The Omnipotence of God

Today on Renewing Your Mind omnipotence this past hour finding out we cannot even engine how powerful God is, whatever are your highest grandest loftiest thoughts of how powerful God is it still fall short of the reality of his omnipotence smoothly. God is none from a boy to branch stores in the sky. Everything in everyone is dependent on God's immeasurable power for its existence on focus this week is on the attributes of God.

Teacher Dr. Steven Lawson we come now this session to the next attribute of God, which is the omnipotence of God, which means that God is all-powerful everyone of these attributes of God is like the bright outshining of the greatness of God. Every attribute is another shaft of light that is beaming out of heaven, revealing the awesome greatness of who our God is test certainly is the case with this attribute on the omnipotence of God.

What an encouragement this should be to us in our prayers that there is nothing that is impossible to God. There is nothing too hard for God. Let us bring our petitions and lay them before the throne of grace because he is so powerful and as we will see in one of our future sessions and he is so wise and he is so loving wants to consider.

Now the omnipotence of God which means that God possesses all power just comfortably that for a moment, all power, that means even what little tiny power. You and I have in a temporal nature has been delegated to us from God. There's a sense in which God does not even have to take her life. He just stops giving it think about this, even as relates to Satan. With little power. The devil has an even that is from God. Martin Luther said the devil is God's devil to carry out God's purposes even in the little power that caught his allotted. Nothing is impossible to God, nothing is even hard to God.

One of his Old Testament names is El Shaddai L EL means God.

Shaddai means all mighty is very name reveals to us.

This attribute this this character quality of God that he is the Almighty God is the possessor of all strength and what power belongs to us his creatures is simply on loan from him because all power is from God.

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Since God has at his command. All the power in the universe of the Lord God omnipotent can do anything as easily as he can do anything else. All of his acts are done without effort.

He expends no energy that must be replenished. His self-sufficiency makes it unnecessary for him to look outside of himself for a renewal of strength. All the power required to do all that he wills lies in him in undiminished fullness." What a great God we have.

What a great God will, as we consider now the omnipotence of God. I want to give you five categories with which we will think through the omnipotence of God first. He has infinite power. This ponder that infinite power unlimited power boundless power. He is all-powerful, therefore he is able to do whatever he pleases. There are many things that you and I desire to do we just don't have the strength to do it. We just don't have the ability to carry it out.

We would say the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak. Not with God.

Every desire he has unlimited power with which to carry it out as we think of this.

Think of his power and creation.

Psalm 33 six by the word of the Lord the heavens were made and by the breath of his mouth all their host.

Consider this in creation.

Consider the size of the universe.

He has created the sheer dimensions of which are staggering. Scientists tell us that it would take 500 billion years to journey around its perimeter traveling at the speed of light. That's 186,000 mi./s. The sun has a diameter of 864,000 miles and can hold over 1 million planets the size of the earth. One star has a diameter of 100 million miles larger than the Earth's orbit around the sun. It takes sunlight traveling at the speed of light, about 8 1/2 minutes to reach the earth yet that same light would take more than four years to reach the nearest star. That is some 24 trillion miles from the earth. All of this just is a testimony to this staggering power of God in creation.

Nothing that we would ever bring before his 300 grace is hard for God to do. He has spoken it all into existence by the mayor breath of his word. He has infinite power. He does everything effortlessly, not by the sweat of his brow, not by the perspiration of his four head, but by the mayor breath of his mouth. Jeremiah 32 verse 17 all Lord.

Behold, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for you.if you can do that water needs in my little life. I just need some strength to get through the day. I just need help to face this trial is not sufficient. Is God able that he have power to hold the heavens and the earth and see that nothing is impossible or difficult for God. Matthew 19 verse 26 with people.

This is impossible, but with God all things are possible in the context. The context here is how hard it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven was more than hard.

