THE MYSTERY OF GOD’S FOREKNOWLEDGE AND ELECTION

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SCRIPTURE READING

• HEBREWS 111-6
• Now faith is the substance of things hoped
  for, the evidence of things not seen. For by it
  the elders obtained a good report. Through faith
  we understand that the worlds were framed by the
  word of God, so that things which are seen were
  not made of things which do appear. By faith Abel
  offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than
  Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was
  righteous, God testifying of his gifts and by it
  he being dead yet speaketh.
• By faith Enoch was translated that he should not
  see death and was not found, because God had
  translated him for before his translation he had
  this testimony, that he pleased God. But without
  faith it is impossible to please him for he
  that cometh to God must believe that he is, and
  that he is a rewarder of them that diligently
  seek him.
• COLOSSIANS 112-17
• Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us
  meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the
  saints in light Who hath delivered us from the
  power of darkness, and hath translated us into
  the kingdom of his dear Son In whom we have
  redemption through his blood, even the
  forgiveness of sins Who is the image of the
  invisible God, the firstborn of every creature
  For by him were all things created, that are in
  heaven, and that are in earth, visible and
  invisible, whether they be thrones, or
  dominions, or principalities, or powers all
  things were created by him, and for him And he
  is before all things, and by him all things
  consist.

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THE MYSTERYOF GODS FOREKNOWLEDGEAND ELECTION
II PETER 110 Wherefore the rather, brethren,
give diligence to make your calling and election
sure for if ye do these things, ye shall never
fall.
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GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
REVELATION 18I am Alpha and Omega, the
beginning (Genesis) and the ending (Apocalypse),
saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and
which is to come, the Almighty.
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THE ATTRIBUTES OF GOD (ELOHIM)

• God is ETERNAL (He has no beginning, and no
  ending. Only Him has eternal life.
• God is OMNIPOTENT (God is all-powerful. The devil
  is only a created being.
• God is OMNISCIENT (God knows all things) .
• God is OMNIPRESENT (He can be everywhere. Heaven
  is His throne and earth is only His footstool.
• God is SOVEREIGN (No one can dictate God)
• God is INFINITE (He has no limitations).

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Gods attributes before the beginning of time are
as follows

• GOD- God means an object of worship. He wants
  to be worshipped, so He created first the angels.
  
• FATHERHOOD- He wished to have sons and daughters.
  He created you and me.
• HEALER sickness is part of Gods permissive will
• SAVIOUR - there has to be a fallen creature
• REDEEMER - there has to be a previous ownership
• JUDGE there has to be both righteous the
  wicked
• KING there has to be a Kingdom of His own
  rulership.
• PRIEST He is High Priest that can be touched by
  the feeling of our infirmities

Ocean to the fish fin Earth for a tree Lamb
atonement for sinners.
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HEBREWS 122 Looking unto Jesus the author and
finisher of our faith
THE LAMBS BOOK OF LIFE
REVELATION 35 He that overcometh, the same shall
be clothed in white raiment and I will not BLOT
out his NAME out of the BOOK of LIFE, but I will
confess his name before my Father, and before his
angels.
REVELATION 138 And all
that dwell upon the earth shall worship him (the
antiChrist), whose names are NOT written in the
BOOK of LIFE of the LAMB slain from the
foundation of the world.
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NAMES WRITTEN IN HEAVEN

• LUKE 1017-21
• And the SEVENTY returned again with joy,
  saying, Lord, even the DEVILS are subject unto us
  through Thy Name.
• And He said unto them, I beheld Satan as
  lightning fall from heaven. Behold, I give unto
  you POWER to tread on serpents and scorpions, and
  over all the power of the enemy and nothing
  shall by any means hurt you. Notwithstanding in
  REJOICE NOT, that the spirits are subject unto
  you but rather REJOICE, because your NAMES are
  WRITTEN in HEAVEN.

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THE GOSPEL IS HID FROM UNBELIEVERS

• JOHN 665And he said, Therefore said I unto you,
  that no man can come unto me, except it were
  given unto him of my Father.
• II CORINTHIANS 43-4But if our GOSPEL be HID, it
  is hid to them that are LOST In whom the god of
  this world hath blinded the minds of them which
  believe not, lest the light of the glorious
  gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should
  shine unto them.

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THE GOSPEL IS HID FROM UNBELIEVERS

• MATTHEW 1125-26 At that time Jesus answered
  and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven
  and earth, because Thou hast HID these things
  from the wise and prudent, and hast REVEALED them
  unto babes. Even so, Father for so it seemed
  good in thy sight.

