God’s Sovereignty Part 8

Subject – God’s Blessed Will
Text - Ephesians 1:5b “…according to the good pleasure of his will,” V. 5

Please let us always understand this about God, He always does things that are within His will, He never does anything that is our will unless our will is matching His will. So here is the answer to why did God choose us to be His child in Christ Jesus before the foundation of the world, because it was His blessed will to do so. Everyone needs to understand that creation was executed by God, in its entirety. God owes no one or anything any explanation for what He choses to do or how He choses to do it. Humans have no more rights to any of God’s blessings than any of God’s other created beings. Paul wrote in Romans 9:13 “As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.” So, the question must be asked, why did God love one brother in Jacob and hate the other in Esau? The answer is clear, because it was the Creator’s will to do so, just as it was God’s will to love His elect. This was God’s elective choice and nothing or no one played any part in that choice. Esau did not cause God to hate Him, neither did Jacob cause God to love him and neither did God see their works then chose one over the other, God is eternal and all His will is eternal, God never changes, ever! Ezekiel 24:14 “I the LORD have spoken it: it shall come to pass, and I will do it; I will not go back, neither will I spare, neither will I repent; according to thy ways, and according to thy doings, shall they judge thee, saith the Lord GOD.” We also read in Numbers 23:19 “God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?” Anyone who claims that God has ever changed on anything or that we have the power to control the thinking and the judgments of God or how God operates has no idea who God is, nor how God operates. Therefore, one must ask, when exactly did God come to love Jacob and hate Esau? The answer is, before the foundation of the world. Acts 15:18 “Known unto God are all his works from the beginning of the world.” Every work of God was known unto God before the creation of the world. Therefore, your election, predestination to be God’s child and to one day stand before in perfection and without sin was ordained by God before the world was ever created and not in time. Therefore, this is the most blessed part of this, He chose and elected a remnant of souls because it was His good will and pleasure. Paul asked this question, Romans 9:21 “Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?” Clay in the hands of a potter is at the mercy of the potter, it is the Potters choice what sort of vessel to make out of the clay, the clay has nothing to say, it does not suggest what the potter makes it. No, the clay will be what the good pleasure of the Potter’s will wants it to be, one to be blessed and another not to be blessed, it is the Potter’s choice to make one unto honor and the other unto dishonor. The reason some of us are God’s children is that He simply elected before the foundation of the world. God wanted for us to be His family by His good pleasure, loved some and did not love others, saved some and not others, to make us either His child or His condemned enemy, it was all predetermined by God before the world was ever created. We never had a choice, nor did we have a say, that was a decision of God, not of us. It was Jesus Christ who said in Luke 12:32 “Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.” Therefore, if you are a child of God, thank God and not your Pastor, your Pastor does not have the power to saved lost sinners. Thank God and not yourself, God made the choice and decision, you did not. The clay cannot change what the Potter has made it. Romans 9:20 “Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?”