{"id":24765,"date":"2025-04-20T23:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T23:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=24765"},"modified":"2025-04-20T23:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-20T23:11:05","slug":"called-to-the-fellowship-of-jesus-christ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/04\/called-to-the-fellowship-of-jesus-christ\/","title":{"rendered":"Called To The Fellowship Of Jesus Christ\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cGod is faithful, by whom ye were called to the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ.\u201d\u20141 Corinthians 1:9<\/strong><\/p>\n

While we entertain a notion of a God out of Christ, it affords no comfort to the mind to hear of God\u2019s faithfulness. Nay, if we were not blind to our state, as sinners, the thought would fill us with dread and horror. For how awful, how terrifying is this declaration from a faithful God: \u2018I will by no means clear the guilty.\u2019 Ex. 34:7. But \u2018we know that the Lord our God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.\u2019 Deut. 7:9. This is the life of poor sinners, the joy of their hearts. For whenever one reads of the \u2018covenant,\u2019 it reminds of Jesus the surety, the mediator, of God in Christ, the God of love, our reconciled God and Father. We have no immediate access to the Father but by his Son Jesus Christ. When called into fellowship, intercourse, familiarity, and sweet converse with Jesus by faith, then we have free access to the Father\u2019s throne of grace, and his heart of love. We glory in his great and precious promises, and triumph in his declarations of faithfulness and truth.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The faithfulness of God is the foundation of all present grace, the security of future glory. Many weak disciples are perplexed with dark and disturbing thoughts in this matter. Their hearts are not carried up to rest in the love of the Father, where all is serene and quiet; but they rest below, in the regions of doubts and fears, storms and clouds. Their souls may be exercised, and often distressed; but they are safe, because called to the knowledge of, faith in, and fellowship with their elder Brother Jesus. This is by the love of the Father, through the power of the Spirit. And God is faithful to his covenant, to his Son, to his people, to his own word to them, and his work in them. \u2018For whom he calls, them he also glorifies.\u2019 Faithful to support them under all present dejections of mind and sinking of spirits; faithful to preserve them in all times of danger, and to give them living comforts in a dying hour.<\/p>\n

Now, oh believer, thou art called to honour the faithfulness of thy God, by trusting in his word of truth; glorying in his promises of grace at all times.. Yea, at thy worst of times and frames, even when sense, reason, feelings, and appearances are all against thee, then the Lord is for thee. \u2018The Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from all evil.\u2019 2 Thess. 3:3. Faithful \u2018to confirm you unto the end, that you may be blameless in the day of the Lord Jesus.\u2019 1 Cor. 1:8<\/p>\n

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While we entertain a notion of a God out of Christ, it affords no comfort to the mind to hear of God\u2019s faithfulness. Nay, if we were not blind to our state, as sinners, the thought would fill us with dread and horror. For how awful, how terrifying is this declaration from a faithful God: \u2018I will by no means clear the guilty.\u2019 Ex. 34:7. But \u2018we know that the Lord our God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.\u2019 Deut. 7:9. This is the life of poor sinners, the joy of their hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":20656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1571],"tags":[1197],"class_list":["post-24765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-mason","tag-spiritual-growth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24772,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24765\/revisions\/24772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}