Turn with me to the book of Jeremiah. Jeremiah chapter 32. Let me read verse verses 26 and 27 of that 32nd
chapter of the book of Isaiah. Verse 26, Then came the word
of the Lord unto Jeremiah, saying, Behold, I am the Lord, the God
of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for
me? I am the Lord, I am Jehovah." Normally, the word Lord is referenced
to God in the Old Testament set forth Jehovah, Jehovah God. And that seems to carry with
it the idea of His personality, His holiness, faithfulness, His
beauty and glory. I am the Lord. I am Jehovah,
the God of all flesh. all-fledged. Is there anything
too hard for me? Can you think of anything that
is too hard for me to accomplish? Now, there is a method of asking
questions to a person in order to teach him, in order that he
might be instructed. If you remember, over in the
book of Job, God asked Job some questions, and the object of
asking the questions to Job was the same as it was with Jeremiah,
that he might teach or instruct Job, enlighten Job, and Jeremiah
as well. There in that 40th chapter of
the book of Job, where it says in verse 6, Then answered the Lord unto Job
out of the whirlwind, And he said, Gird up thy loins now like a
man, I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me. Wilt thou
also dissenal my judgment? Will you render my judgment null
and void? Wilt thou condemn me? These are
questions asked by God unto His servant
Job. Will thou condemn me that thou
mayest be righteous? Hast thou an arm like God? Or canst thou thunder with a
voice like him? Deck thyself now with majesty
and excellency, and array thyself with glory and beauty. Cast abroad the rage of thy wrath,
and behold every one that is proud, and abase him. Look on every one that is proud,
and bring him low, and tread down the wicked in their hide
them in the dust together, and bind their faces in secret. That
is, if you can do all this, Job, then will I also confess unto
thee that thine own right hand can save thee. So the Lord answered
Job out of a whirlwind with a series of questions. And here he says,
Is anything too hard for me? Now, this question here asked
Isaiah after he stated who he was, Behold, I am the Lord, the
God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for
me? Now, is anything too hard for
me? This is the strongest way of
saying nothing is too hard for me. There is nothing that is
too hard for me. It proclaims heaven and hell
and the earth to produce a difficulty which is too perplexed for the
God of all flesh. He in defiance challenges everything
to produce something that would be a problem for him. Now, it
was needful, necessary, to tell the prophet this, although the
prophet knew it. And you know it. You know in
your head this morning that there is nothing too hard for God. Just as Jeremiah knew it, he
knew it in his head. that there was nothing too hard
for God. But he drives this truth home
into the mind of the prophet, and this prophet was a faithful
servant of the Most High God, just as Job was highly favored
by God. God said about Job, he's a just
man, he's the most. just man upon all the earth is
Job. But yet Job knew that God could do all things,
and he asked Job a series of questions pertaining to his limitations. You render my judgments null
and void? And he asked Jeremiah here, is
anything too hard for me? He drives home this truth under
the mind of the prophet. And the Bible says in the New
Testament that all God's children shall be taught of the Lord.
Now, we learn much in many ways, but we learn nothing vitally
and real and practically until God Himself teaches us. It is only when God makes the
truth come home to our minds and to our hearts that it does
us any good. Jeremiah knew this truth. He
knew the truth. In verse 27, ìBehold, I am the
Lord.î The Word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah, saying this, Behold,
I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too
hard for me? He knew this. Look over there
in verse 17. He knew this truth in his inmost
soul. Verse 17, now he is praying here. Jeremiah is praying unto the
God of all flesh. the true and the living God.
