Sovereignty of God

doctrine · 18 episodes

238On the Third Day 16 Feb 2026 40:40¶ 144 “So despite the fact that they conspired against you, tore off your bands and freed themselves from your authority, they ended up doing exactly…” 17:41¶ 66 “That’s a description of divine predestination and sovereign grace. There are those who should be saved because God’s ordained that they should be saved,…”

225Suffered Under Pontius Pilate 15 Sep 2025 9:18¶ 24 “It sounds like a conspiracy, and the message of the prayer and of Psalm 2 is that God ordained all of this for his…” 17:43¶ 54 “And that’s what Matthew is doing here. He’s taking us back to the discussion of God’s sovereignty. God is the potter, we are the…” 29:24¶ 89 “We’re going to keep running into this. Pilate is the agent of Rome. God has given Rome control over his people and over the…”

218Christ's Ministry Continued 9 Jun 2025 12:59¶ 50 “There’s divine sovereignty and divine predestination. Those who God has chosen to call, to drag to Jesus, will understand, will believe, and they’ll figure…” 12:35¶ 49 “It’s the spirit that quickens, the spirit that gives life. The flesh profits nothing. If you could eat my flesh and drink my blood…”

175Be Fruitful and Multiply 11 Jan 2024 33:24¶ 109 “That’s the alternative unless we believe that God didn’t give up, that God did something incredibly Yahweh-like and say, “You think so? Watch this,…” 33:54¶ 110 “Now here’s the thing. If you don’t believe in a sovereign God, there’s a problem. You may think, “God would really love that. He’d…” 32:56¶ 108 “That brings us beyond to, “So, when man fell into sin did God abort the plan?” Did God say, in effect, “It was a…”

174In the Beginning... Again 4 Jan 2024 29:28¶ 102 “And this God who is a person (in fact he is three persons) created the world with intention and with purpose. He has a…” 32:04¶ 113 “This is not storytelling. A storyteller writes every single word to the last syllable of recorded time. He writes all the details. He does…” 33:36¶ 118 “We don’t think nearly enough about infinity, probably because we can’t get very far with that thought, but when we think of a God…”

158Daniel in the Lion's Den - A Resurrection Story 6 Mar 2023 44:49¶ 170 “And the context of sovereignty in kingdom terms – I think the Calvinist tradition, or the neo-Calvinist tradition, the emphasis there on sovereignty without…” 45:12¶ 171 “It’s tempting to think that sovereign means God is the one who arranges everything. He’s the one who makes sure you find your keys…” 45:33¶ 172 “And the ability to accomplish his purposes and his will, both in heaven and in earth. Without such a God, we have no Savior.…”

156Putting Down Kings 6 Feb 2023 26:34¶ 102 “You have to acknowledge the sovereignty of God. You have to acknowledge his providential rule over creation.” 26:57¶ 104 “God did not hesitate to have a litmus test for Nebuchadnezzar. Daniel says, “This is God. It’s not enough for you to acknowledge that…” 28:03¶ 109 “God not only rules over the kingdoms of the world, but he gives them to whomsoever he will. If a kingdom has a king,…”

149The Peace of the City 19 Dec 2022 27:18¶ 83 “Here’s the thing back of all of this. This is what everyone tends to forget. We confess it in our creeds. We fight for…” 27:55¶ 84 “God is not like, “Oh no, he’s squatting on my land. I guess I have to yield to him. Okay, no one go near…” 28:24¶ 85 “This is something that really on a more intellectual and sophisticated level still bothers theologians today. How could God possibly press cultural claims, legal…”

145Faith and Despair 21 Nov 2022 20:41¶ 72 “Sometimes our theologies are so bad that we don’t even know what the word sovereign means. You know there are evangelical Christians who don’t…” 20:58¶ 73 “They think, “Really big, really powerful,” but “He does according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the…” 21:17¶ 74 “You mean my sickness? The death of my child? I lost my job. The fire that wiped out my whole town? God ordained that?…”

