The privileges of your calling, part 1

Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Friday,
January 16, 2010

The privileges of your calling, part 1

a. The invitation of God the Father to believe in Jesus Christ.

b. The election of the believer where the unique equality factor of the Church-age takes place!

Going through those so-called mundane times in life, but these can really be the times when God is silently at work in your life behind the scenes without you even knowing about it.

MAT 10:13
"If they are not children of peace, your peace will return to you again."

Now the key word here is the noun klesis which is correctly translated “calling”, providing that you understand that it means an invitation or a vocation.
 

a possessive genitive in the Greek which should literally be translated, “belonging to” that upward call or station.

A vocation is a regular occupation, especially one for which a person is particularly suited or qualified.
It is also an inclination to undertake a certain kind of work; here it is your calling.

EPH 4:1
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,

God the Father as the author of the divine plan known as grace.
All members of the human race enter the plan of God by means of Jesus Christ, who is the only Savior.

As we go through those so-called mundane times in life, that is really the time when God is silently at work in your life behind the scenes without you even knowing about it.

PSA 46:10
"Be silent and know that I am God;

EXO 14:14
"The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent."

PSA 46:10
"Be silent and know that I am God;

EXO 14:14
"The Lord will fight for you while you keep silent."

PSA 62:1
My soul waits in silence for God only; From Him is my salvation.

REV 8:1
And when He broke the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven for about half an hour.

EPH 4:1
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, entreat you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,

1. As a part of that upward call or your vocation in life, you are called to have personal fellowship with TLJC,
1CO 1:9.
 

Even in life, superficial relationships weaken the spirit.
Superficial relationships can hold back one’s relationship with God according to 2CO 6:14-17, 1PE 4:3-4.
 

2. As a part of that upward call or your vocation in life, you are called to participate in His kingdom, 1TH 2:12.

1TH 2:12
Walk in a manner worthy of the God who calls you into His own kingdom and glory.
 

LUK 17:21
"For behold, the kingdom of God is within you."
 

LUK 13:20-21
"To what shall I compare the kingdom of God? It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three pecks of meal, until it was all leavened."
 

3. As a part of that upward call or your vocation in life, you are called to experience eternal life, hopefully in time, absolutely in eternity, 1TI 6:12.
 

4. As a part of that upward call or your vocation in life, you have been called out of darkness into His marvelous light;
1PE 2:9.
 

1JO 1:7
but if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.
 

Living in the calling of the one who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light is so precise and penetrating that it reveals your slightest faults.
 

These are the believers who do not live in those three arrogant skills, self-justification, self-absorption, and then self-deception.