{"id":13107,"date":"2023-04-29T06:06:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T06:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=13107"},"modified":"2025-06-16T00:28:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T00:28:32","slug":"great-god-how-infinite-art-thou-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2023\/04\/great-god-how-infinite-art-thou-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Great God, How Infinite Art Thou"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the points covered in this sermon:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The theme of this hymn is the transcendence of God<br \/>\n\u2022 Explaining what the transcendence of God means, by using the framework of sovereign grace as a backdrop<br \/>\n\u2022 Each stanza of the hymn highlights a different aspect of God\u2019s transcendence<br \/>\n\u2022 Stanzas 1 and 6\u2014God is incomparably glorious<br \/>\n\u2022 Stanza 2\u2014God is self-existent<br \/>\n\u2022 Stanzas 3 and 4\u2014God providentially governs the world according to His eternal decree<br \/>\n\u2022 Stanza 5\u2014God is immutable<\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"13107\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the points covered in this sermon: \u2022 The theme of this hymn is the transcendence of God \u2022 Explaining what the transcendence of God means, by using the framework of sovereign grace as a backdrop \u2022 Each stanza of the hymn highlights a different aspect of God\u2019s transcendence \u2022 Stanzas 1 and 6\u2014God is incomparably glorious \u2022 Stanza 2\u2014God is self-existent \u2022 Stanzas 3 and 4\u2014God providentially governs the world according to His eternal decree \u2022 Stanza 5\u2014God is immutable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":18256,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1037,1014],"tags":[1215,1223,1220],"class_list":["post-13107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-isaac-watts-hymn-studies","category-jared-smiths-hymn-studies","tag-divine-attributes","tag-divine-worship","tag-spiritual-comfort","post_format-post-format-video"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13107"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15497,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13107\/revisions\/15497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}