TS&TT: The 1689 Confession: Divine Providence (Part 2)

The Sword & The Trowel

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🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Today on The Sword & The Trowel podcast, Tom Ascol and Graham Gunden continue in their series of walking through the 1689 Second London Baptist Confession of Faith. They continue their discussion of Chapter 5 on Divine Providence and specifically deal with the problem of evil in this world - does God ordain all things that happen, including sin and wickedness? SHOW NOTES: Ready to plan your next event? Contact Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center: https://LYBCC.com Pre-Order "The Law for the Lawless": https://press.founders.org/shop/the-law-for-the-lawless/ Get 10% off Miller's Grove Soap with code "FOUNDERS": https://TheMillersGrove.com Pre-Order "The 1689 in Rhyme": https://press.founders.org/shop/the-1689-in-rhyme/ Register for "Introduction to the Law and the Gospel": https://study.founders.org/library/introduction-to-the-law-and-the-gospel-237516/ Apply to the Founders Seminary Spring 2026 semester: https://foundersseminary.org Register for the 2026 National Founders Conference - Make Disciples: https://founders.org/conference/ Founders Ministries: https://founders.org Support the Work of Founders: https://founders.org/give https://www.facebook.com/FoundersMin/https://twitter.com/FoundersMinhttps://www.instagram.com/foundersministries/ All Founders Ministries resources are copyrighted and any use and distribution must be approved by Founders Ministries.

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0:00.0	Thank you for joining us for this conversation today on the Sword and the Trial.
0:03.0	Today, Pastor Tom and I revisit Chapter 5 of the Confession on Divine Providence.
0:08.1	We talk specifically about the problem of evil.
0:10.9	Does God sovereignly ordain all things that should take place, including sin and evil things
0:15.1	that happen in the world?
0:16.2	I hope it's a helpful conversation to you.
0:17.9	Take a listen.
0:23.6	Welcome to The Sword and the Trial. The Sword and the Trial is a podcast of founders' ministries and founders exist for the recovery of the gospel and the
0:27.7	reformation of local churches. I'm Graham Gundin. I'm Tom Askell. And today's episode is brought to you
0:32.2	by the Miller's Grove soap company and the Lake Yale Baptist Conference Center. Last week,
0:37.1	we talked about chapter five of the Second London Baptist Confession on Divine Providence,
0:42.3	and we only got about halfway through that chapter.
0:45.3	And so today we're going to pick up where we left off in paragraph four on divine providence.
0:49.3	And specifically, we started getting into the issue of God, being sovereign. He is also not the author of
0:57.7	sin. Yeah. And that's a challenging thing for people to get their minds around who have been trained
1:06.9	to think rationally. And thinking rationally is a good thing.
1:11.5	Rationalism is a horrible thing because rationalism says that there's no other truth than that
1:16.3	which I can rationally deduce.
1:18.6	And yet there is truth that has been revealed.
1:20.6	And we live in God's world who has revealed himself to us.
1:23.6	And so I think in terms of rationality, irrationality, supranality. And the providence of God
1:31.8	is a doctrine that has been supranally revealed. And so we submit ourselves to it. We believe it.
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