It's impossible by his efforts and by his strength and I want to be quick to add, it's impossible for poor man to be saved by his own efforts and by his own strength but with God nothing is impossible. No one is too hard for God to save he can save the chief of sinners he can break open the hardest heart he can cause blind eyes to see the truth he can cause deaf ears to hear the call of the good Shepherd to come to him. There is no one beyond the outstretched hand and arms of God to save how encouraged we should be.

By this, as we pray for loved ones to come to faith in Christ.

No one is too hard for Todd to save my father-in-law if there was anyone that I thought would not be saved. It would be my father-in-law so resistant. So harden to the gospel so resistant to me, to my wife at times, three days before he died, knowing that I would perform his funeral, thinking that would be the saddest day and all of our lives. This Almighty God. This God of all grace and all power reach down into that hospital bed and pried open that proud hard and saved him to make him a trophy of his grace, and a few days later when I did that funeral over here in Tampa, Florida what was going to be the saddest day of my life became the happiest day are one of the happiest days of our lives because nothing is impossible to God how we should pray for our lost loved ones. How we should pray for our nation and we should pray for our president, how we should intercede, knowing that every petition before the throne of God. He is more than adequate. He is more than sufficient. He can overcome any and every obstacle that would hinder the caring fourth of his sovereign will and his purposes in this generation. He has infinite power. Did you hear that he has infinite power. Second, he has irresistible power is power is invincible.

It is unconquerable. If God were a football team. We would say he's undefeated.

No one can resist God. No one can defeat God all of his purposes are moving forward. Sometimes I hear people say something moronic like this, God does for you and the devil votes against you and you have the deciding vote. Can you imagine anything more inane than that, as though God has some power and the devil has some power and it's a tug-of-war and it's a standoff and neither can gain ground on the other so you and I have a choice. We need to come and get behind either God or Satan, and when the day it will be our strength that will jerk the rope in one direction and when the day will be to God is so omnipotent. If the whole world was on the other side of that tug-of-war head of Satan and all of the demons in and out of hell were all on that other side of the road and only God was on this side of the rope God could but season when the day. He is triumphant he is invincible he is unconquerable with the power that God has Job 42 verse two.

Job said I know that you can do all things and that no purpose of yours can be thwarted. That's pretty good lesson to learn, is it not no purpose of yours can be thwarted.

Isaiah 14 verse 27 for the Lord of hosts has planned who can frustrated the rhetorical question.

The answer, of which again is no one, not even everyone can frustrated and as for his outstretched hand.

Who can turn it back to slap God's hand in and turn it back know he is the God of might and of all power. Isaiah 43 verse 13, even from eternity. I am he, and there is no one who can deliver out of my hand. I acted who can reverse no one help awesome is the power of God to carry forward his purposes in history as well as in our own lives. He has infinite power, he has irresistible power. He has inexhaustible power God's power is undiminished from everlasting to everlasting's power is the same God is not growing tired God is not growing old. It's not as though you know God just can't do what he used to could do look back at the Old Testament look at all these great things that God did now look at the church. Maybe God is growing old navy God is not able to do what he wants could do listen is blasphemy God is forever the same. His power is his undiminished.

He loses none of his omnipotence.

Isaiah 40 verse 28. Let us hear this text again. Do you not know that implies there are times when we forget this. There are times when we act as though we do not know this. Do you not know have you not heard the everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. He gives strength to the weary and to him who lacks might he increases power is on to say to those of us to whom he increases his power in our lives that we are able to rise up with wings like eagles, we can run and not grow weary. We can walk and not become tired know God's power is inexhaustible and he gives power to the weak. When I went off to college. A million years ago, I grew up in Memphis Tennessee. I played football and when it came my senior year I was given a football scholarship to Texas Tech University, which was way out in West Texas and this was before cell phones. This is before I think television I mean this is what he back there and I remember being out there all by myself.

There's one little payphone down at the end of the hall and you know once a decade. Maybe you would call Homan and I latched onto a verse, and I had this verse put up over my bed in my dorm room such that every night when I went to sleep. I would steer this verse right in front of me. I'd wake up in the morning I would see this I would, I would head off to football practice I would come back I'd be so tired of being beaten, I'd be bloodied.

