Omnipotence
Introduction
This picture is of the newly self-dubbed heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali, looking on as his rematch opponent, Sonny Liston, is weighed in. This is one of the more significant weigh ins in boxing history.
Maybe you have watched video of a weigh in before a boxing match. Typically, each competitor takes the public opportunity to intimidate their opponent. They don a menacing persona, ranging from expressionless to crazed. If you are aware of Muhammad Ali and his theatrics, you probably know which side of the scale he fell on.
The idea of two champions, sizing one another up is an ancient idea. Think David and Goliath.
In Psalm 29, David speaks to mighty ones, or powerful beings. And he calls them to a cosmic weigh in. Yet, unlike a boxer or mixed martial arts fighter, these beings stand no chance. There is no comparison to His power. His power is incomparable.
This morning we continue our series learning about who exactly it is that we worship. Over the course of these few months, we are seeking to answer the question: What is it about God that makes Him worthy of our worship? Why love God?
This morning, we come to the attribute of His omnipotence. In other words, our God is all-powerful. We will first look at what the Bible says about God’s power, and then we will dive into the 29th Psalm.
Please turn in your Bibles to Jeremiah 32:17.
I really lucked out this time by getting the Sunday with the sermon about God’s omnipotence. So many of these attributes are totally foreign to us. While God’s power is beyond our full comprehension, we still can have some power. We understand what power is as a category. If I asked you what power is, how would you define it?
Power is the ability to do or effect something.
So when we say that God is all powerful, we mean that God is able to do or effect anything.
Jeremiah 32:17 NKJV
‘Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.
Multiple times in the Scriptures, God’s People say this with a rhetorical question: “Is there anything too hard for God?”
In other words…
God’s power has no limits
Now, some of these brainiacs in the room might ask a smart question: Well, Pastor Will, if God is all powerful, then He can do anything. So does this mean that God can sin? In short, the answer is no.
The truth is that God cannot do anything. According to Hebrews 6:18, He cannot lie. Well, maybe my wise-guy friends would wonder, if God does not have the ability to lie, how can we say that God is omnipotent, or all-powerful? Isn’t He limited? I think the best way to answer that question here is: God’s inability to lie is because the question is nonsensical. It is nonsensical for He Who is Truth to tell an untruth. It is illogical. It is not a matter of power but of rationality. There is no such thing as God sinning, just as there is no such thing as a square circle.
So the Bible helps us understand that God is not limited by His power, merely by what is logically possible. This means that…
God never fails
The only reason God does not do something is because He does not want to. And friends, that is good news. If God is truly omnipotent, then every promise He has made to us will be fulfilled. He has promised to provide for us. He has promised to protect us. He has promised to guide us. He has promised to purify us. He has promised to ultimately deliver us.
My wife is a baker. No really she is. She is actually pretty good at baking things. Today, she is making some bread for us. What a difference between bread at the store and simple three ingredient bread at home.
I would like to suggest another three ingredient recipe. I hope this shows you why theology is worth talking and thinking about.
I call this a recipe for Christian excitement.
1.God is all-powerful.
2.God is trustworthy to be faithful.
3.God has promised to care for us.
This is what Paul does in Romans 8:
Romans 8:31 NKJV
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:38–39 NKJV
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We have nothing to fear.
Friend, I am not sure what you may be facing. But the most important thing for you to know in this moment is that an all-powerful divine God loves you. And He is able to save you.
Yes, the grave, and even your own rank rebellion against the Father could not prevent the Son from coming to become a man, die, and yes, rise from the dead. Will you stop trusting in your own strength? Will you stop living for your own glory? We are not like Him. In our weakness, we failed to be like Him, and now we are unable to save ourselves. It is only throw His power, demonstrated in Christ, that we can be delivered. Repent of your sin and trust Him so you can know the peace and security of resting in the love of an all-powerful God.
For those who do know His love, remember that He proved His love to you once. No matter what difficulty or darkness you are facing, know that His love for you, and His power have not changed.
