We turn for our Bible reading to Isaiah chapter 40. Isaiah chapter 40, this was a chapter that we took out from the verse number 9, the particular theme that we've been preaching on for quite a number of weeks now, Behold Your God. And we're going to behold our God as the inspired writer reveals him to us in this chapter. We'll read from the verse 18. Isaiah chapter 40 and we'll read to the concluding verse of the chapter. To whom then will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare unto him? The workman melteth a graven image and the goldsmith spreadeth over with gold and casteth silver chains. He that is so impoverished But he hath no obligation, chooseth a tree that will not rot. He seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved. Have ye not known? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers. that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a net to dwell in, that bringeth the princes to nothing, ye maketh the judges of earth as vanity. Yea, they shall not be planted, yea, they shall not be sown, yea, their stalks shall not take root in the earth, and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. Whom then will ye liken me, or who shall be equal, saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high. Behold, who hath created these things, and bringeth out their hosts by number. He calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might, for he is strong in power. Not one faileth. Why, saith thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, my way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God. Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? There is no searching his understanding. He giveth power to the faint. To them that hath, no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall run and not be weary. They shall walk and not faint. Amen. What a tremendous portion of God's Word. We'll be thinking about its very theme as we come to the Word today. Let's seek the Lord before we bring the Word. for this service. Let's pray. Our Father in heaven, we thank thee for even through the reading of thy word, lifting up of our eyes on to our great God, how great thou art, how great thou art. Lord, we thank thee that we consider the greatness, the power of our God in all the various aspects in all the various realms whereby He has shown unto us His greatness. And as we consider once again the Scriptures of truth that will lead this house, having been ministered unto, spoken to, instructed, Lord, even if it be those things that we've heard on many occasions, Lord, it'll come with a freshness, backed home by the power of Thy Spirit. Answer prayer, therefore. Send the Holy Spirit to anoint and clothe and clad. O God, this preacher, grant us, heavenly Father, power even to those that are weary. Answer our petitions, for we offer them in Jesus' precious name. Amen and amen. Well, over the last two weeks, we have been considering together the truth that the God of the Bible is a God who is revealed to us as being the infinite God, We have seen that God is unbounded, God is unlimited as to his knowledge, and therefore he is the omniscient God. We have thought about how God is unbounded, how he is unlimited as to space, and therefore he is the omnipresent God. Today we want to think about how God is unbounded, how God is unlimited as to his power. Therefore, he is the omnipotent God. the omnipotent God. And so with that in mind today, I want you to behold once again your infinite God, but more specifically to behold your omnipotent God, your omnipotent God. Well, as with the other two messages that has focused on this particular incommunicable attribute of God, God's infinity. I want to take a similar approach as we come to the subject matter of God's omnipotence, trusting that God will give us a greater appreciation of the unlimited power that belongs on to our God. In the first place, I want you to consider with me God's omnipotence explained. Now, while God's omniscience means that God is all-knowing, While God's omnipresence means that God is all-present, God's omnipotence simply means that God is all-powerful. Whenever we say God is all-powerful, what do we actually mean whenever we are saying that God is an omnipotent God? Well, it simply means that there is nothing that God cannot do except There is nothing that God cannot do with the exception of those things that are contrary to his nature and to his will. And we need to place that in that particular statement or that particular definition. If you can remember quite some months ago, maybe years ago now, I remember I preached three messages on the things that God cannot do. There are things that God cannot do. And I reminded you in those messages that God cannot change. God cannot die. God cannot lie. He cannot sin. He cannot forsake, leave, lose any of his children. He cannot stop loving his people. He cannot leave his work in us. unfinished, he cannot feel, he cannot countenance sin, he cannot turn away the repentant sinner, and he cannot remember the sins that a sinner confesses and repents of. There are certain things that God cannot do. These are the things that the omnipotent God cannot do because they would be inconsistent with his perfection of His being. He cannot do these things because they would become inconsistent with the perfection of His divine nature if He did so. But all things that are agreeable to His nature and to His will, God has infinite power to enact, to initiate, and thank God also to complete. I draw your attention to just a number of definitions that some preachers, some theologians have given with respect to God's omnipotence. A. A. Hodge, when he came to write of God's omnipotence, wrote, God has