If God is, and God is good, and
God really does rule the universe, if God exists, if God is good,
and God really is sovereign, in absolute control of the universe,
how do you explain the fact that the world is covered almost all
the time with war, turmoil, dissent. If God is good, how can you explain
the existence of evil? If God is good and God's in control,
why is there so much sickness and bereavement? and hatred and
wickedness and sorrow in this world. If God is good and God
is in control, why is there so much evil? Hurricanes, tornadoes,
earthquakes, tsunamis, floods, wiping away men, women, and children. in huge numbers. Why? How could those things be explained?
I've been asked Tuesday morning to address the subject of God's
will, the will of God, and the problem of evil. It's a subject
I would not have chosen on my own, but being asked to do so
with good reason, I have prepared But I'm going to be talking to
the preachers about it, the preacher school in Medina. And I believe
God's given me a message for you. Let's begin in Isaiah chapter
forty five at verse seven. Verse five, I'm sorry, Isaiah
chapter forty five and verse five. The will of God and the problem
of evil. God is describing himself and
is describing himself in contrast with all that men call gods. Listen to how he speaks of himself. I am the Lord. I am the self-existent
eternal Jehovah, the savior of my people, the ruler of the universe,
the creator of all things. I am the Lord, and there is none
else. That is, there is no God but
me. There is no Lord but me. If what
you call God is not properly described by what we're reading,
then what you call God is not God at all. What you call God
is but an idol, a figment of your imagination. You pray to
a God that cannot say, I am the Lord. and there is none else. There is no God beside me. I girded thee, he says to this
pagan king Cyrus, and says it hundreds of years before Cyrus
was ever born. I girded thee, though thou hast
not known me, that they may know from the rising of the sun and
from the west that there is none Beside me God says I'm doing
what I'm doing I'm using Cyrus as mine anointed to deliver my
people out of their captivity and he's gonna do it my way and
When I get done when I get done Everybody from the east to the
west that takes in the whole human race. He's gonna know that
I'm God and This is only a picture of the deliverance of God's elect,
His everlasting salvation of our souls by the Lord Jesus Christ. He says, when I get done, everybody's
going to know that I am the Lord. There's none beside me, I'm the
Lord, and there is none else. Now watch how he describes himself
again, verse 7. I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I'm God, he says. That means
I'm the one who forms the light. All the light there is. And I'm
the one who creates darkness. All the darkness there is. Moral. Spiritual, physical. I'm the
one who does it. I am the one who makes peace.
Wherever there's peace. If the waters are calm, I did
that. If your life is peaceful, I did
that. If your heart's at peace, I did
that. And create evil. Whoever it's found. Whatever
form it takes. I'm the one who did it. I the Lord do all these things. The question is often raised.
How did sin and evil arise in God's creation? If God is absolutely
sovereign, absolutely holy, absolutely good, if he created all things
good, how is it that pride was found in Lucifer's heart? How
is it that one third of the heavenly angels were led in rebellion
against his throne? How was it that Adam was seduced
into sin? Now, I frankly acknowledge that
when I'm done, There will be far more room for preaching than
what I've done, and I will not have answered all the questions
that you may have concerning this, but some questions will
be answered. Augustus Toplady wrote, the origin
of evil is the most difficult question, perhaps, and the most
mysterious part of the divine conduct that ever presented itself
to human investigation. I'd have to agree. I'd have to
agree. He went on to say that when we
consider this, we must immediately clip the wings of curiosity. We dare not approach anything
spiritual, anything with regard to God, just to satisfy curiosity. I'm not interested in answering
the cavils of men about God, his character and his rule. I
want to help you through this world to live by faith, trusting
God to the comfort of your soul in all things. That's all. And what we will do is find out
what God says here in his word. And we will bow to God's revelation. That's what faith does. Faith
bows to the word of God. By faith, we understand the things
revealed in this book. And you will not otherwise understand
them. the existence of evil, how can
that be in God's creation where God rules? Let me begin by making
two statements, two statements that I want you to see clearly
are found in the book of God. Number one, all things are of
God. Second Corinthians chapter five,
verse 18, all things are of God. Well, Brother Don, how far do
you carry that? We've got to be careful that
we have a balanced understanding, have a balanced theology, a balanced
ministry. I get so sick of listening to
preachers talk like politicians. Balanced by eyeball. We bow to
what God says. All things are of God. There's no limit. There's no limit. He didn't say
all things are of God within a certain sphere. All things
are of God. The scriptures are so plain that
it cannot be mistaken. This is what he intends for us
to understand. Turn to Romans chapter 11. Romans
chapter 11. This is Bible language. All things
are of God. In Romans chapter 8, the Apostle
Paul speaks of our being new creatures in Christ living in
the spirit with no condemnation, no possibility of separation
and God working all things together for good. In chapter nine, he
tells us about God casting off Israel. God created some vessels
of wrath and some vessels of mercy. He created some to whom
he would be gracious and some to whom he would not be gracious.
