06/21/23 KNOW GOD'S POWER AND HIS NATURE

06/21/23 KNOW GOD'S POWER AND HIS NATURE

On some subjects, the question is not whether God CAN do a certain thing, but whether God WILL do a certain thing.

There is a difference in God's NATURE and God's POWER.
He has the power to do whatever He chooses to do but His nature determines His actions.
God's nature does not serve His power; God's power serves His nature.
Nature is what God is; Power is how God shows His nature..
God cannot and will not act contrary to His nature.
God cannot lie.
God cannot be tempted with evil and He tempts no man.
God cannot deny Himself.
There are several other things that God cannot do, because those actions are in conflict with His nature.

Sometimes people criticize God's omnipotence by asking if He can make a rock so heavy that He cannot lift it. This is called a Divine absurdity. Some Divine absurdities are concerned more with spiritual issues than with physical or material issues, but they are absurd nonetheless.

It is essential to realize that God sets boundaries for Himself and for the entire universe. His own boundaries are based on His nature and wisdom. For instance, His sovereignty does not rule over His nature. His nature is unchanging and His sovereignty acts according to His nature. He sovereignly gave the power of choice to humans, and He sovereignly provides salvation for man. If man rejects God's salvation, then God justly judges and condemns the rebel. Divine love, mercy, kindness, compassion are in balance with Divine justice. 

Romans 3:21-26 NKJV (see *s)
21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets,
*22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference;
23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
*25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed,
* 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.