unlimited power to do whatsoever His nature determines Him to do, but this power cannot be directed against His nature. That's what I've said. God can do all things, but if it's against His nature, if it's against His perfections, God cannot do those things. Therefore, because He is holy, He cannot sin. God cannot do those things that are contrary to His nature. Dr. Cairns speaks of God's omnipotence in terms of the all-powerfulness of God, His unlimited ability to act according to His perfect will. Stephen Charnock, the Puritan, said, the omnipotence of God is that ability and strength whereby God can bring to pass whatsoever he pleases, whatsoever his infinite wisdom may direct, whatsoever the infinite purity of his will may resolve. Charles Hodge remarked that the omnipotence of God means that he can do without effort and by a volition. A volition is simply a desire. Think of this. He can do without effort and by volition whatever He wills. Dr. Martin Lloyd-Jones said, the omnipotence of God is that by which He brings to pass everything He wills. And so when we speak about God's omnipotence, we're simply stating that God is able to do whatsoever He wills in the way in which He wills it. Omnipotence, unbounded, unlimited. Unrestrained, unrestricted power is the very thing that makes God, God. It was Thomas Watson who put it like this, take away a king's power and we un-king him. Take away God's power and we un-God him. Take away God's power and we ungod him because it is his power that makes God God and who he is. And so that is God's omnipotence simply explained. I'm sure you've already thought about what that very word means and all that it entails. And so we quickly pass on to the most lengthy point forward today because I want not only to think about God's omnipotence explained, I want to think about God's omnipotence illustrated. God's omnipotence illustrated. The Bible, the scriptures of truth are replete with verses that point us to the very fact that God is omnipotent. Statements that affirm that with God nothing is impossible. If there were things that were impossible with God, that would mean that He is not all-powerful. That would mean there would be a limit to His power, a limit to what He could do. But the Bible is replete with verses that explain to us that there is nothing that God cannot do, nothing. Job said this about God's omnipotence when he said these words about him in Job 42 verse 2. He said, I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. I know that thou canst do everything. In that very statement, in that very confession of faith, Job is stating that God is an omnipotent God. There is nothing that God cannot do. The prophet Jeremiah was told to buy a piece of real estate in the promised land. You may not think that to be a very important thing to do, but you need to remember the occasion whereby Jeremiah was told to do that, because the Babylonians, those that were going to carry the people of Israel captive, they were going to carry them away, were just on the threshold of the land of Israel. And God directs his servant Jeremiah to buy a piece of land. He buys this piece of land realizing that he's soon going to be taken away from it. What is the point of doing such a thing? What is the point in buying a piece of ground, a piece of ground that is going to be soon overcome by the enemy and its inhabitants, including him, be carried into captivity? But Jeremiah had faith in his God. He had faith in his omnipotent God because he believed that God was going to bring him back to the promised land. He was going to take up the possession of that land after the years of captivity. And so Jeremiah prayerfully uttered these words in Jeremiah 32 verse 17. Ah Lord God, behold thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out thine arm and there is nothing too hard for thee. As he thought about this, and he thought about this land that he had just bought, he thought about, how on earth is this ever going to happen? How will I ever take up the position of what I've just bought? But he realized that with God, nothing is too hard. With God, nothing is too hard for thee. That's what he said by faith. With respect to the salvation of men, the Lord Jesus Christ told his disciples in Mark 10 verse 27, With men it is impossible, but not with God. For with God all things are possible. With a God who is unlimited in power, unbounded in power, this omnipotent God, with God all things are possible, including the salvation of sinners. I think of Mary. She's been told that she's going to give birth to the Christ child. Angelic Messenger comes and tells her about this marvelous and miracle that's going to take place within her very womb. Mary is at a loss. She's in wonder, how could such a thing ever take place? But she's reassured by the Angelic Messenger in Luke chapter 1 verse 37. For with God, nothing shall be impossible. Mary, nothing with the omnipotent God shall be impossible. All these things are possible in light of the fact that God possesses infinite power. And we'll come to the comfort of that in our concluding remarks, but just think it out in your own life. Some events, some happening, some trial that you're going through, some difficult patch of life. And you're wondering, how is it all going to come out? How is it all going to sort itself out? But let me remind you, child of God today, that with God, this omnipotent God, this God who possesses a plentitude of power, with God all things are possible. All things are possible. Maybe you're here today and you're concerned about our nation, and you ought to be. Maybe you're looking about and you're seeing the little advancement of the church of Jesus Christ, the little inroads that