If you need a handout, feel free to come and get one quickly. Glad to have you to do that. And tonight, we will wrap up our, you're gonna make me fall down, you know that, right? You don't pull the chair out from me, you just don't put it there. Oh, that's all right. That wasn't on purpose. That was a miscommunication. It could have been on purpose if it was from this side, I think. But anyway, I know which deacons and sons-in-laws to trust and which one to double check on. And no, that's fine. Well, we're going to finish up our- how many would have laughed if I fell? Oh, yeah, you would have, yeah. Why is it? The Sharps, I know they would laugh. Jason would have to go to the ER. He'd be falling over. Yeah, Joe would have downloaded the video. Yeah. Oh, boy, I tell you. So you leave a few days and the inmates run the prisons, what happens. Anyway, but we're going to wrap up this. I've enjoyed this study on can God. I've enjoyed it. I thought about why to take a study like this and why to give it on a Wednesday night. And I thought, first of all, it glorifies God. It shows what God can do. And there's no limitations to him. Secondly, it builds our trust in him to see how he's done in the lives of others. It brings great light and hope to us in some areas that seem to be dark and somewhat impossible. It causes us to go deeper in our faith. We have a God. Listen, our faith can go as deep as we can allow it. God doesn't have a stopping place. And our depth and the depth of our faith depends upon us, not upon God. And then it enables us to know who to go to and to literally go to God with our burdens. And then, as I said, it encourages us that God is still on the throne. He's still here. He still answers. And so it's been great, I think. Lesson one was, can God provide? And we saw how God provided a ram caught in the thicket by his horns. Number two, can God save my lost loved ones? We have those hard cases that we think may be there beyond God's conviction. And there's such a hard case that they could never get saved. But God can. Lesson three was, can God keep me safe? We talked about eternal security. And God, he has me there in his hand and nothing shall pluck me out. And then lesson four was, can God use my life? Absolutely. He wants to use us. That's why after he saved us, he didn't take us home. He's left us here for his, to work for his kingdom. And then tonight as we close, can God, can God do anything? And the answer is the answer to all these that we've covered, God can. Now, notice in Genesis 18, we've spoke a lot about Abraham and Sarah and Isaac. Can God provide? It was Genesis 19 where he provided a ram caught in a thicket by his horns. And here in Genesis 18, verse 9, the Bible says, And they said unto him, Where is Sarah thy wife? Now, these are angels, messengers of God. And he said, Behold, in the tent. And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life. And lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him. Now, isn't that just like a wife? She's there behind the kitchen. She's pretending to clean up the pots and pans or something. But she's hearing what's going on here, and she heard it in the tent door. And Abraham and Sarah were old and well-stricken in age. In other words, they were beyond those childbearing years. And it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women. Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am wax old, shall I have pleasure? My Lord being old also, her husband, you know, Sarah called her husband Lord. You want to have a sweeter marriage, go home and call your husband Lord. Try that. No. Some wives are saying, yeah, no, that's not going to happen, okay. Well, I'm not trying to get you to call on the Lord, but just quick call on names. If you do that, that might sweeten it too. Okay, I just preached at a family and couples retreat conference, so I'm full of that right now. So look in verse 13, Now she laughed within herself. She didn't go, ha, ha, ha. He knows everything. He knows our heart. He knows when we're not believing. And he asked the question, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a certain surety bear a child which am old? And then verse 14 is a key verse. Is anything too hard for the Lord? Now, we know the great sorrow of this couple. We know sorrows of couples who have not been able to bear children. I've caught many tears and I still read the post of the day before Mother's Day and how we observe and we acknowledge mothers on Mother's Day because it's Mother's Day. And yet there are some who struggle about that and they'll make posts and they'll be sorrowful. My heart breaks for these couples, but I don't think that we really see God move in their life until they are genuinely appreciative of the Lord and accept where they're at and just say, God, Thy will be done. and that you can give us a child if you want to, and if you decide not to, we're going to love you and serve you and have the right spirit and attitude about it. And that's when I usually see God work in the lives of couples like this. You remember how Sarah turned to Abraham and said, take my handmaid Hagar. She was an Egyptian where they picked her up when they were in