It is this God, whom David knew so intimately, that was on his mind as He wrote Psalm 29, so, let us look back to David’s scene at the beginning of the psalm. He speaks to the “mighty ones.” This phrase is used repeatedly throughout the Old Testament. Here it is a likely reference to angelic beings, but we need to understand what that would have meant to David and to his readers in his time. These mighty beings were powerful. They had great strength, and a kind of superhuman glory to them. They were like great kings, and devastating warriors. They were legendary and greater than mere men. They were larger than life.
Throughout history, people have been attracted to such beings: Odysseus, and Achilles, El Cid, King Alfred, George Washington, John Patton, The Lone Ranger, Superman, and our modern superheroes.
For us, we find the concept of the superman fascinating. We primarily think of superheroes as entertainment, and so while some might take it a little too seriously, this concept of a mighty one for a modern person is a little different than it would have been for David and his people. For them, this was a serious thing. These beings were real. And yet, the cannot compare to God. Even they must bow down in worship.
That is what David is hoping will seep into the people’s hearts as they read and sing this Psalm. So he turns from this scene of the mighty ones to another scene of might. In verses 3-9, David describes the scene of a mighty storm.
The forces of nature display God’s awesome power
The following is an excerpt of a story of a hurricane survivor from 2014, Jennifer Lowry, Austin, TX, from a storm in Cabo, Mexico.
My friends and I originally thought we would "ride it out" in our hotel room, and were almost poking fun at the evacuation room that was set up. We figured we would hole up in our room with food and wine and watch movies until the government formally shut down the power grid, as planned and mentioned in the bulletins they were sending us. Everything was going "as planned" for us until about 8:30pm. The sliding glass doors were shaking violently, and then all of a sudden a large portion of a palm tree snapped off and hit our window. It didn't shatter, fortunately, but the scare was enough for us to put all of our things in the bathroom, grab our passports and wallets, and make a beeline for the hotel ballroom. At that point in our room, there was water already starting to gurgle get sucked out of the toilet, and the shower was making a howling noise. It also took 3 of us to pull the hotel door open because of the low pressure suction. (The hotel hallways were partially outside and exposed to the elements.)
By the time we (safely... thankfully) made it to the hotel ballroom, the hotel staff were already running rescue operations to retrieve people from their rooms. They were taking attendance on the hotel room roster, and rescuing accordingly. There was an elderly couple being carried in with blood all over them from being cut by glass, and some other injuries. (None of them major, thanks to the incredible care and rescue effort of the hotel staff.)
The Israelites knew what a storm was like. They had seen it! Just as I could say, the tornado struck and killed three people in Enderlin, and many of you know exactly how far away, Israelites knew where Lebanon was.
The voice of this mighty God thunders and breaks the stout trees of Lebanon, the storm continues down to Mt. Sirion, or Mt. Hermon, where the voice of the Lord in the storm makes a mountain buck like a wild bull. Now, we don’t know what a mountain is like around here. But I hear they are pretty big. For an Israelite, there is a good chance that mountain is the biggest thing they had seen. And yet, God’s voice startles it to jump! Further, the storm proceeds to the desert where God’s voice causes it to quake. The people of ancient Israel had a leg up on us.
“One cannot long read the Scriptures sympathetically without noticing the radical disparity between the outlook of men of the Bible and that of modern men. We are today suffering from a secularized mentality. Where the sacred writers saw God, we see the laws of nature. Their world was fully populated; ours is all but empty. Their world was alive and personal; ours is impersonal and dead. God ruled their world; ours is ruled by the laws of nature and we are always once removed from the presence of God.” A.W. Tozer
David uses the power of the storm to point us to the power of our God. And now shows us the place where this kind of God belongs. On His throne.
God’s power makes Him King over everything
The flood is a symbol of chaos and power, yet God alone sits enthroned over it. Our God is enthroned in power, sitting in dominance over the chaos of the floods.
What were the floods, the symbol of chaos, so the children of Israel? How would an ancient person feel about the seas? Many of us today, with all our knowledge and technology still fear water. And well we should. The seas and oceans are unpredictable. We cannot sea down into them. And, truly, in the wrong place at the wrong time, we stand no chance against them. The flood is the chaos that overwhelms us.
