THE DIVINE PURPOSE OF GOD

THE DIVINE PURPOSE OF GOD continued

Act 2:23 

"Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God,"

"Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of 

God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Act 2:24

Whom God hath raised up, having loosed the pains of death: because it was

not possible that he should be holden of it." 

We must also see Who this Great God of purpose is.  He is not just some figment of our imagination.  To accomplish all that we have said, He had to be the Great God of power.  It was His will and purpose also to reveal Himself in 3 persons in one Godhead.  He is the God who is said in Scripture to inhabit eternity.  Was He one Who divided and became 3?  No, certainly not.  He is immutable.  All three persons are immutable.  If they were not, they would not be God.  The Holy Spirit was not created at Pentecost; He always proceeded from both the Father and the Son.  In the beginning it was the Holy Spirit that brooded over the face of the deep.  Jesus did not become the Son of God at His birth or at His baptism; He is the eternally generated Son of God.  He is not a Son of God as we Christians are;  He is the only begotten Son of God.  We are sons by adoption which is also from eternity.  God, the Father, is not One who upon the birth of Jesus became 3;  He has been 3 in 1 from all eternity.  When He would create man, He said, "Let us create man in Our Own Image."  The very name for God used in the creation message, Gen. 1:1 is Elohim, which is a plural word.  Yet He is not three gods united in One; He has from eternity been one God, Father, Son, & Holy Spirit. 

          There is very much more that could be said about this, but for the sake of time and space, we shall let this go for now.  This will serve to show assuredly that our salvation is no simple, stumbled over fantasy.  It is the well thought out purpose of the wise and sovereign God.  What think ye of this?