Oh, I love that song. It's well
with my soul. If my subject tonight is true,
then nothing's too hard for God. It's well with my soul. Let's
open our Bibles to Genesis chapter 18. And the Lord appeared unto him
in the plains of Mamre, And he sat on the tent door in the heat
of the day. And he lift up his eyes and looked, and lo, three
men stood by him. And when he saw them, he ran
to meet them from the tent door and bowed himself toward the
ground. And said, my lord, if now I have found favor in thy
sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. Let a
little water, I pray you, be fetched. And wash your feet and
rest yourselves under the tree. And I'll fetch a morsel of bread.
and comfort ye your hearts. After that ye shall pass on,
for therefore are ye come to your servant. And they said,
so do as thou hast said. And Abraham hastened into the
tent unto Sarah, and said, make ready quickly three measures
of fine meal. Knead it and make cakes upon
the hearth. And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetched a calf,
tender and good, and gave it unto a young man, and he hasted
to dress it. And he took butter and milk and
the calf which he had dressed and set it before them. And he
stood by them under the tree and they did eat. And they said
unto him, where is Sarah thy wife? And he said, behold in
the tent. And he said, I will certainly
return unto thee according to the time of life. And lo Sarah
thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent
door, which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old.
and well-stricken in age, and it ceased to be with Sarah after
the manner of women. Therefore Sarah laughed within
herself, saying, after I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my
Lord, being old also? And the Lord said unto Abraham,
wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, shall I of surety bear a child,
which am old? Is anything too hard for the
Lord? At the time appointed, I will
return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall
have a son. Then Sarah denied, saying, I
laugh not, for she was afraid. And he said, nay, but thou didst
laugh." We'll end our reading there. Let's bow together in
prayer. Our Father, which art in heaven,
we bow in your awesome presence this evening. We bow thankfully
before a throne of grace. Oh, how thankful we are that
because of our Lord Jesus Christ, because of our sacrifice, because
of our mediator, we can come not before a throne of justice,
but a throne of grace. And sinful men and women like
we are can call the God of heaven and earth our father. Oh, how
thankful we are. It's only because of your mercy
and your grace and your goodness, your power to put away the sin
of your people in justice. Father, we're so thankful. And
father, I beg of you that this evening that you give us the
spirit of worship, that you enable us to hear the gospel mixed with
faith, to with the eye of faith, be able to see our Lord Jesus
Christ. be able to revel in who he is, what he has accomplished
for his people, and rest our souls in him, quit trying to
earn our way to God, and rest in our Lord Jesus Christ, who's
already done all things well. Father, bless us, we pray, for
your great namesake, that we might tonight see the glory of
Christ our Savior, his redemptive glory. And Father, what we pray
for ourselves, we pray for your people who are gathering together
in little groups all around the world tonight to hear word from
thee. Father, bless your word. For
your great namesake, bless your word. And bless your people in
hearing it. And Father, we pray a blessing
for those that you brought into the valley of trouble and trial. We pray for Julie, that you'd
give us some good reports, that you would give the doctors and
nurses wisdom. treating her and restore her
to full health quickly, Father, if it could be thy will. And
others, there's so many of those who are suffering silently in
different places of deep water. Father, give them a fulfillment
of your promise that you'll not leave nor forsake your people,
that you go into the valley with them, that you'd gone before
and give them some understanding that nothing's too hard for thee.
Show your power in delivering and comforting the hearts of
your people, we pray. Again, Father, I beg of you that
you'd give us an hour of worship. Let us see and worship our Lord
Jesus Christ. Exalt his precious name. For
it's in his name and for his sake we pray, amen. All right, I've titled the message
this evening, Is Anything Too Hard for the Lord? Verse 14,
let's read it again. Is anything too hard for the
Lord? At the time appointed, I will
return unto thee. There's no doubt about this.
I will return unto thee. According to the time of life
and Sarah shall have a son. Now this phrase translated too
hard, it does mean something that might be too difficult,
but almost always this phrase too hard is translated wonderful,
wondrous, and marvelous, wonderful and marvelous. Is anything too
wonderful for God to do? Is anything so marvelous that
God can't do it? Well, no, nothing's too difficult
for our God. He has the power to do everything
that he wills to do. And everything our God does is
wonderful. Everything he does is all inspiring. Listen to a few verses I looked
up. Job 9, verse 10. Job says, speaking
here of God, which do great things past finding out. Yea, and wonders. He does wonders without number.
