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your heart, you see the truth. He’s the head over all things for the
benefit of the Church. Those Roman roads were built for an ugly
missionary named Paul. Those roads were built for Christians.
To spread God’s Kingdom, not the Roman Empire!

I don’t think I’m childish for believing that Christ engineers,
controls and governs all circumstances in order to accomplish His
redemptive purposes on earth. I don’t have any trouble believing
that God would delay planes, buses and trains. That
governments rise and fall in accordance with His will. He’s head
over all things to the Church.

Don’t think the great advances seen in society only benefit man’s
ego or promote our silly culture. I don’t believe it for a minute. I
believe electricity was God’s provision for the Church. Radio and
television is for God’s children. Printing presses, literature and all
media, was invented for the spread of the gospel. Music was
written for the people of God. He’s head over all things to the
Church, and for the Church.

Certainly these things have been abused. Nevertheless, in Him
all things belong to us. I think all of us can think of times, when
God’s sovereignty has controlled our circumstances. It’s nothing
more than Romans 8:28 & 29, stated in another way,

“All things work together for the good of those who love the
Lord, who are the called according to the purpose of being
conformed to the image of His Son.”

Look one more time at verse 23,

“Which is His body, the fullness of Him that fills all in all.”

We’re generally accustomed to think about our own personal
relationship with Christ rather than thinking of ourselves as part of