5th. -the
purpose of God never changes.
Psalm 33:11 tells us; “The plans of the
Lord stand firm forever; the purposes of His heart throughout all generations.”
What God does in time…He planned for eternity; and all that God planned for
eternity, He carries out in time.
All that He has committed himself to do in
His Word will be done! His purpose for the world, for his creation, and his
purpose for man never changes. Romans 8:29 - “For those God foreknew He
predestined to be conformed to the likeness of His Son.” From the very
beginning God said; “Let us make man in our image”… His purpose hasn’t changed.
When man sinned in the Book of Genesis, the image and character of God was lost,
and the rest of the Bible is all about God trying to restore His image and His character
in man.
Let’s not lose tract of what this chapter
is all about…it is based really on Jeremiah 9:23 which says; “Let not the wise
man boast of his wisdom, or the strong man boast of his strength, or the rich
man of his riches, but let him who boasts boast of this; that he knows me;
says the Lord Almighty.”
I believe that our view of God has suffered
from our failure to capture a sense of His Majesty. The God of contemporary
evangelicalism is a very personal God -- someone with whom we can enjoy
intimate fellowship. He is our best friend and closest ally, the one to whom we
can bring all of our troubles. We have a great high priest who became flesh and
blood so that He can be a perfect mediator between himself and man.
Isaiah had opportunity to look beyond the
visible to the realms of the invisible and see the majesty of our God. He saw
God "sitting upon a throne," the symbol of sovereign authority, in
charge of everything in heaven and upon the earth. But in stressing our closeness
to God, I think we have lost sight of His majesty.
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