And he says he had made a transaction here, a business deal that God
had told him to make, to buy a piece of land from his uncle. And he had made the transaction
and bought the land, but yet he did it on the insistence of
God. And after he bought the land,
He had reservations about whether he had done right or not. And
so he prays unto God here. Although God had led him in all
this and directed him in all the dealings here, and he had
went about it, had the deed and had it sealed and all of that,
but yet he had some reservations. And he says in verse 17 in his
prayer unto God, what I'm trying to emphasize
is that Jeremiah knew that there was nothing too hard for the
Lord. He knew that to a measure. He
had it in his head. He had it in his creed. We have
it in our creed, all of us. As a matter of fact, if someone
came along and told us that there was something somewhere that
was too hard for God, we would be indignant and express maybe
even anger against that fellow for making such a statement like
that. But yet every day we act like
that truth that we have in our head does not apply to us practically
in everyday use. So he's going to burn it into
his heart. Is anything too hard for me? He knew that. Verse 17, Ah, Lord God, behold,
thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power. Now, if we believe that, if we
just believe that, that ought to suffice us. that
God made the heaven and earth by His great power and stretched
out arms. And He said, There is nothing
too hard for thee. He knew this truth. He knew it
down in His soul. He knew it in His head. Yet the
Lord God Almighty saw it necessary and needful to give Him a spatial
revelation of this truth to impress him more fully in his heart,
to make it real to him that he might trust God and glorify God
in doing so. You see, it is one thing to know
that such a doctrine is true, but it is quite another thing
to know the truth itself. It's one thing to believe and
to know that there is a covenant God, that there is a God of election. It's one thing to know that God
has said, cast all your cares upon me, for I careth for you. But for us to practically in
everyday use have this burned into our hearts. When we have trials and troubles
and tribulations and difficulties, we find out that our highest
thoughts of God don't amount to much, because we don't trust Him like
we ought to. Is there anything too hard me, we need to be persuaded
of it. We need to embrace this, that there is nothing too hard
for God. We put it in our creed, but disregard
it for everyday use. Jeremiah knew this truth. And
he knew it well enough to plead it in his prayer. And he said,
God, You made the heaven and the earth by Your great power
and stretched out arm. There's nothing too hard for
Thee. Well, when he says, Behold, I
am the Lord, Is there anything too hard for me? His argument
here, God's argument in regard to us and Jeremiah and Job, completely
trusting Him, His argument, God's argument is final and it's decisive. There's no question about it.
You notice that Job, I mean Jeremiah in verse 17, drew his argument
from what the Lord had done. He says, Behold, you have made
the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out
arms. So he makes his argument, there's
nothing too hard from God, by what God had done. That's the
argument that he makes. That's as far as he came. I know that there's nothing too
hard for you because of what you've done. You've made the
heaven and the earth by your power and stretched out arm.
I know there's nothing too hard for you. He draws, Jeremiah draws
his argument from creation. God created the world out of
nothing. There wasn't anything there.
He spoke and it came about. He said, light, let there be
light, and there was light. And he draws his argument from
creation. And that's a good argument. But God, God didn't draw His argument
from creation. He didn't refer to creation.
He said, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. I am the Lord,
the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for
Me? The God that made heaven and
earth and all things therein, can there be anything that could
be possible to be too hard for God to do. Jeremiah gets this from the mouth
of God Himself. God doesn't draw it from creation. He doesn't draw His argument
from creation. He says, see what I've done?
I made heaven and earth. But he gets it, Jeremiah gets
it right from the from the mouth of God, right from the lips of
God. Nothing too hard for me. The
God who made heaven and earth without help can surely do as
He pleases. He made the mountains, He made
the oceans, He made the seas, He made the skies, He made the
sun, the moon, and the stars. What is there that He cannot
do? That's the question. God does
not point to creation or any of His works. He speaks of Himself. Not to creation, not to His power. He speaks of Himself alone. He made all this. He can do anything. All that we see, in the vast,
inconceivable, unimaginable mysteries of this universe, He's the source
of it all. It all comes from Him. Oh, that
you and I, this morning, that this truth might be burnt into
our innermost souls, that we might look to Him and Him alone
by the help of His Spirit and realize that there can be nothing
too hard for our God. Oh, what poor, weak, and feeble
notions we have of the God of glory. We think we magnify Him
at times when we talk about wanting to honor and to glorify. and to exalt the name of God. We think we magnify Him, but
in reality, in reality, now listen to me, after all, we're just people.
We're just men and women. When we think we're magnifying
Him and honoring Him in our highest thoughts, we belittle. who He really is, His real honor and His real glory
and His real majesty. Just think of this for a little
bit. He who made the heavens and the earth, He made it all
by Himself. He didn't ask the angels to help
Him. He made the angels. He doesn't need any help. He
does it by himself. Nothing too hard for the great
and glorious God, the Creator and the Preserver. He has all
power in heaven and earth. And the argument that He uses
doesn't come from creation, but it comes from His own mouth.
