Section 14
life and life supply, to the end that we be one with Him to express what He is, and that He be glo rified in us and with us. This is the eternal goal of God's selection. It is also our eternal destiny.
This portion of the Word also unfolds the climax of our usefulness to God, which is not to be used by Him as servants, priests, and kings, but as vessels to contain Him and express Him. If we are to be used as God's vessels, surely He has to be one with us. We are His container and His expression; He is our content and our life. He lives in us that we may live by Him. He and we, we and He, eventually will be one both in life and in nature. This is the goal of His selection according to His sovereignty. It is also our des tiny according to His selection, a destiny which will be fully revealed in the New Jerusalem.
Verses 25 and 26 are quotations from Hosea which confirm the fact that some Gentiles have been selected and called by God to be His people.
Verses 27 through 29 are quotations from Isaiah which confirm the fact that not all Israel was selected, but that only a remnant of them, a seed kept by the Lord, was saved.
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH
God's selection is also by the righteousness of