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Predestination: Is The Plan and Will of God Eph 1:5, 11 - to create and make Man in His likeness and image.... Gen 1:26-27.

The Price for this change has been provided. God is working in, with and through us to do His Will and complete His Plan.

–  The Work of God’s Plan – Christ in Us (Ephesians 2:1-10)

a. What We Are by (our old) Nature (Ephesians 2:1-2)

  1.“Dead in trespasses and sins.”

  2.We, by wicked works, were enemies of God and the prince of the air - Satan, was our master.

  3.We cannot deny the existence of a personal devil.

b. What God Does – Who Is Rich in Mercy (Ephesians 2:4-6)

c. God’s Eternal Purposes in Our Redemption (Ephesians 2:7-10)

1.“That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.”

 2.God will ever and continually bring forth something new in His glory to those who are one in Christ.

 3.When you think of the future glory for the believer, what is the little suffering and persecution we may experience for the cause of Christ compared to the glory of heaven?

 Mystery 1– (Eph 1:9-10) is The Plan to have all things in Christ. This is The First Day of Unleavened Bread - The removal of Prejudice from The Church-Body in 1 Cor. and The First Love lost by The Ephesian Church in Rev 2.

Eph 1:5& 11 ‘Predestined’ - The Body In Christ is part of this plan being revealed - The Passover enables all the Plan of Salvation to be fulfilled.  As Able sacrificed a Lamb, and God shed His favor upon it.... The Lamb of God given before the foundations of the world (ages.)

Eph 1:13 Sealed by The Holy Spirit of Promise - The Earnest Guarantee of our inheritance 2 Cor 1:22.

1:17 God The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you The Spirit of Wisdom, and Revelation in The Knowledge of Him.