Shiloh Com. Church 2-6-2011 God will never bring up the past. He keeps no record of wrongs. Double
Jeopardy applies in Heaven. Once you’ve been tried and forgiven your
Things God Can’t Do offences can never be held against you again.
Intro: Can God make a rock so big that even He can’t lift it? Yes. Can 3. God can never break a promise: His word is true and if he says you
God make the whole world and the heavens in just 7 days? Yes. Can God will be blessed you will be blessed.
turn into a human man and come to earth as a baby boy? Yes. All of these
great and mighty things God can do. There’s a famous camp song that says, Eph. 1:3 says, “Blessed [be] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,
“My God is so big so strong and so mighty there’s nothing our God cannot who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly [places] in
do?” And I would be prone to agree with it. However, I want to raise the Christ:”
idea this morning that there are things that God can’t do; and not only can
he not do these things; but rather: There are things that God simply will not
do. To God the spoken word is binding: Just like when Isaac accidently
blessed Jacob instead of Esau.
1. God cannot have anything to do with Sin. God is Holy, Holy, and
Holy. He is pure, pure, and pure. Living by the spoken word is a challenge worthy of practicing. Simply,
“Do what you say you will do.”
When Jesus and the two angels visited Abram just before Sodom and
Gomorrah was destroyed Jesus could not enter Sodom. He could not enter God will not and cannot go against His word. Even Jesus could not deviate
it because of the great amount of sin. from scripture: He did things simply because, “it is written in Gods word.”
4. God cannot and will not turn his back on Israel. Those who bless
God cannot be tempted by Evil. James 1:13 says, “When tempted, no one Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed.
should say, "God is tempting me." For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor
does he tempt anyone;” Acts: 13:34 says, “The fact that God raised him from the dead, never to
decay, is stated in these words: " 'I will give you the holy and sure
Only because of Christ that we can have a relationship with God. blessings promised to David.”
Bridge and Gap illustration. (Find a table cloth and marker and draw these God made a promise to Israel and the House and line of David and he
on the wall) intends to keep it. The Promised Land promised in the book of Genesis and
the Pentateuch will be given to Israel and we will all see it happen one day
2. God cannot remember sins he has forgiven. in the future.
Hebrews 8:12 says, “For I will forgive their wickedness and will remember Conclusion: One more thing God can’t do: God cannot force you to love
their sins no more.” Him. You have to make that decision and no one else can make it for you.
Psalm 103:12 says, “As far as the east is from the west, [so] far hath he Communion
removed our transgressions from us.”