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One Voice, September 13, 2026

One Voice, September 13, 2026

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One Voice with Dr Pastor Larry Montgomery 15 Providence of God. Providence In The Storm: The Red Sea, The Cross, And A Father's Woodshed Dr. Pastor Larry Montgomery preaches the fifteenth message in his series on the providence of God, tracing its mixture of good and hard moments from the parting of the Red Sea to the cross and resurrection, and closing with a personal story about discipline at his father's dinner table. Opening the Fifteenth Providence Message Dr. Pastor Larry Montgomery opens the service by telling the congregation that this is the fifteenth message in his series on the providence of God, and he says he is enjoying every minute of it. He thanks the people for coming and for listening, calling it a blessing to know that the God of glory is still on the throne. He tells the congregation that God's people need to wake up and recognize that God is in control, using the image of a pilot rather than a copilot to describe God's complete charge over their lives. He turns to Romans chapter eight, verse twenty-eight, a passage he says he has preached on repeatedly, including an unplanned eight-week series, and tells the congregation he intends to use it to open and close the message. He asks them to let the verse speak for itself rather than filtering it through assumptions. Providence as a Mixture of Good and Bad Montgomery explains that the providence of God is a mixture of good and bad, not a guarantee of constant ease. He tells the congregation that if life went smoothly all the time, they would not appreciate God, and that hard times are what drive people back to prayer. He describes God's ways of getting attention, from a gentle nudge on the shoulder to a word from a friend or a preacher, insisting that God will always find a way to remind his people that he is still God. He reminds the congregation that providence means God not only creates but continues to care for everything he has made, external and internal, from the sun and stars down to each individual person. He warns that forgetting this truth invites a reminder, and that questioning God in hard circumstances amounts to blaming him, a point he repeats for emphasis before moving into examples from scripture. Creation and the Greater Act of Redemption Turning to the wonder of creation, Montgomery tells the congregation that of everything God has made, mankind stands as the greatest work, visible even against the vastness that instruments like the Hubble Telescope and newer telescopes still cannot fully capture. He pauses on a fresh thought that strikes him in the moment: that the greatest thing God has ever done is not creation itself but the redemption of mankind. He describes salvation as God rescuing people from what he calls the slave market of sin, calling it the greatest act of a holy God. The congregation responds with amens as he links this redemptive theme back to providence, arguing that God's ongoing care did not stop at creation but extends into the deliberate work of saving his people, setting up the biblical examples of providence in action that follow. The Red Sea and Pharaoh's Army Montgomery walks the congregation through Exodus chapter fourteen, describing Israel trapped at the Red Sea with Pharaoh's army closing in behind them and no way forward. He describes the pillar of cloud moving from before Israel to stand between the two camps, becoming darkness to the Egyptians and light to the children of Israel. He notes that the people's shouting on the way out of Egypt had turned to pouting once they saw the sea, with no boat and no bridge to save them. He tells the congregation that God caused the sea to open with no help from the people themselves, letting Israel cross on dry ground before closing the waters over Pharaoh's pursuing army, since chariots and armored men do not float. The people who had been complaining the day before are shouting in celebration on the far shore, and Montgomery uses the scene to argue that God's providence is often clearest only after the crossing is complete. The Cross, the Tomb, and the Resurrection The sermon moves to the cross, Matthew chapter twenty-seven, as Montgomery asks the congregation to picture the Hill of the Skull with him. He describes disciples who had watched Jesus heal and raise the dead now watching him beaten beyond recognition, evoking the film The Passion of the Christ as an inadequate depiction of the brutality involved. He recounts Jesus speaking from the cross to his mother and to John before dying, and describes the disciples scattering as hope seems to die with him in the tomb behind a sealed stone. He then describes the third day, when the stone is rolled away and the tomb is found empty, framing the resurrection as providence breaking through apparent hopelessness. He closes the section with the two disciples walking to Emmaus, who fail to recognize the risen Jesus walking beside them until he reveals himself, after which they hurry back to Jerusalem to ...
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