ARTICLE 3. GOD’S DECREE. Ephesians 1:3-12.
SO WHAT IS THE DECREE OF GOD? THE DECREE OF GOD IS HIS ETERNAL DECISIONS (HIS WILL) HIS PURPOSES AND PLANS . THAT ARE FORE ORDAINED AND IMPLEMENTED FOR HIS OWN GLORY.
• THE BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH STATES PART1: GOD HAS DECREED IN HIMSELF (DECIDED BY HIMSELF) FROM ALL ETERNITY, BY THE MOST WISE AND HOLY COUNSEL OF HIS OWN WILL, FREELY AND UNCHANGEABLY, ALL THINGS WHICH SHALL EVER COME TO PASS.(NOTHING FORCED HIM IN THE MAKING OF ANY OF HIS PLANS AND ALL HIS INTENTIONS WILL COME TO PASS WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST ALTERATION.)
• -YET IN SUCH A WAY THAT GOD IS NEITHER THE AUTHOR OF SIN NOR DOES HE HAVE FELLOWSHIP (MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY) WITH ANY IN THE COMMITTING OF SINS, NOR IS VIOLENCE OFFERED TO THE WILL OF THE CREATURE (NO ONE IS MADE TO SIN) NOR YET IS THE LIBERTY OR CONTINGENCY OF SECOND CAUSES TAKEN AWAY (THE LAW OF CAUSE AND EFFECT IS NOT INTERFERED WITH) BUT RATHER ESTABLISHED.
IN ALL THIS GODS WISDOM IS DISPLAYED, DISPOSING ALL THINGS (ORDERING THE COURSE OF EVENTS) AND ALSO HIS POWER AND FAITHFULNESS IN ACCOMPLISHING HIS DECREE. (GOD FAITHFULNESS HERE MEANS – HIS UNSWERVING CONFORMITY TO HIS OWN HOLY CHARACTER AND REVEALED WORD.)
• THIS WORLD IS NOT SPINNING OUT OF CONTROL – THIS WORLD HAS NOT BEEN WOUND UP LIKE A CLOCK AND LEFT TO ITS OWN DEVICES GODS PURPOSES AND PLANS ARE BEING PLAYED OUT AS WE SPEAK............ YOUR LIFE IS NOT JUST A PRODUCT OF CHANCE WITH RANDOM CHOICES (CHOICES WE FREELY MAKE, BUT WE ONLY CHOOSE HIM BECAUSE HE HAS CHOSEN US IN ETERNITY EPH 1:4, ROM 9:10 -12) EVERY HUMAN BEING AS A GOD GIVEN DESTINY, GOD HAS DECREED IT, AND IT WILL COME TO PASS.
GOD IS IN CONTROL
• GOD KNOWS THE BEGINNING FROM THE END, HE KNOWS WHAT IS TO COME, ITS ALL WITHIN HIS PURPOSE AND PLANS WHICH WILL STAND FOREVER. THE WHOLE OF CREATION IS HELD TOGETHER BY HIM (COL 1:15-17 ).
• EVEN A SPARROW THAT FALLS TO THE GROUND DOESN’T DO SO WITHOUT THE WILL OF THE FATHER. (MATT:10:29 -30) AND THEN CONSIDER OUR ENTIRE LIVES (WHICH HE KNOWS INTIMATELY) ARE FAR MORE IMPORTANT ARE ALSO ARE ORDAINED UNDER THE WILL OF GOD.
TODAY I WANT TO LAY OUT SOME BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONS IN REGARD TO GODS DECREE.
1. GODS DECREE IS IRREVOCABLE.
A DECREE IS A RULE OF LAW WHICH IS CREATED BY SOMEONE IN AUTHORITY A KING, A PRESIDENT TOGETHER WITH CONGRESS, A PRIME MINISTER TOGETHER WITH PARLIAMENT AND WHEN APPLIED TO ITS SUBJECTS IT HAS THE FORCE OF LAW.
IN THE NT WE SEE THAT LUKE 2:1 CAESAR AUGUSTUS ISSUED A DECREE THAT A CENSUS SHOULD BE TAKEN OF THE ENTIRE ROMAN WORLD. AT THE TIME OF THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, HENCE MARY AND JOSEPH TRAVELLED TO BETHLEHEM TO REGISTER FOR THE CENSUS.
