Without God, there would only be inertia in the universe.

Nothing could move.

Without the primary causal power of God, nothing could be.

In him we live and move and have our being. You know, one of my favorite hymns is, Ann Can It Be, but I have to change the words in it.

Because in that hymn we say, how can it be that my God died for me?

My God died for me?

God didn't die. The God man died. But as the human nature of Jesus

that perishes on the cross, what would have happened if the divine God died that Friday?

Well, Jesus would have died with him, along with Pontius Pilate, Caiaphas.

And not only that, the cross would have been vaporized.

Jerusalem would have stopped existing at that second.

The whole world would have passed out of existence.

If God dies, everything goes, folks.

I die, you die because in him we live.

And without the primary causal power of God, nothing could live for a second.

Without the primary causal power of God, nothing could be.

In him we live and move and have our being.

I am not an independent being.

I'm a contingent being.

There was a time, beloved, when I was not.

Sixty-six years ago, there was no R.C. Sprole, except my grandfather, who had that name.

But I wasn't around.

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