The Attributes of God – The Almighty
The lecture presents the attribute “able to do all things” of God, and affirms that God’s power is unlimited, and that He alone is the Creator and able to raise the dead and create from nothing. It shows that the abilities of angels, humans, and saints originate from God’s power alone.
The spiritual and educational dimension from a Coptic Orthodox faith perspective
The lecture highlights God’s love, patience, and forgiveness as other faces of His power: His power in love that saved humans, in forbearance that endures people’s sins, and in forgiveness that includes repentant ones even those who came at the last hour. It also shows God’s humility when He took the form of a servant in His incarnation for the salvation of humans.
Examples that indicate God’s power
The speaker cites biblical and hagiographical incidents: creation, raising the dead, casting out demons, healing diseases, splitting the sea, bringing water from the rock, saving the three youths from the fire, saving Daniel from the lions’ den, and the story of Jonah inside the fish — all examples that demonstrate God’s supreme power.
The role of saints and people in miracles
The lecture affirms that some miracles occur through saints but not from their personal strength; rather by God’s work in them; and that man is given gifts, mind, and ability from God’s love to use them for good and the glorification of God.
God’s power in salvation and love
The lecture stresses that God’s love is a power that worked on the cross and through which God showed the greatest love by sacrificing Himself for sinners, and this love is a reason to bring sinners back to Him and convert hearts (such as the effect of Augustine’s conversion and others).
God’s patience and enduring of sinners
The lecture speaks of God’s great patience in enduring human mistakes, insults, and unbelief, and how God refrains from an immediate punitive strike in order to open the door to repentance and return to Him.
A practical call to believers
The lecture calls the children of the Church to be strong as the image of God; strong in service, love, giving, mind, and virtue, and not to be conceited in their abilities but to glorify God and ask for His power to work in them as He worked in the saints.
Final admonition
The lecture urges listeners always to remember that God is able to do all things, and that the grace and help God gives is the secret of our true strength in spiritual life and service.
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