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WHAT is Sovereign Grace?!!
FRIDAY, MARCH 28, 2008
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What is Sovereign Grace?
Don Bell

At the outset I will define Sovereign: Possessed of supreme power; unlimited in extent; absolute; freedom of external control. God is sovereign in his grace. To say that God is sovereign is just to say that he is God, not a pretender.

Let us now define grace. It is the opposite of works, merit or law. Grace is free, or it wouldn’t be grace. God in grace does all the work in salvation. Grace means charity. All that receive God’s free sovereign grace receives charity.

Sovereign Grace is God choosing whom he will save. Sovereign Grace is God exercising his free will. It is God acting like God! He is not stymied or frustrated by the power, or by the free will of man, nor impressed by the so-called goodness of anyone. Nor does the badness of any man keep him from acting in grace. God truly is no respecter of persons.

When a man preaches and argues for the free will of man in salvation, what he is really doing is preaching and arguing against the free will of God in salvation. The issue is not whether man has a free will or not, but does GOD have the freedom of will and choice to save whom he will, and if he does, does he exercise that will and choice in salvation?

Sovereign Grace is God carrying out in time what he purposed from all eternity. “He works all things after the counsel of his own will” (Eph.1: 11 Rom. 8: 28).

Sovereign Grace is God distinguishing between his creatures, as he did between Jacob whom He ‘loved’ and Esau whom He ‘hated,’ and as he did between the “vessels of mercy, and vessels of wrath” (Rom.911-16).

Sovereign Grace is God doing as he pleases “in the heavens, the seas and all deep places” (Ps.135: 6), when he pleases, and for whom he pleases, “When it pleased God who separated me from my mothers womb and called me by his grace” (Gal.1: 15).

Sovereign Grace is the truth that unless God comes to man and calls that man to himself, no man will ever be saved. Just as Christ Jesus stood at the tomb of Lazarus and called him from death to life, so also must it be done for any sinner who is ever saved. Salvation is all of God from start to finish. That is Sovereign Grace.

(Don Bell is pastor of Lantana Grace Church in Crossville, TN)

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