This may help us somewhat to understand how the prayer of man, coming through the Son, can have effect upon God.The decrees of God are not decisions made by Him without reference to the Son, or His petition, or the petition to be sent up through Him. By no means.The Lord Jesus is the first-begotten,the Head and Heir of all things: all things were created through Him and unto Him, and all things consist in Him. In the counsels of the Father, the Son, as Representative of all creation, had always a voice; in the decrees of the eternal purpose there was always room left for the liberty of the Son
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