II Corinthians 4:5-7
"For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake. For God, Who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ. But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us."
June 23rd
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life." John 5:24
To enter this CALLED OUT and CHOSEN flock [of the 60-fold] is indeed a privilege. Perhaps the password at its portal could be said to be: DESIRE for Jesus. We must not forget that this category implies BIRTH INTO THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD. The person must not merely be willing, but must YEARN for "adoption" by Jesus Christ. HE has constituted us FREE MORAL AGENTS. This INDIVIDUAL RIGHT He will under no circumstances abrogate; thereby is He prevented from "saving" people against their own will. IF "in the world" and "OF the world" and FOR the devil a person prefers to be, THAT must continue to be his inalienable RIGHT. Therefore did I say that A VEHEMENT DESIRE TO BE JESUS' is, perhaps, that surest password at the veil to the Holy Place where abode a Levitical Priesthood. The name Levi means `ADHESION.' That is: such adhere or CLING to God: they want to be His. THIS rings the bell for the Holy Spirit, who, seizing A FLAMING SEED from Jesus' body, SPEAKS IT into one's soul-structure. THAT is the "GIFT of God": you have then been "born into His Kingdom": You are A CHILD OF THE KING and shall forever that remain. In that sense you are "saved," but more correctly "preserved." To you, then, applies His statement: "He who HEARS My Word, and believes Him Who sent Me HAS EONIAN LIFE, and shall not come into judgment but IS PASSED FROM OUT OF THE DEATH INTO THE LIFE" (Jn. 5:24).
That is, your soul-body has received an engrafted, deathLESS LIFE-SEED (I Pet. 1:23) which shall withstand the ravages of sin and the onslaught of TIME through ages unending, neither shall you ever come into condemnation before God. YOU ARE HIS SON OR DAUGHTER; YOUR FATHER DEALS WITH YOU FROM TIME TO TIME. And that God-ward aspiring, holy vortex within your soul, will reorganize and remold your soul-structure to conform more and more to the pleasure of His Will, even to the extent that LIVING HIS WILL becomes like "a fire in your bones."
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