King of Kings
Stephen Whitney
Psalm 2
In The Presidency Hugh Sidey writes about different Presidents who found that their faith took on new meaning when they sat in the Oval Office. One example he gave was of John F. Kennedy whose regular attendance at Mass and his skillful use of Scripture in his speeches seemed in his campaign and the early months of his Presidency designed more to please the voters than himself.
But after the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin crunch and the Cuban missile crisis, anyone close to Kennedy could detect a change in his views of spiritual matters. He became less public in sharing them and more private about them.
On one of those quiet evenings in the Oval Office when the day’s clamor had faded, not long before he was killed, he sat behind his desk and for a few silent seconds gazed through the bullet-proof windows. Then he nodded an admission that God was more important in the scheme of things than he at one time had sensed.
But when asked to talk about it he refused. That, he said was something he intended to keep to himself.
God controls everything that happens in the world he created.
A. W. Pink - ‘‘The sovereignty of God may be defined as the exercise of His supremacy. He is subject to none, influenced by none, absolutely independent: God does as He pleases, only as He pleases always as He pleases. None can thwart (frustrate) Him, none can hinder Him.’’
Since God is sovereign over everything that happens:
1. We should trust him alone - not the government or ourselves.
2. We should submit ourselves to do his will and not our own.
3. We should seek to see his hand controlling our circumstances.
Why do people refuse to accept that God is sovereign over them?
1. They want to be independent so they reject authority.
2. They desire to do what they without any restrictions.
3. They do not believe there is a God who is sovereign.
MAN’S REBELLION :1-3
Plot :1-2
The rhetorical question expresses astonis ...
Stephen Whitney
Psalm 2
In The Presidency Hugh Sidey writes about different Presidents who found that their faith took on new meaning when they sat in the Oval Office. One example he gave was of John F. Kennedy whose regular attendance at Mass and his skillful use of Scripture in his speeches seemed in his campaign and the early months of his Presidency designed more to please the voters than himself.
But after the Bay of Pigs, the Berlin crunch and the Cuban missile crisis, anyone close to Kennedy could detect a change in his views of spiritual matters. He became less public in sharing them and more private about them.
On one of those quiet evenings in the Oval Office when the day’s clamor had faded, not long before he was killed, he sat behind his desk and for a few silent seconds gazed through the bullet-proof windows. Then he nodded an admission that God was more important in the scheme of things than he at one time had sensed.
But when asked to talk about it he refused. That, he said was something he intended to keep to himself.
God controls everything that happens in the world he created.
A. W. Pink - ‘‘The sovereignty of God may be defined as the exercise of His supremacy. He is subject to none, influenced by none, absolutely independent: God does as He pleases, only as He pleases always as He pleases. None can thwart (frustrate) Him, none can hinder Him.’’
Since God is sovereign over everything that happens:
1. We should trust him alone - not the government or ourselves.
2. We should submit ourselves to do his will and not our own.
3. We should seek to see his hand controlling our circumstances.
Why do people refuse to accept that God is sovereign over them?
1. They want to be independent so they reject authority.
2. They desire to do what they without any restrictions.
3. They do not believe there is a God who is sovereign.
MAN’S REBELLION :1-3
Plot :1-2
The rhetorical question expresses astonis ...
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