PREDESTINATED CALLED JUSTIFIED
AND GLORIFIED
Brother James, OIC
Rom 8:27-39 And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God. And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified. What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us? He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
God here in these last days has been separating those who are in the Light from those who are in darkness in order to fulfill His Will and Call in their lives. It is not our jobs to save those in darkness but those called to the Light out of darkness. It doesn’t mean we are not to preach to every creature but that our preaching will only reach those predestinated for its Good News.
In the Light there is no condemnation just justification, no wrong only right, no darkness only glorification. And this only can be because we agree with Spiritual Truth. The New Testament is meant to set people free yet many brethren want to return to their past.
Gal 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Yet there are only a few that will receive the magnitude of this Liberty, those are the called and chosen who have made their call and election sure. Those that go the distance will enter into the rest that God gives in this Liberty in Christ.
Php 3:9-14 And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
1Co 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.
1Co 10:23 All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.
This Liberty of being Fully Justified and made Righteous, not because of anything we’ve done but because of Christ, can offend some. It can even cause Baby Christians to stumble. Especially if they have been raised in religious tradition and not Truth. I‘m afraid in the past in my zeal for the Liberating Truth of Gods Word that I caused someone most dear to me to go backwards. I didn't respond to the person in love and understanding to where they were in their emotions and they were offended. Our Faith can offend and we have to know when and where to share it:
Rom 14:22 Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.
In the Faith there is Liberty yet all things we do are not edifying in love and not expedient to the end result in Christ. Satan has all out warfare against those called in Christ he will do anything to get them off course of their calling. This ministry has many Labor of Christ’s Love facets and there are those called to them it requires the Fight of Faith and Standing against the wiles of the devil but the Good News is, even if you’ve spoke faithlessly, judged wrongly and fell into Satan’s trap you are still the PREDESTINATED CALLED JUSTIFIED
AND GLORIFIED IN CHRIST!
