Lesson 10: Now - Who Is Really In Charge? (4)

We continue in this lesson in learning what it means for God to be sovereign.

God’s sovereignty is a matter of viewpoint. When someone is not yet saved, all they are able to see is their own viewpoint which is that they choose to believe or not to believe based on their own free will. Based on this perspective, we are completely correct in openly laying their responsibility to choose before them as we witness to an unbeliever. Once the Holy Spirit is in our lives and guides us into truth – and we are willing to be taught – we soon discover how God directed our lives and our choices until that moment when we chose to be His child, we made the only logical choice available to us at that moment. We then acknowledge that it was His guidance that brought us to the point of decision and salvation.


Certainly, this information is not something we will use in our witnessing to unbelievers because they cannot understand it (1 Corinthians 2:14). It also absolutely does not release us from any kind of missions work – just because God has chosen and all who are His will come to Him – we who are saved are now bound by obedience to “go and tell” (Acts 1:8). Paul says it in Romans 10:8-15 that “faith comes by hearing…the Word of God…and how shall they hear without a preacher?”

Real freedom, in any sense of the definition as given in Scripture, belongs only to those whom God has set free through salvation. We have the freedom to obey or not to obey. Even now our choices are still limited, but the choices are real each day. As stated in an earlier lesson, God’s tests and opportunities are always “multiple choice,” never essay-type where the blank page lets us fill in our own ideas. And His “multiple choice” tests never include those dreaded “d” or “e” options that state “all of the above” or “none of the above.” Recently an interviewer asked the guest, “if you had been in Nazi Germany and you had hidden Jews in your house and the authorities came and asked you if there were any Jews there, what would you do – say yes and let them die, or lie?” God’s “multiple choice” questions also don’t work that way – He will never make us choose between “two evils.” He has promised us there will always be a “way to escape” – there will always be a God-choice that can be made (1 Corinthians 10:13). The guest, in this case, tried to say that faith in God would always provide such other options and was ridiculed for “ducking the question.”

*What are some of the choices God has asked you to make this week?