Overcoming All Discouragements: God's Sovereignty and Omnipotency (Free MP3s, Videos, Quotes ...)

• Set no time to the creator of time, for His time is always best. - Samuel Rutherford, most of Samuel Rutherford's works are on the Puritan Hard Drive

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But our God is in the heavens: he hath done whatsoever he hath pleased. - Psalm 115:3, KJV

God's Omnipotence (Free Puritan, Covenanter and Reformation Resources and Christian Quotations)

• Ah Lord God! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee. - Jeremiah 32:17, KJV

Transcendence and Omnipotence of God, by Dr. D.A. Carson, Dr. R.C. Sproul, Dr. Steven Dilday, Stephen Charnock, A.W. Pink, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin, Dr. Brian Borgman, Dr. Bruce Ware, Dr. Curt D. Daniel, Al Martin and Others (Free MP3s)

• omnipotentia: omnipotence, having all power and potency, being all powerful; an attribute of God; omnipotentia indicates the power, or potentia (q.v.), of God ad extra by virtue of which he can do all things that are not contrary either to his will or his knowledge. In other words, the omnipotentia Dei is limited only by the essence or nature of God himself and by nothing external to God. Thus the fact that God cannot do evil, cannot die, and cannot cease to be Father, Son, and Spirit is not a limit on or a contradiction of his omnipotentia. The scholastics agree with Augustine that all such hypothetical acts as would diminish God would be signs of weakness or of a defective willing, not evidences of omnipotence. Since, moreover, God himself is eternally fully actualized (in actu, q.v.) and never in process or in potency (in potentia, q.v.), the potentia Dei, the potency of God, or omnipotentia Dei, refers to the divine activity ad extra and never to a change or a potential for change in the divine essence, which is, by definition, both perfect and immutably so (see immutabilitas). Furthermore, since God’s omnipotence is a potentia, it cannot be a capacity for self-privation, i.e., a deficiency or deficient cause. The divine omnipotence may be further defined as the divine power or potential for the conferring of being and the active governance of all that is. In the former instance, which is the work of creation, the power of God is omnipotentiaabsoluta or potentia absoluta (q.v.), since it observes no prior condition apart from the divine essence itself and operates in relation to the divine knowledge of all possibility (scientia necessaria, q.v.). This omnipotentia absoluta can be referred also to miracles. In the latter instance, which is the work of providence or continued creation (see creatio continuata; providentia), the power of God is omnipotentia relativa sive ordinata, relative or ordained omnipotence, or potentia ordinata (q.v.), since it is bound by laws of its own making and relates to the divine governance of actuality. - Richard A. Muller, Dictionary of Latin and Greek Theological Terms: Drawn Principally from Protestant Scholastic Theology (Baker Academic, 2nd edition, Ebook edition created 2017, pp. 378-379), and p. 208 in the printed book (Fifth Printing, March 2003) (emphases added)

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• And I heard as it were the voice of a great multitude, and as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings, saying, Alleluia: for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth. - Revelation 19:6 (KJV)

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God's Amazing & Awe-Inspiring Attributes In Scripture and the Westminster Confession Of Faith, With Practical Reformation Reformation Applications, By Dr. Steven Dilday (6 Free MP3s), Stephen Charnock, A.W. Pink, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin, Dr. R.C. Sproul and Others

• As holiness is the beauty of all God's attributes, so power is that which gives life and action to all the perfections of the Divine nature. How vain would be the eternal counsels, if power did not step in to execute them. Without power His mercy would be but feeble pity, His promises an empty sound, His threatenings a mere scarecrow. God's power is like Himself: infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; it can neither be checked, restrained, nor frustrated by the creature. - Stephen Charnock on the Puritan Hard Drive

Samuel Rutherford Quotes: God's Omnipotence, Why He Hides Himself At Times, Etc.

