When I read a book like Ezekiel with its 60 to 80 that they might know that I

Yachwe I am the one who is absolute.

I had no beginning, I had no ending, I am not in process, nobody made me the way I am.

I am absolutely over all things and I take and I give and I dry and I moist and I do all things because I am God.

God wants to be known that way in the world.

When it comes to God's Providence, what does it mean for God to be absolutely over all things?

In this episode of Light and Truth, John Piper turns to the book of Ezekiel to stress the sheer godness of God.

This seminar was originally given at Bethlehem Baptist Church on November 15th 1995.

What we're going to do is begin with general statements about God's

providence over the nations.

General statements about God's Providence, then we'll move to specific statements about

God's Providence over particular nations.

And then I want to look at some larger portions of

scripture rather than just isolated texts. So what we'll do first is look at some

individual texts. They're pretty straightforward and let them

have their effect upon your worldview now because you won't read this in the newspaper.

These are more important truths than are ever reported in the newspaper or on television

and yet you will never hear these.

It shows how tremendously skewed reality is in the way it's presented for most Americans.

And since most Americans don't absorb the Bible from any source

they are constantly inundated by a skewed source of reality in education and

media and entertainment.

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