Sunday, November 17, 2013

Does Our Father Get His Way?


For such [praying] is good and right, and [it is] pleasing and acceptable to God our Savior, Who wishes all men to be saved and [increasingly] to perceive and recognize and discern and know precisely and correctly the [divine] Truth. 1 Timothy 2:3-4

Let me ask you a simple question, does our Father get His way? The Holy Spirit tells us plainly here that our Father wishes all men to be saved. We pray all of the time, Father your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven. Jesus prayed, Father, not My will, but Your will be done. The Bible teaches us in, Colossians 1:16, that all things exist by our Father and through our Father. So once again, ask yourself, does our Father get what He wishes for?

We are told plainly that our Father wishes for all men to be saved and when you understand the parable of the Marriage Supper of the Lamb in Matthew 22, you can see how this wish of our Father is going to be fulfilled. Some of us are going to be the Bride of Christ. Some of us are going to be the guests of the Bride and Groom. So all will be saved from the Lake of Fire. All will believe and confess that Jesus is Lord. Every knee will bow and every tongue will confess this Truth and our Father’s will, will be done!

But if any person's work is burned up [under the test], he will suffer the loss [of it all, losing his reward], though he himself will be saved, but only as [one who has passed] through fire. 1 Corinthians 3:15

The guests of the Bride and Groom will not be the Bride. They will lose their reward of being the Bride, but they will not be thrown into the Lake of Fire to be destroyed. They will be saved, but only as ones who have passed through Hades, the realm of the dead. They will pass through a place that the Bride never will, because through Christ, we have passed from death to life already!

Now does our Father get His way? Of course He does. Look at Jonah, look at Pharaoh, and look at Jesus. Nothing can be that our Father doesn’t cause to be, so how would He not get His way? If our Father didn’t get His way then that would mean that He wasn’t in control of all things and all things don’t exist through Him. Our Father wishes to spend eternity with all of us and because of Jesus' success, He will, John 17:2.

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