God’s
calling is not only according to His predestination but also according
to His purpose (Rom. 8:28b; 2 Tim. 1:9a). His purpose is His plan according to His
will to place us into Christ, making us one with Him to share His life and
position that we may be His testimony. According to such a purpose, such a
plan, God predestinated us in eternity past and called us in time.
God’s
calling is in Christ (1 Pet. 5:10).... He called us in Christ as the sphere. “In
Christ” also indicates that the God of all grace has gone through all the
processes of incarnation, human living, crucifixion, resurrection, and
ascension to accomplish the complete and full redemption, that He may
bring His believers into an organic union with Himself . Thus they
may participate in the riches of the Triune God as their enjoyment. Christ, who is the embodiment of the Triune
God (Col. 2:9), has become the allinclusive , life-giving Spirit (1 Cor. 15:45b;
2 Cor. 3:17) as the bountiful life supply to us (Phil. 1:19b). It is in
this Christ, through His all-inclusive redemption and based upon all His
achievements, that God can be the God of all grace to call us into His eternal
glory, and to perfect, establish, strengthen, and ground us in the Triune God
as the solid foundation, thus enabling us to attain to His glorious goal.
God’s calling is that He may bring man out of darkness
into His marvelous light (1 Pet. 2:9b).... Darkness
is a sign of sin and death; it is the expression and sphere of Satan in death. The
fact that mankind is in darkness proves that mankind is under the authority of
Satan and dead in offenses and sins (Eph. 2:1). When God comes to call man, He
opens man’s eyes and turns man from darkness to light and from the authority of
Satan to Himself. Light is a sign of
righteousness and life; it is the expression and sphere of God in life. To be
turned to God means to be turned to the authority of God, which is God’s
kingdom of light. God has called us that He may deliver us out of the
death-realm of Satan’s darkness into the life-realm of God’s marvelous light.
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