In Jeremiah chapter 32, I want
to draw your attention to verse 26. Then came the word of the Lord
unto Jeremiah saying, Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all
flesh. Is there anything too hard for
me? This is God who spoke heaven
and earth and all things therein into existence from nothing. He spoke everything into existence
from nothing. He sustains and upholds and governs
all things in His creation. He says, I am. Our Savior is
the great I am. He is the self-existent one. There's none like Him. He said,
I am the Lord. Our Savior is Jehovah God. He's the Lord of hosts. Everything
is doing His bidding. He says here, the God of all
flesh. Our Savior is God over all men. He's God over all men. All men
are glorifying Him. Whether it be in rebellion, or
it be by His grace, all are under His sovereign control. He says,
is anything too hard for me? Is anything too hard for God? With this word, with this question,
He rebukes distrust. He encourages prayer, utter dependence
upon Him. He guarantees completeness in
Him, completeness of counsel, completeness of execution, completeness
of salvation for His people. Now let me give you the context
here by proposing to you a situation and asking you a question. Now,
let's say you were wrongly imprisoned. You're in prison. While you're
in prison, a foreign nation comes and attacks this nation and totally
besieges this nation in such power that they're about to take
all the citizens captive. They're about to destroy all
the houses and the buildings, burn them to the ground. They've
had this country under siege for so long. They've cut off
our food supply. We're starving. Pestilence has
set in. The citizens of this country
are dying of starvation and disease and are weak and unable to fight. And let's say they destroyed
all the fields and the crops. They have completely taken control
of this country. Now, knowing all that, knowing
all that, would you take the last of what little money you
had and buy a piece of land in this country? You know this country, God has
let you know this country is going to be under siege for 70
years. at your age and at my age. Would you take the last of your
money and buy a piece of land in this country? That would seem
utterly foolish to man, wouldn't it? Who buys a piece of land
in a country that's totally controlled by a foreign enemy? That's exactly
where Jeremiah was. He was in prison. in prison because
he preached the word of God, because he declared to Zedekiah,
king of Judah, the word of the Lord. And he said, I'm going
to shut you up. And he threw him in prison. And
Jeremiah was in just such a situation. Jerusalem was surrounded. It
was under siege. The people were dying of starvation
and disease and were weak. And God had told Jeremiah that
they were going to capture and burn the whole place down. Burn
the temple down, destroy it, and it would be this way for
70 years. And yet Jeremiah took 17 shekels
of silver and bought a piece of land in that place. Now why would Jeremiah do something
that seems to us, to our reason, to logic, that seems like the
most foolish thing in the world? Why would he do that? He did it because God commanded
it and he believed God. That's why he did it. Let's read
this here again in verse 6 again. Jeremiah said, The word of the
Lord came unto me, saying, Behold, Hanamel, the son of Shalom, thine
uncle, shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that
is in Anathoth, for the right of redemption is thine to buy. You're the near kinsmen, so you
buy this land. And so Hanamel, mine uncle's
son, came to me in the court of the prison according to the
word of the Lord." Now this is not, this is his uncle's son. This is his cousin. There was
probably some other people that were in line to redeem this that
was nearer kin than Jeremiah. But they didn't want this land.
Nobody wanted this land. It's under siege. Anathoth was
three miles from Jerusalem. The Babylonians probably already
had taken it. And it was probably already under
their control. Nobody wanted this land. This
was Hannah Mills thinking this is the easiest 17 shekels I'm
going to ever make in my life. Jeremiah bought it. When he came, he said, buy my
field, I pray thee, that's in Anathoth, which is in the country
of Benjamin, for the right of inheritance is thine and the
redemption is thine. Buy it for thyself. Jeremiah
said, then I knew this was the word of the Lord. The Lord confirmed
it. The Lord gave him an evidence
that truly this was the word of the Lord. He fulfilled what
God told him was going to happen. Hanumel came and asked him to
buy it. And I bought the field of Hannah Mill, my uncle's son,
that was in Anathoth, and I weighed him the money, even 17 shekels
of silver, and I subscribed the evidence. They did a public deed
of transfer. And he said, I sealed it, and
I took witnesses, and I weighed him the money and the balances,
and so I took the evidence of the purchase, both that which
was sealed according to the law and custom, and that which was
open. They had two deeds, one rolled up, you know, and sealed
with probably the king signet or whatever with the wax and
the other one was open so they could look and read about the
deed. He took both of these, he took both of these and I gave
the evidence of the purchase under Baruch. This was Jeremiah's
scribe. And he said, the son of Nariah,
the son of Massiah, in the sight of Hannah Meal, my uncle's son,
and in the presence of the witnesses that subscribe the book of the
purchase, before all the Jews that sat in the court of the
prison. And I charged Baruch before them, saying, Thus saith
the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel. This is what God told
him to do now. Take these evidences, this evidence of the purchase,
both which is sealed and this evidence which is open, and put
them in an earthen vessel. put them in an earthen vessel
that they may continue many days. For thus saith the Lord of hosts,
the God of Israel, houses and fields and vineyards shall be
possessed again in this land. That was his promise to Jeremiah.
