CALLING AND ELECTION, Chapter 9 of Holy Priesthood Volume 2

  CALLING AND ELECTION, Chapter 9 of Holy Priesthood Volume 2  http://ogdenkraut.com/?page_id=30 Pages 72-76   We have power to make our calling and election sure, so that while we yet dwell in mortality, having overcome the world and been true and faithful in all things, we shall be sealed up unto eternal life and have the unconditional promise of eternal life in the presence of Him whose we are. The Apostle Peter, in talking to those “that have obtained like precious faith with us,” instructed: “Brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure, for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall.” (2 Peter 1:10) And in this dispensation, the Prophet Joseph instructed the saints: Now for the secret and grand key. Though they might hear the voice of God and know that Jesus was the Son of God, this would be no evidence that their election and calling was made sure, that they had part with Christ, and were joint heirs with Him. They then would want that more sure word of prophecy, that they were sealed in the heavens and had the promise of eternal life in the kingdom of God. Then, having this promise sealed unto them, it was an anchor to the soul, sure and steadfast. (TPJS, p. 298)