"Called. Chosen. Faithful."
1. The Call of God
2. The Cost of the Calling

"These shall war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings; and they also shall overcome that are with him, called and chosen and faithful." Revelation 17:14.

There is a sense in which these three words represent a graduation from one plane and sphere of probation to another. While we may be "chosen in Him before the foundation of the world," it is also true that in the matter of trusted service and honoured intimacy with God the choice is from those who "make their calling and election sure."


God's Faithfulness to Us in His Son
1. God's Faithfulness Based Upon His Love For His Son
2. The Father's Attitude To Us in His Son
3. Faithful to Conform to the Image of His Son
4. Faithful in Leading Into Afore Prepared Good Works
5. Faithful in Fulfillment of Vocation
6. The Ground of Rest

"God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord".

That comprehensive statement means that God's faithfulness is based upon His love for His own Son; His faithfulness to us is because of His faithfulness to Him. Because of the fellowship with His Son into which He has called us, we enter into that faithfulness. That means much. It raises the very big question - which question, of course, we ought never to entertain - as to whether the Father would ever be unfaithful to His Son. We have a fairly solid block of Scripture to establish the nature of the relationship between the Father and the Son, and the Father's estimate of the Son, which would certainly lead us to rule out any such question as to whether the Father would ever be unfaithful to the Son, would ever fail Him, would ever go back upon any promise to Him. That, of course, is unthinkable.