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00:17 >> Dear friend, thank you so much for watching 00:19 "It Is Written Canada." Now, last week, we left you 00:22 with quite the cliffhanger as we discussed this love 00:26 of God, God's free choice to love, 00:29 our choice to love Him back. And then we discussed how God does not change in 00:36 His essence or in His character but can change in His response to our response 00:44 to Him. But then we asked that question -- 00:48 so if God changes like that, does that mean that He doesn't know the future? 00:54 Because if He knew that that was going to happen anyways, well, why wouldn't 00:58 He have done what He was going to do differently? Well, to help us answer 01:02 that question and untangle that conundrum, we have Dr. John Peckham 01:06 with us once again. Dr. Peckham, so thankful that you're here to help us 01:10 unravel this mystery. >> Great to be with you. 01:16 >> Now, friend, if you happened to miss last week's program 01:18 or any previous program, I want to encourage you to go to 01:21 our YouTube channel, youtube.com/iiwcanada. 01:26 There you can find the archives of this series 01:30 along with others to help you grow 01:32 in that journey with God. Dr. Peckham, so thankful once again 01:37 that you've joined us, and want to ask you a question before we get 01:42 into this cliff-hanger that we left everybody with. You've written 01:46 a number of books. Where could someone find those books 01:50 and the titles of those books if they wanted to read more in detail to some of the things 01:55 we've been talking about and carrying forward here? 01:59 >> Yeah, the two most recent books I've written, one of them 02:02 is on the theological method that I'm using 02:05 to elaborate on God's love, and that book is called 02:08 "Canonical Theology," and you can find that 02:10 on Amazon.com or Amazon.ca. And then the book that deals 02:15 mostly with the material we're talking about here is "The Love of God: 02:19 A Canonical Model." >> And that also can be found on Amazon.com, Amazon.ca, 02:25 and so just so thankful that you've been willing to share, really, snippets. 02:30 So, going to get right down to the fundamental heart of the question here -- 02:35 if God has emotions, if God even repents, if God even relents, 02:41 does that mean that God does not know the future? >> Yeah, I can see how, 02:46 when some people think of repentance or changing direction, 02:49 they think that means that God didn't know what was going to happen, 02:53 and therefore He was surprised somehow. This question, like the others 02:58 we've been wrestling with throughout this series, I want a biblical answer, right? 03:02 I can try to come to a conclusion in my own mind, "Well, this makes the most sense 03:05 to me," but I want to know what the Bible teaches on this issue, 03:10 and I want to show you some of the texts that I think make this clear. 03:13 And then we can ask the question, "Well, how does that make sense?" 03:16 after we've seen what the Bible actually teaches. So the first verse is 03:20 1 John 3:20, and this is a broad verse about what theologians 03:26 call God's omniscience, that God knows everything. >> Okay. 03:32 >> That's what theologians call divine omniscience. >> So omniscience being God 03:36 is all-knowing? >> All-knowing. >> Okay. 03:39 >> That's right. 1 John 3:20. 1 John 3:20, 03:46 and it says, "For if our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart 03:50 and knows all things." >> Mm-hmm. >> And that's just an explicit 03:54 statement that God knows everything. Now, you might think 03:59 at that point, "Well, then we can just stop having the discussion now 04:02 because it just said God knows everything, so obviously 04:06 He must know the future," but there are some theologians who have thought, 04:10 "Well, if God knows the future, He couldn't relent in the way the texts say that He does, 04:15 that we saw last time, or we wouldn't have the free will of the kind 04:19 that the Bible teaches we have." And so they say, "Maybe when the Bible says, 04:22 'God knows all things,' it just means He knows all things 04:26 that are possible to know at the present but the future just can't be known." 04:32 >> Okay. >> That's the supposition of some. 04:34 The question is whether that really squares with what the Bible 04:39 teaches about God's knowledge. I don't think that it does, and I want to show you 04:44 some other texts about why I think that is the case. Let's go first to Acts 2. 04:49 >> Okay. >> Acts 2:23 04:55 >> And again, we're exploring this idea of what does God know. 05:00 Does God in fact know the future? Does He not know the future? 