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<div class="SSN_title">"HE IS ABLE"</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. PAUL'S IMPOSSIBLE REQUESTS.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. That you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The broadness of the love of Christ, It encompasses all of mankind. There is not a single person who is beyond the boundaries of His love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The length of His love. "His mercy endureth forever."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The depth, we see the depths to which Jesus was willing to go to demonstrate that love to us. Being in the form of God and not thinking it robbery to be equal with God to being nailed to the cross by a mocking jeering mob. He went into the depths of hell for you and me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. The height. "As high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His mercy toward them that fear Him." In my lifetime I have seen the Universe grow from four and a half billion light years to somewhere over 15 billion. Every time they revise the estimate upwards, I just think that God's mercy for me has just increased that much more.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. This is to know by experience. He wanted them to experience the vastness of the love of Jesus Christ for you.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. But if it passes all knowledge, how could they know it?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. It is impossible to know it except by experience.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The Psalmist said, "Oh taste and see that the Lord is good."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">8. Now unto Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The second impossible thing that he asked for was that they might be filled with the fullness of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. When Solomon dedicated the temple he said, "The heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain you, how much less this house that I have built." God is so vast that He is outside of space.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. If the Universe is too small to contain God, how could I possibly be filled with the fullness of God?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Jesus said, concerning certain things, "With man it is impossible, but with God, all things are possible."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Now unto Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we could ask or think.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Paul was confident in the ability of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Too often we are looking at our problems in the light of our ability to handle them.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. We are prone thus to faint and despair.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. We measure the seriousness of a situation according to man's power to deal with it. Not with the ability of God to deal with it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. When the Doctor says there is no hope, we are prone to give up hope.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. We are not dealing with the limitations of man, but with the unlimited ability of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. It is so important that we learn to look at things according to God's ability.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. In <a onClick="return mV('Rom',4,1);">Romans 4</a> Paul shares with us the faith of Abraham that allowed him to have a son when he was a hundred years old, and his wife Sarah. Not only was the age a factor, but Sarah had gone through the change.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He considered not his own age or the deadness of Sarah's womb.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Being strong in the faith, he gave glory to God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. He was fully persuaded that what God had promised, He was able also to perform.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. That's it! He believed that God was able to do the impossible.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. MEN WHO SAW MIRACLES BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED IN THE ABILITY OF GOD.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. We already mentioned Abraham, but there was another incident when before his son Issac was married that God asked Abraham to offer his son to God as a sacrifice on a mountain that God would show him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Abraham took the three day journey to that mountain with his servants, and his son Issac.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. When Abraham and Issac left the servants at the bottom of the mountain, Abraham said to them, "You stay here, I and the lad will go and sacrifice and return to you." He was confident that Issac would be coming back with him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. When Issac asked his father where the sacrifice was, Abraham responded, "Jehovah will provide Himself a sacrifice, in the Mount of the Lord it shall be seen."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Abraham bound his son Issac and prepared to offer him as a sacrifice to God. You ask, "How could he do that?"</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">5. God had promised Abraham "Through Issac shall your seed be called." Issac had not yet had any children so Abraham knew that God was able to raise Issac from the dead if necessary to keep His word." In Hebrews we read,</div>
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<div class="SSN_verse"><a onClick="return mV('Hbr',11,19);">HEB 11:19</a> Accounting that God [was] able to raise [him] up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">6. He didn't know how God was going to do it, he just knew that He would, because God keeps His word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">7. Often our problem is trying to figure out how God might do it.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. The three Hebrew children, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, refused to bow to the kings image and were threatened with death in the burning fiery furnace. When the king threatened to throw them in the furnace if they did not bow, they answered, "We are not careful how we answer you in this matter, for the God that we serve is able to deliver us from your burning fiery furnace, and even if He does not deliver us, we still will not bow."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. They believed in the ability of God to deliver, and He did.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. When they were thrown in the furnace it was so hot that the men who threw them in died from the heat. But Nebuchadnezzer looked into the furnace and saw them walking around in the midst of the fire, and beside the three, he saw a fourth man who looked like the Son of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. In the days of Daniel, Darius the king of the Persians was conned into signing a decree that no one could pray to any god or ask a a favor of anyone for a period of thirty days, upon the penalty of being cast into the lions den. When Daniel knew that the decree was signed he ignored it and went to his room and with a window opened toward Jerusalem prayed three times a day.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Daniel's enemies were waiting outside his window and heard him pray and immediately reported the infraction to the king.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. The king loved Daniel and spent the day trying to somehow find a loophole in the decree, but none could be found so according to the law of the Medes and the Persians, Daniel was cast into the lions den. I thought it was interesting that the king assured Daniel that the God that he served would deliver him from the lions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The king spent a sleepless night and in the morning came early to the den of lions and calling down asked in a lamentable voice, Daniel, O Daniel, servant the living God, is your God, whom you served continually, able to deliver you from the lions? He had assured Daniel that he would, now he is questioning as to, did He?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Daniel responded to the king, O king, live forever. My God sent his angel, and shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">D. John the Baptist warned the Jews not to trust in the fact that they were descendants of Abraham, he said that God was able to change the stones into children of Abraham.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">E. The writer of the book of Hebrews said concerning Jesus, that He was able to save to the uttermost all who would come unto God through Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. The ability of Jesus to save.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Save to the uttermost.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Save the most hopeless cases.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. You must come unto God through Him.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">F. Jude in the benediction to his short letter said, "Now unto Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you faultless before His presence with exceeding joy."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. He is able to give you the strength to overcome that sin that has been plaguing your life.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He is able to present you one day to the Father, pure, holy faultless.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. When you one day stand before God as all men will, you will either plead your own righteousness, or you can stand there in the righteousness of Jesus Christ, that has been accounted to you by your faith in Him.</div>
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