• AT THE OT KINGS LIKE THE PERSIAN KINGS LIKE DARIUS AND XERXES ISSUED DECREES AND SEALED THE DECREE WITH HIS SIGNET RING IT COULD NOT BE REVOKED IT COULD NOT BE CHANGED. ESTHER 3:9 -10 (NOT EVEN BY THE KING HIMSELF). HERE HAMAN PERSUADED XERXES TO ESTABLISH A LAW TO ERADICATE THE JEWISH PEOPLE V10. WHEN NEWS SPREAD TO MORDECAI OF THE PLOT, HE IMPLORED ESTHER TO SPEAK BEFORE THE KING, TO CHANGE HIS MIND, AS A RESULT XERXES ISSUED ANOTHER DECREE WHICH COUNTERACTED HIS EARLIER ONE BECAUSE HIS EARLIER DECREE COULD NOT BE REVOKED. ESTHER: 8:8 -12.
• ANOTHER CASE IS FOUND IN DANIEL WHERE KING DARIUS WAS DUPED INTO MAKING A DECREE DAN 6: 8 -12 . ANYBODY FOUND PRAYING TO ANOTHER GOD BUT THE KING IN THE NEXT 30 DAYS WERE TO BE THROWN INTO THE LIONS DEN. DARIUS REGRETTED HIS ACTIONS, BUT DANIEL WAS THROWN INTIO THE LIONS DEN. THERE DECREES WERE UNCHANGING THEY COULD NOT BE REVOKED.
GODS DECREE CONTINUED.
THEN HOW MUCH MORE SO ARE GODS DECREES UNCHANGING, THEY CANNOT BE REVOKED, THEY HAVE BEEN ESTABLISHED IN ETERNITY PAST. OUR GOD MAKES ETERNAL DECISIONS THAT ARE IIRREVOCABLE.
EPH 1:11 IN HIM WE WERE ALSO CHOSEN , HAVING BEEN PREDESTINED ACCORDING TO THE PLAN OF HIM WHO WORKS OUT EVERYTHING IN CONFORMITY WITH THE PURPOSE OF HIS WILL.
• WE MIGHT MAKE PLANS AND DECISIONS AND COMMITMENTS YET SO OFTEN WE BREAK THEM WE SEE IT IN MARRIAGE, BUSINESS, FAMILY, FRIENDSHIPS AND EVEN IN CHURCHES BUT GODS DECREE HIS ETERNAL PLANS HIS DECISIONS WILL NOT BE TWARTED BY OUR FAILURES HIS ETERNAL DECISIONS CANNOT BE UNDONE.
• SOMETIMES HE CAN UNDO OUR DECISIONS AND PLANS TO BRING US TO A PLACE OF HUMILITY.
• OUR NATION S LEADERS MAKE DECREES AND DECISIONS AND PLANS – BUT NONE TAKE PLACE WITHOUT THE CONSENT AND WILL OF GOD AND AS THOSE DECISIONS GO AGAINST GOD AND HIS WILL THERE COULD WELL COME A TIME IN OUR OWN NATION WHEN GOD WILL INTERVENE.
• CASE IN QUESTION
6TH CENTURY BC THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE WAS AT ITS PEAK OF POWER .....THEY WERE THE DOMINAT FORCE WITH NEBUCHADNEZZAR AS THEIR KING THEY HAD DEFEATED THE SURROUNDING NATIONS LIKE JUDAH BUT GODS WILL WAS ENFORCED...AND CAME TO PASS EVEN FOR THEM...
DAN 4:26 THIS IS THE DECREE THE MOST HIGH HAS ISSUED ANGAINST MY LORD THE KING. YOU WILL BE DRIVEN AWAY... BECOME LIKE AN ANIMAL ...EAT GRASS .... NEBUCHANDNEZZAR WOULD BE HUMBLED TO SHOW GOD IS SOVERIGN OVER ALL AND IN CONTROL.
