{"id":2296,"date":"2012-10-06T07:34:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T07:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2296"},"modified":"2012-10-06T07:34:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T07:34:48","slug":"absolutely-sovereign-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=2296","title":{"rendered":"Absolutely Sovereign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Absolutely Sovereign<\/strong><br \/>\nClay Curtis<\/p>\n<p>Psalm 76:10: Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.<\/p>\n<p>If we deny the absolute sovereignty of God we do not deny it because  we think it belittles God. Whether we know it or not we do it TO  BELITTLE GOD AND EXALT SELF. Though most argue against God\u2019s absolute  authority and power claiming concern over God being accused of being the  author of evil, the true concern is that I\u2019ll be found out to be the  author of all my sin.<br \/>\nIf we confess that God can remove his restraining hand from a man,  harden a man\u2019s heart, so that the sinner commits evil in a city all to  accomplish God\u2019s purpose then we have to confess that it is only by  God\u2019s direct hand and purpose that sinners are not venting more evil  than we do now. By nature evil is what we are. The only thing keeping me  from committing the vilest act right now is the sovereign power of God.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, all the evil acts that sinners have ever committed on this earth  have praised God. One only has to look at the most sinful act of all.  At the cross we behold God bringing praise to his name from the  unrighteous wrath of man through the death of his own Son. If everything  which happened to God\u2019s own Son was according to God\u2019s determinate  council then who are we to question him as to what he does from his  throne in glory to us worms called men. Praise him that he has not given  us our just due in removing his hand from all of us. Sinful man apart  from God\u2019s restraining hand is hell.<br \/>\nGod\u2019s absolute sovereignty is the very definition of who God is. It  gives great peace to the sinner who has been made to see him in truth. I  am thankful my God is truly God<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Absolutely Sovereign Clay Curtis Psalm 76:10: Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain. If we deny the absolute sovereignty of God we do not deny it because we think it belittles God. Whether we know it or not we do it TO BELITTLE GOD AND EXALT SELF. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,35,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-clay-curtis","category-gods-attributes","category-total-depravity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2297,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2296\/revisions\/2297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}