The Sovereignty of God: “My Counsel Shall Stand, and I Will Accomplish All My Purpose”

“God works all things according to the counsel of his will.” All things - from the roll of the dice, to the circuits of stars, to the rise of presidents, to the death of Jesus, to the gift of repentance and faith.
Sermon by John Piper
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  • @johnhatfield6140
    @johnhatfield61403 ай бұрын

    Every subatomic particle in the universe obeys the will of God.

  • @sambacarlson
    @sambacarlsonАй бұрын

    I can never get enough of this sermon

  • @hansja8132
    @hansja8132 Жыл бұрын

    I praise God that he has trampled and overcome my will which is always sinful and in rebellion against God. If left to myself to choose, I would not choose God. Praise God that he accomplishes his will to save the elect. All men are responsible for their sins. Now the mystery of the grace of God --- He saves his elect to the uttermost so that his sins are all washed away in Jesus Christ. Now the elect will not and cannot reject his Savior. But he's being lead to believe and trust on the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.

  • @samiam159007
    @samiam15900711 жыл бұрын

    One of the greatest sermons he's ever preached, and one of my favorites!

  • @J316Ministries

    @J316Ministries

    2 жыл бұрын

    Amen, and one, if not the, most powerful sermons I’ve ever heard,

  • @sherrymoredock3483
    @sherrymoredock34833 жыл бұрын

    This is one of the most precious teachings I Love, the Soverignty of God!!! It makes me tremble and stand in awe of Him!!! There is nothing sweeter than this! I believe that the soverignty of God is precious to every Child of God😁😄😅😃

  • @J316Ministries

    @J316Ministries

    2 жыл бұрын

    Amen.

  • @pgtips4240
    @pgtips42403 ай бұрын

    Beautiful!

  • @usergodcandy777
    @usergodcandy7774 ай бұрын

    "You dare not bring your ideas to this." Always good advice when dealing with God's word.

  • @oldkingdomgemini9178
    @oldkingdomgemini91782 жыл бұрын

    Who is like the Lord? Amen

  • @johnkw47
    @johnkw472 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for the exhortation to pray for the impossible. Yes God has ordained everything, and He has also ordained the opportunities to respond in faith and say no to bad situations and believe in miracles ("little child, I say to you, arise!")

  • @valleyditty2903
    @valleyditty2903 Жыл бұрын

    Wonderful preaching of the Word on the sovereigntyof God. ❤️ Amen! i hear you, Pastor John Piper…

  • @winniecantonese
    @winniecantonese2 жыл бұрын

    We have the awesome God!!! We bow before You, the King of kings, the Lord of lords!!

  • @johnhatfield6140
    @johnhatfield61403 ай бұрын

    Forever thankful to God that He guides my willing or I would never seek Him and sin even worse without Him.

  • @usergodcandy777
    @usergodcandy7774 ай бұрын

    God is sovereign. That's what it means to be God.

  • @marcelniles342
    @marcelniles3423 ай бұрын

    This sermon is so beautiful and true...❤

  • @tyclosesloans
    @tyclosesloans5 жыл бұрын

    The explanation at the 11:00 minute part was all I needed. Straight to the point, impossible to argue with the logic and the scripture.

  • @sumitedla2021
    @sumitedla20212 жыл бұрын

    Amen, thank you Pastor John for this wonderful sermon

  • @voltmanip
    @voltmanipАй бұрын

    isaiah 45:7 kjv explains it perfectly .....

  • @giovanni512
    @giovanni5124 ай бұрын

    Amen.🙏

  • @NoNamSongi
    @NoNamSongi6 жыл бұрын

    AMEN!!!!!! Praise God for this man.

  • @janetmartinez3212
    @janetmartinez32127 ай бұрын

    That was really good was really deep. I think God I have a son who has a heart of flesh go to stone.

  • @powergranger29
    @powergranger293 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Ps. John!

  • @user-kk6ov4pd2s
    @user-kk6ov4pd2s10 ай бұрын

    Keep seeking Jesus friends.. He IS the only way to the Father! Its good to consider where we’re going when we die and the afterlife. It’s only in Him! Get a Bible and start reading in the book of John! The Bible is a love letter from our Maker to us.

  • @Over-for-now
    @Over-for-now7 ай бұрын

    I love love love the wonderful absolute sovereignty of God. However there are scripture deniers that are so obsessed with calvin they cannot even see the truth of God's sovereignty. They constantly label label and just write you off

  • @brandongay7460
    @brandongay74605 жыл бұрын

    I love piper and this sermon but when he looks to his left it looks like his Mic is coming out of his nose and I can't stop laughing

  • @dianakirkmon439
    @dianakirkmon4393 жыл бұрын

    he said “murderous viruses”. and we are globally in the middle of a pandemic.

  • @Akitorbenov

    @Akitorbenov

    Жыл бұрын

    This is cause of man, and He did not say stop, cause he has purpouse. He is Lord and Sovereign over our machinations too.

  • @jayahladas692
    @jayahladas6922 жыл бұрын

    The Judgment Seat of Christ and the Great White Throne Judgment would be farces if "free will to choose" was not true. Think on these things:. how could souls be judged and held responsible if they were predestined without free will? Is that just?.

  • @panteamaddah82
    @panteamaddah82 Жыл бұрын

    This

  • @Gericho49
    @Gericho492 жыл бұрын

    Two verses that destroy socalled reformed theology!! The latter maintains God has decided everyones fate before the creation of the world and man cannot in anyway cooperate with or change God's Will _(even though we pray for it in the Lord's Prayer)_

  • @mrnoedahl
    @mrnoedahl2 жыл бұрын

    Welcome to desiring Calvinism

  • @shopson6991

    @shopson6991

    6 ай бұрын

    Nope. Just Bible.

