TULIPGospel

If anyone comes to this channel and does not know Jesus as their Lord and Saviour please watch: Ye Sinners, Come to Jesus and He will save. Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfZ7SiFWx3Q ------------------------------------------------------ GOD'S DECREE 3.1 God has decreed all things that occur,1 and this he has done in himself, from all eternity, by the perfectly wise and holy counsel of his own will, freely and unchangeably.2 Yet he has done this in such a way that God is neither the author of sin, nor does he share with anyone in sinning,3 nor does this violate the will of the creature, nor is the free working or contingency of second causes taken away but rather established.4 In all this, God's wisdom is displayed in directing all things, as is his power and faithfulness in accomplishing his decree.5 (1) Dan 4:34-35; Rom 8:28; 11:36; Eph 1:11 (2) Pro 19:21; Isa 14:24-27; 46:10-11; Psa 115:3; 135:6; Rom 9:19 (3) Gen 18:25; Jas 1:13; 1Jo 1:5 (4) Gen 50:20; 2Sa 24:1; Isa 10:5-7; Mat 17:12; Joh 19:11; Act 2:23; 4:27-28 (5) Num 23:19; Eph 1:3-5 3.2 Although God knows everything which may or can come to pass under all imaginable conditions,1 yet he has not decreed anything because he foresaw it in the future, or because it would come to pass [anyway] under certain conditions.2 (1) 1Sa 23:11-12; Mat 11:21,23; Act 15:18 (2) Isa 40:13-14; Rom 9:11-18; 11:34; 1Co 2:16 3.3 By God's decree, and for the demonstration of his glory, certain human beings and angels are predestined (or foreordained) to eternal life through Jesus Christ, to the praise of his glorious grace.1 Others are left to continue in their sin to their just condemnation, to the praise of his glorious justice.2 (1) Mat 25:34; 1Ti 5:21 (2) Joh 12:37-40; Rom 9:6-24; 1Pe 2:8-10; Jude 1:4 3.4 Those angels and human beings who are predestined and foreordained to eternal life, are specifically and irreversibly designated, and their number is so certain and definite that it cannot be either increased or diminished.1 (1) Mat 22:1-14; Joh 13:18; Rom 11:5-6; 1Co 7:20-22; 2Ti 2:19 3.5 God chose those human beings who are predestined to life before the foundation of the world, in accordance with his eternal and immutable purpose, and the secret counsel and good pleasure of his will. God chose them in Christ for eternal glory, solely out of his free grace and love,1 without anything in the creature as a condition or cause moving him to choose them.