Christian, This Is Your Lord | The Christ Who Chose You Before Creation

Now, I have to explain the inexplicable. I have to explain that which cannot be explained. I don’t know how to do this. There was a creation that had not yet been created. There was a purpose in that creation that had not been fulfilled, and you and I were in that creation…but we were not in that creation. We’re going to get very involved in that creation, but we’re not in that creation. And there’s going to be an end to that creation, an utter, total end to that creation, and you’re going to be in the end of that creation, but you’re not going to be in the end of that creation. You’re not involved, and you are involved.

And that’s not all. That slaying, those choosings, that creation, that fall, your redemption, a cross in Jerusalem, a resurrected tomb in a garden, the end of that fallen creation in mysteries beyond mysteries. He did all of that and did away with that creation. Finished it, sealed it up, and had it to disappear and to be forgotten. He did that…before He created it. For He finished all things before He created all things. So that when His Father slew him before creation and those wonderful glorious portions died with Him, He took a creation that had not been created and a fall that had not taken place and a cross that had not come and a Satan that didn’t exist and a death that had never been known and the creation of the heavens and the earth that were not yet. He took them all into his being, and He destroyed them in His death as the lamb.

He took that creation that had not been, and He took it into death with Him, before He created you. And you have to know that this creation that you live in has on the back of its neck imprinted these words: destroyed before created. And before He created, He was slain by His Father, and those glorious portions were in Him, and they died with Him, and creation and everything in creation that did not exist died too. But that Lamb rose from the dead before creation and those glorious, honored portions rose with Him, but, the old fallen creation did not rise and it was slain before He was created.

You must understand that this creation has already been slain and done away with even before it was created. Please say Praise the Lord. And that happened inside the Son of God before creation.

That’s not my point. And then, having finished all things before He created all things, He did the most incredible thing. Now these marvelous, wonderful portions of Him that were so honored and so glorious and so pure, were part of Him and in Him. But I want you to try to see Him. Can you see Him? And can you see these portions of His being that are part of Him and of Him and Himself? His life, it’s Him, it’s Christ. See those wonderful, glorious, wonderful. Do you see that they have all with Him died? And do you see they have all with Him risen? And do you realize there’s no creation?

Now, how great is this glorious Lord Christ before creation? I don’t know. But I can tell you this: when He created, He could not create creation out there because there was no “out there,” because He was absolutely all. There was no way to create creation without that creation being created in Him, because there wasn’t any room anywhere else. And creation was created in Christ.

Now, where’s creation? And so, He stood at the beginning and kind of wondered what was going to take place, wondered how the end was going to turn out. I’ll do it again, here is Christ and here is creation. Here is Genesis 1:1 – In the beginning, here is the end – all things passed away.

Here’s the cross, here’s the tomb, there’s Abraham, there’s Moses, there’s Peter, there’s Paul, and there’s somebody who looks a whole lot like you, and there is the end where all things pass away. So, the Lord didn’t know what was going to happen. You know what He did? He just moved over here to where He is.

Come on, follow me. Is creation in Him? And you’re wondering what’s going to happen. He did, too. So, He just came over here where He is. And while He was getting there where He is, He passed all the places where He is, and while He was passing all the places where He is, He saw you ask Him to save you. And he said, “Oh.” And so He went back to the beginning where He is and opened the book, lo and behold, closed it, went back to the end where He is and as He passed you at that moment, getting saved, putting your heart in His hands, receiving Him, He passed that place where He is again, and He said, “Oh, that’s one of my chosen ones.”

And then He came to the end where He always is, and He saw you in the great throng of the redeemed singing, “Thou art worthy, Thou art worthy to receive glory and honor.” And He saw you there, where He is, where He always is, and He said, “Oh, you made it.” And so, He said, “Oh, that’s wonderful. I am going to choose you before the foundation of the world,” where He is, where He always is, because He had already finished this creation before this creation existed.

He went back to before the beginning, where He is, and He wrote your name in the book of life and closed that book with the assurance that nothing could take that name out of the book of life.

And then He went back to the end. where he always is, and He saw you in that great throng, and He saw all of those wonderful, glorious portions of His being. One of them had your name with His life and His divinity and His own self, Christ Himself, and He saw all those glorious portions coming together, and you were so beautiful. And you are so beautiful to be honored above all things, so pure and so holy.