Jeff Durbin || Discerning the Will of the Sovereign God

Proverbs 16 and the Sovereign Will of God

We are in our series at Apology at Church, Wisdom from Above, God's Divine Wisdom and Instruction. This powerful book, the book of Proverbs. Proverbs chapter 16. Today, discerning the will of the sovereign God.

So various passages here. Proverbs 16, one, three through four, nine and 33. Hear now the word of the living and the true God. The plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

Commit your work to the Lord.

And your plans will be established. The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. Verse nine, the heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

In verse 33, the lot is cast into the lap, but it's every decision is from the Lord. As far as the reading of God's holy and inspired word,.

Let's praise his people.

Lord, we come before you as your people, acknowledging first and foremost, Lord, our thankfulness to you for the gift of eternal life. You save sinners. Lord, we are unworthy of you. We fall short, we violate your law, and yet you come to seek and save that which is lost.

Lord, you know our frame, you know our failures as men and women, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers, children. You came for the sick. And so, Lord Jesus, we cling to you and your righteousness. We have nothing else.

We thank you that you count us righteous apart from our works, and that you will never count our sins against us. You separate our sins from us as far as the East is from the West. Lord, we come before you in your word today to hear from you as forgiven people, as your children that you save by your grace and mercy and love.

Lord, we have nothing else, nothing to boast about. We have nothing else to boast in. And so, Lord, as in ourselves, unworthy people, we're holding your word, this gift of your speech, your revelation to us, your holy words.

We do pray that you move by your spirit today to teach your church, instruct us, grow us, renew our minds, heal our hearts. Speak to us, God, by your word today through your spirit. And as always, Lord, we do ask that you would get the pastor out of the way, that people would not remember me, they would remember you and your word and what you've instructed.

Let this be abiding treasure from you, God. We pray this in Jesus' name, amen. Now, there's so much more. This is challenging, truly a challenging one as a pastor, because there's so much in the book of Proverbs that highlights the same truths.

But it's not just in the book of Proverbs. This is thematic, and it is something that is unique to biblical revelation. And I think oftentimes, as reformed people, as reformed believers who have a commitment to the authority of Scripture, to the law of God, to the primacy of Scripture, to Reformation theology, that God is sovereign over all things from the beginning to the end, I think oftentimes we may not recognize just the true value, power, significance of this particular truth that you see running throughout the entire Bible, that God is fully sovereign, that He has a sovereign will, that He's all-powerful, that He knows all things, that He has a decree in history, that He actually determines the ends as well as the means, that He's in control of all things.

And I think oftentimes we just sort of get jaded to that, I think, as reformed believers. It's such a powerful truth, and we say it all the time, we know the right things to say, soli deo gloria, to God alone be the glory in all things, that God is the sovereign, He's the determiner, that everything ultimately is leading to His glory, so that we worship and honor Him for all eternity and enjoy Him for all eternity.

It's this unique revelation in history, and I think we get jaded to it.

We forget just how powerful this is.

Even amongst professing Christian communities and different denominations, they might have a view that, yeah, God is all-powerful, He knows all things, but He's not quite totally sovereign, not fully sovereign over all things.

They might have particular traditions and philosophies that kind of get in the way of all of that message in scripture about the total sovereignty of God, that He is good, and He is love, and He is just, and He is merciful and all-powerful and all-knowing, and that He actually has a decree in history that He says, this is where things are gonna go,.

And this is what's determined.

No one's gonna thwart me or stop my purposes or get in the way of my will, but Christians might have, and yes, they are Christians, that they hold to the essentials of the gospel, some kind of tradition or philosophy that gets in the way of the glorious truth of the sovereignty of God and His powerful providence in history, and so you come to texts like these in Proverbs 16, and they are meant to change us.

It's meant to really change you. It's meant to actually have an impact in your life when you're trying to figure out, where do I go? What am I supposed to do? How do I navigate this thing? And I have questions, God, I'm confused, God, or there's challenges and there's sickness and disease and death.

Whatever the case may be, this is supposed to shape us.

This is treasure. Right here, it's treasure meant to be able to draw from in the day of struggle and adversity and darkness and conflict.

This is supposed to be treasure,.

