IIT UBF - University Bible Fellowship at IIT

Date: Dec. 26, 2024

Question

What are the decrees of God?

Answer

The decrees of God are His eternal plan based on the purpose of His will, by which, for His own glory, He has foreordained everything that happens.

Reference Passages

Psalm 33:11

The counsel of the LORD stands forever,
the plans of his heart to all generations.

Isaiah 14:24

The LORD of hosts has sworn:
“As I have planned,
so shall it be,
and as I have purposed,
so shall it stand,

Acts 2:23

this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.

Ephesians 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

Ephesians 12-Nov

Romans 9:22-23

22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—

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I Will Dwell Among the Israelites

Exodus 29:29-46

Key Verse: 29:45-46

45 I will dwell among the people of Israel and will be their God. 46 And they shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt that I might dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.