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The Lord Has It Under Control: What the Bible Teaches About the Sovereignty of God

ByGary F. Zeolla

I became a Christian in the mid–1980s in my mid–20s. At that time, I was having many personal problems. When I began studying the Bible, one thing that really struck me was how emphatic the Bible is about the sovereignty of God. Throughout the historical portions of the Bible are many instances of the LORD working in people’s lives. Either the Bible specifically says God does something or situations happen that simply cannot be explained by mere co–incidence or chance. Then in the didactic portions of Scripture, the sovereignty of God is directly asserted in many different ways. Looking at my life back in my 20s and much more so now in my 50s, I can definitely see the hand of God working throughout my life. And whenever yet another thing goes wrong in my life, I will say to myself, “The LORD has it under control.” I can then rest in confidence knowing that what is happening to me is not due to mere chance but is under the sovereignty of God, and that somehow He will work things out for good. The reason I can be so confident the LORD has it under control is because of the Bible’s unequivocal teaching about the absolute sovereignty of God. In this book I will present this Biblical evidence, so the reader can have the same confidence that the LORD has it under control in your life as well. As such, this book is for the person struggling in life and for the person struggling with how God sovereignly works in people’s lives. It goes through the Bible more or less in order, from the first verse of Genesis to the last verse of The Revelation. It discusses both general principles and specific issues. Along the way, I relate examples of how I believe the sovereignty of God has been operating in my life, in hopes my experiences will help the reader apply the principles to your life. This book also addresses the question of the relationship of God’s sovereignty to the human will or volition. Along the way, I occasionally give “side notes.” These are interesting aspects of a Bible passage that are not related to the sovereignty of God but which I just cannot resist pointing out.

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Publication Date
Apr 22, 2015
Language
English
ISBN
9781329085800
Category
Religion & Spirituality
Copyright
All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
Contributors
By (author): Gary F. Zeolla

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EPUB

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