Now, it didn't look like that word was going to come to pass.
Everything was contrary to it. If you just looked at things
going on around him. But Jeremiah believed God, so he bought it,
just like God said. Look at verse 16. When I had
delivered the evidence of the purchase to Baruch the son of
Neriah, I prayed unto the Lord, saying, Ah, Lord God, behold,
thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power
and stretched out arm. There's nothing too hard for
thee. That was his faith. There's nothing
too hard for thee. He says there, down in verse
18, He's the great, the mighty God, the Lord of hosts is His
name, great in counsel, mighty in work, for thine eyes are open
upon all the ways of the sons of men. He said in verse 20,
He set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even to this day,
and in Israel, and amongst other men, and has made thee a name
as at this day. He said down in verse 23, the
reason all this siege had come upon them, he says, they came
in, they possessed Canaan, and God gave them, but they obeyed
not the voice, neither walked in thy law. They've done nothing
of all that thou commandest them to do. Can you say that about
yourself? We've done nothing of all that
God's commanded in the law. We've not done one of them. Therefore, thou hast caused all
this evil to come upon them. He said down in verse 24, Behold
what thou hast spoken is come to pass, and behold thou seest
it. And he said to me, O Lord God,
buy thee the field for money and take witnesses for the city
is given into the hand of the Chaldeans. Now our subject is
God's question to Jeremiah, is there anything too hard for me? Is there anything too hard for
God? Anything is a big word, isn't
it? Is there anything too hard for God? Is the rebellion of
God's people too hard for the Lord? Is the redemption of God's
people too hard for the Lord? Is the calling out of God's people
too hard for the Lord? Is whatever your trial is right
now too hard for the Lord? Is God's hand short that it can't
save? Christ answered this question.
He said, with men it's impossible, but not with God. For with God
all things are possible. Now, let me ask these four questions. Is the rebellion of God's people
too hard for the Lord? Here you have Israel has sinned
against God, and you have the king of Babylon has taken them
captive. Was the Lord's purpose frustrated
by their disobedience? Did the Lord just stand back
and say, oh, I just wish they had obeyed me. Now I'm going
to have to change my mind, do something else, do something
different. They frustrated my purpose. Was that the case? Is
the rebellion of God's people too hard for the Lord? Verse
23. says, They came in and possessed
the land God gave them, but they obeyed not thy voice, neither
walked in thy law, they've done nothing of all that thou commandest
them to do. Therefore, now look at this,
thou has caused all this evil to come upon them. Look at verse
28. Therefore thus saith the Lord,
Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans,
into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar, King of Babylon, and he shall
take it, and the Chaldeans that fight against this city shall
come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses upon
whose roofs they've offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink
offerings unto other gods to provoke me to anger. For the
children of Israel and the children of Judah have only done evil
before me from their youth." For the children of Israel have
only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith
the Lord. Verse 31, now watch this carefully. This city hath
been to me a provocation of mine anger and of my fury from the
day that they built it even unto this day. Watch it, that, that
word means for this purpose. that I should remove it from
before my face." John Calvin said, this city has been destined
to me for my wrath and indignation. Everything that was done here
was in God's purpose. Every bit of it. Every bit of
it. Because of the evil of the children
of Israel and the children of Judah. And he lists all of them,
princes, priests, prophets, men of Judah, inhabitants of Jerusalem,
all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. They've
turned me the back, not the face, though I taught them, rising
up early, teaching them, yet they've not hearkened to receive
instruction. The fault is not God's. You see
this? It lies squarely on the shoulders
of the sinner. God said, I taught them. They
turned their back to me. They set their abominations in
the house, which is called by my name, to defile it, and they
built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the
sons of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass
through the fire unto Molech." They were sacrificing their own
sons and daughters in the fire. God says, which I commanded them
not, neither came it into my mind that they should do this
abomination to cause Judah to sin. Now get the picture here. God put the children of Judah
in the land of Canaan and he gave them his law. He put them
in the land of Canaan and gave them his law. But they disobeyed
God and they worshipped the gods of their imaginations and the
works of their own hands. God put them in there, gave them
this land, gave them his law, and they turned from God and
worshipped imaginary gods and worshipped the works of their
hands. But was that too hard for the Lord? Was that out of
God's control? Now understand what I'm saying. The sin was all the fault of
the children of Israel. God gave them to their will to
do what their depraved hearts would do, what their ruined hearts
would do, and they did whatever depraved sinner would do. They
worshipped the God of their imagination and worshipped their own hands.
