The Love Gift
A simple chart concerning the plan of
redemption and the glorification of God which is based on God's
Sovereignty and the definite atonement of Jesus Christ.
Men
can be redeemed. Some have been redeemed and are saved. Amen
and Halleluiah! However, any benefit, which we, the people of God,
receive from such a holy and loving act of the Father to the Son, is
secondary to the completeness of God’s eternal plan.
God was not lonely, He was not sad, He was not in need of
creatures we call human beings, nor any other aspect of creation.
He was content and blessedly happy in and of Himself.
But His joy and love for His Son must be exercised, and so, He
decrees to give His Son a bride.
It
is a most glorious blessing that we who have been redeemed have obtained
a precious faith. We have
received salvation from sin through the blood of the Savior. But our minds should not be set in thinking that we were
first in God’s plan of salvation, certainly not.
We are an after thought in comparison to the Son of God.
We have been given a blessing in the midst of the Father’s love
to His beloved Son, but we are not the reason we were
created. We were created
for the enjoyment and pleasure of God.
We were redeemed that we may be a love-gift to His Son.
I pray this chart may expand our understanding of who we are as
God’s love gift to His Son, Jesus Christ.
Dr.
C.
Matthew McMahon, October 4, 2002
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