The Greatness Of God Series

God is great! That is an understatement. We get that, but do we comprehend why God is great? Can we begin to grasp how great God truly is? This is why we have been exploring the attributes, or the characteristics of God. God is without limits, He is not bound by time and space as we understand it. How can we, with limited minds, conceive the infinite, which God is?

God is so immense, so far beyond the bound of our minds that we cannot take it all in. I’m so glad God is beyond my imagination, because I’m not sure I would want a God I could put my arms around, a God I could fully comprehend, a God I could fully define and put into a neat little box.

Isaiah tried to explain how big God is. Isaiah 40:12-17

Our other focal passage is how God revealed Himself to Abram. Genesis 17:1

Opening ILL: A young boy was waiting after church for his family. The pastor saw him standing around and struck up a conversation. Since the boy had just come from Sunday school, the pastor decided to ask him some questions to determine just how much the children were learning there. He said, “Young man, if you can tell me something that God can do, I’ll give you a big shiny apple.” Thoughtfully the boy replied, “Sir, if you can tell me something God can’t do, I’ll give you a whole box of apples.” [1]

So we are looking at different aspects of Almighty God. The bits and pieces that our mind can grasp onto and understand.

Let’s just briefly look at just a few attributes, some of which we have already explored.

God has no beginning and God has no end – He is eternal. Time itself exist within God, for time is a creation of God.

Psalm 41:13 Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, From everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.

God is all powerful (omnipotent), all power in the universe is God’s power. All power is from God, for apart from God there is no power. God may give or grant power to persons places or things, but His use of power makes him no less powerful. Nothing is impossible for God.

Luke 1:37 For nothing will be impossible with God.”

God is sovereign. God rules over all, the entire universe. Nothing is beyond the absolute control of God. God is sovereign because He processes all power. There is nothing that God has not foreseen or planned. God possesses all authority and power (Matt 28:18).

Philippians 2:10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

God is immense. He is bigger than the universe.

Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing.

God possess all knowledge – He is all knowing (omniscience). His understanding is limitless.

Hebrews 4:13 And there is no creature hidden from His sight, but all things are open and laid bare to the eyes of Him with whom we have to do.

God is all wise, He has all wisdom. Wisdom is the use of knowledge.

Proverbs 3:19 The LORD by wisdom founded the earth, By understanding He established the heavens.

God is everywhere (omnipresent). There is no place, no thing or no person that is hidden from God.

Jeremiah 23:24 “Can a man hide himself in hiding places So I do not see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.

And God is unchanging (immutable). God is the same God today as he was at the creation. The God of the OT is also the God of the NT.

Malachi 3:6a “For I, the LORD, do not change;

Hebrews 13:8 Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

And we have not touched on His holiness, goodness, justice, His faithfulness, His grace and mercy, or His love. And the list goes on. Many of these things I have mentioned we will cover in later messages. Let’s go back and see how God describes Himself:

Genesis 17:1 Now when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and said to him, “I am God Almighty; Walk before Me, and be blameless.

The word “Almighty” appears 57-58 times in most English Bibles. Every time the word appears, it is only in reference to God. Only God is “Almighty.” Almighty in the Hebrew can be translated all powerful, and in the Greek it’s the same – in Latin – omnipotent.