The following is reprinted with permission of The
Timely Messenger
God Can't
By Ed Jeude (St. Louis, MO)
There are many things the
Bible says that God CANNOT do. Here are just a few:
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God can’t LIE (Titus
1:2).
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God can’t CHANGE
(Malachi 3:6).
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God can’t be DARKNESS
(1 1:5).
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God can’t DENY Himself
(2 Tim 2:13).
Even as electric power distribution
lines cannot be “shorted” without being ruined, God’s
LOVE cannot be a basis for disregarding His JUSTICE which demands “...
the soul that sins shall die” (Ezekiel 18:4). As descendants of
Adam, “...ALL have sinned and come short of the glory of God”
(Romans 3:23).
When Eve and Adam sinned, God
already knew how He would handle it, but none of the princes of this
world system knew, “… for HAD they known it, they would NOT
have crucified the Lord of glory” (1 Corinthians 2:8).
Let’s look at the plan
that God already had in mind “before the foundation of the world”
(1 Peter 1:20): “in the beginning already existed the word, and
the word was with God, and the word was God … and the word was
made flesh and dwelt among us” (John 1:1,14). The word, Jesus
Christ, (already qualified as God) stepped through the barrier of
sin and qualified as a man in order to become the “ONE mediator
between God and man, the man Christ Jesus” (1 Timothy 2:5).
Jesus’ sinless life
qualified Him to be “the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of
the world” (John 1:29). The world (system) nailed Him to a cross
because “light is come into the world, but men loved darkness
rather than light because their deeds were evil” (John 3:19).
While on the cross, “The Lord (God the Father) laid on HIM (Jesus)
the INIQUITY of us all” (Isaiah 53:6).
God cannot LOOK ON INIQUITY
(sin) (Habakkuk 1:13), so God turned His face away. The sin bearer
DIED for us and the awful price was paid. If even ONE sin had been
left unpaid, Jesus would still be dead. Think of it!
God cannot GO BACK on His
word but God CAN “declare at this time His righteousness: that
He might be just and the justifier of him who believes in Jesus”
(Romans 3:26). What a wonderful solution to the problem—complete
identification with Christ Jesus, all sins laid to His account and
already marked PAID.
GOD CAN’T force this
solution on you without violating your free will. “He that believes
on Him is NOT CONDEMNED but he that believes not is CONDEMNED ALREADY”
(John 3:18). Remember, GOD CANNOT LIE.