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and only God can show the Lord. No human being, no teacher, can
present the Lord apart from the Holy Spirit. I would like to begin
with a Bible verse that ties into redemptive living. Psalm 67:7,
“God blesses us, that all the ends of the earth may fear Him.” The
Psalm begins the same way it ends. God blesses us so that the world
might be blessed. He doesn’t bless us to bless us. It’s redemptive.
He blesses us so that the world might fear Him. That’s why He chose
Israel. He wanted to put on display His heart. He gave Israel the
most and the best and the highest, so others could look at Israel and
see how God felt about them. He blesses us so that the world may
know. That’s redemptive.

Our Heavenly Father, we thank You again that we can look into
Your word. We thank You that we can depend on the indwelling
Holy Spirit to bring us to Jesus. Give us ears to hear and take the
veil away from our heart and eyes. Show us Jesus again. We ask in
Jesus’ name. Amen

The principle, as you know, that we’re going to look at is called
redemptive living. All the principles that we’ve been studying are
foundational. It’s hard to put them in order; 1, 2 & 3 because they
are ALL very important. I consider this lesson, redemptive living,
a great foundation. I’d like to first give a description of what I think
God’s word teaches about redemptive living. All things are
redemptive because God is sovereign. After we look at that, I’d like
to show how things are redemptive when we cooperate with God.
They are redemptive even if we don’t cooperate but in a special way,
they are when we do cooperate.

When I say that all things are redemptive I really mean two things;
that God is sovereign and He always gets what He wants. Nobody
can stop His purpose. His sovereignty and Lordship are absolute.
He is in perfect control of the world and everything in it. Ephesians
1:11, “…also we have obtained an inheritance having been
predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the
counsel of His will…” Job. 42:2, “I know that Thou canst do all
things, and that no purpose of Thine can be thwarted.” Psalm 135:6,