Showing posts with label prize. Show all posts
Showing posts with label prize. Show all posts

Friday, 10 April 2009

The high calling of God in Christ Jesus

Dutch version / Nederlands > De hoge roeping van God in Christus Jezus


“Accordingly, I am pursuing [the] goal of the prize of the upward calling of The God incorporate in Christ Jesus.” (Php 3:14 MHM)
“Do all of you not realize that those persons running in a stadium all run, but really only one [runner] receives the prize? Continue to run so that you might attain [the prize].” (1Co 9:24 MHM)
“Consequently, having left the basic teachings of the Christ, may we pass along to perfect maturity, not laying a foundation all over again of [“elementary principles”] –repentance from dead works, faith in God,” (Heb 6:1 MHM)
“For we are the [true] ‘Circumcision’ –those rendering holy worship by God’s Pneuma–boasting with regard to Christ Jesus, and not having a fleshly confidence.” (Php 3:3 MHM)
“But, we are aware that the synergy of The God is for the good of those loving The God, to those who have been invited according to His purpose. Because whomever He foreknew He also marked out in advance that they be conformed to the image of His Son that he might be the Firstborn of many brothers. Now whomever He marked out in advance He also invited. Those He invited these He also pronounced innocent; and those whom He pronounced innocent, these He also glorified.” (Ro 8:28-30 MHM
“So that He might make known His glorious riches upon vessels of mercy prepared in advance for glory– us, whom He called not only from among the Jews but also from the non-Jews.” (Ro 9:23-24 MHM) “Because, God will not change His mind regarding His charitable gifts and His invitation.” (Ro 11:29 MHM)
“He is the One who saved us and invited us with a holy calling–not according to our works, but rather according to His own purpose and unmerited charity. This He gave to us in union with Christ Jesus before times immemorial.” (2Ti 1:9 MHM)
“to continue walking in a worthy manner before The God who invited you into His own Kingdom and Glory.” (1Th 2:12 MHM)
“However, we feel obligated, brothers, beloved of YHWH, to continually thank The God in your behalf, because He selected all of you originally leading to salvation through being sanctified by the Pneuma and your belief in the Truth. He invited all of you to this by reason of the Good News, so that all of you may attain the glory of our Master Jesus Christ.” (2Th 2:13-14 MHM)
“In response to the above, holy “brothers” –partakers of a heavenly calling–thoughtfully consider Jesus, the Apostle and High Priest of our confession.” (Heb 3:1 MHM)
“Blessed be The God and Father of our Master Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy, has [given us] a New Genesis unto a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading inheritance. [This hope] is reserved for you in the Celestialum” (1Pe 1:3-4 MHM)
“Because of this fortify the strength of your mental determination. Remain completely sober. Persist in your Hope of unmerited favor until [the] Revelation of Jesus Christ.” (1Pe 1:13 MHM)
“However, having suffered yourselves for a brief period, The God of every unmerited favor–the One who invited all of you to His endless Glory incorporate in Christ–He will train all of you, He will fix all of you firmly, He will make all of you strong.” (1Pe 5:10 MHM)
“for life and godliness has been freely granted us all things by the divine dynamics of the One who called us to His own glory and virtue by an elevated acquaintance,” (2Pe 1:3 MHM)


Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal



"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal;
nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."
- Thomas Jefferson

"I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."
Philippians 3:14

My Lord and my God, I keep the eye focused not on the visible but on the invisible,
on your hopeful promise.

Let me have the right mental attitude for reaching the right goal.


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