Our Almighty God
The Text
Romans 1:15–17 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.
The Devotion
This is the power of God. That God is the only being in the universe who wants to save us, can save us, has the power to save us, and actually saves us.
For the sinner, the wretched, the sick, and the broken-hearted, God is the only one who can save us. He is the only one. Mankind tries its very best to save itself. It can help a little but it does not solve the root issue. Namely, the eternal hole in our hearts. For:
Eccelesiastes 3:11 He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end.
That eternity in our hearts is longing for anything to worship because we are made to worship. But what do we turn to instead? Work, marriages, children, church, religion, money, achievements, new car, new toys, more likes, more followers--what is the end of that? You and I keep seeking out more and more temporal things to fill the eternal hole in our hearts. That is idolatry and it doesn't make sense. Yet, we keep trying.
This is the essence of idolatry:
Matthew 12:43-45 “When an unclean spirit comes out of a person, it roams through waterless places looking for rest but doesn’t find any. Then it says, ‘I’ll go back to my house that I came from.’ Returning, it finds the house vacant, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they enter and settle down there. As a result, that person’s last condition is worse than the first. That’s how it will also be with this evil generation.”
What makes the most sense? We need an eternal and infinite God to fill that hole and make his home in us.
Does God want to save us? Yes!
1 Timothy 2:1–4 First of all, then, I urge that petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for everyone, for kings and all those who are in authority, so that we may lead a tranquil and quiet life in all godliness and dignity. This is good, and it pleases God our Savior, who wants everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Can God save us? Yes!
1 Timothy 2:5–6 For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all, a testimony at the proper time.
Does God save his people from their sins? Yes!
Matthew 1:21 She will give birth to a son, and you are to name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”
Does God have the power to save us? Yes!
Romans 1:15–17 So I am eager to preach the gospel to you also who are in Rome. For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek. For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written: The righteous will live by faith.
How do you know that you are his people? That you are the one he came to save?
John 3:14–15 “Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness, so the Son of Man must be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.
Do you look upon the Christ and believe in him? That means you have been born again.
1 John 5:1 Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father also loves the one born of him.
You are infinitely saved by the Infinite God who has the infinity power to save you from your sins--all of your sins, past, present, and future.
The power to create. The power to destroy. The power raise the dead. The power to heal. The power to save.
That is the Almighty God.
The Scriptures
Genesis 3:15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.
Isaiah 63:1 Who is this coming from Edom in crimson-stained garments from Bozrah— this one who is splendid in his apparel, striding in his formidable might? It is I, proclaiming vindication, powerful to save.
Psalm 113 (CSB)
1 Hallelujah! Give praise, servants of the LORD; praise the name of the LORD.2 Let the name of the LORD be blessed both now and forever.
3 From the rising of the sun to its setting, let the name of the LORD be praised.
4 The LORD is exalted above all the nations, his glory above the heavens.
5 Who is like the LORD our God— the one enthroned on high,
6 who stoops down to look on the heavens and the earth?
7 He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the trash heap
8 in order to seat them with nobles— with the nobles of his people.
9 He gives the childless woman a household, making her the joyful mother of children. Hallelujah!
Genesis 49:24 Yet his bow remained steady, and his strong arms were made agile by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, by the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,
Exodus 15:10 But you blew with your breath, and the sea covered them. They sank like lead in the mighty waters.
Deuteronomy 3:24 Lord GOD, you have begun to show your greatness and your strong hand to your servant, for what god is there in heaven or on earth who can perform deeds and mighty acts like yours?
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords, the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God, showing no partiality and taking no bribe.
Deuteronomy 34:12 and for all the mighty acts of power and terrifying deeds that Moses performed in the sight of all Israel.
Joshua 6:5 When there is a prolonged blast of the horn and you hear its sound, have all the troops give a mighty shout. Then the city wall will collapse, and the troops will advance, eaChronicles man straight ahead.”
Joshua 22:22 “The Mighty One, God, the LORD! The Mighty One, God, the LORD! He knows, and may Israel also know. Do not spare us today, if it was in rebellion or treachery against the LORD
2 Samuel 1:19 The splendor of Israel lies slain on your heights. How the mighty have fallen!
2 Samuel 1:21 Mountains of Gilboa, let no dew or rain be on you, or fields of offerings, for there the shield of the mighty was defiled— the shield of Saul, no longer anointed with oil.
2 Samuel 1:22 Jonathan’s bow never retreated, Saul’s sword never returned unstained, from the blood of the slain, from the flesh of the mighty.
2 Samuel 1:25 How the mighty have fallen in the thick of battle! Jonathan lies slain on your heights.
2 Samuel 1:27 How the mighty have fallen and the weapons of war have perished!
1 Kings 19:11 Then he said, “Go out and stand on the mountain in the LORD’s presence.” At that moment, the LORD passed by. A great and mighty wind was tearing at the mountains and was shattering cliffs before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
2 Kings 8:13 Hazael said, “How could your servant, a mere dog, do suChronicles a mighty deed?” Elisha answered, “The LORD has shown me that you will be king over Aram.”
