"Yes, and from ancient days I am he. No one can deliver out of my hand. When I act, who can reverse it?"
This is true power, that whenever you act it will not be stopped or undone. God is the Almighty creator of all that is seen and unseen. No one can destroy what he has created. We know this from Chemistry and thermodynamics, that mass/energy can neither be created nor destroyed. All there is in the world is all there will ever be. Can anyone undo what God did?
Divine omnipotence is not the ability to do anything, as commonly misconceived, but the divine quality that when one acts, it will be accomplished. Whatever God does he accomplishes. Whatever he starts, he will finish. When He acts, who can reverse it? The Chief priests and elder scribes thought to end the life of Jesus by handing him over to crucifixion. They thought they had power, but God reversed Christ's death. The Holy One lives and will never see decay. None can hope to reverse his resurrection for he has shown that not even death could hold him.
Praise be to God that the same Spirit who raised Christ from the dead lives in us who believe in what God has done in order that we too might be raised to eternal life! Because God has decreed that we be delivered from our sins, who can reverse it? Thankfully, no one at all, Hallelujah!
Showing posts with label Omnipotence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Omnipotence. Show all posts
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Genesis 6:6
"The LORD was grieved that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was filled with pain."
Did God fail? Was his creation a mistake to regret?
In order to determine if God failed, we must first determine what God set out to do in the first place.
Did God fail? Was his creation a mistake to regret?
In order to determine if God failed, we must first determine what God set out to do in the first place.
If you say "God failed to create mankind without sin", you would be in error for we were created good and perfectly. If you say "God failed to create mankind without the capacity to sin", you are also in error not because mankind has no capacity to sin, but because that is not what God purposed to do in the first place. You cannot fail in that which you did not even try to do.
So did God fail when he realized how wicked humanity was through Sin? Well what was his original intention? For mankind, to create us in His image and give us free dominion over all the Earth so that we might walk with the Lord.
So did God fail when he realized how wicked humanity was through Sin? Well what was his original intention? For mankind, to create us in His image and give us free dominion over all the Earth so that we might walk with the Lord.
Had God wiped out all of humanity during the flood, then yes, he would've failed. Had sin and Satan had the final say in keeping us in eternal separation from God, then yes, God would've failed. However, we still remain and the truth of the matter is that we Christians are those who now walk with God and have dominion over and against Satan, being remade into His image. How? Through Jesus Christ's redemptive work on the cross, he has humiliated Satan and rescued us from his domain. It is because of the truth of Jesus Christ that I can tell you with confidence that despite Genesis 6:6, God has not failed to do what he set out to do.
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Genesis 11:6-7
"The LORD said, "If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. Come, let us go down and confuse their language so they will not understand each other."
It seems God had made us too well. He made us too perfectly so that when we worked together (like at the tower of Babel) nothing was impossible for us. Imagine what man would be capable of if we were not so limited by cultural barriers?
However, collective omnipotence (defined as the ability to do anything you set out to do) is not something that fallen man can handle. God has formed us and set us a little below God himself, made in his image. Whereas God is bound by his very nature (Good, loving, just, righteous, etc.), we have proven ourselves not bound to it. Some of us serve one master, the Serpent, and those who are redeemed serve the Risen Lord.
Indeed, we were banished from the garden for the same reason: that we might not become more powerful and more like God by eating from the tree of life. If we became gods, we would not need God or worship God, which indeed is the entire point of our creation. So God is using the very thing he used to drive us apart so that together we might rely on God to do the impossible and change this world for good.
It seems God had made us too well. He made us too perfectly so that when we worked together (like at the tower of Babel) nothing was impossible for us. Imagine what man would be capable of if we were not so limited by cultural barriers?
However, collective omnipotence (defined as the ability to do anything you set out to do) is not something that fallen man can handle. God has formed us and set us a little below God himself, made in his image. Whereas God is bound by his very nature (Good, loving, just, righteous, etc.), we have proven ourselves not bound to it. Some of us serve one master, the Serpent, and those who are redeemed serve the Risen Lord.
Indeed, we were banished from the garden for the same reason: that we might not become more powerful and more like God by eating from the tree of life. If we became gods, we would not need God or worship God, which indeed is the entire point of our creation. So God is using the very thing he used to drive us apart so that together we might rely on God to do the impossible and change this world for good.
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Jeremiah 32:27
"I am the Lord, the God of all mankind. Is anything to hard for me?"
Do you know what ultimate power is? It isn't the ability to do whatever it is you want, rather it is the ability to accomplish whatever you set out to do without fail. This is the Omnipotence of our God, that his will is sovereign over all other wills, powers, and principalities. That is to say, ultimately all wills are made to accomplish God's will.
When God sets out to create for himself mankind in his image, he does so knowing of our inevitable rebellion. And still he creates us because he is sovereign, because he knew he could do it. He sent his Son as the express means by which his will would be fulfilled in the world, that namely fully free human beings would come to love their creator God, that from them he would get Glory for himself through his awesome works. Creation and the fall were just the beginning of God's plan to create for himself a kingdom of believers.
God has promised salvation to all those who love him and has given us his spirit as a deposit and guarantee of what is to come. It is not our place to question how God chooses to act. Can the clay criticize the potter? We don’t always know how God accomplishes his will but we can be assured of this: As surely as the LORD lives, He will do it.
Do you know what ultimate power is? It isn't the ability to do whatever it is you want, rather it is the ability to accomplish whatever you set out to do without fail. This is the Omnipotence of our God, that his will is sovereign over all other wills, powers, and principalities. That is to say, ultimately all wills are made to accomplish God's will.
When God sets out to create for himself mankind in his image, he does so knowing of our inevitable rebellion. And still he creates us because he is sovereign, because he knew he could do it. He sent his Son as the express means by which his will would be fulfilled in the world, that namely fully free human beings would come to love their creator God, that from them he would get Glory for himself through his awesome works. Creation and the fall were just the beginning of God's plan to create for himself a kingdom of believers.
God has promised salvation to all those who love him and has given us his spirit as a deposit and guarantee of what is to come. It is not our place to question how God chooses to act. Can the clay criticize the potter? We don’t always know how God accomplishes his will but we can be assured of this: As surely as the LORD lives, He will do it.
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