05:04 So Acts chapter 2, and what is our passage once again? >> Okay, so verse 23 is going to 05:10 talk about foreknowledge -- Acts 2:23, but we'll start with verse 22 05:15 since there's not a full sentence there. Verse 22 -- "Men of Israel, 05:19 hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God 05:24 to you by miracles, wonders, and signs which God did through Him 05:28 in your midst, as you yourselves also know: Him, being delivered 05:32 by the determined purpose and foreknowledge of God, you have taken by lawless hands, 05:38 have crucified and put to death." >> Mm-hmm. 05:40 >> So you have this foreknowledge and God's purpose that are put together 05:44 there very closely in that text. >> And let's unpack that more, then. 05:50 So, I mean, it still begs the question -- I mean, if God has this divine foreknowledge, 05:54 if God knows all things, well, then why does God have emotion? And, I mean, probably 06:01 the grander question is, if God knows everything... >> Right. 06:05 >> ...then He knows who's saved and who's not saved, and so, again, we kind of throw up 06:10 our hands and say, "Okay, well, what's the point?" So let's unpack this 06:13 a little more. >> Yeah, yeah, let's do that. I mean, first, a lot of people 06:16 say things like, "Well, you know, maybe that text does say foreknowledge." 06:20 The word translated there literally means to know beforehand. 06:24 >> Yes. >> And they say, "Well, okay, maybe He had foreknowledge 06:27 of the Cross event but not other things. You know, maybe 06:30 He planned some things, and He knew them because He planned them, but 06:32 He doesn't know all of the other things." But does the Bible teach that 06:36 He knows all of the other things, too? Actually, it does. 06:39 A couple of places for that -- Psalm 139:16. >> Okay. 06:45 So we go to the Old Testament now, Psalm 139:16, to answer this question. 06:51 Does God know everything? >> Right. >> Does God know all things? 06:55 >> Does He know even the future free decisions of humans? >> Yes. 06:59 >> Which is the question that is most often raised among people wrestling with this question. 07:03 I want to show you these texts because, once we see what the Bible says, 07:06 then we know the parameters in which we can think about it. >> Okay. 07:09 >> If we don't, we can say, "Well, maybe that text only means this part." 07:12 And then we can find a way to make it make sense in our mind 07:15 in a way that might not go along with what's actually in the text, which we want to try to 07:18 avoid. Psalm 139:16, and this is the psalm that's talking about 07:24 God's perfect knowledge of humanity. >> Yes. 07:27 >> Verse 16 is particularly interesting for what we're talking about now. 07:31 Psalm 139:16, "Your eyes saw my substance being yet unformed, 07:36 and in Your book, they all were written, the days fashioned for me when 07:42 as yet there were none of them." So all the days of the psalmist's life 07:47 are already written in the book, in other words, already known, right? 07:51 That sounds like exhaustive foreknowledge, doesn't it? >> Mm-hmm, yes. 07:54 >> Foreknowledge even of the decisions that individual will make. 07:57 >> Yes. >> So we have this text. We have another very important 08:01 text in Isaiah, Isaiah 46:9-11. >> This is a text, Dr. Peckham, as you're coming to that text, 08:14 Isaiah 46:9-10, is, frankly, for me, one of the more important texts 08:20 to help us understand the reliability of the Scriptures 08:24 as we understand God's divine foreknowledge. >> That's right. 08:27 Isaiah 46:9-10, and even into verse 11, "Remember the former things 08:33 of old: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like 08:39 me, declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times 08:45 things that are not yet done, saying, 'My counsel shall stand, and I will do all My pleasure,' 08:51 calling a bird of prey from the east, the man who executes my counsel 08:55 from a far country: indeed, I have spoken it, I also will bring it to pass; 08:59 I have purposed it, I will also do it." Now, there's a lot in those 09:05 verses that we need to unpack. First of all, in verse 9, he starts out, "I am God, 09:10 and there is no other." This has set Isaiah 46 among a number of chapters where 09:15 God continuously points out how He is the true God and the gods of the nations 09:19 and the idols are false gods. >> Yes. >> And one of the ways he says 09:22 they're false earlier in the chapters right before this is He says, 09:25 "Can they tell you the future?" >> Yes. >> "Can they tell you 09:28 what's going to come? No, they can't, because they're not really God." 09:31 In other words, this is a test of divinity, of who the real God is. 09:34 This is proof, supposed to be evidence in the context of Isaiah, that 09:38 He is the real God, and then He says, "Declaring the end from the beginning." 