MIGHTY GOD

THE MIGHTY GOD - Isaiah 40:12-23

The Christian serves a mighty God. Most believers have no idea just how great and glorious, how amazing and astonishing our God really is.
We recognize that God is one, revealed in three persons, the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
As we look at Isaiah 40, keep in mind that the outline for this chapter comes from Isaiah 9:6. For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
We have already examined our Wonderful Counsellor. As we continue to read and study Isaiah 40, we discover that this wonderful counselor is also, the Mighty God of the universe. He who walked with Adam in the Garden of Eden and He who wept in the garden of Gethsemane was and is Creator of the universe, the Mighty God.
This section of Scripture that Isaiah gives, is an exaltation and glorification of the majestic, marvelous and mighty God that sits upon the throne of the universe.
It is He, who commanded each star in its special orbit, and it is He who gave each of them names. It is this same God that loved you and I enough to leave heaven and die on Calvary for our sins.

THE PREDETERMINED SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD
Our God prepared this world we enjoy. Through His predetermined sovereignty, He planned our eternal salvation through His Son. Let me explain that statement. The holy trinity (God, the Father, God the Son, and God the Spirit) counseled together in eternity pass before the first star was ever created, before the first cherub ever flutter its wings.
There, it was determined that God would create the universe. Within that universe God knew He would create the angelic host, a place called earth and mankind. God knew Lucifer would sin and cause one/third of the angelic host to be cast out of heaven. God knew He would create man and in creating man, God knew man would sin.
But all of this was the predetermined sovereignty of God. God knew that He, the second person of the trinity, would come to earth, wrap Himself in human flesh and live inside the womb of a virgin. He knew that He would live and perform miracles and offer His kingdom to the Jewish people and the world, and He knew that they would turn Him down, reject Him and ultimately have Him nailed to a cross.
Satan rejoiced at Calvary, when Jesus died, thinking he had conquered God, only to discover three days and three nights later that God’s predetermined sovereign will, had been accomplished.
Calvary, proved to be Satan’s Waterloo, and Calvary was where the sins of mankind were paid for, and all who would come to Jesus Christ and receive Him as Lord and Savior, mighty be saved.

THE BRIDE
All of this was necessary for God to complete His ultimate project. He began to put together His bride that would have the privilege of ruling and reigning with Him for 1,000 years.
That marvelous bride would be made from all the cultures and people, of all the nations of the world. When all those cultures and nations and people come to Christ, they do not come to diversify God’s Holy Word. They come to accept Christ, and to conform their lives to one culture, one creed, and one constitution, the Christian creed according to God’s Holy Word. I give you this information for many of God’s people do not understand God’s predetermined sovereignty.
Those of the bride of Jesus Christ were chosen before the foundations of the world (Ephesians 1:4), and called to be conformed to His image (Romans 8:29).
If the unsaved world is to see our mighty God, they will see Him in true believers that make up His Church. They will see our mighty God in our lives, as we stand righteous in an unrighteous world, as we stand holy in an unholy world, as we stand true in a hypocritical world.
You and I can enjoy the fullness of life here and now as we focus on our mighty God, and understand His power, provisions and protection. God does not just offer us life but abundant life through Jesus Christ.
Let us examine three marvelous attributes of our God that should amaze, astound and astonish us.

1 – His Omnipotence: (12)
Isaiah 40:12, Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
The word omnipotent means all powerful, invincible and supreme. What man can lift a Mount Everest? Who can understand the size of this universe? Let’s take a moment and look at the things God has done that all the men in the world, collectively, can not do.
He gathered the oceans of the earth in the palm of His hand. He measured the heavens between his pinky and thumb. He has counted all the dust particles of the earth, and He weighted the mountains in his personal scales.
I cannot count the dust particles on my night stand, much less all the grains of dust in the world, yet, He knows exactly how many there are. He is able to weight the mountains of this world in His heavenly scales, or I might say, God knows to the very ounce, the weight of the earth and as well as the universe.
Let’s calculate for a few moments to see how absolutely awesome our God is.
