Sunday, July 11, 2021

The Sovereign God.

Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.”  Romans 9:18

There was a time some decades back when people in all denomination believed in God as a Sovereign Being in some way. Even the Arminian churches of that time did not believe the looseness of what they do today. Some assemblies that call themselves churches simply ignore the bible in order to satisfy the people. God warned of this, "Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (24) Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen" Romans 1:24 – 25 Therefore, the Sovereignty of God in their minds has no significance, so much so they don’t believe God has the power to change peoples will. So, what exactly is the Sovereignty of God, it is God being a Supreme God, it is God controlling His own creation as He will’s. It is God controlling by predestination and His ordained will. Look what God said about the powerful Pharaoh, “For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee…”. God raised him to power just to destroy him, that’s right Pharaoh had no choice, he had no decision, he did not choose his evil heart, God just never changed his evil heart and made him good. Regardless of what the vast majority of the Christian religion wants you to think, God is the Sovereign creator not man. Man has no right to choose anything, there is no record in the bible of man choosing anything except evil over good, which is also their nature. God cause Pharaoh’s heart to be hardened because God chose him for an evil life to show His (God’s) power over Him. It is God Who molds the clay, some unto honor and some unto dishonor, it has nothing to do with mans choice. V.21 askes this question, “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” The question is, does the Potter (God) have the power over man to create one person honorable and another dishonorable? The answer is yes because it is God who has the mercy and grace, man only has evil in their heart, mercy and grace come from God. What about Esau, he had no choice in God loving him, “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” V. 13 God hated Esau because He never loved him. Esau had no choice to love God because in his very being God hated him. God said in V. 15 “…I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” There is noting there about God giving a person a choice, it is all about what the Sovereign God choses to do. The Apostle Paul is another example, Saul of Tarsus did not choose to come to Christ, Jesus stopped him and changed him. He went on to be a mighty solder for the Lord, and if Jesus had not stopped him, he would have arrested and killed more Christians. Paul said himself, “But by the grace of God I am what I am…” 1 Cor. 15:10 not by his own power of change. We looked and Esau whom God hated from eternity, lets look at the opposite, what about Jeremiah, God said "Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations." What choice did he have not to be what God made him, NONE! Jeremiah’s life was predestinated and ordained of God before the world was created. God chose his life the be “sanctified and…a prophet unto the nations." See folks, it is easy to condemn the beautiful doctrine of God’s sovereignty be in the bible it cannot be unproven. There is noting in the scriptures to refute the Sovereignty of God, NOTHING! Go ahead and find it, it is not there!