God is love, life, truth. He is just, righteous, wise. Full of mercy, compassion, and grace. The Lord Jesus is the perfect radiance and representation of God, and he disclosed many unfathomable things of God. So we learn about, and learn to love and trust a wonderous God, a good God, the only living God, mighty in word and deed!! Amen. Thank you Father and Lord Jesus, for faithful teachers/preachers of your glorious word by your Spirit!!!
This is amazing. God's calling is manifold. Called from death to life. Paul will show in ch. 3, called into ministry. Oh the riches of Christ, they truly are unsearchable!
What we get through grace at God's calling is the necessary faith (that we dont have)to believe per Eph 2.8/9. So now that calling is defined as justification/spirit rebirth/gift/OSAS then who are the chosen because many are called but few are chosen? Romans 8.30 leaves out sanctification because that's our choice, and the inheritance comes through sanctification per Acts 20.32/26.18. So we are encouraged here to go on to sanctification (we are not God's elect at this point) per ! Thes 4.3.
you talked about justification then glorification, how to understand sanctification for the elect/called to new life in Christ , how do I live a sanctified life as a justified sinner who has been made new in Christ?
Abide in Christ! None of us can do anything apart from Christ. We must abide in the vine. Stay praying, stay seeking him in the quiet place, stay hungry and thirsty for God. Ask for the Fear of God. Ask him for the willingness to humble yourself so that he can be exalted in your life. Ask him for wisdom! God bless you!
John Piper says that the act of God's calling IS God's raising us to life. I would prefer to say that the act of God's calling LEADS TO God's raising us to life. See in Rom 8:10 how Paul says: 'Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.' (CSB) See in Rom 8:10 how life is given BECAUSE OF righteousness. And we know that gaining righteousness is justification. So this verse seems to quite strongly imply that justification leads to gaining spiritual life. But in Rom 8:30 Paul says: '. . . and those he called he also justified . . .' Rom 8:29-30 has a logical (and in some respects temporal) sequence, so Rom 8:30 is saying that calling leads to justification. So Rom 8:30 has calling leading to justification, and Rom 8:10 seems to have justification leading to gaining spiritual life. So, putting these 2 verses together, it makes sense to say that calling leads to justification, which in turn leads to gaining spiritual life. Therefore, calling leads (via justification) to God's raising us to life.
Paul did not say ALL those whom He called are justified. Also, God did not foreknow us or predestine us individually before the foundation of the earth. God prepared a bus with Jesus as the driver and in the fullness of time when we--the humble kind--heard the Gospel we were born-again and took our seat in the bus. As long as we abide in the bus we are safe.
Rom 8:30 strongly implies that all those called are justified. And 1 Cor 1:23-24 implies that 'those who are called' all respond to Christ in faith. I think elsewhere in the Bible 'calling' is used in a different sense, but in these verses all those who are called are justified. You are also mistaken about individual predestination. For example, Acts 13:48 says: 'When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and honored the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.' This implies individual predestination. I should note that saying that all who are called are justified and that we are individually predestined does not mean that Calvinism is necessarily correct. These ideas would fit just as well with Molinism and Lutheranism.
@@calebmotupalli Yes, long time. It's good to chat to you again. Sometimes in the NT a single Greek word has a different concept in one passage than it does in another. If you look in any modern English dictionary, you will see that the vast majority of words have multiple meanings, and the same was true of Greek in the first century. For example, the concept of faith (Greek: pistis) in Rom 3:28 is not the same as the concept of faith (same Greek word: pistis) in James 2. Similarly, in Matt 22:14 the concept of calling is not the same as the concept of calling as mentioned by Paul. The calling referred to by Jesus is a much broader concept than Paul's. In fact, some English translations have 'invited' rather than 'called' in Matt 22:14. So it is an interpretive mistake to see (rightly) that calling/invitation in Matt 22:14 applies to more than just those who are saved, and to then conclude that the same must be true when Paul talks about calling.
To all Christians Many of you will NOT enter Heaven. Jesus DIDN'T die so you can continue to sin. Children of God DO NOT continue to sin. (1 John 3:9 GNT "Those who are children of God DO NOT continue to sin".) You're not a child of God if you haven't stopped sinning you're a sinner. Sinners will not enter heaven. Jesus saying ["but the one who DOES the will of my father who is in heaven"] reveals you have to do something to enter heaven. That something is the will of the father. The will of the father is STOP SINNING. Stop sinning or you will be cast into HELL. If you have stopped continue to not sin.
God says it's not you that work in you .If you go on believing your work saves you , then you are not believing in christ's completed work. You are believing in a different gospel . what we are doing is already planned for us. it's a response . Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. He's the one works in you . Eze 36:27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules. if we mess up we have a high priest.
@@9fsh713 Even if you sin and DON'T repent you will still "GO TO HEAVEN". That is how sure your calling is. The issue here is the most prized thing that is offered through sanctification (that requires repentance) and that is the inheritance per Acts 20.32/26.18. This is what scripture is all about, not maintaining your gift/spirit rebirth/justification.
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Indeed, God calls us to our calling and good works that He predestined.
Dead men don't walk, we are alive thanks to mercy and grace.
Thank you Jesus!
God is love, life, truth. He is just, righteous, wise. Full of mercy, compassion, and grace. The Lord Jesus is the perfect radiance and representation of God, and he disclosed many unfathomable things of God.
So we learn about, and learn to love and trust a wonderous God, a good God, the only living God, mighty in word and deed!! Amen.
Thank you Father and Lord Jesus, for faithful teachers/preachers of your glorious word by your Spirit!!!
