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In your Bibles were looking at acts 25 and again, it will be on the screen so you can turn the air, but you know you think about God.
God being in control.
It at once there was a Christian woman who lived next door to an atheist man every day when the Christian woman, pray the atheist man could hear her.
The Atheist thoughts from South.
She sure is crazy praying all the time.
Like that doesn't she know there isn't a god.
Many times while she was praying, he would go to her house and her hat harassed.
Her saying lady.
Why do you pray all the time?
Don't you know, there is no God.
But you kept on praying.
One day she ran out of groceries.
As and as usual usual, she prayed to the Lord, explain her situation and thanking him for what he was going to do.
As usual, The Atheist heard her praying and thought to himself.
I'll prove to her.
There is no God once and for all.
So, the atheist went to the grocery store brought bought a bunch of groceries.
Took them to her house, drop them off on the front, porch ring the doorbell and then hid in the bushes to see what she would do.
When the Christian lady opened the door and saw the grocery, she begin to praise the Lord with all her heart.
Thanking, God for providing for her needs.
Immediately The Atheist jumped out of the bushes and told her you silly lady.
God didn't buy you, those groceries.
I bought those groceries for you, the Christian lady replied with great.
Joy.
I knew the Lord would provide me with groceries, but I didn't know he was going to make the devil pay for them.
Well, you know, this morning as we continue our Trek through the book of Acts.
And our call to go and make a difference.
We're going to look at the chapter 25 of Acts and ask ourselves a question.
And that is what is the Providence of God.
Millard Erickson once said, the province of providence, of God means the continuing action of God in preserving his creation.
And guiding it toward his intended, purpose.
What this means is that we are able to live our lives, knowing that God is present and active.
In every part of our lives.
And that things around us are not happening by some strange coincidence, or by some accident.
In the late eighteen hundreds, a member of Britain Parliament went to Scotland to make a speech.
he got off the train in Edinburg and took a carriage South toward his destination, but unfortunately, the carriage became stuck in a deep mud.
A local farm, boy came to the rescue with his team of work forces.
And after pulling them free, The Grateful politician, offered him a reward.
But the boy refused to accept it.
Determined to pay the young man for his health.
The politician asked.
Is there anything I can do for you?
What would you like to do with yourself when you grow up?
I'd like to become a doctor, the young man replied.
The Member of Parliament, promise to do, what he could.
And in fact, he secured admission to the university for the young man.
Well, during World War, two more than 50 years.
Later.
Winston Churchill, a dangerously ill and Morocco suffering from pneumonia.
A new wonder drug called penicillin was administered to him.
Penicillin was discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming.
That Scottish farm boy, who pulled the politicians, Carriage out of the mud.
Pretty cool, isn't it?
But the story gets even better.
You see the politician who had sponsored the farm boy.
Now physician.
Was Randolph.
Churchill Winston Churchill's father?
You know, the Providence of God is sometimes mind-boggling.
And we can never tell how God made you choose to execute his plans.
Last week, if you recall, we left the Apostle Paul there, incest Ariah.
He was there for some two years being held by the Roman Governor.
Felix.
Because while finding nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.
Felix wanted to get a bribe from Paul.
The Paul did not pay the bribe that Felix wanted and Paul was kept there.
And brought out every once in awhile to speak to Felix.
And during these times, Paul reasoned with Felix and his wife about the Christian faith.
You know, the most tragic thing is we look at that story, the most tragic thing about Felix and his wife.
Is that they did not make a decision for Christ or at least we're not told that they did.
Unity.
Very good example of people that know the truth.
People that have heard the gospel, but yet refused to surrender their lives to Christ.
Well, in our text today, Felix is gone.
I guess you could say there's a new sheriff in town, actually, a new governor by the name of Festus.
The Jews try to trick fastest into sending Paul back to Jerusalem.
Because they were plotting to kill Paul before he got there.
Their little trick failed in God.
Blue in powerful ways to secure, Paul's trip to Rome.
I want you to know that God in his wisdom will guide us through all circumstances that we face.
But we must surrender to his will.
In order to make it through.
So this morning, there's three things.
I want us to get from a passage today.
As we think about the Providence of God.
And as we think about his work in our lives, the first thing is that sometimes God interrupts our schedule.
Sometimes God interrupt our schedule interrupted, you know, things are going around.
You have your plans all set up and they didn't go the way one.
And I said to look ahead for that when I plan on a trip.
I plan for what we're going to do and what we're going to do, if things don't sell her to work out that way but you know, God sometimes uses those things.
To bring about his well, let's look starting at going back to ask 24, starting at verse 27 and then acts 25 one.
It says, when two years had passed, Felix was succeeded by Porsche's fastest.
But because Felix wanted to Grant a favor to the Jews, he left Paul in prison.
Three days after arriving in the province, bestest went up to Sessa rioted Russe.
You know what you think about this situation, there?
Paul had been stuck in prison for over 2 years.
Like we said.
but it kind of reminds us of Joseph who was falsely imprisoned and basically forgotten about You have to wonder what is going through Paul's mind.
He knows that the Jews.
Want him dead.
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