2018-11-04 English Notes

Strengthened by Faith in our Omnipotent God

            The one true Creator God Who has revealed Himself in the Bible has revealed Himself to be Omnipotent: Omni (all) potence (powerful). God controls all the power in the entire Universe.  He is the source of all power (Ps. 62:11).  In the Apostle John’s vision of eternity He “… heard as it were the voice of a great multitude saying: “Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth” (Rev 19:6).

If God is Infinite, & He has Power, then His power must be Infinite.  That is “Almighty” or “0mnipotent.”  He is “Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is , and is to come” (Rev. 4:8; Gen. 17:1; Rev. 11:17; 15:3; 16:7; 21:22).  The Hebrew word for “Almighty” occurs 56 times in Scripture & is used only of God.

 

GOD’S NAMES IN HEBREW REVEAL HIS ALMIGHTY POWER

God” is translated from the Hebrew “El” which means “to be strong, power, might.”  “Elohim” is a plural form of “God” suggesting the trinity.  It is found about 2500 times in the O.T. (Gen. 1:1).  “El Elyon” is literally “the strongest strong one” (Gen. 14:18-20).

 

ALL GOD’S ATTRIBUTES WORK TOGETHER FOR OUR GOOD (Rom. 8:28)

As Sovereign, God has Total Authority; as Almighty, God has total Power; as Self Existent God has complete Freedom.  Thus He can and will carry out His own Good Will for our benefit (Eph. 1:9, 11; 3:11; Dan. 4:35; Isa. 14:24, 27; 46:10; Acts 4:28).  Thus any promise God Makes to us in His Word, He will fulfill!

Because God is Eternal His Power must be Everlasting.  “Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength” (Isa 26:4).  “Everlasting strength” is Hebrew “rock of ages” (I Sam. 2:2; Ps. 18:2).  Jesus is our eternal rock of almighty strength!

God’s power will never diminish even the slightest bit throughout all eternity.  It can never decrease or increase Forever!

Because God is Self Existent He must be the source of all the Power there is in the entire Universe.  The source must be at least equal to anything that emanates from it.  Thus God is greater than all the power in the entire Universe!  God’s Power created the Universe & keeps it going! (Col. 1:16-17; Heb. 1:3; Ps. 66:9).  All Power Belongs to God: He’s Almighty, Omnipotent!  The Power of God is the only real power there is.  There is no power apart from God (Ps. 62:11; Matt. 6:13 KJV; John 19:11).  The universe has no inherent power to sustain itself.  That is why it is running down (Heb. 1:10-12; Isa. 51:6; Ps. 102:25-27).  Eventually, it will disappear and God will replace it with a New Heavens and New Earth (Rev. 21:1; Isa. 65:17-19; 66:17-19; 2Pet. 3:13).

 

GOD’S POWER IS REVEALED IN THE IMMENSITY OF THE UNIVERSE

“For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse” (Rom 1:20).

We comprehend more of God’s Power today than at any other time in History (By Empirical Science).  We now know there are Trillions upon Trillions of these Stars in the Universe!

“Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth” (Isa 40:26; Job 38:33)

 

THE IDOLS OF ATHEISTIC SCIENTISTS 

Modern Science has attempted to replace the Omnipotent God by making idols of the Laws of NatureMankind used to have an acute sense of the presence of God as they realized He ruled & sustained our amazing World.  Today Science tries to convince us the Laws of Nature explain the existence of everything (Naturalism; Humanism; Evolutionism).  But The Laws of Nature can’t Create! They are a part of the Creation.  They just reveal How the Creator Designed His Creation

The consistency of God’s activities in His Creation enables the scientist to predict the course of natural phenomena.  Because the Stars and heavenly bodies move with such amazing precision we are able to put a man on the moon and send rockets to Mars!

Some People can’t Look beyond Creation to see the Creator

When Yuri Gagarin became the 1st man to orbit the earth in 4/12/1961.  Khrushchev said Gagarin didn’t see any god in space!  At that time Russia was way ahead of us in the race to space.  But shortly after mocking God they fell way behind!

God designed everything in a way that we can discover the incredible design & make great advancements for mankindIt’s one thing for science to discover how Creation works & make scientific progress.  It is quite another thing to Believe God’s Word & discover God’s Purpose for creating everything to begin with!  Why am I alive?  What purpose did God have in creating me?