That word wonders is the same word translated too hard here.
Wonders. Psalm 40, verse 5. David says,
many, O Lord, my God, are thy wonderful works. Same word too
hard. Thy wonderful works which thou
hast done, and thy thoughts which are to usward, They cannot be
reckoned up in order unto thee. If I would declare and speak
of them, if I declare and speak of all your wonderful works,
there more than can be numbered. And in Psalm 118 verse 22, the
stone which the builders refused is become the headstone of the
corner. This is Lord's doing and it's marvelous. Same word
too hard. This is marvelous in our eyes.
Now I know that there are Many things, many things that the
Lord has the power to do. You never have to doubt that
the Lord has power to do something. Someone has a disease, I don't
care what it is, I don't care what stage it's in, the Lord
has the power to heal it. He has the power to keep us from
getting sick at all. You could walk right through
an epidemic of bubonic plague or something, you know, never
get sick. If the Lord is pleased, He has the power to keep you
from getting sick. He has the power. to bless His people, to
bless physically and to bless spiritually. He has the power
to do it whenever, wherever they're at. But you know, I can't say
for certain that the Lord's going to do those things. That's why
we pray, don't we? You know, one of the reasons
we pray to our God, there's nothing too hard for Him. Everything's
too hard for us and nothing's too hard for Him. We pray to
the Lord. He has the power to help, the power to intervene
on our behalf. And to say, well, you know, I'm
not going to get sick, whatever disease is going around, I'm
not going to get it, or I've got this disease, but the Lord's
going to heal me. I don't have any doubt about it. Certainly
the Lord's going to heal me because he's got the power to do it.
Well, now that's false faith. You know why it's false faith?
The Lord hasn't promised to do it. I don't know. I mean, he
has the power to do it, doesn't he? Will he do it? I don't know.
But I do know this, everything that the Lord is pleased to Everything
that he purposed and promised to do, he's going to do it. It
shall be done. And I thought about five things
which the Lord has done. These things are marvelous in
our eyes. Only God could do it. And I hope
when you hear these five things, you'll rejoice and you will be
glad to bow down before him and worship him. The Lord has done
these things for his people. And he's gonna continue to do
it until he comes back again to get his people and receive
them to himself. So here's the first thing. Can
God Almighty really appear in human flesh? God who is spirit,
God whom the heavens cannot contain, could he really appear in the
body of a man in the flesh? Look at verse one, Genesis 18.
And the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mamre, And he
sat in the tent door in the heat of the day, and he lift up his
eyes and looked, and lo, three men stood by him. And when he
saw them, he ran to meet them from the tent door and bowed
himself toward the ground and said, my Lord, if now I found
favor in thy sight, pass not away, I pray thee, from thy servant. Don't leave me. Now, one of these
three men is a pre-incarnate appearance of our Lord Jesus
Christ. This is Christ, Jesus Christ,
appearing in the flesh before he was ever born in Bethlehem.
Now is that possible? But that's who it is, because
if you look at verse 10, and he said, I will certainly return
unto thee according to the time of life, and lo, Sarah thy wife
shall have a son. Now only God could say that.
Only God could say, I'm gonna come and give life. This is the
Lord Jesus Christ. And to the human mind, it seems
impossible. How can somebody that's not even
been born, how can he appear in the flesh? How's that possible?
Can that really be? Well, of course it can. Nothing's too hard for God. And
I'll tell you, it's wonderful that he did. This is a wonderful
thing. Christ appearing in our flesh. That's our hope of salvation.
Christ appearing in our flesh, that's our hope of having a representative.
That's our hope of having a sacrifice. Look over at Luke chapter 1.
You know, even how many years later it was from Abraham to
the birth of Christ, after the Savior was born, the Pharisees
would not and could not believe that God would appear in human
flesh. They just said this man can't
be God. They wanted to kill him for blasphemy
saying he was God. And here's their problem. They
didn't understand nothing's too hard for God. But you know, Mary
had the same difficulty when she first heard she's gonna be
the mother of the Lord. Is this possible? Almighty God
born in the flesh? Yes. Look here at Luke 1 verse
30. And the angel said unto her, fear not Mary, for thou hast
found favor with God. And behold, thou shalt conceive
in thy womb and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name Jesus.