More valuable, as the writer of Proverbs says, more valuable than gold and silver.

This is what you're supposed to be accumulating,.

This kind of treasure. You're gonna need this. Proverbs 16, the plans of the heart belong to man, but the answer of the tongue is from the Lord. He's sovereign. You might be the one saying, this is where I wanna go, this is what I wanna do, I'm putting it before the Lord.

In the end, the answer's from the Lord. He's the one that determines. And that's a good thing, because that means that everything has purpose.

There's no chaos.

Nothing is meaningless, although oftentimes in the fallen world, if we admit it, every day sometimes feel, it feels like things are meaningless and chaotic and out of place and disjointed and this isn't working, and it feels like God is not in this at all.

He's far away.

It feels like that, but here's wisdom from above. You remember this, God is saying, you plan, but I'll determine, I'll decide. And what we know about the character of God and the nature of God, that's supposed to give us confidence and hope and trust and comfort.

We need to think as we acknowledge these truths, these promises, and there's a variety of them, not just in Proverbs, but through the whole scriptures. We're gonna try our best today to give you a solid foundation.

We have to first start with this,.

The unique nature of the God of the Bible. Again, because we get jaded to these truths. We're not oftentimes saying, okay, I've investigated all these other religious traditions and man-made religions, and I know what they believe about their gods and how their gods work.

We haven't done all that. Maybe we just take it for granted, but this is completely unique. The God of the Bible is totally unique, and that's, by the way, why he's so offensive to the gods of men, because he is not like them, can't be compared to them.

In so many ways, think about the unique nature of the God of the Bible as you come to these texts about the sovereignty of God, the sovereign will of God, the providence of God, his control over all of history and all things.

The God of the Bible is omnipotent. What's that mean? Omnipotent, what's it mean? You can talk, all-powerful. Omnipotent, something is potent, it's powerful.

Omnipotent, he is all-powerful.

He is omnipresent. What's that mean? Everywhere, present, at all times, all-present, ever-present. He is, and this is unique, he is the eternal God. That's something we can't even fathom as creatures, right?

I mean, at certain points, I've used this example as much as possible. At a certain point, you can try to teach algebra to a classroom filled with cockroaches, but at a certain point, the creatureliness of the cockroach breaks down, right?

They're just not gonna get it. And the same way you come to a truth like this, you can affirm it, you can say, I believe it, I know what that means conceptually, that God is from eternity into eternity, but there's no way to fully comprehend that as creatures,.

But that's the truth of Scripture,.

And it's completely unique. God is eternal. He's not part of the created order. He's not subject to it. Nothing's above him that he's sort of trying to hold to, or he needs to yield to these kinds of laws out there.

There's something that was before him. No, it's completely unique, and it's something we can't fathom. You can't comprehend it. You'll never fully understand it, but we know it's true. From everlasting to everlasting, you are God.

He's the eternal God. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it. You're not gonna get it. Scripture says that he's holy, he's righteous. His character is good and perfect, and by the way, that's why his law is so meaningful and enduring and everlasting as well,.

Because his law is a reflection.

Of his own character and nature. Now, think about what's the substance of the law of God. What's Jesus say are the two greatest commandments?

What are they?

First is love who?

Love God. Then it's what? Love neighbor. Every commandment in the law of God is built upon love for God, love for neighbor, which by the way, also means that that's enduring, because if we're called in a new covenant to love God and to love neighbor, that means that the law of God's abiding and relevant, because all the law of God is about loving God and loving neighbor, but think about the character of God.

He is holy, holy, holy,.

And so what he calls us to is based upon a reflection of his own nature and character and holiness, and so he's the measure, he's the reference point of what is good. So as an example, what does scripture say?

That God is love, and what's it say? Love does no harm to what? Its neighbor. Love does no harm to its neighbor, and so you think the substance of the law of God, like why do these things in scripture?

God commands this, but not that. Well, ultimately, because it's based upon the character of God. Love does no harm to its neighbor, and so why don't we do this sin, that sin, this sin, because love does no harm to its neighbor, and God is love.

He's the reference point. Everything comes from that, and so God is holy. God is just, equal scales, equal scales. God is just. He doesn't throw away his law or his standards. He's not capricious, and that's what you see in the religions of mankind.

