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

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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

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• 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. 38-12)

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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.

• 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 acknowledgment 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 ordained the death of Christ.

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Before The World Began

• God ordained 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.
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Before The World Began

• God ordained the death of Christ.

He indeed was foreordained before the foundation
of the world, but was manifest in these last
times for you who through Him believe in God, who
raised Him from the dead and gave Him glory, so
that your faith and hope are in God. (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
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Since The World Began

• God's promise was kept secret.

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-- to
God, alone wise, be glory through Jesus Christ
forever. Amen. (Rom. 1625-27)
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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.

"Repent therefore and be converted, that your
sins may be blotted out, so that times of
refreshing may come from the presence of the
Lord,
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Since The World Began

• God's prophets hinted at His promise.

"and that He may send 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.
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Since The World Began

• God's prophets hinted at His promise.

"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.
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Since The World Began

• God's prophets hinted at His promise.

"'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.
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Since The World Began

• Even Gods prophets did not understand.

To them it was revealed that, not to themselves,
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 another
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In The End of The World

• Christ hath appeared to put away sin.

He 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 beforehand, saying, "In you all
the nations shall be blessed." So then those who
are of faith are blessed with believing Abraham.
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In The End of The World

• God's eternal purpose is being realized.

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."
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In The End of The World

• God's eternal purpose is being realized.

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."
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In The End of The World

• God's eternal purpose is being realized.

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 receive
the promise of the Spirit through faith.
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In The End of The World

• God's eternal purpose is being realized.

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.
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In The End of The World

• God's eternal purpose is being realized.

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 promise but God gave it to
Abraham by promise.
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In The End of The World

• God's eternal purpose is being realized.

What purpose then does the law serve? It was
added because of transgressions, 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.
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In The End of The World

• God's eternal purpose is being realized.

Is the law then against the promises 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 confined all under sin, that the promise by
faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who
believe.
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In The End of The World

• God's eternal purpose is being realized.

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.
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In The End of The World

• God's eternal purpose is being realized.

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.
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In The End of The World

• God's eternal purpose is being realized.

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.
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In The End of The World

• God's eternal purpose is being realized.

But when the fullness of the time had come, God
sent forth His Son, born of a woman, born under
the law, to redeem those who were under the law,
that we might receive the adoption as sons.
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In The End of The World

• God's eternal purpose is being realized.

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.

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)
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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?
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In The End of The World

• The promise is for those who obey.

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!"
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In The End of The World

• The promise is for those who obey.

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)
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In The End of The World

• The promise is for those who obey.

...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)
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In The End of The World

• The promise is for those who obey.

And He said to them, "Go into all the world and
preach the gospel to every creature. He who
believes and is baptized will be saved but he
who does not believe will be condemned." (Mark
1615-16) Have you obeyed Jesus Christ? Wont you
obey Him now?