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The Biblical Truth:
God’s plan is to give us Eternal Life through Jesus Christ

A verse to point us to that truth:
1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

God desires us to have faith in Him and trust His Eternal Redemptive Plan. That by no means obligates God to do what we want. We only tend to see things from our own perspective and with our limited knowledge, but He is eternal – no beginning and no ending.

He is the real Father time, the creator of time. God is Triune, and each ‘person’ of the Godhead is eternal. He is Omniscient and fully conscious of each element of time without lack of clarity. He is Omnipotent – all powerful – operating outside of time.  And, in the clearest sense, He is Omnipresent – everywhere at the same time. He is fully interacting with all elements of time and space. He is 100% unique in every part of His being! He is holy – completely unique unto Himself! He never began to exist, He cannot stop existing, and He depends on nothing but Himself to exist. He does not change – from eternity past to eternity future – He is still the same!

Psalms 90:2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or You had formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God.

If you understand and believe that God is an eternal, everlasting God. This would also be true about His mercy and His grace.

Psalms 100:5 For the Lord is good; His mercy endures forever, and His faithfulness to all generations.

God is everlasting and has all power, and we will grow weary and we will faint as we try to attain everlasting Life in our own strength and in our own efforts. It will never happen. But through Him, through His efforts and His power, we can obtain everlasting Life!

This thought is completely contrary to man’s thoughts and ideas. Mankind wants to have some type of effort that they can accomplish to gain everlasting Life so that they can say “Look at what I have done! I am good!” This is man’s plan.

But God has His own plan – His Eternal Redemptive Plan.

1 Peter 1:18-23 For you know that you were not redeemed from your vain way of life inherited from your fathers with perishable things, like silver or gold, 19 but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot. 20 He was foreordained before the creation of the world, but was revealed in these last times for you. 21 Through Him you believe in God who raised Him up from the dead and gave Him glory, so that your faith and hope might be in God. 22 Since your souls have been purified by obedience to the truth through the Spirit unto a genuine brotherly love, love one another deeply with a pure heart, 23 for you have been born again, not from perishable seed, but imperishable, through the word of God which lives and abides forever.

God has a perfect Eternal Redemptive Plan and that is exactly what 1 Peter 1:18-23 is all about. We serve an omniscient God, who does not see eternity through a flawed perspective like ours, but who sees all of eternity as if it were all right now. All of this mess we are in … has not surprised Him.

He knew before time that man would sin and come short of His glory. He knew there would be a need for a plan even before the earth was formed. God foreknew that man would choose sin and that the wages (consequences) for that horrible choice would be death.

You see, God’s righteousness must be met somehow. If man died in his sin, it would be eternally too late. What would He do? But God had a plan for mankind to be redeemed and He would do it for you!

Here is God’s Eternal Redemptive Plan. He would save man through faith in the coming Messiah through the Sacrificial System in the Old Testament times.

Hebrews 10:1 For the law is a shadow of the good things to come, and not the very image of those things. It could never by the same sacrifices, which they offer continually year after year, perfect those who draw near.

God also knew there would be a personal cost of His Eternal Redemptive Plan

1 Peter 1:19 but with the precious blood of Christ, …

The cost for our redemption was not silver or gold but it was the blood of Jesus Christ, who is God manifested in the flesh, born of a woman, and without sin. In John 3:16-17, John writes that God “so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.” And that He “did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved”

This is where God’s everlasting mercy met with God’s everlasting, immutable truth – at the Cross of Calvary!

Psalms 85:10 Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed.

Because He loved us so much He decided to take our sin upon Himself and to bear the shame, the reproach, the wrath, and the justice on our behalf. God would redeem the world through Christ, and He planned this before you and I committed our first sin! The everlasting God has an everlasting plan for redemption for all of the world. It is a plan that you can believe in, it is a plan you can trust and it is a plan you can put your whole faith behind.

This is the question that is before all of mankind and the same question that is put before you today: Do you want to follow God’s Eternal Redemptive Plan to gain everlasting Life with God in Heaven? Or do you want to follow your own flawed plan that leads to death, separated from God?