we're making within the community in which God has placed this particular church, and then the church by and large, the world at large, the decreasing numbers, the aging of congregations, and you'd be an individual in despair today because of that, but brethren and sisters, with God, all things are possible. And so behold your omnipotent God. He's not impotent. He's omnipotent. Believe it, brother. Believe it, sister. Whatever you're going through even today. And so we have these particular verses that remind us that with God nothing is impossible. He must possess infinite power. with respect to the things that he can do, if he can do all things, he must possess the power to do it. Those particular statements. But think about, think about the names and the titles that God takes to himself, because they again bring to our attention God's omnipotence. I think of just one name with you at this particular moment of time, probably the earliest patriarchal name, that was given to God, else should I. It literally translates, God Almighty. That was the name by which he revealed himself, the God of heaven, to Abram. Over there in Genesis chapter 17, if you want to turn there, it says, and when Abram was 99 or 90 years old and nine, the Lord appeared to Abram and said unto him, I am the Almighty God. Walk before me and be thou perfect. I am the Almighty God. Walk before me and be thou perfect." Think of that. Think about Abraham and Abram hearing that particular name of God. What from that moment of time had Abraham to fear? What did he to fear when the Almighty, the God of infinite power, what did he to fear when such a One was at his right hand, assisting him and helping him to walk the walk of faith? I tell you, with such a One guiding him, with such a One sustaining him, this Father of the faithful had nothing to fear because the omnipotent God was with him. Thank God for that. God's omnipotence is one of the things that the glorified saints and the glorified multitudes sing about in heaven. We're told by John in chapter 19 and the verse number 6, and I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude and as a voice of many waters and as a voice of mighty thunderings saying, Alleluia, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. Hallelujah, for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. And as with every other incommunicable attribute of God, omnipotence is ascribed to every person within the Godhead. It is not just ascribed to one person within the Godhead, but to all three persons within the Godhead. The Father is omnipotent. The Lord Jesus Christ addressed God the Father in prayer. He said these words in Mark 14, verse 36. And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee. Take away this cup from me. Nevertheless, not what I will, but thou wilt. All things are only possible to one who possesses infinite power. But omnipotence is also ascribed to the Son. Revelation 1 verse 8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is and which was and which is to come, the Almighty. There it is. The name that God revealed himself to Abraham is now ascribed to the Son in Revelation chapter 1. And omnipotence is also ascribed to the Holy Spirit. Romans 8, verse 11, we read of the Holy Spirit's role in the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. And not such an act can only be attributed to one who was and who is omnipotent. But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by a Spirit that dwelleth within you, the power of the Spirit of God. Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, each person are ascribed the attribute of omnipotence. Therefore, they are God. Well, there are various arenas. As I thought about this message, I thought about the various arenas in which God has chosen to display, to illustrate His omnipotence. We'll consider them for these moments of time. Can I say first of all that we come to appreciate God's omnipotence in the area of creation. Creation. The writer to the Hebrew Christian stated that through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God. So that the things which are seen were not made of the things which do appear. other words, God did not take something that was already present and fashion something that we now know within this world, but rather God spoke all things into being out of nothing, out of nothing. He created all things that we now see. And as we view Him in creation, speaking all things out of nothing, then we're reminded of God's omnipotent power. And that is affirmed by what we read in Romans chapter one and the verse number 20. Romans chapter one and the verse 20. We see creation here mentioned. Romans chapter one, verse 20. 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." Here the inspired writer, the Apostle Paul, is bringing to our attention that creation reminds an ungodly world that there is a God. But in that creation, God displays what? We're told He displays His eternal power and His Godhead. The very Godhead is declared in creation. The heavens declare what? The glory of the Lord, and His firmament showeth forth His handiwork, so the psalmist said. But here we see that God's power, His omnipotent power, is displayed in creation. Albert Barnes, he said, God's power was called forth at the creation. He showed His omnipotence and gave by that one great act. eternal demonstration that He was Almighty. He was Almighty. Let me say this, though God's omnipotence is manifested in creation, we must not think, we must not think that His omnipotence or His power was exhausted when He created all things. You must not think as you look into this world and beyond this world into your universe that God on creation's week reached an end of