MYSTICAL_EXPERIENCES
The Call and Incorporation into the Body of Love
The Call is a predestined, individual, and purifying experience where God incorporates each person into His single 'Body of Love' or 'Eternal Temple.' This…
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Predestined Glory
Everyone will be called. Everyone will be incorporated into this one body, for “There is only one body, one spirit, one Lord, one God and Father of all.” (Ephesians 4:4-6) Each will be called in his own good order. No one can tell me that he feels himself fit for the Kingdom of Heaven. There is not one man in the world – by man, I mean generic man – that thinks himself so good that he thinks he is worthy of it. No one can tell me honestly he thinks himself worthy of it. So, forget it when someone tries to scare you into believing you’ve got to make an effort beyond the effort that you have made in order to qualify for the Kingdom, for fitness is the consequence, not the condition, of His glory. When He fuses us, He has already made the choice at the beginning. “Before the foundation of the world, He chose us in Him” (Ephesians 1:4) – then sending us into this world of horror. This is a world of horror, a world of death, and we pass through all the furnaces of experience in this world, and while we are in it, we are called. At the very moment of being called, the embrace purifies you – at that very moment. Now, the body of flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven, so I was not in this body when I stood before His presence. I was in a spirit body, but I was conscious of being Neville. I was conscious of being all that, as a man called “Neville,” I thought I had done. I wasn’t proud of my 24 years on this earth. I had done many things of which I was ashamed, and yet, in spite of all the things I had done in 24 years, He still called me, for at that moment in time that one stone was necessary. He is rebuilding His temple. The temple has been shattered purposely, deliberately, and we are the fragmented parts of that temple. And the parts go through all the furnaces of experience in this world, and He knows exactly what stone He wants now, at this moment. And He calls that stone. It’s a person – it’s you! And He is calling you to glorify you, but He glorifies you with Himself.
The Call is a predestined, individual, and purifying experience where God incorporates each person into His single 'Body of Love' or 'Eternal Temple.' This incorporation is not based on human merit but on God's prior choice and purpose, made 'before the foundation of the world.' The embrace of the Call instantly purifies the individual, fitting them for the Kingdom of Heaven, regardless of their past actions in the world of flesh and blood.