July 11, 2025 4:00 am
The exceeding greatness of God's power is boundless and surpasses dimensions of his attributes, including his power to bring Christ back from death and Hades, and his eternal weight of glory.
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Welcome to the Days of Praise podcast, a daily devotional by the Institute for Creation Research. Exceeding greatness. And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to usward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power? Ephesians I, nineteen. There are a number of scriptural superlatives that convey something of the tremendous magnitude of our great salvation.
These are marked by the adjective exceeding, which in the Greek implies essentially boundless, surpassing dimensions of the attributes it describes. First of all, as our text implies, his power available to us is one of exceeding greatness. Its magnitude is measured by the power required to bring Christ back from death and Hades. Consider also the measure of his grace, that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus. His grace saved us when we were dead in sins, but this is only a small token.
In the ages to come, we will experience his grace as one of exceeding riches. Then there is the wonderful peace of God. The peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. In this verse, the word passeth is the same word. Paul is saying that God's peace exceeds understanding.
Finally, consider his glory. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. The future eternal glory is one of exceeding weight or abundance. Thus, the infinite blessings and resources of our salvation in Christ are described as providing the power of surpassing greatness, the grace of surpassing richness, the peace which surpasses all understanding, and the eternal glory of surpassing abundance. All of this is freely available to usward who believe.
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