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God’s Plan and Intelligent Design.
God’s Plan is, to Him, simple. It merely involves planning every action that that ever happened to anyone or anything since creation, and if you design the system in the first place – that is how it will operate. For example, when Ford change their model of car, it is produced on the same production line as the old model, but the whole system conspires to create a new car. That is Ford’s plan, that is how it is set up, and that is how it operates – so it is with God.
I mention this as I was involved in an accident the other day. I was driving between Freehold and Cedar Falls where I was to give a sermon on the evils of selling doves in church. (M't:21:12: And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,) The road is nice and straight, and I took the opportunity to jam my knees under the steering wheel and review the Words with which God had inspired me.
Anyway, God’s Plan played out, and I found myself on the wrong side of the road doing about 100mph and 5 yards from an on-coming small Toyota that disintegrated when my Hummer hit it. Obviously, I stopped and looked at the damage: paint off the fender, a headlight cracked and the grill might have a little ding but nothing too serious.
As I looked, the Toyota attracted my attention by exploding dramatically in a ball of flame - another soul claimed by the Lord.
There was not much I could do in the circumstances, so I called Mayor Hold and tried out an extra paragraph I had thought of, and then mentioned the Call to Glory of the Toyota driver and any passengers there might have been. Johnny Hold helpfully reminded me that accidents have to be reported to the Freehold Police within 24 hours and I undertook to do this on my return.
Now the point here is that this is a demonstration of God’s Plan – and all plans are designed by a designer.
It turns out that the occupants of the car were a woman (and here we have the cause of the accident – a woman driver) and her granddaughter. The woman was about my age, early 70s, and, I am about my age too (also early 70s).
And this is the great significant point! This is the Proof of God! There we were on 240th Street exactly eight and a half miles west of Grundy Center, at precisely 9:28 am on the morning of exactly Friday, September 2nd, 2016, when our lives, comprising over 140 years of experiences and praising God, come together at exactly one point.
Now… consider… what are the chances of that? They are astronomical. It is quite impossible that we should have come together by mere coincidence – as far as I could find out, there had never been an accident at that spot before – ever!
I asked Cranky Old Man to work out the odds of this ever happening – he came up with a number with so many zeros that it would fill this page – and that didn’t take into consideration the fact that both my and the woman’s surname began with “B”!!!
The only possible explanation is that this was all part of God’s Plan. It is He Who had directed our complex lives and led us both directly to this single point in time and space – He had led us to this point in His Plan. Neither of us knew when we were about 5 years old that this would happen, did we? It has to be God’s Plan!
With such evidence, how is it possible that there is no God? Atheists will tell you that all this came out of nothing – there was no “Prime Mover”, no “cause”. Perhaps one will come along and give us a laugh by trying to tell us there is no God.
PS
Mrs Bathfire saw me writing this and reminded me to say that she had sent flowers to the woman and child’s funeral, so that is what I am doing, though for the life of me, I cannot see why this was a good idea – It is God who deserves the Glory, Praise and Reward as He has deigned to demonstrate His Power (John:9:3) and remind us all of His Presence on earth and in our lives and death.
PPS
Copies of the Sermon I delivered at Cedar Falls are available for download from the usual source.
God’s Plan is, to Him, simple. It merely involves planning every action that that ever happened to anyone or anything since creation, and if you design the system in the first place – that is how it will operate. For example, when Ford change their model of car, it is produced on the same production line as the old model, but the whole system conspires to create a new car. That is Ford’s plan, that is how it is set up, and that is how it operates – so it is with God.
I mention this as I was involved in an accident the other day. I was driving between Freehold and Cedar Falls where I was to give a sermon on the evils of selling doves in church. (M't:21:12: And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the moneychangers, and the seats of them that sold doves,) The road is nice and straight, and I took the opportunity to jam my knees under the steering wheel and review the Words with which God had inspired me.
Anyway, God’s Plan played out, and I found myself on the wrong side of the road doing about 100mph and 5 yards from an on-coming small Toyota that disintegrated when my Hummer hit it. Obviously, I stopped and looked at the damage: paint off the fender, a headlight cracked and the grill might have a little ding but nothing too serious.
As I looked, the Toyota attracted my attention by exploding dramatically in a ball of flame - another soul claimed by the Lord.
There was not much I could do in the circumstances, so I called Mayor Hold and tried out an extra paragraph I had thought of, and then mentioned the Call to Glory of the Toyota driver and any passengers there might have been. Johnny Hold helpfully reminded me that accidents have to be reported to the Freehold Police within 24 hours and I undertook to do this on my return.
Now the point here is that this is a demonstration of God’s Plan – and all plans are designed by a designer.
It turns out that the occupants of the car were a woman (and here we have the cause of the accident – a woman driver) and her granddaughter. The woman was about my age, early 70s, and, I am about my age too (also early 70s).
And this is the great significant point! This is the Proof of God! There we were on 240th Street exactly eight and a half miles west of Grundy Center, at precisely 9:28 am on the morning of exactly Friday, September 2nd, 2016, when our lives, comprising over 140 years of experiences and praising God, come together at exactly one point.
Now… consider… what are the chances of that? They are astronomical. It is quite impossible that we should have come together by mere coincidence – as far as I could find out, there had never been an accident at that spot before – ever!
I asked Cranky Old Man to work out the odds of this ever happening – he came up with a number with so many zeros that it would fill this page – and that didn’t take into consideration the fact that both my and the woman’s surname began with “B”!!!
The only possible explanation is that this was all part of God’s Plan. It is He Who had directed our complex lives and led us both directly to this single point in time and space – He had led us to this point in His Plan. Neither of us knew when we were about 5 years old that this would happen, did we? It has to be God’s Plan!
With such evidence, how is it possible that there is no God? Atheists will tell you that all this came out of nothing – there was no “Prime Mover”, no “cause”. Perhaps one will come along and give us a laugh by trying to tell us there is no God.
PS
Mrs Bathfire saw me writing this and reminded me to say that she had sent flowers to the woman and child’s funeral, so that is what I am doing, though for the life of me, I cannot see why this was a good idea – It is God who deserves the Glory, Praise and Reward as He has deigned to demonstrate His Power (John:9:3) and remind us all of His Presence on earth and in our lives and death.
PPS
Copies of the Sermon I delivered at Cedar Falls are available for download from the usual source.
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