Divine Calling: From Salvation to Glory

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But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, Brothers loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, and that salvation he chose not only to happen but how it would happen namely through sanctification by the spirit and through faith in the truth. [00:00:12]

Would you grant that we would understand what our calling is, that all of us could be sure that we are called in this way, and that we would have in us now a greater impulse to walk worthy of our calling seeing what it is called to. I pray for this in Jesus name, amen. [00:01:19]

We are called to Holiness, we are called to Salvation, we are called to experience the power of the Holy Spirit, we are called to believe in the truth, that's our calling, and secondly, we are called, and this calling is coming through the gospel we're hearing the gospel and in hearing the gospel we experience God's Divine call. [00:02:35]

Somehow or other we are going to share in as our possession belonging to us part of us, shining off of us in some way the very Divine glory of the Lord Jesus. A couple of texts just to point out that double direction of the call so first called to holiness. [00:03:21]

God has not called us not called us to impurity, but he's called us in Holiness. Holiness is what he calls us to live in or now the calling to Glory, the glory of the Lord and consider first Thessalonians 2 12. We exhorted each of you and encourage you and charged you to walk in a manner worthy of God who calls you to his own kingdom and Glory calls you to Glory. [00:03:48]

We've already seen then that the calling of God has this double Direction, in this life it's a call to Holiness through faith and as this life comes to an end or Christ returns it is a calling to share in the glory of the Lord Jesus so let's Ponder for a few minutes what is it what is this calling. [00:04:33]

So many think of the calling merely as the gospel is preached and a preacher says come and he voices a call to believe and that's all it's talking about that's not all it's talking about that's not even mainly what it's talking about it comes through the gospel through but it isn't the same as the gospel preached. [00:05:06]

But we preach Christ crucified so there's the preaching of the Gospel, and it's going to land on some ears with a call, and not all, a stumbling block to Jews when the gospel is preached, Folly to the Gentiles, but there's a group among the Jews and among the Gentiles who are called. [00:05:39]

Some among Jews some among Gentiles have their eyes open by the call and they see oh this crucified Christ is the very power of God this crucified Christ is the very wisdom of God that's what the call does, that's an effective, well the theologians sometimes use the strange word effectual call. [00:06:22]

We know that for those who love God all things work together for good, namely for those who are called, all the called, love God they're the same group those who love God and those who are called all things work together for good for those who love God all things work together for those who are called according to his purpose. [00:08:00]

For Those whom he foreknew he predestined to be conformed to the image of his son what's that called that's called sanctification, predestined to be conformed to the image of his son in order that he might be the firstborn among many christ-like brothers, and Those whom he predestined to that sanctification he called. [00:08:34]

You can see why Paul would elsewhere say walk worthy of your calling you have a calling a divine Supernatural work of God in your life, bringing you out of unbelief to Faith, bringing you out of unholiness to Holiness and bringing you out of weakness and Corruption and misery into the glorification that you will enjoy when you share the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. [00:10:18]

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