Is Anything Too Hard For The Lord?
Genesis 18:1-15
Message #8
The title of today’s message is “Is Anything Too Hard For The Lord?” We are looking at Genesis 18, verses 1-15. The focus point this morning is a question that is asked in this scripture, is anything too hard for the Lord? That’s the question that gets asked to Abraham and Sarah. That’s the question that they’re reminded of when doubt creeps into their mind.
But this morning, that question is applied to our lives – your life, my life. Is there anything that the Lord cannot do? Is anything too hard for the Lord?
This is what I mean. If you can believe Genesis 1, verse 1, where it says, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. and if you can believe Genesis 1, verse 26, Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us…” if you can believe these verses of the miraculous power that is held at the voice that the command God gives in life and creation and existence – not to mention throughout the Bible – you should confidently be able to be sure about the answer to this question. Is anything too hard for the Lord?
Last week, Pastor Dave went through the message “God’s Promise is Sure.” In the life of Abraham, the promise that God gave him and Sarah was that he will make many descendants and many nations and princes and kings will be of his bloodline. But we know that through the course of going through the life of Abraham is this. When promised a son, they took matters into their own hands. They don’t want to understand what God’s plan and intention to carry out his promise to Abraham and Sarah, so they take it into their own hands. Abraham goes to Hagar, the servant of Sarah, and they have a son that way. And this son was the “son of the flesh” called Ishmael.
Let’s read the reiterated promise that the Lord gives Sarah and Abraham of a son.
Genesis 18:1-2 (NLT)
1 The Lord appeared again to Abraham near the oak grove belonging to Mamre. One day Abraham was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest part of the day.
2 He looked up and noticed three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran to meet them and welcomed them, bowing low to the ground.
The Lord, again, appeared to Abraham. It’s not the first time, but it’s another time. What is uncertain at this time is if Abraham fully realizes and recognizes that it’s the Lord. But we know that according to this section of scripture, he runs and he bows low, which was custom, at this moment, for his culture.
It seems as if he knows. It seems as if he might have an idea that he is again meeting the Lord and his angels. What is so cool that we’ll see in this section of scripture is that God, through his grace, is preparing Abraham to fully believe that nothing is too hard for the Lord. Definitely not to fulfill the promise that he gave to him and Sarah. The promise is that they will have a son and that many nations will come out of their son.
Genesis 18:3-5 (NLT)
3 “My lord,” he said, “if it pleases you, stop here for a while.
4 Rest in the shade of this tree while water is brought to wash your feet.
5 And since you’ve honored your servant with this visit, let me prepare some food to refresh you before you continue on your journey.” “All right,” they said. “Do as you have said.”
What is so awesome about this section is that Abraham is getting ready to have a communion meal. A promise meal of fellowship with the Lord. The word is “koinonia.” For this fellowship, this intimacy of spending time with the Lord. It’s a covenant meal where Abraham and Sarah are about to be reminded of this promise that God has given them.
Ken Hughes writes this.
“The meal with Abraham was an exercise of spiritual intimacy. To dine with Yahweh at the table was and is the ultimate honor any mortal could have in this world.”
I like to imagine how it would be to be in that place, how it would be to dine with the Lord, how it would be to be reminded of his promises. How it would be that in the moments of doubt, God is there, and he reveals to you and reminds you, “Hey. I created you for this, and I’ve promised you this, and I keep my promises.”
Church, let me ask you again – in your life, in your personal life, is anything too hard for the Lord to do? You see, just like Abraham, we need to be open to creating an environment where we can fellowship with the Lord and where we can have that koinonia with the Lord. We are eager to prepare our minds and our hearts to hear from God. When we are eager to hear his promises, his voice, to know the answer to this question, is anything at all too hard for the Lord?
This environment, this place, could be here this morning. This place could be in your home, in your prayer closet, when you go home later today, before you go to bed tonight. This place could be in your drive on your way to work tomorrow morning. To spend the intimate moments, that time where you say, “Lord. I am here, and I want to hear from you, God.” Create the environment to draw close to the Lord so that you will know the answer.
You see, the way you come to not just knowing the answer but understanding the answer and living within the answer to “is anything too hard for the Lord” is by spending that time with him. Otherwise, it’s just knowledge. Otherwise, it’s just information in your life. It’s not his transforming power to answer that question faithfully in your heart and in your mind.
Again, what is so cool, is what we will see throughout this section of scripture, towards the end of this section of scripture, that God knows. God knows Sarah’s very thoughts, the very thing she whispers, the very thing she utters to herself – God knows. You see, we serve a God who is all-powerful. We serve a God who sees all things. As Hagar learned a few sections ago, we serve a God who knows all things, as Sarah will come to find out in this section of scripture. As we will come to find out in this section of scripture, he knows.
But now, let’s look at how Abraham prepared his home for the Lord.
Genesis 18:6-8 (NLT)
6 So Abraham ran back to the tent and said to Sarah, “Hurry! Get three large measures of your best flour, knead it into dough, and bake some bread.”
7 Then Abraham ran out to the herd and chose a tender calf and gave it to his servant, who quickly prepared it.
8 When the food was ready, Abraham took some yogurt and milk and the roasted meat, and he served it to the men. As they ate, Abraham waited on them in the shade of the trees.
Look at Abraham’s actions. His enthusiasm. His eagerness to serve the Lord. His eagerness to create that atmosphere where he can serve the Lord, where he can hear from the Lord. He ran for his wife quickly to get the best flour to knead the bread. He hurried to pick the best calf. His servant quickly prepared it. And then Abraham comes and serves the food.
Again, what pops into my head right now, is this commentary, this beautiful picture of this feast. Not just any normal feast but a royal feast where he prepares the best that he has for the one that he is serving – the one being the Lord. It’s so cool to paint that picture in your head, to let it come to life in your mind as you look at this section of verses. Abraham was that eager to create that space.