I would see this verse in this verse would just pull me up by the lapels, it would just breeze strength into me's Philippians 4 verse 13 I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me Ellison that's not a name that claimant theology that's not some prosperity. Verse I can do all things through Christ. I can do all things within the will of God. I can do all things that glorify his name.

I can do all things in obedience to his word I can do all things that God calls me to do I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. This this infinite, inexhaustible power is mediated into our lives as we are weak and as we look to him and as we trust him. He enables us to exchange our weakness for his strength and the power of the Holy Spirit within us and the power of the word of God and the power of the knowledge of God. It enables us.

It energizes us. It employs us to do God's work. God's way for God's glory, whatever it is that God has called you to do. God has power for you to do it. It is inexhaustible power. Listen to Psalm 102 verses 25 and following of old, you founded the earth and the heavens are the work of your hands. Even they will perish, but you endure, and all of them will wear out like a garment like closing you will change them and they will be changed, but you are the same in your years will not come to an end. That is saying God's power is the same from age to age. From generation to generation, and he stands ready to come alongside of this people, and to impart his power to enable us to do his will for his glory. We can't but he can in us and through us.

Number four is power is incomprehensible power. It is so infinite and so vast that it simply cannot be comprehended by us. Omnipotence is past our finding out we cannot even imagine how powerful God is, whatever are your highest grandest loftiest thoughts of how powerful God is, it still falls short of the reality of his omnipotence. Ephesians 3 verse 20 is a signature text that that this is a tax that ought to make us just rise up and be so encouraged now to him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us if just layer upon layer upon layer able to do more far more far more abundantly, far more abundantly beyond all that we ask far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think we can even think of the fullness of his omnipotence.

According to the power that works within us, then, is the summary of Ephesians 133 and that is the summary of the power of God in salvation to be able to raise those who are dead in trespasses and sins to be made alive by his sovereign regenerating grace to raise us up and make us alive in Christ give us the gifts of repentance and faith. Call us unto himself open our blind eyes take out our heart of stone. Give us a heart of flesh. This is the exceeding abundantly beyond all that we can ask or think saving power of God. It is incomprehensible and finally, I would tell you it's self consistent power that is to say God's power works in perfect conformity with all of his other attributes. God's power will only work in perfect coordination with his sovereignty. It will only work in perfect coordination with his wisdom, it will only work perfectly in coordination with his love is grace is mercy. We asked the question, are there some things that God cannot do. Yes, there are some things that God cannot, God cannot act inconsistent with his own character. God cannot die. God cannot lie. Titus one to Hebrews 6 verse 18 it is impossible for God to lie, yes, there are some things that God cannot do. There are many things that God cannot do that would be inconsistent with his other attributes. So his power works in perfect conformity with his sovereign will. With his perfect wisdom with his amazing grace.

This is the omnipotence of God, let us be encouraged. Let us be strengthened as we consider the greatness of his power, no prayer request is beyond his ability to answer it except it measuring with his perfect will. And there is found in our weakness.

Perfect strength to do everything that is within the will of God that he calls us today.

Sometimes we say I just don't think I can do this. Yes, you and the power of God strength if in fact he has called you to God be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

That's Dr. Steven Lawson from his series, the attributes of God before century theologian, Augustine said, however strong, may be the purposes either of angels or of men of good or bad weather. These purposes fall of the will of God or run counter to it the will of the omnipotent is never defeated. Studying these attributes of God causes us to do nothing but worship him. Glad you joined us for the woods. The addition of Renewing Your Mind. I'm Lee Webb Dr. Lawson series all the attributes of God is her focus all week but were making the complete series available to you today for gift of any amount to litigator ministries included in this offer is Dr. Lawson's book show me your glory. Understanding the majestic splendor of God, you can give your gift to make a request online@renewingyourmind.org or you can call us at 800-435-4343.

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