A Compelling Testimony: Maintaining a Disciplined Walk, Christlike Character, and Godly Relationships as God's Servant

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A Compe l l i ng Tes t imony

a. Example: the broken levees of New Orleans (unless we intervene in its flow, the waters of the Lake will invariably be pulled into the city of New Orleans, which is built below sea level)

b. These laws include the laws of the physical universe , and likewise encompass the operations of the spiritual world .

2. Laws are expression of God’s sovereign will and his infinite wisdom, both demonstrated by his power in creation, Ps. 33.6-7; Heb. 11.3; Ps. 104.24.

B. God’s laws do not vacillate or change.

1. They are not subject to opinion, we can gain knowledge through the laws. (Luke 6.44 – for each tree is known by its own fruit. For figs are not gathered from thornbushes, nor are grapes picked from a bramble bush.)

2. They are greater than facts (they include and explain facts).

3. They are certainties, truths, genuine understandings of “the way God has made the world to work.”

C. God is sovereign, and is not subject to the laws he has made.

1. God may at his discretion intervene and overrule his own laws for the sake of his name and glory (e.g., a miracle is a divine intervention relative to some law related either to a physical or spiritual situation).

2. Example: Jesus quieting the storm, Matt. 8.24-27 – And behold, there arose a great storm on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by the waves; but he was asleep.