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NASB | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 3:16 ¶ "For God so [greatly] loved and dearly prized the world, that He [even] gave His [One and] only begotten Son, so that whoever believes and trusts in Him [as Savior] shall not perish, but have eternal life. |
Subject: why doesnt god have the power? |
Bible Note: Dear Danny, Not sad at all! I love living in a world where God can and does accomplish everything that He wishes! I serve, adore, and delight in a God Who cannot be thwarted, impeded, interfered with, stymied, blocked, or prevented in the tiniest of details. "Where do you turn if you want to exult in that (the Sovereignty of God)? Answer, turn to the prophet Isaiah. What a vision of God he had! Chapters 43 and 44 are breathtaking in their boast of the absoluteness of God - I! I! I am He, and there is no other god, no other savior, no other rock! I! I! I am the LORD the Holy One of Israel! God's commitment to being God and being known as God is like a thunderclap in these chapters. "If you have found reconciliation with God through the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, then the sheer God-ness of God - the bare, awesome reality that God is - is one of the most wonderful, staggering, and pleasant things in the world. Isaiah was simply ravished by the thought that God is God. And so am I. And I long to see education happen in our homes and in our church that leads to life-transforming exultation through Jesus Christ in the sheer fact that God is God. I love God. And I love to meditate on the nature of God. I cannot separate the delight I have in God as an infinitely holy and loving Being from the delight I have in Him as absolutely sovereign. His being God and His being sovereign are one." --John Piper In Him, Doc |