Is there a man here who kicks against divine sovereignty? It is a testing docrine, it shows that his pride is not out of him. No doctrine in the whole Word of God has more excited the hatred of mankind than the truth of the absolute sovereignty of God. The fact that "the Lord reigneth" is indisputable, and it is this fact that arouses the utmost opposition in the unrenewed human heart. Most men quarrel with this. But mark, the thing that you complain of in God is the very thing that you love in yourselves. Every man likes to feel that he has a right to do with his own as he pleases. We all like to be little sovereigns. Oh, for a spirit that bows always before the sovereignty of God. There is no attribute of God more comforting to His children than the doctrine of divine sovereignty. On the other hand there is no docrine more hated by worldlings, when men hear the Lord's voice saying, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy" (Rom. 9:15) they gnash their teeth. They do not love God except they can make Him a little God. They cannot bear for Him to be supreme. They would gladly take His will away from Him and set their own will. I believe that the man who is not willing to submit to the electing love and sovereign grace of God has great reason to question whether he is a christian at all, for the spirit that kicks against that is the spirit of the unhumbled, unrenewed heart. "My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure!"