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Sound of Liberty
7286 Hwy 53 West
Dawsonville,
GA
30534
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Predestinated and Manifested Children of God
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Message Transcribed and
Edited From Audio Tape Number 521
Preached March 13, 1994
By Brother Ben Howard
Dawsonville, Georgia
Our message will begin with Ephesians, chapter
one. This scripture is definitely not an unfamiliar
scripture to you because we have quoted and read it
quite a few times. It is a very good scripture. Of
course, all the scriptures are good, but sometimes,
one certain scripture will just have a special
meaning. One particular scripture will become very
special to us personally. For the subject matter that
we are going to speak on, this chapter is very good.
I want to speak on “PREDESTINATED AND MANIFESTED
CHILDREN OF GOD.” You can be predestinated without
being saved. You can be predestinated without having
the baptism of the Holy Ghost. This is possible
because God planted predestination before He began the
world. You are predestinated when you are born into
the world. When you are born as an infant, you have
not come into the kingdom yet and you have not been
born again spiritually, but you are predestinated.
When you are born again, you become a manifested son
or daughter of God. God can deal with you upon the
basis of His predestination. You will remember
Brother Gerald Cleveland has spoken here about the
many times God dealt with him before he accepted the
Lord Jesus Christ as his Saviour. And, Brother
Branham also, told of the many times God spoke to him
about things before he had accepted the Lord. Sister
Margaret Still told us how the Lord spoke to her,
urging her to speak to someone, when she was just a
young girl. Her actions actually saved the life of
the person she spoke to.
The Lord has dealt with me, also, before I accepted
Him as my Saviour. I remember as a young boy, wanting
a bicycle for Christmas. There were fifteen of us in
my family, and money for bicycles was out of the
question. I prayed to the Lord and asked Him to send
me a bicycle for Christmas. That would seem an
insignificant prayer to others, but it was from a
believing heart of a young boy. Someone drove by the
house outside, stopped, and set out a bicycle, and
then drove off. I don’t know who it was or why it
happened, but I believe the Lord answers prayers when
you are unsaved. You are a predestinated son or
daughter of God, and you are a part of the family.
Perhaps you have not recognized it yet, and you just
haven’t accepted Him yet. Many things He does for you
just on the basis of your predestination. Your name
has been the Lamb’s Book of Life since before the
foundation of the world. Know the greatness of God
gives us the faith to believe in predestination.
We are going to speak along those lines. It is
because of predestination, that you hear from the
Lord. You just seem to have a heart that wants to
hear from Him, and a heart that wants to know His will
for you. The Lord comes into your life and you begin
to be a manifested son of God, or daughter of God.
Not only are you predestinated, but then you begin to
be manifested. Those are some of the thoughts we are
going to explore in this message.
Before reading the Word, let us pray. “Heavenly
Father, in the grand and glorious and precious Name of
Jesus Christ, we come to you, now, as we have your
Word open before us. We always count it a time, Lord,
to be real serious with You, and Your Word. I pray,
God, that You will anoint us to say the things you
would have us to say, and You will anoint the people
to receive. Anoint our minds, Lord, that we will just
think the thoughts of Christ for this little while.
We lend ourselves to you, Lord, and give ourselves to
You, that you may use as a vessel to bring forth thy
good treasures. We praise You in Jesus Name.” Amen
All right, we will begin reading in Ephesians,
chapter 1:3-4.., “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 has chosen us in Him before the
foundation of the world, that we should be holy and
without blame before him in love..” You see, He chose
us in Him BEFORE the foundation of the world that we
could BECOME holy and without blame in Him. If He
chose us that we could become holy and without blame
in Him, then He would have to make a way to do that,
wouldn’t He?
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