Grace Fellowship Church Pastor / Teacher James H. Rickard Thursday, July 31, 2008

Memory Verse Phil 4:13, “I can do all things through Him who strengthens me.”

The Upper Room Discourse John 13-16

John 13:18 3) God's Omniscience does not hinder or violate human volition.

The Principles of Human History are related to God's Omniscience.

1) In human history, God's sovereignty and the free will of man coexist. This coexistence is by divine decree.

2) Even though God has omniscience of human volition, it has nothing to do with the function of human volition in time.

3) God is the inventor of creature freedom. Gal 5:1

Gal 5:1, “It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm (make good decisions daily) and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery (make bad decisions).”

4) The omniscience of God simply knows and has always known:

a) Every decision of every human being in history,

a) Every decision of every human being in history, b) Every thought that preceded every decision,

c) Every motive that was involved in every thought,

c) Every motive that was involved in every thought, d) Every action that follows every motive, thought and decision. Rom 8:1-4; 9:6-16; Heb 12:15-17

5) Every human being has his very own blueprint based on God's foreknowledge of their decisions.

1 Cor 1:21, “For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not come to know God, (nevertheless), God was well-pleased through the foolishness of the message preached, (Christ crucified), to save those who believe.”

The Concept of Historical Sins and God’s Blueprint.

1) God also has another printout that includes all human beings in history. The omniscience of God placed into this printout, all personal sins in history.

While Jesus was on the Cross, God the Father called for the printout and imputed all personal sins to Christ and judged every one of them.

Since both sins of cognizance and ignorance are the function of human volition, every sin in human history was taken from the printout and imputed to Jesus Christ.

2) Even though God gives us perfect volition, He imputes Adam's original sin to our genetically formed Old Sin Nature at physical birth.

That results in condemnation also at the point of physical birth, which automatically qualifies us for salvation by grace. Rom 5:12, 14-19

3) Therefore, God's omniscience perceives:

3) Therefore, God's omniscience perceives: a) The free as free (God will never tamper with your volition),

3) Therefore, God's omniscience perceives: b) The necessary as necessary (divine justice as our point of reference),

3) Therefore, God's omniscience perceives: c) Their causes, conditions, and relations, as one indivisible system of things.

4) Therefore, every cause and effect is related to another cause and effect, and so on, so that the course of human history is just as man thinks it, wills it, and does it, every link of which is essential to the integrity of the whole Plan of God.

Gal 6:7, “Be not deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a person sows, this he will also reap.”

Hosea 8:7, “For they sow to the wind, and they reap the whirlwind. The standing grain has no heads; it yields no grain. Should it yield, strangers would swallow it up.”

Col 3:25, “For he who does wrong will receive the consequences of that wrong which he has done, and there is no partiality.”

Prov 12:13, “An evil snare is the transgression of the lips, but the person with integrity will escape from trouble.”

Prov 19:3, “A person's own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against the Lord.”

Grace Fellowship Church Thursday, July 31, 2008 Tape # Omniscience and our Election, Pt 7 Upper Room Discourse, Pt 194 John 13:18; Gal 5:1; Rom 8:1-4; 9:6-16; Heb 12:15-17 John 13:18; Gal 5:1; Rom 8:1-4; 9:6-16; Heb 12:15-17 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2008