Question and Answer Session with Barry Bennet

Pam asks:  “Is it Scriptural to believe God always wills or allows everything that happens, to have His will accomplished on earth?”

Barry Bennet answers:  In other words, does God allow everything that is happening on the earth to happen,  and does He will things to happen in order to accomplish His purpose?

Barry says, “This is a good question.”

Many Christians, pastors, and church leaders do not understand that God gave the earth to man.  From the time of Adam (whom He gave the earth specifically, and all mankind through Adam), He allowed what Adam allowed.  Adam allowed the serpent to convince him to eat of the fruit of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, and God did not intervene.  He had already given His word, “If you do this, you will die.” 

Adam did it anyway.  He unleashed death, and with death came all kinds of corruption, sickness, poverty, ignorance, and suffering.  All of the ills we see in the world today (including natural disasters), once sin was unleashed in the earth it created all of the problems we have today.  All the problems on a cultural level, on a political level, on a natural disaster level, and on a personal level.  All of the ills in our society can be traced back to Adam’s choice to become independent from Gods’ word.

 God gave the earth to man.  Psalm 115:16 “The heaven, even the heavens are the LORD’s: but the earth had he given to the children of men.”

So few understand this, but the earth has been given to men, and what we allow, God will allow.  When we choose to exercise faith in the promises of God, God will intervene, but if we choose sin, if we choose corruption, if we choose to speed, if we choose to kick the dog, if we choose to yell at our spouse, God will allow that.  It’s not for some other purpose.  There is no divine purpose in any of that, it’s simply that God is respecting the fact that He gave the earth to man.

In fact if you want to go further into this, in order to redeem the earth, He had to become a man.  Why? Why did Jesus refer to Himself as the Son of man? Because if God gave the earth to man, and man gave it to the devil--and to death, and to sin; then only a man can legally redeem the earth.  There was no man [perfect/sinless enough to do that] so God became that man. The Word became flesh.

So the earth was given to man, and God is allowing what man allows.  It is says in Psalm 8:4-6 “What is man that thou art mindful of him? And the son of man, that thou vastest him? (5) For thou has made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour. (6) Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands; thou hast put all things under his feet [NLT says, “putting all things under their authority].

The world is a mess because of us, not because of God.  The world is a mess because of our choices, our decisions, our independence from God, and our lack of caring about what God thinks.  That’s why the world is in such a mess. That is not God’s purpose.

How does God accomplish His purpose on the earth?

God accomplishes His will through His children who proclaim His name, walk in the gift of righteousness, are filled with the Spirit, live by faith, stand on His promises, appropriate His gifts, wear His armor, and use the keys of the His Kingdom.

God is going to accomplish His will on the earth through us, through men, because He gave the earth to men, and He has redeemed us.  If you are a redeemed son or daughter of God, then you have a responsibility to bear the image of Christ to the world; to proclaim Christ, to walk in the Spirit, to walk by faith, to walk in righteousness, and THAT is how God is going to accomplish His purpose on the this earth.  All of the evil on the earth does not come from God.

To see this clip for yourself, follow the link below and watch minute 10:55-15:26

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