God Is Omnipotent Attributes Of God (5 Of 10)

Today, as we continue to search the scriptures to know more about the God of the Bible, we want to focus our attention on God's omnipotence.

What do we mean when we say that GOD IS OMNIPOTENT?

• We mean that the God of the Bible HAS ALL POWER!

• We mean that His power is not limited as man's is.

For example, the Bible says in...

• Jeremiah 32:17, "Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee."

• Job 42:2, "I know that thou canst do everything..."

So often a person will come to a pastor for counseling who is convinced his/her problem is so big that NO HUMAN CAN HELP, and he/she is not even sure that GOD CAN! When a person feels this way, especially about God, he is telling us something! He is telling us HE/SHE DOES NOT KNOW THE GOD OF THE BIBLE!

Certainly we have problems that no person can help us with, but we are lying to ourselves when we think we can carry a load on our shoulders that God cannot carry. Look at what God did, in just one example.

Illus: In the book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, had made a decree that everyone was to worship a golden image he had made and the punishment for not obeying the decree was certain death. There were three young Hebrews, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who refused to obey the decree. As a result they were bound and cast into a fiery furnace. Now you talk about problems; those three young men had a problem. Probably no one here has ever come close to having such a severe problem. But, they knew they worshipped and served an OMNIPOTENT GOD. They told king Nebuchadnezzar, verse 17, "If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king." And that is exactly what the OMNIPOTENT GOD did! He miraculously delivered them out of that fiery furnace.

Often, when we think our problems are big, if we will compare them to the problems of God's people in the Scripture, our problems seem small.

Listen, the God of the Bible is immutable. That means HE DOES NOT CHANGE! He helped them, and He can help us. When we say:

-GOD IS OMNIPRESENT we see from His Word that He is everywhere. The heavens and the earth cannot contain God. He is everywhere. But, God is more than that. So, when we say...

-GOD IS OMNISCIENT we see in His Word that He knows everything. He not only knows all we do, He knows the MOTIVE behind what we do. We are told that God knows our every MOTIVE and our EVERY THOUGHT. There is nothing He does not know about us. And when we say that...

-GOD IS OMNIPOTENT we are saying He HAS ALL POWER! What great comfort that is to us here today.

Illus: Remember the story of the three little boys who were visiting Niagara Falls. As they watched all that water come over the falls they were amazed at how big and beautiful it was, and they felt proud. In fact, they felt so proud that they began to brag. They did not have anything themselves to brag about, so they began to brag about who had the greatest dad.

-The first little boy, whose dad was an engineer, said, "My dad is so great that he personally dug the Grand Canyon out by himself."

-The second little boy, whose dad was a carpenter, was not about to let his dad be outdone. He pointed to the beautiful Niagara Falls and said, "See that beautiful water falls. My dad built that by himself!"

-The third little boy, whose dad was a plumber, was not going to let those two fellows make his dad look bad so he said, "My dad is the greatest plumber in all the world! (He pointed to the falls) See that leak, he could stop that nasty leak in a few seconds!"

We all, who know Christ as personal Savior, know how those little boys felt. When we begin to search the scriptures we see the God of the Bible is Omnipotent, and that same God is our heavenly Father - How proud we are to be able to get on our knees and say, "OUR FATHER..."

So that we might come to know Him as the omnipotent God of the Bible, let me show you that He is that kind of God.

I. WE SEE IT IN CREATION.

The reason the theory of evolution even exists today is because people do not know the God of the Bible. There are those who believe in the existence of God, but they do not have the faith to believe that God created by speaking things into existence. Well, He did! How do we know? Because the Word of God said He did!