“God Is Sovereign”
Daniel 4
Sermon Series: “God Is”
Introduction: When we see all the evil and problems in the world, can we really say that God is sovereignly in control of and ruling over the world and the individuals who make it up? How can we reconcile the ideas of divine sovereignty and human responsibility? These are weighty and difficult questions. Honestly, they cannot be fully understood and answered. Yet, the degree to which they can be answered is both a challenging and comforting truth.
1. Definition of the Sovereignty of God: God rules over all and is completely in control of everything in the world. Nothing happens that He does not cause or allow to happen. He is so awesomely sovereign that He allows us to make choices and experience the consequences of those choices, but He is still working out His will and providentially working all things together for His glory and the good of His children.
2. Application of the Sovereignty of God:
A. He is sovereign over the world.
B. Heissovereignoverourindividuallives.
3. Our Response to the Sovereignty of God:
A. Surrender to Him as King instead of trying to run
our own lives. Charles Spurgeon said, “Most men quarrel with this [the sovereignty of God]. But mark, the thing that you complain of in God is the very thing that you love in yourselves. Every man likes to feel that he has a right to do with his own as he pleases. We all like to be little sovereigns. Oh, for a spirit that bows always before the sovereignty of God.”
B. Humble ourselves before the King instead of forcing Him to bring us down because of our pride.
C. Live for the glory of the King instead of our own glory.
D. Trust the King instead of ourselves.
