Christ plays a very important role in God's plan
for the creation of man.
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How was Christ featured in God's plan to make
man holy or sanctified?
In 1 Peter
1:19-20, Apostle Peter explains:
He paid for you with the precious
lifeblood of Christ, the sinless, spotless
Lamb of God. God chose him for this purpose long
before the world began, but now in these
final days, he was sent to the earth for all
to see. And he did this for you.(1 Peter
1:19-20, NLT)
The
same verse in another version of the another
version of the bible:
but with the precious blood of
Christ, like that of a lamb without
blemish or spot. He was destined before the
foundation of the world but was made
manifest at the end of the times for
your sake. (RSV)
Christ was
part of God's plan for the creation of man,
long before the world began. God chose
Christ for this purpose, so in the final days,
God sent Christ to earth for all to see.
10F.2 What was God's plan
to make man holy and sanctified, before the
world began?
In
Ephesians 1:4-5 this is revealed:
In Christ, God
chose us before the world began. He wanted us to be holy and
spotless before Him in love.
God planned long ago that we become His own sons through
Jesus Christ. This would please God; it is what He wanted.
The same verse in other versions of the Bible;
just as he chose us in Christ {Gk [in him]} before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love.
He destined us for adoption as his children through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,
(NRSV)
Thus he chose us in Christ before the world was made
to be holy and faultless before him in love,
marking us out for himself beforehand, to be adopted sons, through Jesus Christ.
Such was his purpose and good pleasure, (NJB)
God planned long ago—even before
the world began—to choose man in Christ, He wanted them Holy and
spotless before Him in love. That is, God planned and wanted
them to become His own sons, through Jesus Christ according to His
purpose and good pleasure of His will.
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Having been chosen and
adopted as His sons through Christ,
what is the divine plan for man to become holy or sanctified—freed from sin?
Apostle Paul states in Ephesians 2:10:
For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
(NKJV)
The same verse in another version of
the Bible:
We are what God made. In Christ Jesus we have been created for doing good deeds. God prepared these good deeds long ago, so that we could live by them.
(IEB)
God's divine plan was to "create man
in Christ Jesus for good works or deeds" that God prepared long ago that
man should walk and live by them.
10F.4 If man as
God's workmanship are "created in Christ Jesus for good works or good
deeds", of what nature are these good works or good deeds?
So the law is holy, and the commandment is holy and just and good.
(Romans 7:12, RSV)
These good works and good deeds are
the laws and commandments of God. Walking and living by these laws and
commandments will make man holy in the sight of God.
The Lord God Almighty intended that man should walk and live in
good works or good deeds which God has prepared long ago. Doing
this good deeds or good works will make man holy and this is only
through the observance of God's laws and commandments.
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Why is
walking and living by God's laws and commandments will make man holy in
the sight of God.
King Solomon, known for his wisdom during his time, wrote in
Ecclesiastes 12:13,
the sacred intention behind man's conception as set
forth in clear terms:
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
(NKJV)
Because this is the whole duty of man.
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God chose
Christ for this purpose long before the
world began, but now in these final days, he
was sent to the earth (1 Peter 1:19-20), so
that the sinful man may yet become holy or
sanctified (freed from sin). God's plan for making man
holy or sanctified, was to choose men
and adopt them as His sons through Jesus Christ according His purpose and good
pleasure (Ephesians 1:4-5). God's divine plan was to "create man in Christ Jesus for good
works or deeds" (Ephesians 2:10). These
good works and deeds are the laws and
commandments of God (Romans 7:12). Keeping these
laws and commandments is the whole duty of man
(Ecclesiastes 12:13). Thus, walking and living by
these laws and commandments
will make man holy or sanctified (freed from sin).
It is only through this plan, that man will regain his right to serve God on
the basis of love which is God's purpose in
creating Him.
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