09:44 "The end from the beginning," this is a Hebrew manner of speech 09:48 where it refers to the beginning and the end of something, and it means 09:51 everything in between, as well. >> Mm-hmm. >> It's called a merism in 09:54 biblical studies. >> Okay. >> So He knows the end from the 09:56 beginning and everything in between. This is just a statement 09:58 of God's exhaustive knowledge of all events of history, not just the present, 10:02 not just the past, but including the future, as well. So this is, in my view, 10:09 a definitive statement of God's exhaustive knowledge of everything 10:12 that will ever occur. >> And so it's very interesting. It's almost as if God is kind of 10:16 drawing a line in the sand, saying, "Okay, listen. I'm God. There is no other. 10:21 I'm God. There's none like me." >> Right. >> "And here 10:25 is one evidence..." >> That's right. >> "...of you understanding 10:29 that reality." >> Yes. >> "I know the end 10:31 from the beginning." >> Yes. >> And then I love 10:33 how the passage puts it, "From ancient times, things that are not yet done." 10:38 >> That's right. >> So in case there was any...question 10:43 in my mind what the end from the beginning was, this "from ancient times, 10:46 things that are not yet done," that's pointing straight to the future. 10:51 >> Straight to the future, and, interestingly, Jesus says something that's kind 10:55 of similar to this kind of "I'm the real God, and how do you know I'm the real God? 10:59 Because I know the future." If we go over to the Gospel of John... 11:02 Gospel of John 13... 11:07 >> So, we go to John 13. We've seen Old Testament evidence. 11:10 God knows the future. Now we're going to go New Testament. 11:13 What is the evidence here? We've been in the New Testament. We're coming back, John 13, 11:17 and what verse are we going to? >> John 13:19. >> Okay. 11:21 >> It says, "Now I tell you before it comes that, when it does come to pass, 11:26 you may believe that I am He." >> Mm-hmm. >> I am who? 11:32 The Son of God, Yahweh, right? >> That's right. >> Because His foreknowledge is 11:35 an attribute that only God has. >> That's right. >> "So I tell you know so that, 11:39 when it comes to pass, you will believe." Now, some people watching 11:43 this show, they might think, "Well, the Isaiah 46 passage, this passage, could be explained 11:48 if you just say God just caused it all to happen," but we've already seen some 11:52 other passages earlier in this series where human beings have free 11:55 will of a kind that they can actually reject God's will for them. 12:00 >> Yes. >> So, for instance, we saw already Luke 7:30, 12:04 where the Pharisees rejected God's will for them. And that's not the only passage. 12:09 We can even look at some others later on if there's time. But we do have a kind of free 12:14 will where we can reject God's will. So I can't explain these texts 12:18 in a way that doesn't contradict the Bible by saying, "Well, God knows this just 12:22 because He causes it." The other option is to say he foreknows it in some way 12:26 that doesn't remove our freedom, right? And in this very passage -- 12:32 this very passage actually draws on one of the specific examples of God's foreknowledge. 12:36 >> Okay. >> We've seen a lot of -- We've seen some of the texts. 12:39 There's many more that just state that God knows the future, but then there's particular 12:43 predictions that were made that you cannot account for either without 12:48 God determining people's wills -- which I think the Bible teaches He doesn't do, and we've 12:52 tried to see that earlier in the series -- or he knows their future decisions in a way 12:56 that we don't fully understand. One of those is right here in John 13. 13:00 Why does He say what He says in verse 19? He says that because, 13:03 just before that, He identified his betrayer, the one who would betray Him, 13:07 Judas Iscariot. >> Yes. >> John 13:18, "I do not speak 13:09 concerning all of you: I know whom I have chosen: but that the Scripture 13:14 may be fulfilled, he who eats bread with me has lifted up his heel against me." 13:20 >> Mm-hmm. >> So He knows who's going to betray Him -- it's Judas -- and 13:23 then He quotes that last bit before He said Scripture, before He said that, when 13:27 He talks about, "He who eats bread with me has lifted up 13:30 his heel against me." That's a quotation from the Psalms that He 13:33 interprets as a prophecy about the one would betray Him, which requires foreknowledge. 