David wanted the people to know that if God had power over the greatest chaos in the world, than He has power over the threat of danger in their lives too. What was true for them is true for us today.
Also, it was true about 1000 years later.
Mark 4:35–41 NKJV
On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.” Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?” And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”
With Jesus, I ask the same question. The God of the storm is for us and He cannot fail. How can we have no faith?
The Psalm begins with David telling the Mighty Ones to “give strength” to God, yet this God, who is worthy of all possible glory, needing no one else, generously shares His power with His people.
God gives His power to His children in Christ
David’s portrait of God as the God of the storm is not just because David appreciates storms. The pagan god Baal, who is the most mentioned false god in the Bible, was said to be the god of the storm. He was the most powerful god of the Canaanites and was said to be the god of fertility because he would bring rain to the crops.
But not only does David contrast Yaweh, the One True God, with Baal in power, he also contrasts Him in His care for His people. Yaweh does not sit enthroned in power, capriciously domineering over terrorized worshippers. He uses His ultimate cosmic power to bring peace to His people. Like our idols of consumerism and self-actualization, Baal was incapable of truly providing for them. Both then for the people of David’s day, and now for us, God is incomparable in His power, but also in how He uses that power to make sure that His people get whatever they need.
Baal demanded that people sacrifice their sons for him. But Yaweh sacrificed His Son for us, and by Jesus’ death and resurrection, makes us into His sons. And even more, as His children, He gives us His power!
Ephesians 1:19–21 NKJV
and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
There is no one like God. Hopefully, we have started to understand this together in our heads. But this Truth of God’s power needs to be understood in our hearts.
How do we go about doing that? I want to suggest two ways in which we can start to grasp what it means for God to be all-powerful.
We must live:
Worshipfully
The ultimate goal of theology is not knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud. Another way of putting it is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung. Sam Storms
David calls the mightiest beings give praise and glory to God. This means that He is calling us to do the same. But what does that look like? What does it mean to worship?
Worship means giving God, “the glory due to His name.” Living as though God is the most valued treasure beyond imagination. Of course, if God is Who the Bible says He is, then that means He is worth everything. There is nothing that we could hold back from Him. We should spend our whole lives learning from Him how we can give Him what He deserves because He is all-powerful and because He uses that power to bless His people.
And truly, it will take more than a lifetime. It will take all of eternity. Can I suggest to start one place? If God is the God of the storm as David describes in Psalm 29, then He is worth learning about. Study Him. Give yourself to becoming a student of God’s Word. That takes time, intention, planning, effort. But what else could be more worth it than Him?
Finally, Christian, let me tell you one more particular way we can respond to these truths in the passage. Live:
Boldly
The God that thunders from the heavens and breaks the sturdiest, most solid trees has promised to care for you. To protect you. To provide for you. As Paul asked, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” We do not have to worry about the return on our investment. It will come to pass. All that He has promised for us is sure because He never fails. His power to take care of you, bless you, and give you peace has no limit! And even more, He has given us the very same power. All that He desires for us to do, we can do in Christ.
Tell someone about Jesus. Take that calculated risk to disciple someone. Live joyfully. Don’t hold back from taking your next steps in following Jesus.
Conclusion
You know why I love our mission statement? Because we truly should have no doubt about whether or not we can do it. God has given us everything we need to take our next steps in following Him. The question is not of can He, but will you? Will you be a part of that? I’d love that.
Discussion Questions
This picture is of the newly self-dubbed heavyweight champion, Muhammad Ali, looking on as his rematch opponent, Sonny Liston, is weighed in. This is one of the more significant weigh ins in boxing history.
Maybe you have watched video of a weigh in before a boxing match. Typically, each competitor takes the public opportunity to intimidate their opponent. They don a menacing persona, ranging from expressionless to crazed. If you are aware of Muhammad Ali and his theatrics, you probably know which side of the scale he fell on.
The idea of two champions, sizing one another up is an ancient idea. Think David and Goliath.
In Psalm 29, David speaks to mighty ones, or powerful beings. And he calls them to a cosmic weigh in. Yet, unlike a boxer or mixed martial arts fighter, these beings stand no chance. There is no comparison to His power. His power is incomparable.
