Question 15 of 118
What are God’s works of providence?
God’s works of providence are His most holy, wise, and powerful preserving and governing all His creatures, and all their actions.
Scripture proofs
- Nehemiah 9:6
You are the LORD, even you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their army, the earth and all things that are on it, the seas and all that is in them, and you preserve them all. The army of heaven worships you.
- Colossians 1:17
He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.
- Hebrews 1:3
His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified us of our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high,
- Psalm 103:19
The LORD has established his throne in the heavens. His kingdom rules over all.
- Matthew 10:29-30
“Aren’t two sparrows sold for an assarion coin? Not one of them falls to the ground apart from your Father’s will. But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible (public domain).
More on creation and the fall
- Q13. What is the work of creation?
- Q14. How did God create man?
- Q16. What special act of providence did God exercise towards man, in the estate wherein he was created?
- Q17. Did our first parents continue in the estate wherein they were created?
- Q18. What is sin?
- Q19. What was the sin whereby our first parents fell from the estate wherein they were created?
- Q20. Did all mankind fall in Adam’s first transgression?
- Q21. Into what estate did the fall bring mankind?
- Q22. Wherein consists the sinfulness of that estate whereunto man fell?
- Q23. What is the misery of that estate whereunto man fell?