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Title: To me, who am less than the least of all the saints, this grace was given, that I should preach amon


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  • To me, who am less than the least of all the
    saints, this grace was given, that I should
    preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches
    of Christ, and to make all see what is the
    fellowship of the mystery, which from the
    beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who
    created all things through Jesus Christ to the
    intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might
    be made known by the church to the principalities
    and powers in the heavenly places, according to
    the eternal purpose which He accomplished in
    Christ Jesus our Lord, in whom we have boldness
    and access with confidence through faith in Him.
    (Eph. 38-11)

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  • THE PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF GOD

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THE PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF GOD
  • "Before The World Began"
  • "Since The World Began"
  • "In The End of The World"

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THE PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF GOD
  • Before The World Began
  • God already existed.

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Before The World Began
  • God already existed.
  • In the beginning God created the heavens and the
    earth. (Gen. 11)
  • LORD, You have been our dwelling place in all
    generations. Before the mountains were brought
    forth, Or ever You had formed the earth and the
    world, Even from everlasting to everlasting, You
    are God. (Psalm 901-2)

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THE PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF GOD
  • Before The World Began
  • God already existed.
  • God gave us His grace.

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Before The World Began
  • God gave us His grace.

Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of
our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with
me in the sufferings for the gospel according to
the power of God, who has saved us and called us
with a holy calling, not according to our works,
but according to His own purpose and grace which
was given to us in Christ Jesus before time
began. (2 Tim. 18-9)
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THE PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF GOD
  • Before The World Began
  • God already existed.
  • God gave us his grace.
  • God promised us eternal life.

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Before The World Began
  • God promised us eternal life.

Paul, a bondservant of God and an apostle of
Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God's
elect and the acknowledg-ment of the truth which
accords with godliness, in hope of eternal life
which God, who cannot lie, promised before time
began. (Titus 11-2)
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THE PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF GOD
  • Before The World Began
  • God already existed.
  • God gave us his grace.
  • God promised us eternal life.
  • God foreordained the death of Christ.

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Before The World Began
  • God foreordained the death of Christ.

And if you call on the Father, who without
partiality judges according to each one's work,
conduct yourselves throughout the time of your
stay here in fear knowing that you were not
redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or
gold, from your aimless conduct received by
tradition from your fathers, but with the
precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without
blemish and without spot. He indeed was
foreordained before the foundation of the world,
but was manifest in these last times for you. (1
Peter 117-21)
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THE PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF GOD
  • Since The World Began
  • God's promise was kept secret.

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Since The World Began
  • God's promise was kept secret.

Now to Him who is able to establish you according
to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ,
according to the revelation of the mystery kept
secret since the world began but now has been
made manifest, and by the prophetic Scriptures
has been made known to all nations, according to
the commandment of the everlasting God, for
obedience to the faith. (Rom. 1625-26)
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THE PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF GOD
  • Since The World Began
  • God's promise was kept secret.
  • God's prophets hinted at His promise.

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Since The World Began
  • God's prophets hinted at His promise.

...Jesus Christ, who was preached to you before,
whom heaven must receive until the times of
restoration of all things, which God has spoken
by the mouth of all His holy prophets since the
world began. For Moses truly said to the fathers,
The LORD your God will raise up for you a
Prophet like me from your brethren. Him you shall
hear in all things, whatever He says to you. And
it shall be that every soul who will not hear
that Prophet shall be utterly destroyed from
among the people. Yes, and all the prophets,
from Samuel and those who follow, as many as have
spoken, have also foretold these days. (Acts
320-24)
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THE PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF GOD
  • Since The World Began
  • God's promise was kept secret.
  • God's prophets hinted at His promise.
  • Even God's prophets did not understand.

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Since The World Began
  • Even Gods prophets did not understand.

Of this salvation the prophets have inquired and
searched carefully, who prophesied of the grace
that would come to you, searching what, or what
manner of time, the Spirit of Christ who was in
them was indicating when He testified beforehand
the sufferings of Christ and the glories that
would follow. To them it was revealed that, not
to them-selves, but to us they were ministering
the things which now have been reported to you
through those who have preached the gospel to you
by the Holy Spirit sent from heaventhings which
angels desire to look into. (1 Peter 110-12)
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THE PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF GOD
  • In The End of The World
  • Christ hath appeared to put away sin.

