Psalm 135. Let's read Psalm 135,
verses 5 and 6. This will be our second week
on the attribute of God's omnipotence, God's power. God is almighty.
Here in Psalm 135, verses 5 and 6, For I know that the Lord is great,
and that our Lord is above all gods. Now, in what sense? Well, in every sense. But the
sense he is speaking about here is in verse 6. Whatsoever the
Lord pleased, that did he in heaven, and earth, and the sea,
and all deep places. Now, volumes could be written
and spoken, I know, on this one word here in verse 6. Whatsoever
the Lord pleased, that did he. One of the ways in which we know
that God is almighty is in this verse right here. He does what
he pleases. Now, none of us like to be told,
you can't do that. Even the children don't like
to be told that. You can't do that. We use psychology
on our children sometimes. If we want them to show off just
a little bit, if they're able to do something, able to spell
a word, and we get in front of some of our friends, we ask them
to do it, and they won't do it. And what do we do? We use some
psychology, don't we? You can't do that anyway. And
then they do it. Because none of us like to be
told, you can't do that. But this is the way that God
is eternally different from all His creatures. He can do that. He does as He pleases. There's not a creature that God
made. I don't care if it's an angelic
creature, if it's a human creature. Nobody can say, I do as I please. There's things that we absolutely
cannot do. Paul said, when I would do good,
evil is present with me. None of us here tonight can do
good without evil being present with him. It's impossible. There's
coming a day when we shall, but we can't now. I don't want to
grow old. I don't want to get broken down
and have the pains that I'm starting to have, but I can't help it.
I can't do as I please. So there is no creature here
that can make this statement that He does as He pleases. This is God only who can make
this statement. He says here in verse 5, For
the Lord is great, and He is above all gods. He is above the God of this world,
which is Satan. He is above all rulers of this
world. They are sometimes called gods.
And He is above all idols. Look what He says in this chapter.
Look over in verse 15. And this is what the psalmist
is proving here, that one of the ways in which God is distinguished
from all gods, angels, or governors, or presidents, is that He does
as He pleases. And he's different, he's distinct
from all idols. Look in verse 15. The idols of
the heathen are silver and gold, the works of men's hands. They
have mouths, but what do they do with them? They don't speak
to them. They can't do anything, can they? Now, some people tell
us today that God is like this. Don't they tell us that? That
sure, he has a mouth. Well, sure, he can speak. And
sure, he does speak. But what they tell us is that
he doesn't have the power in his mouth to affect anything.
That when he speaks, he may or may not be heard. But you know, he's almighty.
And when he speaks, he affects things, does he not? He can speak
effectively. And he says they have eyes. But
they see not. Some people don't believe that
God sees everything. They don't believe He sees the end from
the beginning. But He does, doesn't He? The
wicked says, Does God see? Yes, He sees. He has eyes. He's
not like an idol. They have ears, but they hear
not. God's not like that, is He? He
hears the groanings of the soul. The children of Israel were down
in bondage, and they groan in the soul. And the Lord told Moses,
I've heard their groaning. They have breath. They have a
mouth, but they don't have any breath in it. God's not like
that. The Lord has breath. And you
know what? When He breathes on you, He breathes
life into you. He breathed on the disciples
and said, receive you the Holy Ghost. So here, the psalmist
tells us that there's no comparison between God and all His creatures. And here's the distinction between
them. Here's one. God does as he pleases. That's the scripture in it. That's
what he says. He says here in verse 4, look
up here in verse 4. Here's one of the things that
pleased him to do. For the Lord hath chosen Jacob unto himself,
and Israel for his peculiar treasure. Why did he do that? Why did he
choose this nation that was the smallest of all the nations.
They were, after all, a stiff-necked and rebellious people. Why did
He go down there to redeem them and to bring them out with a
mighty hand and great power? Why did He do that? It pleased
Him. It just pleased Him to do it.
He had the power to do it. And here in verse 7 and verse
8, look in verse 8, "...who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both
man and beast, who sent tokens and wonders into the midst of
thee, O Egypt, upon Pharaoh and upon all his servants, who smote
great nations and slew mighty kings, Sihon king of the Amorites
and Og the king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan."