DAN 4:34 - 37. NEBUCCHANEZZAR EVENTUALLY ACKNOWLEDGES THIS FACT. SO WE SEE THAT WHAT GOD DECREES WILL TAKE PLACE....
• ISAIAH 46:10 I MAKE KNOWN THE END FROM THE BEGINNING, FROM ANCIENT TIMES WHAT IS STILL TO COME. I SAY MY PURPOSES WILL STAND AND I WILL DO ALL THAT I PLEASE
THE MEANS : GOSPEL IMPERATIVE
CONSIDER THE INCARNATE SON OF GOD - JESUS WHO KNEW HIS DESTINY BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD IN ETERNITY PAST AND THEN WHEN HE ENTERED INTO THIS WORLD, EXPLAINING TO HIS DISCIPLES HIS PURPOSES IN COMING AND FUTURE PLANS TO BE FULLFILLED. 3X EXPLAINING HE MUST DIE AND SUFFER AND RISE AGAIN TO FULFIL THE SCRIPTURES, TO DO THE WILL OF THE GODHEAD. GOD DECREED IT TO BE SO, ALTHOUGH HE WAS NOT THE AUTHOR OF ANY EVIL HE PERMITTED GLORY TO COME TO HIMSELF AND SALVATION TO US AS THE FATHER DECREED THE SON TO BE CRUCIFIED IN OUR PLACE. ( ACTS 2:23 IT WAS BY GODS SET PURPOSES AND FOREKNOWLEDGE).
THANK GOD FOR GOD FOR HIS IRREVOCABLE DECREE’S BECAUSE WITHOUT GOD STEPPING IN WITH HIS ETERNAL DECISIONS WE WOULD ALL BE LOST , WITHOUT GOD WITHOUT HOPE IN THE WORLD - SEPARATED FROM GOD FOR ALL ETERNITY AS OUR SINS DESERVE. IN HIM WE ARE CHOSEN HE IS THE MEANS OF OUR SALVATION AND LIVING TO THE GLORY OF GOD!
1. THE BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH STATES PART 6: AS GOD HAS APPOINTED THE ELECT UNTO GLORY, SO, BY THE ETERNAL AND COMPLETELY FREE INTENTION OF HIS WILL, HE HAS FOREORDAINED ALL THE MEANS. ACCORDINGLY, THOSE WHO ARE ELECTED, BEING FALLEN IN ADAM:
- ARE REDEEMED BY CHRIST, - ARE EFFECTUALLY CALLED TO FAITH IN CHRIST BY HIS SPIRIT WORKING IN DUE SEASON, - ARE JUSTIFIED, ADOPTED, SANCTIFIED, - AND ARE KEPT BY HIS POWER THROUGH FAITH UNTO SALVATION; - NEITHER ARE ANY BUT THE ELECT REDEEMED BY CHRIST, EFFECTUALLY CALLED, JUSTIFIED, ADOPTED, SANCTIFIED, AND SAVED.
AND THAT MEANS THAT WHEN GOD DECREES TO SAVE US – HE SAVE US IN CHRIST ALONE AND WE CAN NEVER BE LOST - HE DOESNT CHANGED HIS MIND TO SAVE US ONE MINUTE AND THEN CHANGE THE DECREE FURTHER DOWN THE LINE YOUR SAVED FOR EVER OR NEVER SAVED AT ALL. BECAUSE ITS GODS IRREVOCABLE DECREE . JHN 10:27 -30 MY SHEEP LISTEN TO MY VOICE; I KNOW THEM, AND THEY FOLLOW ME. 28I GIVE THEM ETERNAL LIFE, AND THEY SHALL NEVER PERISH; NO ONE CAN SNATCH THEM OUT OF MY HAND. 29MY FATHER, WHO HAS GIVEN THEM TO ME, IS GREATER THAN ALL[D]; NO ONE CAN SNATCH THEM OUT OF MY FATHER’S HAND. 30I AND THE FATHER ARE ONE."
2. GODS DECREE IS UNCONDITIONAL.
V11 IN HIM WE WERE ALSO CHOSEN, HAVE BEEN PREDESTINED ACCORDING TO THE PLAN OF HIM WHO WORKS OUT EVERYTHING IN CONFORMITY TO HIS WILL.
