Well, many of us are convinced from Scripture that God is absolutely sovereign.

He can do whatever he wants to and he can do it whenever he wants to.

He has that kind of power.

But does that mean that God controls all things all the time?

That's the question today from Ryan in Jacksonville, Florida.

Professor John, I thank God for using AWP's book, The Sovereignty of God, in your book,

Spectacular Sins, to reveal the biblical truth of Calvinism to me.

However, there's one question that has always nagged me when sharing the truth of God's

sovereignty to others.

I know from multiple examples in the Bible that God can control man and the weather and

everything, but how do we know that God always controls everything?

How do we know that God always controls everything?

My answer is that we know this because the Bible teaches it.

It teaches it by direct statements and by clear and sufficient implication.

So let me give you five clusters of texts or kinds of texts.

One, God works all things according to His will.

So here's Ephesians 1-11.

We were predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the

counsel of His will.

Let me say it again.

He works all things according to the counsel of His will.

I think that means He always controls everything.

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