and I'm sure they called it worshiping the one true and living God. But their rebellion was only
fulfilling God's purpose. That's all. He said that I should
remove Jerusalem from before my face because of their evil.
Well, go back to the beginning. God spoke heavens and earth into
existence. God created man, put him in the
garden, gave him his law, and let him do what was in his heart.
And we sinned against God. Adam sinned against God and plunged
the whole race into sin and death. And we became the captives of
the devil, just like the king of Babylon took Zedekiah of Judah
and all the children of Judah. And yet, everything that took
place in that garden was according to God's purpose. Every bit of
it. Nebuchadnezzar didn't come into
Judah on his own. God put it in his heart to go
in there. God said, I caused him to come in here. And the
devil didn't come into the garden on his own. It was directly by
God's hand fulfilling God's purpose. God was in control of everything.
Would you rather it to be otherwise? You know, men will hear this,
somebody will hear this, and they'll say, oh, I can't believe
he's saying that. Well, would you rather God be
in control, I mean the devil be in control, or God be in control? I'd far rather know the God of
heaven and earth is ruling everything according to His purpose, and
the devil's not in competition with Him. God's ruling the devil. And even our rebellion was according
to God's purpose and fulfilled His eternal purpose. He's in
full control. Is anything too hard for me,
God said? Well, let me ask this next question.
Is anything in the redemption of God's people too hard for
the Lord? Is the redemption of God's people too hard? Was God powerful enough to deliver
the children of Israel and the children of Judah out of the
hand of their captors? Was He able to do this? Oh yeah,
in fact, God calls Nebuchadnezzar to take Israel and Judah captive
to give us an allegory of the redemption accomplished by Christ
for His people. Everything was taking place here.
God's so powerful, He's using the biggest, largest, most powerful
nation in the whole world at that time, the Babylonian nation,
to give us an illustration, an allegory of Christ accomplishing
redemption for His people. Isn't that amazing? You see how
powerful God is? Is anything too hard for the
Lord? He's using a nation to do this. That's right, God used
whole nations to give us a picture of His Son's redemption. Now,
before it ever came to pass, before any of this came to pass,
this was God's purpose. All this was God's purpose. He
told Jeremiah long before this came to pass, this was going
to happen. And Jeremiah, later when it started happening, he
said, now what you said has come to pass. That's the sovereignty
of God. Men will say, well now, you don't
say God just saves by His Word, because now you're limiting God's
sovereignty. No. When God says beforehand,
this is how I'm going to save, that doesn't limit God's sovereignty.
That shows you just how sovereign God is. That He can limit Himself
to one way, I'm going to save, and then save everybody that
one way that He's going to save. That shows you how sovereign
God is. Well, that's what he did here. He comes here now and
he commanded Jeremiah to purchase a particular piece of ground
in Anatoth that would be taken by the king of Babylon. He told
him to go to his hometown and buy the field that's in Anatoth
for the right of redemption is done to buy it. the right of
redemption, the right of inheritance. That means according to law,
Jeremiah was the near kinsman. He was the near kinsman. And
so the right of redemption belonged to him. Well, what's that picture?
