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The Soon Coming Judgment Of God Upon America and How To Escape It 552
is imputed to us. God looks at us as if we lived the life of Jesus Christ. What a marvelous gift!
God has predestined each of us to receive this marvelous gift and that we should be “the praise of
his glory” as is recorded in Ephesians below:
To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted
in the beloved. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness
of sins, according to the riches of his grace; Wherein he hath abounded toward us
in all wisdom and prudence; Having made known unto us the mystery of his will,
according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the
dispensation of the fulness of times he might gather together in one all things in
Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him: 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: That we
should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ. 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. (Ephesians 1:6-14)
God made His choice, He chose to redeem us! While God made His choice and has
predestined each of us to receive salvation through Jesus Christ, we must make a our own choice
to accept this predestination. God has given us the choice. He made this choice clear to the
Israelites and he told them that they had a choice between “life and good, and death and evil.”
He begged them to “choose life” but he left the choice to them:
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil; In
that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and
to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest
live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou
goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but
shalt be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce unto
you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days
upon the land, whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven
and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death,
blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
That thou mayest love the LORD thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice,
and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy
days... (Deuteronomy 30:15-20)
Joshua made a plea with the people of Israel to make a choice as well, a choice between
serving the true God of heaven or false gods created by men: “And if it seem
evil unto you to
serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers
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