  • @mrnoedahl

    @mrnoedahl

    6 ай бұрын

    @@shopson6991 But not the WHOLE Bible. Just select scriptures. Please tell me the story of Cain and Able. How does that fit with Calvinism. The Calvinist never talk about that. Here is John MacArthur preaching a sermon and all the scripture he mentions go against his Calvinism. In fact the whole sermon goes against Calvinism. And it is one of his best sermons. kzread.info/dash/bejne/nqdnr6WdeKmwoKQ.htmlsi=06mqT3xg2YxEuDYn

  • @mrnoedahl
    @mrnoedahl2 жыл бұрын

    2 Thessalonians 2:10-12 against those who are perishing, because they refused the love of the truth that would have saved them. 11For this reason God will send them a powerful delusion so that they believe the lie, 12in order that judgment may come upon all who have disbelieved the truth and delighted in wickedness.

  • @shopson6991

    @shopson6991

    6 ай бұрын

    It is hidden by God and God has to reveal it to know God. So of course they don't want God. “At that time Jesus declared, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have 👉hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to little children; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will. All things have been handed over to me by my Father, and 👉no one knows the Son except the Father, and 👉no one knows the Father except the Son and anyone to whom the Son 👉chooses to reveal him.” ‭‭Matthew‬ ‭11‬:‭25‬-‭27‬ ‭

  • @mrnoedahl

    @mrnoedahl

    6 ай бұрын

    @@shopson6991 Romans the Calvinist favorite book. 18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen

  • @mrnoedahl

    @mrnoedahl

    6 ай бұрын

    @@shopson6991 What happened to Judas? Was he not chosen by Christ? Did he not see and hear everything the other Apostles saw and heard? And what about Cain? Did he not hear and see everything Able saw and heard? In fact Almighty God talk to Cain audibly and gave him instructions in the right path. But Cain made the choice to refuse God’s instruction. It was open and willing rebellion. Everything was revealed to Cain. Nothing was hidden.

  • @jonoz9847
    @jonoz98478 ай бұрын

    Is this before the woke years?

  • @usergodcandy777

    @usergodcandy777

    4 ай бұрын

    Grow up.

  • @MyPhilemon6site
    @MyPhilemon6site2 жыл бұрын

    To me it’s rather simple….God is fully sovereign but when he made man, He (God) chose to limit His sovereignty when He gave man the first spoken and written promises to distinguish Himself from all other god’s who man create who are “capricious”. Therefore God sovereignly created man with freewill to choose in receiving or rejecting His promises because it declares that “whatsoever a man soweth he shall also reap” good or bad. In this God does not violate His main attribute of Love over a fallen creation who is given the opportunity to redeem themselves to their creator.

  • @jchan810

    @jchan810

    2 жыл бұрын

    Limited sovereignty isn't the sovereignty that God has according to Scripture. The Bible says that He does whatever He pleases!!!!

  • @MyPhilemon6site

    @MyPhilemon6site

    2 жыл бұрын

    Psalm 138:2 I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified THY WORD ABOVE THY NAME. 2 Corinthians 1:20 For ALL THE PROMISES of God in him are yea, and in him Amen, unto the glory of God by us. Romans 10:13,14 For WHOSOEVER shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14 ¶ HOW THEN shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and HOW SHALL they believe in him of whom they have not heard?

  • @chooser2583
    @chooser25832 жыл бұрын

    "Sovereignty" and "will" need to be properly defined and understood. Sovereignty is "Supreme power and autonomy". That does NOT mean that it is always exercised or used down to the minutest detail, even though it could be. Will is "something that is desired or ordained". God is not willing that any should perish

  • @shopson6991

    @shopson6991

    6 ай бұрын

    The any there is the believers. Context. “The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward👉 you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.” ‭‭2 Peter‬ ‭3‬:‭9‬ ‭ Context is believers and God is not willing that any of them will perish. That's why none of them will.

  • @ariah5093
    @ariah5093 Жыл бұрын

    I don’t know if I believe God preDESTINED who was going to be saved. But he did pre-know who was going to accept salvation. He pre-knew who was going to choose to believer or not. I think this completely works with Gods sovereignty. Maybe this is what he’s saying, but he should be more clear about the difference between the predetermination and predestination.

  • @ariah5093

    @ariah5093

    Жыл бұрын

    It sounds like Pastor John is teaching God CHOSE whether he will save someone or not before they were born. It sounds like he’s saying it’s God’s will to unsave certain people. It’s not Gods will that ANY shall perish but all come to repentance. So I respectfully disagree that is was “Gods will for someone to (hypothetically) shoot you in the eyes.” 31:15

  • @johnhatfield6140

    @johnhatfield6140

    3 ай бұрын

    The Bible teaches God is in charge of everything. We are all sinners and headed for hell. God giving mercy to some and justice to others is His to do. He created everything and has complete dominion over His creation.

  • @jarvisnelson4701
    @jarvisnelson47015 ай бұрын

    John, all creation obeys the sovereign BUT MAN is free to disobey and disregard the Sovereign. SEE THE TAIL OF JONAH. ARE YOU BLIND AND DEAF JOHN? Therefore, the psalmist cries, WHAT IS MAN THAT THOU ART MINDFUL OF HIM?

  • @jarvisnelson4701
    @jarvisnelson47015 ай бұрын

    John, stop your soulish preaching and be filled with the Holy Spirit!

  • @usergodcandy777

    @usergodcandy777

    4 ай бұрын

    Stop your judging.