The Knowledge of the Holy by A.W. Tozer
Week 6: Chapter 6 — The Self-Sufficiency of God
Read Chapter 6: The Self-Sufficiency of God of The Knowledge of the Holy. Key passage: Acts 17:24-25.
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Closely related to self-existence, God's self-sufficiency means He is not merely the greatest being in the universe but the only being who has everything He needs entirely within Himself.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Tozer distinguishes between God's self-existence (that He derives being from nothing outside Himself) and His self-sufficiency (that He needs nothing outside Himself to be perfectly complete). How do these two truths reinforce each other?
2.He reflects on the words of Paul in Athens: God is not served by human hands as though He needed anything. How does this verse challenge the way we sometimes talk about "giving back to God" or "doing things for God"?
3.Tozer is careful to say that God's self-sufficiency does not make creation meaningless or human relationship with God hollow. How does he explain why God creates and why our worship matters, if God needs neither?