“WHEN IT PLEASED GOD”
Galatians 1:15-16
It never occurred to me that God is sovereign over all things and only
does that which pleases Him, and that He only does that which pleases
Him when He is pleased to do so, until God in grace and mercy revealed
His Son to me through the preaching of the gospel. This great truth,
which is revealed through-out the scriptures, leaves man at the disposal
of our infinite, omnipotent, just and holy God. Contrary to the popular
opinion of false preachers and false professors, salvation is of the
Lord - from start to finish. Any message, any preacher, or any professor
of Christianity that gives credit, ability, or the determining choice
to man in the matter of regeneration is anti-God and anti-Christ. Salvation
is in the hand of the Saviour! Grace comes only from Him Who said, “I
will be gracious!” Mercy is received only from Him Who said,
“I will be merciful.” It pleased God to choose His
people before the world was made - “According as He hath chosen
us in Him before the foundation of the world” Eph
1:4. It pleased God to send His Son to be the propitiation for
His people’s sin - “Herein is love, not that we loved
God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for
our sins.” 1John 4:10. It
pleases God, in His time, to call His elect to faith in Christ by the
preaching of the glorious gospel of His Son - “For after that
in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God
by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe”
1Corinthians 1:21. It pleased God
to create the world and all that is therein - “Thou art worthy,
O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created
all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created” Revelation
4:11. It pleases God to uphold all things by the Word of His
power - “Who being the brightness of His glory, and the express
image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power,
when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of
the Majesty on high” Hebrews 1:3.
And, THANK GOD! It pleased Him to make us His people! - “For
the LORD will not forsake His people for His great name’s sake:
because it hath pleased the LORD to make you His people”
1Samuel 12:22.
What God does not do will never be done. What God has done will
never be undone…because IT PLEASED GOD!
Tommy
