The Sovereignty of God Book

If you want to know what it means to say, 'God is sovereign', this is the book. There are others, yes, but Pink is as thorough and as biblical in his presentation of this part of systematic theology as can be found.

I find it fascinating, in seeing/reading many negative critiques of Pink's work, that so many will call him a 'Hyper-Calvinist.' Clearly, they either misconstrue the term or flat out don't know what it means, except that anyone who believes God has unconditionally elected some to salvation is therefore a 'Hyper-Calvinist.' A 'Hyper-Calvinist' is one who not only believes God has, by His complete sovereignty, chosen those who would be saved and those who would be reprobate; therefore, there is no call to the elect to evangelize the lost. God knows who will and who will not be saved. Nothing we do will change that. In fact, in the understanding of some 'Hyper-Calvinists', to share the gospel with the reprobate is truly casting the pearl before swine and wrong. This is NOT Pink's position. Nor is it the position of any true Calvinist.

That God has chosen/predestined people to salvation cannot be argued against (Ephesians 1.3, just to cite one verse). However, God alone knows who His elect are. He has not given to any man to know this. In fact, Spurgeon once said that if God had intended this, He would have put a yellow stripe on each of the elect, thus making evangelism so much easier. Instead, we are to share the gospel with all, allowing God to do His work of saving. This is Pink's position.

All this stated on the subject of election and predestination, A.W. Pink's book is so much more than just about who 'gets saved' and 'who doesn't' (just one final question to those who disagree: why should God save anyone?) The early chapters on creation and the administration of God's will are most helpful, for if God is not sovereign over all His hands have created, then who is? And if not, then we, as creatures, are most to be pitied for we have no hope.

A highly commendable book. Read it slowly; let it have it's time in your thought.