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Why must we glorify God?

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The Chief End of Man is to Glorify God – Thomas Watson

Part 4

Why must we glorify God?

1. Because he gives us our being.

Psalm 100:3, “It is he that made us.” We think it a great kindness in a man to spare our life, but what kindness is it in God to give us our life! We draw our breath from him; and as life, so all the comforts of life are from him. He gives us health, which is the sauce to sweeten our life; and food, which is the oil that nourishes the lamp of life. If all we receive is from his bounty, is it not reasonable we should glorify him? Should we not live to him, seeing we live by him? Rom. 11:36, “For of him, and through him, are all things.” All we have is of his fulness, all we have is through his free grace; and therefore to him should be all. It follows, therefore, “To him be glory for ever.” God is not our benefactor only, but our founder, as rivers that come from the sea empty their silver streams into the sea again.

2. Because God has made all things for his own glory.

Prov. 16:4. “The Lord hath made all things for himself:” that is, “for his glory.” As a king has excise out of commodities, so God will have glory out of everything. He will have glory out of the wicked. If they will not give him glory, he will get glory upon them. Exod. 14:17. “I will get me honour upon Pharaoh.” But especially has he made the godly for his glory; they are the lively organs of his praise. Isa. 43:21, “This people have I formed for myself, and they shall shew forth my praise.” It is true, they cannot add to his glory, but they may exalt it; they cannot raise him in heaven, but they may raise him in the esteem of others here. God has adopted the saints into his family, and made them a royal priesthood, that they should show forth the praise of him who hath called them, I Pet. 2:9.

3. Because the glory of God has intrinsic value and excellence.

It transcends the thoughts of men, and the tongues of angels. His glory is his treasure, all his riches lie here; as Micah said. Judges 18:24, “What have I more?” So, what has God more? God’s glory is worth more than heaven, and worth more than the salvation of all men’s souls. Better kingdoms be thrown down, better men and angels be annihilated, than God should lose one jewel of his crown, one beam of his glory.

4. Creatures below us, and above us, bring glory to God.

Do we think to sit rent free? Shall everything glorify God but man? It would be a pity then that man was ever made.

    (1.) Creatures below us glorify God, the inanimate creatures and the heavens glorify God. “The heavens declare the glory of God.” Psalm 19:1. The curious workmanship of heaven sets forth the glory of its Maker; the firmament is beautified and pencilled out in blue and azure colours, where the power and wisdom of God may be clearly seen. “The heavens declare his glory:” we may see the glory of God blazing in the sun, and twinkling in the stars. Look into the air, the birds, with their chirping music, sing hymns of praise to God. Every beast in its kind glorifies God. Isa. 43:20, “The beasts of the field shall honour me.”

    (2.) Creatures above us glorify God: “the angels are ministering spirits.” Heb. 1:14. They are still waiting on God’s throne, and bring some revenues of glory into the exchequer of heaven. Surely man should be much more studious of God’s glory than the angels; for God has honoured him more than the angels, in that Christ took man’s nature upon him, and not the angels. Though, in regard of creation, God made man “a little lower than the angels,” Heb. 2:7, yet, in regard of redemption, God has set him higher than the angels. He has married mankind to himself; the angels are Christ’s friends, not his spouse. He has covered us with the purple robe of righteousness, which is a better righteousness than the angels have, 2 Cor. 5:20. If then the angels bring glory to God, much more should we, being dignified with honour above angelic spirits.

5. We must bring glory to God, because all our hopes hang upon him.

Psalm 39:7. “My hope is in thee.” And Psalm 62:5. “My expectation is from him;” I expect a kingdom from him. A child that is good-natured will honour his parent, by expecting all he needs from him. Psalm 87:7. “All my springs are in thee.” The silver springs of grace, and the golden springs of glory are in him.

What is it to glorify God?

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The Chief End of Man is to Glorify God – Thomas Watson

Part 3

Q. What is it to glorify God?

A. Glorifying God consists in four things: 1. Appreciation, 2. Adoration, 3. Affection, 4. Subjection. This is the yearly rent we pay to the crown of heaven.

1. Appreciation. To glorify God is to set God highest in our thoughts, and, to have a venerable esteem of him. Psalm 92:8. “Thou, Lord, art most high for evermore.” Psalm 97:9, “Thou art exalted far above all gods.” There is in God all that may draw forth both wonder and delight; there is a constellation of all beauties; he is prima causa [the first cause], the original and spring-head of being, who sheds a glory upon the creature. We glorify God when we are God-admirers; admire his attributes, which are the glistening beams by which the divine nature shines forth; his promises which are the charter of free grace, and the spiritual cabinet where the pearl of price is hid; the noble effects of his power and wisdom in making the world, which is called “the work of his fingers.” Psalm 8:3. To glorify God is to have God-admiring thoughts; to esteem him most excellent, and search for diamonds in this rock only.

