The Power of God!

March 27, 2022

Jesus Christ is the Word of God that spoke and created all things (John 1:1-

14). He is the one who said, “Let there be light…and let us make man in our

own image.” All things happened when he spoke and because of his word

the world is maintained until he speaks it into a new heaven and a new earth

in the paradise of God. This earth and its elements will melt with fervent

heat (2 Peter 3:9-ff). Perhaps knowing this will motivate some to repent, but

it will definitely make the sceptic and the pseudointellectual harden their

heart. As surely as the Word of God to Pharaoh hardened his scientific head

(nothing like what Moses said had ever happened before). According to his

doctors, Moses was a trickster and no one should pay attention to his “Word

from the God of Israel.” In our day, that same God has spoken through Jesus

Christ our Lord (2 Peter 3) and the Holy Spirit inspired Apostles who have

received the same response. Some believed and were baptized (verse 21) and

others hardened their hearts due to pride. They might have been saved by

humbly complying with the Word, but their nature speaks rebellion leading

to destruction. “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall

come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud,

blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural

affection, truce breakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of

those that are good, traitors, heady, high-minded, lovers of pleasures more

than lovers of God; having a form of godliness, but denying the power

thereof: from such turn away (2 Tim. 3).” Such rebellion against the truth

deserves Pharaoh's reward. Our obligation is never-changing, we are to

“preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort

with all longsuffering and doctrine. For the time will come (Now!) when

they will not endure sound doctrine (2 Tim. 4:1-4).” Even though the Word

is able to make dry bones come alive and forever resurrect the dead from sin,

some fight against the grace of God, the gift of Christ, and his gift of the

Holy Spirit.

Dr. Kenneth E. Morrison