Question 10 of 114
What Man Ought to Believe Concerning God
What are the decrees of God?
Answer
The decrees of God are his eternal purpose according to the counsel of his will, whereby, for his own glory, he hath foreordained whatsoever comes to pass (; ; ; ).
Read the 4 proof texts (KJV)
- Ephesians 1:4,11
- 4According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: 11In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:
- Romans 9:22-23
- 22[What] if God, willing to shew [his] wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: 23And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
- Isaiah 46:10
- Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times [the things] that are not [yet] done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:
- Lamentations 3:37
- Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not?