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2 tim 1:
9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
There is something of a mystery regarding the salvation of the people of God, and this mystery is revealed in the gospel.
Paul calls the gospel a mystery,lets look at eph 6:
19And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
20For which I am an ambassador in bonds: that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.
I believe Jesus speaks of the gospel as being a mystery as well in matt 13:
11He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
This kingdom gospel mystery, is that which shall be preached as a witness to all nations before the end comes, and my i add, right at the end, becaus it has been sorely neglected..
Matt 24:
14And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.
Now as we go back to the text, something of a mysterious nature is revealed in vs 9
9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began
It reads who hath saved us and called us. Please note the order here. it is written in a order not common to how we articulate salvation. That is we normally say and think of being called and then being saved, as a result of being called. But here we are said to be called because or a result of being saved..
This is the order from the Divine Mind, because the gospel finds its origin In God. Lets look at rom 1:
1Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God
Again the emphasis is the origin of this Gospel, and the perspective of this One who originated This Gospel. Its a eternal, everlasting Gospel perspective..
rev 14:
And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people
Its from everlasting to everlasting, as the Lords covenant mercy is, ps 103:
17But the mercy of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear him, and his righteousness unto children's children;
In Gods Mind , who views things and calculates things from a unique eternal perspective , declares his chosen ones saved.
He has already accepted of the covenant blood of christ on their behalf, for he christ , from His perspective christ was slained from the foundation of the world. rev 13:
8And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. or we can say since the world began. I believe the blood was accepted God way before the world began, but i will save that for another post.
Now this being true, the redemptive benefits of the blood are a reality in Gods Mind.
Some of the benefits in Gods Mind of the blood of christ, slain from the foundation of the world:
eph 1:7 forgiveness
eph 1:7 redemption
rom 5:9 Justification
I will stop here and there will be a part 2, and we will continue on the subject, the call of the saved..

beloved57

As we continue, on the theme , The call of the saved, we were looking at a few of the blessings from the blood of christ, that God viewed as benefits for the elect IN HIS ETERNAL MIND before the world began, or from the foundation [ The beginning] of the world.
The elect have redemption by the blood of christ. To redeem something means to :
a releasing effected by payment of ransom
a) redemption, deliverance
b) liberation procured by the payment of a ransom
The election of grace has been released from captivity, by the payment of a ransom, they have been delivered..
Jesus message is
lk 4:
18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
Amen, Jesus has by his blood delivered those he died for from the captivity of the devil.
2 tim 2:

25In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 26And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.
This means, those held in spiritual darkness and ignorance being captive by the devil, will come to experience the reality of the power of the blood of christ, delivering them from satans captivity..
Christ will open up the eyes of their understanding..
So they no more will beieve a lie, but the truth as it is in christ Jesus..
Secondly, in the blood of christ is forgivenss of sins..
Forgiveness is =
aphesis which means:

release from bondage or imprisonment
2) forgiveness or pardon, of sins (letting them go as if they had never been committed), remission of the penalty
All those for whom christ shed His blood have forgiveness of sins, no penalty to pay..
The third blessing, is Justification by his blood.
The word for justified as in rom 5 9
is
dikaioô which means:
to render righteous or such he ought to be
2) to show, exhibit, evince, one to be righteous, such as he is and wishes himself to be considered
3) to declare, pronounce, one to be just, righteous, or such as he ought to be
To be declared pronounced righteous because of the blood of christ..
These blessings In the Mind of God occured in eternity, premised on a in time event, the cross of calvary, yet because Gods view of events occur in one simutaneous whole outside the relm of time, In His Mind, the in time event and all its attending blessings to those attended, has already transpired in His Mind, though not as yet in the minds of those to whom are to experience them in time..
But the gospel of God to which I am called to preach, sets forth the gospel from Gods perspective, therefore,
The gospel call is to them that are saved, the power of God.
lets look at 1 cor 1:
18For the preaching of the cross[ The gospel] is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.
The foolishness is because, those perishing, the non elect, the children of perdtion..cannot understand or recieve the Gospel from Gods eternal perspective, its absolutely foolishenss to them..
But to the saved and to the called it is the power of God..
1 cor 1:

23But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; 24But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom of God.
Notice how 2 tim 1 9
9Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began,
is used by paul to express the same eternal truthes in 1 cor 1 18,and vs 24..
The gospel, The gospel of God, is a call to those who are saved in the Mind of God, because of the blood of the cross..

Boanerges

Amen x 10!

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Brother Lawrence