He smote them. He smote them. So, if he's pleased,
he can make a nation his people. Or if he's pleased, he can smite
a nation. But whatever he's pleased to do, that's what he does. And that tells us that he's almighty,
that he's God. He's all-powerful. Job said this
in Job 42, verse 2, I know that you can do anything. Ain't that
what he said? I know that you can do anything. There's a phrase that's mentioned
three times in the Old Testament. It's taught everywhere in the
Scripture. But it's mentioned three places, and I want to show
you the places. And the phrase is this, is anything too hard
for the Lord? I want to show you those places
right quickly. Turn your Bibles over to Genesis chapter 18. And
look here in verse 10. Genesis chapter 18. This is where
the Lord And these two angels, these three men came down to
Abraham while Abraham was set in the tent. And Abraham had
Sarah to go fix a kid for these three men. But one of them was
the Lord Jesus Christ. And he was going to tell Abraham
that Sarah was going to have a son. That's what he was going
to tell Abraham. And look here in verse 10. Genesis
chapter 18 and verse 10. Verse 9, and they said unto him,
Where is Sarah? The Lord said unto Abraham, Where
is Sarah your wife? And he said, Behold, she is there
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 her. 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 with my Lord, being old also? And the
Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall
I of a surety have a child, which I am old? And this is what the
Lord said, Is anything too hard for the Lord? And one year from
this, she had the child, did she not? A woman who was 90 years
old, Abraham 100, and she had the baby. Why? Because nothing
is too hard for the Lord. Look over in Jeremiah, another
place, Jeremiah chapter 32. The other two places that this
exact phrase is mentioned is in Jeremiah chapter 32. And look
here in verse 17. This is where the Lord told Jeremiah
to buy some land and get a deed to it here in Israel, the land
of Israel, because he said, you're going to be carried away into
captivity. You're going to spend 70 years in Babylon, but you're
going to return. You're going to return and possess
this land that you bought. So he was telling the children
of Israel, you're going to be led away, but you're coming back.
You're coming back. Some of them didn't believe it.
They said, this can't be. It's going to be too hard. It's
going to be too hard. Here's what the Lord said, Jeremiah
chapter 32, verse 17. The Lord God, our Lord God, behold,
thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power
and by your stretched out arms. And there is nothing too hard
for thee. Thou showest loving kindness
unto thousands, and recompense the iniquity of the fathers unto
the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God,
the Lord of hosts, is his name." Jeremiah just took his word.
He said, if you say we're coming back in 70 years, then nothing
is too hard for you. Now here it's mentioned again
in verse 27. Look here in verse 27. Behold, I am the Lord, the God
of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for
me? Now that's a question, and the
obvious answer is no. No. And this concept is taught
so many places in the scripture. Let me mention a couple more
to you. It's almost like this, but it's
just a little bit different. Do you remember when the angel
Gabriel came to Mary, the virgin, and said, You're going to have
a child. He's going to be called the Son of the Highest. She said,
How can this be? I don't know a man. And he said,
The Holy Ghost shall come upon you, and the power of the highest
shall overshadow you. That holy thing which shall be
born of you shall be called the Son of God. And then the angel
made this statement, For with God nothing shall be impossible. With God, nothing shall be impossible. And then almost the same words
is found in Matthew 19 where this rich young ruler came to
Christ, remember that? And said, what must I do to have
eternal life? And He said, go give your riches
away. Sell all you have and come and follow Me. And you'll have
life eternal. He went away sad because he had
great riches. Well, the Lord Jesus turned to
Peter and his disciples and said to him, how hardly Shall a rich
man enter the kingdom of heaven? It's hard for a rich man to enter
the kingdom of heaven. Why? He trusts in his riches. He won't give them up for Christ.
But Peter was amazed at this, and Peter said, Who then can
be saved? And the Lord said this, With
men this is impossible. Well, I tell you, to be saved
with man is impossible. I don't care if he's rich or
poor. But he said, with God all things are possible. I love the
way Luke says it. Luke says it like this, the things
which are impossible with man is possible with God. So what
does this tell us? Well, it tells us that God is
almighty. If he does as he pleases in heaven,
and if nothing is too hard for him, and the things that's impossible
with men are possible with Him, then these things tell us plainly
that God is Almighty. He's the Almighty God. I don't
know if you remember the verse we started on when we decided
to have this study. We started on Job, I think it's
the 22nd chapter. Acquaint now yourself with God. Remember that? Acquaint yourself
with God. And that's what we're doing in
this study. And we're finding out some things about God, who
He is, what He is, what He's like. And here we're taught in
these verses that He's almighty. That He's almighty. Now, some
people have asked the question, and it's really a foolish question.
