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CONCLUSION: God telling us that Christ should Lamb Wain before world I .38) forthe believer's faith and comport God' s promises the saints ärcanncxcd to God's eternal His Son Here wheat our faith rests; not only in Chri historic but also in the revelation or the h•eart and character or God in the eternal counsels redemption.
Thercforc a study of the eternal counsels only reveals Christ's love and obedience in His wil to do will ofGod, but these counsels also reveal God's heart disposition toward elect in giving I-lis Sen. God's etecaal counsels farm Ille b clicvcr's hope (Heb 6: 13-20).
What awcsomc thought that an eternal lies behind the virgin Sirlh in Bethlehem and behind the ofCa]vary an eternal decree consisting of a covenant the and the Son the salvation of our sauEs
All the promises ofthe Gospel made to us have as 'heir ullimate
foundation the eternal counsels redemption. Chris: is God's mystery_
Great is rhe mystery He who re in flesh, wu.s vindicaled in Spiru
Beheld by crmong "crrions, hefieved on rhe la-ken up in glory (l I im 3 16).
Christ lhe storehouse graces. Christ bears a relationship to the Godhead hy so that we, being found in Aim, have the same relationship hy grace Ilewas God's Son by nature, and we are His sons by grace (Rom 8 '29)_
Our mystical union with Christ was planned by theFtther we must continually meditate an the convleteness ofthis re WurHead. His life death are mine; He in my nature assumed my sins, punishment7 wrath, and shame. From communion with is Person issues fbrth communion with His benefits.
Let us more frequently consider the benefits of; the redemptive significance of hypostatic uniorl 1101y Spirit knit an indissoluble knot between our human nature and Christ's deity Behold, our ashes wcrcforever assumed int. the unity ofGod' s own person! (Isaac Ambrose, Looking /csus),
The eternal counsels of redemption do canstitute a hare plan to give a people ta ( :hrisl God's t•tcmal counsels the very names be given Sem (We uurtext let us rgmembcr,the eternal cc»unsels redemption dc not Constitute a hare plan to give a people to ChrisL God's eternal counsels embrace the very names of those who will be given to the Son.
I n meditation, let us sink into (h. depths of God' s love in this — thE7 there never was a point in eternity pest when He did not contemplate each elect individual as being in the Son. Fortlus is what is Chris: said Ilis Ihar names are recorded in I
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