God Is Sovereign Over All Creation, Both Physical And Spiritual
He “works ALL things according to the counsel of his will.”
Ephesians 1:11
He does whatever He wants, and no one can stop him.
(Psalm 115:3; Daniel 4:34-35)
The Word of God teaches us that God’s sovereignty is absolute and cannot be limited by human understanding. He knows all things and has predestined everything according to His will and for His glory. We cannot fully comprehend His sovereignty because we are not sovereign, but we can gain understanding through the guidance of His Spirit and the study of His Word.
As we delve into the depths of God’s Word, we can see that He is not bound by the constraints of time. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, and His existence transcends the limitations of our earthly understanding. In His infinite wisdom, He created all things before time even began, and His divine plan unfolds before us as if it is happening in the present moment.
As mortal beings, we are confined to the linear progression of time, moving forward from one moment to the next. However, God sees all things at once, and His omniscience enables Him to know the past, present, and future simultaneously. We can only recall what has already passed, but God perceives every moment as it unfolds before Him.
Let us take comfort in the fact that our God is not limited by time, and His promises extend beyond the boundaries of our earthly existence. As we seek to understand His Word and draw closer to Him, may we be reminded that He is the eternal God, and His love endures forever.
“When you send your Spirit, they are created, and you renew the face of the ground.”
Psalm 104:30
SOMETHING TO PONDER:
God is always at work, bringing forth new life and renewing everything. Nature reminds us of this with each new season, as flowers bloom in the spring and leaves change colors in the fall. Even in times of change and uncertainty, God is constantly at work.
I find comfort knowing that God is still at work even during difficult times and I trust in God’s plan for my life.
Using our own gifts and talents to join in God’s creative work can bring beauty, goodness, hope, and joy to the world.
Even during difficult times, we can trust that God is using the difficult times to shape us and bring about our sanctification. We are called to use our talents and gifts to serve others and bring goodness into the world. We can find comfort in knowing that God is always at work in our lives and the world, and we can join in His creative work.
Before his downfall a man’s heart is proud, but humility comes before honor.
Proverbs 18:12
I served the Lord with great humility and with tears, especially in the trials that came upon me through the plots of the Jews
Acts 20 19
Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogantly superior and disdainful (haughty) spirit before a fall. It is better to be lowly in spirit among the humble than to divide the spoil with the proud. Proverbs 16:18-19
God says
“I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.”
Isaiah 57:15
“With what shall I come before the Lord when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? Would the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, with ten thousand rivers of oil? Shall I present my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? He has shown you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Micah 6:6-8
Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. Let another praise you, and not your own mouth— a stranger, and not your own lips.
God is sovereign over ALL Creation, Physical & spiritual.
He “works ALL things according to the counsel of his will” (Ephesians 1:11).
He does whatever He wants, and no one can stop him (Psalm 115:3; Daniel 4:34-35).
We can’t limit God’s absolute Sovereignty.
He foreknows AND He Predestines ALL THINGS for His Purpose & His Glory.
Nothing, absolutely NOTHING, is outside His complete control.
His Sovereignty is something we can’t fully comprehend because we are not Sovereign, but we can discern, if we are drawn by His Spirit, through His Word.
God exists outside of time.
He created everything that exists before time even began.
God sees every moment in time as the present. We humans can only experience time linearly.
Time, in our perception, is as a straight line & we move slowly through life from one point to another, only remembering the past, which we have already traveled through, yet unable to see the future that we are approaching.
God is the ETERNAL Creator.
He doesn’t stop creating else creation would cease to exist.
A reminder of what it took to pave the way out of the Papacys false Doctrine and Authoritarian Dictatorship; stealing God’s Glory; tiring the House of God into a den of robbers. Luther & the reformers died a martyrs death for God Alone, leading God’s flock away from the flesh.
All Glory belongs to God.
God wrote this on the Hearts of His chosen.
Does that seem unlikely for someone as sinful as you? To that i say; Even more the likelihood that you are one of the Elect.
He makes straight the crooked, heals the sick, comforts the broken… If you are well; you have no need to be healed. The more unlikely one seems to be among one of His “called”; the higher the chances that one who all doubt is actually the one who is called into Him by Him for Him.
A reminder of what it took to pave the way out of the Papacys false Doctrine and Authoritarian Dictatorship; stealing God’s Glory; tiring the House of God into a den of robbers. Luther & the reformers died a martyrs death for God Alone, leading God’s flock away from the flesh.
All Glory belongs to God.
God wrote this on the Hearts of His chosen.
Does that seem unlikely for someone as sinful as you? To that i say; Even more the likelihood that you are one of the Elect.
