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The Decree of God: Part 1 - God's All-Encompassing Plan

10/24/2020

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TBC Glassboro Sermons and More · The Decree Of God: Part 1 - God’s All-Encompassing Plan
God’s purposes and plans are established by decree.  The decree of God is referred to as God working all things after the counsel of His will.

  • also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will, - Ephesians 1:11

It is the working of His sovereign control over all things. The decree of God is one single, all-encompassing plan.  

  • He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His kind intention (eudokía) which He purposed in Him […] also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose (próthesis) who works all things after the counsel (boulḗ) of His will (thélēma), - Ephesians 1:9, 11

God established His plan according to His kind intention (eudokía).  God’s decree is a fixed intention of benevolent favor.  God established His plan according to His purpose (próthesis).  His purpose is a determination to achieve something.  God established His plan according to His counsel (boulḗ).  Counsel is a thought-out plan, a series of steps to carry out a goal.  God established His plan according to His will (thélēma).  God’s will is an attitude of a mind that favors one alternative over other alternatives.

The decree of God control and guides all events for His glory and the good of His people.

  • And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. - Romans 8:28

God does not adjust His plan on account of the events of human history. 

  • This is the plan devised against the whole earth; and this is the hand that is stretched out against all the nations.  For the Lord of hosts has planned, and who can frustrate it? And as for His stretched-out hand, who can turn it back? - Isaiah 14:26-27  

Instead, He freely and independently established His decree.  Because God is immutable, His decree cannot change or be altered.
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