Not to mention that as this is taking place, Abraham is believed to be one hundred years old. But what is so beautiful about this section of scripture is as I was reading it, the thought that kept coming to me was the women’s ministry that meets here every Thursday morning. Every Thursday morning, they get here pretty early, and they have a Bible study. And in that Bible study, they fellowship to hear from God. They’re going through this awesome devotional right now. What is so beautiful is that every time they are done with their Bible study, these women have this joy in their hearts. They clean this place. They vacuum the floor, prepare the children’s ministry room, they’re cleaning everything. The bathrooms, you name it. And they have this joy in them because they’re not doing it for Pastor Dave, they’re not doing it for me, they’re not doing it for anyone. In their hearts, they’re preparing this place for the Lord. They are preparing this place every week for the Lord so that he meets us here on Wednesdays, so that he meets us here on Sundays, and that he meets us every other time because they want to present the best that we have to him.
That picture is so beautiful because no matter your age, the youngest or oldest in the room, it is not too hard for the Lord to move in your personal life, despite your past. Despite what’s holding you back. It is not too hard for the Lord to move in your life.
That makes me think how beautiful it would be if we all did that. If we all enthusiastically, as if we were preparing a meal for the Lord, prepare to spend time with the Lord. Prepare to hear from the Lord. How awesome would it be to place ourselves in that mindset.
I’m saying this not to look down. Not to elevate myself by any means. I’m saying this with you guys. I’m saying this because I know throughout a week, from a Sunday to a Sunday, how difficult it sometimes gets to find that place for the purpose of getting to know our almighty, powerful Lord. To hear from him. To be reminded of his promises in our lives. To be reminded of his promises in our eternity with him.
But church, what is exciting is as a believer in this room, you will feast with the Lord. As a believer in the room, you will dine at his table. You will say, “Halleluiah! For the Lord our God is mighty and his reigning and his ruling.”
I was talking to Patricia a little bit after the first service, and she pretty much paraphrased the quote I just paraphrased with more detail. And she shared with me, “I sometimes picture that in my head of how beautiful it will be one day when I am dining with the Lord, and just the amounts from different nations, different people, different times, are all worshiping the Lord. And how it will sound like the floodgates are opening and how it will be this overwhelming environment where everyone’s sole purpose is to say, ‘God, we glorify you. We want to bring you glory. We want to see your power. We want you to move in our lives.’”
That’s a promise. That’s something to look forward to as a believer in the room. You will dine with him. The only reason I keep saying that is because I was reading this section of scripture, I thought, “How cool would it be? How cool would it be to be there at that dinner table? As the Lord counted Abraham as a friend of his as they fellowshipped. As they get to know each other. Again, the word is koinonia, spending time and fellowshipping and getting to know your Creator.
This is what I mean by preparing a place for you to hear from the Lord. It’s important that you prepare this place so that you prepare the altar of your heart and your mind to hear the reminders of God’s promises in your life. And to fully know with confidence the answer to the question, is anything too hard for the Lord?
When I was preparing for this message, it reminded me of one of the previous messages I taught, the story of Gideon. How he had a similar encounter with the Lord. A similar meeting with the Lord. The Lord appears to him, and he runs, and he asks them to just wait here. “I’ll be back. I’m going to go prepare you some food.” He hurried. He got whatever he had (it wasn’t a lot in his time), and he came and brought it back to the Lord. He put it at his feet. But in this case, in the story of Gideon, what does the Lord do? He consumes it in a fire. A little bit different than here at the meal that Abraham is having with the Lord.
You see, Abraham did the same thing. He looked into the distance, and he saw three men. He ran to them, bowed, he said, “Wait here. I’m going to go get you some food.” He goes and gets his best food, and he comes and serves it. And they sat, and they ate. And Abraham stood there. This means that he fellowshipped and that he dined with them, that the Lord dined, that the Lord feasted with Abraham.
What is so crazy about scripture is that it is the only time recorded in scripture where someone dines with the Lord before Christ was born. It’s the only time that someone has that fellowship, that intimacy with the Lord.
And the Lord does this to reiterate the promise to Sarah and Abraham. The promise, the covenant, the communion that Abraham had already accepted in faith by his faith. We know that as we’ve been going through the life of Abraham, he hears the Lord, he has faith in the Lord, and he’s obedient to the Lord, and he circumcises all the males from his home. Both his relatives and his servants. All. He begins this covenant with the Lord, and the Lord says, “Worship me. Serve me. Make me forever your one and only God, and I will bless you, and I will bless your people.”
Make the Lord your God, your one and only God, serve him, and him alone, and he will bless you and your people. Church, this time it’s not a question; it’s a statement. There is absolutely nothing too hard for the Lord. There is absolutely nothing that the Lord cannot do.
But making that a question again, is anything too hard for the Lord? How do you respond? Is there doubt in the back of your head? Is there a laugh? Is there a scoff? Is there a maybe? How do you answer that question in your life? Is anything too hard for the Lord?
Genesis 18:9-10(a) (NLT)
9 “Where is Sarah, your wife?” the visitors asked. “She’s inside the tent,” Abraham replied.
10 Then one of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, Sarah, will have a son! …”
There’s the promise again. There’s a reminder of a promise to Abraham and Sarah again. By this time, if Abraham doesn’t realize that he is in the presence of the Lord, who holds all authority, he probably does now. Because he calls his wife by her new, godly, divinely given name of Sarah, not Sarai. At this moment, another commentary says for sure that the light switch turned on in the head of Abraham, and he said, “Whoa! I just served the Lord. Thank goodness I used by best flour. Thank goodness I used my best calf. Thank goodness I hurried. Thank goodness I bowed.”
Again, I’m filled right now with these beautiful verses throughout scripture of how we are reminded that just like Abraham, at any point, we could be open to dining, to fellowshipping, to serving even angels. That intimacy that God allows us to have with him, that intimacy that God allowed Abraham to him with him.
It’s so beautiful how God displays his power by saying, “In a year…” He reminds him of the promise, and then he follows it up with an action, and he says, “Look. The all-powerful Lord, Me, is telling you that in a year from now, you will have a son. And then, guess what, when that son is born, I will be there.”
In Genesis Chapter 21, it comes true. We’ll go through it as we continue the “Life of Abraham,” and we see this promise be fulfilled by the Lord. We see him move with his authority. We see him move with his power. We see him move unchallenged and unmatched.
Again, church, the question I’ll ask this morning over and over and over again for the purpose of you wrestling with it is, “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” Not only in scripture but in your life. Not only by imagination but physically in your life.
