God's providence, it says in the Westminster Shorter Catechism is "His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing of all of His creatures and all of their actions." This means that He orders all things that happen, according to His own will and for His own glory in the outworking of the history of men and nations. The purposes of God in His providence may seem very mysterious to us, and difficult to understand. But with God, all things related to His own actions are very definite and certain in relation to what He intends to do at any point in human history. He intends, through mere men, to bring glory to His own great name. Whether it is in the history of Christ's Church and the furtherance of His kingdom, or whether it is in regard to the part that you as a Christian shall play in these things, God is perfectly sovereign. This is why it is such a valuable thing that we have Stephen's Scripture history of Israel, which he gave in sermonic form to these resistant men. Stephen died for preaching this sermon. He died in trying to make the point, that the same God who ordained all the events related to Moses' ministry to the people of his day, was the same God who was evaluating these stubborn men in regard to their rejection of Jesus Christ. So, there are some definite lessons for us to learn from this passage, about God's providence, which I believe will apply to each of here today. 1st of all – The providence of God wisely governed the rise of an evil man. 2nd – The providence of God wisely superintended the rise of a good man. And 3rd – The providence of God patiently taught Moses His way of doing things. May God give us the grace to learn these
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Pastor Paul Rendall was born in November of 1951, and grew up in Davenport, Iowa. He went to college at Drake University and the University of Iowa where he received a B.A. degree in Social Work and History in 1974. Paul searched for truth in all the wrong places in college, but...
