The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the LORD.The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from Yahweh.The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.The lot is cast into the lap; But the whole disposing thereof is of Jehovah.
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… hopefully, which it does. So they have a year mercy, a year grace period. Even though the lots are cast, I love this proverb, Proverbs 16, the lot is cast into the lap, but it's every decision is from the Lord. So they cast their lots, but God is working behind the scenes. That's that providence we talked about last week. So it fell to the 12th month, which is the month of Adar. Then Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of your kingdom. Their laws are different from all other people's, and they do not keep the king's laws. Not true. Therefore, it is not fitting for the king to let them remain. Now he's referring to the Jews, but he doesn't address them or call them the Jews. He's very generic about it, very ambiguous. There is this group of people, and they've been troublesome for a long time, and he just starts talking about them and around them, circumnavigating the real issue that they are Jews. …
… into an iceberg? No, to safely superintend the big picture, God has to foreordain the smallest details. And this is the testimony of Scripture, Proverbs 16, 33. The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the Lord. You ever wonder why the old, you know, the Puritans and old ethics manuals were always against card games or games of dice or chance? It was because of that verse. The lot is cast into the lap, every decision is from the Lord. They considered that games of chance was calling upon the Lord. It was sort of casting lots to ask God to make the dice do something, and that therefore it was a violation of the third commandment. It was taking the Lord's name in vain. I don't know that that's persuasive, and yet I appreciate their sense of wanting to take seriously that even in the smallest things, a game of chance, all of it comes from the hand of God. A man's steps are directed by the Lord. How can anyone understand his own way? Proverbs 20, 24. Jeremiah 10, 23, I know, O Lord, that a man's life is not his own. It is not for man to direct his steps. And what we read earlier from Psalm 139, all the days ordained for me were written in your book. Daniel 435, he says, God does as He pleases with the powers of heaven and the peoples of the earth. God so rules over all things with sovereign power and authority so that He …
… kill your man but it was God delivered him into your hand which means if you accidentally killed Or Proverbs 16.33 says, the lot. Now, what's a lot? A lot is like flipping a coin. The lot is cast into the lap. You flip the coin. But then, this is Proverbs 16.33, it says, but the whole disposing thereof is from the Lord. There are no accidents. There is no chance. You flip a coin, it comes up heads. That was part of God's plan. The whole disposing thereof. which means his plan includes big things and little things. Everything is worked out according to his will. Not major things, not large events, not three or four major events that happened this week, but everything is worked out according to his will. Nothing that happens is not part of his plan. Okay? Second implication. Now, I'm going to give you the strongest ones first so you can sort a squirm. Okay? The second one, God's plan, we said, is the only ultimate cause of everything that comes to pass. But secondly, God's plan includes evil as well as good deeds and events. …