… (and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) … – John 1:14
And who are these-the “we” to whom the apostle here refers? They were first of all an elect company, for Jesus said, “I know whom I have chosen;” “Ye have not chosen Me, but I have chosen you.” He came unto His own, and His own received Him not; but they who did receive Him are described as men who were “born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.” The elect in Christ’s day, though they were but a small remnant, nevertheless did exist…There were twelves and seventies, and afterwards we read of three thousand, and then of many others who were added to the Church of such as should be saved. In Christ’s own day, however, the lines of manifest election seemed to be but very narrow, for there were but few that followed Him, and of those who followed Him it is said, many from that day went back and walked no more with Him; for His truth had sifted the mere professors, and reduced them but to a slender company who followed the Lamb whithersoever He went. The “we,” then, who “beheld Christ’s glory,” were a chosen company.
They were also a called company, for of many of them we read their special calls. Of John himself we read, that Jesus walked by the sea and “saw other two brethren, James the son of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father mending their nets; and He called them. And they immediately left the ship and their father and followed Him.” Of most of the apostles and immediate attendants upon Christ’s person we have a record of their divine and special call by Christ’s own voice; and in the case of those respecting whom there was no record preserved; yet was it, nevertheless, the fact, for He had called them as the shepherd calleth His own sheep by name and leadeth them out. Indeed, in all of us who shall at any time perceive Christ’s glory, it must be because He has called us unto this special privilege as the result of His election of us thereunto…”Blessed art thou, for flesh and blood hath not revealed this unto thee.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon
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He Hath Said 
January 6, 1850: Charles Spurgeon, who would become one of the most renowned preachers in history, converts to Christianity. Amid a snowstorm, he sought shelter in a small Primitive Methodist chapel in Colchester. There, a lay preacher delivered a simple sermon on Isaiah 45:22: “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth; for I am God, and there is none else.” Spurgeon later recounted how the preacher’s words pierced his heart, leading him to a sudden and life-changing realization of Christ’s role as Savior. He described the moment vividly: “He had not much to say, thank God, for that compelled him to keep on repeating his text, and there was nothing needed—by me, at any rate except his text. Then, stopping, he pointed to where I was sitting under the gallery, and he said, ‘That young man there looks very miserable’ . . . and he shouted, as I think only a Primitive Methodist can, ‘Look! Look, young man! Look now!’ . . . Then I had this vision—not a vision to my eyes, but to my heart. I saw what a Savior Christ was. . . . Now I can never tell you how it was, but I no sooner saw whom I was to believe than I also understood what it was to believe, and I did believe in one moment.” ~ Today in Christian History, X account
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