Sentences with phrase «sovereign over his creation»

«And if God is sovereign over His creation, how can He bear no responsibility in all of the violence He allows to take place?»
The strange truth is that when men live in dependence on God, they are enabled to act with more vigor and courage and with less likelihood of despair and disappointment than when they falsely assume that they are lords of all they survey and act as if they were sovereign over the Creation.

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He is in control of creation, of light and darkness, and He is sovereign over prosperity and chaos.
This eternal significance, this meaning which transcends all human meanings, is the sovereign act of creation through which God speaks to us and brings us into being, an act which is completely «over our heads» — beyond our powers of rational understanding.
Above all else, God is sovereign over all earth and all creation, and no human authority is great enough to thwart His plan and good will.
The doctrines of creation, judgment, redemption, and providence, never systematically formulated but always presupposed in Hebrew thought, had a single foundation — the sovereign rule of Yahweh over his people and his world.
Scripture presents to us a God who is sovereign over every detail of his creation, including the catastrophes, and that God is working all things for his glory and our good.
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