-YAHWEH--the LORD God is sovereign over His creation.

-By Grace: Sovereign Grace
-Isaiah 44; Matthew 13:20 -

"I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you. Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this.."
--(ISAIAH 44:22-23A)

Isaiah 44 begins with five verses affirming Israel's election as God's people by sovereign grace. Then, for the next fifteen verses, Yahweh mocks the idols of men. With a holy sarcasm, He parodies what Dr. R. C. Sproul humorously calls "the Fig Newtons" of human imagination. A man cuts up a piece of wood. Half he uses to cook his food, and the other half he bows down to and worships! He "bow[s] down to the block of wood" (v.9)! Can a block of wood help him? "Is not this thing in my right hand a lie" (v.20)?

Yahweh--the LORD God--is sovereign over His creation. He not only has all power, but also has the will to exercise it. No other "gods' exist! They are but out-workings of sinful man's desire to be autonomous--to be in control of his own circumstances, and to be a law unto himself.

Only Yahweh, and neither human effort nor idol, can meet mankind's greatest need--to sweep "away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist" (v.22).
Only the sovereign grace of God can take away your sins.
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If God isn't sovereign over everything--even the election of His church--He isn't sovereign at all.

--Haven Today