What promises has God given you? That he’ll provide a job? That he’ll provide a home? That he’ll provide peace in your life? Honestly, I don’t know. I don’t know what he’s promised you specifically to your life, but I do know this. His biggest promise to all of us, including you, to all of human existence, to all of his creation to have the ability to say, “Jesus Christ, I accept you as my Lord and Savior,” is that he will send his Son to die on the Cross for your sins. That if you believe in him, you shall not perish but have everlasting life. Let me tell you, my friends, Christ has already died on the Cross. Jesus Christ has already been resurrected from the grave. And Jesus Christ is, will be, and will always be ruling and reigning at the right hand of God the Father, both now and as far as existence is in existence. Beyond what you can humanly think.
His biggest promise is for each and every one of us to have the opportunity to say, “Lord, I declare you with my tongue, and I bow a knee to you because you are my Lord, you are my King, you are my Savior, you are my Father.”
Luke writes this in Luke 19, verse 10.
Luke 19:10 (NLT)
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.”
As believers, as a Christ-follower, the promise, the single most greatest powerful promise that our life revolves around, is a promise that the Son of Man (meaning Jesus Christ) came to seek all those who were lost to save them, including you, including me. And that’s good news. That’s good news for you; if you remember that moment, this scripture became true in your life, and you can remember, man! I remember. I remember God revealing his greatest promise in my life. It’s even better news for you in this room if you’re lost.
If you don’t know him because it is a reminder of a promise to you again this morning, like he reminds Abraham and Sarah that he has been sent the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, to die for you, to find you if you’re lost, and call you to himself. Get a hold of that. Fall in love with who he is. Allow him to reign and rule in your life.
It’s so awesome to me that we get to be his adopted children, that he gives us the opportunity to be our Father in Heaven, and that we get the opportunity to be citizens of Heaven. That we get to serve, just like Abraham served, we get to serve the Lord, who is all-powerful because nothing is too hard for him.
Genesis 18:10(b)-12 (NLT)
10 . . . Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent.
11 Abraham and Sarah were both very old by this time, and Sarah was long past the age of having children.
12 So she laughed silently to herself and said, “How could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master—my husband—is also so old?”
I like to imagine in this section of scripture that Sarah’s ear is kind of pressed against the tent, and she’s hearing the conversation that Abraham is having with the Lord and the two angels. Remember, as we paint the picture this morning, this conversation, this dining, this feast is taking place right underneath the shade of a tree, right outside of Abraham’s tent. Sarah is inside. Abraham is outside fellowshipping with the Lord. And Sarah is just hearing the conversation that is taking place. She’s also being reminded of the promise that the Lord is reminding them both of.
But you see, her laugh wasn’t a laughter of joy, wasn’t a laughter of rejoicing, wasn’t a laughter of saying, “Lord. You are faithful, and I believe that this will be true.” It was the laughter of doubt. It was the reaction of what had crossed her mind in that moment.
Yes, for a ninety-year-old woman and a one-hundred-year-old man under their own power, under their own human ability, it would be next to impossible to have a son at that age, let alone a healthy son at that age. It would be impossible for them to do many things. Just like us. Just by our own flesh. By our own doing, it’s next to impossible to do things that the Lord is carrying out in our lives.
Ephesians 3:20 (NLT)
20 Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.
You see, the Lord is not limited by our inability. And the Lord is not limited by our biggest capability. And this is what I mean. According to this verse, God is able to move despite your inability in your life. And God is able to move infinitely more than your greatest capability in your life. Because why? It says he can do “infinitely more than we might ask or think.”
But again, I ask this question, is anything too hard for the Lord? You see, the Lord doesn’t possess power. He doesn’t just have a lot of power. He isn’t just in possession of power. He is all-powerful. He is complete in utter power without an equal, without an opposite, without an opposer. Jesus stands alone as the pillar of power, as the pillar of authority, as ruling and reigning over your life, over all creation.
Again, verses flow into my head as I speak about it. And how he rules and reigns both in Heaven and on earth. And how he decrees and he says that all will bow to him on earth, under the earth, in every area of existence, everything points to him because he holds everything in the palm of his hand. The very God that flung every star into existence, the very God that gave you the breath of life, the very God that if you believe at the beginning of this message, the one who is behind all creation at his command alone was their life. At his command alone, there was creation; at his command alone have you existed.
Don’t think we don’t serve a God; it’s just a coincidence. Just like he planned and he designed to have this fellowship with Abraham, he created you. He knit you. He displayed his power in your life at your birth. It says before you were born, actually, in your existence, in the thoughts that he has about you. And even more so, he will display the greatest displayment of his power in your life is when he calls you to himself.
Is it too hard for the Lord to transform your life? Is it too hard for the Lord to heal what is broken inside of you? Is it too hard for him to just fix all that mess that we carry inside our hearts, all that mess that we carry in our minds? All that hurt that someone has caused us, all that hurt that we’ve gone through? Is he not great enough? Is he not powerful enough? Is he not all capable of delivering you from that? Is it too hard for the Lord to fill every single need of your life? Of course not. No.
Look, I want you guys to do this. We’re going to use that very sentence, that very verse, that very question that is asked in this section of scripture, is it not too hard for the Lord to ________ in my life? And you fill in the blank. This is what I mean by that blank. In that blank, I want you to hold what it is that you’re thinking in your head, what is coming across your mind right now that you’re wrestling with, that you feel defeated.
Is it too hard for the Lord to deliver me from this addiction? Is it too hard for the Lord to renew and refresh my marriage, to have those divorce papers that are sitting in my car or at home to just completely be transformed? Is it too hard for the Lord to completely heal me from all the loss I have felt in my life? All the brokenness I’ve gone through in my life? Is it too hard for the Lord to carry me through anxiety, to carry me through depression, to carry me through these valleys that are just so low in my life? Is it too hard for the King of kings and Lord of lords who reigns and rules to deliver you, to carry you, to uplift you, to remind you of the promises that he has given you? No.
I’ve shared a lot of examples with you guys and the opportunities I’ve had to teach. And it’s so crazy the way the enemy works. It’s so crazy the way he attacks. Because as I was studying for this section of scripture, I was filled with that doubt. I was filled with that fear. Especially in this season where my wife and I are in full-time ministry, I think, man, did I make the right decision? On Friday night, it was the weirdest thing. And it was just like, what in the world?
