If God is sovereign in fulfilling His plan of salvation and He is, how does this affect

our responsibility to evangelize? That's the big question today on Truth for Life. So what do we do

when there appears to be attention here? Alistair Bedwax us through the balance between God's sovereignty

and our responsibilities. Father, we delight to sing your praise and we want to revere your name,

Almighty and sovereign God. And we want to acknowledge that when we think our best and brightest

thoughts, still we are confounded by your incomprehensibility, that you are ultimately beyond our knowing,

save that you have chosen to make yourself known. And as we study tonight in this area,

regarding your sovereignty and man's responsibility, we enter into an arena that is known for

argument, for debate, for discord. We pray that none of that may be our portion, but rather

adoration and clarity and humility so that we might live to serve you. Guide our steps

because bold, sensitive, enterprising, ingenious, but ultimately humble before you

since it is you alone, O God, who can draw sinners to yourself. Here are prayer and let our cry come

unto you for Jesus' sake. Amen. I invite you now to turn once again to John chapter 6.

There has been one question which in one form or another has been asked with consistency.

And summarizing the question, it would go something like this, if God is sovereign in fulfilling

His plan of salvation in the lives of individuals, then how does this affect our duty to evangelize?

Further, if we believe in the absolute sovereignty of God, does it not follow that we must therefore

jettison the notion of our human responsibility. And I think without exception, every time I've

been asked that question, I have recommended one book. That book bears the title which forms the

title of our study tonight, namely Evangelism and the sovereignty of God. Written in 1961 by Dr.

G.I. Packer, who has become most well known for his book, Knowing God, a subsequent publication.

And in the same way that John starts basic Christianity, has become a classic in the matter of

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