13:37 >> And so we have, shall I call it, a tension now, this tension of God's 13:44 divine foreknowledge and man's free will. Let's unpack this a little more 13:50 because there's certainly other texts that can help us, because, again, 13:55 if God has the knowledge of knowing what I'm going to do anyways, what's the point? 14:04 So let's talk about what's the point of a relationship with Him 14:08 that has this freedom to choose. >> That's right. >> Let's unpack 14:12 this a little bit. >> So, to try to understand this better -- 14:15 and we have to admit, whenever we deal with the things of God, it gets beyond 14:18 our understanding quickly. >> Yes. >> So we want to stick close 14:22 to what the Bible tells us and then try not to speculate much beyond that. 14:25 >> That's right. >> But the Bible does give us kind of a guide 14:27 to how to understand how God's knowledge, His foreknowledge of things, 14:31 relates to His plan and relates to His -- what we call His Providence 14:34 when he executes that plan. >> Yes. >> The clearest map 14:37 that I know of is in Romans chapter 8. >> Okay. 14:39 >> And Romans chapter 8, of course, is right before those chapters we were talking 14:43 about earlier in the series. >> That's right, when we were dealing 14:45 with Romans 9-11. So we're going to go to Romans 8. 14:49 Help us unpack this whole idea of God's divine foreknowledge in the context of free will. 14:56 What does that mean? What does that mean for me specifically? 14:59 >> Okay. So we We can start with Romans 8:28, 15:04 and it says there, "And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, 15:08 for those who are called according to His purpose." Then verse 29 -- 15:12 "For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed 15:17 to the image of His Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. 15:22 Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called: whom He called, these 15:26 He also justified: and whom He justified, these He also glorified." 15:32 So what do we have here in these verses? We actually have a sequence 15:36 beginning in verse 29. >> Mm-hmm. >> It says first, "Those whom 15:39 He foreknew," so that's bullet point one, right? 15:42 And the word there is just "knows beforehand." >> Yes. 15:45 >> "Those whom He foreknew," it says, "He also predestined." Now, here we need to be careful 15:50 because the English translation of the word "predestined," you could take that to mean 15:53 that God caused everything, but that wouldn't make sense in the context 15:59 if He foreknew something and then does something else. >> Right. 16:03 >> Right? Unless you're going to say those two are the same thing, 16:06 but they can't be, in my view, in the text. So He foreknows something. 16:10 Then He predestines. Actually, the word there in Greek for "predestine," 16:14 the best translation for that is "He plans," or, "He lays out the parameters of what will take 16:19 place." >> Okay. >> So, according to the text, 16:22 He foreknows some things, then He plans, or predestines, some others. 16:28 In other words, He knows what creatures will do. He adds to that His own plan, 16:32 His owns decisions. So you have the decisions of creatures plus the decisions of 16:36 God is the decisions of all creatures possible. >> Okay. 16:40 >> Then He executes that plan in Providence by calling, justifying, and glorifying. 16:48 So you have the sequence of God foreknows some things -- including, I 16:53 think, the free decisions of creatures -- He then makes a plan, and then 16:57 He executes that plan, and that's actually a very similar sequence 17:01 to what we already saw in Isaiah 46:9-11. So He's not causing everything 17:07 to happen. He knows what creatures will do, and then He responds to that. 17:13 Based on His foreknowledge, He makes a plan for the best way to respond to what creatures 17:19 will freely do. >> And so what we're saying here -- 17:22 and I don't want overreach in my statement here -- is that God's divine 17:27 foreknowledge is actually, at its very core, a selfless aspect 17:35 of His nature, because as His divine foreknowledge, He knows how I would react 17:42 to something, and in His knowing how I will react, He has a plan in which 17:49 His ultimate plan for me is that I would be saved. His ultimate plan for me 17:54 is that I would choose Him, and so, in knowing how I react, 18:00 knowing how I will decide, He intervenes in a way to, through His selfless 18:08 pursuit of me, to help me make the decisions that are going to be 18:12 the right decisions. >> To bring about the best outcome He can. 18:16 >> That is absolutely powerful. What are some other things that help us understand 18:20 this foreknowledge and free will? I think we're at the very core, 18:26 but let's -- Maybe there's some other texts that can help us get there. 