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THE GOSPEL IS HID FROM UNBELIEVERS

• MATTHEW 1313-16 Therefore speak I to them
  in PARABLES because they seeing see not and
  hearing they hear not, neither do they
  understand. And in them is fulfilled the
  prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye
  shall hear, and shall not understand and seeing
  ye shall see, and shall not perceive For this
  people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears
  are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have
  closed lest at any time they should see with
  their eyes, and hear with their ears, and
  should understand with their heart, and should
  be converted, and I should heal them. But blessed
  are your eyes, for they see and your ears, for
  they hear.

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THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD

• ROMANS 828-3028 And we know that ALL THINGS
  work together for good to them that LOVE God, to
  them who are the CALLED according to his
  PURPOSE.
• 29 For whom he did FOREKNOW, He also did
  PREDESTINATE to be conformed to the image of
  His Son, that he might be the firstborn among
  many brethren.
• 30 Moreover whom He did PREDESTINATE, them He
  also CALLED and whom He CALLED, them He also
  JUSTIFIED and whom He JUSTIFIED, them He also
  GLORIFIED.

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YOU ARE CHOSEN, ELECTED, PREDESTINATED

• EPHESIANS 13-123 Blessed be the God
  and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath
  blessed us with all spiritual blessings in
  heavenly places in Christ
• 4 According as he hath chosen us in him before
  the foundation of the world, that we should be
  holy and without blame before him in love
• 5 Having predestinated us unto the adoption of
  children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to
  the good pleasure of his will,
• 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace,
  wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.
• 7 In whom we have redemption through his
  blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the
  riches of his grace
• 8 Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all
  wisdom and prudence
• 9 Having made known unto us the MYSTERY of his
  will, according to his good pleasure which he
  hath purposed in himself
• 10 That in the dispensation of the fulness of
  times he might gather together in one all things
  in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which
  are on earth even in him
• 11 In whom also we have obtained an
  inheritance, being predestinated according to the
  purpose of him who worketh all things after the
  counsel of his own will
• 12 That we should be to the praise of his
  glory, who first trusted in Christ.

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• ROMANS 911-23
• 11 (For the children being not yet born,
  neither having done any good or evil, that the
  purpose of God according to election might stand,
  not of works, but of him that calleth)
• 12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve
  the younger.
• As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau
  have I hated.
• 15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on
  whom I will have mercy, and I will have
  compassion on whom I will have compassion.
• 16 So then it is not of him that willeth,
  nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth
  mercy.
• 17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even
  for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that
  I might shew my power in thee, and that my name
  might be declared throughout all the earth.
• 18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will
  have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
• 19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet
  find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
• 20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest
  against God? Shall the thing formed say to him
  that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
• 21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of
  the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and
  another unto dishonour?
• 22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath,
  and to make his power known, endured with much
  longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to
  destruction
• 23 And that he might make known the riches of
  his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had
  afore prepared unto glory

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THE WICKED ARE FOREKNOWN OF GOD ALSO

• JUDE 14
• For there are certain MEN crept in unawares, who
  were before of old ordained to this condemnation,
  ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into
  lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God,
  and our Lord Jesus Christ.
• I PETER 28
• And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence,
  even to them which stumble at the WORD, being
  disobedient whereunto also they were
  appointed.Talk about Judas, Pharaoh, Balaam,
  Korah, Dathan, etc. Also the Twins in the Bible
  Cain and Abel, Esau and Jacob, Isaac and
  Ishmael, Moses and Rameses, Jesus and Judas, the
  Wheat and the Tares, the Crow and the Dove, The
  Goat and the Lamb.

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THE HOLY GHOST CAN FALL ON EVERYBODY, BUT

• ACTS 217
• And it shall come to pass in the last days,
  saith God, I will pour out of MY SPIRIT upon ALL
  FLESH.
• MATTHEW 545
• For he maketh his SUN to rise on the evil and on
  the good, and sendeth RAIN on the JUST and on the
  UNJUST.
• MATTHEW 1330
• Let both grow together until the HARVEST and in
  the time of harvest I will say to the reapers,
  Gather ye together first the TARES, and bind them
  in bundles to burn them but gather the WHEAT
  into my barn. (Let every seed bring forth of
  its kind Gen 111-12)
• MATTHEW 720
• Wherefore by their FRUITS ye shall know them.

