Save
by Dr. Lehman Strauss
3 ABILITY TO
W h e n one studies the personal ity of God, he learns that there are some essential and unique attri butes of deity without which our Lord would cease to be God. For ex ample, the Bible teaches that one of God’s attributes is omniscience. -This is made up of two words. The Latin prefix, omni, means “all.” When cou pled with science, it stands for dll knowledge. There is not one thing that God doesn’t know. Another attri bute is omnipresence. God is every way present in all places at all times. The third is omnipotence. This rep resents the all powerfulness of God. In fact, the ability of God knows no inability. This truism is not debata ble. Millions recite in their creeds every week, “I believe in God the Father Almighty.” Keep in mind that it is a very different thing to live day by day in utter dependence upon the exercise of God’s omnipotence in our behalf. How do you face prob lems, trials, and tribulations? In Matt. 19:26 we read, “With God all things are possible.” The same truth is stated negatively in Luke 1 :37, “With God nothing shall be impossible.” There are many things we humans are unable to do. Luke 18:27 points out, “For the things which are impossible with men, are possible with God.” Jesus said “Without me, ye can do noth ing” (John 15:5). He also said “If ye have faith, nothing shall be im possible unto you” (Matt. 17:20). Oh, the blessedness of discovering our weakness and God’s power! One woman told me she had done all she could to get her husband saved. Now she was just about ready to give up. She needed to learn that God is able to save to the uttermost. She had not yet trusted God for the problem. An
other person told me that she was not able to eat or sleep since the death of her son almost a year pre viously. She had given serious con sideration to suicide. She believed God was able to help her, but she had not committed her particular prob lem to Him. She didn’t trust Him for the help. Because of our lack of faith, we try to meet problems head on with our own strength. How fool ish we are. The Bible tells us clearly the many things God is able to do. We must believe that He will. Take your Bible concordance and note that on the very first page is the little four-let ter word able. Trace it through the Word of God. You will be blessed by such a study, I know. Hebrews 7:25 declares that “He is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing He ever liveth to make intercession for them.” Christ’s priesthood combines two things: intercession and power to save. He is just as able to save now as when He walked along the Pales tinian roadways in the long ago. We talk about saving money, saving property, saving things; Jesus never did. He used the word in connection with saving men from the penalty and power of sin. When Zacchaeus was converted Jesus said, “This day is salvation come to this house . . . the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost” (Luke 19:9-10). The word uttermost ap pears in only one other time in the New Testament. There it is used negatively of the woman who was afflicted by demon power (Luke 13:11). Luke says that she could in no wise lift up herself. Jesus com pletely healed her. So, from the in completeness of the sinner’s spirit- 7
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