By Trenton Battle
In our impossible times we can only put our trust, and
surrender our being exclusively to God because with Him all things are
possible. "And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible,
but not with God: for with God all things are possible" (Mark 10:27).
Man bears continued witness to his inability to do a myriad
of things; they are impossible to man in spite of his great earthly
achievements. The mere fact that a man dies, willingly or not, having no power
to revive him, is self-evident that the realm of impossibility has always
existed with him. Not so with God, for He is and always will be eternal and
omnipresent. God is I AM that I AM; I exist because I exist, and all else
exists because I AM.
The impossible [baw-tsar = incomprehensible {unintelligible,
unknowable, incapable of being understood, unfathomable}, to be cut off,
restrained, to make inaccessible, to fortify] will always exist for man because
he is a finite created being, and he is corrupted with sin. The mere thought of
God having eternal existence is unintelligible and unfathomable to man; the
thought alone would cause his brain to experience pain.
Yet there are those who are quite able to comprehend the
eternal existence of God without the pain of the mind. Therefore, we must
consider what Jesus was saying when He said there are things impossible for man.
It is quite evident and well documented that God has granted man the power to
do the impossible.
The million (oh, we're in economic chaos), no, trillion
dollar question is: What manner of man was Jesus referring to? In Mark 10:27
Jesus makes reference to the [aw-dawm = man of the dust of the ground, earthy
man, man of flesh and blood]; the aw-dawm man houses the nephesh soul, which
abides within the blood of man. The nephesh soul is the soul that chose to sin,
and the one appoint to surely die if left unrepentant. "For the life
[nephesh = soul] of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon
the altar to make an atonement for your souls [nephesh]: for it is the blood
that maketh an atonement for the soul [nephesh]" (Leviticus 17:11).
Jesus, the Son of Man [aw-dawm] possesses an Adamic man; so
why aren't things impossible to Him? Jesus' Adamic nature was without sin;
therefore, sin within our Adamic nature makes many things impossible for us to
understand, fathom, or perform. Jesus did not say things were impossible to the
spirit or [ish = man of fire, glory]. "But without faith it is impossible
to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he
is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him" (Hebrews 11:6).
Faith belongs to the realm of the spirit of man, that is,
the ish man; therefore, without faith arising within the ish-spirit man, things
become impossible to the Adamic man. Only as the Adamic man working through the
faith of Christ in the ish-man can that which is impossible to man be made
possible.
With God all things are possible [be able, any at all
(ways), attain, can, could, to be permitted to, endure, might, overcome, have
power, prevail, still, suffer (allow, permit)].
Through God's yaw-kowl prevailing and overcoming power and
might; He allows us to do the impossible or endure or overcome the impossible.
In all instances; it God and not us who are the Source.
Caleb understood God yaw-kowl overcoming power. "And
Caleb stilled the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once, and
possess it; for we are well able to overcome [yaw-kowl] it" (Number
13:30).
Caleb had a relationship with God's yaw-kowl power, and in
his ish-spirit man of fire, he knew the LORD would permit them to prevail over
the inhabitants of Canaan's Land; it was God's
promise to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and their seed after them.
On the contrary, those men that went with Caleb to spy out
the land brought an evil report back to Moses and the people. "But the men
[enoshe = weak, feeble, frail, melancholy, sick, mortal] that went up with him
said, We be NOT able [yaw-kowl] to go up against the people; for they are
stronger than we" (Numbers 13:31).
The power of life and death are surely in the tongue; the
words of the other spies bear witness to that truth. Let us have the faith of
Christ working in our spirit man that we may be one of the ones God can perform
the impossible through for our lives and others.
God bless you,
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