He shall be great, and he shall be called the son of the highest. And the Lord God shall give unto
him the throne of his father David, and he shall reign over
the house of Jacob forever. And of his kingdom there shall
be no end. Then Mary said unto the angel,
How should this be? How is this possible? Seeing
I know not a man. And the angel answered and said
unto her, the Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power
of the highest shall overshadow thee. Therefore also that Holy
thing, what shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son
of God. And behold, thy cousin Elizabeth,
she hath also conceived a son in her old age. And this is the
sixth month with her who was called barren. And you think,
how's this possible? How's this virgin going to give
birth to a son? How's this old woman Elizabeth
going to give birth to a son and be the forerunner of Christ?
How's that possible? Verse 37, for with God, nothing
shall be impossible. Oh, that's not impossible for
God. Nothing's too hard for God to cause his son to be born in
human flesh, to be born as a, as a real man. What a wonderful
thing. the son of God, was born in a
barn, barn stable, cow stable, whatever it was, of a Jewish
virgin. Isn't that wonderful? But I'll
tell you something even more awe-inspiring than that. It's
why did God appear in human flesh? He appeared, Almighty God, the
Eternal Father, became a babe of days, appeared in human flesh
so that He could save the worst kind of sinners. Sinners like
you and me. That's why he came. Oh, that's
wonderful, isn't it? That's something that's so wonderful.
Only God could do it. Only God would do it. It's something
that's so wonderful. Only the character of God would
do something so wonderful. Only God who's both merciful
and just. Only God who's both gracious
and at the same time true to his holiness and his justice.
would do something like this to save a sinner from their sin.
Oh, that Christ appeared to save sinners like you and me. That's
marvelous in our eyes, isn't it? Then here's the second thing. Now, is this possible? That a
sinner, a dyed-in-the-wool sinner, could ever be as white as snow? Not just on the outside, but
through and through without any trace of sin in them. Is that
possible? Well, it's impossible for man
to do it, isn't it? You know, we're defiled by sin. I mean, sin's not just like this
dirt, you know, on the outside of us. We're defiled with sin
through and through, just like a cloth that's been soaked in
dye. Once that cloth is soaked in
dye, you can't get the color out. You're not making it white
again. Well, you know, that's us. That's us and our human nature. We've been defiled by sin. And
by our works, we can't make ourselves clean. Look at Isaiah chapter
one. When you look at us, you think
we're a lost cause. If we could see ourselves as
we really are, in our sin, as we are in Adam, we'd think we're
a lost cause. Not possible. But listen, nothing's
too hard for God. Isaiah one verse four, Isaiah
describes us here. Ah, sinful nation. Got people
laden with iniquity. A seed of evildoers. Children
that are corruptors. They've forsaken the Lord. They've
provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger. They're going away
backward. Why should you be stricken anymore?
You'll revolt more and more. The whole head is sick. The whole
heart is faint. From the sole of the foot, even
unto the head. There's no soundness in it, but
wounds and bruises and putrefying sores They've not been closed
up, closed, neither bound up, neither mollified with ointment. Well, that's us, isn't it? That
sounds like a hopeless situation, covered from the sole of the
foot to the top of the head with seeping wounds and bruises and
putrefying, stinking sores. And then look at verse 16. This
is what God says to those people who are from the sole of the
foot to the top of the head, covered with these horrible sores
and diseases and sickness of sin. He says in verse 16, wash
you and make you clean. Put away the evil of your doing
from before mine eyes. Learn to do well. Seek judgment. Relieve the oppressed. Judge
the fatherless. Plead for the widow. How on earth
am I going to do that? How am I going to wash myself?
How can a sinful man like me learn to do good? How is that
possible? I can't do good. Verse 18, come
now, let us reason together, saith the Lord, though your sins
be as scarlet, they should be white as snow. Though they be
red like crimson, they should be as wool. Look over at Psalm
51. We'll see how, how does this
happen? How is this, how is this possible?
