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Grace For Today Don Fortner
OCTOBER 10 ISAIAH 46: 10 DAY 284
‘I will do all my pleasure’
Read Romans 9:10-26
The God of heaven is infinitely, totally and absolutely sovereign. It is
written, ‘Our God is in the heavens; he hath done whatsoever he
hath pleased’ (Ps. 115:3). ‘Whatsoever the Lord pleased, that did he
in heaven, and in earth, in the seas, and in all deep places’ (Ps.
135:6).
My friends, there is no possible alternative between a
sovereign, omnipotent, supreme God, who does what he will, when
he will, with whom he will and in the way he will, and no god at all.
You cannot have a frustrated, defeated god. If there is any power
that can resist him, change him, or defeat him, he is not god. Either
God is sovereign, supreme and almighty, or there is no god. A god
who has to give an account of what he thinks, what he purposes, or
what he does is no god at all. Therefore it must be concluded, the
god of modern, religious fundamentalism is no god at all. He is the
idolatrous figment of man’s imagination. Those who preach this
weak, defeated, frustrated god are false prophets. And those who
worship him are lost. Their religion is idolatry. Someone said, ‘A god
whose will can be successfully resisted, a god whose designs can be
defeated or frustrated, a god whose purpose or counsel depends in
any way on the help or co-operation of any creature, has no claim to
deity. Instead of being an object of your worship, he merits nothing
but your contempt.’
I worship God on the throne. I believe and trust God on the
throne. I preach God on the throne. The Lord our God is totally
sovereign. He is sovereign in creation, sovereign in providence and
sovereign in salvation. He says, I will have mercy on whom I will
have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have
compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that
runneth, but of God that showeth mercy’ (Rom. 9: 15-16).