• THE BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH STATES ‘GODS DECREE’ POINT 2. ALTHOUGH GOD KNOWS EVERYTHING WHICH MAY OR CAN COME TO PASS UNDER ALL IMAGINABLE CONDITIONS, YET HE HAS NOT DECREED ANYTHING BECAUSE HE FORESAW IT IN THE FUTURE, OR BECAUSE IT WOULD COME TO PASS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS.
WHAT GOD CHOOSES TO DO IS NOT BASED ON ANY OUTSIDE INFLUENCE ON ANY CONDITIONS, ITS NOT LIMITED IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM GODS DECREE IN CHOOSING US AS HIS CHILDREN IS COMPLETLY UNCONDITIONAL.
• DID YOU WATCH BRITAIN GOT TALENT LAST WEEK? A DANCE GROUP CALLED DIVERSITY WERE THE 2009 WINNERS THEY WERE CHOSEN TO PERFORM BEFORE THE QUEEN AT THE ROYAL VARIETY PERFORMANCE BUT IT WASN’T UNCONDITIONAL - IT WAS CONDITIONAL BECAUSE OF THE TALENT THEY DEMONSTRATED (WHAT THEY DID) THEY GOT THROUGH AND THE VOTES THEY RECEIVED (VIEWERS CHOICE) WHAT THEY SAW CONVINCED THEM ... THEY WERE GOOD ENOUGH TO BE WINNERS.
YET WHEN WE CONSIDER GODS DECREE IN CHOOSING US IT IS COMPLETELY UNCONDITIONAL. V4. HE CHOSE US IN HIM BEFORE THE CREATION OF THE WORLD V5 HE PREDESTINED US TO BE ADOPTED AS HIS SONS
GODS DECREE OF ELECTION IS A BIBLICAL DOCTRINE THAT NO BIBLICAL CHRISTIAN CAN IGNORE! IN THE OT GOD CHOSE THE NATION OF ISRAEL FROM THE SEED OF ABRAHAM (DEUT 7:6.) AND IN THE NT HE HAS CHOSEN AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO BE V1 HIS SAINTS. AND THEY WERE CHOSEN UNCONDITIONALLY.
SCENARIO YOU MIGHT SAY “DIDN’T I CHOSE GOD?” YES INDEED FREELY BUT ONLY BECAUSE IN ETERNITY GOD HAD FIRST CHOSEN YOU. “DIDN’T I DECIDE FOR CHRIST?” YES BUT ONLY BECAUSE IN ETERNITY GOD HAD FIRST DECIDED FOR YOU.
GOD UNCONDITIONALLY CHOSE YOU - IS THAT A PRIVILEGE OR WHAT? - GODS ETERNAL DECREE OF ELECTION TO CHOSE A PEOPLE BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD TO BE HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE AND NOT ON THE ACCOUNT OF ANY FORESEEN MERIT IN THEM OR ANY FUTURE DEMONSTRATION OF FAITH BY THEM.
PEOLE OFTEN INFER THIS TEXT ROM 8: 28 -29 FOR THOSE GOD FORKNEW – THIS IS A MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE WORD BECAUSE IT IS A FOREKNOWLEDGE OF THE WHOLE PERSON NOT OF HIS/HER FUTURE ACTIONS OF FAITH OR FACTS.
• BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH STATES PART 5. THOSE OF MANKIND WHO ARE PREDESTINATED TO LIFE, GOD CHOSE BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD WAS LAID, IN ACCORDANCE WITH HIS ETERNAL AND IMMUTABLE PURPOSE AND THE SECRET COUNSEL AND GOOD PLEASURE OF HIS WILL. GOD CHOSE THEM IN CHRIST FOR EVERLASTING GLORY, SOLELY OUT OF HIS FREE GRACE AND LOVE, WITHOUT ANYTHING IN THE CREATURE AS A CONDITION OR CAUSE MOVING HIM TO CHOOSE.
• THE APOSTLE PAUL WRITES IN 2TIM1:9 WHO HAS SAVED US AND CALLED US TO A HOLY LIFE - NOT BECAUSE OF ANYTHING WE HAVE DONE BUT BECAUSE OF HIS OWN PURPOSE AND GRACE.
