God's Sovereign Control
His control implies that everything occurs as indicated by his arrangement and aim. Authority implies that every one of his orders should be complied. Presence implies that we experience God's control and authority in the entirety of our experience, so we can't escape from his equity or from his adoration. Whenever scholars discuss "divine sway," they typically have the first of these as a primary concern, his control. Without a doubt, the Bible instructs that God controls all things. He has an everlasting arrangement for all of nature and history (Eph. 1:9-11). At the point when God meets with Moses in Exodus 3 and uncovers his name Yahweh, that name, God's Lordship, uncovers to Moses that God, not Pharaoh, rules over the issues of Egypt and Israel:
Yet, I realize that the lord of Egypt won't release you except if constrained by a strong hand. So I will loosen up my hand and hit Egypt with every one of the marvels that I will do in it; after that he will release you. (Exod. 3:19-20)
I will take you to be my kin, and I will be your God, and you will realize that I am the LORD your God, who has brought you free from the weights of the Egyptians. I will carry you into the land that I committed to provide for Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. I will give it to you for a belonging. I'm the LORD.'" (Exod. 6:7-8)
Note the last four expressions of this guarantee: since God is Lord, the sovereign, he will surely convey Israel from Egypt and carry his kin into the guaranteed land. Nothing can prevent the Lord from satisfying his guarantee.
God's control is consistently strong; nothing can keep him from achieving his motivation (see Ps. 115:3; 135:6; Isa. 14:24-27; 43:13; 55:11; Dan. 4:34-35; Rev. 3:7). It is likewise widespread; that is, it covers every one of the occasions of nature and history. This incorporates the normal world (Ps. 65:9-11; 135:6-7), mankind's set of experiences (Acts 17:26), and individual human existence (1 Sam. 2:6-7; James 4:13-16). God even oversees the free choices of individuals (Prov. 16:9), including our perspectives toward others (Dan. 1:9; Ezra 6:22). All the more hazardously, God even destines individuals' wrongdoings (Exod. 4:21; Deut. 2:30; 1 Kings 22:23; Rom. 9:17-18). In any case, as sovereign Lord, he likewise appoints that some will come to confidence and salvation (Eph. 2:4-10). Thus, salvation is God's work from start to finish, accomplishing for us how we would never fantasy about doing ourselves. We ought to constantly recall that God's redeeming quality in Christ is essential for his command over creation as the Lord. (A few sections sum up the regulation of the viability and comprehensiveness of God's sovereign control: Lam. 3:7; Rom. 8:28; 11:33; Eph. 1:11.)
God's Sovereign Authority
Yet, God's sovereign lordship is more than control. It likewise typifies his power: what the Lord orders, his animals should do. In the Decalogue, the agreement which Moses conveys to Israel after God sovereignly recovered them from Egypt, God starts by recognizing himself as Lord (Exod. 20:1-2) and based on that recognizable proof, proceeds to total his ten precepts. It is on the grounds that God is the sovereign Lord that we should comply with him (Deut. 6:4-6; John 14:21; Matt. 7:21-22; Luke 6:46). Since he is Lord, his power is outright. That implies (1) we shouldn't falter in that frame of mind to him (Rom. 4:16-22), (2) his lordship rises above the entirety of our different loyalties (Matt. 10:34-38), and (3) that his power over us exists in every aspect of human existence, not simply in the areas that we with no obvious end goal in mind call strict or hallowed (1 Cor. 10:31; cf. Col. 3:17, 24; 2 Cor. 10:5).
God's Sovereign Presence
The third quality that characterizes God's sovereign lordship is his contract fortitude with his animals, which I frequently abridge by the term presence. In Scripture, the pledge Lord is one who takes individuals to be his own (Exod. 6:7; 2 Cor. 6:16). He proclaims this expectation frequently in Scripture (Gen. 17:7; Ex. 29:45; Heb. 11:16; Rev. 21:3). Whenever God takes us to be his kin, he faces our conflicts, favors us, loves us, and now and then (as a caring Father ought to) gives us exceptional disciplines for our wrongdoings (Amos 3:2). He sums up this by saying that he is with us. He puts his name upon us (Num. 6:27) so he abides with us and we with him. In the OT, he satisfies his presence with Israel in the sanctuary and the sanctuary. In the NT, he stays with us especially in Jesus, "God with us," Immanuel (Isa. 7:14; Matt. 1:23). He "sanctuaries" with us (John 1:14). Also, after his rising, he sends the Holy Spirit to stay in us as his sanctuary (1 Cor. 3:16).
Yet, God's presence isn't just with his picked people. For God's entire creation is likewise in agreement with him: he is the Lord of all creation. His presence is all over the place, or as scholars say, he is ubiquitous (Ps. 139; Acts 17:28).
So despite the fact that Scripture instructs that God controls everything, we shouldn't consider his sway an indifferent, mechanical determinism. God's sovereign lordship is profoundly private. As Lord, God controls everything (strongly, generally), yet in addition expresses orders, expressions of life, that benevolently oversee the continuous existence of his animals. Furthermore, as Lord he has promised to be "with" the individuals who are his. Without a doubt, God's sway is an expansive idea, including all that God is and everything that he does, in any event, embracing his affection.