I started sermon prepping a lot on Friday morning, and then come Friday night, I didn’t want to study. I’m just being transparent with you guys. I didn’t want to study because my mind started getting attacked with thoughts of “was that the right move?” I mean I could just go sign up for a new job. That’s what was going through my head. But what was so beautiful is that following morning, Saturday, as I woke up early to continue studying, and I was reading God’s Word, and I was filled with this joy. And I was reminded of his promises of what was solidified. And I was reminded of his promises in my life. In that moment, I remembered the doubt I had the day before, but I remembered that I serve an even more powerful God who can carry me through that doubt and through that fear.
What is so important is that you get to make room in your life to spend that time with the Lord. To dine with him, to fellowship, to koinonia with him. Because, man, those moments that you spend with him, those moments that you hear from him, those moments that you hear his voice, you feel his presence, you know that your God is ruling and reigning and is real, it isn’t just an imagination, you’re filled with his joy. You’re filled with his peace. You’re filled knowing that you serve a God who holds complete power.
You see, it is not hard, by any means whatsoever, for the Lord to transform your doubt, your fear into confidence in him and him alone. That’s the God that we serve.
I’m filled with the funniest thought in my head right now. Growing up, I had a football coach. And this dude would shout, “Point blank! Period. That’s it! Nothing else! Period! That’s it! Go hit that guy! Do what you couldn’t do!” (It was football.) He was like, “Go do it!” And the reason I’m saying that right now is because that is the God that we serve. Period. Period. There is nothing too hard for the Lord, period. There is no but, there is no and, there is no if, there’s no “there’s a problem.” It is God and period – and that’s it because he has all authority. He has all power.
In this section of scripture, again, Sarah is reminded of the promise that God has given her and Abraham and is reminded of the power of the Lord.
In the next section of scripture, we find the title of the message this morning as the Lord asks it.
Genesis 18:13-14 (NLT)
13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh? Why did she say, ‘Can an old woman like me have a baby?’
14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
You see, the Lord in this verse, he’s speaking to Abraham. And as he’s speaking to Abraham, he’s ultimately rebuking Sarah. Another commentator says it was a gentle and loving rebuke because the wrath of God isn’t seen in that section of scripture. Instead, his power is seen in that section of scripture. He reminds Abraham, he asks Abraham, and he rebukes Sarah in the process. You see, the entire message is built on this rhetorical question. The question wasn’t asked for the purpose of being answered. This question was asked to state a great statement. Is anything too hard for the Lord?
But we have the privilege of answering this question. When you draw close to God, when you hear from the Lord, is anything too hard for the Lord in your life? Again, I know I have said that point over and over again. But it is on purpose so that it sticks and so that you wrestle with it.
Was it too hard in the life of Sarah for the Lord to give her a son? Is it too hard for the Lord in your life to radically transform the person that you are now into the person that he’s calling you to be in him and in him alone?
God displays his power not only in this section of scripture, not only in the Bible, not only in Genesis through Revelation, countless times does he show his power, but he also shows it in our lives daily.
You see, for me personally, I can remember the time in my life that the Lord showed me his power, the greatest I’ve ever experienced. And that was on July 15, 2018, when I was here in this room, kind of where Dave is sitting. Here in this room, when I heard, when I felt, when I had this sense that the Lord was calling me to himself. I remember getting up, and I remember by the time I came over here, I was bawling. You see, that day, the Lord, through his power, reminded me of his greatest promises in my life that he had sent his Son to die on the Cross for my sins while I was still a sinner. That he was giving me this opportunity to accept him as my Lord and Savior. And that day, I bowed my knee. And that day, I declared with my tongue that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.
And I say that with joy. I don’t say that to look down. I say that to ask you this question. Where are you in understanding this promise that, as a Christian, that our lives revolve around where are you? Are you still lost? Are you not allowing yourself to enter that place, enter that presence of the Lord, and be reminded of his promises continually and daily, and be refueled when you’re feeling low?
Salvation is the greatest promise that displays the power of God that no human being can do.
In Matthew, the Disciples are talking with Jesus. The Disciples are asking the Lord, “How is it that someone gets saved? Who gets saved? And how does someone get saved?
Matthew 19:26 (NLT)
26 Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.”
That is the power of the Lord in display. The salvation of a soul, the transformation of a life. That again, through human needs, through human capabilities, is completely impossible.
You see, through our lives, we may ask God for maybe a thousand, or a million, or a hundred different things. But the only one that matters, the only one that gets you into eternity, the only one that allows you to enter that feasting room and realize that we are all called to say, “Holy, holy, holy is your name, Lord God Almighty,” is the power of God that can transform your life from death to life.
So let me ask you this again as we jump into the last verse. Is anything too hard for the Lord?
Genesis 18:15 (NLT)
15 Sarah was afraid, so she denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh.” But the Lord said, “No, you did laugh.”
You see, fear costs Sarah in that moment in time. Fear and doubt reigned over Sarah’s mind in that moment and time. At the end, here in verse 15, she allows this doubt; she allows this fear to cause her to almost drift a little bit further away from God.
And my question is the same. What are we doing? What are you doing? As a church this morning, what are we doing? Are we letting the fear, and the doubt, and the disbelief of this world overdo the ability and the power and the mightiness that comes with the name of Jesus alone?
This reminds me, again, of another short story. I remember I might have been ten years old. My uncle, who is already with the Lord, I remember he told me this one time. He looked at me, and he said, “Hey, mijo. Let me tell you something. There is nothing more powerful, hold more authority, than the name of Jesus Christ.” And let me tell you before I even got saved, and even more so now, I used that to my advantage. Definitely more before I got saved. But now I see and I understand the power that comes with the authority of Jesus that all things must tremble because he is the source of all power.
The way you respond to this question this morning, to this question: is anything too hard for the Lord? The way you come to that conclusion, the way you come to the full power of God displaying his power in your life, is from knowing him. Not just knowing about him. Not just knowing cool things about the Bible. Not just having a parent, a friend, a grandfather, a sibling, a spouse who knows for themselves the answer to that question. But you coming to that realization to the answer to that question, is anything too hard for the Lord? Because there’s a difference between knowing the answer and living within that answer. And that answer is no because Jesus Christ is ruling and reigning at the right hand of the Father.
