5 Features of the Plan of God for Your Life

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Your Christian life began the moment you believed the Gospel, putting your complete confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation.  At that moment, God provided you with a great number of unique and permanent blessings.  "...and hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ."  (Eph. 1:3)  These blessings are a part of your inheritance as a Christian; they are the doctrines and promises upon which you may draw during the remainder of your lifetime.

You are in the eternal plan of God, sharing the destiny of the Lord Jesus Christ. As such you are:

Foreknown 

Acts 2:23.  this Man, delivered over by the predetermined plan and foreknowledge of God, you nailed to a cross by the hands of godless men and put Him to death.

Romans 8:29.  For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren;

1 Peter 1:2.  according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with His blood: May grace and peace be yours in the fullest measure.

Elect 

Romans 8:33.  Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? God is the one who justifies;

Colossians 3:12.  So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience;

1 Thessalonians 1:4.  knowing, brethren beloved by God, His choice of you;

Titus 1:1.  Paul, a bond-servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the faith of those chosen of God and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

1 Peter 1:1, 2.  Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who reside as aliens, scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, who are chosen

Predestined 

Romans 8:29, 30.  For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

Ephesians 1:5.  He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the kind intention of His will

Ephesians 1:11.  also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,  

Chosen in Christ

Matthew 22:14.  For many are called, but few are chosen.

1 Peter 2:4.  And coming to Him as to a living stone which has been rejected by men, but is choice and precious in the sight of God

Called 

1 Thessalonians 5:24.  Faithful is He who calls you, and He also will bring it to pass.