The privileges of your calling, part 2Pastor-Teacher The privileges of your calling, part 2a. The invitation of God the Father to believe in Jesus Christ. PHI 3:14 Every believer has been given two unique royal commissions in life: The royal priesthood, 1Pe 2:5,9, in which you represent yourself before God and a royal ambassadorship, Eph 6:20, in which you represent our Lord to the world. We are to have fellowship with God the Father, 1JO 1:3 "Indeed our fellowship is with the Father," Fellowship with God the Son, 1CO 1:9 God is faithful, through whom you were called into fellowship with His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. And Fellowship with the Holy Spirit, 2CO 13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. 1. As a part of that upward call or your vocation in life, you are called to have personal fellowship with TLJC, 2. As a part of that upward call or your vocation in life, you are called to participate in His kingdom, 1Th 2:12. 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 Those who are living in the natural life have faults, but nothing is being done to enlighten them and change them. However, those who are being transformed by God have faults, faults that are like writing in the sand during a windstorm, here today, but gone tomorrow, because God is at work within them and transforming their lives. These are the believers who do not live in those three arrogant skills, self-justification, self-absorption, and then self-deception. 5. As a part of that upward call of God or your vocation in life, we are also called to participate in His sufferings, 1Pe 2:21. We must, therefore, become as a child with regard to our will toward His plan for our life. MAT 6:33 6. As a part of that calling we are called to inherit blessing, That is why encountering persecutions, and even the loss of wealth, fame or reputation, are the best instruments to unite us with Jesus Christ. PSA 46:10
8. As a part of that calling we are also called into liberty and freedom, Gal 15:13, For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
10. We are called according to a pre-designed plan designed for our glory, ROM 8:28 And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to {His} purpose. 11. We were called to receive the inheritance, HEB 9:15. HEB 9:15 11. We were called to receive the inheritance, HEB 9:15. HEB 9:15
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