• AS JESUS SAID TO HIS DISCIPLES, JHN15:9 I HAVE CHOSEN YOU OUT OF THE WORLD. FRIENDS IN CHRIST GOD HAS DONE JUST THAT, HE HAS DECREED IT TO BE SO, GOD CHOOSE US ! PRAISE GOD!
• THE APOSTLE PETER WRITES 1PETER 1:1-2 TO GOD’S ELECT. 2 WHO HAVE BEEN CHOSEN ACCORDING TO THE FOREKNOWLEDGE OF GOD THE FATHER THROUGH THE SANCTIFYING WORK OF THE SPIRIT FOR OBEDIENCE TO JESUS CHRIST AND THE SPRINKLING BY HIS BLOOD; HE ALSO WRITES 1PETER 2:9 YOU ARE A CHOSEN PEOPLE, A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE BELONGING TO GOD.
• “ALTHOUGH WE CANNOT CONCEIVE EITHER BY ARGUMENT OR REASON HOW GOD HAS ELECTED US BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD YET WE KNOW IT BY HIS DECLARING IT TO US; AND EXPERIENCE ITSELF VOUCHES FOR IT SUFFICIENTLY, WHEN WE ARE ENLIGHTENED IN THE FAITH.
• J. CALVIN SAID IN A SERMON ON EPHESIANS MAY1558
SO LETS NAIL IT, NOBODY WARRANTS THESE BLESSINGS OR EARNS THEM; NEITHER ARE WE BORN INTO THEM. THEY ARE NOT GIVEN BY PEOPLE, BUT BY GOD. UNCONDITIONAL HE HAS CHOSEN YOU! ALL WHO ENJOY THESE SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS CAN REMEMBER A TIME WHEN WE HAD NONE OF THEM, (UNCONVERTED) AND THE TIME WHEN THEY ENTERED INTO THESE SPIRITUAL BLESSINGS. (CONVERTED)
FLIPSIDE OF THE COIN: THE SCRIPTURES REVEAL TO US THAT MAN IS NOT PREDESTINED TO HELL BUT THAT HE HAS THE RESPONSIBILITY TO RESPOND AND RECEIVE THE GOSPEL!
THE DOCTRINE OF REPROBATION: IS THE SOVEREIGN DECISION OF GOD BEFORE CREATION TO PASS OVER SOME PERSONS, IN SORROW DECIDING NOT TO SAVE THEM, AND TO PUNISH THEM FOR THEIR SINS, AND THEREBY MANIFEST WHICH MANIFEST HIS JUSTICE AND GLORY AS MUCH AS HIS SAVING OTHERS
EVERYBODY HAS A PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY.
• JHN. 3: 18 WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM IS NOT CONDEMNED, BUT WHOEVER DOES NOT BELIEVE STANDS CONDEMNED ALREADY.
• JHN 5:40 YET YOU REFUSE TO COME TO ME TO HAVE LIFE
• JHN 1:11-12 YET TO ALL THAT RECEIVED HIM.
• MATT 11:28 COME TO ME ALL YOU WHO LABOUR AN ARE HEAVY LADEN
• REV V17.THE SPIRIT AND THE BRIDE SAY COME…
IF WE REFUSE TO COME THROUGH HIS SON IN THIS WAY..... HELL DOES AWAIT US, BUT THE RESPONSIBILITY AND BLAME IS NOT WITH GOD BUT WITH YOURSELF......
EZEKIAL:33:11GOD DOES NOT DELIGHT IN THE DEATH OF THE WICKED. (JUDE.4) (ROM.9V17-22)
SO THE CAUSE OF ELECTION LIES IN GODS GRACE, BUT THE CAUSE OF REPROBATION LIES WITH MAN. SO BOTH HIS JUSTICE AND GRACE BRING GLORY TO GOD ROM 9:22 - 23.