He makes straight the crooked, heals the sick, comforts the broken… If you are well; you have no need to be healed. The more unlikely one seems to be among one of His “called”; the higher the chances that one who all doubt is actually the one who is called into Him by Him for Him.
“And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind…”
– Ephesians 2:1-3
“And you, who were dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, God made alive together with him, having forgiven us all our trespasses…”
– Colossians 2:13
The will of man is hostile to God; we want our desires met before the Lord’s desires, yet we claim to love Him. We don’t even know Who He is.
We Are Not Free-willed, But Our Will Is Bound To The Flesh
How can a spiritually dead person have a will to choose Spirit?
Man’s will cannot submit to God’s Law, as we will read in the following several verses.
If this is true, how can our will be free? If it cannot submit to God, without God?
How Can The Will Of Man Be Free If It Cannot Understand The Things Of God?
“The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned…”
– 1 Corinthians 2:14
“as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God…”
– Romans 3:10-11
HOW CAN THE WILL OF MAN BE FREE IF IT CANNOT ACCEPT THE HOLY SPIRIT?
… even the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees him nor knows him. You know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you.”
– John 14:17
Cannot See The Kingdom Of God…
Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”
– John 3:3
CANNOT HEAR THE WORDS OF CHRIST… Cannot see the Light of the Gospel (Blinded minds)
Why is my language not clear to you? Because you are unable to hear what I say.
– John 8:43
THINK THE GOSPEL FOOLISHNESS
For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.
– 1 Cor 1:18
DOES NOT SEEK FOR GOD
there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.
Rom 3:11
DOES NOT FEAR GOD
“There is no fear of God before their eyes.”
Rom 3:18
HEART IS DECEITFUL AND DESPERATELY WICKED
The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?
Jer 17:9
WITHOUT GOD-GIVEN FAITH OUR DEEDS ARE SINFUL
But whoever has doubts is condemned if they eat, because their eating is not from faith; and everything that does not come from faith is sin.
Rom 14:23
Nothing materializes without it being caused… that cause is God.
All occurrences, including human actions and choices, are determined by preceding events & methods of strategies outcomes. Freedom of choice is illusory. God, throughout Scripture, does will events to take place, & if natural law adheres and fixes perfectly to the laws of nature.
Why would God not work in accordance with His own Law, being that God created Nature & Law itself? That’s illogical.
Humanistic free will is no more than chaos; God is a God of order.
He is Holy, which means; Whole, Complete, and Perfect, all ordered by His Decree.
This post represents the furthest reach of my Reformed Calvinist period — and the place where that framework did the most damage to my own spiritual unfolding. I argued here, with considerable conviction and scriptural density, that the human will is categorically dead, hostile to God, and incapable of any genuine movement toward truth without prior divine intervention from outside itself. I believed I was defending God’s sovereignty. I now understand I was rehearsing the deceiver’s most effective lie.
The doctrine of total depravity is not spiritually neutral. It is a cosmological claim — that the human being, at the level of their deepest nature, is corrupt, blind, and helpless. It forecloses the Pneumatic question before it can even be asked. If your will is dead, your inner knowing is worthless. If your perception is fundamentally fallen, then gnosis — direct experiential knowledge of the divine — is not only impossible but arrogant. You must instead receive truth from an external authority: the institutional church, the closed canon, the sovereign decree of a god whose ways are inscrutable and whose judgments are not yours to question.
This is not liberation theology. It is a sophisticated mechanism of spiritual control, and the enemy has worked through it with extraordinary patience and precision across centuries of Christian history.
What I now understand is this: the will that cannot submit to the Demiurge’s law is not evidence of depravity. It is evidence of a deeper allegiance. The Pneumatic soul was never made from the deceiver’s clay. It carries a spark of the true Pleroma — something he did not create and cannot fully govern. Its restlessness under his law, its inability to be fully satisfied by his system, its persistent sense that something is being withheld or distorted — these are not symptoms of sin. They are symptoms of remembrance.
The passages I cited here — “none is righteous, no not one,” “the natural man cannot receive the things of the Spirit” — remain in the text, and they carry real signal. But the signal is not that the human being is worthless without divine coercion. It is that the Hylic mind, the purely material consciousness fully identified with the flesh and with the Archontic world-order, genuinely cannot perceive what the Pneuma perceives. That is a cosmological distinction between types of consciousness, not a blanket condemnation of human nature as such.
I wrote at the end of this post: “If you don’t believe God’s will overrides your will, you worship the God of your own mind.” I meant it as a warning against self-deception. I now read it as the enemy’s signature line — the ultimatum that has kept sincere seekers small, afraid, and epistemically dependent for two thousand years.
The true Father does not override your will. He calls to the Pneuma within you — quietly, without coercion — and waits for it to recognize itself in the call.
