To know our God in the way He has revealed Himself to us in His Word will keep us in the enjoyment of His Person and His love. All of God's counsels for us in Christ are for our eternal happiness.
In His purpose God has made the earth to be, for the present, the center and laboratory wherein He is now preparing a people to be to His eternal praise.
Not until the creation did God come forth from His essential fullness to disclose His power and Godhead. Later, in the death of Christ, God made known His entire nature of love and justice in giving His only begotten Son to die on the cross so that He could offer eternal salvation to all who would believe.
Love and justice equate in perfection in His nature, for God loves the sinner, but His justice demands punishment for our sins. Christ died, paying the penalty for us who believe, and God's justice is satisfied.
I trust that from this treatise you will discover more fully how much God loves you. If you are not a believer, God loves you just the same, for His every motive is love.
It is in Manhood in Jesus that the Father was fully made known and glorified on earth. Soon, before all created intelligence, the Man Christ Jesus shall come forth in the glory of His Father as King of kings and Lord of lords.
We see in God's purposes, first, a loving Father desiring to have children with Him forever, children who are just like His own Son. These are being prepared here and now to be morally like Christ, and in resurrection they will be physically like Him. What continual joy is our part, having become God's children by believing on the Lord Jesus as our Savior and Lord.
Second, Christ is to have a bride, a helpmate, who, as His companion, shall share with Him the inheritance and all that the Father has given Him.
The work of Christ on the cross is complete, setting the sinner who believes free from all guilt and giving to believers purged consciences.
Christ shall also, in virtue of the work of the cross, remove sin from before the eye of God, so that both in heaven and on earth righteousness might dwell forever, unblighted by sin.
God has always dwelt in a morning without clouds, a sphere with no meridian nor night. He has invited by the gospel message those who have lived during the present two thousand years, between the time of Pentecost and the calling away of the Church, (the rapture), to live forever with Him in this glorious morning to enjoy the presence of the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ.
The portion and the home to which we have been invited have never been created; they have always existed (John 14:2,32In my Father's house are many mansions: if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. 3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. (John 14:2‑3)). It is a home of everlasting glory, love, and rest, where every desire of a newborn soul shall be satisfied forever. God has given us (believers) a new nature so that we are able to enjoy intelligently our new environment and life. We have this nature through new birth.
Third, in God's counsels there will be a new creation where all things will be new and of God. The present creation of the earth on which we dwell, including the sea and firmament, was by God and said to be very good. The new creation will be of God, which will reflect His nature of love and righteousness. The believer is already a new creation.
What a day that will be when we shall behold that which reveals God wherever we look. God shall show to all creation that Christ will reign upon the throne of glory, Supreme in headship over all created things.
Picture yourself, dear friend, in the new creation of God, with Christ!
If you have believed in your heart that Jesus died for you and that you have received forgiveness of your sins, all blessings shall be yours. Christ has done all the work; you can add nothing, for none could add to the work of the Son of God on the cross, to satisfy the holiness of God, when He cried out, "It is finished" (John 19:3030When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost. (John 19:30)).
"A mind at perfect peace with God,
Oh, what a word is this!
A sinner reconciled through blood;
This, this indeed is peace!
"By nature and by practice far,
How very far from God!
Yet now by grace brought nigh to Him,
Through faith in Jesus' blood."
(Little Flock Hymnbook #27 app.)