The Faithful

The Called, the Chosen and the Faithful - The Making of a Disciple. 
3. The Faithful.

SAVED BY GRACE THROUGH FAITH: 
The Faithful are those who by complete confidence in God and His word, obey God's Call on their lives to be set apart. 

They have a witness in their spirit that they have indeed been chosen, and as a result, work out their own part of the privileged covenant God has given them, with fear and trembling, by faith in the one who has promised that He will keep them to the end.

Our Faithfulness is all about keeping our own end of the covenant by doing what we are supposed to do, when we are supposed to, propelled by faith in God's Word concerning usas in Ephesians 2: 8 to 9, which says: 

8. "For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith---and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God - 
9. not by works, so that no one can boast."

TIME:
As with everything that concerns our short sojourn on this earth, God's call is time bound as in, Isaiah 55:6, where we are admonished thus: 

"Seek the Lord while he may be found; call on him while he is near."
We can ill-afford to put off God's call on our lives and risk our destinies been truncated abruptlyby the ancient enemy of our souls as in verse 7.

FAITHFUL OBEDIENCE BY PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP: 
In Mark 4: 11, unlike the crowd that also heard, when Jesus was alone, the Twelve and the others around him asked him privately about the parables he had been telling them and the reply of Jesus was, “The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables."

How unfortunate the crowd that formed the majority of the people Jesus had spoken the parables to were at the end of the day not faithful enough to ensure they understood God's Word so that they may take it to heart, obey it and be blessed by it as a result.

What Jesus meant by what he said was that, the secret of the kingdom of God, that is theunderstanding of the parable he had spoken of that they may be able to apply heavens principles in their lives - on earth, can only be given to those on the inside, those who chose to be his disciple, and therefore make the extra sacrifice to go the extra mile to privately seek him for interpretation.

FAITHFUL WORKS: 
For us to be Faithful, we need to purposefully ensure that we keep working out our salvation with fear and trembling by faith in His word.

Finally, in Joshua 1:8, it is written, 
"Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful."

This all too important scripture can be paraphrased and Itemised thus to expansiate on what we need to do to be faithful stewards of the covenant God has called us into: 

1. Keep confessing Gods law, 
2. meditate on it always that 
3. it may empower you to be careful to obey it to the letter, and 
4. you will live a fulfilling life in prosperity and success as a result of your faithfulness.

Understanding God and His living Word gives birth to Faithfulness. 
Shalom