Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling.
2 Timothy 1:9
"THE apostle uses the perfect tense and says, "Who hath saved us."
Believers in Christ Jesus are saved.
Salvation is not a blessing to be enjoyed upon the dying bed,
but a matter to be obtained and enjoyed now.
This complete salvation is accompanied by a holy calling. Those
they leave their sins;
they endeavor to be like Christ; God neither chose them nor called them because they were holy, but He called them that they might be holy, and holiness is the beauty produced by His workmanship in them.
Salvation must be of grace, because the Lord is the author of it: and what motive but grace could move Him to save the guilty?
Such is the believer's privilege—a present salvation; such is the evidence that he is called to it—a holy life."
Charles Spurgeon