I am Jehovah. I am God. And this argument here
is founded and based and grounded upon who He is, on His own name,
Jehovah God. Oh, listen to me here this morning.
Those, and there are many in our world today, and we hear
about them through the newspaper and through the television and
other means of communication. And this seems to be par for
the course. Many are they who say there is
no God. They say there is no God. Some
of them are forced to admit that there is a controlling force somewhere in
the heavens. They're forced to admit that.
a power which makes for righteousness. They say there must be some impersonal
force of power somewhere, and they talk of this impersonal
something. But the Bible does not speak
of any impersonal power or force, but it speaks of a living God. a true and a living God. I cannot trust an impersonal
force. I cannot call an impersonal force
my Father, which art in heaven. No. No. A man that has no personal
God has no God at all. He has no God at all, none whatsoever. I believe that the Bible teaches,
and I know in my soul, I know in my heart, I know that God
is a person. He has a conscience. He's a thinking God. He's an
acting person and personality. I am the Lord. His name in itself
implies self-existence. God does not exist because of
His surroundings, the sun and the moon and the stars and the
planets. He derives no support, no aid
from any of these. It's all in Himself, the true
and the living God. The Bible says and teaches that
all that's outside of Himself is created by Himself. All things were made by Him and
for Him. He sustains all things by the
word of His blessed power. His name is Jehovah. His name
is higher than the heavens, deeper than hell, and broader than space. He's God Almighty, and there's
nothing too hard for God. His name indicates that He is
immutable. That is, I am that I am. Time does not affect Him. Time
does not change him. He always is as he always was. And he always will be what he
always was. He never changes. Time does not
affect him. Situations or circumstances do
not change him or affect him. He's always God. Notice something
else he says about himself here. He said, I am the God of all
flesh. Behold, I am the Lord. I am the
God of all flesh, all flesh. There is no other God for man
anywhere or at any time save this God of the Bible, Jehovah.
I am the Lord, the God of all flesh, no other God, no other
God. Now they talk about the heathens
have their gods. The heathens, they have no God. They're God's disciples. They're
not gods. There's only one God, the true
and living God. He's the God of all flesh. I'm
the God of all flesh, he tells Jeremiah. I'm the God of all
flesh. There's no other God. There's
no room for another God. I fill all things. I'm the God
of all flesh. One true God, one living God
of all flesh, and there can't be any other. He's the God of
all flesh. It's He who made us and not we
of ourselves. He did not come into, or we did
not come into being by chance or evolve from something into
being. The majority of the world, religious
and otherwise, believes this morning in the theory of evolution. They have been driven to believe
that we evolved from something and made progress to the state
that we're in. Oh, no. He's the God of all flesh. We didn't make ourselves. He
made us. God made us. And He's the God
of all flesh. And we rejoice that all flesh
have such a God as this. His sovereign power and without
our aid made us of clay. and formed us men and women and
boys and girls. Is anything too hard for Him? Notice that before the Lord, before
Jehovah God, men are only flesh. They are only flesh. The best
of men are only flesh. Now, we hear about great men. They say they're great men. Newspapers
and history books, conversations, is filled with expressions like that. He's a
great man. She's a great woman. They have
light, knowledge, excellent learning. But I see these great ones, read
about them. I see them being carried out
with all the pomp that the funeral home can arrange. I see their
mourners following along, crying. This man has died with all of
his learning, and I see him being carried out and taken on the
hillside and laid in a home, the home of worms. Put him in the grave where worms
live. That's how great he is. Listen
to me. All flesh is as grass, the Bible
says. All flesh is as grass is to be
cut down, Bob, and it withereth. God, over all and above all,
there's none besides Him, the true and the living God, nothing
too hard for Him, nothing. Salvation. is not a hard thing
for God. We think it is, but it's not. Can you, in your judgment, find anybody beyond the range
of the mercy of God, beyond the bounds of the grace of God? Can
you find one? You say you've got a wicked brother. or a wicked sister, a wicked
father, a wicked mother, a wicked son, or a wicked daughter. Oh,
they're beyond the right. No, they're not beyond the range
of the power of God Almighty. They're not beyond His right.