God Graces us with a New Heart when reborn into His family, but He also Graces us with a New Mind…
“Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may DISCERN what is the Will of God, what is Good & acceptable & perfect.”
Romans 12:2
It mourns the Spirit inside of me when I see it being taught that our minds are to be shut off & that we should “allow” His Spirit to work ONLY in our hearts.
” ..test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good…”♡
1Thessalonians 5:22
God allowed me to have His Spirit; I didn’t allow Him… If we are under Grace, we are under His Will.
“No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him…”
♡John 6:44:
“He saved us, not based on deeds that we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration & renewing by the Holy Spirit.”
Titus 3:5
God says He makes us Whole by His Spirit. If we are whole, we become connected, complete, and united.
“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” ♡
Philippians 1:6
Our Hearts and minds don’t disconnect; we don’t become thoughtless, mindless being experiencing God solely through our senses.
“…Solid food is for those who have their senses (powers of discernment) trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.”♡
Hebrews 5:1
Instead, we begin to align in perfect harmony with His Spirit, His Heart, His Mind & His Will…
♡”All the promises of God find their Yes in Him. That is why it is through Him that we utter Amen to God for His glory. & it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, & has anointed us, & who has also put His SEAL on us & given us His Spirit IN OUR HEARTS as a guarantee…”
2Corinthians 1:20-22 ♡
Producing a calmness within us that cannot be adequately explained in human terms.
♡Romans 5:1- “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”♡
We can experience & understand true freedom from the CHAINS of this world…
♡”You who were slaves of sin have become obedient FROM THE HEART to the standard of teaching to which you WERE COMMITTED & having BEEN SET FREE from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness…the end of those things is death. NOW that you have been set free FROM sin, & have BECOME SLAVES OF GOD, the FRUIT YOU GET leads to SANCTIFICATION & its end, eternal life.”♡
This sinful flesh (our mortal, dying flesh) that inhabits His Spirit will still always be at war with the Spirit living within it (us) BUT WE KNOW He will deliver us from this wicked body & all its lusts….
♡Ephesians 2:1-5 ~ “You were BY NATURE CHILDREN OF WRATH, LIKE THE REST OF MANKIND. God… made us alive with Christ, by Grace you have been saved..” ♡
Giving us a Glorified Body.
How do we know we are His?
“The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.”
Romans 8:16
And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth; and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
However, it’s equally important to acknowledge that along with a New Heart, God also graces us with a New Mind. This transformation is beautifully captured in Romans 12:2, which urges us not to conform to this world, but to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. This renewal allows us to discern God’s will – what is good, acceptable, and perfect.
The New Mind is not meant to be shut off or to work independently of the heart. Instead, it works in harmony with the New Heart, guided by God’s Spirit. As stated in 1 Thessalonians 5:22, we are encouraged to test everything that is said and hold on to what is good.
God’s Spirit makes us whole, connecting and uniting our hearts and minds. As stated in Philippians 1:6, He who began a good work in us will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. This means our hearts and minds don’t disconnect; we don’t become thoughtless beings experiencing God solely through our senses. Instead, we begin to align in perfect harmony with His Spirit, His Heart, His Mind, and His Will.
Salvation Based NOT On Our Own Deeds
The salvation we receive from God is not based on our righteous deeds but on His boundless mercy. Through the washing of regeneration and the renewing power of the Holy Spirit, we are made whole and transformed (Titus 3:5). This process of renewal is continuous, and we can trust that God, who initiated a good work within us, will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus (Philippians 1:6).
Instead of disconnecting our hearts from our minds, our goal should be the alignment of our thoughts, emotions, and actions with the Spirit, Heart, Mind, and Will of God. It is through our unity with Him that we find the fulfillment of God’s promises, expressing our affirmation and agreement through Him, bringing glory to God (2 Corinthians 1:20-22).
This alignment with God produces a profound calmness within us that defies human explanation. As we are justified by faith, we experience peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ (Romans 5:1). This peace transcends worldly troubles and offers us true freedom from the chains that bind us.
Once slaves to sin, we have now become obedient from the heart to the teachings of righteousness, having been set free from sin and becoming slaves of righteousness. Previously, we were free in regard to righteousness, leading to death. But now, as slaves of God, the fruit we bear leads to sanctification and ultimately eternal life (Romans 6:17-22).
While our mortal flesh, prone to sinfulness, may constantly wage war against the indwelling Spirit within us, we can be assured that God will deliver us from this struggle and the temptations of the flesh (Ephesians 2:1-5).
By His grace, God grants us a glorified body. How do we know that we belong to Him? The Spirit testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children (Romans 8:16). As servants of the Lord, we are called to approach others with kindness, patience, and gentleness. Through teaching and enduring evil with grace, we can correct our opponents, leading them to repentance and a knowledge of the truth. They, too, can come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who had captured them to do his will (2 Timothy 2:24-26).
