King Eternal

17 Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, to [e]God who alone is wise, be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.

When we say Elijah - we refer to him as Prophet
When we say David - worshiper
We we say Apostle Paul - Preacher

But this particular verse that we read , Paul worshiped God.
For this morning devotion, i would like to concentrate on the depth of this verse.

In this worship, Paul talks about the attributes of God.

King Eternal
Immortal
Invisible
God who alone is wise.

For a person who saw the healing from God, when he says God you are my healer. He means it.
When a person who truly experienced forgiveness of God, for him when he says God is my savior, he means it.

Level of Worship is  to the extent of how you know God personally.

King Eternal:  Who was and who is and who is to come.

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.

Psalms 90:2 NKJV

https://bible.com/bible/114/psa.90.2.NKJV

God is not bound by time.

Man is too often bound by time.

Man says I will do this thing this year, I will buy a car this year, I will buy a house thisyear , I will do business this year.

But for God, every aspect is eternal.

just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love,

Ephesians 1:4 NKJV

https://bible.com/bible/114/eph.1.4.NKJV

When God sees things it is eternal.

When God called Abraham, 

He  didn't call him just for taking to Canaan, or have a son , or become a nation, but there is eternity calling.

We often too much affinity for things of the world, and a very negligent attitude regarding eternity.

When we buy a phone, what do we think ?

What are the latest features,

Does it have good camera,

Animation,

Video games.

But rarely do we think of eternal impact.

How many parents think when they buy something for their kids how this is going to impact for eternity.

One preacher said if only our eyes are stamped with eternity of heaven and hell, our lives would be different.

But apostle Paul knows when he says To King Eternal.

This man says whether I eat or drink it is for the glory of God.

How can he say that.

Paul was a great learned man.

He was like today's PhD graduate from stanford or Harvard.

He was very learned man. And he comes from tribe of Benjamin.

But he says in Philippians 3:8 

 But what things were gain to me, these I have counted loss for Christ. 8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ 

Count it as all loss.

This is called vanity.

To have a perspective of eternity , you got to know about vanity of this world.

You might be a doctor or nurse or wealthy person or a beautiful person , go before the face of God and say I lay it all down at the altar.

Knowing Christ, knowing Christ.

Two people have really experienced this vanity.

Jacob 

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are  one hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

Genesis 47:9 NKJV

https://bible.com/bible/114/gen.47.9.NKJV

Abraham

By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise; for he waited for the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

Hebrews 11:9‭-‬10 NKJV

https://bible.com/bible/114/heb.11.9-10.NKJV

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Only wise God

For you see your calling, brethren, that not many wise according to the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are  called.  But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world and the things which are despised God has chosen, and the things which are not, to bring to nothing the things that are, But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption—

I Corinthians 1:26‭-‬28‭, ‬30 NKJV

https://bible.com/bible/114/1co.1.26-30.NKJV

Luke 7:

Wisdom is justified by all her children.

For John the Baptist came neither eating bread nor drinking wine, and you say, ‘He has a demon.’  The Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, ‘Look, a glutton and a winebibber, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!’  But wisdom is justified by all her children.”

Luke 7:33‭-‬35 NKJV

https://bible.com/bible/114/luk.7.33-35.NKJV