In the Eyes of the Lord
2 Kings 15:17-38
Key Verse: 15:34
Date: Jul. 17, 2024
Question
Did God leave all mankind to die in sin and misery?
Answer
From all eternity and merely because it pleased Him God chose some to have everlasting life. These he freed from sin and misery by a covenant of grace and brought them to salvation by a redeemer.
Reference Passages
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Acts 13:48
48 And when the Gentiles heard this, they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord, and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.
Ephesians 1:4-5
4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
1 Thessalonians 2:13-14
13 And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers. 14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
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Genesis 3:15
Genesis 17:7
Exodus 19:5-6
Jeremiah 31:31-34
Matthew 20:28
1 Corinthians 11:25
Hebrews 9:15
Romans 3:20-22
Galatians 3:21-22