God’s Sovereignty is unlimited, because He Himself is limitless.
He foreknew & Predestined ALL THINGS for His Purposes & His Glory so that all things, good and bad would be subject to His Power & Authority.
All things, in Heaven and on earth are donated (provided, given to us) so we could utilize these gifts by the Will of God.
To assume that the physical is independent of the Spiritual & to believe some things are not actually in God’s Will, striping Him of His Majesty and Power.
God has complete sovereignty over His entire creation & He has already purposed every future action & deed to accomplish his end goal.
He puts all things in order, He is Order, & He purposes disorder (chaos) to accomplish His plan.
Those He foreknew He predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers. Those He predestined He also called, those whom He called He also justified, and those whom He justified He also glorified.
Romans 8:29-30
God’s sovereignty is clearly defined in Colossians 1. It says:
“Jesus is the image of the invisible God, firstborn of creation. By him ALL THINGS were created, in heaven & on earth, visible & invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities— ALL things were created THROUGH HIM and FOR HIM. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.”
Colossians 1:15-17
Absolutely NOTHING is outside of His complete control, even our very faith He appoints.
“For by the Grace given to me I say to everyone do not think himself more highly than he ought to think, think with sober judgment, EACH ONE ACCORDING TO THE MEASURE OF FAITH THAT GOD HAS ASSIGNED.”
Romans 12:3
God is so precisely sovereign that He assigns what measure of Faith His people will have.
By Grace, He assigns us WITH His Faith according to His Sovereign Will.
We don’t receive Grace because of our own Faith, we receive Faith because of HIS Grace. All things begin & end with Him…
Let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, who is the FOUNDER and PERFECTER OF OUR FAITH, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Hebrews 12:1-2
“ALL that the Father gives Me WILL COME TO ME & whoever comes to Me I will NEVER cast out.
Jesus
Can a human’s will override the Will of the Almighty God? ABSOLUTELY NOT.
We receive God’s Mercy on account of our disobedience,
without our disobediance we wouldn’t receive His Mercy, & He wouldn’t be so highly glorified in giving us Mercy…
God literally consigns (charges) us to disobedience so that He can have Mercy on us.
Scripture proves this when Paul says: “Just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy BECAUSE OF THEIR DISOBEDIENCE, SO THEY NOW HAVE BEEN DISOBEDIENT so that by THE Mercy SHOWN TO YOU THEY ALSO MAY NOW RECEIVE Mercy. For GOD HAS CONSIGNED ALL TO DISOBEDIENCE, so that He may have Mercy on all…..
Oh, the depth of the riches & wisdom & knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments & how MYSTERIOUS are His ways.
-Romans 11:30-33
“… formerly I was a blasphemer, persecutor, & insolent opponent. But I RECEIVED MERCY because I had acted ignorantly in unbelief & the Grace of our Lord overflowed for me with THE FAITH & LOVE THAT ARE IN Christ Jesus. “
-1 Timothy 1:13–14
“Faith is the ASSURANCE of things Hoped for, the conviction (evidence) of things NOT SEEN.”
-Hebrews 11:1
How do we have assurance? How do we have conviction/evidence of Faith?
Only through the Spirit of God who Works in the unseen realm!
Jesus is our Faith.
That’s why the apostles asked the Lord to directly: “Increase our faith!” (God gives Faith)
-Luke 17:5.
Jesus is the Founder & Perfector of FAITH.
“Looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.”
Hebrews 12:2
“Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. NOT that we are SUFFICIENT IN OURSELVES TO CLAIM ANYTHING as COMING FROM US, but our SUFFICIENCY IS FROM God…”
-2 Corinthians 3:4-5
HE FORMS LIGHT AND DARK
Isaiah 45:7; God says that He is: “The One who forms light and also creating darkness, causing well-being and also creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these.” He doesn’t just say that He merely allows darkness & calamity, He says He creates it Himself.
I Chronicle 29:11 tells us that God is sovereign over everything that is in the heavens and the earth, and that He exalts Himself as head over ALL, with might in His hand to make great and to strengthen everyone that He pleases to strengthen. “
God even sinlessly uses sin for the praise of His own glory.
Paul makes a Truth statement: “From Him & through Him & to Him are ALL things,”.. Therefore God willed sin to completely demonstrate the perfection of ALL His attributes, in order that: “to Him [would] be Glory forever” -Romans 11:36.
Isaiah 45:7 says God says He is: “The One forming light and also creating darkness, causing well-being and also creating calamity; I am the Lord who does all these.” He doesn’t just say that He merely allows darkness & calamity, He says He creates it Himself.
Isaiah 31:2 teaches that God is wise and brings forth disaster, and does not ever retract his words.” As His words create All things.
Isaiah 47:11 says that “God Himself brings about evil and disaster upon the unrepentant, & Amos 3:6 declares that when calamity occurs in a city, the Lord is the one to have done it.
Psalm 33:10,11 tell us that “The Lord nullifies the counsel of the nations; He frustrates the plans of the peoples.”
Proving that people have belief in their own freewill but the people’s will are immediately nullified at the only One with a true free will, which is the sovereign God.
We receive God’s Mercy on account of our disobedience, without our disobedience we wouldn’t receive His Mercy, & He wouldn’t be so highly glorified in giving us Mercy…
God literally consigns (charges) us to disobedience so that He can have Mercy on us. Scripture proves this when Paul says:
“Just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy BECAUSE OF THEIR DISOBEDIENCE, SO THEY NOW HAVE BEEN DISOBEDIENT IN ORDER THAT by THE Mercy SHOWN TO YOU THEY ALSO MAY NOW RECEIVE Mercy. ¡For GOD HAS CONSIGNED ALL TO DISOBEDIENCE¡, so that He may have Mercy on all…..
