Our God Is Sovereign!

Introduction

“Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:” Acts 2:23
“In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:” Ephesians 1:11

For the next foreseeable future we are going to look as deep as possible into the Sovereignty of God. I believe that God is sovereign and it is a disgrace to God and the Lord’s churches that so many have been so removed or have at the least little faith in our Sovereign God. People today and churches today have greatly disappointed God and Jesus Christ (the Head of the churches) in that most think of a Sovereign God as a devilish thought rather that a glorious one. Well I am here to say God still sits on His throne and He has not been removed! God still sits on His throne and laughs at the ignorance of man attempting to create a way of salvation rather than to trust God to save sinners. These people will one day stand before the Lord Jesus Christ and will answer for all of the ignorance and the misleading of souls into the lake of fire rather than into the kingdom of God. It will only be because we do have a Sovereign God that some regardless of their false teaching’s and people believing their heresy that some will in the end actually be saved.

I have chosen these two scriptures because they both have a very profound meaning to them and to the sovereign grace of God. (1.) Jesus Christ was delivered, neither by man nor by the will of man, but by God the Father. Jesus said before His crucifixion that He gave His life, meaning it could not have been taken. He was “delivered” by the “determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God” in other words before the world was created, before man was created, before Adam and Eve had eaten the fruit, before Satan brought sin into the world, God had already elected to deliver the man Christ Jesus to the cross to pay the debt for sin. This was the “determinate counsel” or the decreed will of God, according to His “foreknowledge” or His forethought which means the seeing beforehand of an event yet to take place. God had already chose Jesus Christ to die for sin that had not even entered the world, knowing all events that would take place before the world was created. This brings us to point (2.) “…being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will”. And that would be the word “predestinated” means – to predetermine or to before ordain or to foreordain by divine decree or purpose. – so here it means that before the world began that God foreordained a limited amount of people to be saved and in order to accomplish this He also elected to send His beloved Son in the body of a man or in the likeness of sinful flesh so that man could be the sacrifice to pay in full the debt owed for the sins of all the elect.

I know that the words elect, election, or God choosing just truly scares some, but before discounting these words do a bible search and see what they say, and soon we will look at these words. The sovereignty of God puts all things in Gods hands and not in ours. God saving sinners means that salvation is possible because if it were our choice we would never choose Christ as our Saviour. I personally thank God He planned all things before the world was created, because if He had not we would all go to Hell.