How can my sins that are red as crimson, they're just, they're
dyed through and through. How can they become white as
snow? How is it I can be washed and make myself holy? How could I ever be white as
snow? I mean, I know it's not by how hard I try. It can't be
by how sincere I am that I'm made white as snow. That's impossible
for me to do. I hope we realize that. Because
if we realize it's impossible for me to do, now we'll start
resting in Christ. Because nothing's too hard for
God. Look at verse 7 of Psalm 51. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall
be clean. Lord, you wash me, and I shall
be whiter than snow. Oh, if God the Holy Spirit, if
he'll apply the blood of Christ to my heart, if he purges me
with his blood, I'll be clean. I'll be clean. And isn't it wonderful
that God Almighty would slaughter his son and shed his blood to
wash sinners like you and me white as snow? That's why he
did it. Now that's wonderful. Isn't that
wonderful in your eyes? Right, here's the third thing. Can a sinner really be saved
and made perfect? Now we know we can't be perfect. We just, human beings just inherently
know this. I can't be perfect. So what we
do in our minds is we lower the standard of salvation. We lower
the standard of how good do you got to be in order to be saved. Because we know we can't make
ourselves perfect. I mean, we already know it's too late for
that. We've done a real good job of making ourselves guilty,
but we can't make ourselves innocent. We can't make ourselves perfect
now that we've already made ourselves guilty. It's too late. It's impossible. Look at Matthew chapter 19. Well,
it is impossible for you and me. But thank God, nothing's
too hard for the Lord. As the Lord is talking to that
rich, young ruler, He said, all these things have I kept from
my youth up. And I don't think He was lying. I'd say outwardly
He did. I'd say outwardly He kept all
these things. And the Lord, you know how the Lord dealt with
Him. He went away sorrowful. In verse 25, when the disciples
heard it, they were exceedingly amazed. saying, who then can
be saved? Who can be? But Jesus beheld
them and said unto them, with men this is impossible, but with
God all things are possible. Now this rich young ruler, he
was the absolute best mankind has to offer. He had the best
outward righteousness, the best outward morality a human being
has to offer. He's the best that a man could
make himself outwardly under the law. And all it took for
the Lord to show that's not good enough is say one sentence. Sell
everything you have and come follow me. It's all done. It's so easy for the Lord to
show this is not good enough. Now this is what we need to understand.
Salvation is not being as good as we can be. Salvation is not
being as good as this rich young ruler. Salvation is being as
good as God. As good as God. Now no sinner
can do that. We don't have the nature of God.
We can't make ourselves as good as God. Well, thankfully, nothing's
too hard for God. He makes his people perfect. In Christ Jesus, everybody who
believes in Christ Jesus, we're as perfect as God himself. I'll show you that. Look back
in our text. There's a really good picture of this here. We're
all made perfect by our works. were made perfect through faith,
through faith in Christ. Look here in Genesis 18 verse
nine. And they said unto him, where
is Sarah thy wife? He said, behold, in the tent. And he said, I'll
certainly return unto thee according to the time of life. And lo,
Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent
door, which was behind him. Now Abraham and Sarah were old
and well stricken in age. It ceased to be with Sarah after
the manner of women, Therefore Sarah laughed within herself,
saying, After I am waxed old, shall I have pleasure, my Lord,
being old also? And then the Lord called her
on it. And then in verse 15, Sarah denied, saying, I laugh
not. And she said that because she's afraid. You know, you laugh,
and the Lord rebukes you for it. Of course you're afraid.
And he said, No, but you did laugh. There's no question. You
laughed. Now this word translated laugh. I don't know, been a little fuzzed
up about this, I guess. This word translated laugh is
the very same word translated laugh in Genesis 17. Remember,
the Lord came to Abraham and he told Abraham, you're going
to have to have a son. And it says Abraham laughed.
But now it's the very same word translated laugh here. I thought
maybe they'd be two different words, you know. And I thought,
well, why did the Lord rebuke Sarah and not Abraham? Well,
the word it does mean, it's the same word, it has two different
meanings, two very different meanings. It means to laugh in
joy, but it also means to laugh mockingly. And I guess you just
gotta know which one is which. Well, here's how we know that
Sarah's laugh, I don't know if mocking is the right word, but
she just couldn't believe it. This is too good to be true,
this can't be. It was a lack of faith. We know
that because the Lord gently rebuked her for it, didn't he?
