history from its beginnings to the present day and should make the accounts of God’s mighty acts among his people in the Bible, the classic church historians, and well-documented modern testimonies frequent reading.14 Thus when God’s purposes seem far from our own suffering, we can remind ourselves through the example of others that he is nevertheless at work. Three Implications. Three subsidiary points of this passage reverberate from this primary point. First, the passage demonstrates indirectly
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