This morning we continue our series learning about who exactly it is that we worship. Over the course of these few months, we are seeking to answer the question: What is it about God that makes Him worthy of our worship? Why love God?
This morning, we come to the attribute of His omnipotence. In other words, our God is all-powerful. We will first look at what the Bible says about God’s power, and then we will dive into the 29th Psalm.
Please turn in your Bibles to Jeremiah 32:17.
I really lucked out this time by getting the Sunday with the sermon about God’s omnipotence. So many of these attributes are totally foreign to us. While God’s power is beyond our full comprehension, we still can have some power. We understand what power is as a category. If I asked you what power is, how would you define it?
Power is the ability to do or effect something.
So when we say that God is all powerful, we mean that God is able to do or effect anything.
Jeremiah 32:17 NKJV
‘Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for You.
Multiple times in the Scriptures, God’s People say this with a rhetorical question: “Is there anything too hard for God?”
In other words…
God’s power has no limits
Now, some of these brainiacs in the room might ask a smart question: Well, Pastor Will, if God is all powerful, then He can do anything. So does this mean that God can sin? In short, the answer is no.
The truth is that God cannot do anything. According to Hebrews 6:18, He cannot lie. Well, maybe my wise-guy friends would wonder, if God does not have the ability to lie, how can we say that God is omnipotent, or all-powerful? Isn’t He limited? I think the best way to answer that question here is: God’s inability to lie is because the question is nonsensical. It is nonsensical for He Who is Truth to tell an untruth. It is illogical. It is not a matter of power but of rationality. There is no such thing as God sinning, just as there is no such thing as a square circle.
So the Bible helps us understand that God is not limited by His power, merely by what is logically possible. This means that…
God never fails
The only reason God does not do something is because He does not want to. And friends, that is good news. If God is truly omnipotent, then every promise He has made to us will be fulfilled. He has promised to provide for us. He has promised to protect us. He has promised to guide us. He has promised to purify us. He has promised to ultimately deliver us.
My wife is a baker. No really she is. She is actually pretty good at baking things. Today, she is making some bread for us. What a difference between bread at the store and simple three ingredient bread at home.
I would like to suggest another three ingredient recipe. I hope this shows you why theology is worth talking and thinking about.
I call this a recipe for Christian excitement.
1.God is all-powerful.
2.God is trustworthy to be faithful.
3.God has promised to care for us.
This is what Paul does in Romans 8:
Romans 8:31 NKJV
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:38–39 NKJV
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
We have nothing to fear.
Friend, I am not sure what you may be facing. But the most important thing for you to know in this moment is that an all-powerful divine God loves you. And He is able to save you.
Yes, the grave, and even your own rank rebellion against the Father could not prevent the Son from coming to become a man, die, and yes, rise from the dead. Will you stop trusting in your own strength? Will you stop living for your own glory? We are not like Him. In our weakness, we failed to be like Him, and now we are unable to save ourselves. It is only throw His power, demonstrated in Christ, that we can be delivered. Repent of your sin and trust Him so you can know the peace and security of resting in the love of an all-powerful God.
For those who do know His love, remember that He proved His love to you once. No matter what difficulty or darkness you are facing, know that His love for you, and His power have not changed.
It is this God, whom David knew so intimately, that was on his mind as He wrote Psalm 29, so, let us look back to David’s scene at the beginning of the psalm. He speaks to the “mighty ones.” This phrase is used repeatedly throughout the Old Testament. Here it is a likely reference to angelic beings, but we need to understand what that would have meant to David and to his readers in his time. These mighty beings were powerful. They had great strength, and a kind of superhuman glory to them. They were like great kings, and devastating warriors. They were legendary and greater than mere men. They were larger than life.
Throughout history, people have been attracted to such beings: Odysseus, and Achilles, El Cid, King Alfred, George Washington, John Patton, The Lone Ranger, Superman, and our modern superheroes.
For us, we find the concept of the superman fascinating. We primarily think of superheroes as entertainment, and so while some might take it a little too seriously, this concept of a mighty one for a modern person is a little different than it would have been for David and his people. For them, this was a serious thing. These beings were real. And yet, the cannot compare to God. Even they must bow down in worship.