It pictures the Lord Jesus Christ to whom the right of redemption
belongs. He is the near kinsman of all
the elect that God chose and gave to him before the world
was made. He's the near kinsman. The near kinsman. He's our elder
brother. Now God commanded or purposed this before any of it
came to pass. And the same way in eternity,
God chose Christ and He chose a people in Christ and He purposed
everything that He was going to bring to pass before as yet
He created anything. Before He did any of it. He elected
a people and determined how He would save them. Now, at the
time that God purposed this, none of this had happened. Well,
in eternity, Christ became the surety of His people. He entered
into covenant with God the Father to go forth and redeem God's
elect people, and when He did, He became the Lamb slain from
before the foundation of the world. That means, in the purpose
of God, it was done. because there wasn't a possibility
that it wouldn't come to pass. It's done. It's done. Jeremiah declared, verse 19,
God is great in counsel and mighty in work. And in Christ, in eternity,
God declared the end from the beginning, from ancient times
to things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand,
I will do, I will mightily work all my pleasure. You know what
that means? That means before we ever sinned
brethren, before we ever came into captivity under the power
of sin, death and hell, we had a Redeemer and this whole thing
was worked out. It was already purposed before
we ever fell into sin. Isn't that comforting to know?
God's wise, He's mighty in counseling, mighty in work. Now, Jeremiah
not only had to have the right to redeem, he had to have the
ability. He had to have the ability. And
he did. He had what was required. He
had the price that was demanded. The Lord Jesus Christ not only
had to have the right to redeem, he had to have the ability. And
so his people was flesh, he was made flesh. His people were under
the law, he was made under the law. And being under the law,
he had to be a perfect man. And he was found, examined through
and through, tried through and through, tried by the word, tried
by the devil, tried by men, and found to be without sin, spotless,
so that he was perfect to take the sins of his people and go
unto the justice of God. And that's what he did. That's
what he did. And he's God and man, so that
as man he can bear the sin of his people, he can bear the justice
of God, he can die under the wrath of God, and as God eternal,
he can make everything he does to be eternally finished. And that's what he did. He made
it eternally finished. And so Jeremiah, he goes forth
now, and when he went forth, Like I said to you, Anathoth
is only three miles from Jerusalem. So Anathoth is already under
siege. It's already captured because
the Babylonians got Jerusalem surrounded by now. It's already
under siege. When our Lord Jesus Christ came
into this world, you and I that He came to save were already
the awful captives of the law. We were under the curse of the
law. We were the captives of the devil. We were under the
power of the prince of the air. We could do nothing to redeem
ourselves. Nothing to save ourselves. That was already the condition
we were in. And Christ came forth. Because His people were a treasure
to Him. His people were a joy before
Him. And He came forth to redeem them
for the joy set before Him. He gave that parable. Turn to
Matthew 13. Look at this. Matthew 13, verse 44. He said
again, The kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in
a field. The witch, when a man hath found
it, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he
hath, and buyeth that field. Just like Jeremiah is going forth
to buy this field at God's command. Christ's elect are the treasure
hid in the field. And for the joy set before our
Lord Jesus Christ, the joy of glorifying the Father, the joy
of saving all His people from our sin, the Lord Jesus Christ
came forth and just like Jeremiah gave all he had, Christ gave
all he had. He gave His own life. to satisfy the law that said
the wages of sin is death. He gave His life. His life. You know, I try to remind you
of this every time I preach this. The first death that our Lord
died on the cross was before He died physically. The first
death He died on the cross was that second death that we would
have had to die under God's justice had we met God in judgment. That
was the forsaking of God, God being forsaken by God and left
there and bearing the just wrath of God in the place of His people.
That's what we had to bear for all eternity. And you ever notice
this? When Christ was bearing that,
He knew everything about the Father. He knew everything about
Him. And He knew the love of God,
He knew the wisdom of God, He knew all of that, but He couldn't
partake of any of it because justice demanded he be separated.
If a man goes to hell, he's going to know everything there is to
know about God. He just won't be able to partake
of it. But Christ bore that in the place
of His people. He bore that in our room instead.
Paid everything He had. And now Christ hath redeemed
us from the curse of the law being made a curse for us. Brethren, redemption is the purchase
of a payment of a price that's demanded, a ransom price, so
that when the purchase has been made, there's a change of ownership. Just like when Jeremiah bought
this land, they did a deed of transfer and it ceased to be
Hannah Mills and it became When Christ paid everything we
owe to the law, we ceased being the law, the law's captives. We became Christ's captives.
