Saving "Sovereignty"
Soteriology 101 w/ Dr. Leighton Flowers
Leighton Flowers
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🗓️ 6 November 2017
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
For quite sometime Traditionalists have attempted to save the word "sovereignty" from this generation's consistent misuse of the term (which I've been guilty of as well in the past). I was happy to learn that we are not alone in our efforts.
I recently happened upon an article posted by Paul D. Miller, a student at the Reformed Theological Seminary. It was posted by The Gospel Coalition, a Calvinistic organization, in which (to my delight) he properly defines the word "sovereignty."
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| 0:00.8 | Hello, welcome to Sochiology 101. My name is Layton Flowers. I'm the director of apologetics for Texas Baptists. |
| 0:06.3 | And since I've started this podcast, I get asked at least on a weekly basis, why don't you affirm the sovereignty of God? |
| 0:13.5 | Or maybe, do you even believe in the sovereignty of God? The word is used so much in our culture today, and this is the way I feel typically when it's being used. |
| 0:26.1 | You keep using the word. I don't think it means what you think it means. |
| 0:32.1 | You ever feel like that? People use words, and they don't mean exactly what they think it means. |
| 0:39.4 | That's, I think, the way the word sovereignty has been misused. |
| 0:42.9 | And I think we as traditionalists, we've tried to save the word sovereignty. |
| 0:46.5 | Matter of fact, I wrote an article just recently called Saving Sovereignty 101, which you can go and check out. |
| 0:53.0 | And I was pleased to learn real recently in doing kind of a word study over the concept of |
| 0:57.8 | sovereignty that we're not alone in our efforts to save this word, that in fact there is an |
| 1:05.0 | article written by Paul Miller, a student at the Reformed Theological Seminary, that was posted |
| 1:09.5 | by the Gospel Coalition, which is a |
| 1:11.6 | predominantly Calvinistic organization. You might call them Armaldeans or Four Point Calvinists for the |
| 1:15.9 | most part, but they are very Calvinistic leaning, and he does a really good job of defining and |
| 1:22.5 | understanding what true sovereignty is, which again, I encourage you to go look up for yourself, go read |
| 1:28.5 | dictionaries, go read word studies, go find for yourself if men like John Piper and other |
| 1:35.1 | leading Calvinists are using the word sovereign in the correct, most precise way. |
| 1:40.5 | Paul Miller writes this with, again, the Gospel Coalition, What does it mean to say that God is sovereign? |
| 1:46.1 | The refrain has become so common, almost cliche in reformed writings and preaching, |
| 1:51.0 | that it sometimes slips away from the reader or listener without lodging meaning in mind. |
| 1:55.9 | Worse, we typically hear the phrase to mean something it doesn't. |
| 1:59.4 | When Christians affirm that God is sovereign, they often mean God is in control. |
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