INTRODUCTION: A reassurance of God’s providential working in the life of the believer. Providence: God’s continual care over that which He had created.

1. OUR CONFIDENCE IN HIS PROVIDENCE
1. Our Knowledge of Salvation (2 Timothy 1:12For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.
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2. Our Knowledge of His Providence (Romans 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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3. The Example of Abraham (Romans 4:18-21 [18] Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, So shall thy seed be. [19] And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb: [20] He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; [21] And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.
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2. THE COMPLETENESS OF HIS PROVIDENCE
1. The Scope of God’s Working (Romans 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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2. Things Both Large and Small (Zechariah 4:10For who hath despised the day of small things? for they shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel with those seven; they are the eyes of the LORD, which run to and fro through the whole earth.
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3. Things Both Good and Evil (James 1:2-4 [2] My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; [3] Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. [4] But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
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4. The Example of Esther (Esther 4:14For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?
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3. THE COMPLEXITY OF HIS PROVIDENCE
1. The Working of God’s Providence (Romans 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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2. Like the Gears in a Watch: not all going in the same direction, but all pushing the hands of the watch in the same direction
3. Synergy – the dynamics by which the sum of the total is greater than the sum of the parts; first used in pharmacology in reference to the greater effect of certain combinations of medicine.
4. The Example of Joseph (Genesis 50:20But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.
   See All...; Psalm 105:17-19 [17] He sent a man before them, even Joseph, who was sold for a servant: [18] Whose feet they hurt with fetters: he was laid in iron: [19] Until the time that his word came: the word of the LORD tried him.
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4.  THE CONDITION OF HIS PROVIDENCE
1. Not the Same Working for All (Romans 8:28And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
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1. For those who love God
2. For those who are called according to His purpose
2. The Example of Paul (Philippians 1:12-14 [12] Art thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. [13] Thou art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and canst not look on iniquity: wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy tongue when the wicked devoureth the man that is more righteous than he? [14] And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
   See All...; 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 [7] And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. [8] For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. [9] And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. [10] Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
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5. THE CONCLUSION OF HIS CONFIDENCE
1. The Ultimate Goal of God’s Providence (Romans 8:29For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren.
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1. To conform us to the image of Christ (2 Corinthians 3:18But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the LORD.
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2. To make Christ the firstborn among many brethren
2.  The Example of Job (Job 1:20-22 [20] Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped, [21] And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. [22] In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly.
   See All...; Job 42:12-13 [12] So the LORD blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: for he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she asses. [13] He had also seven sons and three daughters.
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CONCLUSION: My mother caring for Grandmother Francis and Aunt Nancy. Her journal of the trial. The poem from grandmother’s book:  “He Maketh No Mistake.”

He Maketh No Mistake