Welcome to the in touch podcast with Charles Stanley for Tuesday, September 17th.

Committed believers aren't the only ones who play a part in God's plans.

Stay with us to find out how he uses the wicked to accomplish his purpose too.

God's ways seem to be so perplexing at times and the reason is because we don't

understand what he's doing or why he's doing it.

Then likewise his ways seem to sometimes be very painful

because of its effect on us and because of its effect on maybe the people we love.

We don't always

understand what he's doing. And we know sometimes that we feel like, not no like, but

feel like, that he's really not doing the best. There was there must be some better way to do

something and yet we know he's all wise, all powerful, always wants what's best for

us and yet sometimes his ways are perplexing and confusing to us.

It's true not only in the life of an individual, it's true in the life of nations.

And yet deep down inside we know that he always has the best in mind for his

children. Well what I want to talk about in this message and this is one of our series

here entitled The Ways of God. And we've talked about certain ways that is how

does God operate? How does he think? Why does he do what he does? Well today this

subject may be a little, shall I say, a little more curious, because what I'm

want to talk about is this. The ways of God, God uses the wicked to accomplish his purpose. Now we know he uses the righteous, but the truth

is he uses the wicked to accomplish his purpose in the life of individuals, in the life

of nations, in the life of the church.

Well, let's look at the New Testament.

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