Egypt, the world. And he said, have your son through her. And that's where Ishmael came from. And that's why we have the heartache and burdens we have today. God says that he'd be a mighty hunter and would be a wild man. I don't know about you, but I've looked a number of those folks in the face and they got a wild look in their eyes. And so and here in their last years, he is 100. She is 90. God says, I want to give you a son. In verse 14, is anything too hard for the Lord? At the time appointed, I will return unto thee according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son. Now, if you look in your notes, in Jeremiah 32, verse 17, the Bible says, Ah, Lord, behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee. You know, there's things that I want to see that I pray for every day. And I say, God, this will be nothing for you. There's nothing too hard for you. Lord, you could just do it. Would you do that for me? Lord, could I have your favor? And could I see you take this away from this child? There's a little boy that I've never met him, but his name is Brett, and he has cancer. He's 12 years old, and cancer's all up and down his spine. He spent a lot of time. at St. Jude Hospital, and I've prayed for him every day, and I've never met him, but you know what? God could just take that away just like that. We have folks in our church who have different ailments and issues that, you know, gives them a great suffrage and upsets us all that are close to them, and I'll ask God, God, would you just take that away? God, you could do it just like that if you would. Would you do that? And so is there anything too hard for the Lord? And there is nothing too hard for thee. So God came to Abraham when he was 100 years old. He told him that he was going to give Sarah and him a son. His name would be Isaac. What does Isaac mean? Well, wonder why they named him that. Because she laughed when she heard about this. Don't you think God has a sense of humor? I mean, just look around at people, how he created some of us. I think you can tell that for sure. And we see here that Isaac was born and God presented Abraham with this question in verse 14. Is anything too hard for the Lord? And the answer is no. God can do anything. And we see him. We see him. Let's think about it for just a moment. I don't have it down in my notes, and you don't either, but think about God. When the chips are down, mountain range on each side, the Red Sea in front of them, the world's most greatest military coming up hard and fast in horses and chariot, and God parts the Red Sea. They walk across on dry land, and then God drowns Pharaoh's army. Can God do anything? What about Gideon, his 300, so grossly outnumbered and yet God told him what to do and they broke the cover over the lanterns and thought there were thousands of people and they went running and defeated and went running around. Think about the Israelites. They were not warriors. They were herders and farmers and they marched around this great city of Jericho seven times. And on the seventh day they marched seven times and on the seventh time they shouted and the walls fell in and they had victory. God can do anything. Think about the battle and how Israel was trying to win, and it was getting too late, too dark, and Israel had a long way to go, and God heard their prayers and caused the sun to stand still until the battle was won. Can you say amen? God can do anything, and we can go on and on and on. Now, let me share with you. that there's no way to measure the number of problems, difficulties, heartaches, hardships that exist in our life, but I do want to assure you that there is nothing too hard for the Lord. Number one, notice there is no person that God cannot rescue. There's not anyone that God can't save. There's not anyone that God can't touch and turn around. In 1 Timothy 1, verse 15, the Bible says, this is a fateful saying worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief. This is the Apostle Paul. Notice Paul's personal testimony. He says that he was the most wicked person in the world. He says that he was the chief of sinners. And he was a Pharisee, a member of the Sanhedrin. He was the poster child of what some Jewish family would love to have for their son. But we see the Pauline epistles. We see the power of God in his life. We read about his three missionary journeys. And it's easy for us to forget about the despicable, heinous, terrible person he was. as he held the coats of those as they stoned Stephen, as he had the proper credentials from the chief priest to go and to persecute and prosecute those who were in the way. We forget about his terrible past. But he says that he was the worst, and if God has already saved the chief of sinners, then anyone can be saved. There's no such thing as a hard case, as a hard situation for God. You may be here and you may have a son or a daughter or a brother or a sister or a father, a mother. They may claim to be atheists. They may claim to be, you know, in some kind of terrible state, some horrific sin. And we may feel like they're in such a great perversion, they're in such a great delusion, they could never be saved. But I want you to