Removing Ignorance and Confusion About the Sovereignty of God

God is Sovereign! That is an undisputable truth. He is not a Sovereign; He is the Sovereign of the universe. God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit is the power above all powers and the authority above all authorities.

Where then is the ignorance and confusion about God’s sovereignty? Among Christians, especially many evangelicals, the ignorance and confusion about God’s sovereignty primarily concern the will of God. They wrongly equate that because of God’s sovereignty His will takes place in all things. For example, earlier this week I heard an evangelical explain that regardless of how anyone votes God would decide who becomes President of the United States. He said that he and others could vote for the one that God wanted, but if the one they voted for didn’t make it to the general election the one that God wanted would be elected. He even said that he could stay home and not vote and the one God wants would be elected.

Those Christians who believe things like this are at present ignorant and confused about what the word of God says concerning the sovereignty of God. There will come a time when only the will of our sovereign God is done, but we are not yet living in that time. At some time in the future Satan and all his followers will be put away forever. From that time forward only the will of God will be done forever and ever.

God has a will and He wants His will to be done on earth as it is in heaven. That is why Jesus taught us to pray Thy will be done… God wants a people on earth who want to do His will in all things, but we still have an adversary who wants his will to be done on earth. That adversary, the devil, has demonic forces and human forces that are determined to do his will and thwart the will of God. That my friends is where we are. So what do we do?

A good question! I am going to be teaching about God’s will for us on earth. We are in a spiritual war that is not primarily with human forces. We are in a spiritual war with Satan and his demonic forces. Satan does have many humans who have chosen to side with him, but our main war is with unseen forces. So put on your spiritual armor, take up the sword of the Spirit and let’s wage war.

 Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus going on before! Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe; Forward into battle, see His banner go! Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war, with the cross of Jesus going on before!