{"id":5579,"date":"2024-10-25T06:05:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T11:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/?p=5579"},"modified":"2024-10-25T06:05:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T11:05:45","slug":"1-2-chronicles-program-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblestudyradio.org\/?p=5579","title":{"rendered":"1 &amp; 2 Chronicles (Program #3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13\" src=\"https:\/\/www.biblestudyradio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/bible.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"133\" height=\"150\" \/>1 &amp; 2 Chronicles (Program #3) &#8211; The Highest Point of God&#8217;s Gospel<\/p>\n<p>It is clear from the first two chapters of the Bible that the center and focus of God&#8217;s creative work was man.\u00a0 Genesis 1:26 &#8220;and God said let us make <em>man <\/em>in our image after our likeness.&#8221;\u00a0 In Zechariah God focus is even more graphic, in chapter 12 verse 1 it says &#8220;the burden of the word of Jehovah concerning Israel thus said Jehovah who stretches forth the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth forms the spirit of man within him.&#8221;\u00a0 God&#8217;s goal was with man.\u00a0 His eternal purpose was with man.\u00a0 But Old Testament declaration like these refer to man&#8217;s status before he fell.\u00a0 So the question for us today is &#8220;did the focus, the center and the plan of God changed with the fall of man or is the original purpose still intact?&#8221;\u00a0 The New Testament answer this question with crystal clarity.\u00a0 Ephesians 1:9 &#8220;making known to us the mystery of His will according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Himself unto the economy of the fullness of the times to head up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth in Him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"1 &amp;amp; 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