In the early 2000s a Verizon commercial asked the question: “Can you hear me now?” The ad was set in various locations to indicate that their service was available in most locations.But God has been asking that question from the beginning. The apostle Paul tells us that God is asking, “Can you hear me now?” But not everyone is listening. Paul writes: “He called you to this through our gospel, that you might share in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Thess. 2:14). God calls through the gospel of Christ, wherever that gospel is presented or preached!Now while the wireless phone companies have been touting their service for just a few short years, God’s plan has been in place from the very beginning. Before He created us, He knew we would fall; He knew that He wanted to offer us a invaluable gift of grace.When Jesus came and died on that cross in our place, it was not an after-thought. God planned it all ahead of time. God has had His plan in place from the very beginning. In Paul’s previous verse he stated: “…because God has chosen you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth” (2 Thess. 2:13).God’s plan for salvation was first revealed in Genesis 3:15 at the fall of Adam and Eve, when He told Satan and Adam and Eve: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, And between your seed and her Seed; He shall bruise your head, And you shall bruise His heel.” That was a reference to the coming of the Christ but specifically the death blow God would give the devil when Jesus rose victorious from the grave!God had a plan to restore the relationship He had with mankind before sin entered the picture. It was a plan of salvation, of rescue, of deliverance, of release. Being saved means all of these things: we are delivered from God’s wrath and rescued from eternal separation from God.God’s plan for salvation is offered to all who would believe and obey. Paul told Timothy that God wants everyone to be saved (1 Tim. 2:4), but we know that not everyone chooses to believe.God predestined that Christ Jesus would die for us taking our punishment and pay our debt of sin. While God in His foreknowledge knows who will choose Him and who will not,