MS Top 6 #31

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Number 3. There's a definite yes and a no to that. What we talked about here is God's ordination. In Ephesians 1-11, God works all things after the counsel of His will. When nations go bad, He will often raise up kings that that nation deserves. And they will get punished, they will see the oppression that comes from bad leaders. And so God will sometimes intervene and directly raise up someone for that purpose. Other times, He'll just let that occur, so to speak. God is directly involved and this would fall under the Ephesians 1-11. He works all things after the counsel of His will. So Biden, as an example, would be at least a candidate for the Daniel 2 reasoning of the judgment of God upon this country for its refusal to bow to God, for its denial of truth, for its hatred of Christ, for its idiocy.

Number 2. I have a daughter raised with the things of the Lord, went to church, confessed Christ, is now in the New Age movement. And I wish I could help you with great wisdom because your mom, you're not going to be able to say to him what needs to be said that someone else could say for the stranger.

That's okay. What we do as parents is we pray for them. We ask God to be merciful, to convict them, to draw them, ask God to grant them belief and be gracious to them. And that's our job.

Number 1. So what you've got to do is just trust God and keep praying and keep praying and don't push Him. Let God deal with His heart and convict Him. But I will say this, I don't talk about this very often. I backslid for a couple of years and I was so backslidden. I called up my brother who was going to a Christian university and I threatened him and told him to stop praying for me because the conviction was getting bad. And I'm so embarrassed. I'm going to say this.

This is what I did one day. I shook my fist up in the air at God and yelled at Him to leave me alone. And so here I am now. I lost that argument and praise God for His mercy. So I look back on my life back then and some areas I'm like, why did God let me live? I don't know. So we don't know what the end of the picture is. We don't know the end of the story.

You need to trust God as I do with my children, my wife and I do, to trust our Lord with them and continually ask God to save. We hope you've enjoyed this episode of Matt Slick's Top 6. For more on Matt and his live syndicated call-in radio show, go to TruthNetwork.com. Got a question? Matt Slick has your answer. This is the Truth Network.