Preacher: Jeremy Herbert
Text: Acts 19:23-41
Theme: God guards us through providence
Notes:
Romans 8:28-30
Providence includes God’s care and control
Isaiah 46:9-10
Nothing happens outside the will of God
Frederick Nolan, missionary to North Africa
Tim Challies, son recently passed away suddenly at age 20
God never promises to keep us from pain and difficulty–He promises to walk with us as we experience them
Ephesians 1:4-6
While God orders/ordains/orchestrates all things, He is not the author of sin
The pressure that God allows in our lives is meant to mold us, but not to break us.
Psalm 55:22
Because God is in control of all things, then our suffering is not meaningless or purposeless
- God uses people providentially
- God uses people who are for you in your life
- God uses people who are for themselves in your life
- Don’t underestimate the things that God can teach you through someone acting selfishly
- There are sometimes sins we are blind to in our own lives until we see them in others
- God uses people who are against us in our life
- God uses governments providentially
- God used the roads and infrastructure instituted by the Roman government to help spread the gospel
- God worked through those in Babylon and Persia to return the Jews to Israel, to rebuild the temple, and rebuild the walls of Jerusalem
- God uses circumstances providentially
- Psalm 34:18
- God hates sin
- God cares for His children
- God grieves with us when we hurt
- Isaiah 53
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