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CHAPTER 9
AN ULTIMATE INTIMATION,
A POSSESSION OF PRIZE
FROM THE LORD BY HIS WORD
Before proceeding with this delightful theme of
predestination, foreknowledge, duty, responsibility, truth, peace, justice,
equity and love in their cohesion and beauty as exposed in the Bible and
attested in life, it is good to rehearse for a brief moment, an emphasis with
provision of references, relating to Gratitude for His Glorious
Grace, Appendix as found in
the list of contents for Volume 6 of
ON PREDESTINATION and
FOREKNOWLEDGE,
LIBERTY and NECESSITY,
RESPONSIBILITY, DUTY and CREATIVITY
namely, The Spiritual
Sagacity of Predestination in Love.
This provides some useful references in this field,
to which we now will be addding.
APPENDIX ON GRACE, LIBERTY, LOVE,
RIGHTEOUSNESS, TRUTH, MEANING
AND THEIR UNIQUE CONSISTENCY
IN THE BIBLICAL PERSPECTIVE
LOVE
FOREMOST
liberty
not lost
reality
regained
Seeing foreknowledge and
predestination, love and repudiation, history and liberty, in the scriptural
light, that all may be seen in harmonious uniqueness: nothing less is found in the word
of God, than what meets all the scope of man's thought in these arenas, leaving
him naked to the word, but invited to be covered.
While such things have been
touched before, providing a background for this -
cf.
Marvels of Predestination and the Ways of Will
Ch. 6, 'theology'
and Bible;
Ch. 6,
*2,
will
and
meritless
operation;
Ch. 2
(selections);
The Pride of Life, the Prince of Life and the Destiny of Man Ch.
3,
*1
Tender Times for Timely Truth Ch. 11, esp. pp.172ff.;
Great Execrations, Great Enervations, Greater Grace
Ch. 9;
His
Wounds Opened Eternity
Ch.
4
(also
contrasted
with
Islamic
deficiencies);
Sparkling Life ...
Ch.
7,
Earth Spasm...
Ch.
6;
Scaling the Heights ...
Ch.
5
-
yet this is
considered in the light of the findings of Ch. 9, above, so that if any lack,
they may feed on the word of God.
In
this
domain
of
amplitude
of
the
love
of
God,
including
John
3:167ff.,
and
resultants
of
crimping:
see
for
ready
reference
to
title:
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Repent
or
Perish
Ch.
1,
*2,
which
being
amplified
recently,
is
here
added
as
an
Excursion,
and
to
this
add
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Outrageous
Outages
...
and
the
Courage
of
Christ
Ch.
9
with
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The
Celestial
Harmony
...
Ch.
2,whether
correlative
error
in
Calvin
on
Romans,
is
seen,
and
for
a
jolt
to
too
limited
jubilation,
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The
Christian
Pilgrimage
Ch.
3,
Appendix,
with
The
Glow
Ch.
4
...and
Great
Execrations
..
Ch.
7
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It
must
in
talking
of
grace
and
love,
be
clearly
realised
that
the
liberation
of
what
the
Bible
says
about
these
topics
from
the
grievous
mutilations
of
and
impositions
on
its
assertions
in
terms
of a
kind
of
sovereignty
alleged
to
be
in
God
which
somehow
outwits
the
scope
of
the
love
repeatedly
asserted
by
HIm,
is
an
important
objective.
This
error
was
not
only
committed
by
Calvin,
despite
the
excellent
features
of
much
of
his
work.
but
no
less
by
the
opposite
error.
That
comes
from
the
categorical
contradiction
of
the
Bible,
by
making
the
human
will
as
it
is,
operative
in
direct
choice
of
God
(John
1:12
contra),
as
if
predestination
were
beyond
the
pale,
whereas
this
alone
allows
the
full
glory
of
the
word
and
work
of
God
to
be
affirmed.
This
review
done,
we
proceed
to
our
present
application.
Removing
from
unbiblical
extremes,
we
are
then
free
to
show
the
power
of
the
precision
of
the
biblical
account,
how
when
taken
as
it
is,
and
not
distorted,
it
provides
a
solution
of
all
these
areas
of
human
life
in
terms
of
divine
proclamations,
exhibits
and
principles,
which
nothing
else
comes
near.
THE
ESSENCE
OF
POSSESSING
YOUR
POSSESSIONS
It
ALSO
provides
to
Christian
Apologetics
the
necessarily
unique
opportunity
to
present
the
logically
cohesive,
coherent
and
alone
valid
reality
concerning
the
human
will,
the
love
of
God,
the
reality
of
human
responsibility,
the
integrity
of
the
image
of
God
in
man
in
its
fulfilment,
the
meaning
of
duty
and
the
nature
of
love
without
truncation
or
trespass.
This
being
found
in
the
Bible,
not
only
in
text,
but
in
the
very
exhibition
of
the
principles
involved,
it
would
be
folly
to
foul
it
with
imported
philosophies,
defiling
what
God
says.
This
is a
supreme
case
of
the
biblical
word:
Possess
Your
Possessions.
Nothing
else
so
resolves
the
entire
mystery
of
man,
as
the
biblical
teaching,
neither
expansionist
in
what
is
not
attested
in
fact,
nor
reductionist,
in
trying
to
omit
this
or
that
component
of
the
situation
of
man,
and
the
scope
of
his
spirit.
IF
the
human
will
were
sovereign,
it
would
be
its
own
defeat,
since
its
limitations
of
knowledge
and
understanding,
defilements
and
episodic
involvements
would
leave
this
a
marred
master,
and
freedom
a
mere
illusion.
IF,
on
the
other
hand,
the
divine
will
were
to
be exclusivistically
determined,
without
reference
to
the
essential
desire
of
the
human
will,
as
indeed ONLY
God
in
infinite
wisdom
CAN
know
it
(cf.
Jeremiah
17),
then
it
becomes
an
exercise
in
divine
preference,
on
whatever
criterion,
one
that
annuls
human
liberty
in
its
meaning,
as
created,
and
substitutes
another
person
for
the
former
one,
not
thus
giving
freedom
to
the
original,
or
to
its
actual
preference,
but
establishing
from
beyond, a
mere
correlative
being,
created
by
God.
The
regenerate
thus
simply
replaces
the
degenerate.
There
is
no
responsibility,
meaning
to
love
or
relationship
to
choice.
In
God's
choice
the
X-factor*1
of
divine
preference,
however
good
in
itself,
would
then
mean
that
some
being
what
they
are,
in
the
turmoil
of
many
events,
or
even
in
the
character
of
their
construction
with
this
or
that
ingredient,
become
preferable
to
Him.
If
human
will
is
not
even
relevant,
then
the
divine
will
merely
expresses
itself,
and
what
more
desirable
to
God
than
godliness!
Without
human
will
in
the
equation,
freedom
TO
WILL,
becoming
irrelevant,
man
becomes
a
subject
to
the
confines
of
what
he
is,
as
he
wills,
and
so
lacking
in
liberty
to
chose
to
will
as
he
will,
is
left
a
niggardly
relic
of
the
image
of
God,
supplanted
by
what
follows,
like
something
painted
over.
We
would then come to a kind of divine determinism,
where the whole meaning of man in the image of God,
and so equipped with such power to choose that his very choice becomes
assessable,
so that for this he is responsible, and hence arraignable, with results
according,
becomes
what ?
Instead of its birthright, it is ground down to mere human irresponsibility,
where what you are becomes your captive cage and you cannot break out, being
merely judged in situ for being defective and deficient. It is this, or else
you are selected with no type of opportunity to be other or find something other
than yourself, or depart from the limit of your will and the obfuscation of your
sight.
Irrelevant, in such an unbiblical models here entirely is actual fault; for the
question at this level is not how responsible we all are in defects, defection
and the like, for the topic is other.
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It is nothing
else or other than this:
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how is human
responsibility real, justly estimable,
and human depravity not the governor that eliminates the reality of divine
love,
defacing human liberty to the very heart of the meaning of life ?
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How is love
real from God to man, in offering deliverance,
and not a mere selection process to meet desire from above;
and if so, how is it not an expression that favours what is more desirable,
and hence an end to human liberty, responsibility, meaning
and a defilement of life in its very altitude and depth ?
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How is
liberty meaningful enough to avoid mockery,
responsibility actual enough to deserve requital,
and love sufficiently authentic to be sustainable in its integrity,
to and in, from and through man, in ultimate terms ?
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How is man
more than mockery! |
The
answer
is
found
in
careful
attention
to
divine
prescriptions
concerning
the
love
of
God,
its
scope
in
the
field
of
desired
salvation,
the
nature
of
the
construction
of
man,
the
ability
of
God
to
use
foreknowledge
of
man,
not
in
his
attainments,
but
in
essential
reality,
and
to
apply
this,
the
liberty
which
is
given
by
payment
for
entry
to
pardon
and
peace
out
of
what
does
not
intrinsically
deserve
it,
the
fulfilment
of
mercy,
justice,
love
and
equity
altogether,
the
base
for
life
and
its
meaning.
This
is
precisely
what
is
taught
in
Romans
9:16,
John
3:19,
Colossians
1:19ff.,
John
3:5ff.,
6:55,
5:24,
Matthew
11:27-30,
Proverbs
1,
Ezekiel
33:11,
Isaiah
48:16ff.,
Luke
19:42ff.,
Matthew
23:27ff.
and
in
endless
expressions
of
an
historical
kind
in
which
the
divine
love
flows
like
a
blessed
and
beautiful
stream,
crisp,
cool,
clean
and
moving
with
dynamic,
over
the
slithery
rocks
which
remaining
embedded
in
the
course
of
the
water,
will
not
be
moved
down
the
falls
to
the
pools
of
contentment
below.
It
is
necessary
not
to
flit
about
the
principles
spoken
by
God,
adjusting
and
adapting,
but
to
APPLY
them
as
they
are,
and
find
the
result,
not
of
one's
intrusiveness,
but
of
His
exclusiveness.
It
is
the
divine
mind,
which
expressed
for
our
instruction,
must
be
followed.
Philosophy
loves
to
make
daring
snaps
at
the
heels
of
truth;
but
theology
must
follow,
as
sheep
do,
what
the
shepherd
is
actually
saying,
and
meditating
on
it,
not
diverge.
How
often
would
He
have
moved
them,
but,
as
He
says,
you
were
not
willing.
I
would;
you
would
not.
Not
I
would
not.
There
is
no
question
of
the
thrust
of
His
desire,
or
its
uttermost
intensity;
nor
of
the
thrust
of
the
resistance,
handled
by
the
Lord
with
the
uttermost
integrity;
nor
of
the
doom
which
comes
despite
it
in
the
end
with
the
uttermost
certainty,
where
this
continues.
There
is
no
secret
about
the
love
of
God
in
its
scope
and
intensity,
sincerity
and
backing
with
payment
as
the
case
might
require;
about
human
resistance
and
its
entire
relevance
in
the
mind
of
God
to
what
He
does;
nor
to
His
comprehensive
and
absolute
knowledge
before
time
was
(Ephesians
1:4),
of
all
that
would
be.
In
this,
He
is
neither
mere
observer,
being
participant,
for
it
is
His
will
which
is
final;
nor
breacher
of
the
image-status
of
man
as
made
by
Himself.
There
is
the
entire
passion
of
the
disturbance,
the
dynamic,
the
divine
longing
and
reluctant
award
of
doom
with
such
remonstrances
as
you
find
in
Isaiah
48:16ff.,
and
Jeremiah
1-17.
Thus,
this
is
not
to
prescribe
to
God,
but
the
very
opposite.
It
is
to
note
what
He
says
and
does,
in
history
and
in
principle,
and
to
apply
His
own
word
which
provides
the
standard
for
concern
and
the
answer
to
it.
In
doing
so,
the
resolution
of
all
these
matters
is
total,
without
residue,
and
the
meaningfulness
of
human
life
and
the
intensity
of
the
necessity
to
find
God
alike
are
established.
Nowhere
else
is
this
so;
nor
could
it
be
so,
for
reasons
to
be
noted
briefly,
in
part,
below.
God
did
not
have
to
be
just,
to
be
reasonable,
to
so
love
the
world
that,
statedly
without
desiring
to
judge,
but
to
save
it,
He
came
and
made
free
the
way
back
to
Himself
with
all
responsibility.
Yet
this
He
did,
while
assigning
guilt
to
those
who
rejected
this
saving
provision
made,
in
terms
of
that
very
love.
Either
this
love,
to
the
satisfaction
of
the
knowledge
of
God,
reached
what
rejected
it,
in
reality,
or
it
did
not.