know this. God can save, He can rescue anybody. Don't give up. Don't give up. Just keep praying and keep trusting God to save them. Keep begging God to save them. And it might be a situation where they're a great distance away. That was true with Abraham and Lot. And yet we see how God heard Abraham's prayer. He didn't save the city, but he saved Lot, and he saved part of his family that would listen. And that's due because of Abraham. There's sometimes when some of you have funerals that you attend that's a distance away, and I want you to always pray, God, give them some man of God to give the message. Give some spiritual person who can be there in the hospital or be there at the funeral home who will step up and will give the gospel and will help those people. Listen, notice Paul's own testimony. He was the chief of sinners. Now, what about you? Or what about us? The devil wants us to believe that this cannot be done. The devil wants us to think that God only saves good people, but the really evil, bad people can't be saved. Many, many years ago, I'm going to date myself. Many, many years ago, I just started pastoring Bethel Baptist Church, and there was a steakhouse called the Western Sizzling right there on South Highland. Y'all remember that place? They had the Moo Plate for a dollar. It was the best place. The two best places we could eat was there because we had four kids. And for four bucks, all four of our kids could eat. The other place was Po Folks. Remember that place? And kids ate free there. So we'd hit those places. And we were there outside. We were sitting in a booth outside or right by the window. We could look outside. And I was there with Pastor Dan Reed, and I was there with an evangelist, Mike Johns. And we were sitting there and we were talking about the Lord and we looked out and this guy was walking down the street. And man, he had hair all the way down his back. He had these moccasins all the way up to his knees with his pants tucked in. Man, I mean, he had a beard out to here, and he had a boombox. Remember those? Now, we're so happy today. We have Bluetooth, and we have a boombox we put in our shirt pocket, and it's as loud as that. But man, back then, he was walking. He was walking with us. You like the way I'm doing that? I got some rhythm going. And he's walking. And man, I mean, and one of the preachers said, boy, that guy there is really lost. And let me tell you something, everybody's lost is really lost. And everybody who gets saved, if it's a small little child in Sunday school, if it's a small little child in King's Kids, or if it's the biggest drunk in Madison County that walks the aisle on Sunday morning, it's a miracle every time they get saved. I'm just telling you, the devil wants us to believe that this cannot be done. He wants us to stop. praying for hard cases and for our loved ones. He wants people to stay enslaved in their sin, but God wants us to be set free. God wants sinners to be set free. Peter says that God's not willing that any should perish, in 2 Peter 3, verse 9. The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness, but his longsuffering to us, where aren't you grateful for his longsuffering? Not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. We look at the thief on the cross. The only thing that made him different from the other thief was that he placed his trust, he placed his faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. And that is what made the difference in anyone else's life as well. Now, is anything too hard for the Lord? Are there people that the Lord just can't reach? Are there people that just can repel the Holy Spirit of God? And are there those that just can't be penetrated with the conviction power of the Holy Spirit? The answer is no. Nothing is too hard for the Lord. He can change your life. He can change their life. He can save that one who's the nearest to hell. He can save that one that you have been praying for, there is no soul so lost, there is no soul so far from God, there's no heart so hard that God cannot reach them. In this series, remember, there's no person that God cannot rescue. And then number two, there's no problem that God cannot write. We look at, there is no person that God cannot rescue, but there's no problem that God cannot write. In Luke 1 verse 37, the Bible says, for with God, nothing shall be impossible. And I want to tell you, there's been some times in my life that I just thought, man, I'm in an impossible situation. I am absolutely, I am just, floating in the water. And it's just a matter of time before I drown. I don't see any way out of this. And I and yet I know God can do anything. I know God has done incredible things in the past, not just what we read about in the Bible, but my own life. And many times God allows hardships to come our way. Now let me say, don't cause your hardships. Listen, sin makes you stupid. And don't let sin cause you to get into folly and foolishness. Don't manufacture your own hardship, your own trouble, your own problems. You cannot violate Bible principle without having conflict. You can't do it. And the Bible says to those who know to do good and do not, they'll be beaten with