What was God's own purpose in creating everything?
God’s own purpose in creating everything was that all things would redound to His glory. Scripture ties this eternal purpose to His grace, not human works, given in Christ Jesus before the ages began, so that believers become recipients and partakers of His grace and mercy through simple faith in the gospel.
Les explains from 2 Timothy 1:9 that God saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace. That purpose was given us in Christ Jesus before the ages began. Les calls this the eternal purpose of the Creator God, that He created everything for His own purpose. And what was His own purpose? That everything would redound to His glory. Yet believers work into that purpose by being recipients of His grace and mercy, and they are made partakers of it all by simple faith in the gospel. Les says this is past finding out and past human understanding, but the Bible teaches it, and we better believe it.