There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.
Interpretation
Rejecting God's sovereignty leads to a fundamental misinterpretation of our relationship with the divine.
This quote emphasizes the importance of acknowledging God's absolute authority in understanding His nature and in the way we live our lives. John Owen suggests that to deny this sovereignty is to fall into a significant spiritual error, which fundamentally alters our perception of both divine revelation and our moral responsibilities.
In practice
In a sermon discussing the importance of faith and obedience.
Because he is; that is, because he is an infinitely glorious, good, wise, holy, powerful, righteous, self-subsisting , self-sufficient , and all-sufficient being; the fountain and author of all being and good; the first cause, last end, and sovereign Lord of all; therefore, he is to be worshipped: therefore, are we to admire, adore, and love him; to praise, to trust and to fear him.
If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love.
Mortification is the soul's vigorous opposition to self, wherein sincerity is most evident.
The growth of trees and plants takes place so slowly that it is not easily seen. Daily we notice little change. But, in course of time, we see that a great change has taken place. So it is with grace. Sanctification is a progressive, lifelong work (Prov 4:18). It is an amazing work of God's grace and it is a work to be prayed for (Rom 8:27).
Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"
A man may be carried on in a constant course of mortification all his days; and yet perhaps never enjoy a good day of peace and consolation.
God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one.
Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state.
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.
To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.
I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.
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