According to (2596) (kata) means not a portion of but proportional to. And if you hearken to these precepts and keep and do them, the Lord your God will keep with you the covenant and the steadfast love which He swore to your fathers. Should We Read (All of) the Bible Literally? Joshua Contemporary English Version Earle -Salmond says: "The distinction between boule and thelema is still much debated, scholars continuing to take precisely opposite views of it." He dwells in us, being possessed by us. Deuteronomy Every child of God ), John Eadie offers a more detailed analysis for those interested -- The main struggle has been to determine who are meant by the we who were first to hope. in E-Prime Good News Bible
2 Kings 
Do you wake in the morning and remind yourself at the beginning of the day, "I'm a child of the Father." In its most basic form, thelema refers to a wish, a strong desire, and the willing of some event. And if you belong to Christ [are in Him Who is Abraham's Seed], then you are Abraham's offspring and [spiritual] heirs according to promise.
And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise. The parallelism is perfect. How can believers best ensure that the next generation will remember Gods wonderful works and appreciate His unchanging character? Nehemiah
"(Wuest Word Studies - Eerdman Publishing CompanyVolume 1,Volume 2,Volume 3- usedby permission). '", Daniel 4:35 (King Nebuchadnezzar came to understand God's sovereign, omnipotent will) "All the inhabitants of the earth are accounted as nothing, But He does according to His will (thelema) in the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of earth; and no one can ward off His hand Or say to Him, 'What have You done?'. 3, 272); (c) to have in mind (Homer, Il. Acts 27:42 The soldiers' plan was to kill the prisoners, so that none of them would swim away and escape; 1 Corinthians 4:5 Therefore do not go on passing judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes who will both bring to light the things hidden in the darkness and disclose the motives ("secret thoughts") of men's hearts; and then each man's praise will come to him from God.
Thus Jesus is magnified-for all is in him and by him; thus the inheritance is made certain to us-for it is obtained in him; thus each blessing is the sweeter, and even heaven itself the brighter, because it is Jesus our Beloved "in whom" we have obtained all. Malachi The very same set of facts the presence of a divine life in the life of the believing spirit may either be looked at from the lower end, and then they are that I possess God, and find in Him the nutriment and the stimulus for all my being, or may be looked at from the upper end, that He possesses me and finds in me capacities and a nature the emptiness of which He fills, and organs which He uses. You shall not dread them, for the Lord your God is among you, a mighty and terrible God. This appears to be the most satisfactory interpretation of proelpizo ("hope"), though some think that Paul had the apostles in mind as preceding other believers. Colossians In other words boule describes the result of deliberate determination which in the present context reflects the product of not just a "mastermind" but God's heart of infinite love. Matthew Amplified And it is in Him that we, trusting the Son, have the inheritance for ours, and are heirs with God, and joint heirs with Christ. So, dear friends, if we would be meet for the inheritance of the saints in light, we must unite ourselves to that Lord by faith, and through Him and faith in Him, we shall receive the remission of sins and inheritance among all them that are sanctified., Ephesians 1:12 to the end that we who were the first to hope in Christ would be to the praise of His glory. Glory (1391) (doxa) means to give a proper opinion or estimate of. He will pour blessings (ideas, concepts and insights) out of the windows of heaven (Mal. Nahum NIV. So, then, there is a deep and a wonderful relation between the believing soul and God, and however different must be the two sides of that relation, the resemblance is greater than the difference. of
Let him have his divine will. Romans
You shall make no covenant with them, or show mercy to them. 1 Chronicles You shall not be afraid of them, but remember [earnestly] what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt. 22 May the LORD, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you! You shall therefore keep and do the instruction, laws, and precepts which I command you this day. We can and should wrestle in prayer for each other to do God's will Colossians 4:12-note Epaphras, who is one of your number, a bondslave (doulos) of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring (agonizomai) earnestly for you in his prayers (proseuche), that you may stand perfect (teleios) and fully assured in all the will of God. Nay, in every bone, joint, and muscle, sinew, gland, and blood-vessel, you mark the presence of a God working everything according to the design of infinite wisdom. The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to naughtthe counsel of the LORD stands for ever, Ps 33:10, 11; Thou dost guide me with Thy counsel, Ps 73:24, 106:13, 107:11, Pr 8:14, 19:21). GWT - God also decided ahead of time to choose us through Christ according to his plan, which makes everything work the way he intends. 1:16). As the old psalm has it, It is He that hath made us, and we are His still, such a relationship as this, based upon the connection that subsists between the Maker and the work of His hands, is so purely external, and a harsh, and superficial, that God does not reckon it to be a possession at all. 1 Corinthians He shall cause you to possess the land. R.S.V. And so it is in Him that we become an Inheritance, that God comes to His rights in regard to each of us. The result of the deliberations of this council, namely, the counsel that came from these deliberations was that the Son of God was to die on Calvarys Cross. New York: United Bible Societies), The third work of the Holy Spirit is the making of one new people, the church, out of those who were diverse peoples beforehand. And we were chosen so that we would bring praise to God's glory. Where is the man who shall estimate our divine portion? For that reason He redeems men. Look at Providence! (Amplified Bible - Lockman). Titus 3:7+ so that being justified by His grace we would be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
At cfaith, you can strengthen your faith and deepen your understanding of the Word of God by digging into the vast collection of teaching articles, streaming audio and video messages, and daily devotionals. Thus the humeis of the following verse forms a sharp contrast to the expressed hemas and the tous proelpikotas, which is a limiting predication, with emphasis upon it, as indicated by its position and by the specifying article.So understood, the claim describes the privilege of believing Jews in contrast with Gentiles.
