Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, August 22, 2021

Introduction:  Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, August 22, 2021

This sermon talks about the fact that the Lord already knows all events that will take place in the future.  He has also pre-determined when they will take place.

Ecclesiastes 3: 1:  “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven”.

Ephesians 1: 13 – 14:   “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation:  in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”

After you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and you believed the Lord Jesus, the Lord then took over and sealed you “with that holy Spirit of promise”.  The Lord Jesus is the Holy Spirit and He became the down payment for our inheritance.

What is this “inheritance” that we have received from the Lord?  

We shall “inherit all things” from the Lord for eternity (Revelation 21: 7).  

You can go about your daily life knowing you now have the guarantee of eternal inheritance from the Almighty God.

You will be blessed.

Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, August 22, 2021 

We listened to a sermon titled “Infinite Knowledge-Foresight”, CD # 1120, preached by Brother Neal Frisby on 10/6/85 (AM).

In the sermon, Brother Frisby said:

You will never be able to pay the Lord on this earth for what He has done for you; you will owe Him when you get to heaven.

The Lord has control of not only this world, but all worlds.

All is foreknown by the Lord.  All creation, all events, the islands, the continents, the seas, the oceans, what colour you are, the nationality of each person, are foreknown to the Lord.

The Lord knows all from the beginning until it blends into eternity.

The Lord pre-determines world history; it is not by chance; He understands all that will take place and the exact timing of each event.  It is clocked and timed by the Lord.  It is pre-determined by the calculation of the Holy Spirit in His counsel.  

He already foreknows everything from trillions of years, from eons of time, ago.

The Lord has eternal life and He has given it to us.

The Lord has chosen you.

It takes faith to believe that the Lord already foreknows everything.  

He appoints everything and at the appointed time, they take place.

The Lord is the Creator and nothing takes place by chance.

The Lord appeared to Abraham at the exact time He had pre-determined and told him about the future of Israel (Genesis 15: 12 – 21).  

At the exact time, He appeared to Moses in the burning bush (Exodus 3: 1 – 6).  In that burning bush was God standing in the form of Christ, in the exact time pre-determined by God in His counsel.

All events take place by God’s counsel, pre-determined by Him.

The Sun and the Moon stood still at the exact time, pre-determined by the Lord, for Joshua (Joshua 10: 12 – 13).

The sundial went down for Hezekiah, timed by the Lord (2 Kings 20: 9 – 11).

The Lord will come at the translation at the exact moment that He has pre-determined.

God foresees all the earthquakes, weather patterns and plaques that are coming upon the earth.

The Lord knows when the next earthquake will take place.  The weather pattern, nature travailing, is for men to repent; the children of the Lord are stepping forth and the Lord is coming to get them.

The Lord told Jeremiah that before he was in his mother’s womb, He foreknew him (Jeremiah 1: 5).

The exact timing of the revival at these last days is pre-determined by the Lord.  

There will be great crises around the world; there will be a feeling of the Holy Spirit, a powerful surge of the Holy Spirit; there will be a manifestation of the powerful gifts for deliverance of the people; there will be the coming back of the gifts – similar to what Jesus had to use on Legion (Mark 5: 1 – 20); there will be strength and power among the children of the Lord; the gifts will be so powerful and so wonderful that at a moment, we will be like God and we will leave in the translation.  Like Enoch, we will have the faith for translation.

Everything is timed by the Lord. 

Nothing takes place by chance, but by the vision of God, already pre-determined by Him.

We were the very thoughts of God.  He had predestinated us before the foundation of the world.  

For the Lord to have chosen us means we are valuable to Him.

We were pre-determined, clocked by His counsel.

I started the sermon.

The Lord already knows all events that will take place in the future.  He has pre-determined when they will take place.

Isaiah 57: 15 tells us the realm where the Lord dwells in.  It states: “For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy”.  

The Lord dwells in “eternity” where there is nothing called time.  In this realm, everything in the future is already past to him.  

The Lord knows all events that will be in the future.  He is therefore able to tell us the exact day and time when an every event in the future will take place.  He also pre- determines when the event will take place.

Ecclesiastes 3: 1:  “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven”.

It means to everything, there is a time that the Lord God has already set for it to take place.  

The Lord decided on who He loved between Esau and Jacob, even before they were born.  

Romans 9: 10 – 13:  “And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac; (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;) It was said unto her, THE ELDER SHALL SERVE THE YOUNGER.  As it is written, JACOB HAVE I LOVED, BUT ESAU HAVE I HATED.”

