Not all will come to the Throne

[Vine Abider]

To him who overcomes I will give the privilege of sitting down with Me on My throne, as I also have overcome and have sat down with My Father on His throne. (Revelation 3:21 WNT)

We all have resurrection Life if we are joined to Christ as Resurrection, but there is something more than that; there is resurrection power, which carries us eventually (if it has its full outworking) to the Throne, and not all will come to the Throne. It is: “to him that overcomes.” Caleb, like Paul, and Paul, like Caleb, stood against the more general course of things amongst the Lord’s people. The majority were content with going so far as to the inheritance, possessing so much, and there staying and settling down. An unfinished course, a curtailed spiritual advance, an accepting of something less than what God had appointed and intended. The majority took that course, but Caleb was never content and he stood against the majority just as he had always stood against a majority that did not represent God’s full mind....

Spiritual leadership always involves loneliness. That is the cost of it. The overcomers will always be, so far as the larger Christian world is concerned, a lonely company, having to go on, with few able to follow. Caleb could not accept the popular voice, his heart was too set upon the Lord. He wholly followed the Lord, not the popular and general standard of Christian life. We may say that Caleb was the very embodiment of all that God meant the whole people to be. When you see Caleb you see what God wished all Israel to be, but all Israel did not come to the standard of Caleb. But the Lord gets in a Caleb the satisfaction of His heart. The Lord realizes His full thought in a Caleb, in the same way as He does in a Paul.

(By T. Austin-Sparks from: Filled Unto All the Fullness of God - Chapter 14)

[D. Adrien]

Are you describing monastery life?

[Vine Abider]

10 minutes ago, D. Adrien said:

Are you describing monastery life?

Eh?

[Mr. M]

7 minutes ago, D. Adrien said:

Are you describing monastery life?

 

18 minutes ago, Vine Abider said:

Caleb, like Paul, and Paul, like Caleb, stood against the more general course of things amongst the Lord’s people.

Paul like Caleb did not lead a monastic life. On the contrary, they both were fully sold out to serving both the Lord and His people. This can truly be a lonely lifestyle indeed. You can add David and Samuel to that list, among others.

[Mr. M]

Just now, Vine Abider said:

Eh?

Referencing loneliness was my assumption.

[D. Adrien]

Yes, I was referencing the loneliness and the idea that very few have any interest in pursuing the things of God so diligently. They certainly are out of this world!

[Mr. M]

23 minutes ago, Vine Abider said:

To him who overcomes I will give the privilege of sitting down with Me on My throne, as I also have overcome and have sat down with My Father on His throne. (Revelation 3:21 WNT)

We all have resurrection Life if we are joined to Christ as Resurrection, but there is something more than that; there is resurrection power, which carries us eventually (if it has its full outworking) to the Throne, and not all will come to the Throne. It is: “to him that overcomes.” Caleb, like Paul, and Paul, like Caleb, stood against the more general course of things amongst the Lord’s people. The majority were content with going so far as to the inheritance, possessing so much, and there staying and settling down. An unfinished course, a curtailed spiritual advance, an accepting of something less than what God had appointed and intended. The majority took that course, but Caleb was never content and he stood against the majority just as he had always stood against a majority that did not represent God’s full mind....

Spiritual leadership always involves loneliness. That is the cost of it. The overcomers will always be, so far as the larger Christian world is concerned, a lonely company, having to go on, with few able to follow. Caleb could not accept the popular voice, his heart was too set upon the Lord. He wholly followed the Lord, not the popular and general standard of Christian life. We may say that Caleb was the very embodiment of all that God meant the whole people to be. When you see Caleb you see what God wished all Israel to be, but all Israel did not come to the standard of Caleb. But the Lord gets in a Caleb the satisfaction of His heart. The Lord realizes His full thought in a Caleb, in the same way as He does in a Paul.

(By T. Austin-Sparks from: Filled Unto All the Fullness of God - Chapter 14)

Number 14:24 But My servant Caleb, because he has a different spirit in him and has followed Me fully, I will bring into the land where he went, and his descendants shall inherit it.

Joshua 14:

13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as an inheritance. 

14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day, because he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel.

Not only did Caleb have that different spirit, but by his Hebrew wife Ephrathah, he established the lineage that traces directly to King David, who reigned for 7 years in Hebron, and was from Bethlehem Ephrathah, the city of our Lord's birth. 

I have sought to have that same spirit of Paul, David, and Caleb. It is found here.

John 12:25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

[D. Adrien]

41 minutes ago, Vine Abider said:

But the Lord gets in a Caleb the satisfaction of His heart. The Lord realizes His full thought in a Caleb, in the same way as He does in a Paul.

 Let us remember King David was a man after God's own heart, Jesus saying somewhere that he would sit him on a throne ruling over all of Israel in the Kingdom of God.

[Vine Abider]

2 hours ago, D. Adrien said:

Yes, I was referencing the loneliness and the idea that very few have any interest in pursuing the things of God so diligently. They certainly are out of this world!

Lonely goes along with not being a friend of the world  I think.  Don't you feel a certain loneliness or disconnect around believers, in that I you fit in too well with them? 

[D. Adrien]

I fit fine in small groups of 3 or 4, anything larger and I get anxious. I haven't attended a Church since the late 80s. I encountered a rough patch of me sinning and falling away for perhaps 10 years. Jesus sought me out and led back into the fold.