They can't get it right because we are unjust, and so when they try to create a God in their own image, their God ends up being unjust, violating his own law, violating his own standards, or their own standards.

God is totally unique. God is love, but here is a powerful one in scripture in terms of the unique nature of the God of the Bible. God is sovereign, sovereign over all things. He's not confused by things.

He's not surprised by things. He doesn't have to look through history to learn anything to make a decision as to what will I do based upon some action of a creature. How am I gonna figure this thing out?

God is completely sovereign, and think about this as you go to these texts about the sovereignty of God and the providence of God and his control over all things and the comfort we have in the decisions that we make, that God has a purpose in it.

Think about this God, this unique God, in contrast to the false gods of human imagination. Just think about it, and this is in terms of, let's take away being jaded and just so familiar with this that we forget how beautiful and how powerful it is.

Think about the false gods of human imagination.

They look like us. They look like us.

You find, give me the religion, let's unpack it, let's talk about their gods and talk about what they do, how they act, where they came from, their origins, story, all of that,.

And you'll see that they look like us.

Somehow down the line, you're gonna see they look a lot like us. It's interesting, because here's an interesting play on this. One of the things that I have always brought with me when we're out doing evangelism to the local Latter-day Saints, this is a, it's Mesa, Arizona, this is the East Valley, Mormonism's gonna come up a lot here because it's a huge community around us, and we love them, and we've seen God save so many of them, but I always go, when I'm doing evangelism with the Latter-day Saints, and I bring a book called By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus.

By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus, and it's a powerful book because it has this full-color pull-out thing of the papyrus from which Joseph Smith, Jr., the prophet of Mormonism, said that he was translated, he was translating the book of Abraham into English, and so there was this sort of traveling museum exhibit that was coming through Ohio, and this guy who had the exhibit was trying to sell this stuff.

It's like a traveling museum, and there was all these Egyptian artifacts inside this museum, and one of the artifacts was this papyrus. Now, at the time, the Rosetta Stone information hadn't made it over to the U .S. yet, and so Egyptian was a dead language.

I mean, any one of us at the time could have taken this scroll and said, oh, I can read this.

It says such and such,.

And nobody would have been able to confirm or deny it because, again, that information hadn't come over yet, but there were pieces missing from this papyrus and all the rest, and so Joseph Smith comes in, and he says, oh, lo and behold, look what God has done.

This is from the book of Abraham. This is from By His Own Hand Upon Papyrus, Abraham, God has brought this to us, and the Latter-day Saints in that area pulled together actually a substantial amount of money to buy this piece, and Michael Chandler, the guy who was selling this stuff, was like, oh, yeah, yeah, this is great.

He's got it.

He's translating it right. It's great. He made some serious cash off of selling this piece to the Latter-day Saints, and it cost a pretty penny, and Joseph Smith says, God brought this to us. This is by His own hand, Abraham.

Here's the papyrus. He's preserved it for us, but there were pieces missing. Now, if you were today to get a quad, and that's what the Mormons carry. It's the Bible, Book of Abraham, Pearl of Great Price, Doctrine and Covenants.

Inside there, you'll see the book called The Pearl of Great Price, and to this very day, if you look inside The Pearl of Great Price, you'll see little facsimiles, little pictures of what was in that scroll that Joseph translated from, but those pictures are different than what the papyrus actually was.

We've come to discover that not only is this not from Abraham, it's not from his time. It's actually a fairly common pagan or Egyptian funerary text that was rolled up and put behind the heads of dead people to help them breathe into the afterlife.

Joseph Smith didn't have a clue what he was looking at, and because there were pieces missing, Joseph Smith started to pencil in what he thought was missing, and he says, oh, this is Abraham gonna slay his son, and all these different things.

He was clueless. Actually, what it was was the Book of the Dead, and it had, check this out, it had, if memory serves, like Osiris and Isis coming together to copulate and to produce the crocodile god Sobek, and what's interesting is that you look at something like that, and you're like, okay, clearly a false prophet defrauded.

The Mormon people, didn't get one word right.

