To understand ANYTHING about the Bible, salvation, Heaven, Hell, etc… the very first principal we must get in our thinking is that,
GOD IS ABSOLUTELY SOVEREIGN OVER ALL THINGS.
NOTHING happens that God did not allow, plan, decree, predestine, period. World War 1 and 2, every presidential election, Revolutionary War, aunt Sally’s untimely death, your promotion at work, your children, the dry skin on the yak in the fields of India, (what?) your headlight going out last week, your waking up one minute before the alarm last Wednesday… see what I mean? EVERYTHING!
Along with that, when these things happen, they are not by chance and God just acknowledges they’ve happened;
HE MADE THEM HAPPEN. God is also, “IMMUTABLE,” He knows all things, He has NEVER learned a new piece of information.
(Now go to a safe space and shake for a while, but then come back, this is just the foothills of the Rocky Mountains!)
9 "Remember the former things long past, For I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like Me,
10 Declaring the end from the beginning, And from ancient times things which have not been done, Saying, 'My purpose will be established, And I will accomplish all My good pleasure'; (Isaiah 46:9, NASB)
Isaiah 46:9 isn’t poetry, it’s the
LORD GOD OMNIPOTENT telling His creation Who He is.
Since this is Who God is, it only logically follows that He knew of your salvation before the earth was created.
4 just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and blameless before Him. In love
5 He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will,
6 to the praise of the glory of His grace, which He freely bestowed on us in the Beloved. (Ephesians 1:4, NASB)
Reader, if you are saved, it is because God chose in eternity past to save you! Not because of anything that He foresaw in you in the future, but because God, by nature, is a saving God, and in His good pleasure, He has chosen to save some.
The Salvation of the Righteous, is of the LORD. Psalm 37
Salvation is, “ MONERGISTIC,” meaning, it involves only one party, “mono.”
We have only briefly looked at God, but there is enough here to think on for eternity.
Soli Deo Gloria
