WHAT GOD CAN NOT DO.....

*WISDOM FOR TODAY.*

*WHAT GOD CAN NOT DO......"*

*Scripture Treasure.*

Luke 1:37 *For with God nothing shall be impossible.*

*Insight and Highlight.*

What God can not do does not exist.

What God can not do does exist.

They are not contrary but complementary.

*Scripture Commentaries.*

God has not created anyone or anything that is impossible for Him to sustain, transform, or revive.

At the same time, God is not a prisoner of His will and choices. He can both do and undo.

What God can not do does not exist. So also what God can not do does exist.

There are things God can do, and there are things He can not do. Both statements are correct.

However, what God can not do must never be understood to undermine the sovereign and exclusive power of God to do all things.

The following will help us to understand further.

First, Heb 6:18 tells us about God's immutability.

Hebrew says *That by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us:*

This tells us that whether there are things that God can do or can not do, God is unchangeable as God. He remains the same either way and as the Truth in both and all His ways.

Examples of what God can not do are: in addition to the truth that God can not lie, He can not deny Himself, He can not respect persons (He is not a respecter of persons), He can not sin, He can not slumber or sleep, etc.

Second, Heb 6:18 further teaches us what God can not do does not exist and what God can not do does exist must not be seen as contrary to one another but must be seen to complement God's All-powerful nature. Whichever way God takes is the way.

To say there are things that God can do just for the purpose of watering down the truth of what God can not do or vice versa is to conceal, tamper, obstruct or deny God's divine nature or say God is lying as the All-powerful.

It must remain unquestionable that God can do all things.

What He can not do is another way of fulfilling all He can do. They both achieve the ultimate divine purpose of God for His creation.

Third, Christ has all the authority.

He has no limit, Matt 28:18.

Jesus is telling us through the story of Lazarus that there is nothing He can not do. By birth and resurrection of Jesus, God is telling us that He can do all things, ref Lk 1:37.

Fourth, God does as He pleases.

God is sovereign. He can choose to do or not do. Neither of these diminishes God's power over all things, but rather esteems God's power over all things. Ps 115:3 says *But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased.*

Fifth, God is unquestionable.

What He chooses to do or not should be reverenced and revered, not questioned or debatable.

Rom.11:33 says *O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!*

Sixth, what God can do or can not do must not be evaluated by ability but by divinity.

For example, God can not lie, is not an ability not to lie, but His personality, His attribute, His makeup, His divine nature. It is not a choice. He just can not lie. It is who God is as a holy God, 1 Pet 5:16-17, 1 John 3:9.

God is love is who God is. It is not out of ability, 1 John 4:8 and 1 John 4:16:

To try to question what God can do with what God can not do or vice versa is the height of unbelief and a lack of knowledge of God.

We can not explain God's actions or inactions. We can not predict what is in His mind.

Paul says by asking in Rom 11:34 *For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?*

What God can do or can not do is a divine nature exclusive to God only.

He remains God.

*Remorse corner.*

*"....knowledge shall increase*, Dan 12:4. We must, however, not *...question God's wisdom or obscure His cousel...."* Job 38:2; 42:3.

Though we have knowledge of His words, we must know that the knowledge of His ways is too wonderful for us. We can not attain it, Ps 139:6.

*Call to Word action.*

Whichever way, God is God and will remain God forever and ever. While everything and everyone passes away, He remains God.

Eccl 3:14 *l know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him..*

*The Christian clarion duty.*

God has not changed. He remains to do what He wants to do or not.

*Prayer.*

Lord, l remain at Your will and under it.

Let it be Your will to remember and bless me in Jesus name.

Good morning all, and have a blessed day.

God bless you.