There's nothing too hard for God. Oh, I think sometimes as
I pray and say, well, I'm just beating the air, I'm just I'm
just wasting time. It's just maybe a waste of time. Nothing's going to take place. God hears me, but maybe it's
not His will. I don't know. I begin to fall
back. But when I'm made to think this,
my brethren and sisters, when this is burned into my heart
here, that there's nothing too hard for God. Salvation is not
a hard thing for Him. He wills it, and it's done. He wills it, and it's so. He said, Let there be light.
My God, this whole universe lit up. He can say to a dead sinner, Live!
And that dead sinner can live. Jeremiah said, Can these bones
live? Can they live? There wasn't even
scattered, wasn't even in a pile, scattered out in the field. Jeremiah
said, Can these bones live? God said, Live! And they lived,
took on flesh and blood. Nothing too hard for God, are
we? Sometimes I think it's too hard
for God for Him to do something for me in the realm of salvation
and my loved ones in France. Not too hard for Him. He made
the heavens and He made the earth and all things therein, and He
solicited no aid or support from anybody, not even the angels.
He did it by Himself, alone by Himself. He reminds me of that
when He says to Jeremiah, I'm the God of all flesh. There's
no other God but Me. Nothing too hard for Me. What about that thief? There's
a thief there in the New Testament, been a thief all of his life,
is a hardened criminal. Not only was he a thief in action,
but he was totally depraved from the bottom of his feet to the
top of his head. There wasn't a sound spot in
him. Never had no thoughts of God, nor God's Son, knew nothing
of the gospel, knew nothing of the way of righteousness. But
our Lord Jesus Christ worked a work in his soul. Our Lord
didn't even have to look at him. And he worked something in his
soul and caused him to cry out, saying, Lord, have mercy on me
when thou comest into your kingdom. Lord, remember me. Just think
of me. My God, it's a trophy of grace,
wasn't it? Not too hard for the Lord. As Saul of Tarsus killed the Christians, many of
them as he could, killed them and had them put in jail, wrought
havoc among the believers, wouldn't let them go, was determined to
cause the name of God to die, the name of the Lord Jesus Christ,
to be blacked out. God unhorsed him. He wasn't looking
for God when God saved him. He wasn't seeking God. He was
seeking people to put in jail who believed on the name of God's
Son. And God unhorsed him. He didn't
turn to God. He didn't make a decision. God
had made a decision before time ever was. And in God's time,
God unhorsed him. And he cried out. He said, Lord,
what wilt thou have me to do? Nothing too hard for God. Take
courage. Man may be a blasphemer, a thief,
adulterer and adulteress. He may be a desperate, loathsome drunkard. He may be a dope fiend. He may be addicted to this and
addicted to that. Nothing's too hard for God, huh? Can you think of anything this
morning that's too hard for God? Can you imagine? Can you conceive,
perceive of anything in the realm of impossibility with God Almighty? You can't think of a thing. Impossibility
is not in the vocabulary of God. It's not under His rule. Impossibility. Lord, I'm the Lord, I'm the God
of all flesh. This God I'm talking about is
the God that every man will have to do. Every man has got somehow
to face Him. Every man, every one of us this
morning here, men, women, boys and girls, got to face Him. Got to face Him! either in time
or face Him in eternity. He's the God of all flesh. You've
got to render unto Him what He demands. And He demands your perfection. And you ain't
got it. But, my soul, it can be had in
God's Son. perfect conformity to His law
can be found in Him. Him, the Lord Jesus Christ, whom
God sent to save desperate, loathsome sinners like you and I. Anything too hard for God, He
can't save you. Yes, He can save you. He can
save you or He can damn you. I'll tell you this, He's the
God of all flesh. And He can do with you as it
pleases Him. He can save you or He can damn
you. He can leave you go. He don't have to do anything
to you. Just leave you go. Leave you go like you're going.
See? Even old Zach knows what I'm
talking about. He knows. God help us. Behold, I'm the
Lord. God of all flesh, anything too
hard for me, and then he goes on. Then he tells Jeremiah here,
he said, I know you made this bargain, sealed this bargain.
You took the evidence of the purchase, both that which was
sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was open. I know you've done all that.