This desire on Gods part is dominated by His good pleasure." Our belief in God's wisdom supposes and necessitates that he has a settled purpose and plan in the work of salvation. Will (2307) (thelema fromthelo= to will with the "-ma" suffix indicating the result of the will = "a thing willed") generally speaks of the result of what one has decided. Works is in the present tense indicates continuous action and the active voice indicates God is the initiator. You shall not make marriages with them; your daughter you shall not give to his son nor shall you take his daughter for your son, Ezra Yahweh, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times as many as you are, and bless you, as he has promised you! "All things are yours, for ye are Christ's and Christ is God's. And he is the one who makes everything agree with what he decides and wants. This exegesis admits of various modifications. And repays those who hate Him to their face, by destroying them; He will not be slack to him who hates Him, but will requite him to his face. And the solemn obligations of that most blessed possession by God of us are as solemn as the possession is blessed, and can only be discharged when we turn to Him, and yield the whole control of our nature to His merciful hand, believing that He has not only the right to dispose of us, but that His disposition of us will always coincide with our sanest conceptions of good, and our wisest desires for happiness. Please ignore the Secret Key field; it is not needed to log in to cfaith. 9:24. Fuchida read the pamphlet and got a Bible. 'May the LORD, the God of your fathers, increase you a thousand-fold more than you once accounted yourself and bless you, just as He has promised you! The conclusion is that nothing, absolutely nothing can upset the elects future spiritual blessings in glory. Ezekiel Neither fate nor human merit determines our destiny. He that would coerce my will, stiffens it into rebellion; but when a beloved one says, Though I might be much bold to enjoin thee, yet for loves sake I rather beseech, then yielding is blessedness, and the giving ourselves away is the finding of God and ourselves. 3:17). You perhaps remember how, in the great word which underlies all these New Testament conceptions of Gods ownership of His people, viz. TO THE END THAT WE WHO WERE THE FIRST TO HOPE IN CHRIST: eis to proelpikotas (RAPMPA) en to Christo: To the end (1519) (eis) is a common preposition which literally speaks of motion into or toward but here is used to show result. It also stands for the result of a deliberation in the sense of a decision of the will, a resolution, a counsel or an edict. He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.. Amplified Bible copyright 1954, 1958, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1987 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, CA 90631. Acts 27:12 Because the harbor was not suitable for wintering, the majority reached a decision to put out to sea from there, if somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there. Moreover, the Lord your God will send the 1 hornet among them until those who are left and hide themselves from you are destroyed. He that abideth in Me bringeth forth much fruit. We dwell in God, possessing Him; He dwells in us, possessing us. Call the things that be not as though they were (Rom. the assembly of the people (1Macc. New International Version
Out from the deliberations of this latter council, for instance, would come counsel, a pre-determined course of action that would best meet the circumstances they had to face on the march. the charter that constituted Israel into a nation, He said, Ye shall be unto Me a people for a possession above all nations, for all the earth is Mine. And yet, though that ownership and mastership extended over everything that His hands had made, He if I might so say contemned it, and relegated it to a secondary position, and told the people that His heart hungered for something deeper, more real, more vital than such a possession, and that therefore, just because all the earth was His, and that was not enough to satisfy His heart, He took them and made them a peculiar treasure above all nations. There are slaves who run away from their masters and deny the Lord that bought them. We do that whenever, being Gods slaves, we set up anything else than His will as our law, or anything else than His glory as the aim of our lives. Not only did God make this plan that includes absolutely all things that ever take place in heaven, on earth, and in hell; past, present, and even the future, pertaining to both believers and unbelievers, to angels and devils, to physical as well as spiritual energies and units of existence both large and small; He also wholly carries it out. Hoehner -in Whom also we were made a heritage having been predestined according to the purpose of the one who is working all things according to the counsel of his will. The use of humeis in the following verse might be said to be a direct transition, natural in writing a letter, when the composer of it passes from general to more special allusions and circumstances. Now he refers in turn to one class (v. 12)(ED: JEWS) and then to the other (vv.
