{"id":11482,"date":"2023-02-25T13:19:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T18:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2023-02-25T13:22:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T18:22:14","slug":"what-a-sovereign-god-cannot-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/?p=11482","title":{"rendered":"What a Sovereign God Cannot Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received The Berean Call&#8217;s March Newsletter. And I think this is a very important topic that many believers still don&#8217;t understand very well, specially those that meet at congregations with Reformed (Calvinist) views.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What a Sovereign God Cannot Do - March Newsletter\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/801799634?h=599cf3ac46&amp;dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can read their article in the next link:<\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-post-date field-type-ds field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">March 1, 2023<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">Dave Hunt<\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">Originally published February 1, 2001<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">One of the most common expressions one hears in Christian circles, especially for reassurance when things aren\u2019t going well, is that \u201cGod is in control, He\u2019s still on the throne.\u201d Christians comfort themselves with these words\u2014but what do they mean? Was God not \u201cin control\u201d when Satan rebelled and when Adam and Eve disobeyed, but now He is? Does God\u2019s being in control mean that all the rape, murder, war and multiplied evil is exactly what He planned and desires?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">Christ asks us to pray, \u201cThy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven\u201d (<span id=\"Matthew_6_10_41147000\" class=\"bls\">Matthew:6:10<\/span>). Why that prayer if we are already in God\u2019s kingdom with Satan bound, as John Calvin taught and Reconstructionists claim today? Could a world of rampant evil really be what God wills? Surely not!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"field-item even\">\u201cWait a minute!\u201d someone counters. \u201cAre you suggesting that our omnipotent God is unable to effect His will upon earth? What heresy is this! Paul clearly says that God \u2018worketh all things after the counsel of his own will\u2019 (<span id=\"Ephesians_1_11_41220000\" class=\"bls\">Ephesians:1:11<\/span>) .\u201d \u00a0\u00a0 .\u00a0 .\u00a0 .<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<div class=\"field-item even\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thebereancall.org\/content\/what-sovereign-god-cannot-do-revisited\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Berean Call.<\/a><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just received The Berean Call&#8217;s March Newsletter. And I think this is a very important topic that many believers still don&#8217;t understand very well, specially those that meet at congregations with Reformed (Calvinist) views. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"series":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11486,"href":"https:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions\/11486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cristolaverdad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=11482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}