many stripes. But those who did not know, they'll be beaten with few stripes. There's no excuse. Ignorance is no excuse. They're still beaten. They're still punished regardless. Now many times God allows hardships to come our ways. He may do this to shake us out of our indifference. A lot of times we get comfortable and we get settled in our nest and I like that, don't you? Some people call it a rut. I'm good with ruts. I don't like things to change. But things will inevitably change. They're always changing. Perhaps you've had a major change in your life. Things won't ever be the same it was as you've grown up. But God's on the throne. God's got something. It may be better, and God wants you to get glory out of it. We see things and we wonder what a hardship this is. Why did this happen? I don't see any sense in this. I don't understand why this would take place. But we don't need to cancel out and rule out God. God works in our lives. Sometimes we get so reliant on something that God wants to take it away so we'll be more dependent upon Him. Sometimes he does things to shake us out of our indifference. Sometimes he does things to strengthen us for future battles. Maybe God feels like, you know, they're a little soft. They need to get a little still in their spine. Their faith needs to get a little bit more depth to it. Listen, before David came up to a great Goliath from Gath, he dealt with a bear and he dealt with a... A lion and a lot of times God will give us a lot of monkeys to take care of. And if we do a good job, one day he's got a big gorilla to give us and he's preparing us for something. So for with God, nothing shall be impossible. He allows hardships to shake us out of our indifference, out of our apathy, out of our complacency. He allows hardships to strengthen us for future battles, something that we need to stand and do for Him. And He may use it to work in the lives of other people. He might want your neighbors or your co-workers or your family members or someone who needs a real witness, who needs a real testimony, and He can do that. Listen, there's no problem that God cannot write. Now, be assured that nothing, nothing gets by God. Nothing can get to us without God knowing it. Nothing. Personal illness or sickness, family problems, difficulties on the job, name it. But God knows about it. He knows about everything. Doesn't that bring you peace? And doesn't that settle your heart? God, you knew this was going to be the case before it ever happened. And listen, when that happens, this is it. We instead of crying and saying, God, why did this have to happen? And why are we here? And where were you at? God's always been there. He's never left us or forsake us. But what we need to say when something happens like that is, OK, God, you're working in my life. Now I need to get on page with what you want to do. And we need to try to figure out what God is doing in our life. God is aware of what's happening to us. And I often have to remind myself, God is omniscient. He is all knowing. He knows everything that is going on. And listen to me. He is in Full control. I was in Texas and I was talking to a lady I hadn't seen in a long time. Just wonderful people there at the church reminds me so much of our church. It's one church that I feel so much at home just immediately when I go there. And she was telling me how she can't watch the news. And I said, well, that's good. We don't need to watch the news. And she talked. She's talking about how how fearful she is at times. And we look at the world and we see things and it can be very fearful, but I want you to listen to me. God, and I told her, I said, God has got his thumb on the pulse of everything. And I know he loves me. I know he walks with me. I know he cares for me. And I know I'm in his hand and I'm swell with whatever he wants. Whatever he wants to do. Now, notice, not only does God know what is going on, He is able to handle the situation. Think of the magnitude of the crossing of the Red Sea. And what a great... I mean, here are three and a half billion Jews with oxen and carts and all their stuff on there. And here they are at the mouth, at the banks of the Red Sea. And here's all this dust that's kicking up. And you see Pharaoh's heart has been hardened. He sent his army. They're going to annihilate these Jews. Nearly three and a half billion Jews. Listen to me. Listen to me. Listen to me. Not one loss. Not one casualty. Not one loss. Not one. Three and a half million, not one. You know, the only time the first casualties that came was the city of AI when there was sin in the camp. Jericho, not one loss. But 36 men died at the little city of Ai because of sin in the camp. You see, not one Jew lost out of three and a half million. You know, some would say that's too hard to believe. Well, the Bible says it, so we believe it. We know it to be so. Don't you know that's so in your heart? I mean, I know that's as true as I know my middle name. And understand this, people who say that's too hard to trust the Lord. It's not. Who else are you going to trust? There's a little boy went to Sunday school. It's very first time to go to Sunday school. Yeah I love our Sunday school