Theology of the Church, Mentor's Guide, MG03

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T H E O L O G Y O F T H E C H U R C H

Our objective for this first segment of The Church Foreshadowed in God’s Plan is to enable you to see that: • The Church is foreshadowed in God’s exalted purpose to glorify himself through a new humanity which will live with him forever. • The Church is foreshadowed in God’s promise to include the Gentiles in his redemptive purpose for the world. • The Church is foreshadowed in God’s efforts to raise up for himself a people ( laos ) that would live for him as his own peculiar people. • God is working through human history to draw out of all the nations of the earth a people for himself.

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I. The Church of Jesus Christ Is Foreshadowed in God’s Exalted Purpose: to Bring Himself Glory through a New Humanity, Based on the Foretelling of the Gospel in the Covenant to Abraham.

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A. God’s high purpose is to bring honor to his name.

1. All creation was done by his will and power and for his glory.

a. Exod. 20.11

b. Isa. 40.26-28

c. Jer. 32.17

2. The psalmist says that it was for his glory that God chose and worked his plan of redemption for his people Israel and defeated his enemies in his plan, Ps. 135.8-12.