Sovereignty Revisited

Piper rain bit

Sovereignty and prayer

Prayer dot to dot, follow the pattern to reveal a beuatiful picutre. it is part of the ordination of all things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VxyGP7z2rk

Sovereingt and evangelsim. - sovereign evangelism so are just disobeying don’t hide behind a straw man and do it

How is God’s sovereignty a comfort to me?

You embrace this tension by an act of your childlike faith. Children don’t understand everything parents do, so kids sometimes just have to trust and obey in order to experience blessing and personal happiness (Someone should write a song with those themes).

I want to hold out for you a few examples of when I did this right. I could list of millions of times when I to this wrong, but instead of me bleeding all over place, let me highlight a few times when I got this right.

• My best friend in world died on the mission field in Indondesia. Phil Penner - We want to understand God and package him (but this will cheapen His glory and reduce Him) –

• Elijah birth story

I want you to think of the sovereignty of God like the powerful current in a river. You can either fight against it and still be swept away or you can let it carry you.

Saul fought against it in and it hurt him. Acts 26:14

Acts 26:14 ESV

14And when we had all fallen to the ground, I heard a voice saying to me in the Hebrew language, ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? It is hard for you to kick against the goads.’

Job flowed with it and he worshipped.

Job 1:20–22 ESV

20Then Job arose and tore his robe and shaved his head and fell on the ground and worshiped. 21 And he said, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return. The Lordgave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.” 22In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong.