ORDAINED FOR GOD’S PURPOSE – Part 2.

THURSDAY, 17TH AUGUST, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE

ORDAINED FOR GOD’S PURPOSE – Part 2.

MEMORIZE: “This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.”  Isaiah 43:21.

SCRIPTURE READING: Jeremiah 1:4 - 7.

“Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying: 5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; Before you were born I sanctified you; I ordained you a prophet to the nations." 6 Then said I: "Ah, Lord GOD! Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a youth." 7 But the LORD said to me: "Do not say, 'I am a youth,' For you shall go to all to whom I send you, And whatever I command you, you shall speak.”

EXPOSITION:

God told Jeremiah that before he was born, even in his eternal counsel, he had designed him to be prophet for him to the nations. He must know that he who gave him his commission is the same that gave him his being, that formed him in the belly and brought him forth out of the womb. Therefore God was his rightful owner and might employ him and make use of him as he pleased, and that this commission was given him in pursuance of the purpose God had purposed in himself concerning him, before he was born: "I knew thee, and I sanctified thee," that is, "I determined that thou shouldest be a prophet and set thee apart for the office." 

 

The same way Apostle Paul says of himself that God had separated him from his mother's womb to be a Christian and an apostle, Galatians 1:15-16: “But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother's womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood”.  

In this study, we observe, 

(1.) The great Creator knows what use to make of every man before he makes him. He has made all for himself, and of the same lumps of clay designs a vessel of honour or dishonour, as he pleases, Romans 9:21 “Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?”. 

 

(2.) What God has designed men for he will call them to; for his purposes cannot be frustrated. Known unto God are all his own works beforehand, and his knowledge is infallible and his purpose unchangeable. 

 

(3.) There is a particular purpose and providence of God conversant about his prophets and ministers; they are by special counsel designed for their work, and what they are designed for they are fitted for: I that knew thee, sanctified thee. God destines them to it, and forms them for it, when he first forms the spirit of man within him.  Original endowment, not education, makes a prophet. 

PRAYER POINT:  Lord, I receive grace to fulfill your purpose for my creation in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Jeremiah 35 – 38.

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