ETERNAL SUN OF MANKIND

A clear understanding of what is God's eternal purpose for humanity must change our outlook on life and our dedication to serving God. Both can take a whole new dimension.
The Apostle Paul in Eph.1.1-10 makes it clear that God's plan did not begin to fall and not even with the creation of man, but before the creation of the world. God's purpose is concentrated on the personality and reality of His Son Jesus Christ. This goal had existed before the creation of the world and even to the idea of it. Community of the Trinity is so marvelous that God willed to have a lot of children in the image of His Son. He also devised before the creation of his son to put on flesh and dwelt among men. Paul points out that since man sinned he needed to Atonement, which was given in Christ. But God planned to visit the land of the Incarnation of His Son, not because man sinned, but to the Lord Jesus has become our life! God decided so that His Incarnate Son created the Church, God's glorious family of saints in His own image, that God purposed before the world and that He creates in both Testaments. Paul sees the eternal desire of the Father through the Son, to share his life with the saints, and glorify Himself in all worlds in all eternity. Paul describes this incomparable eternal God's plan and intention to glorify Himself in the universe in all eternity, creating a lot of sons in the image of His Beloved Son. «And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God, According to the eternal purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord»(Eph. .3.9-11)
Salvation is necessary because of human sin, but the spiritual growth of the saints in the image of Christ is the eternal purpose of God. When God created man and placed him on the ground, the man was innocent, but incomplete. God's eternal plan and purpose was to share his life with the man and bring it to perfection and eternal maturity. God has a beginning, before man sinned and was even created. Man's sin, not only could not shake this principle, but he was also admitted initially for the sake of God of His glory. When man sinned, God has not changed his plan. Nevertheless, we can’t say, as claimed in connection with the foregoing Arminians, that in fact fall - “only now He would provide “redemption” by way of the Cross. When God redeems man out of his lost predicament, it is a crisis act”. Cross also was God's plan was originally.
Why do I insist on this? If you are involved in the management of a large project, such as the construction of the airport, you should be very clear about not only all its stages from beginning to end, but also features the finished project. Without understanding the whole picture of God's plan you will not understand the meaning of its parts, as well as the sense of your own life. For the sake of your salvation and spiritual growth God wants to free you from the low and limited understanding of its great purposes and intentions. Scripture gives us the perception of the divine plan of redemption from the perspective of eternity. This is not something in which we have no right to meddle, puffed up by his fleshly mind (Kol.2.18), it is clear biblical evidence. We must preserve the entire value of the eternal plan of God, not taking it any of the events of Calvary, nor of the dispensation for our salvation. And we can appreciate the Father's original plan to achieve their goals through His Son Jesus Christ.
Many Christians, unfortunately, have low representation of grace. They seriously believe that the Incarnation took place because the man has sinned. This perverted anthropocentric perspective, once the standard in Catholicism, mutilates the whole spiritual life. The Orthodox Church accepts that God wants, regardless of the Fall, that Christ has become our very life, but in many cases she does not understand why God was required for this vicarious satisfaction of guilt and his people. Only when we understand both the fall and redemption in the context of God's design for the world, we can properly assess the eternal purpose of God and his ultimate goal. God certainly did not set a target for human sin. But he admitted the fall in order to Atonement was persistent. God will not admit sin and as a reaction to it makes salvation, He save His people from eternity and for His greater glory admits a sin. In Christ, we must get a lot more than what Adam lost.
«Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God; Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began, But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel» (2 Tim.1.8-10).This passage allows us to understand God's purpose for His people - give life to His Church of His Son. His grace before the world began," that is, it was in order and plan of God from all eternity ... All that was done for the redemption of mankind, is the fulfillment of the eternal purpose which God intended to carry out in Christ and through Christ (see Matthew Henry’s Exposition). The analysis of this passage will reveal how deeply we perceive. When God created Adam and placed him in the Garden of Eden, He did not give him the power to help himself and his forces grow in communion with Him. Adam was not so what he should be Adam was created a benign, but not yet perfect. He did not have a developed moral character and in need of continuous improvement and grace of the Spirit, speaking intelligently, his pristine state must be understood not static but dynamic, that is in development. Please understand correctly: I do not understand, so that to assess the need of Christ, the man had sinned. For this he needed to assess excellency of Christ is on this basis develop spiritually, and it would have been possible without falling. Nevertheless, I believe that Adam fell due to the fact that not only carried out undue choice, but craving for power, it is not intended.He was not created with the desire to do evil, but did not know the nature of the omnipotence of God, nor His idea of the Incarnation, and could not apply this knowledge in practice. This does not in any way implies the need to sin, but with greater opportunities to admit sin and the possibility of redemption. If God created Adam with a higher level of knowledge and freedom, his fall would have been incurable, like Satan. Also, God is not contemplating all the events for the sake of the primordial Adam. This narrow, anthropocentric view and the low representation of grace, at the output of which gave all the modern unbelief. Eternal God's purpose was to glorify His Incarnate Son, and the union of Christ with His people! And God has given all authority in all worlds to Christ Who manifested eternal life and immortality. Therefore, the purpose of man is to take them to the life of God, giving to saints from Eternity.
If we do not understand all this, you are more at risk to put emphasis only on the imputed righteousness of Christ and neglect the continuous sanctifying work of the Spirit in our lives. Undoubtedly through faith we receive the fruits of a perfect work of Christ and accept the divine life for men. The problem is that many who believe in a perfect work of Christ, does not understand the need for continuous operation of the Holy Spirit in believers, and that we are created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God hath before ordained that we should (Eph.2.10).
God can’t ignore sin. Before you get a lot in the divine life and share the life of His Son, we must be born again and believe. Huge problem of Eastern Orthodoxy and Pentecostalism, which insist on the eternal God's plan "deification" of man lies in the fact that they are in one way or another do not understand that faith is a gift from God and not human effort, and that the regeneration is preceded by faith and not is its result.The Orthodox tends to agree with it, rather than the Pentecostals, but they have, even worse, can be destroyed biblical doctrine of justification.We do not have the slightest right to claim as many Pentecostals and Charismatics, that if salvation is not due to a fall and the fall could not shake the purposes of God, our goal is to know God in Christ just as if we had never sinned - because we actually sinned and, alas, sin.God will not save us on the earth from problems such as old nature otherwise we are losing the daily need of a Savior, fall to proud and just find your eternal death!Paul did not even pray for such false salvation.
Nevertheless, there is another big danger: to limit the representation of the Christian life only imputation of righteousness and lose confidence in the continuing work of the Holy Spirit, and thus participate in the divine life. If we, God forbid, to go along this path, then find ourselves in self-deception, because the Lord does not separate between the work of the Son and the work of Spirit, and righteousness of Christ is not imputed to us so that we remain the same and did not recognize the supremacy of Christ every day in our life!In the best case in this way we will lose the award and tolerate severe suffering. At worst - and will remain unworthy, as reprobated, and would lose the kingdom of God!
Let me ask you this: you're tired of defeats? You feel frustrated by failed attempts to live a full Christian life? May God help you and me through supernatural faith to know that salvation is not to just get the imputed righteousness and go to heaven! Yes He will you understand what His plan for us - that we, as elected forever grow in the image of His Son, and it was not conceived on the basis of the fallen state of man, but before the beginning of time. Jesus is really free from sin, Satan and the world to enter into a relationship with God, which, as he has himself as a Man. Do not believe in "just salvation." There is only the eternal union of Christ and the Church. The purpose of God in Christ for us is much greater than the Eden. This is not an offer of salvation. This is entirely a supernatural reality, His gift to His Church. Amen.