The glory of God is revealed in His mercy toward mankind

Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Friday,
January 22, 2010

The glory of God is revealed in His mercy toward mankind

 7. As a part of that calling we are called to share in His eternal glory, 1Pe 5:10.

Because of our failures, all glory must be imparted solely to the mercy and goodness of God.

God allows certain human shortcomings to remain so that you might be humble in your own eyes.

Lapsarianism or the order of the divine decrees is based upon God being glorified and all of His attributes bringing glory to Himself.

Lapsarianism

The decrees of God are His eternal purpose according to the counsels of His own will whereby for His own glory He has foreordained whatever comes to pass.

Lapsarianism

The decrees of God are His eternal purpose according to the counsels of His own will whereby for His own glory He has foreordained whatever comes to pass.

Job 42:2 I know that Thou canst do all things, And that no purpose of Thine can be prevented.

Rom 8:28 we “are called according to His purpose”

Rom 9:11 for though the twins were not yet born, and had not done anything good or bad, in order that God’s purpose according to His election might stand, not because of works, but because of Him who calls,

2Ti 1:9 who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

The purpose and the plan of God has to do with God glorifying Himself not glorifying us!

Isa 43:20-21 “The beasts of the field will glorify Me; The jackals and the ostriches; The people whom I formed for Myself, Will declare My praise”

Eze 39:13 “I will glorify Myself,” declares the Lord God.

1Pe 4:16 But if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not feel ashamed, but in that name let him glorify God,

Eph 3:11 This [mystery] was in accordance with the eternal purpose which He carried out in Christ Jesus our Lord,

The mercy of God is a very vital aspect of the Divine decrees.

This complete indictment is the fact that He has placed all of us under total depravity and under the category of condemnation so that He may extend His mercy to all.

One of the principles missing when the divine decrees are being taught by theologians is the fact that the mercy of God is ignored.

Exo 33:18 - Moses said, “I pray Thee, show me Your glory!”

Exo 33:19 the Lord said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Jehovah before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

Grace comes from God in the form of gifts but it returns to God in the form of glory.

Mercy is, in effect, a byproduct of the essence of God in action toward the human race in history.

That is why there is a direct relationship between the mercy of God and the glory of God and between the grace of God and glory of God.

If the purpose of God redeeming man is the production of the greatest amount of happiness, then Christianity is one thing; if the end be the glory of God, then Christianity is another thing.

Rom 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?

Grace comes from God in the form of gifts but it returns to God in the form of glory.

1Co 6:20 For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

God’s plan throughout all the ages is that He might be glorified by the grace that He dispenses to undeserving creatures.

There can be no demonstration of mercy until you have someone in the condition that requires mercy.

Therefore, God not only decreed to create all mankind and then to permit the fall of all mankind, but then in grace He provided salvation for all mankind so that all mankind could be the beneficiaries of mercy.

Lapsarianism

There can be no demonstration of mercy until you have someone in the condition that requires mercy.

Condemnation must precede salvation.

Col 2:6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,


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