SATURDAY. 10-05-2025

May 10, 2025

THE CALL OF GOD.

Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall. 2Pet. 1:10

Text: 1Cor. 1:26-29, Rom. 9:6-16, 20-26; 2Tim.1:9, Rom. 8:28-30

What Happens When we Are Called ? Mk.3:14-15

  1. Watch out so that you don’t lose what we have worked so hard to achieve. 2Jn. 8, 1Cor. 2:14; 3:1-4. Man is known by his actions just as a tree is known by its fruits. Matt. 7:16-20, Phil. 1:27. The understanding of the gospel principles is for spiritual men. The natural or carnal men cannot receive the things of the spirit. There are three classes men.
  2. THE NATURAL MAN: The Adamic, unregenerated, animal man with animal passion. 1Cor. 15:44, 46, Jas. 3:14-15, Jude. 19.
    1. He has an evil nature. Gen. 6:5, 11-12, Ps. 58:3, Jer. 17:9, Eccl.9:3, Rom. 7:14-17, 18-20, Eze. 16:4-5, Tit. 3;3.
    1. He is under curse. Gen. 3:17-19.
    1. He is of the devil and under God’s wrath. Eph. 2:1-3, 12, Jn. 8:44-45, 1Jn. 3:8, 10.
  3. THE CARNAL MAN. The renewed man who remains babes and live fleshly. 1Cor.3;3; 2:14, Matt. 16:23, 1Cor. 14:20, Eph. 4:13-14, 1Jn. 2:12.
    1. He has a carnal mind. Rom. 1:28; 8:7, Eph. 4:17. He is full of carnality. Exd. 16:2-3, Num. 11:4-7, Ps.78:8, Jn. 6:26-27, 30-31. 1Jn. 2;16, Rom. 7;23.
  4. Big babes- unwilling to pay the price for spiritual advancement
  5. He lacks an obedient heart to yield and go the way of the cross. 1Cor. 3:2. Heb. 5:12-14.
  6. Walking as ordinary men. 1Cor.1:12; 3:3-5, Rom. 7:11, 13, 14, 17.
    1. He uses carnal security and weapons. Is. 28:15, Col. 2;18, Obad. 3, Is. 47:7-9, 2Cor. 10:3-5
  7. THE SPIRITUAL MAN.1Cor.2:6, Gal.6:1.
    1. He is a new man. Eph. 4:22, Col. 3:10, Eph. 2;15. He is begotten of God, with a holy appetency, new understanding, a heart of flesh and a new governing disposition.
    1. He has a new mind, the mind of Christ. 1Cor. 2:16, Phil. 2:5, Rom. 12:3, Ps. 48:9, Pro. 12:5, Phil. 4:8.
    1. He has a new life. Jn.5:24, 1Jn. 5;11-12, 1Pet. 1:3, 23; Eph. 2:1a, 4-5, 1Cor. 5;17.
  8. Building on the foundation of the Apostles. 1Cor. 3:10-12, Eph. 2:20-22, Lk. 24:15-24, 25-27, 31-32, 36-48, Act. 2:22-36; 13:15-41. The need to build on Christ teachings, the doctrines of the Apostles. The principles of Christ’s ministry and the practice of the Apostles.