Does God Decree Events He Doesn’t Want to Happen?
Ask Pastor John
Desiring God
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🗓️ 20 November 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Well, we begin the new week on the podcast going into a deep theological question, but hang |
| 0:08.5 | with us for a moment. |
| 0:10.1 | The question is this, if God has two wills, a will of decree and a will of desire, does |
| 0:18.0 | God ever decree something to happen that He does not desire to have happen? |
| 0:24.5 | And if so, wouldn't He have a divided mind? |
| 0:29.2 | Now before you skip this episode, give us a chance to explain more about it because |
| 0:33.0 | it's a sharp question from a listener named Ethan. |
| 0:36.0 | Pastor John, hello, and thank you for taking my question. |
| 0:38.8 | When reading through and discussing the themes at the outset of desiring God your book, |
| 0:43.5 | along with does God desire all to be saved? |
| 0:46.0 | A perplexing theological question comes to mind. |
| 0:48.9 | If God indeed has two wills, one of desire and one of decree, which are both biblically |
| 0:54.8 | affirmed, how then does His will of decree overrule in a sense His will of desire? |
| 1:02.6 | If God's sovereignty is the foundation of His happiness, as in chapter one of your book |
| 1:07.2 | desiring God says, then it seems as if the two wills idea is somewhat insufficient in |
| 1:12.7 | addressing texts such as 1 Timothy 2, 3 to 4. |
| 1:16.6 | In other words, if God's sovereignty is the foundation of His happiness, how is it |
| 1:21.5 | possible for His will of decree to act independent of His will of desire? |
| 1:28.2 | Well, let me see if I can help the listeners get into the discussion here because this |
| 1:33.7 | is probably landing on them with, huh? |
| 1:37.4 | Yeah, exactly. |
| 1:40.6 | Ethan is referring to an article I wrote, are there two wills in God? |
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