His power. That was all He could make. Can I say, brethren and sisters, if God had so willed it, and if God had so desired it, and if it had pleased Almighty God to do so, He could have created a million worlds. A million worlds if he had so willed it when he spoke this universe into existence. His power knew nothing of demise. His power knew nothing of reduction. When he spanned the heavens, when he fashioned the planets, when he made every living creature that exists in this world and in heaven, when he scattered the stars into space by the word of his power, God's power knew not one iota of diminishing. His power did not decrease as a result of what He created, because infinite power, omnipotent power, cannot be diminished. And so, brethren and sisters, whenever He says He giveth power to the faint, do not think that by God giving us power, somehow His power is reduced. There is a fullness of power within the Godhead. He knows no exhaustion. We read about that today. He grows, what did we read? He grows not weary, hast thou not known, verse 28 of Isaiah chapter 40, hast thou not heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary. Notice verse 28. near the very end of that verse. Now let's read the verse 26, because it's bringing us to the thought of creation. Lift up your eyes and hide. And behold, he hath created these things that bringeth out the host by number. He calleth them by their names, by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power. Not one faileth. God's power displayed in creation. But secondly, God's infinite power is displayed in the arena of history. History. Take, for example, the history of Israel as a nation, and see how God in history manifested his infinite power on behalf of that chosen nation. Survey the unlimited power of God during the time of Egypt's plagues. and stand and behold the unbounded power of God there at the Red Sea, providing a way of escape for that nation. Watch as God displays his omnipotence as Israel crosses the River Jordan in the days of Joshua. View God's all-powerfulness as Jericho's crumble and fall at the very command of the omnipotent God. Israel's history, and you can take it right through even to the present day, Oh, you see God in history, and you see not a weak God, not an impotent God, not a limited God, but thank God you see an omnipotent God in Israel's history. But think, brethren and sisters, about the history of the church, because I believe that in the history of the church we see God's power displayed. Do we not see God's omnipotent power displayed as he preserves the church? Think of it, the days of Nero, Domitian, author of the Roman emperors, those 10 persecutions that the church went through, through those 10 different Roman emperors, you should read about it. And think about the church and how she's preserved right through those difficult and dark days. How can such take place? It can only be accredited, it can only be ascribed to a God of infinite power. God has kept his church. God has kept his church. Not only that, we not only see God's omnipotence, his power in days of preservation, we see God's power displayed in the church's prosperity. Days of revival are days of God's power. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. We see God work in power whenever he takes hardened sinners and causes them to be brought low. and causes them to be convicted of sin, troubled of soul, so much so that they mourn and they weep and they are in agony of heart and life and of mind maybe for weeks as God by His Spirit pours out His power into the church of Jesus Christ. We see God's power demonstrated in the days of the church's prosperity when God comes to revive the work Oh, brethren and sisters, let's pray for such a day, the day of God's power. Thirdly, and we need to go quickly, there's plenty more to say, God's omnipotence is displayed in the arena of preservation. The omnipotence of God is displayed in the preservation and the government of his creation. The whole universe is preserved in its beautiful order. by the same almighty hand that gave it being. We're told in Hebrews 1 verse 3 that God upholds all things, how? By the word of his power, by the word of his power. C. H. Spurgeon, he said, were omnipotence to stay his power. But for a moment, earth would return to earth and ashes to ashes. Can be no higher conception of omnipotence than to say that the Son of God upholds all things by the word of his power. He who can hold up this vast universe so that it does not sink into anarchy must be omnipotent. He has to be. Now scientists, they will attribute the preservation of this world not to God. They will attribute the preservation of this world to the laws of nature. But brethren and sisters, the Bible forces us to look beyond the laws of nature. And the Bible forces us to look to a God of infinite power who controls the laws of nature and who preserves this very world. Fourthly, we come to appreciate God's omnipotence in the arena of miracle, miracle. You consider the miracles of the old and the New Testament. Think about the raising of sons and daughters to life. Think about the standing still of the sun and the moon in the days of Joshua. Think about that 40-year provision of bread and flesh in a nation wandering in the wilderness. Think about Christ when he stilled the storm on the Sea of Galilee. Think about him providing bread for 5,000 people, speaking it out of nothing, once again showing his creative power. And then think about Christ being raised from the dead. These are but only some of the Bible miracles that affirm the truth that God is a God of infinite power. Miracle. We see it in miracle. Fifthly, we come to appreciate God's omnipotence in the area