Notice that in this text it’s heavenly beings that are ascribing to the Lord glory and strength and honor. In Isaiah 46:9-10 we read, “For I am God, and there is no other I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose.’” It’s the glory due his name, his specific character. In this scene, David is urging these heavenly beings in heaven to worship and to ascribe to the Lord glory and strength, because he is worth it. He talks about how wonderful it is that the omnipotent one, that the one being in the universe with all the power, with the ability to do whatever he wills to do, is also all righteous and just and good, and that he will never abuse his power, he will never expend it in a way that is immoral or wrong. Jonathan Edwards, in his book Religious Affections, celebrates this truth. And if he is good, that means his power is good, and it is a righteous power if he is righteous. In his essence, he is simple, so therefore, if he is powerful, because he is infinite, he is infinitely powerful. It’s not like his attributes are these separate compartments inside of him, and sometimes he turns one off, sometimes he turns another one on and turns that one off but there’s a unity to the being of God. Now, we can apply infinitude to God’s power because of the divine simplicity-remember Pastor Brian talking about that a few messages ago-that God is simple, meaning he is not composed of parts and pieces. All the power required to do all that he wills to do lies in undiminished fullness in his own infinite being.” His self-sufficiency makes it unnecessary for him to look outside of himself for a renewal of strength. He expends no energy that must be replenished. Tozer gives us a characteristically carefully worded definition of God’s omnipotence when he writes, “Since he has at his command all the power in the universe, the Lord God omnipotent can do anything as easily as anything else. Then, in the exodus event, when the Lord brought his people out of the land of Egypt, out of slavery, they celebrated that he did it by showing his right arm, his arm of power, and asserting his authority over Pharaoh and working many miracles, culminating in the parting of the sea itself.Ī.W. The fact of God’s power is something we see in the very beginning of pages of Scripture, in the creation account of Genesis, where we read that not only did the Lord God create the heavens and the earth out of nothing, but he did it by his spoken word simply by speaking he created. Omnipotence is a word that means “all-powerful,” omni meaning “all,” and potens meaning “power.” Theologians have often talked about God’s power by using the term omnipotence. Worship the Lord in the splendor of holiness.” Let’s start with the worth of God’s power, in verses 1-2, where we read, “Ascribe to the Lord, O heavenly beings, ascribe to the Lord glory and strength! Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name. We’re going to be looking at it in three stages: We’re going to read through it as we work our way through the message. Semenov witnessed that day a display of power in nature, and this morning we’re going to look at a psalm where David examines the power of God in nature, in Psalm 29. However, the force from the explosion knocked down over 80 million trees over 830 square miles of forest, and it’s estimated that the energy released in the blast was a thousand times greater than the nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima. The blast could be seen from up to 500 miles away.Īmazingly, only three people died in the event, due to the area being so sparsely populated. The best that scientists could determine was that a meteorite anywhere between 150 and 300 feet in diameter had exploded three to six miles above the surface of the earth, above the Siberian forest. Semenov was 40 miles away from the epicenter of what would later become known as the Tunguska event. Windows around him shattered, and the earth itself shook beneath him. Then he instinctively began to tear at his shirt, because he felt a heat so intense he thought his clothes were on fire.Īs he was knocked backwards six feet, he heard what he described as a sound of a multitude of cannons firing at once or many rocks falling at the same time. All of a sudden, he saw what he could only describe as the sky itself being split in two, a light so bright he could barely look at it. Semenov was sitting in a chair outside of a trading post near the Tunguska River in Siberia, Russia. We’re going to be continuing our series on the attributes of God that Pastor Brian has been taking us through, and this morning we’re going to be looking at God’s omnipotence, the omnipotent God, in Psalm 29. My name is Andy Lindgren I’m one of the elders here, for those of you who may not know. Behold Your God: The Omnipotence of God | Psalm 29
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