Providence
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 4 February 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The Lord is not a heavenly spectator without any influence on the events of this world. Today, R.C. Sproul explains how God is actively involved in preserving His creation, even working in our personal circumstances and choices.
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| 0:00.0 | Today, on renewing your mind. |
| 0:02.2 | The Bible is saying that God is working all things for our good. |
| 0:09.2 | Even our sicknesses, even our losses in this world come under the |
| 0:15.0 | providence of God. |
| 0:16.8 | And it's a good providence. |
| 0:19.4 | If we could just believe that. |
| 0:21.4 | There are many who believe that God is merely a spectator in heaven with no control over |
| 0:32.6 | what happens here on earth. |
| 0:34.7 | But Christians have always understood that this is our Father's world and that the affairs |
| 0:39.4 | of men and nations are in His hands. |
| 0:42.7 | Today, on renewing your mind, R.C. Sproul shows us that God is actively involved in preserving |
| 0:47.7 | His creation. |
| 0:49.3 | And working His will through the decisions you and I make every day. |
| 0:55.8 | One of the most popular passages in the New Testament among Christian people is Paul's |
| 1:01.7 | statement that he wrote to the Romans that is found in Romans 8, 28. |
| 1:07.3 | And it reads like this, and we know that all things work together for good to those who |
| 1:16.3 | love God to those who are the called according to His purpose. |
| 1:24.9 | Now one of the things that jumps out at me about this verse is the strength of conviction |
| 1:31.9 | that the Apostle expresses when he writes these words. |
| 1:36.2 | You know, it wasn't that he said, I sure hope that everything is going to come out well |
| 1:41.6 | in the end. |
| 1:43.3 | Or I believe that things will work out according to the will of God. |
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