The Saviour’s Assertions of His Sovereignty in Salvation (John 13:18-19) by Prof. David J. Engelsma
I. His Sovereignty
II. Its Applications to the Betrayer
III. Its Application to the Church
Psalm singing: 100:1-5; 46:1-7, 11; 41:5-11; 2:1-6
Scripture reading: John 13:1-30

Psalm 100:1-5
1 ALL people that on earth do dwell,
Sing to the Lord with cheerful voice.
2 Him serve with mirth, his praise forth tell,
Come ye before, him and rejoice.
3 Know that the Lord is God indeed;
Without our aid he did us make:
We are his flock, he doth us feed,
And for his sheep he doth us take.
4 O enter then his gates with praise,
Approach with joy his courts unto :
Praise, laud, and bless his name always,
For it is seemly so to do.
5 For why? the Lord our God is good,
His mercy is for ever sure;
His truth at all times firmly stood,
And shall from age to age endure.

Psalm 46:1-7, 11
1 GOD is our refuge and our strength,
in straits a present aid ;
2 Therefore, although the earth remove
we will not be afraid :
Though hills amidst the seas be cast;
3 Though waters roaring make,
And troubled be ; yea though the hills
by swelling seas do shake.
4 A river is, whose streams do glad
the city of our God ;
The holy place, wherein the Lord
most high hath his abode.
5 God in the midst of her doth dwell;
nothing shall her remove :
The Lord to her an helper will,
and that right early, prove.
6 The heathen rag’d tumultuously,
the kingdoms moved were:
The Lord God uttered his voice,
the earth did melt for fear.
7 The Lord of hosts upon our side
doth constantly remain :
The God of Jacob’s our refuge,
us safely to maintain.
11 Our God, who is the Lord of hosts,
is still upon our side;
The God of Jacob our refuge
for ever will abide.

Psalm 41:5-11
5 Those that to me are enemies,
of me do evil say,
When shall he die, that so his name
may perish quite away ?
6 To see me if he comes, be speaks
vain words: but then his heart
Heaps mischief to it, which he tells,
when forth he doth depart.
7 My haters jointly whispering,
’gainst me my hurt devise.
8 Mischief, say they, cleaves fast to him ;
he li’th, and shall not rise.
9 Yea, ev’n mine own familiar friend,
on whom I did rely,
Who ate my bread, ev’n he his heel
against me lifted high.
10 But, Lord, be merciful to me,
and up again me raise,
That I may justly them requite
according to their ways.
11 By this I know that certainly
I favour’d am by thee;
Because my hateful enemy
triumphs not over me.

Psalm 2:1-6
1 WHY rage the heathen? and vain things
why do the people mind?
2 Kings of the earth do set themselves,
and princes are combin’d,
To plot against the Lord, and his
Anointed, saying thus,
3 Let us asunder break their bands,
and cast their cords from us.
4 He that in heaven sits shall laugh ;
the Lord shall scorn them all.
5 Then shall he speak to them in wrath
in rage he vex them shall.
6 Yet, notwithstanding, I have him
to be my King appointed ;
And over Sion, my holy hill,
I have him King anointed.