Not only is nature represented as being absolutely subject to God's will and word, but men also are represented as being absolutely subject to His will and word. For example, we read in Jas. 4:12-15: +"One only is the lawgiver and judge, even he who is able to save and to destroy: But who art thou that judgest thy neighbour? (13) Come now, ye that say, to-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain: (14) Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. What is your life? For ye are a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away. (15) For that ye ought to say, if the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that."+
Happy is the man who voluntarily subjects himself to God's will and word, but whether we voluntarily subject ourselves to God's will and word or not, we are subject to His will and word whether or no. The angels also are subject to His will and word (Heb. 1:13, 14) and even Satan himself is, although entirely against his own will, absolutely subject to the will and word of God, as is evident from Job 1:12 and Job 2:6.
_The exercise of God's omnipotence is limited by His own wise and holy and loving will._ God _can do_ anything, but _will do_ only that which infinite wisdom and holiness and love dictate. This comes out, for example, in Isa. 59:1, 2: +"Behold, Jehovah's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: (2) But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear."+
3. _The God of the Bible is also omniscient._ In 1 John 3:20 we read: +"God knoweth all things."+ Turning to the Old Testament, in Ps. 147:5, we read: +"Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; his understanding is infinite."+ The literal translation of the last clause of this passage is "Of his understanding there is no number." In these passages it is plainly declared that "God knoweth all things" and that "His understanding is infinite." In Job 37:16 Elihu the messenger of God is represented as saying that Jehovah is "perfect in knowledge." Along the same line, in Acts 15:18 we read: +"Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world."+ The Revised Version makes a change in the translation of this verse but this change does not alter the sense of the truth here set forth that God knows all His works and all things from the beginning of the world. _Known to Him is everything from the most vast to the most minute detail._ In Ps. 147:4 we are told that, +"He telleth the number of the stars; he knoweth them all by name."+ While in Matt. 10:29 we are told that _not a sparrow_ falleth to the ground without Him. The stars in all their stupendous magnitude and the sparrows in all their insignificance are all equally in His mind.