Oh, the depth of the riches & wisdom & knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments & how MYSTERIOUS are His ways!~~~
-Romans 11:30-33
He ordained beforehand the actions of men. He sovereignly planned every outcome, paved every step, and calculated every second of everything whether physical or spiritual.
He gave authority to Pilate to judge the Son (John 19:11); he raises up adversaries against his chosen ones (Exodus 4:21; I Kings 11:14-23) and ordained the actions of evil men by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God that they would nail Christ to the cross (Acts 2:23).
Yet in all this God is not the author of sin, but rather he has ordained evil through secondary causes so that his divine purposes may prevail and glorify his name (Genesis 50:20).
The sovereignty of God completely encompasses the righteousness that men do, as well as the evil.
He does this in a way that we cannot fully understand because when we think of being a sovereign individual, we don’t have any personal experience of being actually sovereign and being able to do whatever we want, whenever we want to whoever wants… Sovereignty has no limits. Sovereign humans are limited in Sovereignty because we are but an image of God.
God has ordained that evil is for the glory of his Name, & He has full dominion over the elements of evil men as well. No matter the evil, no matter how Heinous, God has a purpose and a reason for it.
This does not alleviate wicked people from their moral responsibility, but rather further condemns them, as they are willing actors in their evil plans, & since God is no respecter of persons, this makes even more sense.
Sin is evil, abominable, corrupt & detestable, & in direct opposition to God.
Nevertheless, the very creation of sin is good, not the sin itself but the tool it became ti be used for the Glory of God.
God would not have willed it into being if it didn’t serve Him.
I’ll prove that Scripture affirms both God’s Will for sin & man’s responsibility for sin.
†SCRIPTURE: When Peter preached a sermon on Pentecost, he convicted the people of Jerusalem of their sin against Jesus their Savior..
Peter: “This Jesus . . . you crucified & killed by the hands of lawless men” -Acts 2:23
Killing Jesus was a sin, the sin was committed by Pilate, Roman soldiers, priests, & religious leaders who cried for Jesus’s crucifixion. Then mocked God’s Son in His torment.
Peter, after calling our the wickedness of their sin, he validates the FULL SOVEREIGNTY of God over ALL these wicked & sinful events;
He says: “… Jesus of Nazareth, a Man attested to you by God with mighty works & wonders & signs that God did through Him in your midst… —★ JESUS, DELIVERED UP ACCORDING TO THE PREDETERMINED PLAN & FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD, you crucified & killed by the hands of lawless men.” -Acts 2:22-23
God not only knew that His Son would be tortured, mocked, & slain, but it was according to His PREDETERMINED & ETERNAL PLAN for God, in ORDER that these events took place. ” …putting an end to the agony of death, since it was impossible for Him to be held in its power.” -Acts 2:24
It’s such an marvelous & heartening attribute to grasp. .
God chose to save His people because they were sinners, saved through the blood of His Son….
As a display of SOVEREIGN MERCY.
So that we would be converted from sin & washed by His Will through His Atoning blood & in being washed, God is GLORIFIED in His Son.
God is even Glorified now in the Power that His Grace provides.. He is a Glory for enabling us not to sin & I’m turn He’s glorified even more.
The paradox of sin’s origin enables us, who are in Christ, to be able to perceive & discern with Divine transparency God’s amazing Love & Mercy in His Son… “to the praise of His glorious Grace” (Eph 1:6).
A voice from heaven declared to Nebuchadnezzar:
“… sovereignty has been REMOVED from you, & you will be driven away from mankind, & your dwelling place will be with the beasts of the field.
You will be given grass to eat like cattle, & SEVEN PERIODS OF TIME WILL PASS OVER YOU
***UNTIL YOU RECOGNIZE THAT THE MOST HIGH IS RULER OVER THERE REALM OF MANKIND BESTOWED IT ON *WHOMEVER He WISHES. ‘***
Immediately, The Word concerning Nebuchadnezzar was FULFILLED; (Gods Will completely anniahlated his will.)
& he was driven away from mankind & began eating grass like cattle, & his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair had grown like eagles’ feathers and his nails like birds’ claws.
Daniel 4:31-33
How did He get out of Gods punishment? Was it his choice, is there any implication of choice here? Nope.
“But at the end of that period, I, Nebuchadnezzar, raised my eyes toward heaven (He looked (Saw) to Heaven)
& my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High & praised & honored Him who lives forever;
For His DOMINION is an EVERLASTING DOMINION,
& His kingdom endures from generation to generation.
ALL the INHABITANTS of the earth are ACCOUNTED AS NOTHING…
But He DOES ACCORDING TO HIS WILL IN THE HOST OF HEAVEN & AMONG THE INHABITANTS OF EARTH;
& NO ONE CAN WARD OFF His HAND..
Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’
At that time my reason returned to me. And my majesty and splendor were restored to me for the glory of my kingdom, and my counselors and my nobles began seeking me out; so I was reestablished in my sovereignty, and surpassing greatness was added to me. Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise, exalt and honor the King of heaven, for all His works are true and His ways just, and He is able to humble those who walk in pride.”
Daniel 4:34-37
To the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved..
IN HIM WE HAVE REDEMPTION through His blood…
the forgiveness of our trespasses, ACCORDING to the riches of His Grace, which he lavished upon us…
in ALL WISDOM & INSIGHT…
Making KNOWN TO US THE MYSTERY OF HIS WILL…
according to His Purpose, which He SET FORTH in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time…
to unite all things in Him, things in heaven & things on earth.
Ephesians 1:6-10


One response to “Gods Unlimited Sovereignty”
Does God control every thought of a believers mind? Is there any freedom, and therefore responsibility before God in a belivers life?
Does soverienty mean control?