2. Glorifying God consists in adoration, or worship. Psalm 29:2. “Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name; worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness.” There is a twofold worship: 1. A civil reverence which we give to persons of honour. Gen. 23:7, “Abraham stood up and bowed himself to the children of Heth.” Piety is no enemy to courtesy. 2. A divine worship which we give to God as his royal prerogative. Neh. 8:6,”they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces towards the ground.” This divine worship God is very jealous of; it is the apple of his eye, the pearl of his crown; which he guards, as he did the tree of life, with cherubims and a flaming sword, that no man may come near it to violate it. Divine worship must be such as God himself has appointed, otherwise it is offering strange fire, Lev. 10:1. The Lord would have Moses make the tabernacle, “according to the pattern in the mount.” Exod. 25:40. He must not leave out anything in the pattern, nor add to it. If God was so exact and curious about the place of worship, how exact will he be about the matter of his worship! Surely here every thing must be according to the pattern prescribed in his word.

3. Affection. This is part of the glory we give to God, who counts himself glorified when he is loved. Deut. 6:5, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.” There is a twofold love: 1. Amor concupiscentiae, a love of concupiscence, which is self-love; as when we love another because he does us a good turn. A wicked man may be said to love God, because he has given him a good harvest, or filled his cup with wine. This is rather to love God’s blessing than to love God. 2. Amor amicitiae, a love of delight, as a man takes delight in a friend. This is to love God indeed; the heart is set upon God, as a man’s heart is set upon his treasure. This love is exuberant, not a few drops, but a stream. It is superlative; we give God the best of our love, the cream of it. Cant. 8:2,”I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine of the juice of my pomegranate.” If the spouse had a cup more juicy and spiced, Christ must drink of it. It is intense and ardent. True saints are seraphims, burning in holy love to God [from the Hebrew word saruph, to be burned up]. The spouse was amore perculsa, [an overwhelming love], in fainting fits, “sick of love,” Cant. 2:5. Thus to love God is to glorify him. He who is the chief of our happiness has the chief of our affections.

4. Subjection. This is when we dedicate ourselves to God, and stand ready dressed for his service. Thus the angels in heaven glorify him; they wait on his throne, and are ready to take a commission from him; therefore they are represented by the cherubims with wings displayed, to show how swift they are in their obedience. We glorify God when we are devoted to his service; our head studies for him, our tongue pleads for him, and our hands relieve his members. The wise men that came to Christ did not only bow the knee to him, but presented him with gold and myrrh. Matt. 2:11. So we must not only bow the knee, give God worship, but bring presents of golden obedience. We glorify God when we falter at no service, when we fight under the banner of his gospel against an enemy, and say to him as David to King Saul, “Thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine,” 1 Sam. 17:32.

A good Christian is like the sun, which not only sends forth heat, but goes its circuit round the world. Thus, he who glorifies God has not only his affections heated with love to God, but he goes his circuit too; he moves vigorously in the sphere of obedience.

What are we to understand by God’s glory?

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The Chief End of Man is to Glorify God – Thomas Watson

Part 2

When we speak of God’s glory, the question will be moved, What are we to understand by God’s glory?

Answer. There is a twofold glory:

1. The glory that God has in himself, his intrinsic glory.

Glory is essential to the Godhead, as light is to the sun: he is called the “God of glory.” Acts 7:2. Glory is the sparkling of the Deity; it is so co-natural to the Godhead, that God cannot be God without it. The creature’s honor is not essential to his being. A king is a man without his regal ornaments, when his crown and royal robes are taken away; but God’s glory is such an essential part of his being, that he cannot be God without it. God’s very life lies in his glory. This glory can receive no addition, because it is infinite; it is that which God is most tender of, and which he will not part with. Isa. 48:11, “My glory I will not give to another.” God will give temporal blessings to his children, such as wisdom, riches, honor; he will give them spiritual blessings, he will give them grace, he will give them his love, he will give them heaven; but his essential glory he will not give to another. King Pharaoh parted with a ring off his finger to Joseph, and a gold chain, but he would not part with his throne. Gen. 41:40. “Only in the throne will I be greater than thou.” So God will do much for his people; he will give them the inheritance; he will put some of Christ’s glory, as mediator upon them; but his essential glory he will not part with; “in the throne he will be greater.”

