211. The Sovereign King (Proverbs 21:1)

The Scoffer And The King

4/5/2026

Turn with me to Proverbs 20:29-21:1. These are our verses to finish studying and memorizing.

Proverbs 20:29-21:1 The glory of young men is their strength, And the honor of old men is their gray hair. 30 Stripes that wound scour away evil, And strokes reach the innermost parts. 21:1 The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He wishes.

Introduction

These verses give us the conclusion to our section on the scoffer and the king from chapter 20 while also transitioning to deal more directly with the scoffer and God in chapter 21.¹

One of the main points that we have been seeing from chapter 20 is that the king is responsible to deal strongly with the many destructive behaviors of scoffing mockers before they bring ruin upon the nation. This section begins to wrap up in Proverbs 20:28 by emphasizing that the king is to rule by loving-kindness and truth. Within that, these concluding exhortations highlight first the need to administer his people correctly. To do that, he has to understand them and put them in the right places to serve—given their differing strengths (Proverbs 20:29). Secondly, he needs to protect the nation by actively exercising discipline to remove evil (Proverbs 20:30).

Thirdly, in the final verse of this section (Proverbs 21:1), we see the overarching truth that both kings and citizens ought to keep in mind: God’s sovereign oversight and involvement extend even to the very hearts of kings. Because of that, the king needs to use his power humbly and constructively to promote God’s righteous purposes. Altogether, this is what builds up a nation.

People can try to outrun God’s purposes and sovereignty, but not even a king can escape His reach. It is far better to serve God and delight in His good and perfect will. Defying Him will only lead to reaping the consequences while God still accomplishes all of His purposes.

This same foundational truth applies not just to the rulers of a country, but also to our personal lives, our families, our churches, our companies, and everything else. Our lives are fully in God’s hands. Should He decide to intervene, our very hearts, desires, and actions can be redirected in any way that He wants. This should push us away from becoming scoffing mockers who wickedly try to defy Him and toward actively pursuing His righteousness, His kingdom, His purposes, and His wisdom.

Have you ever felt like those in authority over you—whether in your family, job, school, or government—were making the wrong decisions or misusing their position and authority? Have you gotten sick and tired of things not making much positive progress in your life, home, workplace, church environment, or nation? Has it ever seemed that things seem stuck where they are at? The first verse of chapter 21 gives us the foundational guidance that will enable us to understand, be at peace with, and respond to those situations.

Let’s take a closer look now at this verse and see how God’s sovereignty is our solution.

Proverbs 21:1 The king’s heart is like channels of water in the hand of the LORD; He turns it wherever He wishes.

Like a channel dug to direct water where it is needed, God directs a king’s heart wherever He wants.

In chapter twenty, we learned the importance of the king’s oversight of his nation to protect it from evil. Proverbs 20:2 warned people not to provoke him because his anger is like the dangerous growling of a lion portending doom. Proverbs 20:8 pictured him as sitting on a throne of justice, dispersing all evil with his eyes. Proverbs 20:18 directed him to make war by wise guidance. Proverbs 20:26 highlighted that a wise king obliterates the wicked like the winnowing and threshing process of grain. Proverbs 20:28 underscored that what would preserve his kingdom would be his carrying out all those duties with loving-kindness and truth.

Rulers have vast power and responsibility to righteously root out the evil of scoffing mockers. They are to be God’s ordained method of suppressing evil and exalting righteousness (as Romans 13:1-7 reiterates). When this is done rightly, the nation and throne are protected and become productive.

Unfortunately, all too often this is not how kings and rulers exercise their power. Thus, we are given a final reminder and warning. As extensive as the power, authority, and responsibility of kings might reach in ruling their nations, God’s oversight, power, and authority are infinitely greater. When He so chooses, He directs and redirects even the most powerful people however He wants. What is perhaps most astounding is that this intervention is not just of their outward actions. It even reaches to the depths of their hearts with all their desires and motivations.

