls that do not abide by immutable truth, but follow a lie. Their substance is finite, temporal, and ever-changing. It is the very opposite of God. The saints have an infinite hope, an eternal love, and an immutable truth to apprehend, but the wicked have nothing. What they have is soon gone. It is ever changing dust that passes away, and is no more.

Seeing that God is unchangeable, let us labor to serve Him steadfastly, with fervency of spirit; not slavish, or slack, but constant, and continual. “His compassions fail not” [Lam. 3:22] so why should our convictions? His love is “from everlasting” [Jer. 31:3], therefore why should our love wax cold? God’s love for us is as sure and steadfast as it has ever been. His love does not change, nor deviate, nor lose its heat, so why should we be so lazy and slack in devotion? Seeing that God is immutable, let us apply ourselves daily to the study of the Word, and prayer, knowing that by His decree we will be rewarded for the same. “And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.” (Gal. 6:9)

Let us also apprehend and believe the promises of God which cannot change, seeing that God who cannot lie has promised them. A promise from man is liable to fail. No matter how faithful he may seem, he cannot know all things that pertain to the fulfilling of that promise. His heart may change, his actions may change, and the promise left unfulfilled.
But once God has spoken, He will not repent of it, nor remit. He will fulfill His promises with unspeakable perfection. Even when they are long in the waiting, yet they will not be forgotten. The promise to crush the serpent’s head was made in the Garden of Eden, and it was a few thousand years before it was fulfilled by Jesus Christ on the cross. Even if we must wait long for it, and the promise seems to tarry, let us not lose hope, but fully believe and wait for the promises of God.
“For when God made a promise to Abraham, because He could swear by no one greater, He swore by Himself, saying, “Surely blessing I will bless you, and multiplying I will multiply you.” And so, after he had patiently endured, he obtained the promise. For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us.”
(Hebrews 6:13-18)
See what invincible consolation lies behind these words, ‘Surely blessing, I will bless thee.’ which blessing God bestowed upon Abraham who was the friend of God, and whose faith was accounted to him for righteousness. Therefore if God so said to Abraham ‘Surely blessing, I will bless thee.’ Then how much more shall those be blessed in Christ, who have set their faith on Him, and fled under His wings for refuge? For the purpose of this epistle is to demonstrate in shining and majestic ways how that Christ is greater in every sense, form and capacity than those famous patriarchs of the Old Testament. Indeed they were but dim and dark types and shadows when placed before the brightness of the glory of the Sun of Righteousness. Herein then lies the strength of our consolation. That the immutable God had said to Abraham, ‘Surely blessing, I will bless thee.’ It is as if He said, ‘If all the blessings of the world be bestowed upon a person, it will be thee. If there is a blessing to bless, it will be upon thee. If there was but one blessing to bless with, it would be given to thee.’ Recall how when Isaac blessed Jacob, he could not afterward bless Esau; for there is but one blessing to give. Therefore when God gives blessing it is only through His Son. See then how this applies to Christ and all His own. The Father hath promised the Son saying, ‘I will give to thee the heathen for thine inheritance and the uttermost parts of the world for thy possession.’ [Ps. 2:8] We are His possession. ‘I do not pray for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me.’ [John 17:9] Truly there is no curse to be feared for those in Christ who are under His everlasting wings sealed by the immutable promise of God. ‘He who trusts in the Lord shall not be put to shame.’ [Rom. 10:11] He has no curse for us, but only blessing. See how Christ treats those under His government, when sitting upon a mountain throne He says, “Blessed are the poor in spirit.” [Matt. 5:3]
And again, ‘I have called you friends.’ [John 15:15]
He has taken away the curse from His people and given them only a blessing. Surely blessing, He will bless those in Christ.
Seeing then that we have unbreakable assurance from God to come before Him in faith, let us draw near to Him with boldness, neither wavering, nor fearing his fiery judgments. Let us claim this hope to be our own through Christ who has obtained it for us, and made us partakers of His victory through faith. Let us know assuredly that it is God’s good pleasure to grant us access into the everlasting Kingdom, where Christ is, being raised with Him in glory.
Let us apprehend these precious promises with all confidence, for God who cannot lie has confirmed it by an unchangeable oath.
Thomas Watson said,
“God seems to cast off the soul in desertion, as in Cant 5:5, ’My Beloved had withdrawn himself;’ yet he is unchangeable. He is immutable in his love; he may change his countenance, but not his heart. ‘I have loved thee with an everlasting love.’ Jer 31:1. Hebrew: עוֹלָם֙ (Olam) a love of eternity. If once God’s electing love rises upon the soul, it never sets. ‘The mountains shall be removed, but my loving kindness shall not depart from thee, neither the covenant of my peace be removed.’ Isa 54:40. God’s love stands faster than the mountains. His love to Christ is unchangeable; and he will no more cease loving believers than he will cease loving Christ.”