The Image!
Hello everyone,
How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord. We thank God for a very wonderful day that He has made, that we can rejoice and be glad in. Beloved, remember always that our battle is not against flesh or blood (Ephesians 6v12)… Sometimes when discouragement or disappointment comes via a person, or a letter, look beyond the surface, look deeper …
Primary Text: Romans 8v29
“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.” Romans 8v29 (KJV)
“For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.” Romans 8v29 (AMP)
“For God knew His people in advance, and He chose them to become like His Son, so that His Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.” Romans 8v29 (NLT)
“God knew what He was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love Him along the same lines as the life of His Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity He restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in Him.” Romans 8v29 (MSG)
“God knew them before He made the world, and He chose them to be like His Son so that Jesus would be the firstborn of many brothers and sisters.” Romans 8v29 (NCV)
The Dakes concordance comments that – “It is God’s plan that He has foreknown and predestinated, and not the individual conformity of free wills to the plan. He has called all men and all are free to accept or reject the call (Jn. 3:16; 1 Tim. 2:4; 2 Pet. 3:9; Rev. 22:17). All who do accept, He has foreknown and predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son that His Son might be the first-born among many brethren (v29). Those who reject the plan, He has foreknown and predestinated to be consigned to eternal hell as an everlasting monument of His wrath on rebels (Isa. 66:22-24; Rev. 14:9-11; Mt. 25:41,46). This is the sum of foreknowledge and predestination.”
Supplementary Text:
“No, God has not rejected and disowned His people [whose destiny] He had marked out and appointed and foreknown from the beginning. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? Lord, they have killed Your prophets; they have demolished Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life. But what is God’s reply to him? I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal! [I Kings 19:18].” Romans 11v2-4 (AMP)
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” 1 Peter 1v3-5 (KJV)
Prayer
Father, thank You, thank You, thank You for everything in Jesus name, amen.
How are you doing on this day? I hope well and bubbling in the Lord. We thank God for a very wonderful day that He has made, that we can rejoice and be glad in. Beloved, remember always that our battle is not against flesh or blood (Ephesians 6v12)… Sometimes when discouragement or disappointment comes via a person, or a letter, look beyond the surface, look deeper …
Primary Text: Romans 8v29
“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.” Romans 8v29 (KJV)
“For those whom He foreknew [of whom He was aware and loved beforehand], He also destined from the beginning [foreordaining them] to be molded into the image of His Son [and share inwardly His likeness], that He might become the firstborn among many brethren.” Romans 8v29 (AMP)
“For God knew His people in advance, and He chose them to become like His Son, so that His Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.” Romans 8v29 (NLT)
“God knew what He was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love Him along the same lines as the life of His Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity He restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in Him.” Romans 8v29 (MSG)
“God knew them before He made the world, and He chose them to be like His Son so that Jesus would be the firstborn of many brothers and sisters.” Romans 8v29 (NCV)
The Dakes concordance comments that – “It is God’s plan that He has foreknown and predestinated, and not the individual conformity of free wills to the plan. He has called all men and all are free to accept or reject the call (Jn. 3:16; 1 Tim. 2:4; 2 Pet. 3:9; Rev. 22:17). All who do accept, He has foreknown and predestinated to be conformed to the image of His Son that His Son might be the first-born among many brethren (v29). Those who reject the plan, He has foreknown and predestinated to be consigned to eternal hell as an everlasting monument of His wrath on rebels (Isa. 66:22-24; Rev. 14:9-11; Mt. 25:41,46). This is the sum of foreknowledge and predestination.”
Supplementary Text:
“No, God has not rejected and disowned His people [whose destiny] He had marked out and appointed and foreknown from the beginning. Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? Lord, they have killed Your prophets; they have demolished Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life. But what is God’s reply to him? I have kept for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal! [I Kings 19:18].” Romans 11v2-4 (AMP)
“Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, To an inheritance incorruptible, and undefiled, and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you, Who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed in the last time.” 1 Peter 1v3-5 (KJV)
Prayer
Father, thank You, thank You, thank You for everything in Jesus name, amen.
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