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Nothing’s Impossible For God!
It’s time for a song designed to encourage all of us to have more faith in our God and in Jesus Christ!
Nothing’s Impossible For God
Verse 1
Faith brought down Jericho’s walls, and
Saved Rahab and her family,
Faith can move a mountain of sin,
And turn a heart of stone to flesh!
Chorus
Mountains can jump into the sea,
Christ’s blood can turn evil to good,
Sin’s power can be removed for
Nothing’s impossible for God!
Verse 2
Faith parted the Jordan river,
Saved the Jews from Egypt’s power,
Faith changes pride to humbleness,
And turns enemy armies back!
Chorus
Mountains can jump into the sea,
Christ’s blood can turn evil to good,
Sin’s power can be removed for
Nothing’s impossible for God!
Verse 3
God’s love can waken dried up bones,
Turn sinners into loyal saints!
Love can shatter a stony heart,
And make an old sinner man cry!
Chorus
Mountains can jump into the sea,
Christ’s blood can turn evil to good,
Sin’s power can be removed for
Nothing’s impossible for God!
Verse 4
God’s Spirit did the Creating,
And brought Christ’s thoughts into being!
That same Holy Spirit exists
Within rekindled Adventists!
Chorus
Mountains can jump into the sea,
Christ’s blood can turn evil to good,
Sin’s power can be removed for
Nothing’s impossible for God!
Ending
Sin’s power can be removed for
Nothing’s impossible for God!
It’s time for a song designed to encourage all of us to have more faith in our God and in Jesus Christ! But a song is only as strong as the Word standing behind it. So let us walk through “Nothing’s Impossible For God” verse by verse and see that every line rests on Scripture.
The title is not a slogan. It is the angel Gabriel’s answer to a young woman who had just been told something impossible:
For with God nothing shall be impossible. (Luke 1:37 KJV)
Gabriel was not saying something new. He was repeating what the LORD had already said to Jeremiah:
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched out arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee. (Jeremiah 32:17 KJV)
And Jesus Himself put that same power within reach of the smallest faith:
If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. (Matthew 17:20 KJV)
That is the ground the chorus stands on, and the chorus is where the song makes its claim four times over:
Chorus
Mountains can jump into the sea,
Christ’s blood can turn evil to good,
Sin’s power can be removed for
Nothing’s impossible for God!
Mountains can jump into the sea is the Savior’s own picture:
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith. (Mark 11:23 KJV)
Christ’s blood can turn evil to good is the invitation of Isaiah and the promise of John:
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the LORD: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (Isaiah 1:18 KJV)
The blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. (1 John 1:7 KJV)
Sin’s power can be removed is not merely forgiveness of the record; it is deliverance from the dominion:
For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. (Romans 6:14 KJV)
Notice the order in the chorus. The mountain moves, then the blood cleanses, then sin’s power is broken — and the reason given for all three is the same reason: nothing’s impossible for God.
Verse 1 — Faith Brought Down Jericho’s Walls
Faith brought down Jericho’s walls, and
Saved Rahab and her family,
Faith can move a mountain of sin,
And turn a heart of stone to flesh!
The walls fell without a battering ram and without a siege:
So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. (Joshua 6:20 KJV)
And the New Testament tells us plainly what did it:
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days. (Hebrews 11:30 KJV)
The same chapter that records the city’s fall records a harlot’s rescue:
And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had. (Joshua 6:25 KJV)
By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not, when she had received the spies with peace. (Hebrews 11:31 KJV)
This is the heart of the verse. The same faith that levelled a fortress saved the least likely woman in it — and saved her whole family with her. Sister White draws out how easily heaven did the impossible thing:
How easily the armies of heaven brought down the walls of Jericho, that proud city whose bulwarks, forty years before, had struck terror to the unbelieving spies! (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 492)
Forty years earlier those same walls had looked impossible. They had not changed. Israel’s faith had. And that is why the verse turns immediately inward — from a wall of stone to a heart of stone:
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. (Ezekiel 36:26 KJV)
The work of the Holy Spirit is to enlighten the darkened understanding, to melt the selfish, stony heart, to subdue the rebellious transgressor, and save him from the corrupting influences of the world. (Testimonies for the Church, vol. 4, p. 441)
A mountain of sin is a real mountain. But it is not a large one to God.
Verse 2 — Faith Parted The Jordan River
Faith parted the Jordan river,
Saved the Jews from Egypt’s power,
Faith changes pride to humbleness,
And turns enemy armies back!