Just like a king might commission a vast public works project to divert a river into an array of irrigation canals, or as a farmer on a much smaller scale might make channels of water that go to his different fields to water his crops, so too God directs the hearts of kings wherever He wants to accomplish His purposes. For Solomon and the people of Israel in his day, this was not just some abstract comparison. Ecclesiastes 2:4-6 gives us this testimony about Solomon’s own construction projects:

Ecclesiastes 2:4-6 I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself, I planted vineyards for myself; 5 I made gardens and parks for myself and I planted in them all kinds of fruit trees; 6 I made ponds of water for myself from which to irrigate a forest of growing trees.

Solomon, as king, had done all this himself. The people of Israel knew about it. They saw it. Solomon had built ponds and mechanisms so that he could control water. He could get it right where he wanted it to be in order to irrigate his forest. Just like Solomon had done all that with his power, God could likewise simply “open a sluice gate.” With His power, He could make Solomon’s heart go wherever He wanted. Despite being probably the richest, most powerful king in the world, a mere thought from God could change Solomon’s heart and redirect him exactly where God wanted him to go and to do what God wanted him to do.

That should be a humbling reality for kings and every other person who thinks that they have some kind of power. It should also be a reminder that all earthly power and authority are to be used for good because supreme power rests with God. He can turn our situations and even our hearts however He wishes. We are always at His mercy, discretion, and oversight. To defy Him is useless, futile, and foolish. He is almighty God. Wisdom pushes us to try to get to know Him. It pushes us to learn His purposes for our lives. It drives us to follow and serve Him rightly.

Thus, kings should fear God, trust Him, love Him, and serve Him. They should pursue justice and righteousness in their rule. They are accountable to Him and are not truly sovereign themselves. They should use their human sovereignty, authority, and power for the purposes that they were given to them in God’s perfect design. That is what will cause their nation to thrive. That is what will uphold their throne. This verse serves as a powerful reminder and check on the power of a king and ruler. Power was meant to be used for good purposes: to suppress evil and to support righteousness.

This reminder of God’s sovereignty should also be an encouraging reality for those under authority. We have a higher power to appeal to when injustice occurs and when wickedness prevails. While God does not work at our beck and call, and while His timing and ways are beyond our full understanding, we can be assured that He is at work with His perfect plan to accomplish His good and righteous purposes. No king, dictator, supreme leader, chairman, president, prime minister, or any other person is immune to His sovereign interventions.

At times, this might lead to questions in our hearts and minds as to why God works in the ways that He does and why He does not intervene in other situations. Nonetheless, when we know of God’s supreme sovereign involvement in all of history to bring about His redemptive and restorative plans, we can have peace through anything. We can trust Him to bring about ultimate goodness through, despite, and with what He allows and orchestrates.

Proverbs 20:24 taught us that the steps of man “are ordained by the Lord.” Here, we see that even the hearts of the most powerful people are likewise under His sovereignty. This has some very humbling implications. Just like with our steps, we are not going to understand our way, our ruler’s way, or our nation’s way apart from God’s work and plan. Nor are we going to have control over these things. Beyond that, even in knowing the big picture parts of God’s work and plan as His Word has revealed to us, we are often not going to see how the specifics in our situations fit into that. Because of that, we need to continue to follow the foundational guidance of Proverbs 3:5-12.

Proverbs 3:5-12 Trust in the LORD with all your heart And do not lean on your own understanding. 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight. 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and turn away from evil. 8 It will be healing to your body And refreshment to your bones. 9 Honor the LORD from your wealth And from the first of all your produce; 10 So your barns will be filled with plenty And your vats will overflow with new wine. 11 My son, do not reject the discipline of the LORD Or loathe His reproof, 12 For whom the LORD loves He reproves, Even as a father corrects the son in whom he delights.

Instead of judging God and His decisions for how and when He works, redeems, blesses, or judges, we are to trust Him, obey Him, turn from evil, and learn from His discipline.