Now, who could blame her? Before everybody gets all hard
on Sarah here, who can blame her? Who can? She'd already gone
through menopause. Biologically, it's impossible
for Sarah to have a child. If it had been today, she'd have
gone into all the infertility clinics and all the specialists
everywhere and they'd have told her, Sarah, you can't have a
child. She's 90 years old. I mean, 90
years old. That's pretty tough. Age, start
raising a family, don't you reckon? Jan and I chased after a four-year-old
nephew for a week. I mean, we're so exhausted, we're
still recovering. Imagine doing that when you're
90. Oh, my goodness. You know, doctors don't give
90-year-old women pregnancy tests, because it's just not possible.
It can't happen. I was talking with a nurse yesterday,
and she made this statement. I thought, oh, I'm going to put
that in my notes. She said, when you consider what it takes for
a baby to be formed in the womb and then to have a live birth,
she said, it's a miracle any of us are here. It's an absolute
miracle. And I told her, only God could
do that. She said, you're right. Only
God can give life like that. Well, here's poor old Sarah,
90 years old. She so desperately wanted a child.
You know she wanted a child. Thankfully for Sarah nothing's
too hard for God He did come at that exact time. He said he'd
come and he gave life If you look over I just want to show
you this in Genesis chapter 21 She she gave birth despite her
weak faith she gave birth and when she did she laughed again
21 Genesis 21 verse 5 And Abraham was a hundred years old when
his son Isaac was born again And Sarah said, God hath made
me to laugh, so that all that hear will laugh with me. I didn't
need to look that word up, see what that one means. She's laughing
with joy, isn't she? Oh, the God, he made her to laugh
in joy. Nothing's too hard for God. All
right, that's Genesis. Now look over at Hebrews, Hebrews
chapter 11. Not only did God cause Sarah
to give birth to Isaac, God did something even better to Sarah.
He made her perfect in Christ. Hebrews 11 verse 11. Through faith also Sarah herself
received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child
when she was past age because she judged him faithful who had
promised. Really? Does that sound like
what we just read over at Genesis? She's judging him faithful to
the promise, really? Now I know the word of God doesn't
contradict itself, but why does the writer to the Hebrews seem
to say something so different than the way that Moses described
it in Genesis? Well, I can tell you. The Old
Testament account gives us Sarah as she's seen under the law.
In the New Testament Hebrews, we have a picture of Sarah as
she's seen in Christ and she's seen as perfect. She's seen as
having perfect faith. Now for one of Sarah's brethren
who has such weak faith, that's encouraging to me and to you.
Oh, it's marvelous in my eyes that as weak and sinful as I
am, God sees me as perfect through faith in Christ. By trusting
Christ, not what I am in Adam and not all my works trying to
please God. By faith in Christ, God sees
His people as perfect without flaw. That's a marvelous thing. Isn't that marvelous in your
eyes? All right, here's the fourth thing. Can an unrighteous sinner
ever be made righteous? We read that in Isaiah. to begin the service, the Lord's
talking about these unrighteous people and he's going to bring
his righteousness near, put salvation in this. Now, is that possible? I mean, really, is that just
figurative language? Or is that real? I'm telling
you, it better be real or we have no hope of salvation. And
I know this by our works of the law, we can never make ourselves
righteous. Romans 3 verse 20 says this.
Therefore, by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be
justified in his sight. For by the law is the knowledge
of sin. By our deeds of the law, we can't
make ourselves righteous. All we do when we try to make
ourselves righteous by obeying the law, all the law does is
reveal our sins. Reveal our unrighteousness. Show
us how sinful we are. We can't make ourselves righteous
by keeping it. Now, you and I are in big trouble
unless we have a perfect righteousness. God will never accept us without
it. Sounds to me like we're in deep trouble because we can't
produce one. By the law is the knowledge of sin. Well, thankfully,
nothing's too hard for God. Look at 2 Corinthians 5. 2 Corinthians 5 verse 21. For he, God the father, hath
made him God the son. Sin for us, who knew no sin,
that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Now the scoffer
will laugh mockingly and they'll say, that verse doesn't mean
what it says. The Lord Jesus Christ, he's holy,
so it's impossible for him to be made sin. The sinner is so
unrighteous, it's impossible for a sinner to be made righteous.