of redemption. Redemption. I'm thinking in the first instance of redemption accomplished. Redemption accomplished. When we come to speak of Christ's redemptive work, you know, we often focus upon that work, His work on the cross. We think about that work as an evidence of His love, of His grace, of His mercy. And that it is, and I would say much more. However, when the Bible focuses on redemption, it focuses our attention on God's power, because only God, a God who possesses infinite power, could exhaust divine justice for sin in His own body in the tree. Only one who has omnipotence could meet the foe, the devil, and triumph over him. It took omnipotent God to settle once and for all the sin question on the cross of Calvary Redemption accomplished, what Christ did for us in the tree, could only have been done by one who possessed infinite power. But not only redemption accomplished, but then I think of redemption applied. I never thought about it in this way until I read a sermon on this very subject matter this week. And within the sermon, the preacher, he said this, he made this statement. Do you know that there's greater power in conversion than there is in creation? Because in creation, there was no one that opposed God. But in conversion, he had Lucifer to deal with, and he had the world to deal with. And in conversion, he had my old, black, deep-dyed, depraved heart that opposed him to deal with. It was C.H. Spurgeon again who said, no power short of the omnipotent energy of the eternal spirit can renew the human heart. No power short of omnipotent energy of the eternal spirit can renew the human heart. I trust, believer, you're aware of that tonight. Whenever we come into this place, gospel preaching. I trust that you're so aware of it that it will cause you to come just that little bit earlier and see God's face because it's not the power of a preacher, but it is the power of the omnipotent, eternal Spirit of God that alone can renew the human heart. Every sinner saved by God's grace in this world has known the power of God in salvation. The power required to lift a sinner from the deadness of their sin was nothing less than infinite in degree. 1 Corinthians 1.18, for the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it is what? The power of God. It is a display of God's power when God saves a sinner. Sixthly, we come to appreciate God's omnipotence in the arena of judgment. Moses wrote in Psalm 90 verse 11, who knoweth the power of thine anger? Even according to thy fear, so is thy wrath. Now who among us could withstand God when he comes forth in judgment? No one was able to resist God's omnipotence when he judged the people of Noah's day. when He executed justice against the sinful citizens of Sodom and Gomorrah in the days of Lot, when in judgment He overthrew the armies of Pharaoh in Moses' day, each and every one of them found that when God's infinite power is unleashed, none is able to stand. Let me say that those who occupy the place of the dam today Those who are in hell are fully aware that God in judgment is omnipotent. He is omnipotent. Well, we've thought about the arenas in which God has displayed his power. We've thought about it, how God's omnipotence is explained, God's omnipotence illustrated quickly, God's omnipotence applied. To know that there is within God a plentitude of power, that he is omnipotent, it ought to bring tremendous consolation to every heart today, especially the heart of the child of God. John Macduff, he put it like this, believer, what can better support and sustain you amid the trials of your pilgrimage than the thought that you have an omnipotent arm to lean upon? Oh, the comfort to know that a God of infinite power is with us. Samuel Rollerford, he knew that comfort when he said, my faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence. Jeremy Taylor remarked, it is impossible for a man to despair who remembers that his helper is omnipotent. Consider the omnipotence, a consideration of the omnipotence of God, it brings consolation, first of all, to the tempted Christian. Though beset with many a temptation in this world, a looking away to God in whom there resides infinite power ought to console the tempted, one knowing that God is well able to succor them that are tempted. Child of God, the devil, the great tempter, is not omnipotent in the same way that we said that he was not omnipresent, that he was not omniscient. The tempter is not omnipotent, but thank God, God is. And therefore he is able in temptation's hour to deliver you from temptation and so fly, flee to him. Flee then to the safety of your omnipotent God when the tempter approaches and hide yourself in him. Like the little girl who said the devil came knocking on her door always to tempt her. And the person asks, well, how do you cope with such? And she says, I just asked Jesus to open the door. Very simple thought, but she thought, I can't withstand him and my temptations, but I have an omnipotent God who can meet him and overthrow him. Ah, consideration of the omnipotence of God brings consolation to the praying Christian. Let me ask you, is there any prayer request that the omnipotent God cannot answer? any. There's none. The one of whom it is said all things are possible is well able to answer the prayers of his believing people. Now what we ask for may not be agreeable to his will and therefore he has the divine prerogative to withhold such things from us and yet when we pray in accordance to his will, thank God the all-powerful God is able to bestow So the question I put to you then is this, why the lack of prayer? Since God is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think according to the power that works in us, why