Drawing from Deuteronomy 10 and other key passages, Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, highlights that God is utterly unique as the “God of gods and Lord of lords,” possessing incommunicable attributes such as eternity, aseity, immutability, omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence. These belong to God alone, showing Him to be self-existent, unchanging, beyond time and space, and limitless in power and knowledge. In contrast, communicable attributes—like wisdom, holiness, goodness, justice, and love—are reflected in humanity in a faint, dependent way and are brought into proper expression and growth in believers as they are conformed to the image of Christ.

He stresses that real spiritual change does not flow chiefly from practical instruction or behavior tweaks, but from beholding the glory of the Lord in His Word by faith. As believers gaze on Christ—the perfect image of the invisible God—the Spirit transforms them “from glory to glory,” so that ordinary spheres of life (marriage, family, work, citizenship, church) become the very places where God’s character is displayed. Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, urges Christians to stop chasing worldly greatness and instead rest in God’s unchanging promises and eternal purpose in Christ, allowing His attributes to be formed in them and expressed through them in the seemingly small, everyday details of life.

Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, explains that while humanity cannot discover God on its own, God has graciously revealed Himself through both creation (general revelation) and Scripture (special revelation). From Isaiah 46, he emphasizes that God alone is God—there is none else and none like Him—who declares the end from the beginning and has both the intention and the power to bring His counsel to pass. Strelecki underscores how Scripture unveils God’s eternal purpose in Christ from before the world began through eternity future, and urges believers not to take this revelation for granted but to “get into the Book,” learn God well, believe what He says, and order their lives accordingly.

Strelecki then turns to God’s existence and attributes, showing from passages like Psalms, Romans, and Isaiah that denying God is the height of folly, even as creation, human dependence, and the order of the world all testify to a first cause and sustaining Creator. He highlights God’s incommunicable attributes—His eternity (from everlasting to everlasting) and aseity (self-existence, “I AM THAT I AM”)—as realities that set God utterly apart from idols and from His creatures, and yet this high and lofty One chooses to dwell with the humble and contrite. He closes by pointing to Christ as the perfect image of the invisible God, through whom believers not only come to know God savingly, but are also transformed into His likeness in those communicable attributes that reflect the family resemblance to their Creator.

Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, explained that God has chosen to reveal Himself, because man cannot discover God by intellect, wisdom, or research alone. He distinguished between general revelation—what we can know of God through creation—and special revelation—what God has specifically spoken about Himself, His will, and His purpose in Christ. Using Psalm 19, he showed that creation testifies to a Creator, but only in a broad, indirect way, whereas the written Word (the law, testimonies, statutes, commandments, and judgments) reaches the inner man and converts the soul. He emphasized that over time God moved from creation’s witness to inscripturated revelation: the creation account, the law, the prophets, and all that He chose to write down so that His self-disclosure would endure through history.

Josh Strelecki, Pastor-Teacher, then traced how Hebrews 1 presents God speaking “at sundry times and in divers manners” in the past—through direct speech, visible manifestations (like the burning bush and Sinai), dreams, visions, miracles, and prophetic words that addressed both near and distant future events—culminating in His final and fullest revelation in His Son. Christ is the Word made flesh, the image of the invisible God, the One in whom all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily, and all Scripture ultimately testifies of Him. In these last days, God has spoken by His Son, and that revelation has been inscripturated through the apostles and prophets, giving us a complete written Word that both reveals who God is and works effectually in the believer’s soul.