Our God Reigns!
"Him, being delivered by the determined purpose and
foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands,
have crucified, and put to death; whom God raised up."
Acts 2: 23-24
There’s no word higher, greater, or possessing more authority than that
of sovereign. Notice the last five letters: REIGN. The
prefix, sov, means
“super” or above all.” In his Pentecostal sermon in Acts 2, Peter
stressed
the sovereignty of God in matters related to the crucifixion of Christ.
The Jewish leaders weren’t in control of those events. Pontius Pilate
wasn’t the determining power. The Roman soldiers weren’t in charge.
No civil or religious powers wrecked the plan of Almighty God. Jesus
delivered to death “by the determined purpose and foreknowledge
of God.”
Notice the power of the word determined. The death
of
Christ was a determination made in heaven in order to
provide a world with forgiveness of sin and eternal
life.
From eternity past, our Heavenly Father determined to love
you, to save you, to give you an eternal inheritance at the cost
of the blood of His Son, whom He then raised
from the dead.
Nothing is outside of God’s determined sovereign
rule, and that should make us feel very secure!
"Behind Calvary’s cross
is the throne of heaven."
James Stewart