Some called Jacob whom he loved and some called Esau whom he
hated. Then in chapter 10, he tells
us that the Lord God calls sinners to faith in Jesus Christ because
all the work of redemption is finished by Christ, our crucified
Savior. Then in chapter 11, he says God
cast off Abraham's physical seed. He cast off the nation of Israel. He sent blindness and darkness
to a race of people to whom he had previously for 2000 years
spoken to no one else. For 2000 years, nobody knew how
gods be worshipped except the Jews. Nobody had the word of
God except the Jews. Nobody had a prophet except the
Jews for 2000 years. But they would not believe on
God's Son when He came, but rather nailed Him to the cursed tree,
rejecting the light that they've been given for 2,000 years. And
God cast them off and shut them up in darkness. Darkness. And when God sends darkness,
there's no light. You look at pictures of those
real strict Jews over in Israel now. You'll see them when they're
acting real holy. And politicians want to impress
folks by going over and showing respect to their religion. And
they'll take them to a wall, just a piece of a wall, just
some rocks that are left from a wall that used to stand there.
And these fellows have got long black beards and long dark clothes
and black hats and look like they're wearing dreadlocks like
folks down in Jamaica. And they got their little religious
book out there and they're reading their prayers and wailing before
the wailing wall. And they think that's worshiping
God. They're serious as they can be.
They think that's worshiping God. Because God sent blindness
to Israel. He sent blindness to Israel,
not just that he might blind the Jews. But he did so that
the gospel might go into all the world and so all Israel shall
be saved. Not just those born of Abraham's
physical seed, but all his spiritual seed, all God's elect be saved
from the rising of the sun to the going down thereof. And all
shall know that I am the Lord. How do you explain these things?
How do you explain these things? God's purpose, God's providence,
God's judgment. How do you explain that? Look
at verse 33, Romans chapter 11. Here's Paul's inspired declaration
of what he's just told us. Oh, the depth of the riches,
both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are
his judgments and his ways past finding out. For who hath known
the mind of the Lord, or who hath been his counselor, or who
hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto
him again. Now watch this. For of him, and through him,
and to him are all things. Of him, that's where they come
from. Through him, that's how they
come. To Him, that's where they're
going. Of Him, that's the source. Through
Him, that's the means of accomplishment. To Him, that's the end they shall
accomplish. Are all things to whom be glory
forever. Amen. Amen. All things are of God. Now, the perfections of God,
it would appear then, could not have been so gloriously revealed
as they are now revealed to us in Christ had evil never been
permitted to enter God's universe. God always ordained sin and evil,
all the sin and evil that exists, that he might use it and overthrow
it to the everlasting glory of his name and the salvation of
his people. Had sin never been permitted,
how could the justice of God be known in punishing sin? Had
evil never existed, how could the wisdom of God be seen in
overruling it? Had sin never entered the world,
how could the goodness of God be made manifest in pardoning
and forgiving it? Had there been no wickedness
in God's creation, how could the power of God be manifest
in subduing it? all things are of God. Number
two, all things work together for good to God's elect. We know that all things work
together for good to them that love God, to them who are the
called according to his purpose. Now, if you should leave here
tonight and go to the funeral home, most any funeral home,
most anybody about to be buried. You would hear someone come up
to one of the bereaved family and say, well, we know these
things will work out for good. We know everything going to turn
out for good or some something good comes from everything. That's
the language of somebody who doesn't know God and worships
at the altar of luck, chance, blind fate. That's not what the
scriptures teach. Bobby, the scriptures don't teach
that everything in your life somehow is going to turn out
for good. The scriptures teach that everything in God's universe
works together all the time, like a great piece of machinery
with countless gears and cogs working together all the time
for a good end to produce a good thing. And that good is the everlasting
bliss of God's elect and the everlasting glory of our God. The presence of sin in this world
is either according to God's will or it's contrary to it. You can't have both. It is here
either because God wills it or because he is unable to prevent
it. Take your choice. The fact is
the fall of our father Adam and the entrance of sin into the
world by him was one of the countless links of God's providence essential
to Christ's incarnation, life, death, and resurrection as our
substitute. Had there been no sin, there'd