• THE BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH STATES: 3. BY THE DECREE OF GOD, FOR THE MANIFESTATION OF HIS GLORY, SOME MEN AND ANGELS ARE PREDESTINATED OR FOREORDAINED TO ETERNAL LIFE THROUGH JESUS CHRIST, TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORIOUS GRACE. OTHERS ARE LEFT TO ACT IN THEIR SIN TO THEIR JUST CONDEMNATION, TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORIOUS JUSTICE. THOSE ANGELS AND MEN THUS PREDESTINATED AND FOREORDAINED, ARE PARTICULARLY AND UNCHANGEABLY DESIGNED, AND THE NUMBER OF THEM IS SO CERTAIN AND DEFINITE, THAT IT CANNOT BE EITHER INCREASED OR DIMINISHED.
AT THE END OF THE DAY NONE OF US ARE DESERVING OF HIS MERCY WE ALL DESERVE HIS JUSTICE AND HELL BUT IT IS OFFERED TO ALL, AND SO WE HAVE NO RIGHT AT ALL TO ARGUE BEFORE GOD ROM 9:20. WHO ARE YOU OH MAN TO TALK BACK TO GOD? V21 THE POTTER HAS THE RIGHT TO MAKE SOME CLAY FOR NOBLE PURPOSES AND SOME FOR COMMON USE.
SO TODAY WE HAVE LOOKED INTO SOMETHING OF GOD’S DECREE AND SEEN THAT HIS ETERNAL DECISIONS (HIS WILL) HIS PURPOSES AND PLANS . THAT ARE FORE ORDAINED AND IMPLEMENTED FOR HIS OWN GLORY ARE IRREVOCABLE AND COMPLETELY UNCONDITIONAL
SO FINALLY THE BAPTIST CONFESSION OF FAITH PART 7 STATES. THE DOCTRINE OF THIS HIGH MYSTERY OF PREDESTINATION IS TO BE HANDLED WITH SPECIAL PRUDENCE AND CARE, IN ORDER THAT MEN WHO ARE HEEDING THE WILL OF GOD REVEALED IN HIS WORD, AND WHO ARE YIELDING OBEDIENCE TO IT, MAY, FROM THE CERTAINTY OF THEIR EFFECTUAL VOCATION BE ASSURED OF THEIR ETERNAL ELECTION.
SO SHALL THIS DOCTRINE PROVIDE CAUSE FOR PRAISE, REVERENCE, ADMIRATION OF GOD, AND ALSO PROVIDE CAUSE FOR HUMILITY, DILIGENCE, AND ABUNDANT CONSOLATION TO ALL WHO SINCERELY OBEY THE GOSPEL.
AND SO PRACTICAL APPLICATION :
1. GODS DECREE LEAVES NO ROOM FOR PRIDE AND SELF SUFFICIENCY IN RELIGIOUS WORKS BEFORE GOD. THERE IS NOTHING IN US THAT WARRENTS OUR SALVATION. WE ARE ALL SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH AND NOT OF WORKS SO THAT NO ONE CAN BOAST WE ARE GODS WORKMANSHIP CHOSEN FOR GOOD WORKS EPH: 2:8 -10. THER EIS NO OTHER WAY THAN BY GODS DECREE HIS CHOOSING OF US THROUGH CHRIST. SHOULD LEAVE US DEEPLY HUMBLED AND FILLED WITH GRATITUDE IF WE HAVE RECEIVED HIS MERCY THIS MORNING.
2. THE DECREE OF GOD SHOULD FILL THE ELECT WITH MUCH ASSURANCE AND PRAISE. PRAISE FOR WHAT HE HAS DONE FOR US, LIVING OUT LIVES TO THE PRAISE OF HIS GLORIOUS GRACE EPH 2:12 AS HE DESIRES US TO DO. WITH MUCH ASSURANCE OF OUR ETERNAL ELECTION THAT WE ARE GODS SPECIAL POSSESSION AND WE CAN NEVER BE SNATCHED OUT OF HIS PLANS AND PURPOSES FOR US. (WE ARE SPIRITUAL INVINCIBLES)
3. IT FINALLY IT WILL AWAKEN TO OUR HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY TO CALL OUT TO GOD FOR HIS MERCY , TO BE HUMBLED, TO TAKE GODS WORD SERIOUSLY, TO CRY OUT TO GOD, IN ORDER TO BE SAVED THE BLAME CAN NEVER BE LEFT WITH GOD.
AMEN