If
it
did
not,
then
there
is
no
ground
for
condemnation
at
the
level
of
rejection,
which
is
the
one
divinely
assigned
in
John
3:19.
Indeed,
Christ
makes
this
eminently
direct
in
John
15:22ff.,
where
they
would
not
have
had
sin
if
He
had
not
come
among
them
and
spoken
the
words
none
other
spoke,
and
done
the
deeds
none
other
had
done! The
issue
?
hating
both
Christ
and
His
Father,
or
not!
hence, being
with
or
without
God
for
ever.
According
to
the
issue,
so
is
its
issuance.
In
THIS
case
?
hating
Jesus
Christ
and
so
God,
despite
auditing
His
words
and
seeing
His
deeds,
hence
a
self-serving
exclusion
notice,
that
is,
one
served
by
oneself
upon
oneself.
The
issues
are
eternal,
and
seeing
and
hearing
thus,
closes
the
issue,
except
they
repent
and
hence
alter
the
input
and
so
the
output.
THIS
is
the
significance
of
the
ISSUE;
and
without
so
seeing
and
hearing,
by
the
direct
word
of
Jesus
Christ,
they
would
not
have
had
sin
to
the
point.
Nothing
could
more
clearly
demonstrate
the
PRINCIPLE
in
view,
that
of
informed
rejection,
however
this
may
be
determined
by
God.
SINCE
moreover
God
expressly
states
that
He
would
have
all
reconciled
and
to
repent
and
come
to a
knowledge
of
the
truth,
this
being His
desire,
AND
accords
guilt
and
failure
in
this
situation
to
those
who
THEN
do
not
come
to
the
light
of
this
love
as
in
John
3,
THEREFORE
it
follows
that
the
human
will,
not
as
incapable
and
so
irrelevant
to
love,
but
as
made
relevant,
is
indeed
responsible
at
this
secondary
level.
That
is,
it
not
only
is
responsible
for
sinning
but
for
the
relevant
sin
of
rejecting
free
salvation.
Before
all
time,
God
has
known
the
results
for
each
without
mere
breach,
before
sin
smirked
or
its
slaveries
slithered
in
to
take
control,
whether
with
conscious
failure
of
will
or
conditioning
of
conscience
to
rationalising
acceptance
of
sin
as
if
it
were
not
so.
Penetration
for
His
knowledge
is
effectual,
and
only
when
He
is
satisfied
does
the
divine
action
that
liberates
occur.
This
is
the
restraint
that
love
always
has,
in
that
its
propulsion
is
not
mere
self-expression,
the
very
opposite
of
love,
but
seeking
of
the
best
for
what
is
before
it.
As
God
IS
the
best
for
what
He
has
created,
it
is
to
Himself
and
His
will
that
it
relates;
since
man
IS
in
God's
image,
it
is
not
a
mere
matter
of
so
desiring,
as
if
man
were
wood
or
stone
or
plastic
or a
momentous
piece
of
dirigible
dynamic.
It
is a
matter
of
divinely
discernible
preference,
in a
divinely
enabled
situation,
categorical
before
time,
impelled
within
it.
Foreknowledge
is
where
it
begins
in
Romans
8:29ff.,
and
justification
is
where
it
leads,
glory
where
it
ends
for
those
who
are
SO
foreknown,
their
authentic
resultant
known
to
God
and
implemented
in
history.
God
took
action
and
paid
for
the
free
pardon,
enabled
the
free
admission
and
all
the
consequential
action,
involved
in
making
redeemed
persons
accessible
to
Him
in
direct
personal
style,
and
Himself
to
them.
Just
as
this
clears
God's
name
from
a
pretentious
and
merely
apparent
love
that
in
fact
by
some
mystery
of
Calvin's
creation,
does
not
really
extend
to
all
things
in
heaven
and
earth
as
He
Himself
states
in
Colossians
1,
and
I
Timothy
2
for
example,
yes
to
all
the
world
as
seen
in
the
context
of
God
on
the
one
side
and
this
world
on
the
other,
as
He
likewise
intimates
in
John
3.
Thus
it
elevates
man
to
meaningfulness
of
life
to
the
ultimate
degree.
Extend
?
perhaps
in
some
way,
says
Calvin,
but
not
in
THIS
way.