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NOT EVERYONE THAT SAYS LORD

• MATTHEW 721-23
• Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord,
  shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he
  that doeth the will of my Father which is in
  heaven.
• Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have
  we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name
  have cast out devils? and in thy name done many
  wonderful works?
• And then will I profess unto them, I never knew
  you depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

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THE WISE AND FOOLISH VIRGINS

• MATTHEW 251-12
• Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto
  TEN VIRGINS, which took their lamps, and went
  forth to meet the BRIDEGROOM.
• And FIVE of them were WISE, and FIVE were
  FOOLISH. They that were foolish took their
  lamps, and took NO OIL with them But the wise
  took OIL in their vessels with their lamps.
  While the BRIDEGROOM tarried, they all slumbered
  and slept.
• And at MIDNIGHT there was a CRY made, Behold, the
  BRIDEGROOM COMETH go ye out to MEET Him. Then
  all those virgins arose, and TRIMMED their lamps.
  And the FOOLISH said unto the WISE, Give us of
  your OIL for our lamps are GONE OUT. But the
  WISE answered, saying, Not so lest there be
  not ENOUGH for us and you but go ye rather to
  them that SELL, and BUY for yourselves.
• And WHILE they went to BUY, the Bridegroom CAME
  and they that were READY went in with him to the
  MARRIAGE and the DOOR was SHUT. AFTERWARD came
  also the OTHER virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open
  to us. But he answered and said, Verily I say
  unto you, I KNOW you NOT.

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THE GOSPEL NET

• MATTHEW 1347-48
• 47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto
  a NET, that was cast into the sea, and gathered
  of every kind
• 48 Which, when it was full, they drew to
  shore, and sat down, and gathered the good into
  vessels, but cast the bad away.

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THE THREE PULLS OF JESUSYe shall be Fishers of
Men

• First Pull Healing Miracles
• Jesus turned the water into wine Fed 5,000
  out of 5 fishes two bread He healed the sick,
  cast out devils raise the dead.
• Second Pull Prophesying Discernment
• Jesus told Peter his name told Nathaniel he
  is a man with no guile told the Samaritan woman
  about her 6 husbands He exposed the Pharisees
  iniquities
• Third Pull Revealing of the WordJesus told the
  seventy about eating His flesh and drinking His
  blood about the Son of Man going up and down
  heaven.

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70 DISCIPLES LEFT JESUS

• JOHN 653,60-69
• Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say
  unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of
  man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
  Many therefore of his disciples, when they had
  heard this, said, This is an hard saying who
  can hear it? When Jesus knew in himself that his
  disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth
  this offend you? What and if ye shall see the
  Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is
  the spirit that quickeneth the flesh profiteth
  nothing the words that I speak unto you, they
  are spirit, and they are life.
• But there are some of you that believe not. For
  Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that
  believed not, and who should betray him. And he
  said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can
  come unto me, except it were given unto him of my
  Father.
• From that time many of his disciples went
  back, and walked no more with him. Then said
  Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? Then
  Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we
  go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we
  believe and are SURE that thou art that Christ,
  the Son of the living God.

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REVELATION IS THE KEY

• MATTHEW 1613-18
• 13 When Jesus came into the coasts of
  Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples,
  saying, Whom do men say that I the Son of man am?
  
• 14 And they said, Some say that thou art
  John the Baptist some, Elias and others,
  Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
• 15 He saith unto them, But whom say ye that
  I AM?
• 16 And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou
  art the Christ, the Son of the living God.
• 17 And Jesus answered and said unto him,
  Blessed art thou, Simon Barjona for FLESH and
  BLOOD hath not REVEALED it unto thee, but my
  FATHER which is in heaven.
• 18 And I say also unto thee, That thou art
  Peter, and upon this ROCK I will BUILD my CHURCH
  and the gates of hell shall not prevail against
  it.

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FAITH IS A REVELATION

• HEBREWS 111
• Now FAITH is the substance of things hoped for,
  the evidence of things not seen.
• HEBREWS 116
• But without FAITH it is IMPOSSIBLE to
  PLEASE Him for he that cometh to God must
  believe that HE IS, and that he is a rewarder
  of them that diligently seek him.

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THE STRONG MEAT OF THE WORD

• HEBREWS 512-14
• For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye
  have need that one teach you again which be the
  first principles of the oracles of God and are
  become such as have need of milk, and not of
  strong meat.
• For every one that useth milk is unskillful in
  the Word of righteousness for he is a babe.
• But strong meat belongeth to them that are of
  full age, even those who by reason of use have
  their senses exercised to discern both good and
  evil.