Sermon Transcript Tone Analysis

Good morning.

If you would, please go ahead and open your Bibles to Psalm 115.

We're going to be looking at verse 32 to jump off this morning, Psalm 115 verse 3.

And we're continuing our short series titled who we are on the purpose of this series is to remind us of why this congregation exists and what we are to Proclaim and do as the people of God.

And this morning, we come to the subject of the sovereignty of God, this church exists to declare the sovereignty of God, but what is that?

Right?

What is the sovereignty of God? Aw, pink.

He's a 20th century author.

He wrote a very famous book, called The sovereignty of God, very creative title.

And he begins his book with a very good definition of God's sovereignty.

Let me, let me read a bit of a lengthy quotation from it.

The sovereignty of God, what do we mean by this expression?

We mean the supremacy of God, the kingship of God, the godhood of God, to say that God is Sovereign, is to declare that God is God, just say that God is Sovereign is to declare that he is the most high doing according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth.

So that none can stay his hand or say unto him.

What doest thou to say that God is Sovereign is to declare that he is the almighty, the possessor of all power in Heaven and Earth so that none can defeat his council's, support his purpose or resist.

His will to say that God is Sovereign is to declare that he is.

The governor among the Nations.

Setting up kingdoms, overthrowing empires, in determining the course of dynasties, as pleased with him best.

To say that God is Sovereign is to declare that he is the only potentate the king of kings and Lord of lords.

Such is the god of the Bible.

How different is the god of the Bible from the god of modern Christian them.

In quote.

He wrote that in 1913.

I believe how different is the god of the Bible from the god of modern Christian.

Many people many Christians say that they believe in the sovereignty of God, but do they?

Do they really push on them and you'll find out?

Them if God ordains all that comes to pass even sin and suffering, ask them if he chooses whom he will save and whom he will even their sin.

Ask them.

If God determined in eternity past every single thing that happened in history, ask them and if they answered no to any things and they do not believe in the sovereignty of God, or at least not in the way that they should according to the Bible.

Consider the first for example, many modern views of God, some of these are even popular among professing, Evangelical Christians.

This idea that God is is ringing, his holy hands in heaven wondering.

What man will do.

Wondering if man will choose him wondering what we're going to do next.

This idea that another one is that God is unable to change the wheels of men that he can and there's something some very famous preachers.

Say this God can do anything except interfere with your will that God is in some ways, a Bound by the wheels of men that he cannot do.

Whatever he wants because of human autonomy or human freedom.

This idea that God is reacting, right?

That God reacts to the things that happened in history in it.

Is it is trying to keep things together?

So men don't destroy his plan.

That everyday, his plan and purpose is for the world, is threatened by what men do.

And so God has to react and make sure that everything goes how he wants or this.

And this is very, very, very common.

That God knows the future.

But that he has not ordained it.

That he only has a symbol for knowledge of the future, but not that he has decreed.

What would take place?

Brothers and sisters.

I don't mean to be harsh, but such views are nonsense.

According to the word of God.

They are nonsense and some of them.

Some of them are just misguided errors, but some of them are blasphemous.

God is Sovereign and we're going to see that today from his word.

God is God as a w pink said, God is the only being who is absolutely free man's will and actions and choices are creaturely which means they are subject to God's Sovereign Rule and his Sovereign will To all things that come to pass, come to pass because God in his sovereignty, has determined and decreed everything.

That's what we're going to see from the word of God today and it would be honest with you, for a moment apart from the message of the atoning works of Jesus Christ.

This is my favorite Doctrine.

To preach on my favorite Doc and Dupree.

Sean.

It is majestic.

It is hump.

It is all inspiring, its warship inducing.

It encourages the fear of the Lord, it moves us to reverence, that makes us submit, it teaches us to trust.

It reminds us of who we are as creatures, and who God is as the Creator.

In the words of Jonathan Edwards, the great Puritan Theologian absolute sovereignty is what I love to ascribe to God.

So my favorite quotes, that's what I plan to do.

This morning is to show you the sovereignty of God over all things from various portions of scripture.

And I hope to do.

So in such a way, not to bombard you with 10 or 15 texts of scripture might my purpose is to show you that.

This glorious truth is inescapable.

If you're going to honestly read the Bible and take God at his word and I don't mean that harshly.

But it is inescapable for reading the Bible.

Honestly, not want to be clear that this sermon will not be an exhaustive treatment on the sovereignty of God and all the derivative things that come with it better men than I could preach A month's worth of Sundays this topic and still have something left to say.

So this sermon is undoubtedly going to cause many of you especially those of you who have not come to embrace the doctrine of God's sovereignty and its fullness.

This sermon is going to make you have questions.

Blaque Questions about God's relation to send questions, about human freedom and Free Will and other things questions about God's justice.

And his righteousness.

And I'm not going to even try to answer them.

At least, not many of them, maybe one or two, but not even nearly all of them.

But what I want to do this morning is nail down for you.

The foundational truth of scripture that God is Sovereign and we can pick up the pieces later.

Writing a lot of us who've accepted this Doctrine years ago, then picking up the pieces for 10, 15, 20 years, right?

Where are we?

Picking up the pieces?

Cuz this this doctor makes us ask a lot of questions.

But before we can move on to untangling certain difficult and tough questions before we can move on to those questions, we have to first clearly see that he is Sovereign and then deal with the questions later.

So what we're going to do this morning is what is commanded of us, Isaiah 8:20 reads to the teaching and to the testimony, if they will not speak according to this word, it is because they have no Dawn because they have no light.

So to the word of God, we go.

The word is our standard.

Please hear me.

This is going to be so important.

The word of God is our standard, not our finite, tiny minded faulty fallible, human reasoning.

Rather our standard is what God has said about himself and his Sovereign rule in his word.

So we're going to make our case and rest it there in my prayer now.

And through this week has been that we would all see this truth and that we wouldn't just see it.

How, how many of us, maybe saw it first.

Then, it is begrudgingly, right?

Some of you guys ever come to that, why you're studying God's sovereignty?

Like why I guess, right.

I don't want that to be it.

But rather that we would gladly receive believe and rejoice in the sovereignty of God and be moved to worship him for it.