Praise The Lord Everyone!!! Happy Sunday!!! ✝️❤️😊
In Ephesians 1:3-14 we find Paul announces the dedication of our salvation. In verse 18 he prays that we’ll understand those great truths, which he encapsulates in the phrase ” the confident hope he has given to those he called.”
The word “Calling” here describes God’s efficacious calling—the calling that liberates the soul. The scripture speaks of two types of calling: the gospel or universal call and the efficacious or precise call. The gospel call is given by men and is a common call to repent and trust Christ for salvation (*1). It goes out to every sinner but everyone that hears it doesn’t react in faith.
The efficacious call is given by God only to the elect. Those that are chosen God speaks to their soul, permits protective faith and leads select sinners into salvation (*2). Beloved, all who receive it react in faith.
The optimism in your powerful calling that inspires is built and justified on the foundation of God’s promises and Christ’s accomplishments (*3) and is exemplified by boldly anticipating yet unwearyingly expecting those promises to be implemented. It’s your hope of decisive veneration and of revealing God’s glory when Christ returns. (*4). It’s a resource of intensity and constancy during the trials of life (*5). And as a result, it should provide you with joy (*6) and motivate you to godly living (*7).
Have a Blessed Sunday Everyone. ✝️❤️😊
Let Us Pray
Dear Heavenly Father, thank You for Your redemption. This morning I ask that You continue to emphasize in my mind the blessings and assignments You have presented to me as I continue to live in expectation of Christ’s impending return. In Jesus’ name, I pray, Amen and Amen.
Beloved, life is very short. It comes and goes like an unannounced gust of wind. None of us know the hour or day when that gust of wind will enter our earthly room and blow out our candle. So, reach out and touch the ones that need your agape, dissolve the divisions among you, continue to encourage one another, be united in the same mind, the same reasoning and continue to build one another up.
I LOVE YOU ALL!!! Have a fantastic Sunday. ✝️❤️😊
CHOF Ministry Bible Reference:
*1. Matt. 28:19, Acts 17:30-31
*2. John 6:37- 44, 65, Acts 2:39
*3. 1 Pet. 1:3
*4. Col. 3:4
*5. 1 Pet. 3:14-15
*6. Rom. 5:2
*7. 1 John 3:3