Is anything too hard for the Lord? Hold on to that. Wrestle with that. And let God rule and reign in your life.
But this morning, that question is applied to our lives – your life, my life. Is there anything that the Lord cannot do? Is anything too hard for the Lord?
This is what I mean. If you can believe Genesis 1, verse 1, where it says, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. and if you can believe Genesis 1, verse 26, Then God said, “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us…” if you can believe these verses of the miraculous power that is held at the voice that the command God gives in life and creation and existence – not to mention throughout the Bible – you should confidently be able to be sure about the answer to this question. Is anything too hard for the Lord?
Last week, Pastor Dave went through the message “God’s Promise is Sure.” In the life of Abraham, the promise that God gave him and Sarah was that he will make many descendants and many nations and princes and kings will be of his bloodline. But we know that through the course of going through the life of Abraham is this. When promised a son, they took matters into their own hands. They don’t want to understand what God’s plan and intention to carry out his promise to Abraham and Sarah, so they take it into their own hands. Abraham goes to Hagar, the servant of Sarah, and they have a son that way. And this son was the “son of the flesh” called Ishmael.
Let’s read the reiterated promise that the Lord gives Sarah and Abraham of a son.
Genesis 18:1-2 (NLT)
1 The Lord appeared again to Abraham near the oak grove belonging to Mamre. One day Abraham was sitting at the entrance to his tent during the hottest part of the day.
2 He looked up and noticed three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran to meet them and welcomed them, bowing low to the ground.
The Lord, again, appeared to Abraham. It’s not the first time, but it’s another time. What is uncertain at this time is if Abraham fully realizes and recognizes that it’s the Lord. But we know that according to this section of scripture, he runs and he bows low, which was custom, at this moment, for his culture.
It seems as if he knows. It seems as if he might have an idea that he is again meeting the Lord and his angels. What is so cool that we’ll see in this section of scripture is that God, through his grace, is preparing Abraham to fully believe that nothing is too hard for the Lord. Definitely not to fulfill the promise that he gave to him and Sarah. The promise is that they will have a son and that many nations will come out of their son.
Genesis 18:3-5 (NLT)
3 “My lord,” he said, “if it pleases you, stop here for a while.
4 Rest in the shade of this tree while water is brought to wash your feet.
5 And since you’ve honored your servant with this visit, let me prepare some food to refresh you before you continue on your journey.” “All right,” they said. “Do as you have said.”
What is so awesome about this section is that Abraham is getting ready to have a communion meal. A promise meal of fellowship with the Lord. The word is “koinonia.” For this fellowship, this intimacy of spending time with the Lord. It’s a covenant meal where Abraham and Sarah are about to be reminded of this promise that God has given them.
Ken Hughes writes this.
“The meal with Abraham was an exercise of spiritual intimacy. To dine with Yahweh at the table was and is the ultimate honor any mortal could have in this world.”
I like to imagine how it would be to be in that place, how it would be to dine with the Lord, how it would be to be reminded of his promises. How it would be that in the moments of doubt, God is there, and he reveals to you and reminds you, “Hey. I created you for this, and I’ve promised you this, and I keep my promises.”
Church, let me ask you again – in your life, in your personal life, is anything too hard for the Lord to do? You see, just like Abraham, we need to be open to creating an environment where we can fellowship with the Lord and where we can have that koinonia with the Lord. We are eager to prepare our minds and our hearts to hear from God. When we are eager to hear his promises, his voice, to know the answer to this question, is anything at all too hard for the Lord?
This environment, this place, could be here this morning. This place could be in your home, in your prayer closet, when you go home later today, before you go to bed tonight. This place could be in your drive on your way to work tomorrow morning. To spend the intimate moments, that time where you say, “Lord. I am here, and I want to hear from you, God.” Create the environment to draw close to the Lord so that you will know the answer.
You see, the way you come to not just knowing the answer but understanding the answer and living within the answer to “is anything too hard for the Lord” is by spending that time with him. Otherwise, it’s just knowledge. Otherwise, it’s just information in your life. It’s not his transforming power to answer that question faithfully in your heart and in your mind.
Again, what is so cool, is what we will see throughout this section of scripture, towards the end of this section of scripture, that God knows. God knows Sarah’s very thoughts, the very thing she whispers, the very thing she utters to herself – God knows. You see, we serve a God who is all-powerful. We serve a God who sees all things. As Hagar learned a few sections ago, we serve a God who knows all things, as Sarah will come to find out in this section of scripture. As we will come to find out in this section of scripture, he knows.
But now, let’s look at how Abraham prepared his home for the Lord.
Genesis 18:6-8 (NLT)
6 So Abraham ran back to the tent and said to Sarah, “Hurry! Get three large measures of your best flour, knead it into dough, and bake some bread.”
7 Then Abraham ran out to the herd and chose a tender calf and gave it to his servant, who quickly prepared it.
8 When the food was ready, Abraham took some yogurt and milk and the roasted meat, and he served it to the men. As they ate, Abraham waited on them in the shade of the trees.
Look at Abraham’s actions. His enthusiasm. His eagerness to serve the Lord. His eagerness to create that atmosphere where he can serve the Lord, where he can hear from the Lord. He ran for his wife quickly to get the best flour to knead the bread. He hurried to pick the best calf. His servant quickly prepared it. And then Abraham comes and serves the food.
Again, what pops into my head right now, is this commentary, this beautiful picture of this feast. Not just any normal feast but a royal feast where he prepares the best that he has for the one that he is serving – the one being the Lord. It’s so cool to paint that picture in your head, to let it come to life in your mind as you look at this section of verses. Abraham was that eager to create that space.
Not to mention that as this is taking place, Abraham is believed to be one hundred years old. But what is so beautiful about this section of scripture is as I was reading it, the thought that kept coming to me was the women’s ministry that meets here every Thursday morning. Every Thursday morning, they get here pretty early, and they have a Bible study. And in that Bible study, they fellowship to hear from God. They’re going through this awesome devotional right now. What is so beautiful is that every time they are done with their Bible study, these women have this joy in their hearts. They clean this place. They vacuum the floor, prepare the children’s ministry room, they’re cleaning everything. The bathrooms, you name it. And they have this joy in them because they’re not doing it for Pastor Dave, they’re not doing it for me, they’re not doing it for anyone. In their hearts, they’re preparing this place for the Lord. They are preparing this place every week for the Lord so that he meets us here on Wednesdays, so that he meets us here on Sundays, and that he meets us every other time because they want to present the best that we have to him.
