Thy mercy, my God, is the theme
of my song. We live in an age when the preaching
of the true gospel has largely been replaced with a message
which is a mixture of the world's varied philosophies and some
scriptural truth. That which is truth will always
be truth when it stands alone. Yet when men seek to mix the
precious with the vile, even that which is precious becomes
a lie, since it is applied in a fashion which is contrary to
the basic principles which form its context. We're often told
that we need to have a proper worldview by many of today's
prominent foghorns of make-believe. They usually use this supposed
proper worldview exhortation in order to extort money from
their hearers to support their various ministries, which are,
according to them, doing fantastical works in all sorts of places.
Without these works, they tell us that many will wind up in
hell who could have been saved if their hearers had only been
more generous and diligent. While they exhort us to have
a proper worldview, they espouse one which is built upon the error
of man's natural philosophy and the misapplication of the revelation
of God's purpose in the creation of this world. Their faulty worldview
sees the world as a failed experiment which God created and set in
motion. and left the affairs thereof largely in the hands
of men who go about exercising their free will and either performing
deeds with which he is pleased or running afoul of his purposes
in various scenarios by being disobedient and unbelieving.
They would tell us that he is trying to get men to do his will,
but that he either will not or cannot prevent them from going
contrary to it. since he has great respect under
their free will. Thus they tell us that the vast
multitudes of the human race slide headlong to destruction,
with him powerless to prevent it. In this view, men hold the
key to their salvation, not only of themselves, but the salvation
of multitudes of others who they either will or will not reach
through their great missionary endeavors. According to this
philosophy, Christ has intervened into human history with an attempt
to rescue as many of these free moral agents as he possibly can
before the final bell tolls and many are swept away to endless
torment. All the while, he is willing to save them and even
desires to do so, but simply can't because they will not cooperate
with his plan to save them, or either because Christians neglect
to tell them about his plan to save them, and thus they perish
in ignorance, thwarting the purpose and desire of God to save them
all. None of this worldview can be discovered in the Scriptures
and is completely void of the truth as it is in Jesus Christ. A proper worldview recognizes
whose world this is. In the beginning, God created
the heaven and earth. He was under no obligation to
create the world, nor was He in any need of anything which
could be supplied by His creation. If it is his world, then what
sort of platform would any of his creation be able to stand
upon and question his doing? Shall the thing formed say to
him that formed it, why hast thou made me thus? A proper worldview
declares that he shall perform all that he purposes to do. But
our God is in the heavens. He hath done whatsoever he hath
pleased. Yea, I have spoken it. I will also bring it to pass.
I have purposed it. I will also do it. A proper worldview
magnifies the purpose of him whose world it is. Wherefore
God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which
is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, things in heaven, and things in earth, and things
under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. The purpose
of God in the earth is to magnify the glory of His grace in the
exaltation of His own begotten Son, through the redemption of
a people which were chosen in Him before the foundation of
the world. To this end He has come into
the world, once in the end of the age, to purchase the redemption
of that elect people which He has loved with an everlasting
love. But Christ, being come an high priest of good things
to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle not made with
hands, that is to say, not of this building, neither by the
blood of goats and calves, but by his own blood, he entered
in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us. In order to magnify the glory
of His grace and the sight of men and angels, He has been pleased
to cause the gospel of this certain redemption to be declared in
the earth. He has prepared and sent men
into the earth with this message upon their tongues, and this
blessed declaration cannot be stopped, nor in any wise fail
to accomplish exactly what He has sent it to do. So shall my
word be that goeth forth out of my mouth. It shall not return
unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall
prosper in the thing whereto I sent it. Do you rejoice in
the glory of this sovereign God, or do you worship a God of your
own imagination? Christ is all. If you would like a free transcript
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