The Lord had already pre-determined that the elder (Esau) would serve the younger (Jacob), even before they were born.  

John 10: 27 – 28:  “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:  And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.”  

The eternal God refers to us as His sheep; we are His own and we hear His voice.  We heard His voice of salvation and came to repentance and that is why He gives us eternal life.  We shall never perish.  He knows each one of us and we follow Him.  No one will pluck us out of His hand.  

You can have the peace of mind that you have eternal life and you will never perish.

2 Timothy 2: 19 states:  “Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.”  

You do not need to worry about whether the Lord knows those that are His.  He already knew them from eternity.  

Psalm 139: 17 – 18:  “How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God!  how great is the sum of them!  If I should count them, they are more in number than the sand:  when I awake, I am still with thee.” 

The Lord’s thoughts towards you and towards me every day are precious.  Also, you cannot count the number of His thoughts towards us because they have been from eternity and will last into eternity.  That is why these thoughts are more in number than the sand.

Ephesians 2: 10:  “For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”

The Lord has created you unto good works.  

Ephesians 1: 4:  “According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love”.  

Trillions of years ago, in the eons of time, “before the foundation of the world”, before there was anything called time, the Lord saw you and me and chose us to come into salvation.  

I read from Scroll # 232:

FOREKNOWLEDGE – Way back in the eons of time we don’t have words to describe how long ago in eternity it was!  But the Lord of Hosts always foreknew us.  And at the proper moment.  Like a great cocoon spawning out of God’s mind and in the mist of His presence all of us were foreknown and came at His appointed time since Adam.  Many Scriptures reveal this.  One of them is Eph. chap. 1 – And here is another one Job 38: 6-7, His chosen was with Him when He laid the foundations of earth’s corner stone.  When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy? 

I continued with the Sermon:

It states from eternity, “the Lord of Hosts always foreknew us”.  It means from eternity, there was never a time that the Lord did not know about you and me.  He “always” foreknew us.  He always thought about us since eternity.  

Each one of us then came to this earth at the exact time that He had pre-determined.    

Ephesians 1: 11:  “In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will”.

The Lord God works “all things after the counsel of his own will”.  

There is nothing that the Lord God has not already set a time for and it takes place according to His own counsel.  

Ephesians 1: 13 – 14:   “In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation:  in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, Which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”

You heard the word of truth; you heard the gospel of your salvation; you believed the Lord Jesus.     

After you believed, the Lord then took over the next step.  He sealed you “with that holy Spirit of promise” who is the Lord Jesus Himself and He became “the earnest of our inheritance”.  The eternal God became the down payment for our inheritance.

This inheritance that we have received in the Lord must be so valuable that the eternal God made Himself a down payment for it.  We now have His guarantee.  

He is the earnest, the down payment, of our inheritance until the day of translation – as it states:  “until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory.”  

It makes no difference whether the Lord calls you home now or you are alive on the day of translation.  By you hearing the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation and believing in the Lord Jesus, He then sealed you with Himself – the Holy Spirit.  He made Himself a guarantee that you will make the translation.  He made Himself a down payment of our inheritance in Him.

Ephesians 1:  18:  “The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints”.  

The Lord is letting us know that this inheritance has “riches” of His glory. 

Nothing in this world can be compared to the inheritance that we have in the Lord Jesus through salvation.  We have this inheritance not just for trillions of years, but for eternity.  

Revelation 3: 21 states:   “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne”.  

You will sit with the eternal God on His throne for eternity.  

What is this “inheritance” that we have received from the Lord God, so valuable that the eternal God chose to make Himself a down payment for it?  

Revelation 21: 7:  “He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.”  

We shall “inherit all things” is the inheritance that we have received from the Lord God.    

This Scripture further states:  “and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.”  

We cannot in this world comprehend the eternal value of this inheritance, whereby we shall inherit all things in the Lord Jesus. 

 I Corinthians 2: 9:  “But as it is written, EYE HATH NOT SEEN, NOR EAR HEARD, NEITHER HAVE ENTERED INTO THE HEART OF MAN, THE THINGS WHICH GOD HATH PREPARED FOR THEM THAT LOVE HIM.”  

Our eyes have not seen, our ears have not heard, it has not entered into our hearts, the things that the Almighty God has already prepared for them that love Him.  

We have an eternal inheritance from the Lord God.  This inheritance is free to us because the Lord Jesus, the eternal God, paid the price for our salvation on the Cross.

You can go about your daily life knowing you now have the guarantee of eternal inheritance from the Almighty God.

Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

www.gospelwordministry.com

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