Sovereignty Archive

Abraham’s Servant’s Prayer

Genesis 24:1-26 Abraham is old and send his servant on a mission to find a wife for his son Isaac. In this mission, Abraham gives some clear instructions and puts his servant under oath (vv.1-4). The instructions are two-fold; a wife shouldn’t be chosen from the Canaanites among who Abraham dwells, rather, a wife should be chosen from Abraham’s family or country. The reason may …

Acts 7:Stephen’s Sermon And The Sovereignty of God

In Acts 7, the record is given us of Stephen’s sermon and his defence of wrong accussations brought against him. From Acts 6, a situation arose over the distribution of food to which the apostles charged that leaders be appointed over this particular “mercy ministry” so to speak of the first century church. The criteria was given as “seven men of good repute, full of …