--Since Creation / Being Predestined

--WHEN GOD CALLS US HOME -Blessings We Have In Christ -
--By: Henry Morris, Ph.D.

“For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens” (II Corinthians 5:1).

-The blessings we have in Christ are far too many to number, but it is a blessing even to note just a few of those indicated by the words we have or ye have. First of all, in Christ “we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace” (Ephesians 1:7). As a result, “being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ” (Romans 5:1).

Thus, through such promises, His word assures us of salvation. “These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life” (I John 5:13). Further assurance is given by the witness of the Spirit who indwells our bodies when we believe on Christ. “Ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father” (Romans 8:15).

There are many other blessings that are ours in Christ. In Him, for example, “we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according according to the His purpose."(Ephesians 1:11). God has even confirmed His promises, the writer of Hebrews says, by taking an oath in His own name that “we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us: Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast” (Hebrews 6:18,19). Indeed, “We have a great High Priest”, our Lord Jesus Christ, (Hebrews 4:14) ever living to intercede for us at the throne of God.

Finally, in the words of our text, when God calls us home, “we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the Heavens,” and then we are “to be present with the Lord” throughout the ages to come (II Corinthians 5:8).

--ICR/HMM~~/-ABOVE ALL~~By: Michael Smith
-ABOVE ALL~ Singer: Michael Smith
Above all powers,above all kings,..above all nature and all created things .....You were here before the world began. Crucified laid behind a stone, You lived to die rejected and alone. Like a rose trampled on the ground, You took the fall and thought of me, above all.
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