By definition alone the term "sovereign" is a precursor to the Lord our God's holiness.
God is the greatest factor in any equation or factor and He is set apart or different from anyone or anything else that we know.
Ecclesiastes 8:14-17
"14 There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. 15 And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.
16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep, 17 then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out."
No matter how much we desire to know and no matter how much we think we may know, the truth is that apart from what God has revealed through His Word, we cannot know.
God's sovereignty involves but is not restricted to His three main characteristics in that He is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. To restrict God's sovereignty in any form is to minimalize these attributes and allow room for someone or something else to be promoted above His divine seat of authority.
If this is the case, then God's laws / commandments do not stand. For God to say that there shall be no other god's in His delivered law but simultaneously allow for another person or object to be exalted above Him denies the very nature of who God is.
This same principle applies in relationship to salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. We can be saved in no other way than how God's Word says a person is saved. Generally speaking, this is to say that a person must be born again (John 3). Being born again is a work of God and God alone (Romans 8:29-30, Ephesians 2:8-9, 1 Peter 1:3,23).
It is a strange thing to me that even the man who says, "today I have decided to follow Jesus", will at the same time say that it is God alone who has saved him.
Is it not true that only one circumstance can apply? That either a sinful man made a righteous decision or a holy God made a graceful reach.
I trust in Christ and His calling unto salvation.
In Christ alone my hope is found! Firm through the fiercest drought and storm. No power oh hell, no scheme of man, can ever pluck me from His hand! ~Keith Getty & Stuart Townsend
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Without a doubt I say yes.
By definition alone the term "sovereign" is a precursor to the Lord our God's holiness.
God is the greatest factor in any equation or factor and He is set apart or different from anyone or anything else that we know.
Ecclesiastes 8:14-17
"14 There is a vanity that takes place on earth, that there are righteous people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the wicked, and there are wicked people to whom it happens according to the deeds of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity. 15 And I commend joy, for man has no good thing under the sun but to eat and drink and be joyful, for this will go with him in his toil through the days of his life that God has given him under the sun.
16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep, 17 then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out."
No matter how much we desire to know and no matter how much we think we may know, the truth is that apart from what God has revealed through His Word, we cannot know.
God's sovereignty involves but is not restricted to His three main characteristics in that He is omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent. To restrict God's sovereignty in any form is to minimalize these attributes and allow room for someone or something else to be promoted above His divine seat of authority.
If this is the case, then God's laws / commandments do not stand. For God to say that there shall be no other god's in His delivered law but simultaneously allow for another person or object to be exalted above Him denies the very nature of who God is.
This same principle applies in relationship to salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. We can be saved in no other way than how God's Word says a person is saved. Generally speaking, this is to say that a person must be born again (John 3). Being born again is a work of God and God alone (Romans 8:29-30, Ephesians 2:8-9, 1 Peter 1:3,23).
It is a strange thing to me that even the man who says, "today I have decided to follow Jesus", will at the same time say that it is God alone who has saved him.
Is it not true that only one circumstance can apply? That either a sinful man made a righteous decision or a holy God made a graceful reach.
I trust in Christ and His calling unto salvation.
In Christ alone my hope is found! Firm through the fiercest drought and storm. No power oh hell, no scheme of man, can ever pluck me from His hand! ~Keith Getty & Stuart Townsend
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