Our physical life is blessed in “common,” with all of God’s created human beings.  We receive blessings and cursing from our natural surroundings and our opportunities of life.  This is “Common Grace.”  All other “special” blessings are for all created human beings who are the called of God and received in Christ.  As such we have our salvation through His finished work on Calvary, His imputed righteousness, and His imputed sanctification, all come under “Special Grace.”  Also, for all of us who are under special grace, we also are under our Father’s discipline.  Only those under special grace receive personal discipline from God, all others are disciplined by their circumstances of life, whether good or bad.  For all who are under special grace, there is also the fact of our being gifted with the Holy Spirit, which empowers us to overcome our personal circumstances of life and to enable us to excel in all of the works that God has foreordained we should walk in.  This personal relationship with the Spirit continually assures us that we are the called of God, the adopted ones into the family of God and that nothing can separate us from God. 

 

I have said all of the forgoing to bring us to the very central and important fact, that all of those under Special Grace are members, of the Kingdom of Christ and are foreordained as such, to increase the physical longevity of their bodies.  This increase in longevity of our physical bodies also indicates that the breadth and scope of our foreordained works will also increase.