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(Job 22:21).
(Jer 9:23,24).
A spiritual and saving knowledge of God is the greatest need of every human creature.
If the reader is to truly profit from his perusal of the pages that follow, he needs to definitely and earnestly beseech God to bless them to him, to apply His Truth to the conscience and heart, so that his life will be transformed thereby.
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God is only truly known in the soul as we yield ourselves to Him, submit to His authority, and regulate all the details of our lives by His holy precepts and commandments.
Knowing God is not only through theory (readinv scripture) but also practical, through soul and heart - personal prayers and experiences
“The people that do know their God shall be strong” (Dan. 11:32).
During a past eternity, God was alone: self-contained, self-sufficient, self-satisfied; in need of nothing.
God was under no constraint, no obligation, no necessity to create. That He chose to do so was purely a sovereign act on His part, caused by nothing outside Himself, determined by nothing but His own mere good pleasure; for He “worketh all things after the counsel of His own will” (Eph. 1:11).
The God of Scripture can only be known by those to whom He makes Himself known.
Nor is God known by the intellect. “God is Spirit” (John 4:24), and therefore can only be known spiritually.
The Holy Spirit has to shine in our hearts (not intellects) in order to give us “the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ” (2 Cor. 4:6).
The principal prayer and aim of Christians should be that we “walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God” (Col. 1:10).
The decree of God is His purpose or determination with respect to future things.
Scripture affirms that believers were chosen in Christ before the world began (Eph. 1:4), yea, that grace was “given” to them then (2 Tim. 1:9).
O my reader, how thankful should we be that everything is determined by infinite wisdom and goodness! What praise and gratitude are due unto God for His Divine decrees. It is because of them that “we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose” (Rom. 8:28).
“For of Him, and through Him, and to Him, are all things: to whom he glory forever. Amen” (Rom 11:36).
The perfect knowledge of God is exemplified and illustrated in every prophecy recorded in His Word.
Nothing has ever come to pass, or ever will, merely because God knew it. The cause of all things is the will of God.
Scripture affirms that God, in His high sovereignty, singled out certain ones to be recipients of His distinguishing favors (Acts 13:48), and therefore He determined to bestow upon them the gift of faith.
God foreknows what will be because He has decreed what shall be.
The truth is, He “foreknows” because He has elected.
The plain truth of Romans 8:29 is that God, before the foundation of the world, singled out certain sinners and appointed them unto salvation (2 Thess. 2:13).
grace is unmerited favour something for which we had no claim upon God whatsoever.
God not only knew the end from the beginning, but He planned, fixed, predestinated everything from the beginning.
You have “believed through grace” (Acts 18:27), and that, because your very election was “of grace” (Rom. 11:5).
In one of his letters to Erasmus, Luther said, “Your thoughts of God are too human.”