Thus Gods will is not so much Gods intention, as it is His hearts desire. That which is his purpose stands utterly fixed and cannot be changed by any action of others. And he declares of Jerusalem, 'She will be built,' And of the temple, 'Your foundation will be laid. Micah That breaks the bondage under which the whole world is held. In Isaiah we see God's sovereign omnipotent will exercised through a human king in order to bring His people Israel back from Babylonian exile Isaiah 44:28 "It is I who says of Cyrus, 'He is My shepherd! Like our Lord, we are in the world to lose our lives for others. (Eadie's excellent Commentary on the Greek Text of the Epistle of Paul to the Ephesians), Christ (5547) (Christos from chrioto anoint, consecrate to an office ~ The Anointed One ~ The Messiah Greek here has a definite article before Christ, and a more literal translation is hope in the Christ.". NLT: God's purpose was that we who were the first to trust in Christ should praise our glorious God. The Gentiles entertained no such prospect (Eph 2:12). But even here it is so prominent that John R. W. Stott, for one, organizes the outline of Ephesians 1 around it. 3 John 3:7-12). The idea contained in Eph 1:11 is that God chose a plan after deliberating on the wisest course of action to accomplish his purpose. God weighs the mountains of our grief in scales, and the hills of our tribulation in balances. We possess God, and God possesses us, and it is the same set of facts which are set forth in the two thoughts, We were made an inheritance, the earnest of our inheritance.. Jesus won us at Calvaryas the spoils of His victory over Satan, sin, and deathand we now belong to Him. Here (Ro 8:29) we have the Triune God in council convened, the purpose of which was to select out from the three Persons of the Godhead, the Lamb for sacrifice who would pay the penalty for mans sin. Well, it means plainly and chiefly this, a mutual love. We have, then, to think of that great Divine Love which possesses us when He loves us, and when we love Him. NAS = consecrated(3), purpose(7), resolute(1), sacred(1). Leviticus Amen. May He bring good to you just as He has promised you! When something in the future was so certain that it could not possibly fail to happen Greek often spoke as if it had already occurred as in this case (prolepsis or proleptic in English = representation of something as existing before it actually becomes reality). ESV In him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will. You shall be blessed above all peoples; there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle. At the last it shall be clearly seen that in every chosen vessel of mercy, Jehovah did as he willed with his own; and that in every part of the work of grace he accomplished his purpose, and glorified his own name.
This failure to acknowledge God's control makes it difficult to understand those things in His plan which to us seem "out of place", but we can rest assured that such things will work for His glory. - Some believe that we here refers to the Jews, because of the expression first trusted.
6:20. If the Son make you free ye shall be free indeed. That great sacrifice not only breaks the power of cancelled sin, but it also moves the heart, in the measure in which we truly accept it, to the love and the surrender which make the mutual possession of which we have been speaking. Shall the new creation have the fickle genius of free will to preside over it when divine counsel rules the old creation? (Commentary). (James Burton Coffman's Comments - Who is J B Coffman? 20 Habakkuk The same word occurs in Eph 1:19-note and Eph 1:20-note, in reference to the energetic operation of the Father's infinite might which He energetically exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead. The peace of the Christian Church has been disrupted due to the misunderstanding which surrounds the verb proorizo. This fact sets more clearly before us the perverseness and ingratitude of the people, to which the orator next passes; and shows, what he was anxious to impress, that the fault of the 40 years delay rested only with themselves!
