Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Gods purpose in election

God has always been God because He determined before the foundation of the world to create all things according to His attributes. Everything that we view has the visible stamp of Gods character on it. In other words when God designed all things He made it perfectly consistent in His purpose from its beginning to its end. If anything is out of order or independent of Gods desire then we cannot trust His spoken word. The unity of creation is the strength of Gods covenant language. Anytime we introduce and opposition that is independent of Gods creation and recreation then we embrace doubt in Gods character. This is why we must embrace total unity because the things the Maker... makes are perfectly ordered in the strength of His independent decision to bless or curse.

This voice of blessing or cursing is logic that creates a pure design of justice for God to rule over His creation.  There is no man who can escape the call of God. There is no man no matter what station that he has in life who can oppose Gods just call.  As God stands over His creation as the absolute governor of the earth so His call of blessing and cursing are yea and amen.

The danger for man is to devise his own scheme. Because man does not seek God then he says in his heart "Where is your God?" Man in his natural state is alienated from God and desires to be his own god. Man thinks that he can obtain blessing outside of Gods authority as Governor. The bible says that all of mans work is done in this cursed state. The eternal process of death... that being that all that man plans in this life will come to nothing. A man is not fulfilled by the scope of his work but by the work that God does on mans heart. The reason is that all of mans desires tho they look noble will come to nothing.

Because of Adams sin man was cursed with being in a state of darkness and loneliness. This curse is like a disease. Its as if a person who was born learned that he had an incurable disease and he had only a short time to live. This man no matter what efforts he took to be healed could not change this experience of hopelessness and pain. But in this case of being cursed by sin man never thinks he has an incurable disease. Instead he is a law unto himself.

When a man is a law unto himself , he devises his plans to spread this disease to the whole human race. In other words a man who is alienated from God devises plans that are threatening to Gods law. A man who is cursed has a disease that prevents him from doing good for the rite reasons. It is impossible for him to think a thought that is designed for the glory of God. The view of himself and the creation has been darkened. The curse has limited him to view himself as his own god. Everything he does is motivated to control everyone around him.

You must understand that the bible describes this process of death in the most obnoxious way. It is worse than we could ever imagine because it is from Gods view. But when we understand how helpless the world has become it buttresses our dependence upon God. Gods description of the cursed earth teaches us that we are completely unable. It teaches us that everything that comes into our lives is spoken in existence as we understand Gods justice to be according to His spoken curses or blessings. This is why ive been saying that salvation is so much greater than we could imagine and the process of death that man is under is far worse than we could imagine.    

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