Effectual Calling (4)

Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers of the heavenly calling, consider the Apostle and High Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus; - Hebrews 3:1

    Those who are “the called” are a people who have been called by almighty, irresistible grace out of darkness into light, out of bondage into liberty, out of turmoil into peace, out of enmity into the fellowship of God’s dear Son, and out of sin unto holiness. In Galatians 1:6, we are told that God has also called us…

    Into The Grace Of Christ.

    "I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel." We have been call by the grace of Christ. We have been called by the instrumentality of the gospel of the grace of Christ. We have been called into the blessed experience of the grace of Christ. We have been called to be partakers of and to enjoy all the blessings of the grace of Christ.

    Salvation is, in its totality, a matter of pure, free, sovereign, unconditional, immutable grace. Let sinners rejoice! The salvation of our souls does not depend upon the works of our hands, the emotions of our hearts, the feelings we have, or the feelings we lack, or even the exercise of our wills. “Salvation is of the Lord!” He who has called us by his grace has called us…

    Unto His Kingdom And Glory.

    "That ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto his kingdom and glory" (1 Thess. 2:12). Believer, God has called you to a glory which is a kingdom. He has called you into the possession of the kingdom of grace here, a kingdom which can never be taken away from you. And he has called you to inherit a kingdom of glory hereafter. “The Lord will give grace and glory.” This kingdom and the glory of it are not things we earn, but gifts of God’s free grace in Christ. This kingdom and glory to which he has called us is an everlasting kingdom and everlasting glory. We have been called by the grace of God “To the obtaining of the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ” (2 Thess. 2:14), and obtain it we shall (Col. 3:4).

    All who are called are “called in one hope of their calling” (Eph. 4:4). All who are called have the same “promise of eternal inheritance” (Heb. 9:15; 1 Pet. 1:3-4). All who are called are called to and have been given the same glory for their eternal inheritance (John 17:22)

    Here is a call which falls from the lips of the Son of God himself. May God the Holy Spirit will make it irresistibly effectual to all who read these lines by his almighty grace. This is indeed “the heavenly calling”. May God make you a partaker of it, for Christ’s sake. "Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.” Come to Christ, and he will give you rest. Take the yoke of Christ upon you, learn of him, and you shall find rest for your soul. His yoke is easy, and his burden is light.