What’s Really Happening in the World?

This clip is part of the sermon “Preservation, Promises and Divine Providence" delivered by Kevin DeYoung at Christ Covenant Church in Matthews, NC on August 24, 2025.

You know what’s really happening in the world? Nothing that you’re gonna hear on CNN or FOX. This is what’s happening in the world, God is working all things according to His word.

When they thought it’s about Assyria, it’s about Babylon, it’s about Persia, it’s about Ukraine, it’s about Russia, it’s about America, it’s about Iran, here’s what it’s about; that the Word of the Lord might be fulfilled.

This whole book is an example of the Lord keeping His Word.

Make sure you and I get our stories straight. God is not scrambling to respond to the problems around us. His providence is a tuning fork for the world and everyone and everything must ultimately reverberate according to that divine pitch.

“God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform. He plants His footstep in the sea and rides upon the storm.”

Don’t ever wonder if God is up to something in the Supreme Court or in the Congress or in Iran, in Russia, in the Matthew City Council, in your school, in your family, in your job, in this church.

He works through His own people, He works through kings of foreign people, He providentially acts through the good guys, through the bad guys. He uses His people and as we read from the confession, in a special way His providence is for the benefit and the blessing of His people.

That’s what He’s up to.