Instead of defying God and His authority over our hearts, we are to serve Him. Defying Him will only fail. Instead of worrying about what might happen, we are to trust His sovereign, good, wise, perfect decisions. Nothing is outside His sovereign oversight and guidance.

Instead of being overwhelmed, despondent, embittered, or consumed by what we cannot control, we are to focus on being faithful in our part of the church’s God-given task to make disciples of all nations. He will accomplish His purposes. We can be confident and encouraged in that.

Trust in God’s sovereignty. Work with God’s sovereignty. Trust that His plan is always best. Do not fight it. Rejoice in it. Allow it to bring you peace and joy. When we love God, even our suffering will be used by God for good (Romans 8). It will produce holiness in us (James 1:2-4). It can be used to bring others to God (2 Corinthians 1:6). It can be used to bring comfort and help to others (2 Corinthians 1:3-4).

Likewise, this gives an additional comfort that if the heart of the king is in God’s hands, then so are our hearts. We do not have to fear missing out on God’s purpose for our lives or His will. If we are walking in fellowship with Him, surrendered to Him, and seeking Him, then He will guide our hearts and actions where they need to go. He will have absolutely no problem directing our pursuit of Him into the way He wants us to go.

The intricacies of His work in our lives and our responsibility to work will no doubt be beyond our full comprehension with our finite minds. But we can be assured that He will both work everything out in a perfect way, and expect us to pursue an active obedience to everything that He commands us to do. We may not always be able to discern where a specific decision we make fully originates or how it all works together. But that should not surprise us when we remember and understand that if we have trusted in Jesus as our Lord and Savior, then God’s Spirit indwells us. He is within our hearts teaching, convicting, encouraging, challenging, prodding, rebuking, and aiding us in ways that we will not always understand or realize as we serve Him. The reality will be just as intermixed as Philippians 2:12-13 portrays it.

Philippians 2:12-13 So then, my beloved, just as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your salvation with fear and trembling; 13 for it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

God is truly sovereign over our hearts, and we are responsible to walk in obedience to Him. By His enablement we are to produce the results of our salvation.

Scriptural Example: In Scripture, we see numerous examples of this proverb. We see it in the description of Pharaoh’s heart during the plagues on Egypt. Before it even occurred, God told Moses in Exodus 4:21 and 7:3 that He would harden Pharaoh’s heart. Pharaoh would not let Israel leave Egypt, and God would use that as an opportunity to let Israel, Egypt, and the nations know that He was the one true God (Israel: Ex. 6:6-7, 10:1-2; Egypt: Ex. 7:4-5, 7:17, 9:14, 14:4, 14:18; the nations: Ex. 9:14-16, Rom. 9:17).

Interestingly enough, when the plagues began, Scripture says in Exodus 8:15, 32, and 9:34 that Pharaoh hardened his own heart. But as the plagues progressed, it specifically says over and over again that God hardened his heart (Ex. 9:12, 10:1, 20, 27, 11:10, 14:4, 8). In the New Testament, Romans 9:17-18 reiterates that God hardened Pharaoh’s heart. God was directing Pharaoh’s heart as He worked to accomplish His purposes. He was going to set His people free, to judge Egypt, to let the whole world know that their idolatry was foolishness, and to proclaim that He alone was truly God.

We also see this changing of hearts with Israel’s first king, Saul, when he was wrongfully persecuting David in 1 Samuel 19:18-24.

1 Samuel 19:18-24 Now David fled and escaped and came to Samuel at Ramah, and told him all that Saul had done to him. And he and Samuel went and stayed in Naioth. 19 It was told Saul, saying, “Behold, David is at Naioth in Ramah.” 20 Then Saul sent messengers to take David, but when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, with Samuel standing and presiding over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul; and they also prophesied. 21 When it was told Saul, he sent other messengers, and they also prophesied. So Saul sent messengers again the third time, and they also prophesied. 22 Then he himself went to Ramah and came as far as the large well that is in Secu; and he asked and said, “Where are Samuel and David?” And someone said, “Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.” 23 He proceeded there to Naioth in Ramah; and the Spirit of God came upon him also, so that he went along prophesying continually until he came to Naioth in Ramah. 24 He also stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

This is a very strange story. When we get down to it, God miraculously intervened to protect David. First He changed these messengers’ hearts and then King Saul’s. Instead of capturing or killing David, they all began prophesying. God redirected their hearts wherever He wished. God had anointed David to be the next king. Nothing was going to prevent that—not even the intense efforts of the current king of Israel.