2. The glory which is ascribed to God, or which his creatures labour to bring to him.

1 Chron. 16:29, “Give unto the Lord the glory due unto his name.” And, 1 Cor. 6:20, “Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit.” The glory we give God is nothing else but our lifting up his name in the world, and magnifying him in the eyes of others. Phil. 1:20, “Christ shall be magnified in my body.”

The Chief End of Man is to Glorify God – Thomas Watson

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Part 1

The previous post asked a question important to us all – “What is the chief end of man?/What is the purpose of life?”, with slightly different answers. This post, as well as some in the future, will largely be excerpts from a work called A Body of Divinity, by Thomas Watson  (c.1620-1686). Some of his works can be found online at The Hall of Church History. The Body of Divinity  is a collection of sermons around the questions found in the Westminster Confession, beginning with the question at hand. So without further introductory explanation, let’s begin:

Man’s Chief End is to Glorify God

Question. 1. What is the chief end of man?

Answer. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever.

Here are two ends of life specified. 1. The glorifying of God. 2. The enjoying of God.

First. The glorifying of God, 1 Pet. 4:11. “That God in all things may be glorified.” The glory of God is a silver thread which must run through all our actions. l Cor. 10:31. “Whether therefore ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.” Everything works to some end in things natural and artificial; now, man being a rational creature, must propose some end to himself, and that should be, that he may lift up God in the world. He had better lose his life than the end of his living. The great truth asserted is that the end of every man’s living should be to glorify God. Glorifying God has respect to all the persons in the Trinity; it respects God the Father who gave us life; God the Son, who lost his life for us; and God the Holy Ghost, who produces a new life in us; we must bring glory to the whole Trinity.

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To be continued. . .

What is the Chief end of Man?

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The above question is the first of 107 contained, with their answers, in the Westminster Shorter Catechism, completed in 1647 by the Westminster Assembly and which continues to serve as part of the doctrinal standards of many Presbyterian churches. The question of man’s chief end, or purpose in this life, is rightly placed as Number One. For many, if not most of us, it is the question that stands above all others – the overarching question around which our adult endeavors revolve. Many ,not familiar with the catechisms of any sort, know the Catechism’s question and answer:

Q. 1. What is the chief end of man?
A. Man’s chief end is to glorify God, and to enjoy him for ever. 

Just for a moment, contrast the above with the statement made by perhaps the most ‘popular’ Pastor in America today:

“People ask me, What is the purpose of life?
And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity.”

He adds: ” We were not made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.”

These two questions, though phrased differently, both ask “What is the main reason we are here?” You won’t find either question asked and answered so specifically in scripture, but does one answer have more scriptural support than the other? Are both answers equally valid? Why, or why not?

How we answer that question will ‘color’ most of what we do, say, and think for all of our Christian lives.

What’s your answer?

Evangelical Golden Calves

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There is a bit of a buzz in Blogland these days that seems to have begun over a post that took issue with discernment/apologetics Web sites. Amidst the discussion, Phil Johnson over at Pyromaniacs had this to say:

“The overwhelming majority of today’s evangelical sophisticates would clearly prefer it if no one ever criticized evangelical Golden Calves. Rampant error doesn’t unsettle them in the least. They are quite happy to live with it and even actively make peace with it.”

This post is not continuing that particular discussion, but it addresses “evangelical Golden Calves”, of which there are many. Be that as it may, on this day, celebrated as Good Friday, the day Christ died for our sins, of chief concern is the unscriptural notion that God “accepts” us “just as we are”.

The reason God sent His Son to earth with the specific mission to die for OUR sins is because a Holy, Perfect and Just God CANNOT and WILL NOT “accept” us “just as we are”! It’s the theme of the entire Canon of Scripture! If God could, or would, accept us “with” our sin, Christ died in vain!

Somewhere in the history of evangelicalism, the very scriptural idea that Christ bids us “come as you are” to the Cross of Calvary, believe in and receive Christ as Savior and confess Him as Lord, morphed into God “accepts” you just as you are.

The result of that notion might be auditoriums with stadium seats filled with the legions of the falsely converted (and thus unconverted), with a few scattered genuine believers who confronted the Cross of Christ and their sin, realized their desperate condition, and dealt with their sin by repenting and believing in the One God sentenced to death because He could NOT “accept” them WITH their sin.

