EPHESIANS 1:4*

EPHESIANS 1:4*
*"According as he hath chosen us*
*in him before the foundation of the world"*
*~BLESSED SOVEREIGNTY~ *
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By His grace and mercy, our will becomes the Father's will when we
choose the Saviour. May it ever continue!
As the master musician knows exactly how the symphonic rendition will
sound before its notes vibrate upon the air, anticipating with accuracy
every tone, cadence, and change of tempo, so God knows precisely what
will occur and keeps it under control, though enacted by independent
moral agencies. It is because God knows what the reactions of such 'free
agencies' will be under any given set of circumstances, that He
encompasses the inner circle of 'freedom' with His outer circle of
sovereignty.
The will of man is guided by what he knows and what he desires. The
divine method of reaching the will is by graciously increasing man's
knowledge and by stimulating his desires, while on the divine side of
this method there remains not the shadow of possible failure. The end is
as certain as any eternal reality in God. On the human side, man is
conscious of doing only what he actually does: he chooses as an act of
his own volition to receive the grace God offers in Christ Jesus. By
persuasion and enlightenment God realizes His purpose to the point of
infinite completeness; yet no human will has ever coerced, nor will one
ever be.
God's elective purposes are carried out in such an incomprehensible way
through the internal and external influences of infinite love and wisdom
that man is at no time conscious of any external compulsion, but only of
choices and decisions in the exercise of his own free will. Knowledge of
what God has accomplished by His own free will comes later by the
channel of the Word.
".......being predestinated according to the purpose*
*of Him who worketh all things*
*after the counsel of his own will"*
*Eph 1 :11*
* Our Purpose and Mission
The ministry of "Grace and The Truth" has the purpose of encouraging
Christians to believe what God says.
We read in in Ephesians. 1:18 "The eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what
the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints," and in
Colossians 2:2 " That their hearts might be comforted, being knit
together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of
understanding, to the acknowledgment (epignosis) true knowledge of the
mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ".
We are dedicated to helping Christians to a fuller knowledge of Him, and
the Grace of God. Until we all come into the Unity, Ephesians 4:13 "Till
we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son
of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ:"

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