We also see this same work of God in the humbling of Nebuchadnezzar, the proud king of Babylon. God made him like an animal until he learned his lesson. We also see it in the repenting of the wicked king of Nineveh after Jonah’s preaching. His heart was radically changed.

We also see the very same thing occurring with the heart of King Cyrus of Persia when God wanted to use him to help rebuild the temple in Israel. Ezra 1:1-3 speaks of this.

Ezra 1:1-3 Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he sent a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying: 2 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia, ‘The LORD, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and He has appointed me to build Him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 ‘Whoever there is among you of all His people, may his God be with him! Let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and rebuild the house of the LORD, the God of Israel; He is the God who is in Jerusalem.

God is the one who stirred up Cyrus’ spirit to do all this through Zerubbabel and the first returnees. Very similarly, in Ezra 7:6-28, we see that God stirred up the heart of King Artaxerxes to provide money and provisions for Ezra and another group to return and continue the rebuilding process. Years later, in Nehemiah 2, it happened yet again with Artaxerxes and Nehemiah. More and more exiles returned. God enabled the walls of Jerusalem to be completely rebuilt with royal assistance.

Egypt’s king, Israel’s kings, Nineveh’s king, Babylon’s king, Persia’s kings—these were the kings of the mightiest nations on earth! God directed their hearts wherever He chose when He wanted to intervene to accomplish His purposes. Nothing is outside God’s power and authority—even the hearts of unbelievers. Xi, Putin, Trump, Biden, Obama—all are and have been in God’s hands to direct as He wants. God allows what He allows. He redeems whom He redeems. He hardens whom He hardens. He has mercy on whom He has mercy. He judges whom He judges. He allows to be persecuted those whom He allows to be persecuted. Our lives are all in God’s hands. We can trust Him with our lives, and our deaths. We can trust Him with His sovereign oversight of everything that goes on in our lives, nation, and world. He is working out His perfect plan of redemption, judgment, and restoration on this world.

Proverb in Comparison: When we compare this proverb with the rest of Scripture, one passage that stands out is the description given in Revelation 17:12-18. It shows how God will work in the hearts of kings in the end times.

Revelation 17:12-18 “The ten horns which you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour. 13 “These have one purpose, and they give their power and authority to the beast. 14 “These will wage war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings, and those who are with Him are the called and chosen and faithful.” 15 And he said to me, “The waters which you saw where the harlot sits, are peoples and multitudes and nations and tongues. 16 “And the ten horns which you saw, and the beast, these will hate the harlot and will make her desolate and naked, and will eat her flesh and will burn her up with fire. 17 “For God has put it in their hearts to execute His purpose by having a common purpose, and by giving their kingdom to the beast, until the words of God will be fulfilled. 18 “The woman whom you saw is the great city, which reigns over the kings of the earth.”

Since God has such supreme authority over all kings—even the future demonically affiliated ten horns in the book of Revelation—we ought to trust Him here and now. No matter what the situations within our nations might be, our lives are still fully under God’s sovereign oversight. We may not understand all that God allows or does. We may not precisely understand the when and how of what He does. We may not like the trials and circumstances He has us go through. Nonetheless, God is accomplishing His good and perfect purposes. We need to trust Him for that. He knows and does what is right and most important.

If we do not like the current evil circumstances of this world, or what we have to undergo, then it should spur us on to biblically seek out why it is occurring and what God is doing. If we understand that, then it will give us greater purpose and more strength to endure. It will also guide us in what to do in our circumstances. 2 Peter 3:7-12 gives us the big picture of that “why.”

