God's sovereignty refers to His supreme authority and control over all creation, guiding history and individual lives according to His perfect will (Psalm 115:3). In Christian preaching, illustrations often highlight God's unchanging power and providential care, portraying Him as an unshakable ruler whose plans cannot be thwarted (Romans 8:28).
The Bible remains powerful and relevant, protecting believers even in hostile environments.
A trader passing a converted cannibal in Africa, asked him what he was doing. “Oh, I am reading the Bible,” was the reply. “That book is out of date in my country,” said the foreigner. “If it had been out of date here,” said the African to the European, “you’d have been eaten long ago.”
Modern science frees people from superstitions, revealing God's orderly creation.
There are large numbers of people perpetually bemoaning our degeneracy, and sighing over the departure of the “good old times” of our early American life. The reason of the present distressing state of affairs I heard explained not long ago. One man thought it was because all the “good old doctrines” were nowadays not preached at all, and the other was equally sure that it was because they were preached all the time. Never was a grander fallacy than this whole idea. Never was more ignorance of the past displayed than by those who talk of the falling away of modern times. Never was the Church so bright and fair as now, and never did the sky of the future redden with a more glorious promise of the coming day. In those “good old times” men lived under the horrid shadows of frightful superstitions. Now it is to modern science only that we owe our emancipation from the yoke of this awful tyranny. Scientific explorers have been over the earth; and finding no mouth of hell, that is gone. Science has explained earthquakes and volcanoes, and now devils fight no longer in the bowels of the earth. Etna and Vesuvius are no longer vent-holes of the pit. Astronomy has shattered the follies of astrology; and people have found out that the stars are minding their own business instead of meddling with theirs, and eclipses are no longer moon-swallowing monsters--are only very natural and well behaved shadows. Since psychology is studied we know that witchcraft is folly, and insanity only a disease to be treated and cured. Thus science--like a mother going up-stairs to bed with her frightened boy--has been with her candle into all the old dark corners that used to make us creep, and cringe, and shiver with terror.--MINOT J. SAVAGE, _The Arena_.
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