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[ Created: 2022-08-07 18:29:02  Updated: 2022-08-07 18:29:34 Owner: rl ]
Title: To plan an expected end     
    
    
    
    
    
     
     
     
     
 
 
For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.    - Rom 8:29
God sees the end from the beginning.     

Those who would Receive Christ Jesus were Predestined to be made in the likeness of Jesus .     

His Plan provides for many Sons .   

Moreover whom he did predestinate , them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified .    - Rom 8:30
His Plan incorporates not only His desire but the totality of the wherewithal whereby His Plan would be fulfilled.     

So, He planned for us to be His Children .     

He drew (called) us by His Holy Spirit .     

He Justified us by the Blood of Jesus .     

He has glorified us with His indwelling Holy Spirit .     

He will complete our glorification with a fully Transformed Mind and an Incorruptible Body at the appearing of our Lord .   

Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, - Eph 1:5
God did not create the Heavens and the Earth without a plan.     The essence of His plan was and is to raise up Children unto Himself .     He created us in His Image - specifically with Free Will, the ability to Choose .     

So, His plan predestined us to be His children by virtue of our exercising our gift of Free Will to receive His person, Jesus Christ, as Lord and Savior .     

If we were Predestined with no choice in the matter, the whole timeline of Human existence makes no sense as those Predestined to be His Children was already fixed just as those who were Predestined to Damnation was already fixed.     

In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his own will: - Eph 1:11
In Christ we have obtained an Inheritance by Free Gift .     

It was His Plan all along for us to be His Children, His Heirs .     

Christ is the Author And Finisher of our Faith .     

He has made His Plan come to pass in us who have Freely, Willingly Received Christ Jesus .