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1 | God's sovereignty, part 3 of 3 | Ex 4:21 | johnbakas | 88499 | ||
Dear Reformer Joe and John Reformed, Your posts are two of the most important I have ever read. Here’s why: 1. For children of God seeking to know more about God, the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, a key truth is the sovereignty of God. It can be the real issue behind other commonly-discussed questions. When a follower of the way sees the sovereignty of God, the issues such as election, perseverance of the saints, and suffering, for example, become easier to understand. 2. I heard an instructor at a seminary whose final assessment of new pastors was to sit and listen to their first sermons and classify the new pastors into one of two groups – the Big Godder or Little Godder camps. After all their education and training, this instructor listened for one important characteristic that he felt was the predictor of their future walk in the ministry: Did they have a big view of God or a little view. Those with the big-God view were the ones he felt had attained the best education and were set on the right course. 3. The ability to move from thinking “I have free will,” to “I have free will," but God may control that will to serve His purposes,” is a step in overcoming the philosophy of this world and its delusions. Without that change of mind, the world of the flesh may maintain its hold on the mind and heart. 4. Your analysis illustrates an element of proper Bible study methods — read all the passages concerning a subject and then let the text control the conclusion no matter how it seems to contradict with what we were taught in school about our relation to the world, but such reading should also be done in prayer and under the teaching of the Holy Spirit. |
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2 | God's sovereignty, part 3 of 3 | Ex 4:21 | Morant61 | 88501 | ||
Greetings Johnbakkas! First of all, welcome to the forum! Secondly, I wanted to address the suggestion that those of us who believe God sovereignly granted man the ability to make moral choices somehow believe in a 'little' God. The God that I believe in is a big God. He is all-powerful, all-present, and all-knowing. He is the Creator of all things and sustains everything by the power of His will. He created us as moral beings, in His image. I don't see how that belief makes Him a little God. If I, as a parent, allow my children to choose the flavor of the Ice Cream that I am about to buy for them, am I somehow diminished? :) Rest assured my friend, those of us who differ with the reformed perspective still worship a big God. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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