{"id":3509,"date":"2015-11-28T07:07:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T07:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3509"},"modified":"2015-11-28T07:07:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T07:07:26","slug":"purpose-and-providence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3509","title":{"rendered":"Purpose and Providence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose and Providence<br \/>\nTommy Robbins<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your<br \/>\nwhole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of<br \/>\nour Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do<br \/>\nit.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/1Th%205.23-24\">1Th 5:23-24<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Divine Providence is the unfolding of Divine purpose in time. God\u2019s<br \/>\neternal purpose and providence is essentially and vitally connected with<br \/>\nthe Lord Jesus Christ and His redemption of those whom He has loved with<br \/>\nan everlasting love and His bringing them to eternal glory. All things<br \/>\nin time are ordained by Almighty God to this glorious two-fold end; the<br \/>\nglory of God and the eternal good of the children of God \u2013 \u201cAnd we know<br \/>\nthat all things work together for good to them that love God, to them<br \/>\nwho are the called according to His purpose\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Romans%208.28\">Romans 8:28<\/a>. Everything,<br \/>\nEVERYTHING! that transpires in time, from beginning to end, is concerned<br \/>\nwith the salvation and preservation of God\u2019s elect and His glory therein.<\/p>\n<p>There is no person or no thing that He brings into existence that does<br \/>\nnot move according to this, His great design. Every atom is under<br \/>\nsubjection to Divine Omnipotence to the praise of the glory of the same.<br \/>\nWe therefore confidently conclude without fear or trepidation that God<br \/>\nand His Christ is and will be glorified in all things and we, His<br \/>\npeople, are saved with an everlasting salvation.<\/p>\n<p>My brethren, be assured, every trial, every sorrow, every affliction,<br \/>\nevery failure, every success, every joy, every happiness, is<br \/>\nmeticulously attended by Divine Omniscience, Omnipresence and scrutiny,<br \/>\nto perfection \u2013 \u201cFaithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it\u201d.<br \/>\nOur Lord Jesus Christ, \u201cWho being the brightness of His glory, and the<br \/>\nexpress image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His<br \/>\npower, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right<br \/>\nhand of the Majesty on high\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/biblia.com\/bible\/kjv1900\/Hebrews%201.3\">Hebrews 1:3<\/a>. May our God give us rest in<br \/>\nHis blessed Son knowing that present and future history is charted by<br \/>\nunfailing love and certain success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purpose and Providence Tommy Robbins \u201cAnd the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is He that calleth you, Who also will do it.\u201d\u00a01Th 5:23-24 Divine Providence is the unfolding of Divine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-tommy-robbins","category-sovereignty-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3509"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3512,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3509\/revisions\/3512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}