have been no need for a redeemer. Had there been no fall, there'd
have been no need for recovery. Had there been no ruin by the
first Adam, there would have been no need for the rising of
the last Adam. Had there been no utter desperate
need brought about by Adam's transgression, there would be
no need to be fulfilled by Christ's obedience. All evil in God's
creation exists by the will and purpose of God for His glory
and the salvation of His people. Now, I want to show you three
things clearly revealed in this book. And we'll look at the scriptures
together. Number one, I want you to understand that everything
in the universe, all evil that is, has been, or shall be, is
according to God's decree. According to God's decree. Number
two, all evil in God's universe is under God's control absolutely. Number three, all the evil that
is, has been, or yet shall be, shall at last redound to and
show forth God's glory. Everything. Everything. Bill,
I'm talking about God now. I'm talking about God. I'm not
talking about a good luck charm. I'm not talking about somebody
you run to when you're in trouble and you gotta have a little religious
excitement. I'm talking about God. Talking
about God. Here's the first thing. The evil
that's in God's universe is here by God's purpose, God's design,
and God's sovereign decree. Now, I know religious infidels.
People who imagine that they're smarter and wiser and holier
than God, hoot and holler and get all bent out of shape when
we assert such things. It doesn't matter that that's
the case. Nothing changes. Things that come to pass come
to pass because God ordained it. It doesn't matter whether
we talk about moral evil. social evil or physical evil
or political evil or evil under any other name Either it's here
by accident or by purpose either God rules evil or Evil rules
God Would you write that down somewhere and remember it? There's
no alternative either God rules evil or evil rules God. There's no alternative The book
of God tells us plainly that our God is God in control. Turn to Isaiah chapter 14. You
remember one day David is fleeing from Saul and there's a man by
the name of Shammai. Shammai who comes out and cusses
David. Oh man, he cussed David. You ever been cussed out in public?
How many of you have flat cussed out in public? If it's a man,
you can belt him. But these days, women will do
it. And you're just standing there, red all over, and nothing
you can do. Just take it. Well, Shemai came
out and cussed David out. And one of David's servants said
to him, let me go over and lift his head off his shoulders. That's
a polite way, let me go over there and behead that fellow.
I've got a sword, I'll do it. And David said, leave him alone.
For the Lord hath said to Shemai, go cuss David. Is that what the
book says? That's what the book says. Perhaps the Lord will requite
me good for his cussing this day. And he did. The scriptures
tell us about an evil spirit from Saul. An evil spirit that
caused King Saul, whom David served loyally, to try repeatedly
to kill him. An evil spirit was on soaring,
took his javelin and threw it at David. Went right by him.
And every time, David, it was an evil spirit from the Lord. Every time. We read here in Isaiah
14 about Lucifer and his fall. Most everybody considers this
to be the fall of Satan, or at least a picture of it. He huffs
and puffs and says, I'm going to blow God's house down. He
said, I'm going to take over being God. I'm going to shove
God off his throne and I'll be God. And this is God's response. Verse 24. The Lord of hosts hath
sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to
pass. And as I have purposed, so shall
it stand. Isn't that wonderful? Just such
sweet, pleasant composure. No disturbance, no pacing the
floor, no wringing his hands. God's not even disturbed by it.
He says, this is just what I purposed. Look at verse 26. This is the
purpose that is purposed upon the whole earth. And this is
the hand that is stretched out upon all the nations. For the
Lord of hosts hath purposed And who shall disannul it? And his
hand, it is stretched out. Who shall turn it back? In Genesis
2, verse 17, the Lord said to Adam, In the day thou eatest
thereof, thou shalt surely die. He did not say, now Adam, if something happens and you
should, by some strange quirk of fate by some Chance accident
by by some Some uncontrollable force if it should happen that
you eat of the fruit of this tree. You're gonna die That's
not what is it? He said Adam in the day thou
eatest thereof It's a dead sure lead pipe cinch. You're gonna
do it Because this is purposed This is purpose. In the day thou
eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. He did this because Adam's
death and our death in him makes the way for the coming of the
last Adam and our life by him. You have a picture of it in Genesis
chapter 1. The very beginning of creation. Genesis chapter
1. He shows us a hint to his purpose of grace in the creation,
ruin, and recreation of the world. In the beginning, God created
the heaven and the earth. We read in Isaiah 45, he created
it not in vain. He created it to be inhabited.
