The High Calling Of God/pdf - B. Keith Chadwell

“The High Calling of God”

©B. Keith Chadwell

From: High Country Ministry Podcast, Episode 13 Saturday, May 21st, 2011

The Kingdom or Government of Heaven is at hand, now. Now... we are “new creations” in
Christ and members together, growing up in Him, even unto the stature and measure of
Christ. Members now, of God the Fathers family or household, even though it may not
yet fully appear what we shall be.

In the old culture or “old creation”, we see in Genesis, chapter 11:
“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.” We see; Man in the “old
creation” came into unity, united in a common language and in purpose, bent on making a
name for......”themselves” !!

Therefore, God's solution to this problematic behavior, for that time, is recorded in
Genesis 11: verses 6-9

“And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this
they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have
imagined to do. Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they
may not understand one anothers speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from
thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is
the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the
earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the
earth.”

In summary; the latent power of the unregenerate soul of man in the earth under evil
spiritual influence, is self centered and self serving and when united together with
others of like minds and influence, nothing will be restrained from them, which they
have imagined to do.

However, in the “new creation” in Christ Jesus, God turned over to His people “a PURE
language”, a language not birthed of the soul, but birthed of the Spirit. This Pure
language is for the express purpose of being able to call upon the Name of the Lord and
to SERVE Him with ONE CONSENT.

Zephaniah 3:9“........For then will I turn to the people a pure language, that they may all call
upon the name of the Lord, to serve him with one consent.”

“To Serve”....speaks of coming under the government of the King in His Kingdom or
dominion within us. “With ONE consent” speaks of unity of mind and purpose, in Christ
Jesus by the Holy Spirit.

Now, in the “new creation”, the Spirit is poured out from on high, upon believers, and
God now writes His laws on the hearts of His people. Not on stone tablets or in books.
God's “new creations” are to speak with a new pure language, motivated not from the
soul of the old creation, but from the washed and regenerated hearts of God's “new
creation” believers. Those who are now of like Spirit with Jesus and God the Father.
Those whom Jesus made the way possible to become partakers of God's divine nature
by the work of the Holy Spirit within them. Those “new creations” in Christ from whose
hearts are continually under divine influence; Then, united in spirit and purpose under
ONE KING.

God said; of the old creation that because of their unity of purpose, nothing would be
restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.
This speaks of the power of the unregenerate soul under evil spiritual rule, when united
together with others of like minds and spiritual influences,

How much more, now, for those who are “in Christ” and are a “New Creation” in Christ
Jesus? “Old things have passed away, and all things are become New”.

Is it such a wonder then, that Jesus would say to His “new creation” :
“If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it
shall be done unto you.”
Carefully note here in John 15:7, the word “IF” which makes Jesus statement totally
conditional;
“IF My words, abide in you.... If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall
ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you.”

His words must abide in us, not our old creation words.
In the old creation, words spoken from the unregenerate Adamic Soul were destined to
produce only death in the end.

Now we are called to come up higher.....To the High Calling of God, in Christ Jesus.

We are New Creations in Him.

His words are Spirit and life. His words, from our Heart, from a new nature or
character, birthed of the divine, not of the flesh. It is from here the Pure language
our new Spirit man, will produce Life.
As the scripture says in Pro 18:21
“Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit
thereof.“

Yes, we do reap what we sow. Words sown from the seat of our Adamic Soul or Words
sown from the seat of our washed and regenerated hearts in Christ.

Today, we seek to enter into that place of manifest perfection in Christ, which we now
may be able to see more clearly and which is promised, in Christ, for God's “new creation”.
Yet, even those “in Christ” who are “new creations”, often cling to some of the ways and
words of “the old Creation” Some might say that the metaphor or type of this might be;
“remaining in or not coming out of Babel” or “Babylon”. This, I suppose, happens in part,
when we continue to choose to use ideas and words generated from our Adamic soul and
not our New Creation Spirit.
New creation believers still must choose the words of life. Even the choice the Lord
speaks of in Psalms 81:

...“I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt:
open thy mouth wide, and …I will fill it. But my people would not hearken to my
voice; and Israel would none of me. So I gave them up unto their own hearts' lust: and
they walked in their own counsels. Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and
Israel had walked in my ways! I should SOON have subdued their enemies and
turned my hand against their adversaries.”

From the book of Jude.

Jud 1:17-20 (Contemporary English Version) My dear friends, remember the warning
you were given by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. They told you that near the
end of time, selfish and godless people would start making fun of God. And now these
people are already making you turn against each other. They think only about this life,
and they don't have God's Spirit. Dear friends, keep building on the foundation of your
most holy faith, as the Holy Spirit helps you to pray.

The pure language of the Spirit that Zephaniah spoke of; is generated from the
cleansed heart of believers who speak not the words out of the soul of our old Adamic
creation, but rather, speak words of life from the “new creation” heart or Spirit of a
true member of the household of God.

When believers come to full maturity in Christ and He is fully manifest in us or is
fully apparent in us we will be like Him. Always, speaking the words, from the heart that
Jesus would speak to accomplish only the will and purposes of the Father.......

...In the meanwhile; the Holy Spirit is available to help us, always, speak in accordance
with the will of God and circumvent our partial knowledge, weaknesses or infirmities, if
you will, of the flesh; until that day that Christ is fully manifest in us.

So, we need not wait for manifest perfection, for even now, if we will permit Him, the
Spirit will make intercession, using our lips, in accordance with the will of God, when we
know not what to pray.
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For after all, now we are new creations in Christ and members together growing up , even
unto the stature and measure of Christ. Members now, of God the Fathers family or
household, even though it may not yet appear what we shall be.

Joh 14:20 At that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you.

This is the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

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