Three Omni.. Attributes Of God

* Sovereign - God did not create the world and retire - he governs it and sustains it. God does not have ‘bad days’ or ‘time-outs’. Isaiah 40:28 God never wearies.

God is also soveriegn over rulers and authorities - he establishes and tears down nations as he wants.

Prov 21:30 - there is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord

* Redemption - The power of God is seen in the miraculous conception of Jesus. God is so powerful as to fuse the two natures - human and divine into one person. Raising Christ from the dead and snatching us from the power of darkness was a tremendous display of Gods power. The power of the Gods gospel can change the human heart. The power of God preserves us in his grace.

Nothing is too hard for God.

In Psalm 139, David is captivated by Gods power in his life. This power is displayed even:

Prior to Birth

The language David uses is figurative in that ‘creating’ and ‘knitting’ describe Gods involvement in the natural process of reproduction. In the womb he was woven together, literally embroided - this suggests his veins and arteries. (Davids frame means his skeleton and his unformed body may be his embryo). When he was being formed in the womb he was as remote to the human eye as the lower part of the earth, but God saw ever detail.

Even Davids rudimentary knowledge of the human body led him to be in awe and wonder. He praised God over the thought of how marvelously he had been made.

With what does one compare the human body to? It is a fantastic machine.

I wish we had a computer at work like this machine - runs for 90 years with no upgrades ! Pity about the memory though. I wish my computer rendered pictures as quick as the eye did.

Its not just me thats like this... Even the genious’s of this world are amazed. In the New York Times last year computer tycoon Bill Gates shared his thoughts on Gary Kasparov being beaten by a computer (called ‘Deep Blue’) at chess. This is a portion of what he said:

Now a computer called "Deep Thought" has won and, as I said, the victory has little significance. It just proves that a bunch of chess experts with a computer can outplay a lone genius.

Humans gave Deep Thought algorithms that let it evaluate different chess positions, a knowledge of book openings and the ability to try out billions of possible chess moves each minute. The machine is highly specialized. It does one thing: it plays chess. It can’t even play checkers or balance a checkbook, let alone appreciate humor or reason with a child.

Human intelligence involves generality. A human being can be put into a general situation, understand that situation, learn new things and apply that knowledge to other situations. Playing chess can help teach a person how to apply strategy in other games or situations and possibly even succeed in business, but playing chess can’t teach a computer anything. The chess-playing computer doesn’t have one iota of generality.

It’s impressive that a big, breathtakingly expensive computer can perform billions of calculations amazingly fast.....What is awesome now, and will remain so then, is the human brain.