Westminster Confession of Faith, Chapter 5, Section 7
The scope of God’s providence reaches all creatures, it touches everyone, believer, unbeliever, good, evil but God’s providence is worked out in a special way for the church.
Exodus 19:5-8 – God says the whole earth is mine, and he says to the church you shall be to me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. We learn that God is everywhere, but God’s heart is to be with the church. God owns the whole universe but God owns the church as his own people, his treasured possession. God is everywhere but God desires to be with his people…
In Ephesians 1:23, Paul says the fullness of him who fills all in all… God is everywhere, he fills everything… but God is here with his church in a special way. God is with his church in a different way than with the world.
Two powerful truths we can learn from today’s confession.
1. God controls all things, he owns all things, he is everywhere
2. God cares for his church in a special way;
The church, anyone who is in Christ, is his treasured possession. We learn that God enters into a special relationship with man. This relationship is such that “God is our God and we are his people.” It is within this covenant relationship that God cares for his people the church.
We will look at that more in the following weeks. But for today, remember that God has planned in a special way to care for his people. If you are in Christ, you are in a covenant relationship with the God of the universe who cares for you and loves you. God loves his children even to the point where He has placed them in a particular local church to uniquely form each congregation.
WCF 5.7. As, in general, the providence of God reaches to all creatures, so, in a very special way, it cares for his church and disposes all things for its good.
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