To say God is sovereign...

“To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the Almighty, the Possessor of all power in heaven and earth, so that none can defeat His counsels, thwart His purpose, or resist His will (Ps. 115:3). To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is "The Governor among the nations" (Ps. 22:28), setting up kingdoms, overthrowing empires, and determining the course of dynasties as pleaseth Him best. To say that God is sovereign is to declare that He is the "Only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords" (1 Tim. 6:15). Such is the God of the Bible. How different is the God of the Bible from the God of modern Christendom! The conception of Deity which prevails most widely today, even among those who profess to give heed to the Scriptures, is a miserable caricature, a blasphemous travesty of the Truth. The God of the twentieth century is a helpless, effeminate being who commands the respect of no really thoughtful man. The God of the popular mind is the creation of a maudlin sentimentality. The God of many a present-day pulpit is an object of pity rather than of awe-inspiring reverence.”
― Arthur W. Pink


The god of the twenty first century is even worse. Kenneth Copeland made a statement not so long ago that God was the biggest failure of all. And the truth is, he's right if the god he and so many believe in is the true god. God is failing if he is not willing that any should perish when the majority of the world is perishing.
But the true God is not losing, not failing. His plan has never been thwarted and never will be. He's never lost one of those he set out to save. God is not willing that any should perish means the "elect". We have to look at the scriptures in context. For God so loved the world means the "elect". He loves people from all nations, tribes, and tongues (that's what "world" means) and that was a shock to hear for the Jews who thought he loved only them.

Daniel 4:35
he does according to his will among the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand or say to him, “What have you done?”

John 6:35
35Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. 36But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. 37All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out. 38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me. 39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day. 40For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

Jesus will not lose one that he has set out to save, he will lose none that the Father gave him. He's not failing!

Act. 13:48
And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and AS MANY AS WERE APPOINTED TO ETERNAL LIFE BELIEVED.

John 6:44
44No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him. And I will raise him up on the last day.

Romans 9:
14What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means! 15For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16So then it depends not on human will or exertion, but on God, who has mercy. 17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” 18So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.

19You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” 20But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?” 21Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use? 22What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory— 24even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?

The doctrine of election according to God's will, his pleasure, not according to works, not according to "human will" as Romans 9 says, is not a hidden concept that we can't talk about or understand (of course it takes the Holy Spirit working in us to understand it).
But the doctrine of election that is left in God's control and not man's is a hated doctrine.

It just comes down to this. Is God sovereign or man?
And if God is not willing that any should perish, but we know so many die in unbelief, should we say with Kenneth Copeland, God is the biggest failure of all?