"Absolute Sovereignty belongs to God only"

God is Supreme and The Supreme Ruler; He is highest in Authority and Preeminent. He is God Almighty, He is the Omniscient, Omnipotent, and Omnipresent One.

Speaking of Christ's Deity, His Incarnation, Col. 2:9, "For in Him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily."

The Scripture says in Genesis chapter 18, verse 25, "That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?" This was at the time Abraham was interceding for Sodom. Yes, God is the Judge of all the earth, and He always does right. He is never wrong about anything, never. He can do anything He wills to do, any time He wills to do it, involving whomsoever He wills to involve, and He is always right about everything. The Word declares in Exodus chapter 4 verses 10 & 11,

"And Moses said unto the Lord, O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither heretofore, nor since Thou hast spoken unto Thy servant: but I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. And the Lord said unto him, Who hath made man's mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the Lord?" Moses made excuses, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against him. Therefore God called Aaron his brother to be his spokesman. When we make excuse for ourselves God always has someone to do the job we refuse to do. God could, and would have given Moses the ability to do what he called Aaron to do for him, if he had not made excuse for himself. We should not make excuse, we just need to "trust and obey," as the song goes. God has a purpose, a reason, for all He does, or allows to happen. Looking at verse 11; God could have made all able to talk, but He didn't; He could have made all to see, but He didn't; He could have made all with perfect bodies, but He didn't. I repeat, God is Sovereign, He does what He wills to do and permits what He wills to permit, and He is always right, and never wrong. You may ask the question; Why didn't God make all people perfect? He made Adam and Eve perfect in the very beginning. They disobeyed Him and fell from the perfect state in which they were created, therefore all are born imperfect because we have inherited sin, born with a sinful nature and imperfect body. All who have been saved have received the divine nature and are waiting for the redemption of the body at the First Resurrection when Jesus returns in the Rapture. He died for our sins according to the Scriptures and arose for our justification and ascended back to the Father in Heaven, and His coming for His saints is imminent.

Now let's look at Romans 8:28, "And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose." Notice, He didn't say all things were good, but He did say, "all things work together for good to them that love God." Notice also the words "according to His purpose." He always has a purpose for everything.

"GOD HAS NOT LOST ANY OF HIS POWER"

God has healed, He can still heal, but He has to do things according to His will and time. God gave the Apostles power to heal the sick and do many miracles we cannot do today. The things God gave them power to do then, served their purpose. We do not have the power to heal, but we can pray that God will heal according to His will. Everything He does must be His will, not ours. In John 5:1-9, one was healed out of a great multitude. Verse 5. "A certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years." Jesus healed the impotent man, but nothing is said about the multitude being healed. Yes, God is absolutely sovereign, therefore He is always right about every thing He does or allows to happen. Paul, the last of the Apostles, must have lost some of the power he had previously been given by God, such as healing, etc. This is indicated in II Timothy 4:20 because the Scripture speaks of Paul leaving Trophimus at Miletus sick. My thinking is, if he had possessed the power he once possessed, it looks like he would have healed Trophimus and taken him along on his journey. But such was not the case. In this day and time we should follow the instructions given in James 5:13-15, "Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms. Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him." We are commanded to pray one for another. Paul prayed for his own affliction, "the thorn in his flesh," to be removed, II Corinthians 12:7-10, " And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong."

Paul was willing for God's will to be done in his life, so should we.

Without Christ we can do nothing, for He is our strength as well as our Salvation. The Psalmist said in Psalm 27:1, "The Lord is my light and my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?"

God heals according to His will, but it is always God's will to forgive the sins of His Children, as the Bible says in I John 1:9, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrigheousness."

Speaking of the lost soul, it is Gods will to save, and not His will that any should perish. John 3:16, "For God so loved the world, (mankind) that He gave His Only Begotten Son, that whosoever beliveth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

Today every true born again believer has received the Holy Spirit, we have the precious Word of God, and we can claim His precious promises. We have the Holy Spirit to lead us and make intercession for us. Jesus also is making intercession for us. Praise God He is always heard! He is a very present help in time of need, and we need Him all the time. We need to trust Him always, because the roof may cave in, the walls may close in on us, or the bottom may drop out, we do not know what will happen to us before we leave this world, but He does, therefore, we need to trust Him at all times.

Jesus Heals The Blind Man:

John 9:1-3, "And as Jesus passsed by, He saw a man which was blind from his birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."

And we also see the Sovereignty of God in chapter 11 verse 4; Speaking of Lazarus, When Jesus heard that, he said, "This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby."

He could have raised everyone right then, but He didn't. He called to Lazarus only to come forth.

Just think of all Job had to endure, he lost his health, his wealth and his family, but he never lost his integrity. He was an upright person, one that feared God and eschewed (shunned) evil, and was also perfect (not sinless perfect) but was blameless before God. He was free from legal guilt or fault. Job was a spiritual man as clearly revealed by his sensitivity to sin and its consequent need for sacrifice.

He was righteous in God's eyes. God did not allow his trials because of any sin in his life, He simply allowed job to be severely tested by satan and he emerged with a fresh appreciation of God's sovereignty and sufficiency. God's grace is always sufficient for all of His children, it is sufficient for every need.

Job said in chapter 13 verse 15 "------Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him."

Job had great faith in God, and would not dare deny Him. I cannot honestly say I have great faith, but I can say, I have faith in the great Sovereign God of the Bible. A'men.