We hate con-artists who prey on the unsuspecting, who offer false promises and steal their hard earned savings, yet many of us (evangelicals) flock to the spiritual con-artists “selling” a false gospel!

Yes, “come” as you are to the Cross of Calvary; and standing, kneeling, or prostrate at the foot of the Cross, face your sin, and heed the words of Your Savior: “The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!” (Mark 1:15)

In the words of the time honored hymn:

“Just as I am, without one plea
But that thy blood was shed for me
And that thou bidd’st me come to thee
O Lamb of God, I come, I come.”

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God ‘is’ Love!

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What is God Like ?- Part 7

“There are three things told us in Scripture concerning the nature of God. First, ‘God is spirit’ (John 4:24). In the Greek there is no indefinite article, and to say ‘God is a spirit’ is most objectionable, for it places Him in a class with others. God is ‘spirit’ in the highest sense. Because He is ‘spirit’ He is incorporeal, having no visible substance. Had God a tangible body, He would not be omni-present, He would be limited to one place; because He is ‘spirit’ He fills heaven and earth. Secondly, ‘God is light’ (1 John 1:5), which is the opposite of darkness. In Scripture ‘darkness’ stands for sin, evil, death, and ‘light’ for holiness, goodness, life. ‘God is light’ means that He is the sum of all excellency. Thirdly, ‘God is love’ (1 John 4:8). It is not simply that God ‘loves,’ but that He is Love itself. Love is not merely one of His attributes, but His very nature.” (Arthur Pink)

That God ‘is’ love, not merely that it is ‘in’ His nature to love, defies human comprehension. Our attempts to define God’s love are framed by our own conceptions of what ‘love’ means, and what it should look like. Sadly, the tendency to define God’s love in human terms has also invaded His Bride, the church, to the extent that characteristics and attributes of God clearly set forth in scripture that contradict our definitions, are rarely mentioned from the pulpit, are explained away, or are simply tossed out. Our ‘Christian’ minds have been so well-conditioned by man-centered humanistic psychology, that we can no longer conceive of a God who ‘is’ love displaying wrath and judgment. So what does scripture tells us about God’s love?

1. The love of God is not influenced by anything we do or don’t do. “The Lord did not set his affection on you and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples, for you were the fewest of all peoples.  But it was because the Lord loved you and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers that he brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the land of slavery, from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.” (Deut 7:7-8). The reason any of us loves God is because He first loved us. (1 John 4:19).

2. God’s love is eternal. Since God is eternal, and because He ‘is’ love, His love is also eternal. In Jeremiah 31:3, God declared His everlasting love for His people even though they were in exile, while promised deliverance from bondage. “The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with loving-kindness.” While the prophet Jeremiah spoke directly to God’s Old Testament covenant people, the Apostle Paul expressed the same eternal truth to believers in Ephesus, whether they were Jews or Gentiles: “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will—” (Ephesians 1:4-5). 

3. God’s live is sovereign. Since God is sovereign, and since He is love, His love is sovereign. This truth also follows from the eternal nature of God’s love. Our Ephesians passage (Ephesians 1:4-5) tells us that God, because in His love it pleased Him to do so, predetermined to have a people unto Himself that He would present as a love gift to His Son (John 6:37-40). Once again, the Apostle Paul, drawing upon God’s  words to Moses, reminded New testament believers of the sovereign nature of God’s love:  “Just as it is written: ‘Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated. What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses, ‘I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.’ It does not, therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.” (Romans 9:13-16).

4. God’s love is infinite and unchangeable. For God SO loved. . .(John 3:16). “Everything about God is infinite. His essence fills heaven and earth. His wisdom is illimitable, for He knows everything of the past, present, and future. His power is unbounded, for there is nothing too hard for Him. So His love is without limit. There is a depth to it which none can fathom; there is a height to it which none can scale; there is a length and breadth to it which defies measurement, by any creature standard.” (Arthur Pink). 

“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” (James 1:17). All of God’s attributes are forever, as is the character of His beloved Son: “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.” (Hebrews 13:8).

5. God’s love is infinitely gracious. For God SO LOVED that He gave His Son to die for OUR sin! Because the wages of sin is death, by His own unchangeable decree, and because since the Fall of man every human being has been born spiritually dead and separated from God for eternity, God sentenced His own beloved Son to die so that all who would come to believe in the Son would be reconciled to Himself and find eternal life.

