The Church Series - Part One - The Clear Call To Salvation
Writer Author Sylvia Huffnagle
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If the call to salvation were made clear, what God promises in Jeremiah 32 would be accomplished in the church.
Jer: 32:37-42: Behold, I will gather them out of all countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my fury, and in great wrath; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely: 38: And they shall be my people, and I will be their God: 39: And I will give them one heart, and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them: 40: And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me. 41: Yea, I will rejoice over them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole soul. 42: For thus saith the LORD; Like as I have brought all this great evil upon this people, so will I bring upon them all the good that I have promised them.
Some might say that scripture is for the Jews, but I say, Hebrews 8: 10-13 shows that it is for all those who qualify for the covenant.
Hebrews 8: 10-13: For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, and write them in their hearts: and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people: 11: And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest. 12: For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. 13: In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
This is a very valid and important point. Look what the church is supposed to have;, be, and do. Preachers are forever preaching unity. Some preachers preach obedience. If Christians had heard and received a clear call to salvation, these things would be a given. The church would be in harmony with God and one another.
The clear call to salvation is a call to repent of doing things our way and is a call to turn to God’s ways. God’s ways are laid out in the Bible.
In the call it should be clear that the person is answering God’s call to be reconciled to Him and this means that He will be father to them from then on and they will be His child. This relationship is build on love and trust.
This call changes everything. The recipient becomes a new creature. A new creation--old things are passed away and all becomes new.
Why? Because the person is born again of the Spirit of God. He or she has been given a new heart as spoken of above and is from that day forth to follow their new heart.
How? By reckoning their old nature to be crucified. They no longer do what their carnal nature dictates, but they do what God would have them do because they are born again and have His Spirit. Romans 6-8
Some will say, we’ve heard all this before. What is the purpose of this article? The purpose is to proclaim that when one comes to Christ or gets saved or however you put it that they have been bought with a price and being an obedient child is not a option, it is a requirement.
I am not teaching that if one misses the mark that they lost their salvation, I am teaching that a child of God has covenanted to be taken care of by Him, and to be raised by Him, and to trust and obey Him, and to respond to His Word because they have a new heart.
The new heart does not want to obey the flesh and die. The new heart wants to learn from God, be led of the Lord, do righteousness and live forever.
© Sylvia Huffnagle
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