PREDESTINED IN CHRIST- Romans 8 : 28 - 39
“And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose. For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.” - Romans 8 : 28 - 30
Many of us read the above verses and look at them from the wrong perspective. They take them out of context and try to answer questions that do not exist. The question that the majority ask is, “Who has God predestined?” But it is not about that! It is more about that Christ before time was predestined.
Paul in chapters 5 to 8 has revealed that mankind is either “in Adam” or “in Christ” and that Christ was God’s plan, held in His foreknowledge to be the total and righteous solution for all mankind. This is the span of God’s eternal grace covenant right here! In the context of all that has gone before in Romans, it should now be read - “Before time he chose you to be In Christ. In time he justified you in Christ. After time he glorified you in Christ.” And all in the “past” tense to declare that it was always God’s plan right from the start for you to be in Christ. You were always predestined to be in Christ before the foundation of the world.
Notice how none of the qualifications has anything to do you? Only God can qualify people. The only thing we are called to do is to believe the promise of Christ. God does not call the qualified. He calls us all, because, in Adam, we are incapable of qualifying ourselves! He asks us to respond to his offer of love, his offer to be our qualification. Those who respond to Christ, die to their old sin nature and are reborn into Christ, where he justifies us, he makes us righteous and he ultimately glorifies us. Those who don’t and continue to rely on their own efforts will, unfortunately, be lost.
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