The True Meaning of Predestination
Jesse M. Hendley
Ephesians 1:5
It is wonderful to be saved and be a child of God, and we are studying today a wonderful truth that relates to that, and that is PREDESTINATION, ITS TRUE MEANING.
The text is Ephesians 1:5. "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will."
Let us think first of "the good pleasure of His will." What God wants is really to give us what we want. What do you really want?
The other day (you'll pardon this personal illustration, but it fits in here) our little grandson, four years of age, for whom we have asked prayer over the radio, had his birthday. Well, his grandmother, of course, wanted him to have something nice, so she went out and bought him a little racer, a little car, you know, that a child can sit in and guide. He can put his foot on the pedal and it will go. It is battery-charged. She went to the store and before she bought it she had a little child to sit in it and run it, to be sure our little grandson would be able to do that, too. So she purchased it and took it out to him.
Well, he got into that little racer and he just ran all over the place, sweat running down his face, hilarity everywhere! He just bubbled over! Nobody could have been happier. He just chuckled and laughed aloud with joy as he ran that little racer, and everybody was so thrilled because the little guy was so happy. He stopped and looked up at his grandmother, and said, "Grandmother, this is just what I WANTED, just what I WANTED!" To that little guy, that racer was the sum total of all his desires.
Beloved friends, we are going to think for a few minutes now about WHAT GOD WANTS, what He really wants for you and me, what He really wants for the human race.
Ephesians 1:5
We read here in Ephesians 1:5, "the good pleasure of His will."
First, we have the word will here. God has a w ...
Jesse M. Hendley
Ephesians 1:5
It is wonderful to be saved and be a child of God, and we are studying today a wonderful truth that relates to that, and that is PREDESTINATION, ITS TRUE MEANING.
The text is Ephesians 1:5. "Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will."
Let us think first of "the good pleasure of His will." What God wants is really to give us what we want. What do you really want?
The other day (you'll pardon this personal illustration, but it fits in here) our little grandson, four years of age, for whom we have asked prayer over the radio, had his birthday. Well, his grandmother, of course, wanted him to have something nice, so she went out and bought him a little racer, a little car, you know, that a child can sit in and guide. He can put his foot on the pedal and it will go. It is battery-charged. She went to the store and before she bought it she had a little child to sit in it and run it, to be sure our little grandson would be able to do that, too. So she purchased it and took it out to him.
Well, he got into that little racer and he just ran all over the place, sweat running down his face, hilarity everywhere! He just bubbled over! Nobody could have been happier. He just chuckled and laughed aloud with joy as he ran that little racer, and everybody was so thrilled because the little guy was so happy. He stopped and looked up at his grandmother, and said, "Grandmother, this is just what I WANTED, just what I WANTED!" To that little guy, that racer was the sum total of all his desires.
Beloved friends, we are going to think for a few minutes now about WHAT GOD WANTS, what He really wants for you and me, what He really wants for the human race.
Ephesians 1:5
We read here in Ephesians 1:5, "the good pleasure of His will."
First, we have the word will here. God has a w ...
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