That is what David is hoping will seep into the people’s hearts as they read and sing this Psalm. So he turns from this scene of the mighty ones to another scene of might. In verses 3-9, David describes the scene of a mighty storm.
The forces of nature display God’s awesome power
The following is an excerpt of a story of a hurricane survivor from 2014, Jennifer Lowry, Austin, TX, from a storm in Cabo, Mexico.
My friends and I originally thought we would "ride it out" in our hotel room, and were almost poking fun at the evacuation room that was set up. We figured we would hole up in our room with food and wine and watch movies until the government formally shut down the power grid, as planned and mentioned in the bulletins they were sending us. Everything was going "as planned" for us until about 8:30pm. The sliding glass doors were shaking violently, and then all of a sudden a large portion of a palm tree snapped off and hit our window. It didn't shatter, fortunately, but the scare was enough for us to put all of our things in the bathroom, grab our passports and wallets, and make a beeline for the hotel ballroom. At that point in our room, there was water already starting to gurgle get sucked out of the toilet, and the shower was making a howling noise. It also took 3 of us to pull the hotel door open because of the low pressure suction. (The hotel hallways were partially outside and exposed to the elements.)
By the time we (safely... thankfully) made it to the hotel ballroom, the hotel staff were already running rescue operations to retrieve people from their rooms. They were taking attendance on the hotel room roster, and rescuing accordingly. There was an elderly couple being carried in with blood all over them from being cut by glass, and some other injuries. (None of them major, thanks to the incredible care and rescue effort of the hotel staff.)
The Israelites knew what a storm was like. They had seen it! Just as I could say, the tornado struck and killed three people in Enderlin, and many of you know exactly how far away, Israelites knew where Lebanon was.
The voice of this mighty God thunders and breaks the stout trees of Lebanon, the storm continues down to Mt. Sirion, or Mt. Hermon, where the voice of the Lord in the storm makes a mountain buck like a wild bull. Now, we don’t know what a mountain is like around here. But I hear they are pretty big. For an Israelite, there is a good chance that mountain is the biggest thing they had seen. And yet, God’s voice startles it to jump! Further, the storm proceeds to the desert where God’s voice causes it to quake. The people of ancient Israel had a leg up on us.
“One cannot long read the Scriptures sympathetically without noticing the radical disparity between the outlook of men of the Bible and that of modern men. We are today suffering from a secularized mentality. Where the sacred writers saw God, we see the laws of nature. Their world was fully populated; ours is all but empty. Their world was alive and personal; ours is impersonal and dead. God ruled their world; ours is ruled by the laws of nature and we are always once removed from the presence of God.” A.W. Tozer
David uses the power of the storm to point us to the power of our God. And now shows us the place where this kind of God belongs. On His throne.
God’s power makes Him King over everything
The flood is a symbol of chaos and power, yet God alone sits enthroned over it. Our God is enthroned in power, sitting in dominance over the chaos of the floods.
What were the floods, the symbol of chaos, so the children of Israel? How would an ancient person feel about the seas? Many of us today, with all our knowledge and technology still fear water. And well we should. The seas and oceans are unpredictable. We cannot sea down into them. And, truly, in the wrong place at the wrong time, we stand no chance against them. The flood is the chaos that overwhelms us.
David wanted the people to know that if God had power over the greatest chaos in the world, than He has power over the threat of danger in their lives too. What was true for them is true for us today.
Also, it was true about 1000 years later.
Mark 4:35–41 NKJV
On the same day, when evening had come, He said to them, “Let us cross over to the other side.” Now when they had left the multitude, they took Him along in the boat as He was. And other little boats were also with Him. And a great windstorm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so that it was already filling. But He was in the stern, asleep on a pillow. And they awoke Him and said to Him, “Teacher, do You not care that we are perishing?” Then He arose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Peace, be still!” And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. But He said to them, “Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith?” And they feared exceedingly, and said to one another, “Who can this be, that even the wind and the sea obey Him!”
With Jesus, I ask the same question. The God of the storm is for us and He cannot fail. How can we have no faith?