He led captivity captive. He purchased his people. Ephesians
1 says we're his purchased possession. Bought by him. You think he's
going to lose something he purchased with his own blood? Of course
not. But only the priests could own
land in Anatoth. This was the land of Benjamin.
This was the land of the priests. Nobody but a priest could own
land there. Christ is our great High Priest. And He's made all
His people by His blood kings and priests unto God. Is anything too hard for me,
God said? We sing it. We sing it. We sing
it and we declare it when we sing it. Nothing is too hard
for God. How do we do that? Redeemed how I love to proclaim
it, redeemed by the blood of the Lamb, redeemed through His
infinite mercy, His child and forever I am. Thirdly, let me
ask you this, is calling of God's people too hard for the Lord?
Is it too hard for God to call His people? Listen to this, look
at verse 37. Tell me whose will, would you
answer me this question, whose will are we saved by? Is God
waiting on the will of man? If it was, it would be too hard
for the Lord. If man was stronger in his will than God, then we
would be saying, is anything too hard for man? But you see,
we are not saved by our will. You want me to prove that to
you? Watch this, verse 37. God says, Behold, I will gather
them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger,
and in my fury, and in great wrath. And I will bring them
again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely, and
they shall be my people, and I will be their God. And I will
give them one heart, Is God able to give a new heart? Is He able
to regenerate His people? He said, I'll give them one heart.
And I'll give them one way. Is He able to bring His people
into the narrow way? Is He able to bring His people
to rest in Christ the way alone? He said, I'll give them one way.
That they may fear Me forever and for the good of them and
of their children after them. For the good of all those spiritual
children God's going to call after us. and I will make an
everlasting covenant with them. Now this is not a covenant where
God says, now if you will, I will. Hear what He's saying? I will,
they shall. That's the kind of covenant this
is. I'm making an everlasting covenant with them. It's ordered
in all things and sure because Christ already accomplished everything.
He says, I will make an everlasting covenant with them that I will
not turn away from them to do them good. Now hear that believer. but I will put my fear in their
hearts and they shall not depart from me. It's not because you
don't try sometimes. It's not because I don't try
sometimes. It's because God said you shall not. Now look at this,
keep reading. Yea, I will rejoice over them
to do them good and I will plant them in this land assuredly with
my whole heart and with my whole soul. What land is he talking
about? He's talking about the New Jerusalem. He's talking about
Zion, the church of the living God. That's where I'm going to
plant them. New Jerusalem. Heavenly Jerusalem which is going
to come down out of heaven adorned as a bride for her husband. And
he says, For thus saith the Lord, Like as I have brought all this
great evil upon this people, Why do you preach that God is
sovereign to bring all this evil upon His people? Because He says,
Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people,
so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised
them. If God is not sovereign over the evil, then God is not
sovereign over the good either. Thank God He is sovereign over
both. And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof you say
it is desolate without man or beast. It is given unto the hand
of the Chaldeans. Men shall buy fields for money,
and subscribe evidences, and seal them, and take witnesses
in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem,
and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the mountains,
and in the cities of the valley, and in the cities of the south.
For I will cause their captivity to return, saith the Lord. You
know what God's telling us? In New Jerusalem, in the new
heavens and the new earth, we're going to be going about business
just like we are now. Do you hear all that He described?
Just like Jeremiah bought this land and it was sold to him and
he did away, we're going to be going about business just like
you do now. The only difference is there won't be any sin and
we'll do everything for the glory of Christ and the good of our
brethren. Everything. Now, whose will is
it that calls and saves us? Do you see that? I will, I will,
I will, I will, God said. We're not saved by our will,
we're saved by God's will. God's the one who calls and makes
it irresistible. God's the one who gives faith
and makes it irresistible. He told Jeremiah, he said, you
take the evidence of this redemption, you take the evidence of that
which is open and that which is sealed, and you put these
evidences in an earthen vessel that they may continue for many
days. God who commanded the light to
shine out of darkness has shined in our hearts to give the light
of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ
Jesus. But we have this treasure where?