That picture is so beautiful because no matter your age, the youngest or oldest in the room, it is not too hard for the Lord to move in your personal life, despite your past. Despite what’s holding you back. It is not too hard for the Lord to move in your life.
That makes me think how beautiful it would be if we all did that. If we all enthusiastically, as if we were preparing a meal for the Lord, prepare to spend time with the Lord. Prepare to hear from the Lord. How awesome would it be to place ourselves in that mindset.
I’m saying this not to look down. Not to elevate myself by any means. I’m saying this with you guys. I’m saying this because I know throughout a week, from a Sunday to a Sunday, how difficult it sometimes gets to find that place for the purpose of getting to know our almighty, powerful Lord. To hear from him. To be reminded of his promises in our lives. To be reminded of his promises in our eternity with him.
But church, what is exciting is as a believer in this room, you will feast with the Lord. As a believer in the room, you will dine at his table. You will say, “Halleluiah! For the Lord our God is mighty and his reigning and his ruling.”
I was talking to Patricia a little bit after the first service, and she pretty much paraphrased the quote I just paraphrased with more detail. And she shared with me, “I sometimes picture that in my head of how beautiful it will be one day when I am dining with the Lord, and just the amounts from different nations, different people, different times, are all worshiping the Lord. And how it will sound like the floodgates are opening and how it will be this overwhelming environment where everyone’s sole purpose is to say, ‘God, we glorify you. We want to bring you glory. We want to see your power. We want you to move in our lives.’”
That’s a promise. That’s something to look forward to as a believer in the room. You will dine with him. The only reason I keep saying that is because I was reading this section of scripture, I thought, “How cool would it be? How cool would it be to be there at that dinner table? As the Lord counted Abraham as a friend of his as they fellowshipped. As they get to know each other. Again, the word is koinonia, spending time and fellowshipping and getting to know your Creator.
This is what I mean by preparing a place for you to hear from the Lord. It’s important that you prepare this place so that you prepare the altar of your heart and your mind to hear the reminders of God’s promises in your life. And to fully know with confidence the answer to the question, is anything too hard for the Lord?
When I was preparing for this message, it reminded me of one of the previous messages I taught, the story of Gideon. How he had a similar encounter with the Lord. A similar meeting with the Lord. The Lord appears to him, and he runs, and he asks them to just wait here. “I’ll be back. I’m going to go prepare you some food.” He hurried. He got whatever he had (it wasn’t a lot in his time), and he came and brought it back to the Lord. He put it at his feet. But in this case, in the story of Gideon, what does the Lord do? He consumes it in a fire. A little bit different than here at the meal that Abraham is having with the Lord.
You see, Abraham did the same thing. He looked into the distance, and he saw three men. He ran to them, bowed, he said, “Wait here. I’m going to go get you some food.” He goes and gets his best food, and he comes and serves it. And they sat, and they ate. And Abraham stood there. This means that he fellowshipped and that he dined with them, that the Lord dined, that the Lord feasted with Abraham.
What is so crazy about scripture is that it is the only time recorded in scripture where someone dines with the Lord before Christ was born. It’s the only time that someone has that fellowship, that intimacy with the Lord.
And the Lord does this to reiterate the promise to Sarah and Abraham. The promise, the covenant, the communion that Abraham had already accepted in faith by his faith. We know that as we’ve been going through the life of Abraham, he hears the Lord, he has faith in the Lord, and he’s obedient to the Lord, and he circumcises all the males from his home. Both his relatives and his servants. All. He begins this covenant with the Lord, and the Lord says, “Worship me. Serve me. Make me forever your one and only God, and I will bless you, and I will bless your people.”
Make the Lord your God, your one and only God, serve him, and him alone, and he will bless you and your people. Church, this time it’s not a question; it’s a statement. There is absolutely nothing too hard for the Lord. There is absolutely nothing that the Lord cannot do.
But making that a question again, is anything too hard for the Lord? How do you respond? Is there doubt in the back of your head? Is there a laugh? Is there a scoff? Is there a maybe? How do you answer that question in your life? Is anything too hard for the Lord?
Genesis 18:9-10(a) (NLT)
9 “Where is Sarah, your wife?” the visitors asked. “She’s inside the tent,” Abraham replied.
10 Then one of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, Sarah, will have a son! …”
There’s the promise again. There’s a reminder of a promise to Abraham and Sarah again. By this time, if Abraham doesn’t realize that he is in the presence of the Lord, who holds all authority, he probably does now. Because he calls his wife by her new, godly, divinely given name of Sarah, not Sarai. At this moment, another commentary says for sure that the light switch turned on in the head of Abraham, and he said, “Whoa! I just served the Lord. Thank goodness I used by best flour. Thank goodness I used my best calf. Thank goodness I hurried. Thank goodness I bowed.”
Again, I’m filled right now with these beautiful verses throughout scripture of how we are reminded that just like Abraham, at any point, we could be open to dining, to fellowshipping, to serving even angels. That intimacy that God allows us to have with him, that intimacy that God allowed Abraham to him with him.
It’s so beautiful how God displays his power by saying, “In a year…” He reminds him of the promise, and then he follows it up with an action, and he says, “Look. The all-powerful Lord, Me, is telling you that in a year from now, you will have a son. And then, guess what, when that son is born, I will be there.”
In Genesis Chapter 21, it comes true. We’ll go through it as we continue the “Life of Abraham,” and we see this promise be fulfilled by the Lord. We see him move with his authority. We see him move with his power. We see him move unchallenged and unmatched.
Again, church, the question I’ll ask this morning over and over and over again for the purpose of you wrestling with it is, “Is anything too hard for the Lord?” Not only in scripture but in your life. Not only by imagination but physically in your life.
What promises has God given you? That he’ll provide a job? That he’ll provide a home? That he’ll provide peace in your life? Honestly, I don’t know. I don’t know what he’s promised you specifically to your life, but I do know this. His biggest promise to all of us, including you, to all of human existence, to all of his creation to have the ability to say, “Jesus Christ, I accept you as my Lord and Savior,” is that he will send his Son to die on the Cross for your sins. That if you believe in him, you shall not perish but have everlasting life. Let me tell you, my friends, Christ has already died on the Cross. Jesus Christ has already been resurrected from the grave. And Jesus Christ is, will be, and will always be ruling and reigning at the right hand of God the Father, both now and as far as existence is in existence. Beyond what you can humanly think.