But we read in verse two, and the earth was without form and
void and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Read it this
way, and that's the proper way. And the earth became without
form and void. God didn't make it a mass of
chaos. God didn't make it without form
and void. He created it perfect, but something happened, and the
earth became chaotic without form and void, and darkness covered
everything. And the Spirit of God moved upon
the face of the waters, and God said, let there be light, and
there was light. So it was with all the human
race and God's elect in the human race God created man upright
in his own image and something happened sin entered into the
world and Adam and all the human race in Adam became without form
and Void and darkness covered everything and then God comes
to his elect and by his spirit moves upon his people God says
let there be light and we see God says let there be light and
light enters into our soul the light of the knowledge of the
glory of God Shining in the face of Jesus Christ. All right turn
to Romans chapter 5 Romans chapter 5 Adams fall then in the garden
as our federal head as the federal head of all the human race Was
designed by God designed by God to be a type, a picture, as well
as a preparation for the redemptive work of God's Son, the Lord Jesus
Christ, as the federal head and covenant surety of his elect.
Romans chapter 3 Paul told us how we're justified freely by
his grace in chapter 4 He gives us illustrations of that free
justification in Abraham and David believing God in chapter
5 He tells us how that we by faith Receive the atonement and
receive free justification and the love of God is shed abroad
in our hearts by the Holy Ghost Which is given to us now look
at the next word in verse 12 wherefore Romans 5 verse 12 wherefore
Wherefore it's like the word therefore what's it therefore?
in order for the love of God in Christ to be made known to
us in justifying free grace through blood atonement Adam failed and
we fell in him wherefore as by one man's sin entered into the
world and death by sin and so death passed upon all men for
that all have sinned And then beginning in verse 13, there's
a parenthetical statement. Pick up the sentence in verse
18. Therefore, since this is how we were all lost, therefore,
as by the offense of one, judgment came upon all men to condemnation,
even so by the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon
all men under justification of life. For as by one man's disobedience
many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many
be made righteous. In other words, Adam was a type,
a similitude, a figure of the last Adam. a type, a figure,
a representation of the Lord Jesus Christ, picturing for us
who Christ is and what he did. As we fail by a substitute, so
we live by a substitute. As we were lost by the doing
and dying of Adam, we are saved by the doing and dying of the
last Adam. Adam knew what he was doing when
he plunged into sin. His wife Eve took that forbidden
fruit. And you know what happened? You
remember what happened? Nothing. Nothing. Their eyes weren't opened. They didn't know they were naked.
They didn't have a sense of guilt. Nothing happened. Because what
Eve did didn't matter. Adam's the covenant head. Eve
was deceived. Adam had his eyes wide open.
And he said, Eve, what have you done? You've broken God's law. You violated God's character.
You stole from God. And rather than he should lose
the wife he loved, he says, give me a bite. He says, God, you've
got no right to be God. willingly plunged himself into
sin and judgment and death because of his love for Eve. Ron, that's
what the Savior did for us. With his eyes wide open Knowing
full well what he's doing. He takes our sin and our curse
and because of his love for us Plunged himself under the wrath
of God and the curse of God in the death of sin that we might
live by his obedience Here's the second thing Understand first
all the evil in this world is by divine decree. No question
about that second All sin and evil in the universe is under
God's total, absolute sovereign control and serves his wise and
holy purpose of grace in Christ our Lord. Look at Proverbs or
Psalm 76, Psalm 76 verse 10. Surely the wrath of man shall
praise them. Surely the wrath of man shall
praise them. All the evil that men do shall
praise them. And the remainder of wrath, that
is the evil that is in man's heart that God won't use. For my good and his glory wilt
thou restrain. You mean God controls the thoughts
of a man's heart? Yeah. Good and wicked. Righteous and unrighteous. Godly
and ungodly. The king's heart is in the hand
of the Lord like rivers of water. He turneth it whithersoever he
will. He's God. He's God. Let's see
if this is not obvious just from your memory of things revealed
in the book. I'll call your attention to seven
things. I'll just mention them. I'm not going to preach on them.
