Are there really 3 things that God cannot do? Can’t God do everything? Let’s take a look at God’s own Word to see what He tells us. 1. GOD CANNOT LIE It is impossible for God to lie, because it is against who He is. God is Holy and His Word is truth. Psalm 119:160 says “[God’s] word is true from the beginning.” 2. GOD CANNOT CHANGE God’s character, will, and promises never change. He tells us in His Word, “I am the Lord, I change not” (Malachi 3:6). Only God is unchangeable. 3. GOD CANNOT ALLOW SINNERS INTO HEAVEN This seems hard to believe, but it is absolutely true—and true forever—because God cannot lie and God cannot change. God Himself says “your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid His face from you” (Isaiah 59:2). Sin cannot be found in Heaven where God is! Unfortunately, this is very bad news for all of us because we read that “all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23). This may be difficult to believe, but you and I are sinners. Even if we think we are “pretty good,” the Bible says otherwise. We read in 1 John 1:10: “If we say that we have not sinned, we make Him [God] a liar.” Our sin will keep us from Heaven. Is there a way to Heaven? How can we get there? Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6). There are not many ways to get to Heaven. There is one way, and that way is Jesus Himself, because He alone “once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18). Again, we know this is true, because God said it and He doesn’t lie and He doesn’t change. “Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Salvation is only through Jesus. There is a conversation recorded in the Bible where someone asks: “What must I do to be saved?” The answer was: “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved” (Acts 16:30-31). You may ask, “But, don’t I have to do something else?” God gives the answer: “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9). God made salvation so plain and so simple. Simply take God at His Word. His Word is eternally true (see Psalm 119:160). You now know that you are a sinner; you know that there is no salvation in works; and you know that you must believe on the Lord Jesus Christ to be saved. God tells you, “Repent ye, and believe the gospel” (Mark 1:15). “If thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” (Romans 10:9). Have you repented and believed on the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior? If so, you can know that you have eternal life. God says in 1 John 5:13, “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life.” In the past, you may have hoped that you were going to Heaven. Now you may know it!