At the Jordan, the water stood up in a heap and the nation walked over:
That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan … and the people passed over right against Jericho. (Joshua 3:16 KJV)
Forty years before, the same God had done the same thing at a bigger sea:
And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided. (Exodus 14:21 KJV)
Two generations, two bodies of water, one Deliverer — and Sister White names Him as the same Person in both:
Then the Mighty One who had descended upon Sinai amid fire and smoke and thunder, who had parted the Red Sea and made a way through Jordan for the children of Israel, again manifested His power. (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 590)
She is also careful to say what Israel’s part was, which is exactly the balance this verse of the song keeps:
They did all that was in their power to do, and then the Mighty One of Israel divided the sea to make a path for their feet. (Patriarchs and Prophets, p. 290)
Then the verse makes its turn, as verse 1 did — from a parted river to a proud heart:
But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. (James 4:6 KJV)
Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up. (James 4:10 KJV)
And there is no better illustration of “faith changes pride to humbleness” than the hardest man in the Exodus story:
Pharaoh, the proud king, who once inquired, Who is the Lord that I should obey his voice? humbled himself and said, I have sinned. (Spiritual Gifts, vol. 3, p. 244)
Verse 3 — God’s Love Can Waken Dried Up Bones
God’s love can waken dried up bones,
Turn sinners into loyal saints!
Love can shatter a stony heart,
And make an old sinner man cry!
Ezekiel was set down in a valley full of bones and asked whether they could live:
Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the LORD. Thus saith the Lord GOD unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live. (Ezekiel 37:4-5 KJV)
And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live … then shall ye know that I the LORD have spoken it, and performed it, saith the LORD. (Ezekiel 37:14 KJV)
Sister White applies that valley directly to the people we are trying to reach:
A Vision of Our Work — The souls of those whom we desire to save are like the representation which Ezekiel saw in vision, — a valley of dry bones. (SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 4, p. 1165)
Yet nevertheless the word of the prophecy must be spoken even to those who are like the dry bones in the valley. (SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 4, p. 1165)
And note carefully what the song says does the shattering. Not fear. Not argument. Love.
By beholding the matchless love of Christ, the selfish heart will be melted and subdued. (Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 394)
If the love of Jesus does not subdue the heart, there are no means by which we can be reached. (Christ’s Object Lessons, p. 236)
That is why the line “make an old sinner man cry” belongs in a song about God’s power. Those tears are not weakness — they are the evidence that the stone has gone:
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. (Psalm 51:17 KJV)
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. (2 Corinthians 5:17 KJV)
Verse 4 — That Same Holy Spirit
God’s Spirit did the Creating,
And brought Christ’s thoughts into being!
That same Holy Spirit exists
Within rekindled Adventists!
This is the verse the whole song has been climbing toward, and it makes the boldest claim of the four. Begin where the Bible begins:
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (Genesis 1:2 KJV)
The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life. (Job 33:4 KJV)
“And brought Christ’s thoughts into being” — because the creating was Christ’s work, executed by His Spirit:
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. (John 1:3 KJV)
For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible … all things were created by him, and for him. (Colossians 1:16 KJV)
Now the claim: that same Spirit. Not a lesser one. Not a memory of one. Paul says the Spirit that raised Christ from the grave is the Spirit that dwells in the believer:
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you. (Romans 8:11 KJV)
The omnipotent power of the Holy Spirit is the defense of every contrite soul. (The Desire of Ages, p. 490)
And that is precisely why the work before us is not finished by our own strength:
Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. (Zechariah 4:6 KJV)
And then comes the word on which the whole verse turns: rekindled. It is chosen well. A fire that must be rekindled is a fire that was once burning and has gone low. That is an honest description, and Sister White said it more plainly than any of us would dare:
A revival of true godliness among us is the greatest and most urgent of all our needs. (Gospel Workers [1892], p. 370)
On that same page of Christian Service where that statement is reprinted, she writes as one pleading:
I lay down my pen and lift up my soul in prayer, that the Lord would breathe upon His backslidden people, who are as dry bones, that they may live. (Christian Service, p. 41)
There is verse 3 and verse 4 joined in a single sentence — the dry bones, and the breath that makes them live. And this is the promise held out to a rekindled people:
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. (Joel 2:28 KJV)
And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost. (Acts 2:4 KJV)
Under the figure of the early and the latter rain, that falls in Eastern lands at seedtime and harvest, the Hebrew prophets foretold the bestowal of spiritual grace in extraordinary measure upon God’s church. (The Acts of the Apostles, p. 54)
And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. (Revelation 18:1 KJV)
Which is why the song does not end on the chorus, but on two lines lifted out of it:
Sin’s power can be removed for
Nothing’s impossible for God!
Of the four things the chorus claims, the song ends on the one that matters most to you personally. Moving a mountain would be a spectacle. Removing the power of sin from your life is a salvation.
And if you are tempted to think your case is the exception — that your walls are too thick, your river too deep, your heart too hard, your bones too dry — then look once more at who is on the list. A fortress city. A harlot. A proud king who said “Who is the Lord?” A valley of the dead. A church grown cold.
Not one of them was a promising case. Every one of them was changed.
Ah Lord GOD! … there is nothing too hard for thee. (Jeremiah 32:17 KJV)
Sing it, and believe it.
