Last night as I was reading through the book of John and recalled Jesus sharing that he come to bring his sheep to himself.
When we have a look at John 10:14
"I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind?
Jesus is here to call out to people for salvation? Yes, your right however don’t they get to be his sheep after the call and submission?
Throughout the Bible Gods gives hints that he has chosen his eternal flock before the creation of the world to reign with him in eternity forever. If that’s the case then why does he need to save people if he has already chosen us?
The answer is simple. God chose you in his mind before all of creation to reign with him forever but you have to go through a process to fur- full that sovereign call.
You cannot be a child of God unless you are like him even though you already belong to him and your name is in the book of life. For this to happen you need to be received through the process of redemption, sanctification and glorification. That happens of course by accepting Jesus Christ as your redeemer, saviour and lord.
Simply God uses Jesus as the process to seal your sonship (man or woman) into the promise he created for you before you were born.
How it works-
First of all, God in his sovereign power works everything out. From the start of creation to the end. He has an eternal plan and praise God we are a part of it if not the centre together with him. For us to have the right to be children of God he doesn’t give it to us lightly. In his eternal mind he creates another dimension outside of eternity. He creates the universe and planet earth. Allows Satan, death and decay to be the caretaker of it and creates us within it. We fall and are humbled and God starts the process of his story book the Bible.
In that he sends us Jesus. Jesus comes looking for his sheep. What sheep are they?
They are the sheep that God created in his mind before he created the universe! The sheep destined to eternal life with God forever that are going through the process of redemption.
The thing is we can choose to reject that process through Jesus Christ. We can reject the Holy Spirit and go to hell. So obviously those who did it never were Gods sheep in the first place even though he gives people the opportunity to come to him and reject him in his creation.
Even Paul talks about people being created for eternal destruction as so does Jesus in the Gospels. Paul calls them “sons of wrath” destined for hell by Gods sovereignty. Jesus also explained that the people who rejected him were not his sheep.
If we have a closer look at what Jesus was saying he was saying this. “But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.”
Simply if you belong to God and are destined for eternity with God then you will hear the cry of Jesus calling you into the process through him.
If you don’t come to Jesus then he is a stranger and you were destined for eternal destruction in hell.
A careful look at the New Testament explains that real belief in Jesus is to obey him and have his word and life bubbling out of you. If you hear his voice then you truly belong to him and will accept the process of transformation by his redemption and Holy Spirit. Whatever we choose to do by our free will has actually already been preordained by God. We just don’t know the end result. The good news is if we hold on to Jesus tightly then be rest assured we were destined for eternal life.
The more grace God gives us then the more we are assured of eternal life and being his mouth piece to whomever he wills.
When Jesus came he offered eternal life to all through the cross however God in his sovereignty knew that not all would take it and they are the sons and daughters of wrath predestined for eternal destruction.
So, in this life we have a choice but actually everything has already been predestined by God. So, if you belong to him praise his name because you could have easily been predestined for destruction. This is why God is to be revered in this life and worshipped and we are to live Holy Lives. The position we are in is humbling but magnificent. We are actually walking out our predestined lives before creation began.
This is the God we worship thanks be to Jesus.
When we have a look at John 10:14
"I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me,” what’s the first thing that comes to mind?
Jesus is here to call out to people for salvation? Yes, your right however don’t they get to be his sheep after the call and submission?
Throughout the Bible Gods gives hints that he has chosen his eternal flock before the creation of the world to reign with him in eternity forever. If that’s the case then why does he need to save people if he has already chosen us?
The answer is simple. God chose you in his mind before all of creation to reign with him forever but you have to go through a process to fur- full that sovereign call.
You cannot be a child of God unless you are like him even though you already belong to him and your name is in the book of life. For this to happen you need to be received through the process of redemption, sanctification and glorification. That happens of course by accepting Jesus Christ as your redeemer, saviour and lord.
Simply God uses Jesus as the process to seal your sonship (man or woman) into the promise he created for you before you were born.
How it works-
First of all, God in his sovereign power works everything out. From the start of creation to the end. He has an eternal plan and praise God we are a part of it if not the centre together with him. For us to have the right to be children of God he doesn’t give it to us lightly. In his eternal mind he creates another dimension outside of eternity. He creates the universe and planet earth. Allows Satan, death and decay to be the caretaker of it and creates us within it. We fall and are humbled and God starts the process of his story book the Bible.
In that he sends us Jesus. Jesus comes looking for his sheep. What sheep are they?
They are the sheep that God created in his mind before he created the universe! The sheep destined to eternal life with God forever that are going through the process of redemption.
The thing is we can choose to reject that process through Jesus Christ. We can reject the Holy Spirit and go to hell. So obviously those who did it never were Gods sheep in the first place even though he gives people the opportunity to come to him and reject him in his creation.
Even Paul talks about people being created for eternal destruction as so does Jesus in the Gospels. Paul calls them “sons of wrath” destined for hell by Gods sovereignty. Jesus also explained that the people who rejected him were not his sheep.
If we have a closer look at what Jesus was saying he was saying this. “But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger’s voice.”
Simply if you belong to God and are destined for eternity with God then you will hear the cry of Jesus calling you into the process through him.
If you don’t come to Jesus then he is a stranger and you were destined for eternal destruction in hell.
A careful look at the New Testament explains that real belief in Jesus is to obey him and have his word and life bubbling out of you. If you hear his voice then you truly belong to him and will accept the process of transformation by his redemption and Holy Spirit. Whatever we choose to do by our free will has actually already been preordained by God. We just don’t know the end result. The good news is if we hold on to Jesus tightly then be rest assured we were destined for eternal life.
The more grace God gives us then the more we are assured of eternal life and being his mouth piece to whomever he wills.
When Jesus came he offered eternal life to all through the cross however God in his sovereignty knew that not all would take it and they are the sons and daughters of wrath predestined for eternal destruction.
So, in this life we have a choice but actually everything has already been predestined by God. So, if you belong to him praise his name because you could have easily been predestined for destruction. This is why God is to be revered in this life and worshipped and we are to live Holy Lives. The position we are in is humbling but magnificent. We are actually walking out our predestined lives before creation began.
This is the God we worship thanks be to Jesus.
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