What other scriptures affirm God's sovereignty as seen in Psalm 50:9? Psalm 50:9—A Starting Snapshot of Sovereignty “I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens.” • God’s self-sufficiency shines here: He owns the offering before it is ever brought. • The verse invites us to scan the rest of Scripture for the same note of absolute ownership and rulership. God Owns All Creation • Psalm 24:1 — “The earth is the LORD’s, and the fullness thereof, the world and all who dwell in it.” • Deuteronomy 10:14 — “Behold, to the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, and the earth and everything in it.” • Haggai 2:8 — “The silver is Mine, and the gold is Mine, declares the LORD of Hosts.” • Job 41:11 — “Who has given to Me that I should repay him? Everything under heaven is Mine.” • 1 Chronicles 29:11-12 — “Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the splendor and the majesty, for everything in the heavens and on earth belongs to You… You rule over all.” God Needs Nothing From Us • Acts 17:24-25 — “The God who made the world and all things in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples made by human hands. Nor is He served by human hands, as if He needed anything, because He Himself gives everyone life and breath and everything else.” • Job 12:10 — “In His hand is the life of every creature and the breath of all mankind.” • Psalm 50:12 — “If I were hungry, I would not tell you, for the world is Mine, and the fullness thereof.” He Rules Kings and Nations • Daniel 4:35 — “All the peoples of the earth are regarded as nothing. He does as He pleases with the army of heaven and the peoples of the earth. No one can restrain His hand or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’” • Proverbs 21:1 — “The king’s heart is a watercourse in the hand of the LORD; He directs it wherever He pleases.” • Psalm 135:6 — “The LORD does whatever pleases Him in the heavens and on the earth, in the seas and all their depths.” Sovereign Over Salvation and History • Ephesians 1:11 — “In Him we were also chosen as His own, having been predestined according to the plan of Him who works out everything by the counsel of His will.” • Romans 11:36 — “For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him be the glory forever! Amen.” • Colossians 1:16-17 — “For in Him all things were created… all things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.” Living in Light of His Sovereignty • Gratitude replaces any thought that God “needs” our gifts; offerings become joyful acknowledgments of what already belongs to Him. • Confidence grows: the One who owns every resource also directs every circumstance for His wise purposes. • Humble worship flows: recognizing His rule turns routine devotion into wholehearted surrender, echoing the psalmist’s message that the Lord of Psalm 50 needs nothing yet deserves everything. |
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