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THE REASONABLE RESPONSE

Much has been learned and this series of lessons is almost at an end. Let’s take some time to review what we have learned. Romans 8:29-30 tells us, “For whom He did foreknow, He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He did predestinate, them He also called: and whom He called, them He also justified: and whom He justified, them He also glorified.” We know from this passage that God predetermined that all that would accept Jesus as their Savior would also be fully conformed to the image of Jesus. This God made into a guarantee, such that one may either choose to arrive there willingly or may resist and be brought there unwillingly. Certainly the better choice is to go willingly for the unwilling pathway is full of God’s chastisement, unhappiness, and defeat. It is a wonderful thing that God has done for us. He has provided a way of salvation for us. He has provided victory over sin to those who are saved. God has also guaranteed that all Christians will be made into the very image of Jesus. We are saved from the penalty of sin, we are saved from the power of sin, and one day we will be saved from the very presence of sin. The certainty of this last statement is so strong that God already sees us in heaven shouting and singing praises to the Lord Jesus. All of these are worth shouting about, but let us consider for a moment what must have occurred to bring about all of this.Let’s first of all return to Romans 8:29-30, to which was referred above. The word translated “predestined” in Romans 8:29-30 has a primary meaning of “to see beforehand or to foresee.” God in His infinite knowledge and wisdom, in eternity past, knew the path His creation would take. God knew that mankind would reject their Creator. God also knew that the only way He could redeem His creation was for Jesus, God the Son, to pay the full penalty on the cross and rise from the dead the third day. It is very doubtful that any human being who has ever lived would have been willing to allow his only son to pay the full penalty for the sin of another. Yet God chose to go ahead with creation anyway, knowing it would cost Jesus the cross. “For God SO LOVED the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16).” “Oh, the love that drew salvation’s plan! Oh, the grace that bro’t it down it man! Oh, the mighty gulf that God did span at Calvary!”1 The song writer indeed had the story right. God because of His infinite love for us “foresaw” us into existence as conformed to the image of Jesus. The price for this choice…God the Son would have to take on human form for all eternity, suffer and die on the cross, be buried and rise again.

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