Sovereignty is the quality of having supreme and independent power , authority in government or as possessed by the ruler over a territory,(Oxford Dictionary and Wikipedia Definition)
GOD’s sovereignty surpass human definition and phenomenon . God’s Sovereignty includes divine wisdom knowledge and understanding,mysteries,hidden secrets, gift of the spirit and fruits of the spirit,signs and wonders,glory in abundance,power,goodness and mercy,love,peace,,honour,authority and judgement.
The sovereignty of God I take to be the absolute authority, rule, and government of God in the whole of that reality that exists distinct from Himself in the realms of nature and of grace. Scripture bears constant witness in a great variety of contexts because it is a truth that underlies and determines the whole superstructure of divine revelation.
Lord our God is one LORD" (Mark 12:29). And the necessary consequence for us is, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength" (Mark 12:30). "Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve" Matt. 4:10
The concept of divine sovereignty presupposes also the fact of creation, that is, the origination of all other existence by the fiat of God.
"By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth" (Ps. 33:6). The import is that the word, or breath of God, breath being the symbol of His almighty, creative will, is the antecedent, or prior cause, of all that is. "For he spake, and it was done; he commanded, and it stood fast" (vs. 9). This mode of statement harks back to the first chapter of Genesis, where on some eight occasions the successive steps of the creative drama are introduced with the formula "and God said."
God made heaven and earth; by his spirit the havens were garnished; he laid the foundations of the earth; by wisdom he founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens; his hands stretched out the heavens, and all their host he commanded; heaven and earth, his hand made, and so all those things came to be; he made the sea and the dry land; he is the first and the last, the Alpha and Omega; he is the beginning of creation; by his will, heaven and earth were, and were created (2 Kings 19:15; Job 26:13; 38:4; Prov. 3:19; Isa. 42:5; 44:6; 45:12; 66:2; Jonah 1:9; Rev. 1:8; 3:14; 4:
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The sovereignty of God rests upon the fact of his oneness and upon the fact of creation, it may be said to consist, first of all, in the right of dominion and rule over all and in the fact of universal possession. The Psalm sounds this note succinctly. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof" (Ps. 24:1). The prophets do the same when they affirm that he is "the God of the whole earth" and as the "Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever HE will" (Isa. 54:5; Dan. 4:17, 25). In the formula of Melchizedek and of Abraham, he is the "possessor of heaven and earth" (Gen. 14:19, 22), and in the words of Paul, "in him we live, and move, and have our being" (Acts 17:28).
Isaiah 48vs I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did [them] suddenly, and they came to pass.5I have even from the beginning declared [it] to thee; before it came to pass I shewed [it] thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.6Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare [it]? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.7They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou hardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.
GOD’s Sovereignty, as the right of dominion and the fact of possession, comes to its full all-pervasive and efficient exercise in His government (2 Kings 19:25). "Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand" (Isa. 14:24) "My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure" (Isa. 26:10). In Job's words, "He is in one mind, and who can turn him? And what his soul desireth, even that he doeth. For he performeth the thing that is appointed for me: and many such things are with him" (Job 23:13-14). "I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee" (Job 42:1-2). It is that "the counsel of the Lord standeth forever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations," that he "worketh all things according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will" (Ps. 33:11; Eph. 1:11).
Folks GOD made heaven and earth;by his spirit the havens were garnished; he laid the foundations of the earth; by wisdom he founded the earth;by understanding he established the heavens; his hands stretched out the heavens, and all their host he commanded; heaven and earth, his hand made, and so all those things came to be;He is the Alpha and Omega; HE is the beginning of creation; by HIS will,heaven and earth were,and were created (2 Kings 19:15; Job 26:13; 38:4; Prov. 3:19; Isa. 42:5; 44:6; 45:12; 66:2; Jonah 1:9; Rev. 1:8; 3:14; 4:
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Brethren Let us adore ,bow down and worship GOD forever and ever.Amen.
