Understanding the Divine Sovereignty and Supreme Authority of God

God’s sovereignty is His absolute and supreme right to govern all created things according to His good pleasureNWAD RIGHT.41+1. This divine authority is rooted in His position as the Creator and Upholder of the universePP 44.3+1. True acknowledgment of His sovereignty involves a willing submission of the heart and mind to His law and governmentARSH September 2, 1862, page 105.19+1. While human governments are ordained by God, His word remains the supreme authority above all human legislationSPCCSR 30.2+1. The Sabbath serves as a special sign of this allegiance, distinguishing those who recognize God as their Creator and King from those who do notBDOC 56.65+1. Ultimately, God’s sovereignty ensures the well-being of all created beings and will be fully manifested in His everlasting kingdom1MCP 247.2+1.

Secondly, they say, “Sunday is the Sabbath.” Therefore it inevitably follows that whoever refuses to keep Sunday denied the sovereignty of God. Now the nation, in declaring that God is Sovereign, virtually takes upon itself the obligation to ...— SITI January 20, 1888, page 39.3

...e observance of the Sabbath they were to be distinguished from idolaters. It was this that made the distinction between those who acknowledge the sovereignty of God and those who refuse to accept Him as their Creator and King. “It is a sign between Me and the children of Israel forever,&rdquo...— CCh 261.2 (1991)

...aching lowers the great work of the Creator to the level of man's narrow, earthly conceptions. Men are so intent upon excluding God from the sovereignty of the universe that they degrade man and defraud him of the dignity of his origin. He who set the starry worlds on high and tinted with ...— PP 44.3 (1890)

“The views held and widely promulgated by Mrs. White regarding vital fundamental questions—the sovereignty of God, the divinity of Christ...— LS 471.1 (1915)

THE experiment of making an acknowledgment of the sovereignty of God in the fundamental law of a commonwealth, which a large party in this country is so anxious to try, is not a new one. Not to mention the att...— AMS September 15, 1898, page 566.1

...irculating through the institutions at the heart of the work. All should bear the signature of God. All the workers are to humble their hearts before the Lord, acknowledging His sovereignty. All are to work in humility of mind, as servants of Christ, yoked up with Him. All are to live liv...— 13MR 191.2 (1990)

The doctrine of unalienable rights, which underlies the American system of government, rests thus upon the acknowledgment of the sovereignty of God as the Creator of all men. But it is through the...— AMS October 21, 1897, page 642.1

Every manifestation of creative power is an expression of infinite love. The sovereignty of God involves fullness of blessing to all created beings...— 1MCP 247.2 (1977)

When the miracles were wrought before the king, Satan was on the ground to counteract their influence and prevent Pharaoh from acknowledging the supremacy of God and obeying His...— PP 334.1 (1890)

... with the intention that they be returned in such a way as to add to the glory of the great Giver. With the sovereignty of God is bound up the well-being of man. The glory of God is the joy and the blessing of all created beings. When we seek to promote His gl...— 5T 736.3 (1889)

The greatest praise men can bring to God to exalt His sovereignty is to make themselves consecrated channels through which He can work. The Lord's work is to be done, and He calls upon the members of His...— TSA 83.3 (1977)

...in man's desire to exalt himself above God, but they result in degrading man below the brute. Every religion that wars against the sovereignty of God defrauds man of the glory which was his at the creation, and which is to be restored to him in Christ. Every false religion t...— DA 286.4 (1898)

... know the power of God declares it, we cannot know the power of God as the word of God presents it. Until we acknowledge the complete sovereignty of the power of sin, we cannot acknowledge the complete sovereignty of the power of God— ARSH August 18, 1896, page 521.9

...s man is concerned, for the individuality, and in that the liberty, of the soul of man; and for the sovereignty of God alone in and over the realm of the soul— MEDM November 20, 1907, page 369.3

... authority was totally different in principle as well as in operation from the dominion of God. The sovereignty of God is primarily over persons; over the minds, the hearts, the souls, of people, in a loving fellowship and joyous liberty that sanctifies, enlightens, and ennobles. Ni...— MEDM April 8, 1908, page 291.4

...ll recognize the whole of them, and they, in turn, will recognize me; and there is mutual reigning, absolute sovereignty, on the part of each individual, and, above all, submission on the part of each to one another and to the whole— GCB April 10, 1903, page 148.8

Man raises many objections to God’s sovereignty, but the great cause of all is, he wants to be sovereign himself— ARSH March 29, 1860, page 151.22 (1859)

... why they could not eat of that tree as well as of all the fruit of the other trees. But this was a test of their acknowledgement of the sovereignty of God. All sin is the transgression of the will of God and man substituting his own will as if independen...— 10LtMs, Ms 61b, 1895, par. 33

...rally accompanied it. The law regarding it is given in Leviticus 2 and Leviticus 6:14-23. It was a recognition of the sovereignty of God and of his bounty in giving all earthly blessings 1 Chronicles 29:10-14+1. It was an offering wh...— ETI Meat-offering.2 (1897)

Sovereignty — of God, his absolute right to do all things according to his own good pleasure Daniel 4:25+4— ETI Sovereignty.2 (1897)