In the translation, obviously, but he didn't even know what the pictures really were, but amazingly, it's like, that's straight, 100-proof paganism. Osiris, Isis, the crocodile god. Sobek, that's the religions of mankind.

They look like us, they do what we do,.

They reproduce, have other gods, they have origin stories, but you know what's amazing? Is you look at that, and you go, no, this was straight paganism, bro. Look, junior, you didn't get it right, and what's amazing is that you transfer that into Joseph Smith's religion, and what'd you get there?

In the Pearl of Great Price, it's all about how the gods created, in the beginning, the gods, in the beginning, the gods, it's paganism here, paganism there, and you know what's amazing is you leap into Mormonism, and what is it?

It's this endless regression of gods.

They look like us. They're not sovereign over anything.

See, that's what I'm saying. We take this glorious truth for granted. Even in the Latter-day Saints, though they borrow our language, and they co-opt what we say, they talk like us, they use our language, they've got mommy gods and daddy gods, their god reproduces to create other little gods that work their way to become gods.

One day, and you go, okay, so the god of this world, how did he get like that?

Well, just like you.

He went through the same process as you. He had a god before him. He was a spirit child, and he comes into the world, and he sins, he learns, he grows, he becomes a god through exaltation, and then the same process begins with you, and so you ask the question, well, if he had to learn he's not the all-knowing god, is he?

And the answer is, no, he wasn't. And also, isn't there a god above him?

Does he still worship that god?

Or like, how does all that work,.

And where'd that god get his power from? And like, who's the ultimate god in this story? And one of the Mormon prophets and apostles said that there are more gods than there is matter. That's a lot of gods, and here's my point.

The uniqueness of the biblical god who gives us these glorious truths versus the false gods of the imagination of humanity,.

Their gods look just like us.

They sin like us. Find the religion, and you'll find that god sinning in some way, violating some objective standard. It might just be right on the page and blatant. They're limited like us. The false gods of humanity are limited like us.

They can't say these things. They're not in control of all things. Oftentimes, they're part of the created order itself.

They're part of this stuff.

They're made from the same stuff. They're limited, created. They're limited in their knowledge. They don't know all things. They don't decree the future. They're limited in their power. Their gods fight with one another and argue with one another.

They don't control the future. They don't accomplish their purposes. Take that as you lay down the glorious truths here from Proverbs 16. Take that all in, and let it be the comfort to your soul. Go to Isaiah 46 to see God speaking of this very thing.

Isaiah 46.

Now, if you haven't done so yet, I encourage you, for the sake of your soul and your comfort in a fallen world, to read Isaiah chapters 40 through 46. In Isaiah 46, starting in verse 8, here's what God's word says.

It says, remember this, and stand firm. Recall it to mind, you transgressors. Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is no other. I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning.

And from ancient times, things not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose, calling a bird of prey from the east, the man of my counsel from a far country. I have spoken, and I will bring it to pass.

I have purposed, and I will do it. This is the God that we're talking about. These are his words. So when he says, you have these plans, but it's for me. It's my ultimate decision. God is the sovereign, the eternal God.

And his challenge, by the way, in this section here, is that he is denouncing the false gods of humanity. He is confronting them. He is challenging them. And he is mocking them. You're gods. You build with the stuff that I made.

That's a summary. You build your gods with the things that I made. And then you bow down, and you worship it, and it's made from the stuff that I made. And your gods can't tell you the future. They don't see.

They don't hear. They don't know. Your gods can't tell you the future. They're not in control of it. God's saying, I am. I'm the one that decrees the future, holds the future together. And God even challenges the other way.

You know, we've said this so many times because this is powerful. Your gods can't tell you the past and why it happens. You might be able to read a history book, brothers and sisters, and say, oh, this is what happened.

And this is the person involved. And it was at this day, at that time. The God of the Bible can tell you not just what happened, but why, meaning everything has a purpose. Everything has a purpose. And that's the unique God of the Bible.

He's totally sovereign, which, by the way, is supposed to be our comfort in the midst of darkness and hardships, conflict, disease, death. He declares the end from the beginning. From birds to the flowers of the field to your life and your breath and the color of your hair, He's sovereign.

