It is significant that God – YHWH in the Hebrew Old Testament – is first known as ‘Providence’ (YHWH-JIREH), within the explicit context of redemption history, as he supplies a lamb for Abraham to sacrifice instead of Isaac (Gen 22:14, 8).  From the outset, therefore, that is, the doctrine of providence rests on the doctrines of both creation and redemption, grounded in God's foreordained purposes for mankind in Jesus Christ. As we will see below, the providence of God, his governance of creation and history, stretches outward from his saving purposes, which came to their fulness in Jesus Christ and embraces every dimension of life.

All the goodness that there is in this beautiful world is caused by the perfect goodness of God. For a basic fact of Biblical doctrine is that God who is good in himself shares that goodness with others. God’s essential goodness – his goodness in himself – the goodness of his being and nature, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, is given in all kinds of ways by the Creator for the good of creatures, who are not God.

The good news begins with God. For the gospel’s main message concerns ‘God with us’ in the Lord Jesus Christ ‘to save his people from their sins’ (Matt 1:21, 23). The fundamental focus of the Christian good news regards ‘God incarnate, Jesus of Nazareth, who did for us what we could not do for ourselves, in order to bring us, a lost people, back to God.’ So the first great reality of the gospel is God himself. God is where the gospel begins.

የክርስቶስ ትንሣኤ እያንዳድኑን የዐዲስ ኪድና ትምህርቶች የመሸፈን ባሕርይና ፋይዳ ያለው ነው። የክርስቶስ ትንሣኤ የሚሰጣቸውን ጥቅሞች በተለያዩ መንገዶች መግለጽ ይቻላል።

የክርስቶስ ኢየሱስ ትንሣኤ ኢየሱስ ክርስቶስ በምድር ላይ የነበረው ሕይወቱና አገልግሎቱ ማብቂያ ያገኘበት ክሥተት ስለመሆኑ ከወንጌላት ዘገባ መረዳት እንችላለን። በአጠቃላይ መልኩ ሲታይ የዚህ እውነት ታሪካዊ ዳራውና ቀጥተኛ ዐውዱ የሰው ልጆች ሁሉ ሞት ሲሆን፣ በተለየ መልኩ ደግሞ የኢየሱስ ክርስቶስ ሞት ነው።

There are two principal assumptions or experiences that we can bring to the Book of Exodus that may impact our understanding.

The gospel can be cast in both careful formal language as well as in everyday informal language. It is something that addresses and speaks to all of us, something that all of us can grasp hold of, understand, and relate to at whatever level we will. ... There is a comprehensiveness and an immensity to the Biblical good news. Yet all its elements are interlinked, gathered around a central strand, unified by a single person. ...

Whether it is a hardened atheist ... or an angst-ridden artist ... or in specifically religious contexts, we appear irresistibly drawn to spiritual questions that are personal and experiential in nature. And it is God, the Creator of our material and spiritual world, who confronts us in Genesis 1 and throughout this first book of the Bible.