1 Chronicles 27:6 This Benaiah was a mighty man among the Thirty and over the Thirty, and his son Ammizabad was in charge of his division.
1 Chronicles 29:24 All the leaders and the mighty men, and all of King David’s sons as well, pledged their allegiance to King Solomon.
2 Chronicles 13:3 Abijah set his army of warriors in order with four hundred thousand fit young men. Jeroboam arranged his mighty army of eight hundred thousand fit young men in battle formation against him.
2 Chronicles 13:17 Then Abijah and his people struck them with a mighty blow, and five hundred thousand fit young men of Israel were killed.
2 Chronicles 14:11 Then Asa cried out to the LORD his God, “LORD, there is no one besides you to help the mighty and those without strength. Help us, LORD our God, for we depend on you, and in your name we have come against this large army. LORD, you are our God. Do not let a mere mortal hinder you.”
Nehemiah 9:32 So now, our God—the great, mighty, and awe-inspiring God who keeps his gracious covenant— do not view lightly all the hardships that have afflicted us, our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all your people, from the days of the Assyrian kings until today.
Job 24:22 Yet God drags away the mighty by his power; when he rises up, they have no assurance of life.
Job 26:14 These are but the fringes of his ways; how faint is the word we hear of him! Who can understand his mighty thunder?
Job 34:17 Could one who hates justice govern the world? Will you condemn the mighty Righteous One,
Job 34:20 They die suddenly in the middle of the night; people shudder, then pass away. Even the mighty are removed without effort.
Job 34:24 He shatters the mighty without an investigation and sets others in their place.
Job 35:9 People cry out because of severe oppression; they shout for help because of the power of the mighty.
Job 36:5 Yes, God is mighty, but he despises no one; he understands all things.
Job 37:6 For he says to the snow, “Fall to the earth,” and the torrential rains, his mighty torrential rains,
Job 41:25 When Leviathan rises, the mighty are terrified; they withdraw because of his thrashing.
Psalm 20:6 Now I know that the LORD gives victory to his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with mighty victories from his right hand.
Psalm 24:8 Who is this King of glory? The LORD, strong and mighty, the LORD, mighty in battle.
Psalm 45:3 Mighty warrior, strap your sword at your side. In your majesty and splendor—
Psalm 50:1 The Mighty One, God, the LORD, speaks; he summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.
Psalm 58:1 Do you really speak righteously, you mighty ones? Do you judge people fairly?
Psalm 71:16 I come because of the mighty acts of the Lord GOD; I will proclaim your righteousness, yours alone.
Psalm 80:10 The mountains were covered by its shade, and the mighty cedars with its branches.
Psalm 89:13 You have a mighty arm; your hand is powerful; your right hand is lifted high.
Psalm 93:4 Greater than the roar of a huge torrent— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.
Psalm 99:4 The mighty King loves justice. You have established fairness; you have administered justice and righteousness in Jacob.
Psalm 106:2 Who can declare the LORD’s mighty acts or proclaim all the praise due him?
Psalm 110:2 The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion. Rule over your surrounding enemies.
Psalm 132:2 and how he swore an oath to the LORD, making a vow to the Mighty One of Jacob:
Psalm 132:5 until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Psalm 135:10 He struck down many nations and slaughtered mighty kings:
Psalm 145:4 One generation will declare your works to the next and will proclaim your mighty acts.
Psalm 145:12 informing all people of your mighty acts and of the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
Psalm 150:1 Hallelujah! Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise him in his mighty expanse.
Proverbs 30:26 hyraxes are not a mighty people, yet they make their homes in the cliffs;
Song of Solomon 3:7 Look! Solomon’s bed surrounded by sixty warriors from the mighty men of Israel.
Isaiah 1:24 Therefore the Lord GOD of Armies, the Mighty One of Israel, declares: “Ah, I will get even with my foes; I will take revenge against my enemies.
Isaiah 8:7 the Lord will certainly bring against them the mighty rushing water of the Euphrates River— the king of Assyria and all his glory. It will overflow its channels and spill over all its banks.
Isaiah 9:6 For a child will be born for us, a son will be given to us, and the government will be on his shoulders. He will be named Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Eternal Father, Prince of Peace.
Isaiah 10:13 For he said: I have done this by my own strength and wisdom, for I am clever. I abolished the borders of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty warrior, I subjugated the inhabitants.
Isaiah 10:21 The remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to the Mighty God.
Isaiah 11:15 The LORD will divide the Gulf of Suez. He will wave his hand over the Euphrates with his mighty wind and will split it into seven streams, letting people walk through on foot.
Isaiah 13:4 Listen, a commotion on the mountains, like that of a mighty people! Listen, an uproar among the kingdoms, like nations being gathered together! The LORD of Armies is mobilizing an army for war.
