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Sovereignty
Don’t Waste Your Cancer – John Piper
The design of God in your cancer is not to train you in the rationalistic, human calculation of odds. The world gets comfort from their odds. Not Christians. Some count their chariots (percentages of survival) and some count their horses (side effects of treatment), but we trust in the name of the Lord our God (Psalm 20:7).
The Sovereignty of God – A.W. Pink
The Sovereignty of God is an expression that once was generally understood. It was a phrase commonly used in religious literature. It was a theme frequently expounded in the pulpit. It was a truth which brought comfort to many hearts, and gave virility and stability to Christian character. But, today, to make mention of God’s Sovereignty is, in many quarters, to speak in an unknown tongue.
The Sovereignty of God – Scripture References
God’s purposes are unstoppable. They cannot be thwarted and God can do whatever He pleases:
Isaiah 46:10; 43:13; 55:11
Chosen from Eternity, The Sovereignty of God in Salvation – John MacArthur
God bought us out of our slavery to sin, death, hell, Satan and demons, the fallen flesh, and the world. Worthless and hopeless, with darkened minds and hearts bent on evil, we were unworthy slaves–yet He still came and bought us from the slave market. We were bought because we were predestined, predestined because we were chosen, chosen because we were loved, and loved because it was God’s good pleasure to do so.
The Sovereignty of God and Prayer – John Piper
In short, I do not ask God to sit back and wait for my neighbor to decide to change. I do not suggest to God that He keep his distance lest his beauty become irresistable and violate my neighbor’s power of self-determination. No! I pray that he ravish my unbelieving neighbor with his beauty, that he unshackle the enslaved will, that he make the dead alive and that he suffer no resistance to stop him lest my neighbor perish.
Suffering and the Sovereignty of God – Joni Eareckson Tada
The early Christians praised God that the men responsible for Christ’s death had only done “what your power and will had decided beforehand should happen” (Acts 4:28). God was in control in a sovereign and powerful way. God aborted the plans of the devil as well as the intentions of those evil men. The early Christians viewed the crucifixion much like Joseph viewed his problems: “You intended it for evil, but God meant it for my good.”
God’s Sovereignty in the Salvation of Men – Jonathan Edwards
Doctrine. God exercises his sovereignty in the eternal salvation of men.
He not only is sovereign, and has a sovereign right to dispose and order in that affair; and he not only might proceed in a sovereign way, if he would, and nobody could charge him with exceeding his right; but he actually does so; he exercises the right which he has.
A Solace in Suffering: The Sovereignty of God – Bob Deffinbaugh
We who are Christians believe there is a God. When life goes smoothly for us and God’s blessings are evident, we are tempted to believe we are in control. We may even think we do not need God. When the bottom falls out and the trials of life seem to be swallowing us up so that we seem to lose control, we may still believe that God is in the cockpit. But we may begin to question whether God is really in control. We may be tempted to think God’s control over creation might be limited and fallible.
Fred Passmore said
Hello, fellow flock member!
I didn’t see an email link on the site so I had to use the comments box. I probably need my glasses.
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It’s here: http://www.SheepLaughsComedyShow.com
Hope you enjoy it, thanks for the consideration from a like-minded believer!
-Fred