God’s Workings According to the Counsel of His Will
Josh October 31st, 2006
It amazes me how one can read through the Scriptures and then blatantly try to hold on to the thin thread of their Arminianism with a clear conscience. I mean, consider the very 1st verse in Scripture:
In the beginning, God…
Now, how much more do we really need to proclaim God’s sovereignty over all things? He was here before the beginning…He created all things, including time! Also, consider all the intricate things taking place in Scripture. For example, Moses being saved from the slaughter of children, and then being delivered to Pharoah’s daughter to be raised up a Hebrew alongside the Egyptians. Consider how God used Joseph’s brothers’ evil, for Joseph’s own good! Consider Job, who, in all his affliction, recognized one thing consistently: God’s prerogative in his sufferings.
There are countless other examples, but one of the inconsistent things with Arminianism is this: I’ve heard them many times proclaim, “God is sovereign”, but then deny His freedom to choose and save whom He so desires. Well, I’m sorry, but how can One plan the end, but not plan the means to that end? I’ve been reading through Amos, and here are a few good passages I’d like to share:
Amos 3:6 Is a trumpet blown in a city,
and the people are not afraid?
Does disaster come to a city,
unless the Lord has done it?
Amos 4:13 For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,
and declares to man what is his thought,
who makes the morning darkness,
and treads on the heights of the earth—
the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!Amos 5:8 He who made the Pleiades and Orion,
and turns deep darkness into the morning
and darkens the day into night,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out on the surface of the earth,
the Lord is his name;
9 who makes destruction flash forth against the strong,
so that destruction comes upon the fortress.Amos 9:5 The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and it melts,
and all who dwell in it mourn,
and all of it rises like the Nile,
and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
6 who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
and founds his vault upon the earth;
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
the Lord is his name.
Now that’s sovereignty!
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