teachers and I love our kids and I love some of the things they come out with. I saw some of the Kings kids pictures and I tell you we got some goofy kids don't we. I mean I was seeing the pictures that were taken and some folks were sending them to me and you know most kids know which way to face when a picture is being taken. And some were facing backwards, but they were born in a country that's backwards, so maybe that's why that's so. But it was sweet. This little boy, he was in Sunday school for the first time. After church was over, they were riding home, the father asked him, he said, well, son, what did you learn in Sunday school? And he says, well, dad, he said, I learned about the Israelites crossing the Red Sea. He said, oh, that's wonderful. He said, what did they say about it? He said, well, they said that Moses called for the corps of engineers to come and they built a bridge over the sea and everybody walked over safely. And the father sat there and kind of scratched his head and said, son, is that what your teacher told you? He says, well, dad, no, that's not what he said. But if you don't believe that, you're not going to believe what the teacher told me. And I think sometimes we read the Bible and we just don't... or we believe it, but we don't believe God would do it in our life. But God will. He will do it. And notice, if you would, the personal application here. What hardship you're facing, take it to God. Be assured that God can take care of your situation. Luke 1 verse 37. For with God, nothing shall be impossible. Lastly, let me say to you, as we talked about, there's no person that God cannot rescue. There's no problem that God cannot write, and there's no prayer that God cannot reply. You see, God delights in hearing us pray to Him. I have found myself in my older years babbling to God as if He was Debbie sitting beside me, and He is right beside me. And there's times that even yesterday driving, I just say, oh, dear God, just help me. Help me drive. Help me with this. Now, I don't say that blasphemous. I mean, God, help me drive. I need help to drive. Deuteronomy 4.7 says this. For what nation is there so great? who hath God so nine to them as the Lord our God is all things that we call upon him for what people have God so close to them that we can call upon Him. And I want you to listen to me. Not everything's on our face, not everything's on a bent knee, not everything's a most gracious heavenly Father. Sometimes there's a Peter prayer, God help me, God save me. And God hears, there's no prayer that God cannot reply. Now Psalm 34 verse 15 says, the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous. I like the righteous, don't you? You know how I believe about that. I'll pull up in a parking space right in the front door and I'll turn to David and I'll say, the righteous. People will be sick and I'll be well, and I thought, the righteous. You're going to get it. Boy, you're going to get it. You know, or I was pull up in the parking space and I'll say the righteous. And she'll say, yes, I'm sitting right here. That's why you got the parking space. And that's probably more true than what I realize. But he says he says here, the eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous and his ears are open. Unto their cries. Man, there's no prayer that he cannot reply. Now, He may not answer our prayers just the way we want it answered, but He always, but He will answer your prayers. Now, you know what I've told over the years, you could teach it better than me. He says yes, He says no, and He says wait. When He says yes, oh, I just jump up and down. When he says no, I just jump up and down. I know he loves me. He withholds no good thing. No good thing will I withhold from him that walketh uprightly. He's got something better for me. Man, if I want this B-52 and he says no, man, there's a B-55 out there somewhere. I believe that. When he says wait, I think, oh God, are you sure? I'm not good about weight. Are you? I'm not. But let me tell you this. He may not answer. And often, you know, God answered something for me this past year that He did just for me. All of America can profit by it, but He did it for me. Because I asked Him, come to me sometime and ask me, I'll tell you what it is. But you can profit by it, but I want you to know He did it for me. I wasn't sure what I was going to do. And often we look in the mailbox for that long lost cousin who left us, you know, a kajillion dollars. But he didn't answer that way, but he might as well. And he did it just for me. Now, you say, how do you know he did it just for you if everybody else? Because I'm the one that prayed about it. I'm the one that prayed for it. You see, there are pointless prayers. Let me tell you two of them. Here's one. We can't pray, Lord, send revival, and then fail to do everything we can do to personally draw closer to Him. Revival begins with a purging and a cleansing. You want to live in revival? Give the Holy Spirit a fine-tooth comb and tell Him, search me, O God, and see if there be any wicked way in me. You see, we can't pray, Lord, send revival, and then fail to do everything we can to be personally drawn closer to Him. Nor