He gathers the ocean in the hollow of his hand. Who has the biggest hands in the building? How much water do you think you can hold in the palm of your hand? A gallon, a quart, a pint, a half of pint…how about a cup, a half a cup, maybe a quarter of a cup. Well, God gathered 170 million cubic miles of ocean in the palm of his hand. That equals to 187 quintillion gallons, or 187,189,915,062 billion gallons of water that my God gathered in the palm of His hand. (187 with 18 zeros) My God is omnipotent, all powerful.
He measured the heavens between his pinky and thumb. I measured the span of my hand the other day and found it to be a little over nine inches. Just for your information one astronomer informs us that our universe is 93 billion light years across. Light travels at 186,200 miles per second. A light minute is how many miles a ray of light will travel in sixty seconds. A light day is how many miles a ray of light will travel at 186,200 miles per second, in 84,600 seconds. If we calculate the distance light travels in one 24 hour day, we will discover that one ray of light travels 15,735,600,000 miles. Now multiply that by 365, then, multiply that answer by 93 billion and you might have the length of our Universe stretched east to west. Then remember that God measures it between his thumb and pinky. Maybe this might make it a little more understandable: one ray of light will circle the earth over 100 billion times each 24 hour period.
But wait! Another astronomer states that our universe is not 93 billion light years across, but 156 billion light years across. The truth of the matter is this: our universe is not static. It is constantly expanding by 15,735,600,000 miles a day.
Scientist can no more discover the size of the universe than they can figure out God. If you want to stand amazed and in awe of the God of the universe, know that He only reveals Himself to man, in His precious Word. Learn His word and you will know His worth and wonder.
This is our God. He is in charge of all things. He is the one every one of us should submit our lives to.
How dare we moral, finite beings, defy Him or deny Him. How dare we ignore His word, or live a life of ignorance, when He has preserved His precious book that informs us, of who He is and what He has done and what He desires to do in our lives.
Picture a friend of yours who tells you of her love for her man, who is at war, but will come home one day. You visit with her and she tells you she just can’t wait till he comes home. She shows you many letters she as received from him, but you notice that only one or two of them are opened. “Why haven’t you read his love letters?” You ask. Oh, I’m going to, but I have been so busy with my life, I haven’t had time yet. You would surely question this girl’s sincerity and love.
God has graciously given man a life, so man might show honor and respect, and pay tribute and admiration to Him.
It is clear man has failed. That is why my omnipotent God gave the world, His precious Son. Jesus, in return, gave His precious blood for the sins of mankind. To those who ignore God’s precious plan of salvation, they will one day stand before this omnipotent God at the Great White Throne Judgment, where they will lose their souls.
My omnipotent God will judge Satan and his demons and they shall forever suffer in the lake of fire.
He shall judge the wicked infidels and agnostics of the world and they shall also suffer in the lake of fire, forever.
But, sadly, there shall be many religious folks who confess with their mouth but denied God with their hearts (their lives), that will be also cast into the lake of fire forever.
How dare man doubt or question God, now or forever? “God is omnipotent.” My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there’s nothing my God can not do. The mountains are His. The valleys are His. The stars are His handiwork too. He is omnipotent.

2 – His Omniscience: (13-18)
A – God knows all:
There is only one, who is omniscience or knows everything. There is only one, who knows everything about everything. That is Jehovah God. Isaiah 40:13 reads, “Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him?”
You would think Isaiah is being a little cynical here. He says, “Who taught God? Who was God’s teacher?” The answer is simple: Nobody!
Has it ever dawned on you, that nothing has ever dawned on God? He has never had a new thought. He has never discovered a new truth. He never had a beginning.
He has always been and He has always known everything.
Nothing ever takes God by surprise. He has ultimate knowledge and wisdom. He had always known the end from the beginning.
The amazing complex idea and fact that God had no beginning and He will have no ending, should not trouble you. He is God! Man will never completely understand God. There will always be a high and mighty supremacy about our God, that will make man marvel at His might.
We cannot comprehend God’s eternal state, because we are not omniscience. We are not infinite beings like God. We do not know it all.
We know very, very little. The most intelligent journalist, educator, historian or archeologist in the world could not pass God’s K-4 kindergarten class. Yet, many stand behind podiums and write books sowing doubt and denial of our mighty God’s words and works.
