The significance of immanence and imminence to the child of God is not just a play on words.
The revelation of God and His redemptive work is carried in the meaning of these two words immanence and imminence, and their companion eminence.
I am appalled and grieved by the level of distortion of God’s nature and character and the resulting syncretism that has crept into Christian theology.
Pantheism, Spiritism and Gnosticism have found their way into much of the preaching and teaching in Evangelical and Pentecostal circles.
I was saddened recently at a Christian event when they played a song about the “circle of life;” a doctrine that comes directly out of the Buddhist religion.
Immanence is the declaration of God’s omniscience and omnipresence. He is the creator and sustainer of all that exists.
“He [Jesus Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist. And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things He may have the preeminence. Reconciled in Christ for it pleased the Father that in Him all the fullness should dwell, and by Him to reconcile all things to Himself, by Him, whether things on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through the blood of His cross” (Colossians 1:20 NKJV).
This reveals the transcendence of God. He is not “in” all things but He is the creator of all things and He sustains all things by the power of His Word (Hebrews 1:1-4). He is eternal, everlasting to everlasting.
He has no mother no father.
He has no beginning or ending of days.
He exists outside of time and space which He created for mankind but He exists separate from it.
His immanence affirms His promised presence at every moment in our life. He said:
