Called AND/OR Chosen

“Many ~ARE~ Called, BUT Few ~ARE~ Chosen”… (Matthew 22:14) (V’s 2-13) Tells of a king who invited guests to a marriage for His Son… BUT! The ones who received the invitations made light and turned away… The King said to HIS servants, “The wedding *IS* ready, but ~they~ which ~Were Bidden~ *Were NOT Worthy*”… “Go into the highways and as many as ye shall find bid to the marriage”… BUT! The one that came in without a wedding garment was cast out into outer darkness…
This sorta gives us a lesson in what the LORD God our Heavenly Father, Expects of HIS children that are invited, ~called~ into HIS Kingdom, and what happens to those which try to enter in still wearing their own filthy rags of the world.. We have something to do besides accepting the invitation.. We must put off the filthy rags of the world and walk in the path that Jesus Said, that we should walk in.. AND we gotta read the Bible, Gods Book of Instruction that HE Had penned down for us to follow and learn from, to remember HIS Commandments, and Statutes and ~~APPLY~~ them to our lives…. Jesus doesn’t forcefully take our filthy rags of the world off of us, that *IS* our place to remove them *IF* we would be washed IN The blood of the Lamb… AS Jesus SAID: IN:
(Revelation 3: 4) .. To the angel of the church in Sardis .. “Thou hast a ~few names~ in Sardis which have ~NOT~ defiled their garments: they shall walk with Me in white: ~For they ARE Worthy~~”…
*IF* we can defile our garments, then we must be aware that our walk *IS* somewhat up to our choice or decision… What we do does reflect on our eternal status… Whether we obey or disobey makes a big mark on our eternal path.
(Revelation 7:14) .. “These ~ARE~ they which came out of the great tribulation, and ~Have Washed~ their robes, and made them white in the ~Blood of The Lamb”..
Jesus doesn’t wash us, He made the way, gave the offer, that we can wash ourselves, and wash ourselves we ~Must~ in the blood of The Lamb, Jesus Christ, The Son OF God THE FATHER… IF we will spend eternity in The Father’s Kingdom, under The Rulership of Christ The King of kings and Lord of lords….
Sorta like teaching a child to wash himself! Jesus gave us the ~Blood~ Cleansing Element, IT IS up to us to climb into the tub and let *IT* flow over us freely leaving ~ALL the filth outside of the tub… letting *IT* be washed down the drain, BUT IT Must no longer be upon us as a part of our lives… Thus we ~~Prove~~ ourselves Worthy of a *Sanctified* walk with Christ… NOT BY our ~Boasting~ of our sanctification, but by our showing IT Through our life walk.
Many are strolling through this life in the belief that Jesus does the washing and all we gotta do IS play along with, and in the world and Jesus has got us and won’t let us fall to sin no matter what we do…This results in a mirrored image OF: a raised nose with eyes focusing down at the pointed end of self in the world… Because God So Loved the world that HE gave HIS Only Begotten Son…(John 3:16) BUT Read ON!
(Isaiah 1: 16-20)… “Come Now, and let us reason together,” saith The LORD: “though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow;… *IF* ye ~Be Willing~ & ~obedient~… BUT! *IF* ye refuse and rebel ye ~shall BE~ devoured with the sword: FOR The Mouth OF THE LORD hat spoken *IT*.” AND Paul reaffirmed *IT*: IN:
(Titus 1:1-3).. “According ~TO The Faith~ OF God’s elect, AND The acknowledging of the *Truth* which *IS* After Godliness: IN Hope of eternal life, *Which, God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began*, BUT! IN due times ~Manifested~ HIS Word through *Preaching*… Which *IS* committed unto me according TO: The Commandment of God, our Savior”….
SO those that are teaching the Bible IS NOT the way we have to live because IT IS The old law and now we only walk by what the Spirit tells us, may NEED to re-think their positions of calling… or being chosen… Because there are many spirits that lead, with subtle urgings, voices that whisper in your ear, thoughts sent to your fleshly minds, AND *IF* they can’t be verified by Gods Written Word, then something IS Amiss…
(I John 4:1) … “Beloved, ~Believe NOT~ every spirit, BUT try the spirits whether they be of God, …. HOW Many times DID Jesus Speak OF: “AS IT IS Written,” in reference TO: the writings of things that God The Father would have HIS children to know, remember, understand, verify……
(Ecclesiastes 1:9) … There *IS* No ~NEW~ thing under the sun…. (Romans 12:2) …
(I Peter 1:16) … ~Because~ *IT IS Written* … “Be ye holy; for I am holy”… &
(I Corinthians 1:31) .. According *AS IT IS Written* he that glorieth, let him glory IN The Lord….
(Romans 1:17) … FOR Therein IS the ~Righteousness~ OF God ~Revealed~ from faith to faith, *AS IT IS Written*, The just shall live by faith…. Where IS IT Written that we should testify of ourselves how saved we are, what glory have we because we are of the called and elected to? Judas was called & chosen, was he not? AND Jesus said:
(John 2: 24-25) … Jesus did not commit Himself, because He Knew ~ALL~ men… AND Needed NOT that any should testify ~OF man~: For He Knew what was in man…
(John 6:70)… “Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you IS A devil”?
(Acts 1:25) … Judas ~By~ transgression fell….
AND SO! Those that have need TO verbally praise themselves as the elect of Christ, fall short in glorifying The Father and The Son, but are by, a fleshly spirit putting the glory upon themselves… Whereby *IF* we truly ~ARE~ of the elect IT WILL BE Very visible in our speech, our manner of walk through this life…BECAUSE THE Glory OF God Will Be manifested in our being… NOT In fair speech of lifting up ourselves… Where IS That ~humble obedient spirit~ That The LORD states in HIS Written Word, one must possess? Which *IF* we have thoughts in our minds that we have ~Risen Above~ The Instruction that God the Father had penned down and preserved for us to follow, then we have an urgent need to ask ourselves, “By what ~spirit~ ARE we led?” Attitude of gratitude or Arrogance of pride?
(James 4:6) …God ~Resisteth The *Proud*~, BUT Giveth ~Grace ~ unto The humble… (8) .. Draw neigh TO: God AND HE Will Draw Neigh to you… (9)… Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; & purify your hearts, ye double minded… Sound like we got something to do?
Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall… (Proverbs 16:18)
Our ~Commission~ given us BY God’s Son, Jesus Christ, before He returned unto His Father in Heaven ~WAS TO~: “Go forth and teach ~ALL~ nations Baptizing them in the Name OF: The Father, And OF The Son, And OF The Holy Ghost, *Teaching them whatever things I (Jesus) have commanded you*”…(Matthew 29:19-20) NOT presenting a message of ourselves as something special, called out, chosen, we got IT you ain’t attitudes, before a lost and dying world, that sorta puts us into the category OF: Theudas, boasting himself to be ~somebody~ (Acts 5:36) & (Romans 3:27) .. States .. Where *IS* ~Boasting~ then? *IT IS Excluded*. By what law? OF works? Nay: BUT BY The Law OF Faith! So we must faithfully present ourselves, humbly and obediently preaching and teaching, THE Message OF: our Savior AND our Father‘s Kingdom!
ARE we following an ~Attitude~? OR: ARE we humbly following the path of righteousness, through Jesus Christ, God’s Only Begotten Son? AS IN The days of Joshua!… “*Chose* ye this day, whom ye will serve” .. (Joshua 24:15)