Sovereignty of God series May month

Noel Merrick

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1 Chronicles 29:10–13

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The Sovereignty Of God

1 Chronicles 29:10–13 KJV 1900

Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our father, for ever and ever. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

Introduction:

A. David told Solomon that he needed to get to know the God of David: Jehovah God. Last Sunday, we took a short look at the eternality of God. Infinite and perpetual in nature and being.

B. This morning,

I want to look at the sovereignty of God and it may take more than this morning to complete. David beings with “Thine, O LORD.” This is one of the most important doctrines in theology. As one old preacher said, “He either is or He ain’t!” You cannot have a true God without sovereignty! The Bible declares God sovereign in all matters.

C. By the sovereignty of God,

it is to be understood that—as Creator of all things both visible and invisible—God is both owner of or and ruler over all things.

Colossians 1:16–17 KJV 1900

For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

D. The Sovereignty of God!

You will not find either of the words “sovereign” or “sovereignty” in the Bible but the truth is set forth from —where the bible declares that “In the beginning God … God said”—to where it says “Amen!” As God has said, “Let it be so!” As God has willed it, it shall be! In God’s sovereignty, he causes things and also allows things.

Revelation 22:21 KJV 1900

The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

E. Since the word “sovereignty” is not a bible word,

let us look at its definition for clarification: Sovereignty – Free from all external control; reigning or royal authority; the dominion of a monarch, the complete authority to govern a state; exclusive in right to control one’s thoughts and actions; autonomous; greatest in status, authority, and power; supreme; exceptional in quality.

F. The doctrine of the “Sovereignty of God”

is one of both the least understood and the most misunderstood.

1. Most believe that things happen per chance instead of providence.

I do not believe in luck. I believe in the providence of an all-knowing, thrice holy God!

2. Many believe that God’s sovereignty over rules mans ability to choose.

God made man a free moral agent and gave man the ability and obligation to choose. This does not do away with God’s sovereignty. It amplifies it. God can do as He chooses and if He gives man the choice of salvation, then it is because He is a sovereign God. The doctrine called Calvinism is both heretical and damnable!

G. Because He is sovereign:

1. He Requires No Counsel

Romans 11:34 KJV 1900

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller?

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?

or who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor? Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? 14 With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?

Isaiah 40:13–14 KJV 1900

Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord, Or being his counseller hath taught him? With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, And taught him in the path of judgment, And taught him knowledge, And shewed to him the way of understanding?

2. He Seeks No Advice -

1 Corinthians 2:16 KJV 1900

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

3. He Lacks No Wisdom -

James 1:5 KJV 1900

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

4. He Asks No Permission –

Job 33:13 KJV 1900

Why dost thou strive against him? For he giveth not account of any of his matters.

5. He Answers To No Man -

Romans 9:20 KJV 1900

Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

H. God’s sovereignty is a subject

that cannot be completely explored in one message so I want to look at just a few things He is sovereign in:

1. God Is Sovereign In His Creation –

Genesis 1:1 KJV 1900

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

John 1:3 KJV 1900

All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

Hebrews 11:3 KJV 1900

Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.

(Everything in nature contains the “finger prints” of God. You can believe it or deny it but you cannot stop it or change it! You were not there when the foundations were laid: God was there!)

Psalm 19:1 KJV 1900

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament sheweth his handywork.

2. God Is Sovereign In His Counsel –

John 12:48 KJV 1900

He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.

(You can take it or leave it but you cannot alter it! You may reject it and or change it here on earth but it is forever settled in Heaven. You will hear it again!)

Proverbs 1:23–30 KJV 1900

Turn you at my reproof: Behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, And would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; When your fear cometh as desolation, And your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of the Lord: They would none of my counsel: They despised all my reproof.

3. God Is Sovereign In His Conversion –

John 5:24 KJV 1900

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.

. (Salvation is God’s way or not at all. It is His way or the highway! The “Highway to Hell!”)

John 14:6 KJV 1900

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

4. God Is Sovereign In His Circumstances –

Romans 11:36 KJV 1900

For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.

(He controls all that happens! Although tough to accept at times, is still in the Book! still apply!)

Proverbs 3:5–6 KJV 1900

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; And lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he shall direct thy paths.

Romans 8:28 KJV 1900

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Job 23:10–14 KJV 1900

But he knoweth the way that I take: When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold. My foot hath held his steps, His way have I kept, and not declined. Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: And many such things are with him.

5. God Is Sovereign In His Consequences –

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John 3:16–18 KJV 1900

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

(It is either Heaven or Hell! In God’s sovereignty, He gave men a choice. Then, man’s choice leaves God no choice!)

Luke 16:22–23 KJV 1900

And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

The Sovereignty Of God

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1 Chronicles 29:10–13 KJV 1900

Introduction:

A. The verses that we read

this morning are powerful in that they exalt the person of the Lord and He is worth of our praise.

1. David’s praise

is a result of proper perspective of who God is.

2. David’s praise

is a result of the knowledge of what God can do.

3. David’s praise

is a result of the place God occupied in David’s life.

B. I feel that I need

to preach often on the person of our wonderful Lord. These verses say much about God but I want to look at one aspect that encompasses David’s expression of who God is: His sovereignty!

1. The moment I mention

the word “sovereignty,” the first thought that comes to the minds of most “Calvinism!” I always feel that I need to explain that I am not nor could ever be a Calvinist. No, I am not a Calvinist. I fervently disagree with his TULIP theology as John Calvin saw only one side of the sovereignty of God.

2. In God’s sovereignty,

He chose to give man choice which brings about obligation to choose rightly. I find it amazing that we all know that God has given every man the right to choose the path for his life and, yet, they cannot either choose or refuse Christ! The unsaved as well as the saved make decisions all of the time and those decisions do not seem to interfere with the sovereignty of God one bit.

3. My God is loving,

kind, gentle, good, longsuffering, high and holy, and yet touchable! His name is truly wonderful, His works marvelous, His power beyond our imagination, His grace is truly matchless, His wisdom past finding out, His Word both perfect and eternal, and His majesty matchless.

C. The Sovereignty of God!

1. You will not find either

of the words “sovereign” or “sovereignty” in the Bible but the truth is set forth from —where the bible declares that “In the beginning God”—to where it says “Amen!” As God has said, “Let it be so!”

2. Since the word “sovereignty” is not a bible word,

let us look at it’s definition for clarification: Sovereignty – Free from all external control; reigning or royal authority; the dominion of a monarch, the complete authority to govern a state; exclusive in right to control one’s thoughts and actions; autonomous; greatest in status, authority, and power; supreme; exceptional in quality.

D. The doctrine of the “Sovereignty of God”

is one of both the least understood and the most misunderstood.

1. By the sovereignty of God,

it is to be understood that—as Creator of all things both visible and invisible—God is both owner or and ruler over all things.

Deuteronomy 32:39 KJV 1900

See now that I, even I, am he, And there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: Neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

2. By the sovereignty of God,

it is to be understood that all things happen in the providence of God and by chance. The bible does not teach luck. It teaches the providence of an all-knowing, thrice holy God! He knows the end from the beginning; He rules and over-rules in the affairs of man; the child of God is safely and securely in His mighty hand; He loves His children in a way that we will never fully understand until we get to heaven. Because of His sovereignty:

1) God Requires No Counsel -

Romans 11:34 KJV 1900

For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counseller?

2) God Seeks No Advice -

1 Corinthians 2:16 KJV 1900

For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

3) God Lacks No Wisdom -

James 1:5 KJV 1900

If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

4) God Asks No Permission –

Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

5) God Answers To No Man -