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b'Welcome to Day 1451 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to WisdomShared Rule With The Heavenly Council \\u2013 Worldview WednesdayWisdom - the final frontier to true knowledge.\\xa0Welcome to Wisdom-Trek! Where our mission is to create a legacy of wisdom, to seek out discernment and insights, to boldly grow where few have chosen to grow before. Hello, my friend, I am Guthrie Chamberlain, your captain on our journey to increase Wisdom and Create a Living Legacy.\\xa0Thank you for joining us today as we explore wisdom on our 2nd millennium of podcasts. Today is Day 1451 of our Trek, and it is Worldview Wednesday.\\xa0Creating a Biblical Worldview is essential to have a proper perspective on today\\u2019s current events.\\xa0To establish a Biblical Worldview, you must have a proper understanding of God and His Word.\\xa0This week, on our Worldview Wednesday episode, we will continue with our study based on a course I recently completed taught by Dr. Michael Heiser. Our study is titled \\u201cSons and Daughters of God: The Believer\\u2019s Identity, Calling, and Destiny\\u201d Throughout this multi-week course we will demonstrate that, in the Old Testament, \\u201csons of God\\u201d and \\u201choly ones\\u201d refers to supernatural beings whose Father is God and who work with God to carry out His will and that this divine family was present before humanity. By fully engaging with biblical texts such as Psalm 82; Psalm 89, and Deuteronomy 32:8\\u20139, our study will show that this divine family functions as a template for God\\u2019s human family. God desires of humans, as His imagers, to participate in His council. This study addresses issues such as polytheism, the nature of the (little \\u2018g\\u2019) \\u201cgods,\\u201d and the uniqueness of Yahweh. Within this study, we will apply insights to the New Testament texts and shows how the metaphor of being in God\\u2019s family informs our sense of identity and mission as believers.
Shared Rule With The Heavenly Council\\xb7\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0\\xa0Segment 8: Participation with God\\u2019s Government 1\\xa0Participation Not Artificial
I bring up the issue of predestination really for one reason. That is, I want to make the point that participation in God\\u2019s council, participation in carrying out God\\u2019s will isn\\u2019t artificial. That is, God uses the members of His family to carry out His decrees, and He allows them freedom, creativity, input\\u2014however, we want to think about this\\u2014in carrying out His will, in getting done the thing, He wants to get done.
Participation is going to be a part of a template for understanding our role in God\\u2019s program. Even though it\\u2019s sort of a bit of a sidebar, sort of a little bit abstract, it\\u2019s essential to include this in our thinking, because when we talk about \\u201cparticipation,\\u201d this term is going to come back later in our course when we talk about imaging. The whole concept of being created as God\\u2019s imager really matters because God (as we\\u2019re going to see) is going to lend us His attributes, one of which is freedom, and He allows us to use those attributes to be who we are in carrying out His decisions.\\xa0Not Predetermined
Let us consider an example or two of that in the Old Testament, where God and the decisions He makes does not have everything in a predetermined. This mindset is going to matter how we process what we do as God\\u2019s servants, as God\\u2019s children in His family business, His family bureaucracy. So the question before us is: Isn\\u2019t everything predestined?\\xa0I have already said, tipped my hand here last week, the answer is still no.
Do we have scriptural evidence for that?\\xa0I\\u2019m going to take us on a short detour through 1 Samuel 23 to obtain a needed perspective.\\xa0This perspective is going to be an ingredient in understanding the importance of actually working with God, being co-laborers in what He wants us to do. It\\u2019s not artificial. It\\u2019s meaningful; it actually counts. So let\\u2019s take a look at 1 Samuel 23.
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