This is not talking about something that God does for his people
in the new birth and on this earth. This is talking about
something, you know, in the future, in glory or something. But even
at the cross, Christ was not made sin. This was just a pretend
thing, you know, because that's just impossible that the Son
of God would be made sin. You know what? Sarah thought
it was impossible for a 90-year-old woman to have a child, too, didn't
she? The Pharisees thought it was impossible for Jesus of Nazareth
to be God in flesh. I tell you, just be careful.
Be very careful before we say something's impossible just because
we don't understand it. There are a few things that are
impossible. Not many, but there's a few.
Number one, it's impossible for God to lie. Don't think God's
ever gonna lie. That's impossible. It's impossible
for God to sin. It's impossible for God to commit
iniquity. Everything he does is right and
holy and just. And it's impossible for God to
violate his word. It's impossible. Now, I know it sounds impossible
that the Holy Son of God would be made sin. And you have people
that want to mock this verse and try to kind of pull it down. They don't even, if you ever
notice this, they don't talk about Christ being made sin.
Do they Eric? They say he's a sinner. That's
not what that says. It says he is made sin. Made
sin. It seems that that seems impossible. How could Christ be the sinless
sacrifice and still be made sin? That's impossible. It seems impossible
that a sinner in the flesh could ever be made righteous. Well,
let's not fool ourselves. We're sinners. That's all we
ever do is sin. How can anybody say that we're righteous? That's
impossible. Well, it's not impossible. And you know why it's possible?
Because God did it. God did it. And nothing's too
hard for God, for He hath made him sin for us who knew no sin. That we might be made by his
power, by his power as God, the power of his grace, the power
of his mercy, that we might be made the righteousness of God
in him. The father did it and he said
so. So brother, it's done. I don't
have to understand it. God said it, then it's so. Hebrews 8 verse 12. says, for
I will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities. Well, I remember no more. Now, the father is just, just
and holy and right. How can he remember sins no more? These are sins we committed now.
This is a sin that we are. We committed these things. How
can he not remember those things anymore? Rick is because they're
not there. God made him to not exist. He
put them away by the blood of Christ. And when the father looks
at his elect, you know what he sees? Perfect righteousness,
because that's what he made. That's what he made him because
of the sacrifice of Christ. Now, that's a wonderful thing.
What a wonderful thing Almighty God has done to make a people
like you and me righteous, perfectly righteous. All right, here's
the last thing. Can God really give the dead
life? Physically and spiritually. Now,
can God make the dead to live again? Is that possible? Well,
Sarah's womb was dead, wasn't it? That's the way she's described.
Her womb was dead and she still gave birth to Isaac. Life from
the dead. All right. Preacher, you got
another example of that? Well, there are many, but let
me show you one. Mark 5. You know all the many miracles
our Lord did, raising folks from the dead. But here's a particularly
clear one. Mark chapter 5. Verse 35. While he had spake, there came from the
ruler of the synagogue's house, certain which said, thy daughter
is dead. Why troublest thou the master
any further? No need to do anything else. Your daughter's dead. That's
the end of it. Situation is hopeless. And as
soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto
the ruler of the synagogue, be not afraid, only believe. And he suffered no man to follow
him save Peter and James and John, the brother of James. And
he cometh to the house of the ruler of the synagogue and saith
the tumult and them that wept and wailed greatly. And when
he was come in, he saith unto them, why make you this ado and
weep? The damsel's not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn. And when he put them all out,
he taken the father and the mother of the damsel and them that were
with him, and entered in where the damsel was lying. He took
the damsel by the hand and said unto her, Talitha cumi, which
is being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise. And straightway the damsel arose
and walked, for she was of the age of 12 years, and they were
astonished with great astonishment. Now, it's just impossible for
a dead girl to rise up and walk. That's impossible. Somebody told
me that happened, I wouldn't believe them. I mean, I just
wouldn't believe them. I keep my children away from
them, this person's nuts. I wouldn't believe them. This
girl got up and walked. You know why she did? Because
of who told her to rise and walk. Nothing's too hard for the Lord.
