Subject: Please I'm looking for your opinion! |
Bible Note: Hi Ho Radio, Degrees of sovereignty...? 1. The person, body, or state in which independent and supreme authority is vested; especially, in a monarchy, a king, queen, or emperor. WEBSTER'S Ps 103:19 The LORD has established His throne in the heavens, And His sovereignty rules over all. "Rule: mashal (605c); a prim. root; to rule, have dominion, reign:-- 1 Tim 6:15 which He will bring about at the proper time--He who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, Great question Radio! I've heard Hannegraff say words to the effect that if even a single atom were to escape God's control, that God would not be God. I don'nt know if you have read A.W. Pink's treatment of The Sovereignty of God. It is the best piece I have read on the subject to date. He begins his book by stating "The Sovereignty of God is an expression that once was generally understood. It was a phrase commonly used in religious literature. It was a theme frequently expounded in the pulpit. It was a truth which brought comfort to many hearts, and gave virility and stability to Christian character. But, today, to make mention of God's Sovereignty is, in many quarters, to speak in an unknown tongue. Were we to announce from the average pulpit that the subject of our discourse would be the Sovereignty of God, it would sound very much as though we had borrowed a phrase from one of the dead languages. Alas! that it should be so. Alas! that the doctrine which is the key to history, the interpreter of Providence, the warp and woof of Scripture, and the foundation of Christian theology should be so sadly neglected and so little understood." You may find this book printed in it's entirety at http://www.reformed.org/calvinism/ But to answer your question...No, I believe that God is always ruling over all things and at all times. How we square this fact with man's responsibility is the question of the ages. But, if the Bible teaches us that that is the case, we are to humbly accept it. John |