Seven Things God Cannot Do

Common Sense Commentary: There are seven things, recorded and asserted to, in God's Word (all in N.T.), which God cannot do. All seven are, of course, negative, impossible things, but which might indeed be considered possible by unbelievers or confused, weak Christians. None of them are in the Old Testament.

1. God cannot fail = Matt.19:26 ".... With God ALL things are possible". ............

2. God cannot deny Himself = 2Tim.2:13 "If we believe not...He cannot deny Himself.

3. God cannot save someone twice = Heb.6:4-6 "For it is IMPOSSIBLE for those who WERE ONCE ENLIGHTENED, and HAVE tasted of the heavenly gift, and WERE MADE PARTAKERS OF THE HOLY GHOST, And HAVE tasted the good word of God, and the powers of the world to come, 'IF' (If it were possible that) they shall fall away, to RENEW THEM AGAIN UNTO REPENTANCE: seeing they CRUCIFY TO THEMSELVES THE SON OF GOD AFRESH, and put Him to an open shame." To paraphrase, "IF a truly, Born Again, Christian could fall from grace, and be lost AGAIN, he or she could never again be saved because Jesus Christ would have to be crucified again and therefore put to an open shame because He could not keep them saved the first time". That denigrates the words "saved" and "everlasting". Jesus Himself, said in Jn:3:16, "God...gave His only begotten Son, that WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM should NOT perish, but HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE." If a true Christian "Lost" it, it WAS NOT EVERLASTING after all. Even a "pretending christian" can't lose it because they never HAD it in the first place. Only a person who thinks he is saved, or kept saved, by his good works is fallen away from grace. It happens when someone turns away from the clear teaching of God's word "For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast".Eph.2:8-9. Only that person who thinks they are saved by the "self" righteous works of the law have "fallen from grace" or away from grace. Gal.5:4 "Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace." God is not speaking to true believers here but to those who thought they could be saved by the good works of keeping the commandments and being "good"enough. Nobody is !

4. God cannot be tempted with sin = James1:13 "Let no man say when he is tempted, I
am tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth He any man."

5. God cannot tempt us with sin = James1:13 "...neither tempteth He any man."

6. God cannot lie = Titus1:2 "...eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised
before the world began."

7. God cannot violate His Word = Heb.6:13,17-19 "For when God made promise to Abraham
, because He could swear by no greater, he sware by Himself....Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of PROMISE (us) the immutability of his counsel, CONFIRMED IT BY AN OATH: That by TWO immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, WE might have a STRONG consolation....Which hope we have as an ANCHOR of the soul, BOTH SURE and STEADFAST...."God first made us an ironclad, "blessed hope"promise of forgiveness of sin and eternal life through Jesus Christ. That promise was "immutable" which means "unchangeable". And then, to give us even more assurance, he wrapped the promise in an oath and swore by Himself that the promise was double true. We have here God's absolute PROMISE to keep his PROMISE to us. And then, He reiterates His promise to keep His promise by another assurance, to us,that these two unchangeable PROMISES, one atop the other, of our BLESSED HOPE is an ANCHOR of our souls both SURE and STEADFAST...both certain and eternal. How much more certainty does a Christian need ? How much more eternally secure could we possibly be ? If God "Fore Knew" who would or would not accept Christ as Saviour, before the world began, He could not "Unforeknow" what He "Fore Knew". While you are thinking of this,read Acts 2:23, Rom.8:29, 1 Cor.2:7,2 Tim. 1:9, Titus 1:2, Rev. 13:8

Pass It On. RB