R.C. Sproul

In other words, how do I live out my life down here?

in light of this invisible hand up there.

That's basically what we're concerned about in the question of providence, and I want to start now with simple definitions.

The word providence is a little bit of a misnomer.

You know, I like to take words and tear them apart.

The word providence has a prefix, pro, which means what?

to do something for money, right?

To play baseball, that's a pro, right?

He's paid for what he knows.

The prefix pro means before or in front of.

In other words, it means to be before with respect to time or before with respect to space.

That's how the prefix pro is used.

Now the root

Comes from the Latin, vedere.

Vene, vide, vici, remember?

I came, I...

heard, no, I came, I saw, I conquered, and that word comes over, of course, into our English language in a very appropriate way for these lectures here that we are doing as we're nestled comfortably in a television studio, and we have in our midst today video cameras.

And so long before there was

video, there was provideo.

There was providence.