Saturday, December 5, 2009

Jim McClarty's Sermon on the Sovereignty of God

In this sermon, preached in 2005, Pastor Jim McClarty preaches on the sovereignty of God. Although, I rarely use the NIV, and prefer either the ESV and the NASB, I found it interesting that 283 times in the NIV translation of the Old Testament, God is referred to as "O Sovereign LORD." In the NASB version, we read: "The LORD has established His throne in the heavens,and His sovereignty rules over all." (Psalm 103:19)

We also read in Ephesians, perhaps the greatest passage of Scripture regarding the sovereignty of God in salvation: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him In love He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved."(Ephesians 1:3-6)

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