Doctrine of predestination
God is infinite and omnipotent
that He foreknew every gnat, every fly, every sparrow, and
every man that will ever be born upon the face of the earth. And that included YOU and me. The Scriptures say that God can hear your prayers even before you open up your mouth. The hairs on your head hath He numbered; and that He hath engraved your name on the palm of His hand.
Ephesians 1:5-6 states
that God hath “predestinated
us according to the good
pleasure of His will, to the
praise and glory of His
grace.”
Romans 8:30 further
emphasizes this election
saying, “Whom He did
predestinate, THEM He also
called; and whom He called,
THEM He also justified; and
whom He justified, THEM He
also glorified” (past tense).
And “their names were
written in the Lamb’s Book of
Life before the foundation of
the world” (Rev.13:8)
If you are truly a child of God, you are foreknown of God
even before there ever was a star or moon in the entire
universe. Jesus said, “All that the Father has given Me
will come to Me and NONE of THEM will be LOST.” The
Bible says, “All things work together for good to them that
love God”, and that “the footsteps of the righteous are
ordered by the Lord.” Surely, you have to recognize yourself
today whether you are God’s predestinated or not, for if
God has elected you to eternal life, “nothing can pluck you
from out of His hand.”
Did you know that it was God’s permissive will for SIN
to come into this world? Strange, but true. He permitteds in order for Him to display His great attributes of a SAVIOUR and a REDEEMER. He allowed Adam and Eve, our first parent, to be deceived by the serpent in order to make way for His great redemptive plan of salvation.
God Himself wanted to be glorified. He could not have
been glorified as a Saviour if there was nobody to be saved
in the first place. There had to be sinners first, before He
could ever display His attributes of being a Saviour. In that manner, had to create sons and
daughters in me and you first, so that He could become a
Father. Man’s existence and fall, therefore, had made God
both Father and Saviour to us, and a Blessed Redeemer, too.
In order to be God, He knew from the very beginning
who will be saved and who will not be saved. God was
not willing that anyone should perish, but that all might
come to repentance. But He, being infinite, knew the end
from the beginning. And therefore, He knew who would accept and those who would not accept His provided way of salvation. He knew who would go to heaven and those who would go to hell. If He didn’t, then He isn’t God. But God is unlimited. He is infinite and He makes no mistakes. His works are perfect; and He knows all things. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. And God sent Jesus Christ for only one specific
purpose : that’s to save and redeem those who God
foreknew will be saved; and not the rest of the world. Notice Jesus in His prayer to the Father in John
17:9-10, “I pray for them : I pray NOT for the world, but for THEM which Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine. And I am glorified in THEM.” To “REDEEM” simply means to “TAKE BACK” what
was originally God’s own. Jesus, as a Redeemer, was to
take back only those who once belonged originally to God
but were trapped in sin by the natural birth. Jesus shed
His precious Blood only for those who had been foreknown of God, and for those whose names were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
Jesus could never redeem the Devil’s children, for they
are not of God. They were simply predestinated unto eternal damnation, and were basically created for that purpose. Though this might seem to be a hard saying, but the Scriptures support this truth. Do you realize that even sinners and reprobates
are predestinated by God? Yes, In 1 Peter 2:8 and it says,
“Even to them which stumble at the Word, being disobedient: where unto they
were appointed.” Jude 1:4 says
it, too: “Who were before of oldo to this condemnation,
ungodly men, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness”. Talk
about Judas, Cain, Pharaoh
and Balaam etc, all these men had played their significant part as God’s adversary in God’s greatest drama series, the Bible. God is the master planner and knowed the end of every man or woman from the beginning. That's why He predestinated every body in his place. Paul asked, How can the POT say to the POTTER, ‘Why hast Thou made me thus?’ Hath not the Potter power over the clay to make one vessel unto honour,
and another unto dishonour?”
(Romans 9:21), these words
pertain to predestination. God raises evil to fulfill his
glorious purpose of greater good. God said in Isaiah 45:7-
”I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”
Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit (Luke 10:21) saying, “I thank
Thee Father, O Lord of heaven and earth, for Thou hast
HID these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent,
and hast revealed them unto babes; even so, Father, for
so it seemed good in Thy sight.” This blessed Gospel is,
therefore, revealed only to His elected ones. God hid His
truth from unbelievers.
