Supernatural Intervention
Stone Choir
Stone Choir
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🗓️ 31 July 2024
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Deism posits that God created the world, and then walked away — a sort of clockmaker with the Universe being His clock. To the contrary, Christianity advances a view of God as active in His Creation. Certainly, every single thing that happens in the Universe happens with God’s knowledge of it and permission for it, but, beyond that, God also actively intervenes in time — both to help and to harm.
The Book of Job is, perhaps, one of the clearest narratives of Divine (and infernal) intervention, but God acts in Creation from the beginning of Scripture to the very end. God is, however, not the only supernatural being who intervenes (or interferes, in the infernal case) in the affairs of men; Satan and his demons also exert their influence upon reality. If we cease to believe in the supernatural — and not just as some abstraction or intellectual conceit, but rather as something very real and significant —, then we fall below the level of Christian belief and veer instead into something akin to the Sadducees, who denied both the resurrection of the dead and the existence of the supernatural.
Part of the Christian life is recognizing the reality that we live in the midst of spiritual warfare, with a conflict that rages all about us, even if we cannot physically see it. But beyond this, when we minimize (or ignore) the intervention of God in His Creation, we cease to recognize God’s providence. Every good and every perfect gift comes from God, and we should give thanks for all that God gives us, from the smallest of gifts up to the greatest. And we should even rejoice in times of adversity, for God has promised that He works all things together for the good of those who believe.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to the Stone Choir podcast. I am Corey J. Mahler. |
| 0:41.7 | And I'm still, whoa. On today's Stone Quire, we're going to be discussing God's active hand in the universe. |
| 0:50.1 | One of the terms for that is Providence, something that we talked a little bit about in the |
| 0:55.0 | Thanksgiving episode that we did last fall called God's Gifts, Man's Duties. And in that episode, |
| 1:00.7 | we were mostly focused on after God gives you gifts, what do you do with them? This episode is going to |
| 1:06.2 | be focused entirely on the activity of the supernatural in our lives, both God and evil. And the reason for doing |
| 1:15.2 | this is that, as we've said before, there's, I think, a very strong case to be made that the vast |
| 1:21.0 | majority of people in church pews are somewhere between functional deists and functional Gnostics. |
| 1:29.1 | And so they managed to combine both of those. And so today we want to make the case from Scripture that it's important for us |
| 1:35.0 | as Christians to realize when and how God is active and when and how Satan is active, when and how |
| 1:41.5 | there's evil, actual supernatural evil acting in the world in our |
| 1:46.0 | lives and in the lives of those around us. Because when we separate one from the other, when we |
| 1:51.7 | pretend that, well, this is just random happenstance. When we take God out of the equation, that's the |
| 1:58.6 | watchmaker theory. That's deism. That's saying, well, God doesn't |
| 2:01.9 | really do anything. He's just kind of up there. He's trapped in heaven. And he gave |
| 2:06.0 | this book. And so we read the book on Sunday and try to follow the rules. But otherwise, |
| 2:10.6 | God's not doing anything. That's really how most Christians actually view the world. |
| 2:15.1 | Even the ones who will pay lip service to say, no, God's doing stuff |
| 2:18.9 | when push comes to shove and you say, well, did God do this? Like, who could say? And so we're going |
| 2:24.4 | to give a number of examples today from Scripture where Christians who are given to us as examples |
| 2:30.1 | don't behave the way we do today. They said an example that we, by and large, refuse to follow. |
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