18:30 >> Yeah, I want to go to the Psalms, back to the Psalms 81, 18:33 where we can see the way God talks about how people respond to Him, just 18:38 so we can remind ourselves that I don't think we're at liberty to think, 18:43 "Well, God just knows these things because He's causing everything," 18:45 and not to read Romans 8 in a way that God is determining everything, but that there is 18:49 free decisions that we make and God responds to those decisions 18:53 we make with His own decisions, and you put those two things together, and that's what 18:57 makes up God's plan. He's not laying that out just unilaterally. 19:02 So, if we go to Psalm 81, beginning in verse 10... Psalm 81, beginning 19:09 in verse 10, it says, "I am the Lord your God, who brought you 19:13 out of the land of Egypt: open your mouth wide, and I will fill it." 19:19 So He wants to feed them, right, take care of them. Verse 11 -- "But my people would 19:24 not heed my voice, and Israel would have none of me." 19:29 >> Yes. >> "So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, 19:33 to walk in their own counsels." Verse 13 -- "Oh, that my people would listen to me, 19:39 that Israel would walk in my ways." And you hear the lament 19:45 in the voice there even as you read it. Does that sound like something 19:50 someone would say if they could've just made it otherwise? Right? 19:55 If they weren't granting freedom to creatures, would it make sense for God 19:59 to say, "Oh, I wish you had done otherwise even though I made you do this"? 20:01 >> Right, right. >> It doesn't make sense. >> And that helps us understand 20:05 that God is not causing, but rather God is responding, and it is a very essence 20:11 to the core of free will. >> Yes. >> What else can 20:14 we say about this? >> So, going back to your point that you made before, 20:18 if we put this in the perspective of the Cross, right, you saw God's foreknowledge 20:22 is actually evidence of His unselfish love for us. >> Yes. 20:26 >> Because you look at this, and you think of Jesus on the Cross, dying 20:31 for your sins, dying for my sins, dying for the sins of the entire world. 20:35 >> Yes. >> And He knew this in advance. He knew that we humans 20:43 would do all of this evil that would bring it to the point where He Himself 20:48 would suffer on the Cross. >> Yes. >> And yet 20:51 He was willing to do it anyways. What greater love could there be than this? 20:56 It's absolutely amazing to me. But some people then try to say, "Well, if God foreknows things, 21:03 how could it be the case that He really has emotions?" They think that maybe 21:07 the element of surprise is necessary -- you know, if He knew things, 21:10 maybe He can't really have emotional reactions. >> Sure. 21:13 >> And that's a question that's often raised. >> Yes. 21:16 >> But I think that's a question that is a mistaken understanding, right? 21:20 I don't know if you've ever read a book that moved you emotionally -- 21:25 and I'm sure that you have, right? >> For sure. 21:27 >> Have you ever read a book a second time like that? >> I certainly have. 21:32 >> But it didn't -- Did it move you the second time? >> You know, it's kind of 21:37 an interesting thing. It still moves you even though there's no surprise. 21:40 >> Yeah, so the fact is, even if you know what's coming, you can still be emotionally 21:44 moved and emotionally affected even the second time around. So it's just a misunderstanding 21:49 to think that, if God responds emotionally or even responds truly, 21:52 that that means He didn't know. And the fact that He knows the future 21:55 tells us a number of things -- that we can trust His promises, that 21:59 He is going to bring about the best good that He can bring about for us 22:03 in the end. We can trust Him that what He has done has always been 22:08 the best in all circumstances that was available to Him, given all of the other 22:13 things that were happening, and we can trust the promise that God makes 22:16 in Romans 8 through Paul -- if we go back to Romans 8 and Romans 8:18... 