Here in this 32nd chapter of the book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah in the 17th verse makes this statement here. in that last part of the verse. And there is nothing too hard
for thee. He's talking about the great
Jehovah God. He said there's nothing too hard
for thee. There's nothing beyond the reach
of the imminent wisdom and power of the Almighty God. In other words, there is nothing
that you can think or imagine that cannot be accomplished by
God. Nothing too hard for them. in the performing of certain
things or in the performance of all things that God desires
to do, He can do. Nothing is beyond
the scope and limit of His might and of His power. Verse 17 is what I called out,
32 and 17. There's nothing too hard for
thee. That's what Jeremiah said. God had pronounced in this verse
or in this chapter things that he would do for the children
of Israel, for the people of God, and somehow He told Jeremiah to buy a parcel
of ground in the midst of this particular country. And God said that he would do so
and so. So in the seventeenth verse it
says, Ah, A-H, Ah. Ah, Lord God, Behold, thou hast
made the heaven and the earth by thy great power, and hast
stretched out arm by thy great power, and stretched
out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee." Jeremiah
speaks. Nothing too hard for thee. Now,
a truth. That's a truth, isn't it? Nothing
too hard for God. That's a truth. The whole Bible
is truth. All the doctrines are truth. Every word inspired by God. Now, a truth, a single truth,
individual truth that we are convinced of that it either applies
to us or applies to someone else. A truth may be sincerely believed
by you and I, and yet it may do us good to have it put into
a form of a question, which God did in verse 27. I read to you verse 17 where
Jeremiah said, And there is nothing too hard for thee. Now this same
truth here is put into a form of a question by God. You remember
it is Jeremiah that says in verse 17, And there is nothing too hard
for thee. And I said it may do us good
to have it put in a form of a question. It's one thing to believe a general
doctrine, general everyday truth, but it's quite another to make
a particular and personal application of the truth. in verse 27, the
Lord speaks. Jeremiah spoke, and there is
nothing too hard for thee. Now the Lord speaks and says,
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Now is the question. He proposes to the statement
made by Jeremiah. Is there anything too hard for
me? I propose this question to Jeremiah. As I've said, it's one thing
to believe a general truth or doctrine, but it's quite another
thing to make a particular and personal application of this
truth. And you can apply that anything
that the Bible teaches. You can believe the sentence
and the words. Lots of people would not deny
the doctrine of election, but the personal and particular application
to the doctrine of election is something else. You can believe
it and say, Well, it's in the Bible. I read it in the Bible.
But does it apply to you? Behold, I am the Lord, the God
of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for
me? Jeremiah. Well, first off, I
want you to remember that the hardest conceivable things have
already been done. Jeremiah here said, Thou hast
made the heavens and the earth. Is there anything too hard for
thee? He's made the heavens and the
earth. Now, in light of that, can there
be anything too hard for God? There was a time when there was
nothing that had been created and God lived alone. It's hard to conceive, isn't
it, that there was a time when there was nothing and God lived
somewhere alone. There was no tree. There was
no sky. There was no water. There was
no grass. There was nothing. It was without
form and void. Void means nothing. There was a time when there was
nothing that had been created and God dwelt alone. In the book of Genesis it says,
in the beginning. That's the time I'm talking about,
is in the beginning. When God dwelt alone, and there
was no heavens and no earth. God dwelt alone. And the earth
was without form and voice. And darkness was upon the face
of the deep, and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the
waters. There was a time, you see, when
God was alone. There was not even any raw material
out of which to construct or to bring into being the universe. We're talking about building this or building that.
You can't build unless you have some material to build with.
It's kind of foolish to talk about building a house if you
don't have any money to buy any material or if there's not any
material to buy. Well, I'm going to build a house.
