Going to Jesus

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  03-01 You Are Dead! 03-02 “The Great Commission” 03-03 “Clanging Cymbals” And Other Questions 03-04 Eunuchs 03-05 Becoming 03-06 Drunkenness 03-07 Loving Pleasure 03-08 Knowledge 03-09 As An Intruder 03-10 “Come!” Not “Go!” 03-11 “He’ll Get Out!” 03-12 Religion Without The Holy Ghost 03-13 Influence 03-14 No Holy Places 03-15 Better Things Than That Of Abel 03-16 If You Have A Doubt About It 03-17 How To Achieve Unity 03-18 The Old And The New 03-19 How To Know You Are Saved, Part One: “When The Wicked Are Cut Off” 03-20 How To Know You Are Saved, Part Two: Not Flesh And Blood 03-21 How To Know You Are Saved, Part Three: When You Are Eternally Beautiful 03-22 How To Know You Are Saved, Part Four: “His Salvation Is With Him” 03-23 How To Know You Are Saved, Part Five: When You Can Sing That Song 03-24 When Did God Turn It Over? 03-25 “In” Versus “Inheriting” The Kingdom Of God 03-26 “Have You Become Like Us?” 03-27 Working All Things Together 03-28 But Are You Prepared? 03-29 Heavenly Creatures 03-30 There Are No Commandments For God 03-31 “A Confederacy!”

 

Thought for the Evening
3-10

“COME!” NOT “GO!”

From a sermon by Preacher Clark at Grandma’s farmhouse, February 21, 1970

Whenever God calls a person, He calls him to Himself. He is not calling him to an organization, nor to a doctrine, and certainly not to any ceremony. It is extremely important that we know this:

WHEN GOD CALLS US, HE CALLS US TO HIMSELF.

I have seen sincere people, upon feeling the convicting call of God, go “join a church” or go enroll in a seminary, or go become a nun. But God never calls anybody to go join anything or to go become anything; all those kinds of decisions are made in the flesh, through ignorance. Whenever God calls, He says, “Come!” not “Go!” because what He is doing is calling us to Himself.

Secondly, it is extremely important to know, as Paul plainly taught (Eph. 2:18), that access to God is possible only by the Spirit. There is no other way for us to get to God but by His Spirit.

So, if when God calls us, He calls us to Himself, and if our only access to God is through the Spirit, we can say without any fear of contradiction that when God calls us, He is calling us to repent and to receive His Spirit!

This is what Preacher Clark meant when, during that wintry Sunday afternoon prayer meeting, he made this strong point: “God has never called any person except to receive the holy Ghost.”

Amen!