Is God Sovereign?

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Where is man's so-called free will in the following verses? "No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Ghost." 1 Cor. 12:3.
"God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, bath quickened us together with Christ." Eph. 2:4, 5.
"And you, being dead in your sins and the uncircumcision of your flesh, hath He quickened together with Him." Col. 2:13. "For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." 2 Cor. 4:6. "But of Him are ye in Christ Jesus." 1 Cor. 1:30.
"Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you." John 15:16. "Of His own will begat He us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of His creatures." Jas. 1:18. "Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." John 1:13.
" 'Twas the same grace that spread the feast,
That gently forced me in;
Else I had still refused to come,
And perished in my sin."