Well, you're going to build it out of. You've got to have some
material. And when God was alone, There
was no raw material to build the earth or to build the heavens
out of. He was alone. Yet when it pleased
him to do so, in the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth. When it pleased him to do so, everything was formed
and fashioned out of nothing. God being alone. Come time to create the heavens
and the earth, there was nothing to make the heavens and make
the earth out of, no material. God was alone. What then can He not do after
having done that? having fashioned and formed this
world, this earth, by God out of nothing. What then can he
not do after having done that? Is there anything too hard for
God? I ask you also to think what
God done after that. He first made the world and then he left it. God, in
the beginning, created the heaven and the earth. He first made
the heaven and the earth and then he left it for ages. He left in an unfinished state. It wasn't
finished. He created the heavens and He
created the earth, and then He departed and left it, unaided, unfinished. For in the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and
void, But long afterward when he came to put it in order and
to make it fit for man's dwelling or fit for man's abode, and then
he came to create man to have dominion over that which he made,
I asked then who was with God to help him do this tremendous
task. With whom did he take counsel
and who instructed God in creating the heavens and the earth when
there was no raw material to build? With his own hands. the hand of God himself, he piled
up the mountains, stacked this dirt that he brought out of nothing,
and piled it up high and made the mountains and the foundation
of the great deep. Is there anything too hard for
God? His unaided power achieved it
all. No outside help, just God by
himself, alone. His unaided power accomplished
this when everything was in darkness, even after he made it. He made
the heavens and the left it for some time. It was without form
and voice. Everything was in confusion. And finally, darkness covered the earth. And God said, Let there be light. And who was there to help him? Who was his instructor? He said,
Let there be light, and there was light, unaided by any other
power. God said, Let there be light,
and there was light. And everything was in confusion
and chaos, the Bible says. And the water and the earth was mingled together
in one mass form. And again God spoke and he divided
the sea from the land and the clouds
arose in the sky, and the rivers sought the low spots for their
beds, and the oceans was wrapped with a belt of sand. And all
this God did unaided by himself. Now, I ask the question, as Isaiah
or Jeremiah asked it, is there anything too hard for God? God did it all. He created the heavens, He created
the earth, and the earth was without form and void. God said,
Let there be light, and there was light. Everything in confusion? The rivers found their place.
The sun found its place. The earth found its place. The
water and the earth was massed together. God said, let there
be water over here and let there be valleys over here. Let the stars be in place and
the moon and the sun and all of that. Done all that without
any assistance, without any help. He did it all. And it makes me
think of the foolishness of people trying to help God do something. Let Jesus do this. You don't let Jesus do anything.
You don't let God do anything. He doesn't need your help. He
doesn't need my help. He said, I could make these rocks
cry out if I wanted to. I don't need you. God did it
all. And after he did it all, this
world was still dead. There was no life in it. There
was no life in this world after, in the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth. The earth was without form and
void and darkness was upon the face of the deep and the Spirit
of God moved upon the face of the water. And God said, Let
there be light, and there was light. And God saw the light,
and it was good. And God divided the light from the darkness day
and night. And God called the light day,
and the darkness He called night, and the evening and the morning
of the first day. And God said, Let there be a firmament in the
midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the
waters. And God made the firmament, and
divided the waters which were under the firmament from the
waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. And God called
the firmament heaven, and the evening and the morning were
the first day. And God said, Let the waters under the heaven
be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear.
And it was so. And God called the dry land earth,
and the gathering together of the waters called he the seas. And God saw that it was good. God did it all. But even then
the world was dead. That is, there was no life anywhere
to be seen. There was no animals. But again,
God spoke, and at that instance of His speaking, the earth became
green with grass and trees, and the waters were full of fish
and other reptiles. and all kinds of birds began
to fill God's blue sky and multitudes of beasts began to roam the earth
that God had made. And he'd done this all by himself,
alone, unaided, without counsel of anybody because there was
nobody that he could seek counsel after because man had not yet
been created. So is there anything too hard
for you? You got any troubles here that
God cannot reach and solve your problems and help you? Have you
got any whatsoever? Now God can take care of our
problems and our troubles and our worries and our fears and
this and that. God can do that. He's proved
that the hardest things to be done, he's already accomplished. He made this whole shoot and
match out of nothing. So my little problem seems like
a speck of dust in the light of what God, the hard things
that God's already done. So there's nothing too hard for
God, I'm convinced of that. If he can just speak and light
comes, not just a 60-watt bulb that lights a space as big as
maybe a bathroom, but the immensity of the heavens and the earth
are taken into consideration. All was buried in the depth of
the darkness, and God said, let there be light, and there was
light. And when he comes along looking
for his people, he knows exactly where to find them. And when
he says to his people, let there be light, then there is light
and life in their souls. He needs no help whatsoever. Well, the waters were full of
fish. And all kinds of birds of every
sort and description began to fly in the heavens. And these
multitude of beasts began to roam the earth. But last of all,
God said, Let us make a man in our image. God the Father and God the Son
and God the Holy Spirit in the trinity of His persons and in
perfect unity said, Let us make man in our image and after our
likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and
over the fowl of the air and the cattle and every creep thing
upon the earth. Let them have dominion over. So God created man in his own
image. In the image of God, the Bible
says, created he him, male and female, created he them. Now when we doubt the power and
the wisdom of God to do anything, all we've got to do is go to
the first chapter of the Bible, the book of Genesis, and read
that first chapter and say with Jeremiah, Lord God, is there
anything too hard for thee? Great power by the great, immeasurable,
unaccountable immensity of the power of the arm of God is displayed
in this first chapter of the book of Genesis. How anybody
in their right mind and with any reasoning at all could come
to the conclusion that this earth that we live on and the heavens
that are our canopies, that it just came out of nowhere and