Did you know also that one of God’s permissive will, is that sickness has been to allowed to afflict mankind? Yes, He
sometimes permit sickness and diseases in order for
Him to manifest Himself as a Healer. Exodus 16:26-“For I am the Lord that healeth thee”. Isaiah 53:5-“He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes, we are HEALED”. Doctors simply make the stitches and give us prescriptions, but it’s God Who does the Healing.
Healing is done by multiplication of new cells in the body, which is creation by nature. God truly foreordained all His godly
attributes to be displayed unto men and all these attributes were finally fulfilled when God Himself became MAN through His Son Jesus Christ and took the penalty
for our sins so that by believing in Him we may be justified and forgiven. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father except by Me.”
Your salvation and my salvation, therefore, is truly
dependent upon God’s choosing and approval. Romans 9:16-“It is not him that willeth or him that runneth,b of God that sheweth mercy”. For God saith unto Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” God hath even declared, “Jacob have I loved, and Esau I have hated”, even before the two children were born from their mother’s womb, not having done neither good nor evil. That only proves God’s election to us.
The apostle Paul finally concluded, “But if our gospel
be hid, it is HID to them that are lost” (2 Cor. 4:3). Truly, in
this day, “Many will be called, but only very few are chosen.”
Sincerity and being just religious is not enough. The
Pharisees and the Saducees were so sincerely wrong.
They spent all their lives studying God in the synagogues
yet when the very Messiah-God came to them, they
dubbed Him as “Beelzebub” to the extent of crucifying Him on the cross.“Not everyone that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven,” (Matt.7:21). The Bible says that we are not saved by any of our good works norb any of our own personal merits. We are saved by faith alone in the finished atonement of Jesus Christ. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God: NOT of WORKS, lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8,9).
Only God’s ELECTED few will be able to receive the full
understanding of these mysteries in the Scriptures.
Others who are not, will simply continue to hold to man made dogmas, creeds, rituals, and religious traditions to merit their own salvation. “In vain you do worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men” (Mk. 7:7). It’s always death to trust in the sinking sands of man’s ideas. The elect will only walk in the way of God’s Bible. The elect of God will hunger and thirst only for the full Word.stars
God is infinite and omnipotent
that He foreknew every gnat, every fly, every sparrow, and
every man that will ever be born upon the face of the earth. And that included YOU and me. The Scriptures say that God can hear your prayers even before you open up your mouth. The hairs on your head hath He numbered; and that He hath engraved your name on the palm of His hand.
Ephesians 1:5-6 states
that God hath “predestinated
us according to the good
pleasure of His will, to the
praise and glory of His
grace.”
Romans 8:30 further
emphasizes this election
saying, “Whom He did
predestinate, THEM He also
called; and whom He called,
THEM He also justified; and
whom He justified, THEM He
also glorified” (past tense).
And “their names were
written in the Lamb’s Book of
Life before the foundation of
the world” (Rev.13:8)
If you are truly a child of God, you are foreknown of God
even before there ever was a star or moon in the entire
universe. Jesus said, “All that the Father has given Me
will come to Me and NONE of THEM will be LOST.” The
Bible says, “All things work together for good to them that
love God”, and that “the footsteps of the righteous are
ordered by the Lord.” Surely, you have to recognize yourself
today whether you are God’s predestinated or not, for if
God has elected you to eternal life, “nothing can pluck you
from out of His hand.”
Did you know that it was God’s permissive will for SIN
to come into this world? Strange, but true. He permitteds in order for Him to display His great attributes of a SAVIOUR and a REDEEMER. He allowed Adam and Eve, our first parent, to be deceived by the serpent in order to make way for His great redemptive plan of salvation.
God Himself wanted to be glorified. He could not have
been glorified as a Saviour if there was nobody to be saved
in the first place. There had to be sinners first, before He
could ever display His attributes of being a Saviour. In that manner, had to create sons and
daughters in me and you first, so that He could become a
Father. Man’s existence and fall, therefore, had made God
both Father and Saviour to us, and a Blessed Redeemer, too.
In order to be God, He knew from the very beginning
who will be saved and who will not be saved. God was
not willing that anyone should perish, but that all might
come to repentance. But He, being infinite, knew the end
from the beginning. And therefore, He knew who would accept and those who would not accept His provided way of salvation. He knew who would go to heaven and those who would go to hell. If He didn’t, then He isn’t God. But God is unlimited. He is infinite and He makes no mistakes. His works are perfect; and He knows all things. He is the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. And God sent Jesus Christ for only one specific
purpose : that’s to save and redeem those who God
foreknew will be saved; and not the rest of the world. Notice Jesus in His prayer to the Father in John
17:9-10, “I pray for them : I pray NOT for the world, but for THEM which Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine. And I am glorified in THEM.” To “REDEEM” simply means to “TAKE BACK” what
was originally God’s own. Jesus, as a Redeemer, was to
take back only those who once belonged originally to God
but were trapped in sin by the natural birth. Jesus shed
His precious Blood only for those who had been foreknown of God, and for those whose names were written in the Lamb’s Book of Life before the foundation of the world.