His biggest promise is for each and every one of us to have the opportunity to say, “Lord, I declare you with my tongue, and I bow a knee to you because you are my Lord, you are my King, you are my Savior, you are my Father.”
Luke writes this in Luke 19, verse 10.
Luke 19:10 (NLT)
10 For the Son of Man came to seek and save those who are lost.”
As believers, as a Christ-follower, the promise, the single most greatest powerful promise that our life revolves around, is a promise that the Son of Man (meaning Jesus Christ) came to seek all those who were lost to save them, including you, including me. And that’s good news. That’s good news for you; if you remember that moment, this scripture became true in your life, and you can remember, man! I remember. I remember God revealing his greatest promise in my life. It’s even better news for you in this room if you’re lost.
If you don’t know him because it is a reminder of a promise to you again this morning, like he reminds Abraham and Sarah that he has been sent the Son of Man, Jesus Christ, to die for you, to find you if you’re lost, and call you to himself. Get a hold of that. Fall in love with who he is. Allow him to reign and rule in your life.
It’s so awesome to me that we get to be his adopted children, that he gives us the opportunity to be our Father in Heaven, and that we get the opportunity to be citizens of Heaven. That we get to serve, just like Abraham served, we get to serve the Lord, who is all-powerful because nothing is too hard for him.
Genesis 18:10(b)-12 (NLT)
10 . . . Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent.
11 Abraham and Sarah were both very old by this time, and Sarah was long past the age of having children.
12 So she laughed silently to herself and said, “How could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master—my husband—is also so old?”
I like to imagine in this section of scripture that Sarah’s ear is kind of pressed against the tent, and she’s hearing the conversation that Abraham is having with the Lord and the two angels. Remember, as we paint the picture this morning, this conversation, this dining, this feast is taking place right underneath the shade of a tree, right outside of Abraham’s tent. Sarah is inside. Abraham is outside fellowshipping with the Lord. And Sarah is just hearing the conversation that is taking place. She’s also being reminded of the promise that the Lord is reminding them both of.
But you see, her laugh wasn’t a laughter of joy, wasn’t a laughter of rejoicing, wasn’t a laughter of saying, “Lord. You are faithful, and I believe that this will be true.” It was the laughter of doubt. It was the reaction of what had crossed her mind in that moment.
Yes, for a ninety-year-old woman and a one-hundred-year-old man under their own power, under their own human ability, it would be next to impossible to have a son at that age, let alone a healthy son at that age. It would be impossible for them to do many things. Just like us. Just by our own flesh. By our own doing, it’s next to impossible to do things that the Lord is carrying out in our lives.
Ephesians 3:20 (NLT)
20 Now all glory to God, who is able, through his mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.
You see, the Lord is not limited by our inability. And the Lord is not limited by our biggest capability. And this is what I mean. According to this verse, God is able to move despite your inability in your life. And God is able to move infinitely more than your greatest capability in your life. Because why? It says he can do “infinitely more than we might ask or think.”
But again, I ask this question, is anything too hard for the Lord? You see, the Lord doesn’t possess power. He doesn’t just have a lot of power. He isn’t just in possession of power. He is all-powerful. He is complete in utter power without an equal, without an opposite, without an opposer. Jesus stands alone as the pillar of power, as the pillar of authority, as ruling and reigning over your life, over all creation.
Again, verses flow into my head as I speak about it. And how he rules and reigns both in Heaven and on earth. And how he decrees and he says that all will bow to him on earth, under the earth, in every area of existence, everything points to him because he holds everything in the palm of his hand. The very God that flung every star into existence, the very God that gave you the breath of life, the very God that if you believe at the beginning of this message, the one who is behind all creation at his command alone was their life. At his command alone, there was creation; at his command alone have you existed.
Don’t think we don’t serve a God; it’s just a coincidence. Just like he planned and he designed to have this fellowship with Abraham, he created you. He knit you. He displayed his power in your life at your birth. It says before you were born, actually, in your existence, in the thoughts that he has about you. And even more so, he will display the greatest displayment of his power in your life is when he calls you to himself.
Is it too hard for the Lord to transform your life? Is it too hard for the Lord to heal what is broken inside of you? Is it too hard for him to just fix all that mess that we carry inside our hearts, all that mess that we carry in our minds? All that hurt that someone has caused us, all that hurt that we’ve gone through? Is he not great enough? Is he not powerful enough? Is he not all capable of delivering you from that? Is it too hard for the Lord to fill every single need of your life? Of course not. No.
Look, I want you guys to do this. We’re going to use that very sentence, that very verse, that very question that is asked in this section of scripture, is it not too hard for the Lord to ________ in my life? And you fill in the blank. This is what I mean by that blank. In that blank, I want you to hold what it is that you’re thinking in your head, what is coming across your mind right now that you’re wrestling with, that you feel defeated.
Is it too hard for the Lord to deliver me from this addiction? Is it too hard for the Lord to renew and refresh my marriage, to have those divorce papers that are sitting in my car or at home to just completely be transformed? Is it too hard for the Lord to completely heal me from all the loss I have felt in my life? All the brokenness I’ve gone through in my life? Is it too hard for the Lord to carry me through anxiety, to carry me through depression, to carry me through these valleys that are just so low in my life? Is it too hard for the King of kings and Lord of lords who reigns and rules to deliver you, to carry you, to uplift you, to remind you of the promises that he has given you? No.
I’ve shared a lot of examples with you guys and the opportunities I’ve had to teach. And it’s so crazy the way the enemy works. It’s so crazy the way he attacks. Because as I was studying for this section of scripture, I was filled with that doubt. I was filled with that fear. Especially in this season where my wife and I are in full-time ministry, I think, man, did I make the right decision? On Friday night, it was the weirdest thing. And it was just like, what in the world?
