WORDS WHICH EXPRESS THE PURPOSE OF GOD (1 of 6 notes)

Part Three
Theology Proper: 21 THE ETERNAL PURPOSE OF GOD
A DISPENSATIONAL THEOLOGY
By Charles F Baker

Purpose:

Prothesis - a setting forth

... them who are the called according to his purpose... (Romans 8:28).

... that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth ... (Romans 9:11).

... having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself ... (Ephesians 1:9).

... being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will ... (Ephesians 1:11).

This passage contains three other words associated with God’s purpose: counsel, predestinated and will.

... according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord ... (Ephesians 3:11).

Who hath 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 us in Christ Jesus before the world began. (2 Timothy 1:9).

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