CRPC Podcast - Dark Providences and the Judgement and Love of God, WCF 5.6-7

▶️Pastor Henry Johnson of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Tazwell, VA
https://www.thebiblealone.com/

▶️Pastor Patrick Hines of Bridwell Heights Presbyterian Church in Kingsport, TN
https://bridwellheightschurch.org/

Here is the section of the Westminster Confession of Faith we covered today. This is from Chapter 5, sections 6-7:

VI. As for those wicked and ungodly men whom God, as a righteous judge, for former sins, doth blind and harden,a from them he not only withholdeth his grace, whereby they might have been enlightened in their understandings and wrought upon in their hearts,b but sometimes also withdraweth the gifts which they had,c and exposeth them to such objects as their corruption makes occasion of sin;d and withal, gives them over to their own lusts, the temptations of the world, and the power of Satan;e whereby it comes to pass that they harden themselves, even under those means which God useth for the softening of others.f

a. Rom 1:24, 26, 28; 11:7-8. • b. Deut 29:4. • c. Mat 13:12; 25:29. • d. Deut 2:30; 2 Kings 8:12-13. • e. Psa 81:11-12; 2 Thes 2:10-12. • f. Exod 7:3 with Exod 8:15; 8:32; Isa 6:9-10 with Acts 28:26-27; Isa 8:14; 2 Cor 2:15-16; 1 Pet 2:7-8.

VII. As the providence of God doth, in general, reach to all creatures, so, after a most special manner, it taketh care of his Church, and disposeth all things to the good thereof.a

a. Isa 43:3-5, 14; Amos 9:8-9; Rom 8:28; 1 Tim 4:10.