I'll just mention them. Seven things where this is clearly,
clearly revealed. When Lot's daughters saw that
they had been brought out of Sodom and Sodom's destroyed,
they said to each other, We got to do something. We got now these
are the daughters of righteous lot who worship God. They said
the whole human race has been destroyed. And we've got to preserve
a seed. And the number one man around
that's daddy. And you know, daddy, he's not
going to agree to this. So tonight, we'll get him drunk.
And I'll sleep with him. And then tomorrow night, we'll
get him drunk again. And you sleep with him. Horrible plot
of incest. Horrible drunkenness. And Lot
goes in to both of his daughters and each of them conceives and
brings forth children, one called Ammon and one called Moab. And Ruth the Moabitess. Ruth the Moabitess is that one
chosen of God through whom the Son of God comes into the world
by her union with Boaz. I explain that. I explain that.
I don't. I bow down and worship God. I
bow down and worship God. Lots responsible for what he
did his daughter's responsible for what they did much evil came
from what they did and God Brought his son into the world to redeem
me by what he did Joseph's brothers Hated him They couldn't stand
the sight of him they wanted him dead And they plotted to
kill him, and finally they decided, no, we'll set him, make some
money on him, and pretended that he was dead. And all the while,
this thing kept plaguing them. Kept plaguing them. You remember
when they came before Joseph, they said, God's found out our
guilt. They were guilty. They suppressed it, but they
were guilty the whole time. Their guilt was on them all the
time. And finally, when Joseph made himself known to them, Joseph
said to his brothers as they were standing there just, shaking
in their sandals and trim them before him. He said, don't be
too upset with yourselves about this. You meant it for evil. God meant it for good. I'm in
the place of God. You read the last chapter of
this book right here, and you will find that our Savior is
going to say to you and I, we weep over our sins. and rightly weep over our sins.
You can't forget it, can you? Don't want to forget it. But
he's gonna say, there's no need to be sorry. Everything's just
as I planned it. And he'll wipe away all tears
from our eyes. And there'll be no sorrow, not
even for sin. No sorrow, not even for evil,
no sorrow. David took Bathsheba and murdered Uriah. And God showed
his displeasure with the thing David had done. But his continued
pleasure with David was shown as well. David was not rejected. David wasn't cast off. David
wasn't despised by God. The thing David did displeased
the Lord. But David accepted it as a substitute.
And the Lord God came to David When Bathsheba brought forth
a son, and they called him Solomon, and God said to his prophet,
said, you go tell him to call him Jedediah, beloved of the
Lord. You go tell David, nothing's
changed. And it is through Bathsheba that
our Savior came into this world according to God's purpose. Judas
said to the Romans when he made a covenant with them for 30 pieces
of silver, He said, I'll deliver him to you. I'll take you where
I know he is. And as soon as I kiss him on
the cheek, you bind him fast. Why did he do that? Why did he
do that? Because the book of God declared
plainly that he would be delivered by the hands of his own familiar
friend to his enemies. Was Judas's kiss a betrayal ruled
by God? How can you say that's that's
under God's control? By Judas's kiss, David, the son
of God was delivered up to die for you. Under God's control, either God
rules evil or evil rules God. Pilate. You read read about pilot. He was the consummate politician
He was a consummate politician He was as weak as water But manliness
There wasn't any of it in him none. He was a politician. He
didn't have anything to fear from the Jews He he said as a
governor by the Emperor in Rome over the Jews But he sure did
like for them to pat him on the back He loved for them to smile
at him and think well of him. And Pilate knew that for envy
they delivered the Lord Jesus up to be crucified. He knew it.
He knew that there was no evil in that man. He said so. His
wife had a dream in which God told her, have nothing to do
with this just person. And Pilate tried his best to
appease the Jews and not kill the Son of God, but it wouldn't
happen. The Jews cried, crucify, crucify! And Pilate, that reprobate
man, delivered Jesus to their wills to be crucified exactly
as God said it would come to pass. It was by the will of God
that God-hating rebels, religious rebels, Took the lord of glory
and had him crucified upon the cursed tree as our substitute
And that by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of god Turn
to mark 14. Let me show you mark 14 When
I read this book Sometimes I laugh out loud. I just I just laugh
out loud at god showing the folly of man's religion You remember
Dagan? They brought the Ark of God in
and set it up and Dagan fell over. And they set their God
back up again. Next night, he fell over again,
broke his hands. They set him up, pasted his hands back on
his wrist. Now we worship our God. Next
night, he fell over again and lost his head. And they set him
back up and set his head on his shoulders. And now we worship
our God. You think that can't be real. I just that that's too
foolish to make it up. That can't be real Elijah is
Mocking the prophets of Baal and on Mount Carmel. He said
he's why don't y'all scream a little louder? Maybe you're God's death
He said he said maybe he's going on a vacation holler for him
He said maybe he's going to the bathroom. Wake him up get him
and he just walked up When you read about the crucifixion of
our Lord Jesus, it looks as though these Jews and the Romans look
back to the Old Testament scriptures and said, now what are we supposed
to do? And they checked off the checklist. One of the smartest
things I've ever done traveling years ago, I made a checklist
for Shelby and I. I forgot too many things too
many times. And so when she packs, now she
checks it off. That looks just exactly like what these folks
did. Well, we checked that off. We checked that off. What's next?
