Dear Dad’s Teaching From Decades Back. Timeless Truths! Be BLESSED!
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Exhorting to Evaluate and Appreciate God’s ETERNAL PURPOSES…
02/23 Daily Exhortation (Matt.6:11;Luke 11:3;Heb.3:13;10:25)…
Let’s see this 2/23 into this 2:23…
Acts 2:23 (KJB) Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain…
God has ETERNAL PURPOSES (Eph.1:7-10; Eph. 3:8-11)… Jesus is the LAMB SLAIN from THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD (Rev. 13:8)…
The attached Mind Map (front and back) on the Eternal Purpose of God is nigh a quarter century old now, and was used to preach a message which HAS NOT CHANGED ONE IOTA because THESE TIMELESS TRUTHS TRANSCEND! God’s SOVEREIGNTY has gotten us (and others) through many a TEST FOR many a moon, church.
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. PERIOD. And in every single time period.
Here’s another 2:23 that shows God’s plans to allow evil to PROVE/TEST…
Judges 2:20-23 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
Jg 2:21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:
Jg 2:22 That through them I may PROVE Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.
Jg 2:23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.
Jesus, as man, was wickedly murdered with an unjust court case (been there SEVERAL times before, but God delivered us and disappointed their counsels), yet GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSES WERE BEING WROUGHT BY THE “DETERMINATE COUNSEL AND FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD…” God was DISPLAYING HIS POWER. Marvelous, Matchless SAVIOUR, *Worthy* of ALL PRAISE, GLORY, AND HONOUR!!!!!! Let me stop shouting and try and type...
God reserves the DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS FOR HIMSELF. Last I checked, HE IS THE LORD AND HE IS THE KING. He reserves the right to BE FULLY GLORIFIED (Rev.4:11; Isaiah 48:11), TO MAKE HIMSELF KNOWN (Eph. 4:10; Col. 2:9-10; Col. 1:18-19; 1 Cor. 15:24-28), to bring out His Names, Titles, Attributes MORE FULLY, to create beings with choice, to show more mercy upon some by His grace, to extend mercy to all, to ensure others are saved, etc. HE IS THE POTTER. We are mere mud in the Maker’s Mighty Hand. The wheel is spun EVERY DAY. Thank you, JESUS!!!! Have Thine own way...
If God never allowed sin, He could never show Mercy, Grace, Forgiveness, Healing, Comfort, Wrath, etc. etc.
Man’s first major test was the tree of knowledge of good and evil and all others they could “freely” eat. This test shows up in the 40th verse of the Bible (Gen. 2:9) because 40 is the number of TESTING in Bible Numerics. By the way, God’s eternal purpose is upon a King James Bible and there is a reason why it is still going strong for 4 centuries now. YOU CAN NEVER OVERTHROW GOD’S ETERNAL PURPOSES.
God’s ETERNAL PURPOSES WILL BE WROUGHT REGARDLESS OF MAN OR ANGELS’ OR CHERUBIM’S FREE WILLS!!!!
Many of God’s Names and attributes are more fully revealed BECAUSE GOD ALLOWED EVIL VIA FREEWILL DECISIONS. Like diamonds really sparkle on a black velvet backdrop, God’s GLORY is exceedingly more glorious with the contrast of dark/ugly, etc. And (per Rom.7:13), God's laws make the sin EXCEEDING SINFUL.
Never murmur/complain at God’s ETERNAL PURPOSES. Love GOD SUPREMELY TODAY (Luke 7:47) and appreciate the DEPTHS OF GOD’S MANIFOLD WISDOM in His glorious ETERNAL PURPOSES, -r <3
Great notes.
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