To compare man to God, would be like comparing the mind of an ant to man. An ant has never invented ant cars, ant tractors, ant airplanes, and ant underwear or ant shoes. All the ant world can do is live like ants. Man’s inventions compared to God’s creations are no different.
Think for just a few moments about some very simple truths about God’s works.
Did you know that the highest point on the earth is Mount Everest at 29,028 feet? The lowest point is the Dead Sea at 1,302 feet below sea level.
If you were making this earth would you have known to make it of 46.6% oxygen, 8.1% aluminum, 5% iron, 2.8% magnesium, 3.6% calcium, 2.6% potassium and 27.7% silicone with 1.5% of all the other chemicals, for it to exist? God did!
Did you know the weight of the earth is 6,585,600,000,000,000, 000,000 tons? (6,585 quintillion) God does!
Did you know the reason we have seasons is because the earth is tipped on its axis at 23.5 degrees in orbit? God did that, during the flood on Genesis 6. However, in the millennium when God corrects the earth’s axis the whole world will be one perfect climate and temperature again.
Did you know that 100 million tons of dust particles are carried around the world every year and God has numbered every one? Our omniscience God knows all of that and so much more.
He knows you. He knows your love for Him. He knows your burdens. He knows your compassion and needs. He knows your hurts and pains. He also knows your hypocrisies, phoniness, excuses and laziness. Friend, Be honest with God.

B – God changes not:
Isaiah 40:14, With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
God needs not to sit down with any scientist or archeologist, president or governor for direction or instruction. Rather, everyone needs to sit down with God!
His word is more up to date than any ideas or philosophies that will ever come out of man’s mind.
Archeologist and scientist in their proud intellectual state have denied Bible history and facts, until they unearth certain artifacts to prove them wrong and God right. That is because they walk by sight.
I know, beyond any shadow of a doubt, that God’s word is true and science that contradicts God’s word is wrong.
Many have denied the Bible again and again, until they unearth ruins to prove them wrong and God right. Yet, still today, they question God’s existence and creation and judgment. They do so, because they do not know the God of the universe. They do not know the Savior of the world. They do not have His Spirit living inside of them.
I know Him and I shall believe God’s holy Bible over the darken mind of the intellectual fools of our day, any day of the week.
God doesn’t need to change. His methods do not need to change. The weapons of the spiritual warrior, that wins victories today, were the weapons of David and Elijah and Daniel of old. They were the weapons of Paul and James and John. Those weapons were prayer and the word of God. If you want to see your nations, your home, your church, your life change and those who live around you, learn how to use the arsenal of God. Learn to use prayer and the Word.
When religions cry, “We need to change to reach the world,” they have taken the counsel of men and not of God.” If we are to reach the lost world, we must not become like the world but like God.
We must pray with pure hearts, and walk before God according to the holy precepts in God’s Holy Word. We are not to compromise and become like the world. The Bible declares, “God changeth not!”
The world does need change, but it is not the change, whereby we accept the ideas and philosophies of man. It is the change whereby we need to go back and apply the principles and doctrines of God’s word to our lives.
That is the change the world needs! One change will take the world a step closer to God. The other change will take the world a step closer to judgment and to hell.
C – God controls the nations:
Isaiah 40:15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
Isaiah, draws an analogy in verse 15. He is saying the military strength and intellectual ability of the nations of the world, is equivalent to one drop of sea water in a bucket, compared to the omniscience God of the universe, who holds the 170 million cubic miles of oceans in the hollow of His hand.
It is like unto a five-year-old child charging a mile high tidal wave, triggered by a Tsunamis, with a squirt-gun, thinking in his foolish mind, that he could actually turn that monstrous wave back with the water in that plastic gun.
If the United Nations and all the nations of the world, agreed together to go against God’s word, they would be, but fools. They may vote 100% to go against God and God laughs. Man’s word and decisions will never take precedent over “Thus saith the Lord.”
Sadly, the Bible informs us that one day, the whole military strength of the world one day will turn against our God, our Lord Jesus Christ. It will take place at the battle of Armageddon, a valley in the Middle East, in Israel. The nations of the world will gather in this valley and they will unleash their entire arsenal against Jesus Christ and His saints, as Christ comes down from heaven to set up the Millennial Kingdom. This mighty army will be like a man charging hell with a water pistol as foolish man comes against the mighty God of the universe.