And if you know Him, if you belong to Him, if you're in Christ, if you're called a child, then the answer is, He loves me and He has a purpose. And all things work together for good. For those who are loved by God and called according to what?

What?

His what?

His purpose. Don't lose that, brothers and sisters. Don't let all the talk of Reformed theology and doctrines of grace and all those things just become something that is just this thing in your head that you can just spout off and you can defend with the scriptures.

It has to be something that transforms me, changes my life, and changes the way that I actually face down the evil of this world, the difficulties and challenges of this world. It's supposed to be the comfort of my soul.

So to understand, I think, the power of this wisdom from God in Proverbs 16, these various verses, we do need to look at a couple things. Now, I've recommended this to you so many times before. If you don't have it in your library, get it in your library.

If you don't want to pay for it, just Google search Lorraine Bettner. Cool name, coolest name ever. Lorraine Bettner. He's a dude, believe it or not. Lorraine Bettner. And the work is called Predestination.

It is so powerful.

It's just filled with so much scripture. I'm pulling this from Bettner's work. It's just the scriptures he just sort of lines up. And I want to make sure that we have this underneath us. And so get that book.

Again, it's free, online, PDF. But do, if you can, get a hard copy of it. First thing Bettner points out, a couple different parts that support what we're seeing here in Proverbs chapter 16. That is, number one, that God has a plan.

God has a plan. And number one, God's plan is eternal. Various scriptures here. I'm not going to give every single one from his work. But 2 Timothy 1, verse 9. It is God who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal.

God has a plan. Psalm 33 11. The counsel of Yahweh stands fast forever. The thoughts of his heart to all generations. Isaiah 46 9 and 10. I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things that are not yet done.

And we just had Jerry read the psalm today from, it's a familiar one, Psalm 139, verse 16. Thine eyes did see mine unformed substance, and in thy book they were all written, even the days that were ordained for me when as yet there was none of them.

That's the unique God that we worship. Number two, Bender points out that God's plan, according to scripture, is unchangeable. Isaiah 14 24. Yahweh of hosts hath sworn, saying, surely, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass.

And as I have purposed, so shall it stand. Keep that verse in your hearts and your minds. These are the promises of God. And here's the decision you have to make. God is either a liar, he changes, he can't be trusted, or these are the words of the holy, righteous, blameless, just, perfect God.

He never changes, his word is true. And as scripture says, God cannot lie. So if God makes a promise in his word to us as his people, us as his church, he makes a promise about the world, the word of God is clear, that he has sworn, as I have thought, so shall it come to pass, and as I have purposed, so shall it stand.

Next point. The divine plan includes the future acts of men. John 6 64. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who it was that should betray him. Matthew 20 verses 18 and 19.

Behold, we go up to Jerusalem, and the son of man shall be delivered unto the chief priests and scribes, and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles to mock and to scourge and to crucify, and the third day he shall be raised up.

The fourth point, Bender points out, is the divine plan includes, this is important, it includes the fortuitous events, or, quote, chance happenings of life. The first verse is what we have here in Proverbs, we've already read it, Proverbs 16 33.

The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of Yahweh. In Job 36 32, he covereth his hands with the lightning, and giveth it a charge that it strikes the mark. Even the lightning strike is in the hands of our sovereign God.

Every event, the macro stuff, the overarching stuff that we all understand in terms of this divine plan of redemption, but also in the micro events, those small events that seem like that's chance, that's fortuitous, that's not in the hands of God, right?

According to scripture, he's that sovereign. Number five, some events are recorded as fixed or inevitably certain. Luke 22 22, for the son of man indeed goeth as it hath been or determined, but woe unto that man through whom he is betrayed.

We have a lot of the, the, and hath, and all this, it's because Lorraine Butner, older book, and this is great stuff. So I didn't, I just didn't change it. It sounds beautiful. And finally, even the sinful acts of men are included in the plan and are overruled for good.

Genesis 50 verse two, in Joseph's case, he says to his brothers, as for you, you meant evil against me, Joseph, but God meant it for good. You meant evil. It was in your heart. It was your decision. You wanted this.

You meant it for evil against me, but God meant it for good. He's that kind of sovereign. Isaiah 45 seven, I form the light and create darkness. God says, this is the God of the Bible. I make peace and create evil.