“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— not by works, so that no one can boast.” (Ephesians 2:1-9)

Not only did God send His own Son to die on our behalf, when we would not even seek Him on our own (Romans 3:10-18), God Himself draws us to the Cross of Calvary (John 6:44). Without a supernatural work of God in the human heart, no one would choose Christ! Can a dead man see? Can a dead man hear? Can a dead man choose? When God exposes a man to the true nature of his sin and lost condition, and presents to that man His Son and Savior, that man will run to the Cross!   That, dear friends, is the irresistible grace of God who ‘is’ Love!  

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The Judge of All the Earth

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What is God Like ?- Part 6

Not only did God create the universe and everything in it, He is ruler and judge over all that He created. If you don’t believe this writer, believe scripture:

“Far be it from you to do such a thing, to put the righteous to death with the wicked, so that the righteous fare as the wicked! Far be that from you! Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” (Genesis 18:25)

“The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed.” (1 Samuel 2:10)

“But the LORD sits enthroned forever; he has established his throne for justice, and he judges the world with righteousness; he judges the peoples with uprightness.” (Psalm 9:7-8)

“For behold, the LORD will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to render his anger in fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire. For by fire will the LORD enter into judgment, and by his sword, with all flesh; and those slain by the LORD shall be many.” (Isaiah 66:15-16)

God as Judge is not a very popular topic these days, but His righteous judgment is a theme that flows throughout Scripture, beginning with the judgment of Adam and Even and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3), and culminating with the final  judgment of all mankind spoken of in Revelation 20. God judged the corrupt world of Noah’s day, sending a flood to destroy the earth (Gen 6-8). Later in Old testament, we have the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah (Gen 18-19).God judged the Egyptian taskmasters with a series of plagues (Exodus 7-12), the worshippers of the Golden Calf (Exodus 32:26-35), those who who offered God ‘strange fire’ (Leviticus 10:1-3), and the nations of His chosen people for her unfaithfulness, sending them into captivity in Assyria (Israel) and Babylon (Judah).

While we don’t see God’s judgment demonstrated in the same way in the New Testament, we have this from the Apostle Paul:

“God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire with his powerful angels. He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at among all those who have believed. This includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.” (2 Thessalonians 1:6-10)

Another expression of God’s judgment in the New Testament comes from Jesus himself during his encounter with Nicodemus:

“Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.” (John 3:18)

Among the persons of the Trinity, the office of Judge is occupied by he Son, at the decree of the Father. (John 5:22) In Jesus’ words to some religious leaders of His day, we have the criteria by which men are judged for eternity – their belief or their unbelief.

Since God is creator, He has the authority to judge His creation. Because God represents all that is good, and right, and true, He is certainly qualified to judge that which is evil. Since God possesses perfect wisdom, He will always judge fairly and without error. Because God is the supreme authority, because He represents all that is good and right, and because He possesses perfect wisdom, He needs no jury.

“Shall not the Judge of all the earth do what is just?” He most certainly will! A more pertinent question is, are you ready to meet the Judge of all the earth? 

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God’s Sovereignty Over America

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What is God Like? – Part 5a

We are living in turbulent times, not only throughout the world, but also in our nation – perhaps the most turbulent time in recent history. While the major media and the political liberals see economic recovery, all Americans safe in the government’s care, and world peace down the road, conservatives see a headlong rush into socialism, Marxism, and the death of freedom on many levels, if not the very death of our nation. Students of Scripture and eschatological prognosticators see end-time prophesies being fulfilled at a frightening pace. The spectrum of emotion that accompanies these perceptions ranges from blind euphoria on one end to fear and hatred on the other end.

Regardless of current circumstances, or what they mean for us as individual Americans, our society and culture, or even our status as a nation, God, in his sovereignty, exercises complete control at every level, and over every nation on earth, including the United States of America. That is the proposition before us, one that we need to understand, and the single proposition that will bring us comfort beyond description in the most turbulent of times.

To present the case for God’s sovereignty over America, consider these words from the Apostle Paul in the book of Acts:

“The God who made the world and all things in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands; nor is He served by human hands, as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things; and He made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined their appointed times and the boundaries of their habitation,” (Acts 17:24-26)

Here are a few questions for consideration and discussion:

  • Where, to whom, and why did Paul speak these words?
  • What do these words tell us about God’s Sovereignty?
  • How do these words apply to America?

I suppose you could say this is a Bible study of sorts. Don’t just consider these verses, but look elsewhere in scripture for specific examples God’s sovereignty over the areas you identify in this passage. The results are astounding and irrefutable.

Please share with us what you discover!