When governments and nations and organizations vote down God’s word and kick God out, I stand amazed at their foolishness.
For man to go against God’s Word is like the United Nations taking a vote to stop all the hurricanes and earthquakes in the world.
It is a silly thought, as well as a ridiculous jester. It is silly to the point of stupidity, to think that nations and governments and mortal man will make decisions against God, and His Holy Word. It is silly, idiotic, stupid and asinine.
If I were to take my grandson, Chase, to the zoo and put him in the cage with a huge polar bear or in the cage with a mighty lion, you would think that I had lost my mind or was crazy. You would scream at me and say, “What are you doing, are you a fool; are you an idiot? That animal will kill your child in a moment of time.”
What if I said, “Nonsense, I have educated Chase in the best schools in our country? He has taken karate and judo. He is going to destroy that polar bear? My grandson is powerful and strong.” You know what would happen. One swipe of the bears paw would take my grandson’s life. This is the picture Isaiah is painting. When the nations of the world foolishly think they can put together an army to stop God, it is simply asinine.
Every knee shall bow one day and every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is King of kings and He is Lord of lords.
Today, God allows men to choose to submit to Him or refuse Him. He pleads with them to surrender to Him and to do His will, but He does not force them to do so.
However, one day, Christ will rule and His rule will be law. In that day, man will not have a choice.
Today, we live in the age of grace. God lovingly gave us truth to live by. We can cling to God’s truth with all our hearts, or we can choose to loosely live a life contrary to it, but there is a day coming when my Lord shall rule with a rod of iron. He is God!
Read Isaiah 40:18, To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?
One of the great dilemma’s of man is man has tried to bring God down to his level. Man has tried to make God human. That is why Hollywood has made movies that picture Jesus as fleshly and sinful. Back in the 1960’s man made a movie called, “Jesus Christ, Superstar.” It was a vial and wicked move. All Bible believing, God fearing churches shunned it.
Wicked man wants to make Jesus a mere man. The Bible declares that He was not a mere man; He was the God-man. He was 100% God and 100% man.
He came to save man from his sins, but all who refuse to bow their knee before him in this life-time will bow one day, but that day will be too late. They will bow, only to hear the God of Heaven say, “depart from me, ye that work iniquity, I never knew you.”
Man has changed the God of heaven and tried to make him a fleshly God, like Baal. That is why Solomon records in Proverbs one, that one day God will laugh at man’s calamity, because man has rejected God’s counsel.
Proverbs 1:24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded, 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof; 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Many people ask the question, “How has man rejected God’s council, and his word and his reproof?” When God calls a prophet or preacher to proclaim the truth of this word and man in his pride rejects it, his pride builds and his heart hardens.
Man then proudly, yet ignorantly walks his way and generation after generation walks farther and farther from God. The preachers preach and the prophets shout repent, but man ignores God’s precious Spirit. Then calamity hits. The banks collapse. The economy hits rock bottom. Disaster, fear, terror, sickness, knocks at man’s door. Man, who had so much, now, suddenly, has nothing. Now, he cries out to God for help and God says, I will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh.
What our nation has seen the pass few weeks with the hurricanes, gas prices, bankruptcies and political unrest is but a drop of water in a bucket compared to the torrential downpour of disasters on there way, one day.
Why won’t man turn back to God? Read Isaiah 40:19. The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
20 He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved.
The reason lost religious people will not come to God is they have a graven image of God in their hearts.
Many folks think that they can worship God or serve God with unconfessed sins. They cannot.
Many have formed an image of God in their minds and they do not know the God of the Bible. They do not understand He is holy and righteous and pure.
Some folks think, if I wear a cross with a dead savior on it, or if I wear a special chain with a saint on it, or if I have some beads to pray with, or if I have an angel on my lapel, then I will be closer to God. No friend, the Christian’s God lives in the hearts of His children, not in man-made images. And He fellowships in that heart that is clean and pure.
