Sermon Tone Analysis

What do I want them to know?

God is all powerful and all loving

Why?

It gives us hope, courage, and confidence

What do I want them to do? Remember the power of God

Why It gives us hope, courage, and confidence

Review

Omniscience

Omnipresent

Omnipotent

Interesting we are doing this on Halloween

satan’s “high non-holy day”

ME

I need and rely on power

I am profoundly made aware of this truth when I have lots of power?? an endless supply

No

When do I come face to face with my need for power?

When I lose power

When I am driving my car and all of sudden I have no power to move, it has stop having the power to move and I do have the power to get me where I am going.

This lack of power becomes the number one priority in our lives, all other plans go by the wayside, because you have no power.

We experience when we lose power at our house…especially when the power lose is in the colder months or hot months

Our lives become supremely aware of our need for power.

We need power

It is not just our cars, houses, our bodies need power and energy to move and for our hearts to beat.

WE need power

TENSION

We do not just need power for our cars, house, and bodies....when need our God to be powerful.....though we are not always aware of it we need him to be powerful to move, live, breath....and we are made more aware of it, supremely aware of it when we going through hard seasons and trials.

We say God can you do this, heal them, make this happen?

The question before us: WHAT CAN HE DO? HOW POWERFUL IS OUR GOD OF THE BIBLE.... WHAT POWER DOES HE POSSESS

THE QUESTION IS SO BIG AND FOUNDATION TO US THAT WE ANSWER IT WILL AND BELIEVE IT WILL DETERMINE

- Your courage, confidence, hope and faith rests on your view on how BIG and POWERFUL GOD IS.

YOUR ANSWER DOES NOT NEED TO BE TRUE TO ACT TRUE

How big and powerful your God is will impact your courage, faith, confidence, and hope.

If we believe God is BIG....we will have great hope, courage, confidence, peace, and hope.

If we believe God is small…we will have little hope, courage, confidence, peace, hope....our lives will be filled with anxiety and fear …and we will do whatever we want

It is as Tozer says

A.W. TOZER

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.....For this reason the gravest question before the Church is always God Himself, and the most important fact about any man is not what he at a given time may say or do, but what he in his deep heart believes God to be like.

We tend by a secret law of the soul to move toward our mental image of God.

This is true not only of the individual Christian, but of the company of Christians that composes the Church.

Always the most revealing thing about the Church is her idea of God.

We always gravitate to our idea of God.

The question before us is

HOW BIG IS OUR GOD?

This question that has been asked for centuries by Abraham, Isaac, Mose, Israel, and today

What we read in scripture is God is omnipotent.

What’s the omnipotence of God? : God’s unlimited authority to bring into existence or cause to happen whatsoever he wills that is within his nature.

God is all powerful, He can do whatever He wills and no one can stop Him.

Within His nature

God cannot lie, cheat, steal

GOD ALMIGHTY IS said 57 times in scriptures.

What encouragement this brings!

OurGod is all powerful, there is nothing He cannot do!

God is not just the omnipresent God: that God that is always with you

God is not just the omniscience God: He knows all about you.

He is much more

If we just make God to be these two things: omnipresent and omniscience what we will have a created is a God is who is a teddy bear who knows all about us.

But when we combine omnipotence to to the other two have have this huge, incomprehensible God, who knows us, who’s with us, and loves us.

WE DO NOT SEE A TEDDY BEAR BUT THE LION OF JUDAH WHO IS ALL POWERFUL, ALL PRESENT, ALL KNOWING, AND ALL LOVING.

THERE IS NOTHING HE CANNOT DO OR NOBODY WHO CANNOT STOP WHAT HE WILLS

THIS IS NOT SOMETHING GREW INTO, LIKE WE GROW STRONGER AND MORE POWERFUL IT SOMETHING HE HAS HAD SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME.

WE SEE GOD OMNIPOTENCE IN THE FIRST TWO VERES OF THE BIBLE.

What verses back this up

WHAT DOES THE FIRST TWO VERSES OF THE BIBLE SAY?

GEN 1:1-2 IS SAYING

In the beginning God created the whole world and universe

- Before God created the earth EARTH it was formless void, no stars.

There was nothingness.

GOD WAS AN IS.... we cannot even imagine it.

We cannot even wrap our minds around how did God get here and all we know is He is uncreated and we cannot wrap our minds around that.

- IN 6 successive days God creates the SUN, MOON, STARS, ANIMALS WATER, EARTH and the list goes on.

BY THE POWER OF GOD ALMIGHTY GOD CREATES THE WHOLE WORLD AND UNIVERSE OUT OF NOTHING

Look what Ps 33:6-9 says reflecting on this

DAVID IS SAYING BY THE WORD OF THE LORD GOD CAUSE ALL THAT WAS TO BE TO BE

THERE’S POWER IN THE WORD!

IN 6 DAYS GOD CREATES IT ALL!

Do you realize who big of job God did in 6 days!?!!?

let’s just look at our own galaxy and they say there are 100 billion to 1 trillion galaxies with billions and billions of stars

Our one galaxy let’s look at it and lets look at the biggest THING in our galaxy, which is the sun....tthe sun is so big it is so big that you can fit he sun is so big that about 1.3 million earths earths fit inside of it.

It’s 93 million miles away, the perfect distance for us to have life on earth, (too close we burn up to far we freeze up) so far away that it takes light 8:30 to reach us traveling at the slow speed of 186,000 mps

But it is not the BIGGEST STAR....there are several stars that are much bigger.

8,000,000 suns can fit into Betelgeuse

This is how big our God is

Look at the earth that is so small in comparison even in our own galaxy THE EARTH IS SO SMALL AND GOD IS SO BIG THAT IF THE EARTH WAS A GOLF BALL YOU CAN PLACE IN BROWNS STADIUM AND WHEN YOU DO YOU WILL HAVE THE SCALE OF WHAT THE SIZE OF THE EARTH IS COMPARED TO OUR GALAXY

This bigness of who God gives Jeremiah great confidence and courage about God.

JEREMIAH looks to the heavens, sees how big everything is REALIZES HE IS SO SMALL BUT HIS GOD IS SO BIG! AND SINCE HIS GOD IS SO BIG JEREMIAH CONCLUDES THERE IS NOTHING TOO HARD FOR YOU GOD.

If you can create all the heavens and the earth there is nothing is too hard for you that is within you nature.

Maybe you have had this experience when you have been in nature....WOW GOD IS BIG!!!

Even in our metro parks I get this sense of the bigness of God, especially climbing the stairs at Rocky River Reservation and look out.

It is good to get outside

it is not just JEREMIAH that is blow away it is David, David is blow away by the bigness of God and yet He still loves us know us.....that we are smaller than an atom on this golfball in side Browns stadium and God loves us.

David says I look at all that God has created, the SON, MOON, STARS, we are small than a grain of sand in comparison to God.

AND YET GOD YOU ARE MINDFUL OF ME, YOU CARE FOR ME.

IN THE CONVERSATION KIDS HAVE ABOUT THERE DAD, MY DAD CAN DO ___, WE AS BELIEVES CAN SAY MY DAD MADE THE SUN, MOOD, STARS, HEAVENS, MY HEART, YOUR HEART,

MY DAD IS THE GREATEST OF ALL CREATORS

HE LOVES ME AND CARES FOR ME

AND HE DOESN’T JUST CREATE AND CARE FOR ME AND LEAVE ME

He is not a God who stands by when others try to hurt his children.

HE IS NOT A deistic God, which is the number one belief people have about God.

God is powerful active God in our lives....we see this all over scripture…we see powerful act against the powers of darkness that become manifest through people or principalities