God's Providence with Saul

Today, I want to show you how it is according to God's Providential Purpose to change material things in the creation, and to change the hearts and minds of men, according as He is either "with" or "in" His acts in relation to them. And that concursus, or Divine Providential acting is always done according to the particular reasons which are known only to Him. These acts are all done 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 their heart so that they will come to know Him. Still, He can, as we shall see in the next few minutes, use them, or he can be "with them" and "in them" to change them and use them as He wills to do so.