The Attributes of God: Sovereignty
We can trust God precisely because, and only because, He is sovereign over everything.
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR SHEPHERD GROUPS
- Icebreaker: Which of the first nine plagues would you least like to endure and why? (Water into blood, frogs, gnats, flies, death of livestock, boils, hail, locusts, and darkness.)
- At the end of the sermon, David asked the following two questions. Discuss them as a group:
- Where in your life have you forgotten that God is sovereign?
- Where have fear, anxiety, depression, or control taken over—because you’ve stopped believing that He’s in charge, and He is good?
- How do you reconcile God’s sovereignty with human free will?
- Do you struggle to comprehend the fairness behind God hardening Pharaoh’s heart? What does the story of Pharaoh’s hardening of his heart teach us about our own hearts?