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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Tacoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 5, 1916

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 93, No. 49.

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Only One Plan

By T. Godfrey

T. GODFREY
“THIS is the stone which was set at naught of you builders, which is become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.” Acts 4:11, 12.
God has never had more than one plan of salvation, and that plan was laid before the foundation of the world. Says the apostle Peter: “Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; but with the precious blood of Christ as of a lamb without blemish and without spot: who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you.” 1 Peter 1:18-20. See also Titus 1:1-3.
The gospel of Christ is the gospel of God, and the gospel of God is the gospel of Christ. The gospel of Christ is the power of God manifest in Jesus Christ. See Rom. 1:16; 1 Cor. 1:24; 1 Tim. 1:11. God loved the world, and gave his Son to die for fallen man (John 3:16),that fallen man might attain unto life eternal through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Said Jesus, “I am the resurrection, and the life; he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live.” John 11:25.
In the days of the antediluvians men were saved by faith in a coming Saviour. Gen. 4:4; Heb. 11:4. The patriarchs and prophets were saved by faith in a coming Christ. Isa. 9:6; 7:14; Matt. 1:23; Gal. 3:7, 8.
The great plan of salvation was devised by Infinite Wisdom, according to the “foreknowledge of God” (Acts 2:23); “according to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord” (Eph. 3:11). “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: according 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: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will.” Eph. 1:3-5.
Jesus said that he and his Father were one. John 17:10, 11. “And now, O Father, glorify thou me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was.” John 17:5.
God had but one purpose in creation, and one plan in re-creation, or redemption.
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