The Psalm begins with David telling the Mighty Ones to “give strength” to God, yet this God, who is worthy of all possible glory, needing no one else, generously shares His power with His people.
God gives His power to His children in Christ
David’s portrait of God as the God of the storm is not just because David appreciates storms. The pagan god Baal, who is the most mentioned false god in the Bible, was said to be the god of the storm. He was the most powerful god of the Canaanites and was said to be the god of fertility because he would bring rain to the crops.
But not only does David contrast Yaweh, the One True God, with Baal in power, he also contrasts Him in His care for His people. Yaweh does not sit enthroned in power, capriciously domineering over terrorized worshippers. He uses His ultimate cosmic power to bring peace to His people. Like our idols of consumerism and self-actualization, Baal was incapable of truly providing for them. Both then for the people of David’s day, and now for us, God is incomparable in His power, but also in how He uses that power to make sure that His people get whatever they need.
Baal demanded that people sacrifice their sons for him. But Yaweh sacrificed His Son for us, and by Jesus’ death and resurrection, makes us into His sons. And even more, as His children, He gives us His power!
Ephesians 1:19–21 NKJV
and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe, according to the working of His mighty power which He worked in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly places, far above all principality and power and might and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age but also in that which is to come.
There is no one like God. Hopefully, we have started to understand this together in our heads. But this Truth of God’s power needs to be understood in our hearts.
How do we go about doing that? I want to suggest two ways in which we can start to grasp what it means for God to be all-powerful.
We must live:
Worshipfully
The ultimate goal of theology is not knowledge, but worship. If our learning and knowledge of God do not lead to the joyful praise of God, we have failed. We learn only that we might laud. Another way of putting it is to say that theology without doxology is idolatry. The only theology worth studying is a theology that can be sung. Sam Storms
David calls the mightiest beings give praise and glory to God. This means that He is calling us to do the same. But what does that look like? What does it mean to worship?
Worship means giving God, “the glory due to His name.” Living as though God is the most valued treasure beyond imagination. Of course, if God is Who the Bible says He is, then that means He is worth everything. There is nothing that we could hold back from Him. We should spend our whole lives learning from Him how we can give Him what He deserves because He is all-powerful and because He uses that power to bless His people.
And truly, it will take more than a lifetime. It will take all of eternity. Can I suggest to start one place? If God is the God of the storm as David describes in Psalm 29, then He is worth learning about. Study Him. Give yourself to becoming a student of God’s Word. That takes time, intention, planning, effort. But what else could be more worth it than Him?
Finally, Christian, let me tell you one more particular way we can respond to these truths in the passage. Live:
Boldly
The God that thunders from the heavens and breaks the sturdiest, most solid trees has promised to care for you. To protect you. To provide for you. As Paul asked, “If God be for us, who can be against us?” We do not have to worry about the return on our investment. It will come to pass. All that He has promised for us is sure because He never fails. His power to take care of you, bless you, and give you peace has no limit! And even more, He has given us the very same power. All that He desires for us to do, we can do in Christ.
Tell someone about Jesus. Take that calculated risk to disciple someone. Live joyfully. Don’t hold back from taking your next steps in following Jesus.
Conclusion
You know why I love our mission statement? Because we truly should have no doubt about whether or not we can do it. God has given us everything we need to take our next steps in following Him. The question is not of can He, but will you? Will you be a part of that? I’d love that.
Discussion Questions
- How would you define power in your own words? Who or what comes to mind when you think of power?
- Other than scale, is God's power different than ours?
- If power is the ability to do or effect something, is God's power limited since He cannot sin?
- Why does David use a storm to illustrate God's power?
- What would the significance of this poetic scene be to people of his day?
- In Psalm 29, "the flood" symbolizes chaos. What kinds of “chaos” feel overwhelming in your life today?
- How should the Truth of God's power and authority over chaos impact our message to the world?
- How does God use His power?
- What are some steps you would take in following Jesus if you had more boldness?
- What are some choices we can make to cultivate bold Christian living based on God's power? How can we support one another to be live more boldly?
- Please read aloud some Scripture where God promises to care for His people.
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