Grace Quotes

Spurgeon "The Unconquerable King" Daniel 4:34,35 "His rule is everlasting, and His kingdom is eternal. All the people of the earth are nothing compared to Him. He has the power to do as He pleases among the angels of heaven and with those who live on earth. No one can stop Him or challenge Him..." Daniel 4:34-35 There was a time when the creatures were not. They came from God as vessels from the potter's wheel. They all depend upon Him for continuance, as the streamlet on the fountain from where it flows. And if it were His will they all would melt away as the foam upon the water! All that now exists, if so it had pleased God to ordain, might have been as transient as a sunbeam, and have vanished as speedily as the rainbow from the cloud. Everything sprang from God, and still depends upon the necessity of His divine decree. God is the only independent being. We creatures must find food with which to repair the daily wear of the body. We are dependent upon light and heat, and innumerable external agencies, and above all and primarily, dependent upon the outgoings of His divine power towards us. Only the I AM is self sufficient and all sufficient! He was as glorious before He made the world as He is now. He was as great, as blessed, as divine in all His attributes before sun and moon and stars leaped into existence, as He is now. And if He should blot all out, as a man erases the writing of his pencil, or as a potter breaks the vessel he has made, He would be none the less the supreme and ever blessed God. God is the only immutable being. Immutability is an attribute of God only. All created things were once new, but they are waxing old, they will become older still. But the Lord has no time, He dwells in eternity. There is no moment of 'beginning' with the Eternal God, no 'starting point' from which to calculate His age. From of old He was the Ancient of Days, "from everlasting to everlasting You are God." Let your mind retreat as far as its capacities will allow into the remote past of old eternity, and there it finds Jehovah alone in the fullness of His glory! Then let the same thought flash forward into the far off future, as far as unbridled imagination can bear it, and there it beholds the Eternal; unchanged, unchangeable. He works changes and effects changes, but He Himself abides the same. God is the only invulnerable being. There is no conceivable force that can ever wound, injure, or destroy Him! If we were profane enough to imagine the Lord to be vulnerable, where is the bow and where the arrow that could reach Him on His throne? What javelin shall pierce Jehovah's buckler? Let all the nations of the earth rise and rage against God; how shall they reach His throne? They cannot even shake His footstool. If all the angels of heaven should rebel against the Great King, and their squadrons should advance in serried ranks to besiege the palace of the Most High, He has but to will it, and they would wither as autumn leaves! Reserved in chains of darkness, the opponents of His power would forever become mementos of His wrath! None can touch Him! The God whom we serve reigns as The Unconquerable King! He has unlimited sovereignty over all His creatures! Let us who delight in the living God bow down before Him, and humbly worship Him, as the God in whom we live and move, and have our being. "His rule is everlasting, and His kingdom is eternal. All the people of the earth are nothing compared to Him. He has the power to do as He pleases among the angels of heaven and with those who live on earth. No one can stop Him or challenge Him..." Daniel 4:34-35