Many of us have witnessed the consequences when people fail to fulfill their promises. But all the promises of our omnipotent God are yes and amen in Christ. Today, R.C. Sproul speaks to the absolute reliability of God and His Word.
Now, everybody in this room has had the experience of listening to somebody make idle boasts. “I can do this, and I can do this. Anything you can do, I can do better,” and so on. And we’ve seen people when the crunch comes not have the ability to deliver. And we take that human dimension of idle boasting and project it on God Himself, as if God either were a liar or an impotent weakling. As if God were sitting in His heaven saying, “I’m trying to bring about the redemption that I have promised you. I’m trying as hard as I can. Please be patient with Me, but I have to go through another aerobics program before I can get My arms strong enough to pull off all of those things that I have said I would do.”
But the God that we worship, the God that we believe, has the power. He has the strength to do what He will do. He has the power to fulfill every promise that He has made to His people. And that’s where our faith fails us, I think, and that’s because we don’t know who God is.
