The Lord our God is Omnipotent

Happy New Year
The Lord Our God is Omnipotent

I pause to wish everyone a happy New Year 2017, as I seek to bring a short word from Gateway To Heaven Church. A word from God’s Holy Word says: “Let no man say, when he is tempted, I am tempted of God; for God cannot be tempted with evil. Neither temps He any man. But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and enticed: Then when lust is conceived it brings forth sin and when sin is finished it brings forth death. (James 1: 13-15). What does it mean when we say God cannot? For example, be tempted with evil, lie, change, be unfaithful, (break His promise) and much more? On the other hand we say that God is not only Omnipotent, (All powerful), He is Omniscient, (knows everything), and Omnipresent, (everywhere at once.)  What does it mean then that God cannot? The answer lies in the fact that good is good, for example, and therefore, He cannot be evil, he is Truth and so He cannot lie, He keeps covenants and is not therefore a covenant breaker. He is the same forever and thus He cannot change. But still, if He cannot, you may ask, “Does that not make Him not Omnipotent?” The answer is No! It does not. You see God’s Omnipotent Powers are, while limitless in their prerogatives, are self-limiting in their exercise. Example your fourteen year old child is determined to go out of your house against your will. You urge him/her not to go; and he/she defiantly walks out and gets into trouble. Then you, the father is asked later, “Couldn’t you have stopped him/her? “Yes” the father replies, “I could have but I chose not to do so.” So when we lie and cheat, commit adultery, fornication, abomination and sin of all sorts, and think we are fooling God, we are not; we are just fooling ourselves. May the year 2017 remind us that God is watching us, not from a distance, but up close and personal. Time is running; it does not stand still; but time must have a stop. Amen. And may God bless everyone who hears and receives this word. Rev Dr. John S. Weekes www.gatewaytoheavenchurch.org

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