Second Baptist Church, Griffin, Ga

Jeremiah 32:17
‘Ah Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You…

“The power of God is that ability and strength whereby He can bring to pass whatsoever He pleases, whatsoever His infinite wisdom may direct, and whatsoever the infinite purity of His will may resolve. As holiness is the beauty of all God’s attributes, so power is that which gives life and action to all the perfections of the Divine nature.”
~Stephen Charnock

He’s able, He’s able,
I know He’s able,
I know my Lord is able
To carry me through.

He healed the broken-hearted
And set the captive free,
He made the lame to walk again
And caused the blind to see.
~Paul E. Paino; He’s Able

“God is so powerful, He can do anything He chooses to do.”
~D.A. Carson

Psalm 135:6
Whatever the LORD pleases, He does, In heaven and in earth, in the seas and in all deeps.


Proverbs 16:9
The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.


Proverbs 21:1
The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He wishes.

“God’s sovereignty is nothing but God’s omnipotence constantly at work!”
~D.A. Carson

Job 40:3-4
Then Job answered the LORD and said, “Behold, I am insignificant; what can I reply to You? I lay my hand on my mouth.

“Since He has at His command all the power in the universe, the Lord God omnipotent can do anything as easily as anything else. All His acts are done without effort. He expends no energy that must be replenished. His self-sufficiency makes it unnecessary for Him to look outside of Himself for a renewal of strength. All the power required to do all that He wills to do lies in undiminished fullness in His own infinite being.”
~A.W. Tozer

Psalm 115:3
But our God is in the heavens; He does whatever He pleases.


Daniel 4:35
"All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, But He does according to His will in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth; And no one can ward off His Hand Or say to Him, 'What have You done?”

- God is Omnipotent in Creation:


Isaiah 44:24
This is what the LORD says - your Redeemer, who formed you in the womb: I am the LORD, the Maker of all things, who stretches out the heavens, who spreads out the earth by myself.

- God is Omnipotent in Salvation:


Jude 24-25
To him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy—to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen.”

- God is Omnipotent in the Resurrection:


John 10:17-18
The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.

- God is Omnipotent in Knowledge:

Psalm 147:5
Great is our Lord and mighty in power; his understanding has no limit.

Matthew 28:18
All authority [exousía] has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.


exousía (ex-oo-see'-ah): power of choice, liberty of doing as one pleases*

*Thayer

1. Nothing is too hard for God.
Ah, Sovereign LORD, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
- Jeremiah 32:17


2. No one can stop God’s plans.
I know that you can do all things; no plan of yours can be thwarted.
- Job 42:2


3. He made all things and all things serve Him.
Your laws endure to this day, for all things serve you.
- Psalm 119:91


4. He does whatever He pleases.
Our God is in heaven; he does whatever pleases him.
- Psalm 115:3

'I sing the almighty power of God,
That made the mountains rise,
That spread the flowing seas abroad,
And built the lofty skies'.
~Isaac Watts; I Sing the Mighty Power of God

I. God’s Power is Infinite:

"For the LORD of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?"
Isaiah 14:27


"I know that You can do all things, and that no purpose of Yours can be thwarted.
Job 42:2


“By the word of the LORD were the heavens made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.”
Psalm 33:6

ex nihilo [Latin]: out of nothing.

Jeremiah 32:17
‘Ah Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and by Your outstretched arm! Nothing is too difficult for You…

“The creation is a monument of God’s power.”
~Thomas Watson

“This will of God is the first cause of all things. If we seek out the reason why things are, back to the original cause, we must find it in the decree, and determined by God's will.”
~Samuel Willard

Verse 16:
And in Your book were all written The days that were ordained for me, When as yet there was not one of them.

Isaiah 14:24, 27
The LORD of hosts has sworn saying, “Surely, just as I have intended so it has happened, and just as I have planned so it will stand…
For the LORD of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back?”

“The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost when thinking about it.”
~Blaise Pascal

“Even from eternity I am He, and there is none who can deliver out of My hand; I act and who can reverse it?”
Isaiah 43:13

“Then Almighty is everywhere present power of God.”
~The Heidelberg Catechism

Isaiah 40:28
Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable.

I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me…
Galatians 2:20

IV. God’s Power is Incomprehensible:

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us… - Ephesians 3:20

“Although such power might seem frightful, remember that God is good. He can do anything according to His infinite ability, but will do only those things that are consistent with Himself. That’s why He can’t lie, tolerate sin, or save impenitent sinners.”
~John MacArthur

1. A Reason to Praise:

2. A Warning to Heed:

"How foolish is every sinner. Can we poor worms strut it 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!”
~Stephen Charnock

3. A Truth to Embrace:

“Well may the saint trust such a God! He is worthy of implicit confidence. Nothing is too hard for Him. If God were stinted in might and had a limit to His strength we might well despair. But seeing that He is clothed with omnipotence, no prayer is too hard for Him to answer, no need too great for Him to supply, no passion too strong for Him to subdue; no temptation too powerful for Him to deliver from, no misery too deep for Him to relieve.”
~A.W. Pink