I am Yahweh that doeth all these things. Amos three verse six, shall evil befall a city and Yahweh hath not done it. These are the words of God.

Listen, these are also, by the way,.

The words of God that make many an evangelical slightly uncomfortable, slightly uncomfortable.

That God is so totally sovereign,.

He's sovereign over the things that we would say are the good things, the blessing things, the garden things, but he's also sovereign in his judgments in history over the evil in the world and the fallenness in the world.

But by the way, take heart, Christian, because if you're a child of God,.

That means whatever evil befalls you in this world is first strained through the sovereign hand of God. There are no purposeless incidents in this world. Everything has a purpose. Everything has meaning.

It's not time and chance acting on matter. It's not sound and fury signifying nothing. All things in the hands of a sovereign God who is, and here's where your comfort is, good.

He's good.

No one will ever be able to say to God on the last day, Lord, you were wrong, you were in error, you misstepped, God, you did me wrong, you were unjust in some way. That'll never be said before the throne of God.

Next, Bettner points out the sovereignty of God. Again, just a smattering of verses to put underneath us here, guys. Daniel 4 .35, he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth, and no one can stay his hand or say unto him, what have you done?

Ephesians 1 .11, in whom we were made a heritage. That's the church, God's people. We were made a heritage having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will.

There's our hope. Isaiah 14 .24 and 27, Yahweh of Hosts hath sworn, saying, surely as I have fought, so shall it come to pass, for Yahweh of Hosts hath purposed, and who shall annul it? It's a rhetorical question, nobody.

And his hand is stretched out, and who shall turn it back? Who's gonna stop him? Who's gonna thwart God's purposes? Who's gonna make his plan fall into shambles? Who's gonna stop him? Who's gonna stop his almighty hand?

If he's purposed it, if he's promised it, it's gonna take place. He's ordained it. He keeps his promises, and what's the scripture say?

It's our hope.

He says, I'm the Lord, I do not change. Therefore, because I don't change, you sons of Jacob are not consumed. You're not consumed because I don't change. His promises are sure. And finally, Bettner points out the providence of God.

This I love. On nature or the physical world, Exodus 9 .26, he maketh his son to rise on the evil and the good, and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust. I'm sorry, that's Matthew 5 .45.

Do we see it that way?

Like, I think we, because we've been able to, because of the Christian worldview and the explosion of science that the Christian worldview gave rise to, we look at things in the world around us and we say, I think we know the mechanics of that now, right?

We talk about the rotation of the earth, and we talk about the distance of the moon from the earth and the sun, and we talk about orbits, and we talk about heat, and we understand like, oh, I know why the sun is doing that track across the sky.

We understand the mechanics of the thing. And we look down today, and you look at the human cell and the just insane mechanics of the thing, the engine, the movements, the things moving from one thing to the other with little legs kind of crawling, like bringing stuff to the location.

And you're like, this is the craziest thing ever. And you look at that and you say, okay, so we understand the mechanics of now, and it kind of, you can sort of like lose the power and the awe of it all because you're like, I understand the mechanics.

But it says here that God is the one who causes the sun to go where it goes.

Do we see it that way?

Do you look up at the moon at night? Do you ever look at that moon and just stop and allow that? Do we allow it to actually be what God calls it to be, like something that shouts to us about the glory of God, that he is the one that's holding this entire universe together, including every cell in your body?

He carries it along, and that every morning when that sun is rising, it is our father in heaven who's responsible for it. And he hangs the moon in the sky, and it's God just holding it there. If he were to stop his hold on that, the universe falls apart.

And it goes the same for your life, your breath, your heartbeat. Just pause and think about what this says to us in this moment you're in. That breath borrowed from God, that heart in your chest beating, only because he sustains it, only because he's holding it together.

In a moment, he could call you home. In a moment, he could cause it all to stop. You and I wake up in the morning, eyes open, breathing, putting our feet on the ground, standing up, gravity holding us down, just like it did when we went to bed, only because God's sustaining the universe.

And that breath is from God, and that day is from God. This is the day the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it. That's all from God. He sustains the sun, and the rain is falling down. We have the rain, we don't have the rain.