Providence In & With

Today, I want to show you how God's Providential Purpose to change material things in the creation, and to change the hearts and minds of men, is according to whether He is either "with" or "in" His acts. And that concursus, or Divine Providential acting is always done according to the particular reasons which are known only to Him, and they are according to His Divine Decrees. Sometimes, the reasons are revealed to men personally or in the Scriptures. In any instance or person God may uphold the physical and material creature without being "with" that creature in an effectual spiritual sense to change them or to use them, or he can be "with them" and "in them" to change them and use them as He wills to do so.