God has planned ‘before the foundation of the world’. Here we have the very foundation of our faith. There is nothing contingent about God’s plan. What God is doing is not dependent upon man, not even dependent upon the response of man; it is all ultimately of God. If God’s plan were dependent upon us and our response, then I would be without any hope whatsoever. You have but to read the history of the Church to see that the Christian Church would have lasted probably not more than a century were