The Sovereignty of God

We hear it said so often that God is a sovereign God; that God’s sovereign counsel contains the destiny of all creatures: that the grace of God is sovereign elective grace. Yet, do we realize just what the word “sovereign” implies? Do we realize the extent of God’s sovereignty? What is meant by God’s sovereign counsel and His sovereign grace? Before the world existed and started upon its course in the universe, before the sun even existed or any universe was conceived, God was—the Independent...