then, brother, why then, sister, the absenteeism from your own private place of prayer at home and then in the public times of prayer? If the God who is full of infinite power is valuable to answer prayer. Why then this lack of prayer among God's people? Is it because you don't believe that God is a God of infinite power? Consideration of the omnipotence of God brings consolation to the tested Christian. Life in this fallen world is accompanied with many a testing day. And yet for the believer, when they come through their cares, their worries, their apprehensions, and their fears over to the omnipotent God, the peace of God can flood the soul when they come to appreciate that the all-powerful God has in these times of testing, has these times of testing under his sovereign control. And so wherever providence has led you, whatever trial you're making your way through, lean on the arm of your omnipotent God. Consideration of the omnipotence of God brings consolation to the concerned Christian. And I'm thinking about the child of God who's here today that's concerned about the spiritual welfare of a spouse, of a sibling, of a son, or of a daughter. Individuals here today whose marriage partner is not saved, whose sons and daughters are not saved, whose brother, whose sister is not saved. I'm speaking to you when I think about this consideration that God is a God of all power. Is it not the case that all your appeals to such people to come to Christ have fallen on deaf ears? Is that not the case? Of course it is. Turn them over to your omnipotent God. because He by His power will open their eyes and He'll turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan on to God that they may receive the forgiveness of sins. Never say that they're too hard. Never say that this community cannot be touched with the gospel. Because our God is an all-powerful God. Believe it. Believe it. Thank God, the consideration of the omnipotence of God, it brings consolation to the doubting Christian. I've dealt with that in our midweek prayer meeting in recent weeks, but I remind you that if you're a doubting Christian here, someone who's forever questioning your salvation, you're lacking the assurance of salvation, let me say that it is by God's infinite power that you're saved, and it is by God's infinite power that you're kept. You are kept by the power of God, and that power is infinite power. Do you think that omnipotent power is going to be eternally, or is going to be overthrown and you're going to be eternally lost? It is a defamation of God's character. To say that there's some power in this world, either the power of sin or the power of Satan, And that power is going to somehow overthrow the eternal, omnipotent power that is keeping you this very moment. It is a defamation of God's character. Now while the heart of the Christian ought to be filled with consolation, the thought that God is omnipotent, that thought should cause terror and dread to fill the heart of the unconverted here today. Stephen Charnock, he says, can we purr worms strut out against infinite power. Oh, that every obstinate sinner would think of this and consider his unmeasurable boldness in thinking himself able to grapple with omnipotence. What force can any have to resist the presence of him before whom rocks melt and the heavens at length shall be shriveled up as a parchment by the last fire? Sinner, are you so bold to think that you're going to strut out against divine omnipotence? Will you dare to die without Christ? and face his omnipotence and power. As W.A. Pink, and with this I close, rightly put it, he says, to treat with impotence one who can crush us more easily than we can a moth is a suicidal policy. To openly defy him who is clothed with omnipotence, who can rend us in pieces or cast us into hell any moment he pleases is the very height of Insanity! Sinner, be reconciled to God. Beware, because there is wrath, beware, lest he take thee away with his stroke, and a great ransom cannot deliver thee. to be saved because this is a God that you're going to meet someday, the omnipotent God. May God be pleased through this message to help you once again to behold your God and to see him as the omnipotent God, the all-powerful God. Let's bow our heads in prayer. We appreciate your attention. We didn't want to finish off a message halfway through, because we have much more to say about our God. We really are only scratching the surface in all of these matters. I trust you're aware of that. But I trust that you've seen God, His power displayed in all of these arenas that we've been thinking about, and that you'll consider Him today. Do you know Him as Savior? If not, this is the one you're going out to meet. It's suicidal policy to meet God without Christ. It's the height of insanity to die without a Savior. our loving Father, we pray that Thou wilt impress upon our hearts the very fact that our God is great in power. Power belongeth on to God. Lord, we rejoice in that. But here we are, Father, and men would think up their schemes and their plans to try and reverse the situation, O God, within the moral state of our land and our nation. And yet we thank Thee that a moment of God's power will reverse it all. We pray for such a day, a day of Thy power. Help us to, help us to trust our God, help us to have faith in this one we've been speaking about today, that this God is our God and he will be our guide even on to death. Help us to leave thy house with thy fear. And may we know more, more of thy power in our own lives. Handle us, we pray. Be pleased to work, even in our midst, and display Thy power in these days. We offer these, our petitions, in Jesus' precious and holy and wondrous name. Amen.