Illustration: Henry Ford & the Model T; Aunt Matilda & her cake

 

5 QUESTIONS IN ISAIAH 40 REVEAL GOD’S OMNIPOTENCE

  1. (Isa. 40:12) “Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand?” The Atlantic ocean contains 85 million cubic miles of water.

The Pacific contains 141 million cubic miles of water.  God is so great that He can hold all the waters of the earth like a man holds a few drops of water in the palm of his hand.  God created it to humble man; but also designed it to benefit man.  Then God challenges us:

  1. Who meted out heaven with the span.” A span is a distance from the end of your little finger to the end of your thumb. God tells us the 100’s of millions of light years over which the heavens are stretched out are nothing more than a small “span” to Him.  That’s how great He is!

 

  1. Who comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure
    4. “Who weighed the mountains in scales,
    5. “And the hills in a balance?”
    This earth & Universe is all specially measured & designed for life for life to exist!  We call this the Anthropic Principle (Everything on Earth and in the Universe seems to be designed and specially set to allow for Life to exist.  Science now knows of over 400 finely tuned parameters that all must be in place for life to exist on earth.  Our Earth is unique in the Universe – it is specially designed for Life!  The Fine Tuning is so precise it is mathematically impossible that everything could have come together with the way it did by mere time & Chance!

 

CREATION REQUIRES A CREATOR!

A watch requires a watchmaker.  A house requires a builder (Hebrews 3:4)!  A Universe filled with infinite Power requires an Omnipotent God.  By the miraculous things Jesus did when He lived on Earth, He proved He was Almighty God Manifest in Human Flesh!

Jesus manifested sovereign control of the seas!  Read Mark 4:35-41 with Prov. 30:4 and Psalm 89:6-9).  He who created the waters can easily walk on water (John 6:18-21).  He who Created the Heavens can easily Ascend into Heaven (Acts 1:9; Luke 24:50-51)!  Jesus is the same God who measures heaven with a span?  Jesus “ascended up far above all heavens, that He might fill all things” (Eph. 4:10; Acts 1:9).

 

GOD’S POWER IS REVEALED IN THE UNIMAGINABLY MAGNIFICENT MINUTENESS OF HUMAN BIOLOGY

There is no such thing as a simple “cell.”  The average cell is more complicated (and better designed) than a big city.  A cell has dozens of power stations, a transportation system, a sophisticated communications setup along with a garbage disposal system.  It even has its only police to keep out undesirables.  And there are 60 Trillion of them in the human body!  But even more incredibly complicated and sophisticated than the cell is the DNA in the cell.  In light of current scientific knowledge, the Bible seems to mention DNA itself.  In Psalm 139:16) the Bible says “… and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them” (see Job 14:5).  DNA Reveals a God of Infinite Power & Wisdom

The DNA in each cell contains information equivalent to about 6 billion “chemical letters.”  Enough information to fill 1000 books, 500 pages thick with print so small you would need a microscope to read it!  That is all the information needed to build your physical body from the single fertilized egg and then maintain it and keep it alive for 70 or 80 years.  It is scientifically impossible that such a cell could have evolved slowly over time by mere chance!  But it is a simple thing for Almighty God to design such a fearfully and wonderfully made body.  Look in the mirror and see proof there must be a God!  Truly the human body is one of the wonders of the world!

                                   

GOD’S POWER IS REVEALED IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD

Jesus said: “I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell & of death” (Rev 1:18).  Jesus was “declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead” (Rom. 1:4)

Jesus revealed the Omnipotent Power & Glory of the LORD Jehovah by raising people from the dead (John 11; Matt. 9:25; Lk. 7:15).

WE HAVE ACCESS TO GOD’S POWER THROUGH JESUS                   Jesus said “All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth” (Matt 28:18; see Col. 1:16-19; Acts 2:36; John 17:2; I Pet. 3:22).  God imparts a limited amount of HisAll-Powerto His Creation.  “Power belongeth unto God” (Ps. 62:11; Matt. 6:13; Rev. 19:1). God gives some of His power to us (John 19:11; Ps. 68:34-35; 2 Cor. 4:7; 13:4).

(Eph 3:20)  “Now unto him, that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us” (see Eph. 1:19; 3:7)

(Col 1:29)  Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.”

We have access to God’s Power through His Holy Spirit that lives in us: (Eph 3:16)  “That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man;

(Eph 6:10)  “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. (Job 23:6; Ps. 138:3; Isa. 41:10; Rom. 15:19;   2 Cor. 12:9; Phil. 4:13; Col. 1:11; 2 Tim. 4:17; Heb. 11:34).

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