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Romans 9:13-21

As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”  What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means!  For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”  So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. “So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills. You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? 

 

Beloved when we say that God is sovereign what do we mean by this expression? What we are saying is that God rules. To say that God is sovereign is to pronounce that God is God and we are not. Arthur Pink said in his book: The Sovereignty of God “to say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the Most High, doing according to His will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth, so that none can stay His hand or say unto Him what does Thou? (Dan. 4:35). To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the Almighty, the Possessor of all power in heaven and earth, so that none can defeat His counsels, or prevent His purpose, or resist His will (Ps. 115:3) To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is “The Governor among the nations” (Ps. 22:28), setting up kingdom, defeating empires, and determining the course of dynasties as pleaseth Him best. To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the “Only Potentate, the King of kings and Lord of lords (1 Tim. 6:15) Such is the God of the Bible” 

 

 

 

Beloved as much as we like to believe that we are in  fully obedient to the sovereignty of God,  all of us have areas we have consciously or unconsciously fenced off, as though God could be “sovereign” in some areas of our life but not in others. Listen, most Christians profess to believe in the sovereignty of God but will complain and grumble in certain areas. Death is usually assigned to the category of God’s sovereignty because we have no control over it at all. Disasters are considered matters of divine sovereignty with even unbelievers referring to certain disasters as “acts of God.”

 

Much of evangelicalism refuses to grant God sovereignty when it comes to the salvation of sinners,(some how he is not sovereign when it comes to a person being born again). They are willing to grant God much of the credit for the work of Christ on the cross and the Holy Spirit’s work in drawing men to faith. But they are not willing to admit God is in complete control (for this is precisely what sovereignty is—complete control) of the salvation of lost sinners. Granted men have a role to play in this process, but clearly God is in control, complete control, of the process.

This debate over the relationship between God’s role in salvation and man’s may seem to be reser

 

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