Jesus could never redeem the Devil’s children, for they
are not of God. They were simply predestinated unto eternal damnation, and were basically created for that purpose. Though this might seem to be a hard saying, but the Scriptures support this truth. Do you realize that even sinners and reprobates
are predestinated by God? Yes, In 1 Peter 2:8 and it says,
“Even to them which stumble at the Word, being disobedient: where unto they
were appointed.” Jude 1:4 says
it, too: “Who were before of oldo to this condemnation,
ungodly men, turning the grace of God into lasciviousness”. Talk
about Judas, Cain, Pharaoh
and Balaam etc, all these men had played their significant part as God’s adversary in God’s greatest drama series, the Bible. God is the master planner and knowed the end of every man or woman from the beginning. That's why He predestinated every body in his place. Paul asked, How can the POT say to the POTTER, ‘Why hast Thou made me thus?’ Hath not the Potter power over the clay to make one vessel unto honour,
and another unto dishonour?”
(Romans 9:21), these words
pertain to predestination. God raises evil to fulfill his
glorious purpose of greater good. God said in Isaiah 45:7-
”I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and
create evil: I the LORD do all these things.”
Jesus rejoiced in the Spirit (Luke 10:21) saying, “I thank
Thee Father, O Lord of heaven and earth, for Thou hast
HID these things from the eyes of the wise and prudent,
and hast revealed them unto babes; even so, Father, for
so it seemed good in Thy sight.” This blessed Gospel is,
therefore, revealed only to His elected ones. God hid His
truth from unbelievers.
Did you know also that one of God’s permissive will, is that sickness has been to allowed to afflict mankind? Yes, He
sometimes permit sickness and diseases in order for
Him to manifest Himself as a Healer. Exodus 16:26-“For I am the Lord that healeth thee”. Isaiah 53:5-“He was wounded for our transgressions, He was bruised for our iniquities, the chastisement of our peace was upon Him, and by His stripes, we are HEALED”. Doctors simply make the stitches and give us prescriptions, but it’s God Who does the Healing.
Healing is done by multiplication of new cells in the body, which is creation by nature. God truly foreordained all His godly
attributes to be displayed unto men and all these attributes were finally fulfilled when God Himself became MAN through His Son Jesus Christ and took the penalty
for our sins so that by believing in Him we may be justified and forgiven. Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth and the life; no man cometh unto the Father except by Me.”
Your salvation and my salvation, therefore, is truly
dependent upon God’s choosing and approval. Romans 9:16-“It is not him that willeth or him that runneth,b of God that sheweth mercy”. For God saith unto Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.” God hath even declared, “Jacob have I loved, and Esau I have hated”, even before the two children were born from their mother’s womb, not having done neither good nor evil. That only proves God’s election to us.
The apostle Paul finally concluded, “But if our gospel
be hid, it is HID to them that are lost” (2 Cor. 4:3). Truly, in
this day, “Many will be called, but only very few are chosen.”
Sincerity and being just religious is not enough. The
Pharisees and the Saducees were so sincerely wrong.
They spent all their lives studying God in the synagogues
yet when the very Messiah-God came to them, they
dubbed Him as “Beelzebub” to the extent of crucifying Him on the cross.“Not everyone that saith unto Me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven,” (Matt.7:21). The Bible says that we are not saved by any of our good works norb any of our own personal merits. We are saved by faith alone in the finished atonement of Jesus Christ. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of
yourselves: it is the gift of God: NOT of WORKS, lest any man should boast” (Eph. 2:8,9).
Only God’s ELECTED few will be able to receive the full
understanding of these mysteries in the Scriptures.
Others who are not, will simply continue to hold to man made dogmas, creeds, rituals, and religious traditions to merit their own salvation. “In vain you do worship Me, teaching for doctrine the commandments of men” (Mk. 7:7). It’s always death to trust in the sinking sands of man’s ideas. The elect will only walk in the way of God’s Bible. The elect of God will hunger and thirst only for the full Word.stars
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