How hard is it for God to use Pharaoh's wickedness or to even increase Pharaoh's wickedness?

He doesn't have to come in and breathe fresh evil into all he has to do to accelerate and to

intensify the wickedness of Pharaoh is let Pharaoh have his way.

way.

God in his government, in his providence is that work every day keeping evil in check,

keeping evil from becoming so intense and so widespread

as to cause man's own self-destruction.

God keeps us in check.

He restrains wickedness in men.

Now there are different ways that he does. wickedness in men.

Now there are different ways that he does that. Sometimes it's through a simple method of checks and balances where people can't afford to let their wickedness go completely unchecked.

We know that there are penalties for murder, there are penalties for theft, and so on.

But there's an old saying in our culture that power corrupts, an absolute power corrupts absolutely.

You take a sinful person whose heart is wicked continuously and remove the restraints, what will you expect?

You will expect unbridled wickedness. When a person has absolute power in this world, that's when we

see the manifestation of untold measures of wickedness.

Of course, no human being has ever really had total absolute power,

but even as we approach that, we see the increasing levels of corruption.

Adolf Hitler was answerable to no one within Germany.

He had to answer to other national leaders on the field of battle, but the only restraint

against him was the restraint that was marshalled by other world leaders in a military

fashion because in Germany he was the Fure he could lead. He had the power to execute orders with a life

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