God has chosen us before birth with a divine destiny which He had in mind.
Isaiah 14:13-14, Genesis 12:1-3.
We are now studying the ‘covenantally secure’ component of what the Father has done for
us. To better understand it is helpful+ to compare the rebellion of Satan which sowed the
five’ I Wills’ of rebellion into the earth with the ‘I wills’ that Abraham faced. The first one
we see is in Isaiah 14:12-14 which says, “How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of
the morning! How you are cut down to the ground. You who weakened the nations. For you
have said in your heart: ‘I will ascend into heaven. I will exalt my throne above the stars of
God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north.” We
are heirs of the Abrahamic covenant. God’s antidote to the rebellion that satan sowed begins
with the Abrahamic Covenant. Genesis 12:1 says, “Now the Lord had said to Abram: ‘Get
out of your country, From your family, And from your father’s house to a land that I will
show you.” Satan says, “I will ascend into heaven.” In effect, he said that he would choose his
own destiny. Satan’s bold declaration was ‘I WILL!’ Abraham’s obedience was displayed
in surrendering to the obedience of ‘THY WILL!’ In contrast, God said to Abram, ‘The first
thing you surrender is your destiny. God chooses the destiny of His people. Because we are
chosen by God before the foundation of the earth, then being chosen by God means we have
been chosen before birth with a divine destiny which He had in mind. This destiny was a pre-
birth destiny contributing to God’s Kingdom that we choose to shoulder and accomplish. In
our generation, a component of that is to walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, do what Jesus did, and even do greater works than Jesus did. The generation that winds up the age will have the
assignment to birth new heavens and a new earth. The cross of surrender and sacrifice was
present in the Abrahamic covenant. The cross that Jesus bore for us Abraham had to, in a
measure, experience by choosing to surrender his will as the initial application of the cross.
Jesus shed His blood first in the garden choosing God’s will over man’s. Abraham said yes to
it, surrendered to it and he embraced it. One of the reasons that our inheritance is
covenantally secure is because it is promised by covenant. When we surrender to God we
overcome the giants of self that contend within us to rule our life!