I've got a way that I answer it. I don't know how you answer
it. But when people ask you foolish questions, probably best not
even try to answer it. Have you ever had someone to
ask you, in the light of God being all-powerful, almighty.
They ask this question, can God make a rock that He can't lift? Well, it's impossible to answer
that, isn't it? If you say, yes, He can, He can make a rock, but
it's impossible for Him to lift it, then He's done something
impossible. Do you know how I answer that? With God, all things are
possible. And if they persist, I just say
that's a foolish question. That's a foolish question. Here
is something, though, that we always say. God can do everything. Nothing is impossible with Him
but that which is inconsistent with His holy nature. He can't
do anything that's inconsistent with His nature. Now, what is
it He cannot do? He cannot lie, can He? Hebrews
6 and 18, it's impossible for God to lie. Well, you said nothing
was impossible. Nothing's impossible unless it's
contrary to His nature. Can you think of something else
that's impossible with God? Well, He can't deny Himself,
can He? 1 Peter 2.15, I think it is,
if we believe not, yet He abides faithful, He cannot deny Himself. He can't deny who He is. That's
impossible. There's one other that I like
very well, too. It's in Isaiah 42, verse 4. He cannot fail. He cannot fail or be discouraged. It's impossible for him to do
that. So what is it he cannot do? He cannot do anything that
is contrary to his nature, to his holy nature. Now, there's things that God
can do, God could do, But he's not done. There are many things
that God could do that he has not done. He has not provided
redemption for fallen angels, has he? And he will not, because
he's told us in the Word, their doom is sealed. The lake of fire
is their fate. But that's not a lack of power
in God. He's not been pleased to provide
redemption for every individual human person. He has it. He is not calling everybody effectually
and teaching them the gospel of the grace of God in Christ.
Is it a lack of power? Some would tell us it is. But
the Lord Jesus said this. He said, You have hid these things
from the wise and prudent. And you reveal them unto babes. He's revealed the gospel truths
to babes. But he's hid it from the wise
and prudent. Why does he hide it from the
wise and prudent? Is it a lack of ability to reveal
it? Is it a lack of power on God's
behalf? No, it's not that at all. It's
a lack of will. Even so, Father, for so it seemed
good in your sight." Now, some people tell us God would save
that man, but that man won't let him. God could teach that
man if that man would just let him. But listen, it's not inability
in God. God could teach him if God willed
to do it, could He not? Because God can do everything,
Job said. Nothing is impossible with Him.
But He's not pleased to do it. Even so, Father, for so it seemed
good in thy sight. I've heard some of you pray that
way. When you pray for the salvation even of your own family. Or you've
asked for something that you've been burdened and you pray to
the Lord about it. But I've heard you say, if you're
pleased. If it pleases you, it pleases
you to do it. And that's why the Lord Jesus
said that the Father had hid these things from the wise and
prudent. It wasn't a lack of power in Him. It wasn't His good
pleasure to do it. So He can do a lot of things
He doesn't do. But it's not attributed to His
weakness at all. Because He can do all things.
Now, here's something else. And we've got to this every time.
in our study of the attributes of God. We first looked at Him. We found these things in Him.
If it's holiness, we looked at the Scripture and found out that
God is holy. If He's good, if He's wise, we
look at the Scripture and see these things in God. But we don't
stop there. We want to see Him as He is and
know Him as He is, but we don't stop there. We want to see how
these things relate to us. How does the power of God affect
us? When we study and see Him exalted,
doing as He pleases, in heaven and in the earth and in the sea
and all deep places, how should this truth affect our hearts?
Well, we should stand in awe, shouldn't we? In the fear of
Him. I fear God's power. We fear God's
power, His almightiness. It should lead to to worship,
to trust, to confidence, to hope in Him. It's not like we see
these things in Him and it has no effect upon us. It should
bring us to Him and put our trust in Him. Let me show you what
I'm talking about. Look over here to your left. Look in Psalm 62. When you teach to people, you've
studied the Scriptures, and you teach to people, and it has no
effect upon them, then they've not been taught this truth in
their heart. Anytime that you and I are taught a truth in our
heart, it always has effect upon us. We never leave that truth
and stay the same. David makes the statement here
in Psalms chapter 62, and look in verse 11. It has to do with
God's power, and the context shows us the effects that it
not only had upon Him, but the effects it must have upon us.
