So the gospel must come from one who is "sent"? In your view does the church "send"?
What do you mean by "ordained"? Do you mean those chosen by God before the foundation of the world without consideration of merit? Or, do you mean those God saw who would accept the gospel when he looked down the corridors of time?
AMR
First, the first two questions:
“The Gospel must come from one who is sent”:
YES!! – That’s why Jesus “SENT” the Apostles and Paul to preach the Gospel to every creature under Heaven. – ELSE THIS HAPPENS: ---- Matthew 7:22-23 KJV – “Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works? 23- And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity”. -----//-- And there are others!!
Does the Church “send”:
YES!! – Only the Church / the Body of Christ. The Body of Christ is the same as Christ doing it in person; after all, Christ is there in the Church doing or saying it. – The Church is anointed by the Holy Ghost, or it would be just another group such as the KKK, the NRA, or the MORMONS, etc. The Gospel spoken by anyone other than the Church / the Body of Christ / Jesus Christ is of no power!! – The Power is in ---- The Seed, the Seed, the Seed, or The SEED, The Gospel, and Jesus Christ, - they three are ONE, and cannot be divided!!
Second group of questions:
Every Word of God throughout His time, from the beginning to the end, is laying down “Law”; and the same Wording is prophesying of the things God wants to do, and is going to do; and allow, and not allow!! - Those are the ordinances that “ORDAIN” the future. – Even God cannot do anything without first laying down a Law, or Laws that allow Him to do it. – ((( The Flood of Noah is a good example. --- Where did the water go!! – (( Genesis 1:7 KJV - And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were “under” the firmament from –( THE WATERS WHICH WERE “ABOVE” THE FIRMAMENT )-: and it was so”. )). – Find where or what God ever did with the Waters above the firmament. – God placed them there at the Creation, knowing He could never recreate that again later. Those days were the days of the Creation, not later ))). -------
The division of the Light and darkness, gave God “reason”, or the “Ordinance” to do the ordained for the dividing the sheep from the goats, or the children of darkness from the Children of LIGHT. – God doesn’t have to come right out and say something to take place if he sets it up in a secret prophesy. There are many secret and hidden things of God that totally change the “Way” of Christ, -- but the carnal, or the lost can never know them!! -- The “MERIT” you referred to is simply the Commandments. – “The Ten Commandments”. - To obey or not obey them. The children of Darkness cannot obey, and the Children of LIGHT / GOD HAVE OBEYED from the beginning because God is that Light preordained and divided from the darkness, but not divided in Himself. ---- The Lost are divided into two, the “GOOD” and honest Hearts, and the EVIL hearts. That is the Light and the darkness foreseen in CHRIST / THAT LIGHT!!
T’S short, but have questions?
Paul – 032612