Yet
this
way,
that
involved
in
meeting
with,
knowing
and
living
with
and
for
God,
covered
with
mercy,
pardon
and
love,
is
the
very
one
relevant
for
the
application
of
the
divinely
stated
principles
concerning
God
Himself:
and
He
knows
intimately
at
such
levels,
what
we
know
derivatively
by
READING
WHAT
HE
SAYS.
This
provision
and
this
alone
does
contain,
as
it
has
contained
for
millenia,
the
key
to
understanding
and
the
resolution
of
mysteries.
Hence
the
will,
foreknown
as
God
says,
before
time
and
hence
the
human
will
in
sin
and
the
world
in
its
thrall,
the
will
of
man
being
known
in
this
ultimate
manner,
is
not
a
distorting
agent
because
of
circumstances
that
limit
and
scar.
That
horror
is
avoided. What
HE
knows
is
the
truth;
and
the
will
of
man,
this
He
knows.
In
Him
and
Him
alone
is
no
confusion,
neither
extenuation
in soppish
squeamishness,
nor
intrusion
in
fickle
fashion
for
what
is
simply
wanted
more.
HE
SO
LOVED
...
THE
WORLD
...
that
He
sought
to
save
in
so
coming.
He
did
not
so
love
part
of
it,
that
this
part
of
it
....
etc.
etc..
This
is
NOT
what
He
says.
It
contradicts
all
that
He
says.
For
this
resolution
available
over
the millenia
only
in
the
Bible,
that
is
mere
contradiction.
Taking
it
as
it
comes,
however,
this
is
where
it
goes.
Each
part
taken,
must
be
assembled
with
each
other,
and
none
ever
contradicted.
It
is
hardly
injuriously
hard!
Thus
some
are
SO
chosen
in
Christ,
through
divine
foreknowledge,
before
even
this
world
was
founded
(Ephesians
1:4),
so
that
the
human
will
is
freed
in
irrelevance,
from
NOT
being
free
to
will
as
it
will.
Being
chosen
before
sin
smote
man's
will,
and
known
in
reality,
the
will
is
indeed
free
to
will
as
realities
impound,
God
its
guarantor
and
source
of
knowledge
before*1A
knowledge
gaining
departure
from
a
natural
knowledge
of
God,
squirms
in
self-imposed
limitations
which
become
in
source,
the
entire
confounding
of
man,
source
of
his
weakness
of
heart
and
befouled
residual
knowledge,
on
the
one
hand
and
on
the
other.
This
sure
source
of
confusion
God
has
excluded
in
His
divine
foreknowledge
of
the
realities
of
man.
God
in
SO
loving
has
ensured
this
divine
discernment
to
act
in
integrity,
and
in
SO
acting
has
done
it,
first
as
framed
in
foreknowledge,
then
as
this
is
codified
into
predestination.
It
is
effectual
as
founded
on
the
all-capacious
cross,
the
application
following
the
reality
for
each.
It
PLEASED
Him
to
sent
Christ
as
deity
incarnate,
His
word
in
flesh;
to
implement
in
Him
through
the
cross
the
provision
sufficient
to
remove
all
impediment;
and
in
so
doing
to
reconcile
ALL
to
Himself.
With
such
desire
in
heart,
He
PROVIDED
the
cross
adequate
for
any,
not
obstruction
but
enablement;
As
in
Colossians
1:19ff.
perfectly
explicitly,
word
for
word,
such
is
the
case.
The
application
follows
the
reality
for
each
as
the
Spirit
moves
(John
3:7-8)
and
as
the
Father
(John
6:44,55).
It
is
indeed
the
work
of
God
that
they
should
believe
(John
6:29),
and
the
recognition
of
the
relevance
of
the
will
of
man
as
foreknown
to
God,
that
despite
all
this
divine
adequacy,
they
do
not,
will
not,
are
disinclined
and
exercise
their
image-of-God
status
as
at
the
first
granted,
to
the
last.
The
ultimate
tragedy
for
many,
therefore,
is
entirely
their
own
responsibility;
is
despite
the
divine
amplitude
of
embrace
of
things
both
in
heaven
and
on
earth,
so
that
history
itself
does
not
exclude
any
in
its
mode
of
exposure
and
coming
to
be.
Moreover
that
all
but
insufferable
horror,
that
despite
an
ACTUAL
desire
for
the
Lord,
it
CANNOT
be
helped,
even
when
that
desire
is
ultimate
and
utter.
