MATT130 - If God Already Knows What's Going to Happen, Why Pray?

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🗓️ 24 April 2020

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MATTHEW 6:5-15 On this podcast we pick books of the Bible and work through them from beginning to end, bit by bit every day. This show exists because of listener support. If you'd like to consider supporting, you can learn more at thetmbh.com/support or check out the Patreon support page at patreon.com/thetmbhpodcast Thanks to everyone who supports TMBH You're the reason we can all do this together! Discuss this episode here. Music written and performed by Jeff Foote.

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0:00.0	All right here's one for you. If there is a God who is powerful enough to call existence out of non-existence who is
0:14.3	unlimited enough to call existence out of non-existence who is unlimited enough to know everything never grew never changed never evolved already had everything down never got surprised by anything
0:22.3	knew every decision that was
0:23.7	coming every little wrinkle in the universe the cosmos that he made if there was
0:28.0	such a god and there was such a god that was also interested in how the world unfold, also engaged in how the world
0:35.6	was unfolding, and also interested in you.
0:38.5	How you're doing, what's going on, how things shake out for you, and all of those things are what the Bible holds out the God of the Bible as being.
0:46.1	If such a God exists, why do we ask him for stuff?
0:50.9	Why would you go to a God like that and be like, hey, I need this thing or I could really
0:57.9	use traveling mercies or my friend is sick and be with my friend. I mean those are all very reasonable things to
1:05.7	have concerns about and to want to go to the the deity the God of the universe
1:12.4	about I mean we get told later on in the new test the deity the god of the universe about.
1:12.9	I mean, we get told later on in the New Testament
1:15.3	that you can approach the throne of grace of mercy
1:18.9	with confidence that this relationship has been opened up. I mean, that's what Jesus is driving at here in the sermon on the mount is that there's there's some sort of accessibility with him where you really can go and do this.
1:30.5	But if God already knows what's going to happen with all of the things, and God isn't your
1:36.3	performing idiot that if you just say the right insurance code word, he's then begrudgingly
1:41.1	has to do whatever you said.
1:42.8	If God is so powerful that we can't interpret the verse that says wherever two or more are gathered
1:48.0	together in my name in Matthew 18 is meaning that if you just get two people to agree together,
1:51.6	then God just has to do whatever you say.
1:53.4	Like if we acknowledge that empirically and rationally and biblically, God doesn't have to do anything
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