Counsel of God
Lets look at the counsel of God ....
1) “Offered counsel”
2)“Determinate counsel”
Offered counsel may be rejected or accepted by the counselee, for its sole object is to display openly the spiritual condition of the one to whom counsel is offered. If the receiver is reprobate he will reject the divine Counsel of God.
Where as determinate counsel is another matter! This counsel is never offered on a take it or leave it basis. It is guaranteed to come to pass, precisely as declared, for it is pre-determined by a sovereign God whose absolute will cannot and will not be changed.
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My COUNSEL SHALL STAND, and I will do all my pleasure: ... Isaiah 46:9,10
Having purposed within Himself, having determined in his own heart what shall be His plan and what shall take place, because it pleased Him in His own holy nature that it should, the Lord knows the end from the beginning, because the all things which do take place do so at His good pleasure.
Peter, on the day of Pentecost, declared with assurance that the reason that the Jews succeeded in murdering Jesus was that their will and purpose expressed by their counsel, fulfilled the will and purpose and counsel of God Himself .... Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Act 2:23
Even a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, said .... And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, YE CANNOT OVERTHROW IT; lest haply ye be found even to FIGHT AGAINST God.
Ohhhhhh how many fight against the counsel of God with their MYSTERY BABYLON church doctrines, creeds and traditions. Proclaiming an eternal hell, a place of no return for the unbeliever. Standing in the way of God's counsel with their lying hearts as the Pharisees and lawyers REJECTED THE COUNSEL OF GOD against themselves.
Though I see the COUNSEL of God in this end of age is to raise up His sons, for the down fall of the so called modern Church was for seen by Him.
For the manifested (overcoming) sons of God are the “heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ,” whose salvation and ultimate perfection is based upon God’s ordained and Determinate Counsel.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places IN Christ: 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: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure OF HIS WILL, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein HE HAT MADE US accepted IN the beloved. Ephesians 1:3-6
Since the counsel of our God and Father is fixed, can never be altered, the writer of Hebrews declares: “Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the IMMUTABILITY OF HIS COUNSEL, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge TO LAY HOLD UPON THE HOPE SET BEFORE US: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, and which entereth into that within the veil: whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest forever after the order of Melchizadek” Hebrews 6:17-20
To see His counsel, is to know His counsel AND SHALL come to pass for thee.
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.
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.
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. Romans 8:28-30
QUOTE - I admit that I see myself as falling far short of that image of the beloved Son, as Paul also confessed that he did not count himself as having apprehended. The perfection of the body of Christ, the glory that shall follow, a glory so transcendent that it shall reconcile the world back to God, seems so remote at times, through the sure word of the Lord has been firmly established in our hearts.
As some ignorantly misjudge the skill and wisdom of a great architect and builder by his unfinished work, so also many in their ignorance now misjudge God by His unfinished work; by and by, when the rough scaffolding of carnality and evil, which has been permitted for the processing of God’s sons and instruction of mankind, and which shall finally be overruled will universally declare His infinite wisdom and power; and His plans will be seen to be in harmony with His glorious character. END OF QUOTE
“The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, SO SHALL IT BE.” ... “The Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it?” ... “I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like Me ... My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure ... yea, I have spoken it, I will bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it” Isaiah 14:24-27, 46:9-11
Therefore, as manifested sons of God, and heirs of a promised inheritance, we MUST separate ourselves from every system of man, from every work of the flesh to consecrate ourselves wholly and unreservedly to the COUNSEL OF GOD that we may, by His bountiful mercy and divine grace, apprehend that for which we are also apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12-14
1) “Offered counsel”
2)“Determinate counsel”
Offered counsel may be rejected or accepted by the counselee, for its sole object is to display openly the spiritual condition of the one to whom counsel is offered. If the receiver is reprobate he will reject the divine Counsel of God.
Where as determinate counsel is another matter! This counsel is never offered on a take it or leave it basis. It is guaranteed to come to pass, precisely as declared, for it is pre-determined by a sovereign God whose absolute will cannot and will not be changed.
Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,
Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My COUNSEL SHALL STAND, and I will do all my pleasure: ... Isaiah 46:9,10
Having purposed within Himself, having determined in his own heart what shall be His plan and what shall take place, because it pleased Him in His own holy nature that it should, the Lord knows the end from the beginning, because the all things which do take place do so at His good pleasure.
Peter, on the day of Pentecost, declared with assurance that the reason that the Jews succeeded in murdering Jesus was that their will and purpose expressed by their counsel, fulfilled the will and purpose and counsel of God Himself .... Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain: Act 2:23
Even a Pharisee, named Gamaliel, a doctor of the law, said .... And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought: But if it be of God, YE CANNOT OVERTHROW IT; lest haply ye be found even to FIGHT AGAINST God.
Ohhhhhh how many fight against the counsel of God with their MYSTERY BABYLON church doctrines, creeds and traditions. Proclaiming an eternal hell, a place of no return for the unbeliever. Standing in the way of God's counsel with their lying hearts as the Pharisees and lawyers REJECTED THE COUNSEL OF GOD against themselves.
Though I see the COUNSEL of God in this end of age is to raise up His sons, for the down fall of the so called modern Church was for seen by Him.
For the manifested (overcoming) sons of God are the “heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ,” whose salvation and ultimate perfection is based upon God’s ordained and Determinate Counsel.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places IN Christ: 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: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure OF HIS WILL, To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein HE HAT MADE US accepted IN the beloved. Ephesians 1:3-6
Since the counsel of our God and Father is fixed, can never be altered, the writer of Hebrews declares: “Wherein God, willing more abundantly to show unto the heirs of promise the IMMUTABILITY OF HIS COUNSEL, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge TO LAY HOLD UPON THE HOPE SET BEFORE US: which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, and which entereth into that within the veil: whither the forerunner is for us entered, even Jesus, made an high priest forever after the order of Melchizadek” Hebrews 6:17-20
To see His counsel, is to know His counsel AND SHALL come to pass for thee.
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.
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.
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. Romans 8:28-30
QUOTE - I admit that I see myself as falling far short of that image of the beloved Son, as Paul also confessed that he did not count himself as having apprehended. The perfection of the body of Christ, the glory that shall follow, a glory so transcendent that it shall reconcile the world back to God, seems so remote at times, through the sure word of the Lord has been firmly established in our hearts.
As some ignorantly misjudge the skill and wisdom of a great architect and builder by his unfinished work, so also many in their ignorance now misjudge God by His unfinished work; by and by, when the rough scaffolding of carnality and evil, which has been permitted for the processing of God’s sons and instruction of mankind, and which shall finally be overruled will universally declare His infinite wisdom and power; and His plans will be seen to be in harmony with His glorious character. END OF QUOTE
“The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, SO SHALL IT BE.” ... “The Lord of hosts hath purposed, and who shall disannul it?” ... “I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like Me ... My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure ... yea, I have spoken it, I will bring it to pass; I have purposed it, I will also do it” Isaiah 14:24-27, 46:9-11
Therefore, as manifested sons of God, and heirs of a promised inheritance, we MUST separate ourselves from every system of man, from every work of the flesh to consecrate ourselves wholly and unreservedly to the COUNSEL OF GOD that we may, by His bountiful mercy and divine grace, apprehend that for which we are also apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:12-14
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