there was no beginning to it, is beyond me. Nothing too hard for God. So
there's nothing which the Lord did not make everything, and he made it without
assistance. He did it himself, alone, only with his wisdom and with
his skill. Is there anything too hard for
God? So I say then, in light of what
I've said, One of the hardest things that ever could be done
was done by God when he created the work of creation. That's at least one of the hardest
things that he ever did. You go far back into the history
of the world and you notice If you look, you don't have to look
and search very hard either. Just read a little bit and you'll
find out that this world that God made out of nothing, and
the human race that he made out of nothing, starting with Adam, majority of all those that he
made became corrupt and evil when they ought to have been
holy under God and separate from sinners. But they had mixed themselves
together with the ungodly, and when God's patience had at last reached its limit. When he looked down from the
heavens upon this earth and saw that there was not anything that
he made pertaining to the human race, that there was not a single
solitary one of them that was any account, that he could not
find any good out of this mixed, ungodly, corrupt race of people
that he had made. And God had reached the limit
of his patience. And on a certain day, at a certain
time, He shows how he can rid himself
of his enemies with a stroke. You remember how the Apostle
Paul, when they were building a fire
there, and a snake came out of the brush and the brambles and
bit him on the hand? And Paul immediately shook his
hand and the snake fell off into the fire. And just as quick,
when God reaches the limit of his patience, he knows how to
deliver his people from their adversaries. God knows how to
do away with his enemies. So it's useless for man to war
against God in any fashion or any way. So on a certain day
he decided to rid himself of his adversaries, his enemies. He spoke and down come the rain. It never rained on the earth
before. After he had created the heavens
and the earth out of nothing, replenished it, grass and water,
birds in the sky, painted the sun and all that. rains came down. God unlocked that reservoir of
water up there, and it began to rain in sheets of rain, not
just buckets full, but sheets of rain began to pour down upon the human race, humankind. And the water covered the whole
earth. God had determined He would destroy
all flesh, destroy all flesh from the face of the earth, all
flesh, and just save a few. God, in eternity, after He created
all this out of nothing, by himself alone, made man in his own image,
called Adam a man and a male and his wife a female. And shortly after that, trouble
started. And God looked down in due time
at the limit of his faith, to see if there was any that doeth
good, he said. And he said, There's none that
doeth good, no, not one. God said, I'll wipe them all
from the face of the earth. I'll drown them all. I'll save
a few. That is, eight souls in the ark. I'll save Noah and his family. I'll put them in the ark, and
the ark will bear them up from the wrath of the waters that
come from them. So this morning here, let no
one, not the least of us here, let no one ever imagine that
any war can be successfully waged against him, because when he
bears his own for battle, he can create and he can destroy
as easy as it creates. This whole world shakes their
fists at God and says, We will not have you to rebel or to rule
over us. The ordinary man, woman, boy
or girl that is living here on the face of the earth right now,
for the most part, the majority of them, shakes their fist at
God and they say, we will not have you to rule over us. We'll be our own ruler, do what
we want to, think what we want to, and act like we want to.
We don't need to hear from you. Well, he who made everything
out of nothing can easily resist the taunts and the threats. of this corrupt human race. My soul, don't ever imagine that you can
successfully wage rebellion against God and get by with it. You see, the penalty for your
corruption The penalty due you for your resistance and for your
unbelief and for your sins, the penalty for that is to be separated
from God forever and ever and ever. That is, He is going to
send you to a place where God is not, and that will be hell. Where there is no God is hell. There'll be no jubilant singing
in that place because they'll have no reason whatsoever to
sing with joy or have no reason to praise God because it'll be
a futile sound and a futile attempt to appease God because it's too
late, you see. Some time, some place
you're going to run out your strength. You're going to fall
off of your rope. It's going to be all, it's going
to be your end. You're 10, you're 11, you're
12, you're 20, you're 25, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, you're still
going strong. But just remember, you cannot
successfully wage a rebellion against God because there is
nothing too hard for God. He can save you or he can damn
you. That's his problem. What can you do? You cannot do
it. You can cry out, but you won't do it. You bow your back in rebellion
and you tell God, I will not. You remember there in the book
of Exodus where we've read several times that great and wonderful
story. of how the children of Israel
started out with just a few. Joseph and his dad and his brothers
represented, for the most part, all of Israel. And they went
down in Egypt and they become, after so long a time, they multiplied
and Pharaoh, tried to kill them off, multiplying too quickly,
and he failed at that. And so the children of Israel
began to cry out, and the Bible says that God remembered and
heard their cry. And he raised up Aaron and Moses
to be his messengers to Pharaoh to let my people go. You remember
that story. After Pharaoh had tried to crush
them, do away with them, God remembered His people and He
determined then to bring them out of that land, to deliver
them from the bondage of Pharaoh. And He told Moses and Aaron,
He said, Now, take Aaron with you. Moses said, I can't. I can't
articulate anymore. I've been in the back of the
desert so long, 400 years, whatever it was. I can't have conversations. I don't know how to go before
Pharaoh and tell him this. He said, well, I'll send Aaron with you, and
you tell that that Pharaoh, that I said, let my people go. And Moses said, Well, who will
I say sent me? And you tell Pharaoh, I am that
I am, have sent you. And so Moses and Aaron went before
Pharaoh and made their case and said, God said, Let my people
go. And that proud rebel Pharaoh
said, Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice? And there may
be some of you here this morning that have listened to me, and
you might say in your heart, Well, who is the Lord that I
should obey him? The Lord says for you to repent
and to believe the testimony of God concerning his Son, and
you say, Who is He that I should obey Him? All right? He found out shortly who Jehovah
God was, and you will too, and I will too. Shortly, shortly
for me, and shortly for some of you, We're going to find out
who Jehovah is. Who is this that sends Moses
and Aaron down here and tells me, tells me I am the Pharaoh,
I'm this monarch? When I say go, they go. When I say come, they come. When
I say kill him, they kill him. Who is this that said, let my
people? He'll find out because God will
drown him and all of his people in the Red Sea and you'll never
hear any more about Pharaoh. Moses and Aaron and Moses' sister
join together and they sing a song of praise and thanksgiving that
God hath delivered us from the hands of Pharaoh and drowned
the thousands of the Egyptians in the midst of the Red Sea.