If
it
were
so
in
His
sight,
not
for
mere
distortion
in
historical
melee,
but
in
the
calm
knowledge
of
eternity,
then
that
soul
would
assuredly
have
been
liberated.
But
someone
says,
But
I
myself
would
now
wish
so
to
have
God,
on
His
terms,
yes,
even
though
it
be
through
that
cross,
for
I
trust
Him,
then
the
matter
is
answered
already.
So
act
then.
It
is
enabled.
That
IS
the
door,
where
faith
embracing
the
cross
of
Christ,
and
the
fulness
of
the
Godhead
in
Him,
enters
(John
10:9),
with
results
eternal
(John
10:27-28),
as
eternally
foreknown.
What
then
of
human
life
before
God
?
It
is
given
meaning,
as
only
God
CAN
know
it,
this
will
of
man;
and
while
sin
of
course
degrades
its
significance,
and
erodes
its
integrity,
making
a
mess
of
its
function
like
that
of a
radio
set
in a
crashed
aircraft,
yet
isin
for
all
that, does
not
have
the
last
word
on
man,
since
God
has
the
first
word
on
Him,
and
ensures
its
application
according
to
truth,
to
the
last.
Thus
indeed,
in
the
end,
JUDGMENT
IS
ACCORDING
TO
TRUTH
(as
in
Romans
2).
There
is
none,
in
the
face
of
this
love,
action,
power
and
knowledge,
ABLE
to
be
excluded,
except
for
this
very
preference
for
darkness
in
the
face
of
light
in
Christ.
That
indeed
means
that
the
judgment
accords
with
the
truth
of
the
divine
love
for
this
world,
that
it
might
be
saved,
and
the
reality
of
the
human
rejection
by
many,
to
the
effect that
such
a
provision
can
go
to
blazes,
or
be
left
as
indifferent,
or
be
parodied
or
disregarded.
If
the
mind
is
such,
then
is
heaven
hell
to
the
recalcitrant;
and
hell
is
the
site
chosen
by
the
wilful removal
of
the
mercy
of
the
remedy
in
redemption
of
Jesus
Christ.
In
longing
to
be
free
from
God,
or
lodging
indifference,
man
is
chained
to
what
results
in
such
absence.
There
his
too
willing
heart
goes
in
such
cases.
Outside
the
knowledge
of
man,
the
will
can
be
solicited,
subjected,
distorted,
the
depths
of
his
heart
misaligned
by
various
differential
squalls.
It
is
not
however
outside
the
knowledge
of
God
before
any
squall
could
appal,
or
laceration
benumb.
Hence
nothing
is
simply
adventitious,
nor
does
what
is
merely
meretricious
mangle
meaning.
God
is
indeed
sovereign,
and
it
is
well
that
He
is,
since
nowhere
else
is
infallible
love
found,
for
things
appertaining
to
very
eternity
itself!
Yet
there
is
no
sovereign
OVER
HIS
love
and
mercy
and
principles
and
declared
wishes
concerning
the
scope
of
salvation;
for
it
is
HE
who
IS
the
sovereign
who
IS
love
(I
John
4:7ff.).
Thus
it
is
that
His
VERY
sovereignty,
He
being
who
He
is,
is
indeed
a
glorious
fact,
and
that
nothing
ever
escapes
it,
for
here
is
the
very pith
of
mercy
and
the
acme
of
pity
(Micah
7:19ff.,
Matthew
23:37ff.,
Luke
19:42ff.,
Ezekiel
33:11).
That
life
outside
God
is a
misnomer
is
both
obvious
and
necessary,
since
it
is
designed
to
be
lived
inside
Him,
in
the
sense
of
harmony
and
peace
and
understanding
and
mutual
communication
and
obedience
giving
a
liberty
unmarred
by
presumption.
Thus,
never
outside
the
understanding
of
God
through
its
diverse
delinquencies
and
schemings,
the
human
will
has
relevance.
In
its
own
sovereign
power,
for
exercise
on
this
earth,
it
is
dethroned
(John
1:12),
and
it
is
well
that
it
is!
Only
grace
operates,
purity
of
love
intimates.
Regeneration
then
merely
implements
what
the
reality
of
divine
love
in
its
integrity
has
found.
In
its
own
image-of-God
integrity
it
is
sustained;