can we pray, Lord, save souls, then refuse to witness to the lost. There's no need to pray for more missionaries if we're not willing to be used of God. There's no need to pray for more missionaries if we're not willing to give and sacrifice towards faith promise missions. There's no need to pray if God cannot answer, but he can answer. He answers our prayers. Yes, no, and wait now. Can God do anything question? What do you need? Do you know what your needs are? I do. I know what I need tonight. Man, and God can do it. He can do it like that. I know what it is. Is anything too hard for the Lord? The answer is no. And if you're without Jesus Christ, if you're watching live stream, let me tell you something. It doesn't matter who you are, where you've been, what you've done. Jesus Christ will save you right where you sit. If you bow your head and confess your sin, if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that God has raised you from the dead, he died for your sins. And if you would reach out and ask him for forgiveness, he'll save you right where you sit and write your name down in the Lamb's Book of Life. And if you're in the midst of a hard situation, why don't you come and submit yourself to him? He'll see you through it. He'll help you through it. You know, it's always easier to go through the deep when he's walking with you and you know he's there. When I was a little boy, I was just very young. My father had given me a rifle. My father was a marine. And he gave me a rifle. We were hunting over where Fort Pillar is. And back in that day, it was all woods. Just the prison was there. It was all woods. And they had this high, I don't know if it would be sage grass or what it is, but it's very high. And they were notorious for timber rattlers over there. And we had gone hunting before and my father had a friend who went with us and he shot a squirrel, squirrel hunting. He shot a squirrel, went over there and there's a big old rattlesnake that was curled up around it, getting ready to eat it. He said, I'm not coming back over here. And that scared me. I was just a little guy, just a little, I was about a bear's age or about his size. I had my own rifle and I had this sling on the rifle was heavy and I carried on this shoulder to it was just rubbed raw like hamburger meat and I carried on this shoulder to this shoulder was just rubbed wrong. And of course dad didn't have it loaded. And then he I remember he ran up this This hill and I couldn't wear it on my shoulders anymore, so I was running up the hill and every time I'd run, I was jabbing the barrel in the dirt and just filling the barrel full. He didn't get upset or cross with me. He took it home and took it apart and cleaned it. But we came to a part where the grass was real high and where my dad had this type of hunting clothes, the briars and the thorns would just tear off of it and they'd slap back on me and what was waist high on him was head high or close to it to me. And we came to this place and it was really high grass. We got ready to go, and I stopped, and he kept going. He turned around and said, son, come on. And I told him, I said, daddy, I'm afraid. What if there's a snake? And he turned around and looked at me in my face, and he says, you walk in my footprints, and you will be safe. You step where I step. You know what God tells me? He says, son, you walk in my footsteps, you walk in my footprints and you're going to be safe. Are you walking with him tonight? Listen to me. Can God can God provide? Can God save the loss? Our lost loved ones? Can God keep me safe? Can God use my life? Can God do anything? God can stand with me. Lord, we're grateful. And Lord, I pray that we'll take these truths and these lessons over those last five Wednesday nights and that we'll glorify you for what you can do and what you have done. I pray that it will help us to trust you. I pray that it will help us to go deeper in our faith. I pray, dear God, that when we are up against the wall and even before then, that we'll know to go to our God and that we'll bring our burdens to you and you will bless us. Lord, I pray that these truths will encourage us to know that you're still on the throne, you're in control, and your thumb is on the pulse of everything and that no matter what happens, God can. God can heal our marriage. God can heal our family. God can heal our children and grandchildren and sick loved ones and friends. God can. Are there nothing? There's nothing too hard for God. Is anything too hard for the Lord? There's nothing too hard for thee. Help us to trust you. Help us to come tonight, just the service before revival begins. Help us to come tonight and say, God, this burden, this concern, this heaviness that I have, this situation that I'm in, this person I'm concerned about, this problem that needs to be righted, Lord, this prayer that needs to be replied to, God, move yourself and show yourself powerful. Do something mighty in my life, my marriage, my family, my church, my community, that you get the glory. Heads are bowed and eyes are closed. King God, I want to tell you tonight, on the authority of the Word of God, God can come to him tonight and trust him.