In earthen vessels. that the power may be of God
and not of us. That's why we don't preach this
by man's will. That's why we preach this caused
by God's will because God said, I'll make with them an everlasting
covenant. He puts this in our heart. He puts the evidence of
our full redemption in our heart, purging our conscience, clearing
our mind of guilt before God, making us to know we are redeemed
and it was accomplished by Christ once for all time. That's what
he does. Now, let me... I'll tell you
how sovereign God is. I don't have time to read it
right now, but you go over and read Daniel 4 verses 32 through
37. God saved Nebuchadnezzar. That's
how sovereign he is. He saved the king of Babylon.
I preached down there in Tennessee a week or so ago and I said,
I referred to Nebuchadnezzar as wicked Nebuchadnezzar and
at the time this was taking place he was. But later God brought
him down and made him act like a beast. He was out in the field
grazing like an animal. and his hair grew like feathers,
and his toenails grew out like claws, and when he came back
to himself and God gave him good sense, listen to what he said,
I blessed the Most High, I praised and honored Him that liveth forever,
whose dominion is an everlasting dominion in His kingdom from
generation to generation, and all the inhabitants of the earth
are reputed as nothing. He doeth according to His will
in the army of heaven among the inhabitants of the earth, and
none can stay His hand or say unto Him, What doest thou? He
said, Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the
King of Heaven, all whose works are truth, and His ways judgment.
And those that walk in pride, Nebuchadnezzar said, I know by
experience He is able to abase. He is able to abase. Is anything
too hard for the Lord? Now let me end with this. Is
your current situation too hard for the Lord? And if you're yet
in your sin and you've never believed on the Lord Jesus Christ,
God commands, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt
be saved. Now does that sound like a strange
command to you? Does it sound like a strange
command like it did to Jeremiah to believe on Christ crucified? This looks like a man hanging
on a cross, defeated and besieged by the enemy. Does that look
strange to you and sound like a strange command to say, I'm
putting all my eggs in that one basket? He says, come by without
money, without price. God, Jeremiah believed God and
he obeyed Him. Will you? Believe on the Lord
Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. Let me ask this, if I'm
in a trial with a brother or sister in Christ, and I'll remind
you in all our relationships, if that one I'm in this relationship
with is a brother or sister in Christ, that's the chief relationship. They're my brother or my sister
in Christ above everything else. If I am having a quarrel with
a brother or sister in Christ, knowing what Christ has already
accomplished for me, is anything too hard for the Lord? Listen
to this command. Tell me if this seems strange
like the command God gave Jeremiah. How am I to work it out? God
says, you esteem that brother or that sister better than yourself
and submit to them. in all humility. Well, that seems
strange to me. I don't see how I'm going to
work it out that way. You ain't. That's the point.
God will. God will. Is anything too hard
for the Lord? And then let me ask you this.
Whatever trial of providence I may encounter right now, knowing
what Christ has accomplished for me, is anything too hard
for the Lord? The Lord sent Jeremiah's cousin
and confirmed the word to Jeremiah. Confirmed the word of the Lord
to Jeremiah. Hadn't God done that for us hundreds of times?
I remember when we started out, basically we had three families.
But God said, Christ will add to the church daily such as should
be saved. Look at this. This is a Thursday
night. Look at this. Hadn't He confirmed His Word
to us over and over? We were over in that firehouse,
and we didn't have hardly anything in the account, and I kept saying,
based on God's Word, God is able to make all grace abound toward
you so that you, having all sufficiency and all things, may abound to
every good work. But we're going to have to do
this in faith. God's not going to give it to us beforehand.
That wouldn't be faith. He ain't going to say, go do
it. Now look. Who would ever imagine that God
would have provided like this? We should have. We should have. Hey, he's confirmed his word
to us over and over again. So when the next trial comes,
or if you're in a trial now in Providence, remember who it is
that's ruling all Providence. Providence is God. It's in his
hand. He's controlling it. And just
remember, with man it's impossible, but nothing's impossible. With
God, all things are possible to Him. He said, is there anything
too hard for me? Just bow to Him, and trust Him,
and wait on Him, and He'll bring it to pass. He's already done
the hard part. He sent His Son and redeemed
us. Whatever else He's doing in Providence, it ain't that
hard. I promise you. God give us faith
to believe it. Amen.