Look in verse 11, Psalm 62. God hath spoken once, twice have
I heard this, that power belongeth unto God. All power belongs to
Him. There is no power apart from
Him. The angels in heaven and men upon this earth derive their
power from Him. There is no power but of God.
Don't the Scripture teach us that? All power is of God. He is almighty. David said, I've
heard this. I've heard it twice. In other
words, it was sealed to my heart. Now, how does that affect him?
Well, look up in verse 1 and verse 2. Look at the confidence
that he puts in God. Truly, my soul waiteth upon God. From Him cometh my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation. He is my defense. I shall not
be greatly moved." How could he exercise such confidence in
God? Because he says he is mighty.
He is powerful. Look down in verse 5. My soul. Look here at the hope. Look here
at the trust. My soul, wait thou only upon
God, for my hope, my expectation is from Him. He only is my rock
and my salvation. He is my defense. I shall not
be moved. In God is my salvation, my glory,
the rock of my strength, and my refuge is in God. Trust in
Him at all times, you people. Pour out your hearts before Him.
God is a refuge for us." See the confidence there. See how
he hopes. And what draws this confidence
out of him? What causes him to hope in God?
Why, he says he's almighty. Verse 11, power belongs to God. You can trust Him. You can hope
in this God. As opposed to verse 9, as opposed
to putting your confidence in man. Look what he said in verse
9, Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree
are a lie. We often talk about trusting
in mighty men, but what about trusting in poor people? Shouldn't
trust in anybody, should we? Don't put your confidence in
man. Look what he says. To be laid in the balance is
there altogether lighter than vandalism. Trust not in oppression. Don't trust in oppressive deeds. Don't say vengeance is mine.
I'm going to protect myself. Don't be oppressive to other
people. Don't trust in that. Don't become
vain in robbery. If riches increase, no matter
how you got them, lawfully or unlawfully, don't set your heart
on them. In other words, trust in God. Put all your confidence, all
your hope in God. Why? Power belongeth unto God. So that's what it brings out
of us, isn't it? It brings out this power. It
brings out this confidence in God's power. Now here's the question,
and we'll hurry with this. What does the power of God have
to do with your salvation and my salvation? What does the power
of God have to do with our salvation? Anything? Everything. Everything. Well, let's look
at that then from the Scriptures, okay? Turn with me to 1 Corinthians
chapter 2, beginning in verse 1. 1 Corinthians chapter 2. And begin here in verse 1. Look
at this. And I, brethren, when I came
to you, I came to Corinth, came preaching to you, I came not
with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you
the gospel of God, the testimony of God. For I determined to know
nothing among you, anything, I don't know anything, except
Jesus Christ and Him crucified. And I was with you in weakness
and fear and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching
was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration
of the Spirit and of power." Why? That your faith should not
stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Our faith is not in the wisdom
of men, in the understanding of men, in the trickery of men.
Our faith is in the power of God. And you know sometimes,
right in the face of human arguments and human intelligence, we turn
away and turn back to God and say, God, I don't understand
this. Lord, I don't understand this. But my faith is in You.
My faith is in Your power. They ask us questions today about
evolution. I don't know anything about scientific
terminologies and all that. I can't sit and argue with science
about evolution. But you know something? Our faith
is not in the wisdom of man. More power to our scientists.
I hope they find out all they can about this universe. But
you know who created this universe? You say, Bruce, how do you know
that? Because the Bible says He did it. And men come telling
us this way to be saved and that way to be saved. How are we saved?
By the power of God. Are we not? I'm not ashamed of
the gospel for it is the power of God. That's where our faith
is. Nothing short of miraculous,
sovereign power can save a sinner like us. And this power, this is a wonderful
thing, this power has been given unto our mediator, the Lord Jesus
Christ. This is an amazing thing. There's
a man in heaven. He's glorified. He's in a glorified
body. But he's the man Christ Jesus.
