I'll bring you up to date where we were last time

and show you where we're gonna go tonight, Lord willing.

The topic in this long series on Providence of God

was the Providence of God over the wills of individual people. We talked about the Providence of God over the wills of individual people.

You know, we talked about the providence of God over weather,

and we talked about the providence of God over nations and so on.

And the implication has always laying there,

very close beneath the service

that for him to do all of this ruling,

it sounds like he has the right and the authority

to also direct the wills of individual people.

And what we saw was that that's true.

God does have the ultimate influence over the wheels of people.

I'm not going to walk through these texts again, otherwise we'd wind up just where we were at the end of last hour.

I'm just going to show you the questions we posed, with all my markings still on them.

God influences and enables our willing as we ought.

Okay. and enables our willing as we ought. We are slaves to will thin

without the influences of God's sovereign grace.

Texts on that.

Okay. Sovereign grace. Texts on that.

God's sovereign grace overcomes our blindness and hardness and slavery to sin.

And that's where we stopped last week. God over... to sin.

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