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Who Is In Charge?
Deliverance from death story (pg.
2)
What answers might people give to the question, “Who is in charge?”
Pure chance (Karma)
Cosmic Contest
Divine Control
What does the Bible say?
What is Providence?
What is Sovereignty?
“The doctrine of God’s providence is rooted in the doctrine of God’s sovereignty”
soveREIGNty- God’s undisputed authority and rule over every aspect of His creation.
If He does not rule supreme, if He is not sovereign, then He is not God.
“God reigns” is a logical sequence from “God is.”
To deny God’s providence is as athesitical as to deny His existence.
Do you agree with this statement?
Why or why not?
What is the context of this statement?
What does this passage explicitly teach about God’s sovereignty?
What specific events or circumstances is included?
Lit.
“Is any thing [any word] too wonderful for the LORD [to perform]?”
1. God Can do Anything
What is the context of this statement?
Moses’ excuses:
Who am I? (3:11)
What authority do I have?
(3:13)
What if they won’t believe me (4:1)
I am rhetorically ungifted and thus unqualified (4:10)
What does this passage explicitly teach about God’s sovereignty?
What is shocking about this verse?
“According to God, disabilities are not accidents that occur because God momentarily loses control or is suddenly taken by surprise.
The mute, the dead, the blind, the disabled are fashioned that way by the omnipotent hand of an all-wise—and always good—God for His ultimate glory.”
2. God Makes Everyone
What is the context of this statement?
Someone recreate the historical scene for our minds this morning.
Is the Lord’s hand shortened?
What does that mean?
It is an idiom referring to one’s word overreaching his ability, promising more than one can deliver.
Notice God comes back to His Word.
Can God deliver on His promises?
Does this statement by God have a timeless application for us today?
What other promises, what other words of God, might we be tempted to call into question just like Moses?
Did God keep his word to Moses and to the people of Israel?
10 Homers = 2000 liters
1 liter = 2.2 lbs
4,400 lbs
3. God Can Do Everything He Says
Context?
Song of Moses
Over what realms or experiences does God here claim absolute authority?
This verse depicts the LORD as sovereign of life and death and of harm and health.
4. God Rules All Existence
Context?
Hannah’s prayer
How does Hannah’s prayer expand the teaching from Deut 32:39?
Context?
What does Job say about God?
What does Job mean by receiving both good and evil from God?
Does God ever initiate sin or originate moral evil?
Evil- not always morally evil- sometimes bad in a nonmoral sense (bad figs, contaminated water, calamitous storm)
“Should we expect only good things from God all the time?
Should we no also expect (what we consider) ‘bad’ things (such as hardship or adversity, loss or illness) from time to time?”
Who then, according to Job is the author of the “good” we enjoy as well as the “bad” we must sometime suffer?
Who des he says sends both?
Was Job mistaken?
What is job affirming true about God is this verse?
Job is not affirming God’s power; he was affirming God’s freedom to do as He pleases without any obligation to explain Himself to us (the idea is “I understand now that You can do anything you want”).
Who is writing this psalm?
David
How many times did David experience God-given deliverances from danger and escapes from death through a variety of providential means?
5. God Rules All Circumstances
What exceptions are there to the rule of God? Are there any zones outside of His dominion?
Are there any obstacles that prevent God from doing anything He wishes?
What response might people have to such a being?
What is the response of the child of God to such truth?
Do these verses have any practical relevance for our attitude toward the weather?
6. God Does All He Pleases
What does this verse teach about God’s sovereignty?
Who can undo what God does, or unsend what God sends?
What can alter the shapes of things and events that come to us from God?
What two kinds of experiences does God appoint?
And what should be our respective reaction to each when we experience it?
Who is the specific object of this challenge in the context?
Assyria—the dominant world power at the time.
Who, then, is a match for God’s power, or who can annul what God purposes?
7. God’s Rule is Unrivaled
Does COVID comes to a city, unless the Lord had done (i.e.
sent, permitted) it?
If God is all-knowing and all powerful, could He have averted it?
Certainly, yet He permitted it.
Why?
We are not ready to answer that question yet.
First our duty is to bow to the unambiguous and repeated declarations of Scripture; only then will our spirits be properly adjusted to grapple with the question of why.
8. God’s Rule is Unquestionable
What if It’s Not God?
If God’s providence does not extend over all the circumstances and changes of life—both good and bad—then what explanations does that leave to us?
What are the alternatives?
We can conclude that we are essentially at the mercy of blind fate.
If we wish to deny that God exercises sovereign control over the “bad” things that happen then-
We must admit that some things take even God by surprise
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