He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for the sake of you
God's eternal counsel ordained Christ for our salvation long before He appeared; yet this is no novelty to God, but what must have been always in Him. Without knowing that eternal salvation dwells in Christ and always has, our faith cannot stand firm, for a remedy that only occurred to God after thousands of years would shake all confidence.
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Gird up the loins of your mind as a traveller girds his garments for the road. You have a race to run and warfare to accomplish; disengage from all that hinders, restrain extravagance, and go resolutely in obedience. Hope fully, for grace comes to you in the revelation of Christ.
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Commenting on 1 Peter 1:13-23
Foreknown means more than prescience: it is the love and affection God bore to Christ as Mediator before the world was. The redemption scheme was drawn in eternity, the persons fixed, the Redeemer appointed in the covenant of peace itself. A Saviour was provided before sin was committed, the recovery settled before ruin took place.
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