Lesson 29: Impossible With Man, Possible With God, part 3

Now comes the second lesson. "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God." I said previously that there are many men who have learned the lesson, It is impossible with men, and then have given up in helpless despair, and lived a wretched Christian life, without joy, or strength, or victory. And why? Because they do not humble themselves to learn that other lesson: With God all things are possible.
 
Your religious life is every day to be a proof that God works impossibilities; your religious life is to be a series of impossibilities made possible and actual by God's almighty power. That is what the Christian needs. He has an almighty God that he worships, and he must learn to understand that he does not need a little of God's power, but he needs—with reverence be it said—the whole of God's omnipotence to keep him right, and to live like a Christian.

The whole of Christianity is a work of God's omnipotence. Look at the birth of Christ Jesus. That was a miracle of divine power, and it was said to Mary: "With God nothing shall be impossible." It was the omnipotence of God. Look at Christ's resurrection. We are taught that it was according to the exceeding greatness of His mighty power that God raised Christ from the dead.

Every tree must grow on the root from which it springs. An oak-tree three hundred years old grows all the time on the one root from which it had its beginning. Christianity had its beginning in the omnipotence of God, and in every soul it must have its continuance in that omnipotence. All the possibilities of the higher Christian life have their origin in a new apprehension of Christ's power to work all God's will in us.


I want to call upon you now to come and worship an almighty God. Have you learned to do it? Have you learned to deal so closely with an almighty God that you know omnipotence is working in you? In outward appearance there is often so little sign of it. The apostle Paul said: "I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, and...my preaching was...in demonstration of the Spirit and of power." From the human side there was feebleness; from the divine side there was divine omnipotence. That is true of every godly life; if we would only learn that lesson better, and give a whole-hearted, undivided surrender to it, we should learn what blessedness there is in dwelling every hour and every moment with an almighty God. Have you ever studied in the Bible the attribute of God's omnipotence? You know that it was God's omnipotence that created the world, and created light out of darkness, and created man. But have you studied God's omnipotence in the works of redemption?

Look at Abraham. When God called him to be the father of that people out of which Christ was to be born, God said to him: "I am God Almighty, walk before me and be thou perfect." And God trained Abraham to trust Him as the Omnipotent One; and whether it was his going out to a land that he knew not, or his faith as a pilgrim amidst the thousands of Canaanites, his faith that said: This is my land, or whether it was his faith in waiting twenty-five years for a son in his old age, against all hope, or whether it was the raising,up of Isaac from the dead on Mount Moriah when he was going to sacrifice him, Abraham believed God. He was strong in faith, giving glory to God, because he accounted Him who had promised able to perform.