H2O Church
This is part 6 in this series, looking exclusively at who God says He is. In this talk, we'll look at the confusing, controversial, yet beautiful aspect of God's sovereignty.
SOVEREIGNTY
Define: God is in control
Do you believe that? Do you live, feel, pray, and love as if God really is in control?
Daniel 4:34-35 ESV
4 images of sovereignty
Image 1-The Watchmaker
Image 2-The Cosmic Puppeteer
Image 3-The Chess Game
Image 4-The Divine Playwright
WHAT I HOPE YOU GET….
1. There is a difference between being sovereign (in control) over all and controlling all.
2. There is a difference between God fore-ordaining SOME events of human history, like the cross, and fore-ordaining all events of human history, such as evil.
3. This will sound strange, but when evil appears, it’s easy—perhaps there’s nothing easier to do—to confuse God and Satan.
Perhaps we do not realize the problem, so to call it, of enabling finite free wills to co-exist with Omnipotence. It seems to involve at every moment almost a sort of "divine abdication." -- C. S. Lewis
Psalm 115:3 ESV
Proverbs 19:21 ESV
Proverbs 16:33 ESV
Proverbs 21:1 ESV
Genesis 50:20 ESV
1. Sovereignty clears up our confusion about life.
2. Sovereignty enables us to RESPOND to life a certain way. We can become BETTER, NOT BITTER.
God is under, above, before, behind, and IN every circumstance.
James 1:2-4 ESV
1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV
3. Sovereignty enables us to participate in God’s good works.
Ephesians 2:10 ESV
4. Sovereignty invites us to have GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Acts 2:23 ESV
Acts 4:23-31 ESV