| Re: Who Can Make Their Calling and Election Sure [message #548 is a reply to message #375] |
Tue, 26 June 2012 08:47   |
kenh
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Registered: June 2012
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Thank you for having me here at this forum. One of the criteria needed is following the voice of Christ fully. The Light of Christ is His personal revelations to us to guide and direct us back into His presence. When we "hearken unto His voice", we show our determined obedience to the Father's will. This allows us to have the Holy Ghost to be with us. Reaching for mighty prayer is another essential part of the criteria that helps us on our path. Learning to pray in the Spirit will draw us closer to God and ask for things that we would not normally ask for from God. Seeking for forgiveness first by asking the Father for Christ to approach the throne of God to act as our Mediator and Advocate, which is what He promised us he would do, but we must ask for it to happen, (Ask and ye shall receive), then, once we are filled with the sanctifying power of the Holy Ghost, He will testify that our sins have been forgiven. Then we while filled with the Spirit of God, the Holy Ghost will prompt us to ask for those things that will add to our knowledge and understanding beyond our own abilities as mortals. This is what is meant to "rejoice in the truth". Only Christ can cleanse us of the natural man. There is a difference between being forgiven of sins and cleansed of all sin. Forgiveness of sin is a temporary pardon from having our mistakes condemning us before God. But if we repeat the sin then the condemnation returns. Being cleansed of all sin is where through the complete application of the Atonement of Jesus Christ we are redeemed from the fall and the desire to sin has been removed from us. We have thus accelerated to the end of our personal probationary state while still in this life. This is when we have our calling and election made sure. Through the grace of Our Lord, Jesus Christ, he has made as "just men". He will then, with the use of the Second Comforter, become our personal tutor to prepare us for us to be made perfect. 
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