Isaiah 28:2 Look, the Lord has a strong and mighty one— like a devastating hail storm, like a storm with strong flooding water. He will bring it across the land with his hand.
Isaiah 34:7 The wild oxen will be struck down with them, and young bulls with the mighty bulls. Their land will be soaked with blood, and their soil will be saturated with fat.
Isaiah 43:17 who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty one together (they lie down, they do not rise again; they are extinguished, put out like a wick)—
Isaiah 49:24 Can the prey be taken from a mighty man, or the captives of a tyrant be delivered?
Isaiah 49:25 For this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of a mighty man will be taken, and the prey of a tyrant will be delivered; I will contend with the one who contends with you, and I will save your children.
Isaiah 49:26 I will make your oppressors eat their own flesh, and they will be drunk with their own blood as with sweet wine. Then all humanity will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior, and your Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.”
Isaiah 53:12 Therefore I will give him the many as a portion, and he will receive the mighty as spoil, because he willingly submitted to death, and was counted among the rebels; yet he bore the sin of many and interceded for the rebels.
Isaiah 60:16 You will nurse on the milk of nations, and nurse at the breast of kings; you will know that I, the LORD, am your Savior and Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.
Isaiah 60:22 The least will become a thousand, the smallest a mighty nation. I am the LORD; I will accomplish it quickly in its time.
Jeremiah 8:16 From Dan, the snorting of horses is heard. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city and all its residents.
Jeremiah 11:16 The LORD named you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. He has set fire to it, and its branches are consumed with the sound of a mighty tumult.
Jeremiah 32:18 You show faithful love to thousands but lay the fathers’ iniquity on their sons’ laps after them, great and mighty God whose name is the LORD of Armies,
Jeremiah 48:17 Mourn for him, all you surrounding nations, everyone who knows his name. Say, “How the mighty scepter is shattered, the glorious staff!”
Jeremiah 51:55 For the LORD is going to devastate Babylon; he will silence her mighty voice. Their waves roar like a huge torrent; the tumult of their voice resounds,
Lamentations 1:15 The Lord has rejected all the mighty men within me. He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah like grapes in a winepress.
Ezekiel 17:17 Pharaoh with his mighty army and vast company will not help him in battle, when ramps are built and siege walls constructed to destroy many lives.
Ezekiel 26:11 He will trample all your streets with the hooves of his horses. He will slaughter your people with the sword, and your mighty pillars will fall to the ground.
Ezekiel 26:19 For this is what the Lord GOD says: “When I make you a ruined city like other deserted cities, when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,
Ezekiel 32:18 “Son of man, wail over the hordes of Egypt and bring Egypt and the daughters of mighty nations down to the underworld, to be with those who descend to the Pit:
Ezekiel 39:18 You will eat the flesh of mighty men and drink the blood of the earth’s princes: rams, lambs, male goats, and all the fattened bulls of Bashan.
Ezekiel 39:20 At my table you will eat your fill of horses and riders, of mighty men and all the warriors. This is the declaration of the Lord GOD.’
Daniel 4:3 How great are his miracles, and how mighty his wonders! His kingdom is an eternal kingdom, and his dominion is from generation to generation.
Joel 2:5 They bound on the tops of the mountains. Their sound is like the sound of chariots, like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for war.
Luke 1:49 because the Mighty One has done great things for me, and his name is holy.
Luke 1:51 He has done a mighty deed with his arm; he has scattered the proud because of the thoughts of their hearts;
Luke 1:52 he has toppled the mighty from their thrones and exalted the lowly.
Acts 13:17 The God of this people Israel chose our ancestors, made the people prosper during their stay in the land of Egypt, and led them out of it with a mighty arm.
Ephesians 1:19 and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the mighty working of his strength.
Hebrews 11:34 quenched the raging of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, gained strength in weakness, became mighty in battle, and put foreign armies to flight.
1 Peter 5:6 Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God, so that he may exalt you at the proper time,
Revelation 5:2 I also saw a mighty angel proclaiming with a loud voice, “Who is worthy to open the scroll and break its seals?”
Revelation 10:1 Then I saw another mighty angel coming down from heaven, wrapped in a cloud, with a rainbow over his head. His face was like the sun, his legs were like pillars of fire,
Revelation 18:2 He called out in a mighty voice: It has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen! She has become a home for demons, a haunt for every unclean spirit, a haunt for every unclean bird, and a haunt for every unclean and despicable beast.
Revelation 18:8 For this reason her plagues will come in just one day— death and grief and famine. She will be burned up with fire, because the Lord God who judges her is mighty.
Revelation 18:10 They will stand far off in fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in a single hour your judgment has come.
Revelation 18:21 Then a mighty angel picked up a stone like a large millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, In this way, Babylon the great city will be thrown down violently and never be found again.
Revelation 19:18 so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of military commanders, the flesh of the mighty, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great.”