THE POWER OF GOD AND MAN

NCTM Monday Night Studies. 1st Term. 3rd February 1997.

Introduction to the Course

In this Term we will have nine Studies on this subject. If we ask, ‘Why should we have such a Course?’, then the answer must be ‘All power belongs to God’;

1. whilst God has no "raw power", yet he rules properly over his universe by means of that power;
2. those to whom power has been delegated—both human and celestial creatures—often use that power wrongly;
3. God’s power will bring his plan and purpose to its fullness and completion;
4. history is a struggle between the Kingdom of God and the kingdom of evil: the greatest power will win; and
5. true power is love’. Knowledge concerning this power will be most practical.

We know that we need the power God gives us, for by it we live, fight evil, and share with God in his plan. Our knowledge must be down-to-earth and involve such practical living. It is not just a theological fact. Human beings come to know that power in the action of life, and even in weakness since God’s power is made perfect in our weakness.