Providence of God

Pastor Martin contrasts the counsel of ungodly materialism with the blessed man who meditates in the law of God. Drawing from Genesis through the Epistles, he demonstrates that things were never meant to bring blessedness, that sin has deceived man into thinking otherwise, and that judgment falls on those who pursue blessedness through material accumulation. He shows practically how the blessed man receives and relinquishes things according to God's will, using Job and the Apostle Paul as examples.

After a nine-week digression, Pastor Martin resumes the Psalm 1 series by identifying secular education as a second major channel through which ungodly counsel reaches believers. He outlines five philosophical pillars of secular education -- the supremacy of man's mind, man's normalcy, a world of chance, man's good as the goal, and this world as the exclusive sphere of concern -- and contrasts each with the corresponding biblical principle. He urges believers to pray for a purgation of secularism from their minds and to saturate themselves and their children with the biblical worldview.