He's the mediator between God and man. And all the power of
God, if you can imagine that, resides in that one man. All power in heaven and earth
has been given unto me." Ain't that what he's saying? In him
dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily. It would be presumptuous
on our part to think that you and I could retain and contain
the power of God. All of God's power? It would
be impossible. But it's in Jesus Christ. As
a mediator, God has put all this power. And you know why He did
that? To save His people. He's put the power of God in
Jesus Christ to save his people. Father, he said, you've given
me all power. Why? That I should give eternal
life to as many as you've given me. And he said he had power
over all flesh. That's the way he put it, wasn't
it? You've given me power over all flesh. And when he says all
flesh, he doesn't just mean our bodies. He means the entire man. Our minds, our understandings,
our affections, our will, He has all power over the entire
man that He could give eternal life to all of His people, all
the elect. Power. And our faith is in the
power of God in Christ. So when you and I consider our
salvation, our own personal salvation, what do we attribute it to? The
love of God in Christ. the grace of God in Christ, covenant
mercies, and we attribute it to the power of God. The power
of God. Now, I've got four scriptures
I want to show you right quickly, and I'm just going to mainly
turn there, and I want you to mark them. You've heard them
all before. In Psalms 110, verse 3, what does the power of God
have to do with any man's salvation? Well, let's answer this quickly
by the Scriptures, okay? Psalms 110, verse 3. Look at this. If you haven't
marked this in your Bible, if you don't mind marking it in
your Bible, you mark Psalms 110, verse 3, because this is so important
when we're talking about our salvation. Look what he says.
This is speaking, of course, of the Lord Jesus. David tells
us that in verse 1. The Lord the Father said unto
my Lord, said unto Christ, Sit on my right hand till I make
your enemies your footstool." And he says here in verse 3,
"...thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power." Now
why? Why did he say they'd be willing
in the day of your power? Because they're not willing before
that. They're His people by election, but they've not yet been saved.
And they don't have a will to come to Him. Now, every one of
us here this afternoon that has come to Christ, and what hope
we have of any man coming to Christ, being willing to be saved
by Jesus Christ, giving ourselves up to Him, we know that it's
impossible for that man to come to Christ, and be willing to
come and be saved by Christ, except it's by Almighty power. There hasn't been anybody that's
ever come to Christ and fell down, as it were, at His feet,
saying, Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner. But God has made
him willing by His power. So what does the power of our
Lord have to do with being saved? Initially. Initially. The will is one of
the first things that must be broken. Must be made willing. If ye be willing and obedient,
ye shall eat the bread of the land. But what does he say? You
will not. You will not. So what has to happen? They have
to be made willing. Made willing. That's the first
thing. So what does the power of God
have to do in salvation? Well, it's the power of our Lord
that makes a man willing. Turn over in Ephesians chapter
1 and mark this if you haven't marked it. We've looked at this
a different time. But Ephesians chapter 1. And look in verse 19. Ephesians
chapter 1 and verse 19. The will must be broken. It must
be made willing. The will is so perverse that
it will not surrender. God never saved anybody. He's
never saved any man. contrary to that man's will.
The scriptures declare it. It's impossible for God to save
a man against his will. He can't do it. That's one thing
he can't do because in his word he says, if you be willing. But
no man ever was willing until God made him willing. Look in
verse 19 of Ephesians chapter 1. Look at this. This has to
do with faith. And what is, Paul said, I pray for you that you
may know what is the exceeding greatness of His power to usward
who believe. How do we believe? According
to the working of His mighty power. We tell everybody, we
tell people all the time, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. And
you shall be saved. You trust Christ. You really
trust Christ. And you'll be saved. He that
believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God. Shannon, I can
tell you that. If you believe that Jesus is
the Christ, you're born of God. Whosoever believes is justified
from everything by which you cannot be justified by the law
of Moses. Then Maya was talking just the other morning about
John 3.36. She made a statement something
about, of course, it's my life. Is she asleep, my my? Mom, wake
her up, would you? She may fall out. Honey, wake
up, I'm afraid you're going to fall out on the floor. She's
talking about different ways people are talking about being
saved. I had her turn over to John chapter 3 and verse 36.
He that believeth in the Son hath everlasting life. He that
believeth not in the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of
God abideth on him. That tells everything, doesn't
it? Only one way, and that's Christ. Faith in Him. So we tell
people this, and we believe this, and knowing all along that nobody
is going to believe to the saving of their soul apart from the
working of God's mighty power in their hearts. This is the
work of God. How many times have you quoted
that? That you should believe on His Son, Jesus Christ. That's
the work of God. So the will broken, made willing,
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. And look in 1 Peter 1. 1 Peter
1 and verse 3. And I'm almost finished. 1 Peter
1 and verse 3. Brother Larry dealt with this
when he was here. Look at this. 1 Peter 1 and verse
3. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ. which according to His abundant
mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection
of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is incorruptible,
undefiled, that fadeth not away, and is reserved in heaven for
you." A reservation that God has made Himself. But how can
He be sure, and how can we have the confidence that we'll keep
that reservation? He tells us in verse 5, "...who
are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation,
ready to be revealed in the last days. The power of God keeps
them. How many people have you and
I seen, especially in the last few years, they leave their profession
of Christ? They basically fall away from
that profession that they've made of Him. And they go out,
and clerks request prayer for them often. They not only don't
come back to here, they never take upon themselves the profession
of Christ again. They usually just live and sin.