Now, if God can do all that and has done all that, is there anything
too hard for God? Have I got any trouble that God
cannot deliver me from? You got any problems that God
cannot handle? I don't think so. I think He's
more than enough. So after this mighty act of Jehovah
God in regard to Pharaoh and those Egyptians, Don't ever imagine that God can't
deliver you from whatever situation you're in. He will deliver His
people. If God shall but repeat His command,
which says, Touch not my anointing, and do my prophets no harm. God makes that command, which
he has, then you've got no problem. It will be then a case with our
enemies that God says, hands off, you cannot harm them, you
can't touch them, you cannot touch the apple of my eye, and
you can do my prophets no harm. It's hands off. anything too
hard for the Lord. Oh, nothing that I can think
of. All these are great things that
God hath done. Is God going to save his people? A people that God chose in himself
in Christ before the world, is he going to save them? going
to save every one of them. Nothing too hard from God. He'll
find them wherever they're at. If they're over there in the
midst of the darkest spot in Africa, God will find them. If He has to raise up a prophet,
raise up a preacher, raise up a man, woman, boy or girl with
the message, let my people go, He'll find them. Oh, not one for whom Christ died
shall be lost. Is there anything too hard for
God? Nothing that I know of. You can't
hide from God. He'll find you. He found Adam. Adam hid there in the garden
and God found him. Oh, listen. He can find them
in this world of pollution and corruption. He'll find them.
He's going to bring them home. Easy for God to deliver us out
of our troubles. Ain't no problem with that. God
can do it. And I'll tell you, I've told
you about some of the hard things that God did. But the hardest thing, the hardest
thing for God to do, the hardest thing that God has ever done
is this. Well, it's not only the hardest
thing, but it's the most wonderful thing that God has ever done.
He brought about redemption for His people. That is, His Son,
God's Son, His only Son, His name is Jesus, a man called Jesus. eternal person of the Trinity. As much God as if he is never
man, as much man as if he is never God. The Son of God. This is my beloved Son. God loved
His Son. God so loved His Son, so loved
us, that He sent His only begotten Son. His Son came down to live
among man. to live in this world, to become
a man and live in this world. He took upon himself human form. He was born of a virgin Mary. He was sheltered in a stable.
Miracle of miracles that God should take upon himself human
form, the nature of a man apart from sin, and take upon himself
the sin of his people that he chose and put in Christ before
the world ever was. bear the load of their transgression,
bear the guilt and shame of their sin, and the burden of their
punishment, to drink the infinite cup of justice on their behalf,
that to me is the greatest of the work of God, that He'd save
a poor soul like me. He'll save His people from their
sins. Who is His people? All those,
I don't care whether they're Baptists or Methodists or who
they are, all those who know themselves to be helpless in
themselves to save themselves will put their confidence and
their trust in God's only Son. God's going to save His people.
Who are His people? who believe on Him, who trust
in Him. And the believing on Him is evidenced,
has its effects in their lives. They begin to walk different,
talk different. They join themselves to other
holy people and they desire above everything else to honor and
glorify Him, to be obedient to Him. Anything too hard for the
Lord? Well, if I thought that there
was anything too hard for God, I wouldn't pray for anybody.
I wouldn't even pray for myself. If I thought there was anything,
any situation, any trial, any trouble, any difficulty, any
obstacle that God could not overcome, I'd forget this praying business,
wouldn't you? Pray without ceasing, you see.
God's able. he's able. Well, in light of
all that, there ain't nothing else to say. Let's stand. We'll