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Real Power
Real Power
Welcome back
Hope you all had a great week
How did you see God move or work this past week?
As we get to know Him we should be more aware of Him working in and around our lives.
Real Power
We are fascinated with power and powerful things.
We want to know strength of something we buy
Want to know Horsepower of a car
We measure storms by their strength and power
Typhoon Goni - sustained winds at 195 mph
Here a list of some things considered the most powerful:
Big Ivan Bomb - 10x greater than all the munitions in WW2
1960 Great Chilean Earthquake - 9.3 - raised ocean floor 60 ft
Roadrunner Computer- completes 1 million billion calculations per second
Rhinoceros beetle -lift 850 x its weight
Wartsila-Sulzer RT-flex96C 14-cylinder engine - 108,920 horsepower
How about in the universe:
Quasar - emits up to a thousand times the energy of the entire Milky Way (200-400 billion stars)
All of this fails in comparison to God
The sovereignty of God may be defined as the exercise of His supremacy. Being infinitely elevated above the highest creature, He is the Most High, Lord of heaven and earth. Subject to none, influenced by none, absolutely independent; God does as He pleases, only as He pleases always as He pleases. None can thwart Him, none can hinder Him. - AW Pink
This is what we are looking at today -
God Almighty
Let’s Pray
God Almighty - El Shaddai
This name appears only 7 times in the Bible, but communicates so much.
Going back to the story of Abraham.
God made a promise that Abraham would father great nations - but he had no son.
Sarah and him tried to help things along through Hagar and Ishmael
That wasn’t the promise
1 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, 2 that I may make my covenant between me and you, and may multiply you greatly.”
The God who is sufficient
God would keep his promise
Our response should always be submission and trust.
3 Then Abram fell on his face. And God said to him, 4 “Behold, my covenant is with you, and you shall be the father of a multitude of nations. 5 No longer shall your name be called Abram, but your name shall be Abraham, for I have made you the father of a multitude of nations.
The fact that there are Jews today is proof God kept his promise
El Shaddai
God Almighty speaks of God’s sovereignty.
God can do whatever He wants
2 Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” 3 Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.
God can use whoever He wants
4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
God can do things whenever He wants
11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, he has put eternity into man’s heart, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
God can do things however He wants
9 The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.
God’s sovereignty is ruled by His wisdom
33 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
God’s sovereignty is ruled by His justice and mercy
18 Therefore the Lord waits to be gracious to you, and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for him.
What does this mean for us?
We can trust Him
We cannot always trace God's hand but we can always trust God's heart.
Charles Spurgeon
God Almighty
God Almighty
We can trust Him
He is more powerful than any thing we could face
He knows how it all works together and works out
He keeps his promises
He is the God who sees because
He is the God most high
He is the God most high because
He is the almighty, all powerful God
These three characteristics are also said another way
Omniscience, Omnipresent, Omnipotent
Next week we start getting into the more personal and relational names of God.
Next week - Genesis 22: 1-18
Let’s pray
