... free to choose to receive or not receive grace. Job was a blessed man who obeyed God's commandments and feared God. God blessed Job with riches, many of animals, servants, and a wife and ten children. Even though Job's children, servants, and animals were taken away from him, Job maintains many good habits throughout ... gives us things. It is only the LORD that takes them away again. But I will still praise the name of the LORD!' Job understands that because of God he was born with many blessings and because of that God can take it away, but even though he took away everything, Job sti...

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• Grade Level: High School

... in the heavenly places in Christ, just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of ... His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved." (Ephesians 1:3-6, NKJV) INTRODUCTION Contradiction, paradox, or mystery? No ... in the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of their hearts was only evil continually" (Gen. 6:5); "And [Jesus] said, "It is what come...

• Word Count: 5514
• Approx Pages: 22
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School