• All things (but lying, dying, and denying Himself) are possible to God. - Christopher Neese on the Puritan Hard Drive

Mind Blowing Biblical Prophecy Fulfillments To the Very Hour! God's Omnipotence, Omniscience, Omnisapience, Etc., On Display In the Perfect Historical Fulfillments Of Prophecies, In Revelation, Regarding the Rise, Expansion and Fall Of Islam and Much More, By Dr. Steven Dilday, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, W.J. Mencarow, John Owen, Greg Price, John Calvin, George Gillespie (Westminster Divine), J.A. Wylie, Richard Bennett, John Foxe, David Steele and Others (Free Reformed MP3s, Videos and Books)

• I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee. - Job 42:2, KJV

THE DOCTRINE OF ABSOLUTE PREDESTINATION, BY JEROME ZANCHIUS (SWRB AUDIO BOOK OF 10 FREE MP3s)

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• God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder. - Thomas Watson, on the Puritan Hard Drive

The Attributes of God #2 Decrees of God (God's Purpose With Respect to the Future), by Arthur W. Pink (Free MP3, scroll down to the second free MP3 in the middle column)

   Q. 7. What are the decrees of God?

   A. The decrees of God are, his eternal purpose, according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass.

   Q. 8. How doth God execute his decrees?

   A. God executeth his decrees in the works of creation and providence.

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• When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites, and afterwards throw them into prison. This is the blessedness of a saint; his condition admits of no alteration. God's call is founded upon His decree, and His decree is immutable. Acts of grace cannot be reversed. God blots out His people's sins, but not their names. - Thomas Watson, on the Puritan Hard Drive

Harmonizing Predestination and Human Freedom, With Comments on Jonathan Edwards' Freedom of the Will, by Dr. Steven Dilday (Free MP3)

• In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will: That we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. - Ephesians 1:11-12, KJV

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The Decrees of God (1/2) God from all eternity did freely and unchangeably ordain whatsoever comes to pass, by Dr. Ferrell Griswold (Free MP3)

• Gods decree, in as much as it concerneth man, is called Predestination: which is the decree of God, by the which he hath ordained all men to a certaine and everlasting estate: that is, either to salvation or condemnation, for his own glory. - William Perkins (on the Puritan Hard Drive), A Golden Chaine: or, The Description of Theologie (1608)

The Decrees of God (2/2) - God by the most wise and holy counsel of his own will did freely ordain whatsoever comes to pass, by Dr. Ferrell Griswold (Free MP3)

• You ought to think this way: "Very well, by God's decree the enemy has sent us poison and deadly offal. Therefore I shall ask God mercifully to protect us. Then I shall fumigate, help purify the air, administer medicine, and take it. I shall avoid places and persons where my presence is not needed in order not to become contaminated and thus perchance infect and pollute others, and so cause their death as a result of my negligence. If God should wish to take me, he will surely find me and I have done what he has expected of me and so I am not responsible for either my own death or the death of others. If my neighbor needs me, however, I shall not avoid place or person but will go freely, as stated above. See, this is such a God-fearing faith because it is neither brash nor foolhardy and does not tempt God." - Martin Luther's Works, vol. 43, p. 132, "Whether One May Flee from a Deadly Plague", emphases added. Much by Martin Luther is on the Puritan Hard Drive. 

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Election, Reprobation & Predestination In The Reformed Creeds & Confessions - Refuting The Heresies Of Arminianism & Pelagianism by Dr. C. Matthew McMahon (Free MP3s)

• With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? 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. And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. - Isaiah 40:14-16, KJV

God's Amazing & Awe-Inspiring Attributes In Scripture and the Westminster Confession Of Faith, With Practical Reformation Reformation Applications By Dr. Steven Dilday (6 Free MP3s), Stephen Charnock, A.W. Pink, Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, John Calvin, Dr. R.C. Sproul and Others (Many Free Reformation Resources)

• How foolish is every sinner. Can we poor worms strut it out against infinite power? Oh, that every obstinate sinner would think of this, and consider his unmeasurable boldness in thinking himself able to grapple with omnipotence! What force can any have to resist the presence of Him before whom rocks melt, and the heavens at length shall be shriveled up as a parchment by the last fire! As the light of God's face is too dazzling to be beheld by us, so the arm of His power is too mighty to be opposed by us. - Stephen Charnock (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

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• We are never nearer Christ than when we find ourselves lost in a holy amazement at His unspeakable love. - John Owen(Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)

• On The Mortification of Sin in Believers 1 of 6, by John Owen (Free MP3)
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• "Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death." - John Owen (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)

Hardness of Heart in Christians, Why Hast Thou Hardened Our Heart From Thy Fear? by John Owen (Free MP3), The Grace and Duty of Being Spiritually Minded by John Owen (6 Free MP3) and Much More

• The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men. - John Owen (Works, on the Puritan Hard Drive)

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