This is amazing. God's calling is manifold. Called from death to life. Paul will show in ch. 3, called into ministry. Oh the riches of Christ, they truly are unsearchable!
thank You, Lord for calling me . You gave me life..🙏🙏🙏
Jesus is king🙏😇✝️🛐❤️
Thankyou for preaching this sermon.
Amen brother Jesus is coming back soon repent before it’s to late🙏😇✝️🛐❤️
So beautiful
Only God can bring dry bones to life!
Amen Powerful
AMEN.
What we get through grace at God's calling is the necessary faith (that we dont have)to believe per Eph 2.8/9. So now that calling is defined as justification/spirit rebirth/gift/OSAS then who are the chosen because many are called but few are chosen? Romans 8.30 leaves out sanctification because that's our choice, and the inheritance comes through sanctification per Acts 20.32/26.18. So we are encouraged here to go on to sanctification (we are not God's elect at this point) per ! Thes 4.3.
you talked about justification then glorification, how to understand sanctification for the elect/called to new life in Christ , how do I live a sanctified life as a justified sinner who has been made new in Christ?
Abide in Christ! None of us can do anything apart from Christ. We must abide in the vine. Stay praying, stay seeking him in the quiet place, stay hungry and thirsty for God. Ask for the Fear of God. Ask him for the willingness to humble yourself so that he can be exalted in your life. Ask him for wisdom! God bless you!
By faith. I don't think this is an oversimplification. It is by faith that we walk out sanctification in this life.
John Piper says that the act of God's calling IS God's raising us to life.
I would prefer to say that the act of God's calling LEADS TO God's raising us to life.
See in Rom 8:10 how Paul says:
'Now if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit gives life because of righteousness.' (CSB)
See in Rom 8:10 how life is given BECAUSE OF righteousness. And we know that gaining righteousness is justification. So this verse seems to quite strongly imply that justification leads to gaining spiritual life.
But in Rom 8:30 Paul says:
'. . . and those he called he also justified . . .'
Rom 8:29-30 has a logical (and in some respects temporal) sequence, so Rom 8:30 is saying that calling leads to justification.
So Rom 8:30 has calling leading to justification, and Rom 8:10 seems to have justification leading to gaining spiritual life. So, putting these 2 verses together, it makes sense to say that calling leads to justification, which in turn leads to gaining spiritual life.
Therefore, calling leads (via justification) to God's raising us to life.
Define life, when does this happen? Hint: it more than calling.
Paul did not say ALL those whom He called are justified.
Also, God did not foreknow us or predestine us individually before the foundation of the earth. God prepared a bus with Jesus as the driver and in the fullness of time when we--the humble kind--heard the Gospel we were born-again and took our seat in the bus. As long as we abide in the bus we are safe.
Rom 8:30 strongly implies that all those called are justified. And 1 Cor 1:23-24 implies that 'those who are called' all respond to Christ in faith.
I think elsewhere in the Bible 'calling' is used in a different sense, but in these verses all those who are called are justified.
You are also mistaken about individual predestination. For example, Acts 13:48 says:
'When the Gentiles heard this, they rejoiced and honored the word of the Lord, and all who had been appointed to eternal life believed.'
This implies individual predestination.
I should note that saying that all who are called are justified and that we are individually predestined does not mean that Calvinism is necessarily correct. These ideas would fit just as well with Molinism and Lutheranism.
Hi @@maxaplin4204, its been a long time since we chatted.
I am thinking of Jesus' words in Mt22:14: "Many are called, but few are chosen."
@@calebmotupalli Yes, long time. It's good to chat to you again.
Sometimes in the NT a single Greek word has a different concept in one passage than it does in another.
If you look in any modern English dictionary, you will see that the vast majority of words have multiple meanings, and the same was true of Greek in the first century.
For example, the concept of faith (Greek: pistis) in Rom 3:28 is not the same as the concept of faith (same Greek word: pistis) in James 2.
Similarly, in Matt 22:14 the concept of calling is not the same as the concept of calling as mentioned by Paul. The calling referred to by Jesus is a much broader concept than Paul's.
In fact, some English translations have 'invited' rather than 'called' in Matt 22:14.
So it is an interpretive mistake to see (rightly) that calling/invitation in Matt 22:14 applies to more than just those who are saved, and to then conclude that the same must be true when Paul talks about calling.
To all Christians
Many of you will NOT enter Heaven. Jesus DIDN'T die so you can continue to sin. Children of God DO NOT continue to sin. (1 John 3:9 GNT "Those who are children of God DO NOT continue to sin".) You're not a child of God if you haven't stopped sinning you're a sinner. Sinners will not enter heaven. Jesus saying ["but the one who DOES the will of my father who is in heaven"] reveals you have to do something to enter heaven. That something is the will of the father.
The will of the father is STOP SINNING.
Stop sinning or you will be cast into HELL. If you have stopped continue to not sin.
God says it's not you that work in you .If you go on believing your work saves you , then you are not believing in christ's completed work. You are believing in a different gospel . what we are doing is already planned for us. it's a response .
Eph 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
He's the one works in you . Eze 36:27 And I will put my Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes and be careful to obey my rules.
if we mess up we have a high priest.
Read Galatians and get some more prospective there!!!!
Didnt you read the Bible? You can sin but if you repent you WILL still go to heaven
@@9fsh713 Even if you sin and DON'T repent you will still "GO TO HEAVEN". That is how sure your calling is. The issue here is the most prized thing that is offered through sanctification (that requires repentance) and that is the inheritance per Acts 20.32/26.18. This is what scripture is all about, not maintaining your gift/spirit rebirth/justification.