1. First of all, fix your attention upon our first text: +"God is Light"+ (1 John 1:5). These three words form a marvellously beautiful and overwhelmingly impressive statement of the truth. They set forth the Absolute Holiness and Perfect Wisdom of God. The words need rather to be meditated upon than to be expounded. +"In Him is no darkness at all."+ That is to say, in Him is no darkness of error, no darkness of ignorance, no darkness of sin, no darkness of moral imperfection or intellectual imperfection of any kind. The three words, "God is Light," form one of the most beautiful, one of the most striking and one of the most stupendous statements of truth that was ever penned. 2. To come to things more specific, _the God of the Bible is omnipotent_. This great truth comes out again and again in the Word of God. One direct statement of this great truth especially striking because of the connection in which it is found, occurs in Jer. 32:17, 27: +"Ah Lord Jehovah! Behold, thou hast made the heavens and the earth by thy great power and by thine outstretched arm: there is nothing too hard for thee."+ Here it is Jeremiah who makes the statement, but in the 27th verse it is Jehovah Himself who says: +"Behold, I am Jehovah, the God of all flesh: is there anything too hard for me?"+ In Job 42:2 we read these words of Job, when at last he has been brought to see and to recognise the true nature of Jehovah: +"I know that thou canst do all things and that no purpose of thine can be restrained."+ In Matt. 19:26 our Lord Jesus says: +"With God all things are possible."+ Taking these passages together, we are plainly taught by our Lord Himself and by others that _God can do all things, that nothing is too hard for Him, that all things are possible with Him. In a word, that God is omnipotent._ A very impressive passage in the book of Psalms setting forth this same great truth is Ps. 33:6-9: +"By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth. (7) He gathereth the waters of the sea together as a heap: he layeth up the deeps in storehouses. (8) Let all the earth fear Jehovah: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. (9) For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast."+ Here we see God by the mere utterance of His voice bringing to pass anything that He desires to be brought to pass. We find this same lofty conception of God in the very first chapter of the Bible, that chapter that so many people who imagine themselves scholarly are telling us is outgrown and not up to date, and yet which contains some of the sublimest utterances that were ever written, unmatched by anything that any philosopher or scientist or platform orator is saying to-day. The very first words of that chapter read: +"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth"+ (Gen. 1:1), a description of the origin of things that has never been matched