I started sermon prepping a lot on Friday morning, and then come Friday night, I didn’t want to study. I’m just being transparent with you guys. I didn’t want to study because my mind started getting attacked with thoughts of “was that the right move?” I mean I could just go sign up for a new job. That’s what was going through my head. But what was so beautiful is that following morning, Saturday, as I woke up early to continue studying, and I was reading God’s Word, and I was filled with this joy. And I was reminded of his promises of what was solidified. And I was reminded of his promises in my life. In that moment, I remembered the doubt I had the day before, but I remembered that I serve an even more powerful God who can carry me through that doubt and through that fear.
What is so important is that you get to make room in your life to spend that time with the Lord. To dine with him, to fellowship, to koinonia with him. Because, man, those moments that you spend with him, those moments that you hear from him, those moments that you hear his voice, you feel his presence, you know that your God is ruling and reigning and is real, it isn’t just an imagination, you’re filled with his joy. You’re filled with his peace. You’re filled knowing that you serve a God who holds complete power.
You see, it is not hard, by any means whatsoever, for the Lord to transform your doubt, your fear into confidence in him and him alone. That’s the God that we serve.
I’m filled with the funniest thought in my head right now. Growing up, I had a football coach. And this dude would shout, “Point blank! Period. That’s it! Nothing else! Period! That’s it! Go hit that guy! Do what you couldn’t do!” (It was football.) He was like, “Go do it!” And the reason I’m saying that right now is because that is the God that we serve. Period. Period. There is nothing too hard for the Lord, period. There is no but, there is no and, there is no if, there’s no “there’s a problem.” It is God and period – and that’s it because he has all authority. He has all power.
In this section of scripture, again, Sarah is reminded of the promise that God has given her and Abraham and is reminded of the power of the Lord.
In the next section of scripture, we find the title of the message this morning as the Lord asks it.
Genesis 18:13-14 (NLT)
13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh? Why did she say, ‘Can an old woman like me have a baby?’
14 Is anything too hard for the Lord? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
You see, the Lord in this verse, he’s speaking to Abraham. And as he’s speaking to Abraham, he’s ultimately rebuking Sarah. Another commentator says it was a gentle and loving rebuke because the wrath of God isn’t seen in that section of scripture. Instead, his power is seen in that section of scripture. He reminds Abraham, he asks Abraham, and he rebukes Sarah in the process. You see, the entire message is built on this rhetorical question. The question wasn’t asked for the purpose of being answered. This question was asked to state a great statement. Is anything too hard for the Lord?
But we have the privilege of answering this question. When you draw close to God, when you hear from the Lord, is anything too hard for the Lord in your life? Again, I know I have said that point over and over again. But it is on purpose so that it sticks and so that you wrestle with it.
Was it too hard in the life of Sarah for the Lord to give her a son? Is it too hard for the Lord in your life to radically transform the person that you are now into the person that he’s calling you to be in him and in him alone?
God displays his power not only in this section of scripture, not only in the Bible, not only in Genesis through Revelation, countless times does he show his power, but he also shows it in our lives daily.
You see, for me personally, I can remember the time in my life that the Lord showed me his power, the greatest I’ve ever experienced. And that was on July 15, 2018, when I was here in this room, kind of where Dave is sitting. Here in this room, when I heard, when I felt, when I had this sense that the Lord was calling me to himself. I remember getting up, and I remember by the time I came over here, I was bawling. You see, that day, the Lord, through his power, reminded me of his greatest promises in my life that he had sent his Son to die on the Cross for my sins while I was still a sinner. That he was giving me this opportunity to accept him as my Lord and Savior. And that day, I bowed my knee. And that day, I declared with my tongue that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.
And I say that with joy. I don’t say that to look down. I say that to ask you this question. Where are you in understanding this promise that, as a Christian, that our lives revolve around where are you? Are you still lost? Are you not allowing yourself to enter that place, enter that presence of the Lord, and be reminded of his promises continually and daily, and be refueled when you’re feeling low?
Salvation is the greatest promise that displays the power of God that no human being can do.
In Matthew, the Disciples are talking with Jesus. The Disciples are asking the Lord, “How is it that someone gets saved? Who gets saved? And how does someone get saved?
Matthew 19:26 (NLT)
26 Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But with God everything is possible.”
That is the power of the Lord in display. The salvation of a soul, the transformation of a life. That again, through human needs, through human capabilities, is completely impossible.
You see, through our lives, we may ask God for maybe a thousand, or a million, or a hundred different things. But the only one that matters, the only one that gets you into eternity, the only one that allows you to enter that feasting room and realize that we are all called to say, “Holy, holy, holy is your name, Lord God Almighty,” is the power of God that can transform your life from death to life.
So let me ask you this again as we jump into the last verse. Is anything too hard for the Lord?
Genesis 18:15 (NLT)
15 Sarah was afraid, so she denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh.” But the Lord said, “No, you did laugh.”
You see, fear costs Sarah in that moment in time. Fear and doubt reigned over Sarah’s mind in that moment and time. At the end, here in verse 15, she allows this doubt; she allows this fear to cause her to almost drift a little bit further away from God.
And my question is the same. What are we doing? What are you doing? As a church this morning, what are we doing? Are we letting the fear, and the doubt, and the disbelief of this world overdo the ability and the power and the mightiness that comes with the name of Jesus alone?
This reminds me, again, of another short story. I remember I might have been ten years old. My uncle, who is already with the Lord, I remember he told me this one time. He looked at me, and he said, “Hey, mijo. Let me tell you something. There is nothing more powerful, hold more authority, than the name of Jesus Christ.” And let me tell you before I even got saved, and even more so now, I used that to my advantage. Definitely more before I got saved. But now I see and I understand the power that comes with the authority of Jesus that all things must tremble because he is the source of all power.
The way you respond to this question this morning, to this question: is anything too hard for the Lord? The way you come to that conclusion, the way you come to the full power of God displaying his power in your life, is from knowing him. Not just knowing about him. Not just knowing cool things about the Bible. Not just having a parent, a friend, a grandfather, a sibling, a spouse who knows for themselves the answer to that question. But you coming to that realization to the answer to that question, is anything too hard for the Lord? Because there’s a difference between knowing the answer and living within that answer. And that answer is no because Jesus Christ is ruling and reigning at the right hand of the Father.
Is anything too hard for the Lord? Hold on to that. Wrestle with that. And let God rule and reign in your life.