Renewing Your Mind God Makes It All Happen
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Nov 25, 2025 
In this discussion, R.C. Sproul, a revered Reformed theologian and founder of Ligonier Ministries, explores the concept of God's providence and sustenance. He contrasts a mechanistic universe with the idea that God is both the Creator and Sustainer of all existence. Sproul explains primary and secondary causality, emphasizing humanity's dependence on divine power for life itself. He presents God's absolute sovereignty as an unassailable authority, illustrating how He governs creation while calling for submission to Christ's kingship.
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Creator As Ongoing Governor
- Christian providence ties God's ongoing governance to His role as Creator rather than a hands-off watchmaker.
- R.C. Sproul argues God remains the primary cause behind all secondary causes in the universe.
No Intrinsic Power In Creation
- Nothing in creation has intrinsic causal power apart from the power God vests or works through it.
- Secondary causes (like rain) operate, but their enabling power ultimately depends on God's sustaining causality.
Create Includes Sustain
- The Hebrew verb bara implies creating plus sustaining, not a single instantary act.
- Sproul stresses we lack self-sustaining being, so a supreme Being must undergird existence continuously.