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Pastor Randy Skeete Sermon Library

Randy Skeete

The Importance of Omnipotence

There is nothing save the selfish heart of man that lives unto itself.

No bird that cleaves the air, no animal that moves upon the ground, but ministers to some other life.

There is no leaf of the forest or lowly blade of grass but has its ministry.

Every tree and shrub and leaf pours forth that element of life without which neither man nor animal could live.

And man and animal in turn minister to the life of tree and shrub and leaf.

The flowers breathe fragrance and unfold their beauty in blessing to the world.

The sun sheds its light to gladden a thousand worlds.

The ocean, itself the source of all our springs and fountains, receives the streams from every land, but takes to give.

The mists ascending from its bosom fall in showers to water the earth that it may bring forth and bud the desire of ages page 20 paragraph 2 What that paragraph is saying on that passage, everything created by God was created to serve something else.

Only the sinful heart of man focuses on itself.

Even in the Godhead, it is the other, because love is other-centered.

That's why the Godhead cannot be 1 person.

Love must have someone on which to pour out itself.

And so we thank God for his love as expressed in the gift of his son.

Thank him for your love for his word that has brought you not only to this place but that has brought you online allowing you to fellowship with us in this way.

I welcome those of you watching who are not Seventh-day Adventists wherever you are thank you very much for your love for the word of God and for your affection for us.

And I ask the God of generosity, the God of goodness, to bless you for your participation with us and to bless you so much that you will feel that divine urge to fellowship with us again.

If there's anyone listening who has contracted the coronavirus, I want you to know I am praying for you and will be praying for you.

We serve a God who says of himself in Exodus 15 26, I am the Lord that healeth thee.

We serve a God of whom it is said in Psalm 103 verse 3, who forgiveth all thine iniquities, who healeth all thy diseases, and of whom the psalmist says in Psalm 01:07 verse 20, he sent his word and healed them.

And so, I'll be praying for anyone who may have contracted the coronavirus that the lord will deliver you and hopefully by that exercise of divine mercy, your heart will be touched to be to come closer to your god because the Bible says we love him because he first loved us.

Our subject for today, the impotence of omnipotence.

Before I get into that, please wherever you are, particularly online, preserve an atmosphere of reverence.

As I said last night, the fact that we're worshipping online does not 1 whit alter the holiness of God.

Whether you worship him at the backside of a mountain as in the case of Moses or in the most holy place as in the case of the high priest or in Solomon's temple or in this building, God's holiness remains the same.

Let us preserve reverence wherever we are.

Favor number 2, pray for me while I'm speaking.

All I want you to say is lord, put your words in that man's mouth.

This is a very earnest and serious request.

Jeremiah chapter 1 verse 9 says, Then the Lord put forth his hand and touched my mouth and the Lord said unto me, Behold I have put my words in thy mouth.

I want God, it's a miraculous thing, The divine God to put his divine word in my mouth of clay.

We have this treasure where in earthen vessels that the glory may be of God.

It has to be God because clay and dirt cannot do this.

And so ask God to give me the words and the right attitude.

And favor number 3, I want you to concentrate and think.

Isaiah 118, come now let us reason together.

Let's reason God is reasonable and he's a reasoning God.

Let's take a look at Jesus Christ Let us go to John chapter 1.

Our subject, the impotence of omnipotence.

John is a very beautiful book and I heartily recommend it to you.

It was written by the man of whom Elowite says he most perfectly of all the disciples developed the character of Christ.

So you are listening to the words of a man who knew Christ intimately by his own choice.

There is nothing to prevent you from being close to Jesus.

John 1 reading from verse 1 I read from the King James Version of the Bible.

In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

Verse 3, all things were made by him and without him was not anything made that was made.

All things will except sin of course were made by him.

If you look at verse 1 we identify 2 personalities.

In the beginning was the word and the word was with God.

The same, that's the word, was in the beginning with God.

But verse 3 says, all things were made by him, not them.

Now let me say quickly this him was working for the Father.

Because Christ is the agent of the Father in creation and in salvation.

But it was Christ himself who did the creating and so the Bible says all things were made by him.

Now focus on this and listen microscopically.

Without him was not anything made that was made.

Nothing can exist except from sin without Christ.

That includes the Sun, the moon, the grass, the atmosphere, the fish, the birds and humanity.

You can then understand why the Bible says in Acts 17 verse twenty-eight, in him we live and move and have our very being in Christ.

In him we live and move and have our being.

Verse 4, in him was life and the life was the light of men.

Verse 14, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us.

So we know the word is referring to Jesus Christ in verse 1.

Verse 14 clarifies that beyond any controversy.

That's why you study the Bible here a little and there a little, line upon line.

It is this approach Adventists use that allows us to come to such correct conclusions on our basic fundamental doctrines.

Now we have just learned a little about Jesus.

Let's add to that by speaking the words of someone witnessing about Jesus.

Let's go to Hebrews chapter 1 and listen to someone talking about Jesus as that person talks to Jesus.

Hebrews chapter 1, Let's read from verse 10.

In Hebrews 1, the father is speaking to the son.

We are allowed to eavesdrop by reading the Word of God.

Verse 8 of Hebrews 1, and I asked my father again to put his words in my mouth as I speak about his exalted Son.

A scepter of righteousness is the scepter of thy kingdom.

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