Couched in God’s Mercy! Exodus 33:17-20 Romans 9:14-16, Ephesians 1:3-6

Couched in God’s Mercy! Exodus 33:17-20 Romans 9:14-16, Ephesians 1:3-6
It is couched In God's Electing Love before the foundation of the World! Indeed, couched in God the Father’s Mercy according to His free will and Sovereign Grace in Choosing His people out of this world before the foundation of the World!

The Doctrine of The regenerating work of the Holy Spirit upon our dead souls is couched in God the Father choosing His people in Christ out of this world, before the foundation of the world.

The Doctrine of God's Electing Love provokes an illicit response of rebellion in us from our natural self and mind and that of all mankind’s way of thinking and existence; from every age and generation; from the beginning of time to the end; from every human being that God chose to bring into existence according to His purposes, do we ever have enmity and hatred toward the Sovereignty of God and His Free will in Electing His people in Love to everlasting glory! Such a hatred to think that their life existence and destiny all lies in the hands of the creator of the Universe to have Mercy according to whomever God chooses to have mercy--and that, out of this world before the foundation of the world!

The Natural self wants to claim sovereignty and be in control of one’s existence, life and one’s own destiny, as if the natural person Hewed themselves into existence independent of God; such a sovereignty based only on chance and luck, as if we formed our own looks, size, stature and abilities in life apart from God—Perish the thought of God’s electing love! choosing whomever He wills before the foundation of the world—God cannot be fair if God chooses to rightfully act according to His Free and Sovereign will to choose whomever He wills according to whomever He chooses to have mercy on. God cannot have free choice, only man has free choice, right? Wrong! Man has volition and a will but it is ever bound by sin to always reject God in one’s own spiritual deadness to God.

Romans 9: 18-24:
“18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. 19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20 But who are you, Oh, Man! To talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? 22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— 24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?”

This doctrine of God choosing His people before the foundation of the world in Christ (Ephesians 1:4), can never be invented from the mind of man; for it goes against our human nature to think that our destiny is left up to the Sovereign free Will of Almighty God according to His mercy that is not founded in anything in us. We are enraged at it, because it leaves us helpless in our sinful condition to change; indeed, It reminds us that we are dead to God and there is nothing we can do to make us alive to God except that we trust in God's mercy alone to make us alive by the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit--and this, regenerating work of the Holy Spirit, is according to whom God the Father has chosen out of this world before the foundation of the World to give all those He chose to the Son and whom God the Father and God the Son gave to the Holy Spirit to quicken and make alive, out of this world, before the foundation of the world, made alive and enabled to believe on Jesus for Salvation through the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit!

Indeed, the wisdom of God's mercy is constantly abiding and being revealed even while we were dead and helpless, Christ died for the ungodly! (Romans 5:6).

Flesh and blood could never reveal such truths of the divine inspiration of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles in the Doctrine that the Apostles taught, especially the Apostle John, Peter and Paul, that before the foundation of the world, God's Sovereign free grace and will was revealed in Christ to choose His Elect in Love out of this world before the foundation of the world; His chosen--indeed, His Bride, the church, in Love did He Forelove and predestinate them to be conformed to the image and likeness of His Son! (Romans 8:28-31)--And this is according to His Mercy, not according to anything in us, but that before the foundation of the World, He hewed out, His Chosen, from His infinite wisdom and eternal omniscient mind, according to His mercy and Eternal Decrees and predetermined plans, not according to chance, or luck--for such terms do not even exist in God’s Universe, but According to His Mercy, whom He chooses to have Mercy on and whom He chooses to have compassion on:
Romans 9:14-18:
“14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”[c] 16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17 For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[d] 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.”

Exodus 33:17-20:
“17 And the LORD said to Moses, “I will do the very thing you have asked, because I am pleased with you and I know you by name.” 18 Then Moses said, “Now show me your glory.” 19 And the LORD said, “I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the LORD, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. 20 But,” he said, “you cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live.”
Hence, we are left helpless and dead before the throne of grace to ever think that we are alive to ever choose God--except that, we are dead! And need the regenerating work of the Holy Spirit to make us Alive:
Ephesians 2:1-2:
“1 As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, 2 in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 3 All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh[a] and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. 4 But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, 5 made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. 6 And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7 in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8 For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—not by works so that no one can boast“

The Doctrine of the Regenerating work of the Holy Spirit to whom the Holy Spirit chooses to make alive in Christ, is not based on anyone choosing God, for the natural man is spiritually dead and won’t choose to believe in Jesus at all! But whom the Holy Spirit chooses to make alive is based on all those whom God the Father gave to God the Son out of this world, before the foundation of the world!
Ephesians 1:4-6:
“4 …For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption to sonship through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will— 6 to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves…”


Hence, such doctrines can never be sourced from, derived in, or, ever invented by, the mind of the natural man; it goes against our nature to replace our free will to choose of our own volition and believe on Christ from our own ability even in our own dead state, condition and standing before Almighty God. The Nature of mankind is enraged and Hates God's electing Love!
That the natural man could ever possibly think of such Doctrines as to be invented by the mind of Mankind and his natural human nature; for it goes against our natural mind and nature to allow us to think that we are helpless and cannot change the state we are in by our good works, efforts, merits. Resources and ability to gain God’s favor! Indeed, we are unholy, sin cursed, imperfect, unrighteous, that even our own best righteous acts are like filthy, unclean, self-condemning works before Almighty God!

Very well then, our souls are indeed restless, dead and helpless before God's Sovereign grace and will never come alive until it is quickened by the Holy Spirit to rest contented, couched in God's great mercy and Love for those chosen before the foundation of the world.

Therefore, be compelled to seek after this Divine Election by God the Father, and know that there is great hope. Therefore, check yourself and see if you were chosen by God the Father before the foundation of the World by believing On Jesus with your life—resting, couched in His shed blood for the redemption of your life in His Death and Resurrection unto everlasting life--and this life, is indeed, to know, and have a relationship with God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit then you too, will know such great mercy of God's sovereign Electing Love to Choose in Jesus Christ, before the foundation of the world, whomever He wills to have Mercy on to be forever couched in His Mercy unto Everlasting Life!