2 Peter 3:7-12 But by His word the present heavens and earth are being reserved for fire, kept for the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. 8 But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day. 9 The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance. 10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up. 11 Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, what sort of people ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 12 looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be destroyed by burning, and the elements will melt with intense heat!

Down through the ages, God has patiently been bringing people from all nations to repentance and salvation. When that is done, He will judge the world and Satan. He will renew all things and bring in His perfect rule. We need to remember the end result of what God is accomplishing.

Think about it. God waited and worked to bring each of us to salvation despite the awful sinfulness of this world in the generations before us. We should not begrudge or doubt His current waiting and working to bring others to their redemption. Instead, we too should work toward that. We should do all that we can to be faithful ambassadors of reconciliation. We should be making disciples of all nations.

Mark 13:7-10 and Matthew 24:7-14 tell us more about what to expect as we endure:

Mark 13:7-10 “When you hear of wars and rumors of wars, do not be frightened; those things must take place; but that is not yet the end. 8 “For nation will rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; there will be earthquakes in various places; there will also be famines. These things are merely the beginning of birth pangs. 9 “But be on your guard; for they will deliver you to the courts, and you will be flogged in the synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings for My sake, as a testimony to them. 10 “The gospel must first be preached to all the nations.

Matthew 24:7-14 “For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and in various places there will be famines and earthquakes. 8 “But all these things are merely the beginning of birth pangs. 9 “Then they will deliver you to tribulation, and will kill you, and you will be hated by all nations because of My name. 10 “At that time many will fall away and will betray one another and hate one another. 11 “Many false prophets will arise and will mislead many. 12 “Because lawlessness is increased, most people’s love will grow cold. 13 “But the one who endures to the end, he will be saved. 14 “This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.

This is no bed of roses. Indeed, that kind of ease is not promised to us until our eternity with God. Apparently, in this life our ease, convenience, health, and pleasure are not God’s top priority. The redemption of His chosen children is. In the meantime, did you catch what God tells us to do about all this? Do you see how we are to respond? In 2 Peter, He tells us to be holy. We are to turn away from sin and walk in righteousness. No sin will go unpunished. God hates it, and there will be a final reckoning for it. Thus, sin should by no means characterize those who have repented and been redeemed.

Beyond that, do you see what Matthew and Mark tell us our responses should be? We are not to be frightened by persecution. We are to be on guard so that our love does not grow cold. We are to stand as a testimony before all people of Jesus. We are to preach the gospel to all the nations. We are told that they will kill us. We should be okay with that. Our physical lives are not more precious than God’s own Son’s life. God had a purpose in Jesus’ life, suffering, and death, and He has a purpose in our life, suffering, and death.

Nothing that occurs will ever take God by surprise. The One who holds the hearts of kings in His hands—even the demonically inspired kings of Revelation—will perfectly work out everything the way it is supposed to be. Will we trust Him for that? Will we accept the big picture answer to the “why” for what we may be called to go through? Will we accept our purpose in His plan and do our part to preach the gospel to all nations? If we do, then we will be able to have peace no matter what happens. We will be secure in His amazing love for us and His eternal future for us. Current circumstances will not overwhelm us. We will trust His sovereign work in all the details, knowing that His guiding hand is ever-present.

Truth in Connection: As we come back to our proverb and further connect these truths of God’s sovereignty to our lives, the reality is that many people do not like to think of God’s power, intervention, and involvement getting down to the extent of changing someone’s heart, desires, will, and actions. They do not like to think of God’s power being that great. So they deny it. They avoid it. They ignore it. They try to make smokescreens and say that man’s responsibility must mean that God cannot or will not do this. But that is not what our proverb says. Nor is it what Scripture records in the examples that are given to us of God’s involvement in the lives of kings, nations, and individuals. God does direct people’s hearts. He does orchestrate events by changing and redirecting the very hearts and desires of people.

