FOUNDATIONS Equipping the Church to _______________ what the Bible says so that we can ________________ what the Bible teaches. Brookwood exists for the __________ _____ __________ and the ___________ ____ __________. 1. 2. 3. 4.
____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ Chapter 8, The Providence of God 1. Creation is ____________________ from God yet always ____________________ on God. 2. There are at least three perspectives of the Sovereignty of God (two from your reading): a. The Reformed perspective (John Calvin), pgs. 142-153 i. Sovereign over all b. The Armenian perspective (Jacob Armenius), pgs. 153-156
i. Preserve human autonomy c. Middle Knowledge, Molinism (Luis de Molina) 3. The three terms Grudem uses to describe God’s sovereign rule. Preservation (pg. 143) ___ 1. God cooperates with created things in every action, directing their distinctive properties to cause them to act as they do
Concurrence (pgs. 143-151) ___
2. God has a purpose in all he does in the world and he providentially governs or directs all things in order that they accomplish his purposes Government (pgs. 151-152) ___ 3. God keeps all created things existing and maintaining the properties with which he created them 4. What about God and evil? pg. 147 (Acts 2:22ff.) a. Scripture never shows God directly doing anything ____________________ b. Scripture never ____________________ God for evil c. Scripture never shows God taking ____________________ in evil d. Scripture never ____________________ humans for the evil they do 5. Regarding freedom and sovereignty: a. Human freedom does not _____________________ God’s sovereignty. b. God’s sovereignty does not ______________________ human freedom. 6. Regarding salvation: a. God is ____________________ people. I am unaware _____ He is saving. Therefore, I must ______ _______________ that he is saving. “God is too good to be unkind, too wise to be mistaken. When we cannot trace the hand of God we can trust the heart of God.” CH Spurgeon