143The Point of No Return 7 Nov 2022 3:32¶ 18 “Right here at the beginning, like Adam and Eve, like Satan in heaven, we have to reckon with who the God of the Bible…” 4:34¶ 20 “This is why there are only two worldviews, either a belief in a sovereign God before whom all men must bow and to whom…” 21:22¶ 71 “Not everyone believes in those. We get outraged at the guy, but we’re questioning whether the civil government should do anything, but in the…”

121Elijah's Job 6 Jun 2022 19:35¶ 76 “But here is God sending a prophet to a pagan nation saying, “I’m picking your next king,” and as it turns out it’s going…” 41:28¶ 151 “In fact, again, God does not even tell them. All he tells them really is things are going to be very bad for a…” 44:25¶ 161 “We’re still in the middle of Kings. There’s a long way to the end of 2 Kings from where we are, so we have…”

117More Things Are Wrought By Prayer 9 May 2022 30:11¶ 94 “Let’s look at the big picture again. Yes, we confess the sovereignty of God, and it’s an interesting thing. The sovereignty of God –…” 30:47¶ 96 “It’s a manipulation of the word ‘sovereignty’ into something it doesn’t mean in any other context. You have a mighty king who has authority…” 31:30¶ 98 “I have heard this from certain strains of Calvinists. It’s not universal by any means, because I’ve heard very good sermons in the other…”

116Jezebel 2 May 2022 35:02¶ 117 “It’s not that somebody comes in and says, “Let me teach you magic.” But that magic is the natural default when we walk away…” 12:33¶ 39 “The one thing that this kind of polytheism or pluralism can’t tolerate is any idea of absolutes. That there should be a single God…” 33:25¶ 113 “It also reminds me of that wonderful sermon, or I don’t know if you would technically classify it as a sermon, but something R.C.…”

76The Theology of the Conquest 26 Jul 2021 8:25¶ 34 “God claims to be the God of the whole earth in the most literal sense. He owns the planet. He is the not-absentee landlord,…” 8:47¶ 35 “One thing we’ll come back to eventually is that yes, God ordered a lot of people to be killed. God takes people’s lives every…” 4:54¶ 20 “First of all, it’s God’s land. He owns the earth. He can give it to whomever he wants. That’s huge and something people have…”

63Be Ye Thankful 14 Mar 2021 42:16¶ 129 “I explained to him, “What happens if there’s something here that God doesn’t control? How little is too little? At what point do you…” 42:29¶ 130 “Really? The cells in your body – does that matter? The five minutes by which you miss your flight and end up not going…” 43:01¶ 131 “And if it does, unless we accept with great gladness God’s sovereignty over this – I’m glad that God controls all the asteroids and…”

36Polytheism and Pluralism (part 2) 6 Sep 2020 0:33¶ 4 “Last week we talked about how “no other gods before me” means no other gods at all, and how this God, the Lord, is…” 1:08¶ 5 “God claims complete authority over creation, since he’s the Creator, and in the first commandment he claims authority as Redeemer of his people as…”

15The Babylon Project 12 Apr 2020 31:31¶ 104 “We cannot conceive of a God who can decree the end from the beginning, and yet do it in such a way that we…” 31:13¶ 103 “The constant fear is that if we were to admit that God is God, then somehow we lose our individuality, our significance, our freedom,…” 34:21¶ 114 “The first thing I said, “I’m glad to see you all. How many of you came because of the way I spelled faeries?” and…”

1Oneness 5 Jan 2020 3:51¶ 12 “Singularity is easy. There’s only one God. God does not have competitors. When he created the world there was no one beside him to…” 4:12¶ 13 “When James at the Council of Jerusalem says, “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning,” he simply means God knows everything…” 4:36¶ 14 “He’s sovereign. He is the one who has the plan, who executes it flawlessly according to his good pleasure. That we sort of understand.…”