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In The End of The World
  • Christ hath appeared to put away sin.

For Christ has not entered the holy places made
with hands, which are copies of the true, but
into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence
of God for us not that He should offer Himself
often, as the high priest enters the Most Holy
Place every year with blood of anotherHe then
would have had to suffer often since the
foundation of the world but now, once at the end
of the ages, He has appeared to put away sin by
the sacrifice of Himself. (Heb. 924-26)
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THE PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF GOD
  • In The End of The World
  • Christ hath appeared to put away sin.
  • God's eternal purpose is being realized.

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In The End of The World
  • God's eternal purpose is being realized.

And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would
justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the
gospel to Abraham before-hand, saying, In you
all the nations shall be blessed. So then those
who are of faith are blessed with believing
Abraham. For as many as are of the works of the
law are under the curse for it is written,
Cursed is everyone who does not continue in all
things which are written in the book of the law,
to do them. But that no one is justified by the
law in the sight of God is evident, for the just
shall live by faith. Yet the law is not of
faith, but the man who does them shall live by
them.
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law,
having become a curse for us (for it is written,
Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree), that
the blessing of Abraham might come upon the
Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might re-ceive
the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Brethren, I speak in the manner of men Though it
is only a mans covenant, yet if it is confirmed,
no one annuls or adds to it. Now to Abraham and
his Seed were the promises made. He does not say,
And to seeds, as of many, but as of one, And
to your Seed, who is Christ. And this I say,
that the law, which was four hundred and thirty
years later, cannot annul the covenant that was
confirmed before by God in Christ, that it should
make the promise of no effect.
For if the inheritance is of the law, it is no
longer of prom-ise but God gave it to Abraham by
promise. What purpose then does the law serve? It
was added because of trans-gressions, till the
Seed should come to whom the promise was made
and it was appointed through angels by the hand
of a mediator. Now a mediator does not mediate
for one only, but God is one. Is the law then
against the prom-ises of God? Certainly not! For
if there had been a law given which could have
given life, truly righteousness would have been
by the law. But the Scripture has con-fined all
under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus
Christ might be given to those who believe. But
before faith came, we were kept under guard by
the law, kept for the faith which would afterward
be revealed.
Therefore the law was our tutor to bring us to
Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But
after faith has come, we are no longer under a
tutor. For you are all sons of God through faith
in Christ Jesus. For as many of you as were
baptized into Christ have put on Christ. There is
neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor
free, there is neither male nor female for you
are all one in Christ Jesus. And if you are
Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs
according to the promise. Now I say that the
heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ
at all from a slave, though he is master of all,
but is under guardians and stewards until the
time appointed by the father. Even so we, when we
were children, were in bondage under the elements
of the world.
But when the fullness of the time had come, God
sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under
the law, to re-deem those who were under the law,
that we might receive the adoption as sons. And
because you are sons, God has sent forth the
Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying out,
Abba, Father! Therefore you are no longer a
slave but a son, and if a son, then an heir of
God through Christ. (Gal. 38-29 41-7)
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THE PURPOSE AND PROMISE OF GOD
  • In The End of The World
  • Christ hath appeared to put away sin.
  • God's eternal purpose is being realized.
  • The promise is for those who obey.

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In The End of The World
  • The promise is for those who obey.

How then shall they call on Him in whom they have
not believed? And how shall they believe in Him
of whom they have not heard? And how shall they
hear without a preacher? And how shall they
preach unless they are sent? As it is written
How beautiful are the feet of those who preach
the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of
good things! But they have not all obeyed the
gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed
our report? So then faith comes by hearing, and
hearing by the word of God. (Rom. 1014-17)
Since you have purified your souls in obeying the
truth through the Spirit in sincere love of the
brethren, love one another fervently with a pure
heart, having been born again, not of corruptible
seed but incorruptible, through the word of God
which lives and abides forever. (1 Pet. 122-23)
...though He was a Son, yet He learned obedience
by the things which He suffered. And having been
perfected, He became the author of eternal
salvation to all who obey Him.... (Heb.
58-9) Have you obeyed Jesus Christ? Wont you
obey Him now?
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