Darby English Version To energize, to operate, to work effectually in. In our humanlyoriented society, Gods wanting exclusive credit seems inappropriate only because men have no concept of His greatness, holiness glory. 1 Peter 1:4+to obtain an inheritance which is imperishable and undefiled and will not fade away, reserved (PERFECT TENSE!) (New Testament Commentary). Tips to Show Christlike Love to Even the Most Difficult Family Members, 4 Hard Truths about Christianity That We Must Never Forget. Note that God even gives us the ability to do His will and this is something we should pray for (cp Col 4:12) Hebrews 13:21-note (Prayer for the God of peace to) equip you in every good thing to do His will, working in us that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Isaiah So already in Homer (Il. Dave Branon (Our Daily Bread, Copyright RBC Ministries, Grand Rapids, MI. Why is the word River capitalized in Psalms 80:11? Having been predestined (4309) (proorizofrom pr = before + horzo = to determine) means to mark out with a boundary beforehand. And the Lord your God will clear out those nations before you, little by little; you may not consume them quickly, lest the beasts of the field increase among you. And if I possess Him then I shall pass through death as a beam of light does through some denser medium a little refracted indeed, but not broken up; and I shall carry with me all my wealth to begin another world with. He shall cause you to be the head and not the tail, the lender and not the borrower. Who are the Israelites in today's society that God was referring to as his chosen people? What God has God preserves. When one was ready for an event, or inclined to undertake a course of action, thelo (root verb form of thelema) was used. God had already chosen us to be his people, because that is what he wanted. Moreover, the Lord your God will send the. First to hope is in the perfect tense which means hoped or trusted at some point of time in past with the effects continuing in the present.
(Ephesians Tyndale New Testament Commentary), Coffman comments that the phrase "we who were first to hope in Christ" "is generally interpreted to mean that the Jewish dispensation looked to the coming of Christ, hoping for the deliverance that he would bring. Reach the bottom of Christ's sea of joy, and then hope to understand the bliss which God hath prepared for them that love him. Hosea To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, BakerEvangelicalDictionaryofBiblicalTheology, InternationalStandardBibleEncyclopedia, The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are.
But it shows us that He is in control. Jehovah, the God of your fathers, make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you as he hath said unto you! The participle may certainly bear the meaning of having hoped beforehandthat is, before the object of that hope appeared; or it may mean before in comparison with others, Acts 20:13. For Permission to Quote Information visit. 11 See what over 150,000 subscribers are already receiving each day. But it may be replied, that this sudden change of meaning in hemeis (we). English = energetic) means to work effectively to cause something to happen.
What should a Christian understand about the theory of plate tectonics. Will guide me till my journey's o'er Daniel Shrouds have no pockets, says the Spanish proverb. It also stresses the idea that the apostles and other firstgeneration Jewish believers were the first to receive the Messiah. God the Father, looking down at you can say, "This fellow here, this girl there, this man, this woman -- this is my beloved child in whom I am well pleased." Revelation 4:11-note Worthy are You, our Lord and our God, to receive glory and honor and power; for You created all things, and because of Your will they existed, and were created., Thelema - in the Septuagint (LXX) translated as "desire", "delight", "favor" -. 8 He cannot work independently of His own nature, for then He would cease to be God, something that is impossible. II.
The extinction of a world and the fall of a sparrow are equally the result of a free pre-arrangement. Or stated another way, we won't really know God's will unless we are willing to obey God's will.
1 John
The former would number 78,600; the latter were 70 only. But thus shall you deal with them: you shall break down their altars and dash in pieces their pillars and hew down their Asherim [symbols of the goddess Asherah] and burn their graven images with fire. CSB We have also received an inheritance in Him, predestined according to the purpose of the One who works out everything in agreement with the decision of His will.
Acts 4:28 to do whatever Your hand and Your purpose predestined to occur. Know, recognize, and understand therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, Who keeps covenant and steadfast love and mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations. He sees in its appointed place, not merely the corner-stone which he has laid in fair colours, in the blood of his dear Son, but he beholds in their ordained position each of the chosen stones taken out of the quarry of nature, and polished by his grace; he sees the whole from corner to cornice, from base to roof, from foundation to pinnacle.
Hoehner however writes "It has been suggested that Paul is making a contrast between we, Jewish Christians, and you, Gentile Christians in verse 13.
Young's Literal: in whom also we did obtain an inheritance, being foreordained according to the purpose of Him Who the all things is working according to the counsel of His will. The practical side of that truth is that, because we are identified with Christ, our lives should be identified with His life (cf.
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