God the Father, Mentor's Guide, MG06

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G O D T H E F A T H E R

God as the Creator The Providence of God

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Welcome in the strong name of Jesus Christ! After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to: • Explain how God’s supreme authority and providence is shown over all creation and history. • Show how “providence” means that “God works out his sovereign will in the universe whereby all events are disposed by him to fulfill his purposes for himself and his creation for good.” • Use the Scriptures to show how the Father is Sovereign over all, the Source of all, and the Sustainer of all through his Son, Jesus Christ. All things are disposed to sync up with his will for himself, so he can receive glory for all things. • Demonstrate how God’s special work of providence is revealed in his preservation and governance of all things. • Make clear how many of the errors associated with modern philosophy and religion come from misunderstanding the providence of God over creation and history. • Show an understanding of the key elements of preservation and governance, along with God’s intent to restore creation at Christ’s return. • Provide a brief explanation of how the providence of God resolves some of the modern errors of philosophy and theology, namely, pantheism, deism, fatalism, and chance.

Lesson Objectives

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Truly One of a Kind

Devotion

1 Tim. 6.13-16 - I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession, [14] to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ, [15] which he will display at the proper time—he who is the blessed and only Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, [16] who alone has immortality, who

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