Many Baptist think, if I go to church on Sunday, I have satisfied my God. Then on Monday through Saturday, their speech and their walk and their lives betray them. Why? They have an image and they know not the God who saves, sanctifies and satisfies. They know not this Mighty God, who will cause all who know Him to stand in awe of His majesty, His might and His magnificence.

3 – He is Omnipresent: (21-23)
My God is everywhere, all the time. He is omnipresent. He hears the words of those in the underground churches of China praying and at the same moment, He receives praise from the cherubs around His throne. He weeps over the fallen on the battlefields of war, and He enjoys our heartfelt worship each time we meet together. He is omnipresent.
He sees us when we are at church and He sees us when we are at home. He hears our every word and, hears our every thought. He sees our secret prayers, our hidden tears and our heavy heart. When we think we are all alone, God is there.
Verse 21 and 22 tells us that God created the universe. He hung the stars. He sits upon the circle of the earth. He is in charge. He lives in your house and if you are saved, He lives in your very life and at the same time, he sits on the circle of the earth.
Isaiah 40: 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
In this day, when some think the world will be destroyed by man, let it be known, that God knows all about global warming and terrorism. He knows about every hurricane, thunderstorm, earthquake and problem in the world. God has not forgotten man, and man will not destroy the earth with emissions from cars and airplanes and plastics and industries. No God hating terrorist will destroy this world.
But, sadly, man has forgotten God and therefore, God will bring His judgments on earth one day with his many plagues. Why? Man, in his foolishness has fashioned a world void of God. God has been removed completely from nearly every government in the world.
In America we still acknowledge Him a little. Thank God! But, all in all, His principles and teachings have been removed from government, society, education and sadly, from most homes and many churches.
God was once the center of all these institutions but most have put the methods of the world before the mighty God of the universe. That void, will bring a storm like this world has never seen.
The true preachers of the world cry today for the Christians to first stop and understand how mighty God is. This world is like a baby in an incubator. God gives us the oxygen we have to breathe. God provides the perfect climate so we can live and exist. If God pulls the plug, we no longer exist. And yet, so many ignore the God who sits on the circle of the earth and stretches out his hand with provisions and protection of our lives and family, every second of every day.
God has proven His power found in verse 23 again and again. Isaiah 40:23 reads, “That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.”
God defeated the Pharaohs and the Caesars. He defeated Nebuchadnezzar, Hitler, Stalin, Saddam Hussein, and now, Kim Jung-il. Our God is in control over the leaders of the earth. He can remove leaders from office and He can put them in office.
God knew where Saddam Hussein was before we found him hiding in a hole like a field rat. And He knows where Bin Laden is, and one day Mr. Bin Laden will meet his maker. God has both Bin Laden and Ahmadinejad in the cross-hairs of His sight.
And though man has made laws that go against God’s Word, the laws of man will be destroyed as well, one day. That is what Isaiah reveals in verse 24.
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
The ultimate goal of the unsaved government of the human race has been to rule without God and they have. Sadly, this very idea has filter down into the many politicians in the America government. Many political leaders want in America a government void of the true God of heaven. The idea has been for many years, kick God out. We can run the government better without God or religion.
After the rapture of the Church, the Antichrist will force mankind to take the mark of the beast or lose their heads. Millions will be slain during that seven year period. Why will so many be killed?
There will be a world church, a world religion at that time. But, that world religion does not worship the Holy God of the Bible. That religion does not preach there is “one way to heaven and that one way is through Jesus Christ and His shed blood.” So, the government and the religion of the world will be attempting to wipe all signs of the true God of heaven off the face of the earth.
But, God says, “It won’t happen.” Ultimately, man will be destroyed and man’s laws will be trashed. As Hurricane Ike trash Galveston, Texas in 2008, and left the streets full of stubble, God will destroy every man-made law.
In that day the whole world will live by the code of one Book: God’s Holy word. God commands us to live that way today, but we have rebelled against God.
So, Jesus will come and set up His kingdom. He will make the law and Jesus will be the law, for He is the omniscience, omnipotent, omnipresent and immutable God. He is the majestic and mighty one.
He is righteous and true. He is just and merciful. He has always done right and He will always do right. Man changes with time, but my Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever. He changeth not!