Welcome to the InTouch Podcast with Charles Stanley for Wednesday, March 15th.

No matter how confusing things seem in the world today, the Lord is still an absolute control.

Let's continue the character of God's series to hear what the Bible says about the sovereignty of God.

Now if someone should ask you if God is sovereign, more than likely some of you may scratch your head and say,

well, I'm not too sure. But deep in your heart, you believe that he is and that is that God is in control.

So we simply mean by the meaning of sovereignty that God is exercising supreme authority in the entire creation including man.

The sovereignty of God means that God is exercising supreme authority in the total creation including in the life of man.

Now if God is not sovereign, then he cannot be God because you see the fact that he is God demands that he must be sovereign over the total universe.

If he is not sovereign over everything, he cannot be the sovereign God.

Now you may have read somewhere in the Sunday school, less than the somewhere that God is sovereign, not really maybe applying that to your own particular life.

What does the sovereignty of God have to do with me? I'm a senior citizen or I'm a 16-year-old, a high schooler or a middle-aged person.

What do I have to do with the sovereignty of God? And I will tell you my friend, if he is not sovereign, you are in instantaneous trouble.

So as we look at each area of the facet of God and each attribute of God, every single one of them applies moment by moment to your life and my life as we simply go about at Elievoire.

Now for example, for God to be sovereign, that is if he used to have absolute and supreme and complete authority in the total universe including man, there are certain things that are essential.

Number one, he must be omniscient. For God to have absolute and total control, he must know everything.

Listen, if there is one bit of knowledge that God does not know, if there is one fact that is beyond the mind of God, if there is one bit of information that somewhere has been left out of the mind of God then he is not in total control.

If God is sovereign, not only must he know everything, God must be likewise omnipotent, that is he has all power.

That is not one single aorta, a matricum of power, can be beyond the reach of God.

If one atom is floating around in the universe, beyond the reach and the supreme control of God, he is not the sovereign of the universe.

You see, not only must he have absolute and perfect knowledge of everything, not only must he be omnipotent and have all power, but in order for God to be sovereign, he must be totally free.

Now once in a while you meet someone who says, well I don't believe in that kind of God.

Let me ask you something, would you want a God, first of all, who didn't have the knowledge of knowing what to do and who didn't have the power to do it and who didn't have the freedom to do it?

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