The Sovereignty of God over People

The sovereignty of God over People

Selected Scriptures 

Three Pillars:

The Sovereignty of God

The Wisdom of God 

The Love of God

Some might think: If God is sovereign over people that will humanity’s “free will”. 

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“Free WIll” — the Individual is free to choose the course of their destiny being free from the sovereign hand of God.

Parable of the Soils 

Deuteronomy 2:30-33

Joshua 11:19-20

Proverbs 19:21

Acts 6:7

Acts 8:4

The term “free will” is because we cannot mean that one is free from God’s sovereignty 

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This teaching should never:

a. our shortcomings 

b. give us an to not do what is right

c. it is not an to do sinful things

(See Trusting God by Jerry Bridges)