Series:              Systematic Theology Part 1
Title:                God’s Providence
Purpose:          To understand how our actions have real meaning if God controls everything
Date:               December 1, 2024
 
 
I.                   Preservation - God keeps all created things existing
A.    God keeps all things existing and maintaining the properties with which He created them
B.     God’s providence provides the basis for all science - because things are preserved, we can do everything we have done in science
 
II.                Concurrence  -  God brings about all things about according to His will
A.    Inanimate creation
B.     Animals
C.     Random events
D.    Events caused by God 
E.     The affairs of nations
F.      All aspects of our lives
G.    What about evil
H.    Analysis of verses related to God and evil
I.       Do we have a “free will”?
 
III.             Government
A.    Scriptural evidence
B.     Distinctions concerning the will of God
 
IV.             The decrees of God - God’s decision before time began
 
V.                The importance of our human actions
 
VI.             Further practical application
 
VII.          Arminian Objections to Calvinism
 
VIII.       Grudem’s response to Arminian position
 
IX.             Additional objections to Arminian position