The Lord Has It Under Control What The Bible Teaches About The Sovereignty Of God Hardback

This book is for the person struggling in life and for the person struggling with how God sovereignly works in people's lives. It goes through the Bible more or less in order, from the first verse of Genesis to the last verse of The Revelation. It discusses both general principles and specific issues. Along the way, I relate examples of how I believe the sovereignty of God has been operating in my life, in hopes that my experiences will help the reader to apply the principles to your life. This book also addresses the question of the relationship of God's sovereignty to the human will or volition.

This book is for the person struggling in life and for the person struggling with how God sovereignly works in people's lives. It goes through the Bible more or less in order, from the first verse of Genesis to the last verse of The Revelation. It discusses both general principles and specific issues. Along the way, I relate examples of how I believe the sovereignty of God has been operating in my life, in hopes that my experiences will help the reader to apply the principles to your life. This book also addresses the question of the relationship of God's sovereignty to the human will or volition.

This book is about the sovereignty of God, specifically aiming toward those who believe, with an eye toward those who are drawn seeking. The Gospel of Christ, through seeing GodaEUR(tm)s sovereignty within salvation, and now also within our lives, should help the reader see the glory of Christ in our daily walk of faith. Salvation is not a one-time event and, I challenge, is not solely because of your or my efforts. For it is a gift of grace through faith by God, for beneath our faith in Jesus is GodaEUR(tm)s active working within our hearts. Now with the Holy Spirit living within us, He works daily in us to the council of His will toward, in, and through usaEUR"giving us His grace, wisdom, and comfort each day.This book, with the Bible in hand, highlights scripturesaEUR"with my comments as a flashlightaEUR"to showcase the glory of God and to help reveal to believers and seekers alike the high value of Jesus!

This is the unabridged version of Author Pink's original The Sovereignty of God. And faces the real issues facing those who profess Christianity. The bible is very clear as to the sovereignty of God invert aspect of our lives, in creation, providence, and redemption but so very few people are able to grasp the reality and profound implications of this fact. This book demonstrates that scripture clearly teaches God has predesigned all things. It treats the subject of reprobation that the Banner of Truth edition omits. It clearly teaches God has and chosen to save a vast number of people to obtain salvation by Jesus Christ. That these people are called the elect and were chosen in Christ before the world began. It clearly shows that God is in control of all things and that nothing comes to pass unless God has commanded it.

If asked what "sovereign" means, most Christians would answer incorrectly.In the body of Christ, the SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD is a cliche, a scapegoat to explain events that baffle the mind. When common reasoning cannot provide an answer, someone steps forward and says, "It was a sovereign move of God!" Most frequently, this happens in negative or destructive happenings, but even an individual receiving a healing can be explained away as an act of "God's sovereignty!"In this book, we will explore the Word of God to find out what sovereignty is and how God operates this planet by it. Get ready to dive into truth and discover exactly what a "sovereign move of God" is all about!

Many people in today's world have a difficult time justifying the thought of God's sovereignty in our troubled world. Pink tries to answer such questions by showing that God is in control in creation and salvation, how that works with humanity's free will and finally how we should react in these dark times.

Most of us in the Western world have the terms "sovereign" or "sovereignty" in our vocabulary of recognizable words, though we do not use them frequently. They are words many of us find difficult to define accurately. We vaguely understand they have something to do with rulership, authority and power, but in everyday life we do not consider them something we deal with often enough to look into more thoroughly. Perhaps if we lived in a country ruled by a king or dictator rather than a representative government, some of the dynamism and nuance of these words would be much clearer. Neither "sovereign" nor "sovereignty" appears in the King James Version of the Bible. Some modern translations insert it to amplify God's name. Webster's New World Dictionary defines sovereign as "above or superior to all others; chief, greatest, supreme; supreme in power, rank or authority." It says sovereignty is "the state or quality of being sovereign; the status, dominion, rule or power of a sovereign; supreme and independent political authority." In the late 1990s, I was introduced to God's sovereignty when someone gave me a small book, Your God is Too Small, by J. B. Philips, author of the Philips paraphrase of the New Testament. He draws his theme from conversations with many people whose concepts of God were so limited that he felt it was no wonder they had little or no faith. At best, he concludes, many seem to think of God as nothing more than a greater man; an angry judge; a soft and kindly grandfather; or a scientist who invented the universe, wound it up and walked away from it, unconcerned as it operated on its own. How does our idea of God compare with these? Do we also think of God in some of these terms, however modified by our experiences in the church of God? Is the God we worship almighty in authority over everything? Does He shape the history of nations? Does He place and displace the rulers of the mighty and not-so mighty nations? Is He truly as involved life's details as Psalm 139 indicates David perceived Him? And what about the sufferings of mankind? Where does our God fit into this tragic part of life? If God is truly sovereign, He is involved, deeply involved; in all these areas; but no series of books can possibly answer every question that might be raised about God's sovereignty, especially in regard to specific incidents; however, the next several "Personals" will touch on many concerns people have about how deeply God is involved in the operations of His creation. This book will lay out the foundational principles we need to cover these concerns in greater detail. The sovereignty of God is easily accepted when all that matters is intellectual agreement. But practically, it is often very difficult to accept, even unfathomable, especially when that practical reality strikes close to home through a difficult, tragic event. In cases like this, we feel constrained to ask, "Where was God?" But what about God? Has He no rights over or claims on what He has created? Can we "grant" Him the right to do as He pleases with what He has made without calling His wisdom or fairness into question? People easily make too much of man and too little of God, especially because He is "out of sight." It is time to restore some balance to our understanding of this vital subject by learning more about the Father and what He does from His sovereign position as Creator. Who regulates affairs on earth? Is it God, the Devil or man? If we are not careful, we will automatically designate God as supreme in the heavens but concede that Satan rules the earth. Does not the Bible say that earth is the first estate of the demons, and Satan is god of this world (Jude 6; II Corinthians 4:4)?

The Sovereignty of God is a religion classic by English Bible teacher Arthur Pink who articulates and relates the Biblical truths of God's absolute Sovereignty with the main goal to exalt God solely from the pages of Scripture. Pink attempts to draw closer the tension between the sovereignty of God and the responsibility of man, an eternal question that remains debated even though it's seemingly plainly taught in the Scripture. The author's focus is on the divine side of the issue, defining God's sovereignty and presenting the different spheres that it works and operates. Further on he turns to the tension between the sovereignty of God and human will and responsibility.