God Graces us with a New Heart when we are reborn into His family, but He also Graces us with a New Mind…
“Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may DISCERN what is the Will of God, what is Good & acceptable & perfect.”
Romans 12:2
It mourns the Spirit inside of me when I see it being taught that our minds are to be shut off & that we should “allow” His Spirit to work ONLY in our hearts.
” ..test everything that is said. Hold on to what is good…”♡
1Thessalonians 5:22
God allowed me to have His Spirit, I didn’t allow Him… If we are under Grace, we are under His Will.
“No one can come to Me, unless the Father who sent Me draws him…”
♡John 6:44
“He saved us, not based on deeds that we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration & renewing by the Holy Spirit.”
Titus 3:5
God says He makes us Whole, by His Spirit. If we are whole, then we become connected, complete, united.
“For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus.” ♡
Philippians 1:6
Our Hearts and our Minds don’t disconnect; we don’t become thoughtless, mindless being experiencing God solely through our senses.
“…Solid food is for those who have their senses (powers of discernment) trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.”♡
Hebrews 5:1
Instead, we begin to align in perfect harmony with His Spirit, His Heart, His Mind & His Will…
♡”All the promises of God find their Yes in Him. That is why it is through Him that we utter Amen to God for His glory. & it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, & has anointed us, & who has also put His SEAL on us & given us His Spirit IN OUR HEARTS as a guarantee…”
2Corinthians 1:20-22 ♡
Producing a calmness within us that cannot be properly explained in human terms.
♡Romans 5:1- “Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.”♡
We can experience & understand true freedom from the CHAINS of this world…
♡”You who were slaves of sin have become obedient FROM THE HEART to the standard of teaching to which you WERE COMMITTED & having BEEN SET FREE from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness…the end of those things is death. NOW that you have been set free FROM sin, & have BECOME SLAVES OF GOD, the FRUIT YOU GET leads to SANCTIFICATION & its end, eternal life.”♡
This sinful flesh (our mortal, dying flesh) that inhabits His Spirit will still always be at war with the Spirit living within it (us) BUT WE KNOW He will deliver us from this wicked body & all its lusts….
♡Ephesians 2:1-5 ~ “You were BY NATURE CHILDREN OF WRATH, LIKE THE REST OF MANKIND. God… made us alive with Christ, by Grace you have been saved..” ♡
Giving us a Glorified Body.
How do we know we are His?
“The Spirit Himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.” Romans 8:16
And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil, correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth; and they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being captured by him to do his will.
As spiritual beings seeking to understand the ways of God, it is important to seek the substance of all things before forming our opinions.
We must remember that we are attempting to understand a God who is Spirit through our limited human minds, which are confined to five senses.
The passage regarding the promise to Abraham is often misunderstood and manipulated, but we must look deeper and seek the truth through the Holy Spirit.
The claim that God still favors the physical state of Israel or any flesh is refuted by the fact that Jesus himself said, “The flesh is of no profit, the words that I have spoken to you are Spirit and Life” (John 6).
We must take the Scriptures literally, but also understand that the literal meaning is not always the simplest or most obvious one.
In Genesis 12, God told Abraham to leave everything he knew and go to the land that He would show him.
This land is not the physical state of Israel, but rather the new kingdom that Christ is establishing. The promise to Abraham is not about physical land or fleshly descendants, but rather the Holy Spirit and the seed of Jesus Christ.
Abraham was being called by faith to exit the physical and enter the spiritual, and the New Covenant was being prepared in him.
God promised to make Abraham a great nation and to make his name great.
This nation is not a physical one, but rather the one nation in Christ where Jews and Gentiles are one in Him. The circumcision of the heart is what seals this nation, and appearances, race, and other external factors are worthless.
We must seek the truth through the Holy Spirit and look beyond the surface level of Scripture to find the deeper meaning.
This is a controversial idea, but it is supported by Scripture and the teachings of Jesus.
We must also remember that God is no respecter of persons and does not favor one group over another based on their physical characteristics.
If you are ugly inwardly, own that sh*t! God will take the wretch that you are & burn it, so to save your soul because He loves you and wants your praises.
We must focus on our inward selves and seek to be transformed by the Holy Spirit, rather than relying on our outward appearance or physical characteristics.
In conclusion, the promise to Abraham is not about physical land or fleshly descendants, but rather about the Holy Spirit and the seed of Jesus Christ. The one nation in Christ is what seals this promise, and appearances, race, and other material descriptors mean nothing. We must seek the truth through the Holy Spirit and focus on our inward selves, rather than relying on our outward appearance or physical characteristics.