What's next? Look at Mark chapter 14. After
two days was the feast of the Passover, and of unleavened bread,
and the chief priests and scribes sought how they might take him
by craft. We'll do this in a closed-door
session. Take him by craft. Take him secretly. and put him
to death. But they said, not on the Passover
day, not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people.
Now here, God the Holy Spirit gives us by inspiration a clear
declaration of God who can be trusted, who overrules the evil
designs of men to accomplish his purpose by their evil designs. Over and over again, the Jews
wanted to stone our Lord. They wanted to take him secretly
so that the people didn't know what they're doing. The religious
leaders, they didn't want word to get out that we've crucified
this man everybody calls the Christ. They didn't want word
to get out. We've killed this man they call the Christ. So
they're going to stone him. They tried to shove him off of
a cliff. Over and over again, they tried to secretly take him.
And they gave specific orders. Now we can't do this on the Passover
day. We can't do this on Passover day. Do you remember when the
Lord was crucified? On the Passover, Christ our Passover
was sacrificed for us. And the Jews took him and led
him in a public parade. led him in a public parade to
Pilate. And Pilate and the soldiers led
him in a public parade up to Mount Calvary to be crucified.
And the soldiers did exactly what God in His Word said they'd
do. They cast lots for his garments,
they put a crown of thorns on his head, they pierced his side,
the Jews spit in his face, and all hell threw a party publicly
on the Sabbath day. because God ordained that our
Savior be hung on a tree, not stone, not shoved off a cliff,
hung on a tree as one obviously cursed of God. One made a curse
for us that we might receive the blessing of God's grace in
him. And they did all according to
the scriptures, exactly as God ordained. I want you to understand
Our God is in control of this world, absolutely in control
of it. Here's the basis of our faith,
the foundation of our comfort, God rules. Now, let me give you an alternative.
Sammy, if there's something, I don't care how big or how little,
Somebody I don't care how powerful or how weak if there's anything
Out of God's control in heaven earth or hell. You can't believe
one promise. He says in this book No word of prophecy can be trusted
no word of promise can be believed because God doesn't control I don't know a better way to
put it. And it's a sorry way to put it. I, I pride myself and be
a man of my word. If I tell you something, you
can bake on it. You can bake on it. Sort of, sort of as long
as I have control of circumstances, I'll do what I said I'd do. But
the reality is I don't have any control of anything. So you dare
not trust much to me. You got that. Don Ranieri, God
has all control of everything. You can trust him with everything,
absolutely. Oh, God teach me so to trust
you. He's in absolute control. One more thing, one more thing. Our God has ordained all the
evil that is, has been or shall be. Our God controls all the
evil. And there's a day coming called
the day of the restitution of all things. When God's going to make all
the universe see, that everything glorifies Him. Everything honors Him. Everything
has been exactly as He ordained and redounds to His everlasting
praise and our everlasting happiness in our Redeemer. Read Revelation
4, every creature. Revelation 5, every creature. Revelation 19 every creature
everything bows down Before his throat and says glory to God
Everything and the people of God say amen. That's just the
way it ought to be. That's just the way it ought
to be I've said this to you so many times One of these days,
maybe I get it said and you and I both really believe it When
God gets done He will eradicate the slime of the serpent from
his creation. And there will be no harm done
in God's universe by Satan's fall or Adam's fall or any evil,
but only good. God promised the woman seed. He shall crush thy head. You know whose seat I am? I'm
the seat of him who's seat of the woman. You know what I fully
expect? Well, I fully expect when God
gets up. I mean, I expect this. I started to say I'll be disappointed
if it's not so I won't be disappointed. I fully expect this. When God's
finished with everything. I'm going to stand. with my heel
on hell and give praise to God for everything. Amen.