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The Bible covers so many different topics, and one of the main ones, of course, is the gospel of our salvation. So, we begin this episode with a reminder, courtesy of a story about Billy Graham, of how we need to be in prayer for the gospel to once again go forth in this country in 2025; Amen, Lord, have Your way!

Yet, among all the matters dealt with in the Bible, the thing it shows us in particular as God’s ultimate desire, the central thing in the entire Bible, is this: God’s desire to bring us into relation with Himself by giving us His divine life. Until we see this, we will never truly understand what the Bible is all about. So, in this episode we deal with this central matter in the entire Bible.

Much of this is based on a pamphlet we’ve recently made some videos about; you can find both the pamphlet itself and the videos on GodsEternalPurpose.org.

Length: 54 minutes
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Bible Verses for this Episode
See  Episode #120: “The Central Thing”
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RESOURCES

Online
GodsEternalPurpose.org
Download the Pamphlet
Watch the Videos

Books

Mary McDonough: “God’s Plan of Redemption”
BTP: “The Concise Bible Dictionary”

Previous Episodes
Podcast Series: “Spirit and Soul and Body”
Episode #116: “Our Relationship with God”

Previous Notes
Genesis 2:7: “God Set Man in Relation with Himself”
Andrew Murray: The First Thought of Man

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BIBLE VERSES REFERENCED
IN THIS EPISODE

Acts 26:18: The steps of salvation.
2 Corinthians 4:4: Satan’s blinding work.
Colossians 1:12-13: The great transfer.
Romans 8:29-30, Ephesians 1:5: Predestined to be God’s many sons.
Titus 3:3-5: So once were we….
Romans 8:3: In the likeness of the flesh of sin.
Romans 8:9: Without the Spirit, we do not belong to Christ.
Genesis 1:26-28: How and why God created us.
Genesis 2:7: How God carries out His purpose.
Revelation 21:1,10: The New Jerusalem coming down out of heaven.
Acts 1:11: Gazing into heaven.
Genesis 1:9, 16: The tree of life in the garden, at the beginning of the Bible.
Revelation 22:1-2: The river flowing from the throne, with the tree of life, at the end of the Bible.
Genesis 3:8: When God walked with man in the garden.
John 10:10: He came that we might have life.

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Recorded…
in Chicago, Illinois on Tuesday, 21 January 2025.