He told her to rise and walk and she did. Now that is unimaginable
power to you and me. How is it that dead flesh can
live again? We can't even define. The body's
living, then it's not. The soul that left it, we can't
even understand everything that happened here. How are you gonna
put that soul back in that body? How are you gonna make the body
live again? The flesh starts immediately
rotting. Because nothing's too hard for God. Isn't that just,
it's unimaginable power, isn't it? Want me to show you something
better? Look at 2 Peter chapter one.
Here's something better. God the Holy Spirit uses the
same power to give spiritual life to dead sinners. 2 Peter
1 verse 3. According as his divine power
hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness,
to the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue,
whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises. that by these ye might be partakers
of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that's
in the world through lust. Now, almighty God has given us
everything that pertains to life. A dead sinner lives because God
gives him everything that pertains unto life, spiritual, eternal
life. And you remember yourself. You
who believe. You remember yourself, don't
you? When you were dead. When you couldn't see. When you
couldn't hear. You couldn't believe. Now you have family. You have
loved ones. You have people at work. You
have people you know. You try to explain the gospel to them.
They can't see. They can't hear. And you can't
make them, can you? I mean, there's absolutely nothing
in this world you can do to make them hear, to make them believe.
We have people sit here every week, don't know the Lord, they're
lost, but they keep coming. And one day, at least I think
I see, a light go on. I think I see something. Don't
say a word. Just wait. Just wait. And so far, every time that's
happened, They'll come to me eventually and tell me I want
to confess Christ in baptism. What happened? I mean, we tried
and tried and tried to get through to that person. And one day they
heard. What happened? Because nothing's
too hard for God. By His divine power, He takes
the preaching of the gospel and gives life where there was none
before. And makes them Get a hold of
your seat now. Partakers of the divine nature.
Joins them to Christ. Gives them the life of Christ. You talk about something unimaginable.
That's unimaginable power. That somebody like you and me
could be made partakers of the divine nature. I can't comprehend
it, but brother, I sure do love it. Don't you? Oh, I love it.
It's marvelous in our eyes. Now just remember this now, in
closing. Is anything too hard for God?
You face problems and difficulties and you're in a situation you
think is hopeless. Hang on a second. Is anything
too hard for God? Not if God said He'd do it, it's
not. It's not too hard for God. Your loved ones that don't know
the Lord, heart just is in such turmoil for them. You keep praying. You keep praying. You keep giving
them a message. Nothing's too hard for God. Is
anything too wonderful for God to do? Aaron, his name's wonderful. Oh, he does wonderful things. You find yourself in a real fix
and you're hurting. Well, will the Lord deliver you?
Will the Lord heal you? I don't know. He hadn't promised
to. I don't know. I'm going to tell you something
he's promised to do. It might be more wonderful and
more miraculous than making you feel better by delivering. Will
the Lord heal you? I don't know. I pray he does.
Will the Lord comfort your heart while you're in the midst of
that trial? While you're in that deep water and that deep, dark
pit? Huh? Yes, He will. You know why I know that? He
promised His grace is sufficient. And when God comforts the heart
of one of His broken-hearted children, and doesn't change
the circumstance, doesn't change the pain, doesn't change the
worry, and He still comforts their heart, oh, that's wonderful. That's
wonderful in my eyes. I hope hearing of Him whose name
is wonderful will comfort our hearts and make us just have
such peace and calm and cast it all on Him. Just quit worrying
about it. Just quit and cast it all on
Him. Nothing's too hard for Him. All
right, let's bow together. Our Father, how we thank You that You revealed
unto us something of who and what You are, the Sovereign God,
who does as He pleases. And, oh, Father, how we thank
You that it's pleased You to make us Your people, to redeem
Your people by the blood of Your Son. How we thank You that it's
pleased You to give life to Your people through the preaching
of the gospel. How we thank You that it's pleased
You Send forth the gospel to reach the hearts of your people,
to teach us, to comfort us, to settle us, and to keep us waiting
on and looking to Christ our Savior. Father, we thank you.
And I pray, Father, that you take your word as it's been preached
tonight through stumbling and bumbling lips, and Father, that
you take not our commentary on it, but your word, and apply
it to the hearts of your people. Father, for your glory. Show
us your glory by saving your people, comforting your people,
the hearts of your people by the preaching of the gospel.
It's in Christ's matchless name we pray and give thanks. Amen. All right, Sean.