But here you and I sit, and we can say with a great deal of
confidence that we are of them who believe to the saving of
our souls, and we will not draw back unto perdition. How can
we say that with any assurance? Because we're kept by the power
of God. That's it. That's faith, by His power. There's the will, the faith,
the keeping. He's brought it all in us. Jude said something like this
when he was teaching us to keep our confidence in the Lord. He
says, "...and to him that is able to keep you from falling,
and to present you unblameable before his glory, his presence,
with exceeding joy, unto the all-wise God, be honor, be majesty,
dominion, and power." Kept by the power of God. One more scripture. In 1 Corinthians 6. 1 Corinthians
6. And look in verse 14. Somebody said three of the greatest
marvels and greatest miracles was one was creation. When God
spoke it out of nothing. What a miracle that was. when
the Son of God became incarnate. The Word was made flesh and dwelt
among us. And all that He did in the days of His flesh. And
the third great miracle, they said, was the resurrection from
the dead. Men who have been buried at sea,
eaten of fish, men who have been eaten of worms, there's not even
any dust left of their bones. They're gone. They're gone. And
for that body to come together, and be resurrected and changed
and made glorious? That's one of the greatest miracles
anybody could ever have in their hearts to think about. How can
that possibly be? Well, he tells us here in verse
14. And God hath both raised up the
Lord, the Lord Jesus Christ, and will also raise up us by
His own power. You see why it's essential for
us to have our confidence in God's power. See what Paul meant
when he says that your faith should not stand in the wisdom
of men, but in the power of God. He has something to do with making
us willing. He has something to do with working
faith in us. He has something to do with keeping us by His
power. And when we leave this world and we've died in faith,
and these bodies are back to the dust, He's got something
to do with bringing them together and raising them from the dead.
One more scripture. Look over in the same book. 1
Corinthians 15. Look at this. He's telling us
here of the characteristics of this body. Look at this. 1 Corinthians
chapter 15. We'll close with this. 1 Corinthians 15 and look in
verse 42. Paul had been talking about the glory of the sun and
the moon and the stars. They differ. and their glory.
One shines brighter than the other. But he says in verse 42,
so also is the resurrection, the physical resurrection of
the dead. It is sown in corruption. That's what we are right now.
When a baby is born, I tell you what, it's born in corruption. We begin to die as soon as we're
born. And then we die and we sure corrupt then. We go back
to corruption. The worms feed upon this body.
Job said, the worm is my father, didn't he? The worm is my father. But look at this. It's raised
in incorruption. When it's raised from the dead,
it will not corrupt anything, and it cannot be corrupted. In
that incorruptible body. Verse 43, it is sown in dishonor,
and if you don't believe a dead person, Have some dishonor about it.
You talk to Wanda. Have you ever been around any
dead people? They're so dishonorable. You
may love them to death, but you ain't going to be around them
long. You know what you're going to do? You're going to put them back
in the ground. It changes the countenance. It changes the appearance.
Everything. Dishonor. It's dishonor. These
poor old, what sort of comical, these pharaohs and these famous
people back in Egypt, they built these big pyramids and they put
them in it and bombed them and all of that to hide them. Now
we've dug them out there and showing their nakedness to the
world while we do all these silly tests. Dishonor. And look at
them. Look at those rotten, putrefied
bodies. But look at this. It's raised
in glory. In glory. A glorious body, just
like the Lord Jesus. And this is one I wanted to say. It is sown in weakness. It is raised in power. Not only
by power. Not only by the power of God
in Christ. The dead shall hear my voice
and they will come for me. But that power is going to be
in them. A glorious, powerful body. There won't be any weakness
like we feel now. There won't be any fatigue like
we feel now. We won't have to depend upon
carnal food now to supply our strength. The power of God. The power of God filling these
bodies. That's why the Lord said they
shall worship and serve Him day and night forever and ever without
any fatigue. That's why there will be no need
of the night there. We won't be tired. It is sown
in weakness. It is raised in power. The power of God. Any questions?