Idol - Luck

When you have an understanding of God Tony Evans is the notion of things is falls.

Nothing takes place sovereign on non-chance. This is the alternative with Dr. Tony. Other authors speaker, pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas Texas and president of the urban alternative driven says a lot of what we consider random events of life are random at all part of the design. Let's join him as he takes a biblical look at Locke's are concerned about our destiny how things are going to wind up with our lives whether things are going to get better anything offered to help us understand what's happening now, and to give us an anticipation of what may be coming down the line we want to know destiny, one of the chief also God's idleness in our culture and American Idol. If you will, a designer, I is I know look at siblings chance happenstance or fate. At the whole family. The family is a belief system that says there is operating in the world and in personal random force and if I can get this personal random force looking to help me get through to a good place then I can get the help I need meatball the concept of luck. While I know many people just use it as a strongly worded is more than that. It is a competing God destiny and personal random but we wish for. We hope for. We ask people to fight for it with us and luck is a God that the Bible says be rejected.

The prophet Isaiah says in chapter 65 verse 11, God says you. Me for the table of fortune and for the mixed wine paperwork for Fortune is the word God GAD word for the word definitely is. And I mean I dad the lock that I destiny me you. The true God for not and you notice both words are capitalized in your Bible because they are both proper nouns so we talk about a concept, the personification of personal force that Randall Lee determines how good or how bad your life is going to go. We have surrounded this word with many phrases.

There is no there is. There is playing.

There is not be a lady tonight. There is there is good law. There is bad there is blonde, there is rotten there is playing in the pot as we got lucky John. One man said what the bad luck I have no work is used to express my hope that this personal random won't work for me. We roll the dice, looking from casinos are driven by the search from not only his luck to this impersonal sense of hope makes things better for me it's also time to how we look at the world.

901 verses four and five says that people look at the heavenly host, hoping to get clarification on the desk, anyone looks at our school to get clarification of your destiny. What you need to know what you just worship another God because as Romans 125 says you look at the creation rather than the create tour to determine destiny form that somehow the arrangement of the stars, or if you believe that your son what style you what side were you born on the you have given to the creation as a determining factor of your desk to the another way that this chance fortune-telling looking obsessive culture looks at what Isaiah chapter 2 verse six calls sauce three witchcraft. If you go to a palm reader have a look at the lines on your hand to give you destiny.

If you throw tower cots, have them turn them over so that somehow they will give you a clue about tomorrow because witchcraft and what you've done is worship another God, but Morgan worship another God is worthy. Instead, verse 21 and 22 says you sit at the table of the so when luck becomes this force that you look to all the stars or your sign or the palm readers what you have to understand is you invite demons into your destiny because God says you cannot sit at my table and the table of demons and still expect me to so this sentence should not be part of your dictionary should not be part of your vocabulary. And I know people just use the casually thrown out there, but for many people, even Christians. This is not the word.

It's a philosophy I need luck. So what the most important thing you need to know as a person is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

You need to know that Christ died on the cross for your sins in your place, and that you need to trust him alone, apart from world is your personal sin bearer for the forgiveness of sins and the gift of eternal life so that you are saved, converted, justified, and that you have a home in heaven. The most important thing to know if the gospel second most important thing to know if this sovereign providential nature of God.

When you have a sovereign providential understanding of God.

You don't need luck. In fact, you have a sovereign providential understanding of God, you will understand there is no such thing as we shape how you view everything that takes place in your life about everything.

Sovereignty the sovereignty of God means that he is of all creation, and absolutely nothing happens which he is unaware never caught by surprise. He never goes and you can't love a surprise party is fully aware of all that is was will be and what could have been so as Romans 1136 from you to him and through him all things.

God is sovereign which means he will over all all. There is nothing that takes place on a sovereign God by chance because they would be in control because he was lucky but now the word sovereignty is another word Providence. This is the word you need to understand sovereignty. He rolls over everything Providence is the methodology he uses to do is really sovereignty is the that he rules over all Providence is that aspect of sovereignty that brings together diverse events and circumstances in order for God to accomplish his sovereign will. So the sovereign God accomplishes his sovereign will.

Providence is God's providence looks like luck for sovereignty what he wants to happen. But here's what I am accomplishing it is a lucky. So what you would call luck all Providence at work because Providence is God working in a hidden way. It's in Providence in order to accomplish his sovereign God's sovereignty and his providential working allows for and incorporates human freedom, so he gives you the opportunity to choose Dr. Evans will give us an example of how that happens when he continues her lesson just a moment.

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Joe so Joe only got tells by the devil because God located Jesus told Peter, Satan has requested to see you as we Satan has requested to sit as we and I'm not. I'm going pray for you get the double off the bat because I got to try and you I need to deal with the devil mess with you.

But most of us was able mess with me. I'm sure lucky that could never happen unless God allowed so the issue is to look for luck.

The issue is to cooperate with Providence. This takes us to the main point Romans 828 29 Paul the apostle writes. And we know that God caused all things to work together for good to those who love God and of those who are called according to his purpose. We know God causes.

We know no such thing as luck if we know that God causes… We know God causes all things is nothing outside of God's causation, anything that happens happens because he made a but he was never caught by surprise that we know that all things work together for good work together for good. Don't read that too fast because many people misread what many people think the person is as if all things work together and are good. No, he got to say all things are good. He says all things work together for good is different so that when he finishes whatever he's doing. It will come out beneficial. Maybe I need to call Joseph to come testify Joseph was in the house today would say what my brother solely in the slavery for no reason at all, they would not want anyone right and then I finally get a good job in the bosses wife to write when I didn't write in and I got thrown in jail. I didn't do it. I found and then got me in jail… Help some of the prison camp for an additional 2T up-and-down roller coaster of life and I just wanted to but then it comes to Genesis chapter 50 for the conclusion of the chapter to his brothers job you are able. God God God and God to bring to light the medical good to take me from where we were nation you jump jump you. Your abuse, you know, to accomplish will follow up from the flow.

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That's 1-800-800-3222. Are you a real Christian or just a religious groupie tomorrow. Dr. Evans explained how to tell the difference and why that's so important right now, though he's back with this closing story. One of the favorite desserts cook with the 77. She would line ingredients, flour, sugar, butter made, whatever else she landed on. I never I don't ever remember taking a spoon footing and fell: I never remember putting spooler sugar cotton butter. Put butter slab but in my mouth and swelling, but this is what I remember Mrs. Evans get the ball following the Bolshevik bowl in bowl bowl .7 of initiative and did she begin to stir. She begin to blended when should I consume the final anymore.

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