But he said, I'm going to give this city into the hands of the
Chaldeans, into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,
and he'll take it. I'll do that. I'm the God of
all flesh. I do as I please. I do according to my good pleasure.
And the Chaldeans that fight against this city shall come
and set fire on this city and burn it with the houses upon
those roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured
out drink-offerings unto other gods to provoke me to anger."
Judgment's going to fall upon the house of Israel. But I'm
going to tell you this, judgment's going to fall upon the United
States of America, too. Judgment's going to fall, boy.
There's never been, under the economy of God, a country, a
nation, that gets by. God always brings about judgment.
As He brought about judgment on Sodom and Gomorrah, He's going
to bring about judgment on the United States of America. Oh,
how far off from God this nation is! Huh? We just elected the
President of the United States. The President of the United States
who has been proven Womanizer and draft dodger. And we elected him. We elected
him. Appointed homosexuals to be in
his cabinet. And we elected him. We voted
for him. Headed towards socialism. No respect for God. God out of
the schools. God out of this. God out of that.
Judgment is going to fall upon us. You say, well, I thought
you believed that whoever is President of the United States,
God determined that he would be President. That's right. I
believe that. Whoever winds up in that office
will be there because it was in God's time in God's purpose. But God always, at times, not
always, but God at times gives people what they want. And that's
what we want. And judgment is going to fall.
Well, "...offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drinks of
offering unto God, to provoke me to anger. And for the children
of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil before
me, from their youth. For the children of Israel hath
only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith
the Lord. For this city hath been to me as a provocation of
mine anger and my fury from the day they built it, even unto
this day, that I should remove it before my face. Behold, of
all the evil of the children of Israel and the children of
Judah, which they have done to provoke me to anger. They, their kings, their princes,
their priests, their prophets, and the men of Judea and the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, they have turned unto me the back
and not the face, though I taught them, rising up early and teaching
them, yet they have not hearkened to receive instruction. They
have set their abominations in the house which is called by
my name to defile it. They have built the high places
of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause
their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto
Molech, which I commanded them not. Neither came it into my
mind that they should do this abomination to cause Judah to
sin. Now, therefore, thus saith the
Lord God of Israel concerning this city, Whereof ye say, it
shall be delivered into the hands of the king of Babylon by the
sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence. Behold, I
will gather them out of all countries, whether I have driven them in
mine anger, and in my fury and great wrath. And I will bring
them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell there
safely. They shall be my people, and
I will be their God. I will give them one heart and
one way, and they may fear me forever. for the good of them
and their children after them. And I will make an everlasting
covenant with them, and I will not turn away from them to do
them good, but I will put my fear in their hearts, and they
shall not depart from me. I will rejoice over them to do
them good. I will plant them in this land
assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. For thus
saith the Lord as I have brought all this great evil upon this
people, So will I bring upon them all the good that I promised
them. The field shall be brought in
this land whereof ye say it is desolate, without man or beast. It is given unto the hands of
the Chaldeans. Men shall buy fields for money,
and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses
in the hand of Benjamin, and the places about Jerusalem, and
then the cities of Judith, the cities of the mountains, and
the cities of the valley, and the cities of the south, and
I will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord." Nothing
too hard for the Lord. I'll give it to them, but I'll
restore it and reclaim it and give it back. Oh, the God of
mercy, the God of grace, the God of glory. Nothing too hard
for God. Oh, let us trust Him and praise
Him and honor Him by committing our souls to Him. Nothing too
hard for the Lord. Oh, please remember that. Nothing is too hard for God. You can't think of anything that
can hinder Him in doing as He desires. Nothing, nothing is
too hard. He can save your mother and your
father. He can save your wives and your husband. He can save
your children. What He can do for you, He can
do for me. He can save my loved ones and
my children and grandchildren. He can do it. Nothing is too
hard for Him. Seek His face. Seek His face. Join with me in seeking the face
of God on behalf of those that we preach to, those that we love,
those that are far off from God. God can bring them back. God
can go where they are. He's not limited. He can go there
at an instant. And He can work a work in them,
and He can draw them unto Himself. And He can give them repentance,
and He can give them faith, and He can give them grace. He can
turn them, and if He turns them, they shall be turned. Let's pray
to that end. Let's pray to that end. Well,
the Lord bless us.