People’s responsibility for their sin is a clear teaching of Scripture. We will be rightly judged for all that we do. But however we explain that truth, we must not do it by denying this proverb. We must not do it at the expense of God’s clear sovereignty and direct, personal, active involvement in history, salvation, judgment, and people’s lives.

Some will complain that this makes people mere robots in God’s hands. Others may say that this means God is responsible for people’s sin since He is changing their hearts and pushing them to do certain things. Neither of those things is true. With Adam’s free-will choice to commit sin, we were all subsequently born into sin, and we all commit sin. We are slaves to it. We are dead in our sins, separated from God, and going to keep pursuing sin until our destruction—unless God intervenes. Sin is what we want. Sin is what we choose. God’s intervention—whether to bring about some good despite our sin, or to regenerate our very hearts and enable us to see and want what is truly good—does not make us His robots. It makes Him gracious to humanity despite our evil! It makes Him our Savior! Apart from Him, we will only continue to choose our preferred variety of poison, pride, wickedness, self-righteousness, idolatry, and sinful behavior. God sometimes choosing to override that perverted, enslaved, so-called “free will” is mercy, not something to complain about or worry about.

I will not pretend to know exactly when and where God changes people’s hearts and has them do whatever He wills. I will not pretend to know why God opens certain people’s eyes and saves them and not others. I will not pretend to know why some suffer so much more than others. But I will say that we all deserve much more suffering and judgment than we are currently receiving. We all deserve immediate, eternal judgment for our wickedness. Thus, as sinners, we are all receiving some kind of mercy and grace right now if we are still alive and not yet under His judgment. Within that grace, it is fully appropriate for God to move our hearts to accomplish any good that He desires before finally judging us.

In the end, with all the questions that we might have about this, the only wise choice is to go back to Scripture and look at what it reveals. What it does not say and what is beyond our comprehension will have to remain a mystery to us for the time being. As we look to God’s Word to see what it expresses, Romans 9:13-27 gives us God’s main answer to those who try to defy these doctrines of His sovereignty and of His direct, active involvement in this world. First, it tells us that we have no right to talk back to God. He is the potter. We are the clay. Like Job, we have no right to judge or question God. This is foundational to understand. We have to humbly come to God and accept what He says about Himself.

Beyond that, we are then told that sometimes God delays His judgment and chooses to work through sinners whose hearts He hardens in order to accomplish something good through them. That Scripture passage says that He is making known the riches of His glory to those He will be showing mercy to. Thus, God’s plan, even in judgment and hardening hearts, is righteous and good.

Trust in God’s sovereignty. It is real. Work with God’s sovereignty. His purposes will be accomplished. Trust that His plan is always best. We may not see it now, but He will work it out.

If things are not going well with earthly authorities over us, look to God’s authority over everything. Look to what He is actively doing in this world. Learn His purpose and plan. Study it in Scripture. Be encouraged and strengthened by it. Then, zealously fulfill your part in His plan. Do not settle for this world’s destructive, wasteful, evil plan for your life. Do not settle for being an ideological warrior jumping from issue to issue, or a political party enthusiast, or a best life now crusader, or a health nut obsessive zealot, or a self-focused hobby enthusiast, or a sports/news/movie/gamer junkie. Be a faithful disciple of Jesus. Make time for serving real people. Preach the gospel to all nations. Know that suffering, trials, and even death will come. Be willing to give everything for Jesus. As we do zealously fulfill our part in God’s plan, let us revel in the truth that God’s plan will triumph over everything. Let us have His peace and joy in that. Remember, God still reigns over all, including king’s hearts. His kingdom will come. Satan’s reign and man’s rebellion are only temporary.

If you have not trusted in Jesus as your Lord and Savior, then that is where you need to start. Our sin is only bringing destruction. Turn from it. Turn to Jesus for the salvation that He gives. He came and lived a perfect, sinless life. Then He died on the cross, was buried, and rose again to overcome sin and death for all those who believe in Him. He took our sin upon Himself so that we could be freed from it and made children of God. Trust Him personally today before it is too late and His judgment comes.

Conclusion

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