22:24 which is just 10 verses before that verse, you know, "All things work together 22:28 for good for those who love God..." >> Yes. 22:31 >> Which is often misunderstood to mean that everything is really just for good. 22:36 What it really means is that God works to bring good even out of evil things that 22:40 He didn't want and He didn't cause. >> Yes. 22:42 >> Just 10 verses before that, Paul tells us -- he promises something about 22:45 looking forward to the future. He says, "For I consider that the sufferings of this 22:49 present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us." 22:56 >> Mm-hmm. >> Now, this text should not be misunderstood to think that Paul 22:59 is downplaying or trivializing suffering in the world. >> No. 23:03 >> Paul knew suffering. >> Yes. >> He knew it individually 23:06 and personally. He's saying, as bad as it is -- And God doesn't want it either. 23:09 As bad as it is, what God has in store for those who love Him is exponentially better. 23:15 And when we look back and can see everything we can't see now, 23:18 we will then know the truth of this, that the sufferings of this present time are not 23:23 even worthy to be compared with what is coming in the future. But how could God know that 23:28 for sure without having knowledge of the future? >> That's right. 23:32 And it is -- You know, as we have our last -- And it's hard to believe 23:36 we only have two minutes left in our show here. The amazing thing 23:39 about this is -- And I often tell this when people are making 23:41 decisions, you know, and we're asking for God's guidance 23:45 in making that decision. Sometimes we make that decision, and we don't... 23:50 When we make the decision, we're not sure -- you know, "Aw, you know, I hope 23:53 I made the right decision." It's only when we are able to look back 23:58 that we're able to say, "Oh, I see why this happened the way it did." 24:02 >> Right. >> The difference between us and God is God 24:06 doesn't have to look back. >> That's right. >> God actually looks forward 24:10 and says, "These things will help bring about the best," 24:16 because, again, this is all couched in the reality 24:22 that God loves us. He has this relentless pursuit of us. 24:26 He loves all people, and His desire is to have the best outcome. 24:31 >> That's right, and He knows our decisions in a way that doesn't remove our freedom. 24:35 Now, people have a lot of trouble understanding that, and I will admit 24:38 I don't understand how God knows the future either, but I don't need to know how God 24:42 does something in order to believe that He does. I don't know how God is 24:47 all-powerful either. I don't know how He is eternal, right? 24:51 >> That's right. >> But I know that He is all-powerful and that 24:54 He is eternal because the Bible teaches that. Similarly, because the Bible 24:57 teaches that God knows the future, and it teaches that we have free 25:01 will, if I believe in the Bible and I understand the texts to mean that as I do, 25:06 then I have to believe that both of those things are true 25:10 in a way that doesn't lead to a contradiction. So God knows the future in a way 25:15 that is descriptive of what will happen but doesn't make us 25:20 do what we do at the time. And we don't fully understand that, but I think that we can 25:25 believe by faith that both things are true because the Bible 25:28 teaches both things. >> And both of those things being true 25:32 are set atop the foundation that God desires the best for us 25:38 and anxiously looks forward to the day that He will reunite with us, 25:42 and that's really what's best for us, is our ultimate reunion 25:45 with Him. >> Yeah. So we can trust Him. He knows what's best, and 25:49 He wants what is best for us. >> Dr. Peckham, why don't you pray for us as we conclude 25:53 today's show? >> Dear Father in heaven, we are so thankful to You that 25:59 You have revealed so much about Yourself to us in Your Word. We thank You that 26:05 You have a plan for our lives, that You know the future, and 26:09 You hold the future in Your hands, and because of You, we can have a future, 26:13 and we can have a hope. I pray, Lord, that You will help us to come 26:17 more in line with the will that You have for our lives so that we can come 26:22 into closer relationship with You and also serve You better in this world. 26:26 In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. >> Amen. 26:30 My dear friends, the depth and the breadth of God's love is almost incomprehensible. 26:39 Over the last several weeks, we have done our best to scratch the surface 26:44 of understanding how God relentlessly pursues each 26:48 and every one of us. He gives us the free choice to respond to that love 26:55 and enter into a relationship with Him, all the while with His divine 27:00 foreknowledge bringing about events in our life 27:05 that would help us to choose Him. Friend, today's offer is a DVD 27:13 set of this entire series. 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