Chosen People

Chosen People

 

All who believe in Christ are adopted.

Your father the devil would not take care of you;

So God offered to adopt you.

  Ever had a standing invitation…

Where someone loved you so much they told you,

you were welcome anytime?

The thing about that invitation is

you have to leave your place

to get to their place.

God loves you so much

He has given you a standing invitation.

But you have to leave your place.

He chose you because He loves you and

He predestined you to be holy and blameless.

You and I have to accept the invitation.

Jesus said it this way…

Many are invited but few are chosen.

We see God called the children of Israel

His chosen people.

Why?  Because God saw in Abraham a man

who wanted what God had created him for.

But even though God made a promise to Abraham

that they would be His chosen people,

they did not all accept the invitation.

6 It is not as though God's word had failed.

For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.

7 Nor because they are his descendants

are they all Abraham's children.  Romans 9:6-7 NIV

16 But not all the Israelites accepted the good news.

For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed our message?"  

17 Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message,

and the message is heard through the word of Christ.

Romans 10:16-18 NIV

The invitation given to Israel has also been given to us… 

an invitation to be adopted.

 In love He predestined us to be adopted

as His sons through Jesus Christ,

in accordance with His pleasure and will—

Ephesians 1:4-5 NIV

God says to us who received the invitation…

 “… you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood,

a holy nation, a people belonging to God…”

Remember we were chosen with a purpose.

“…that you may declare the praises of Him who

called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.”  

1 Peter 2:9 NIV

Many people chose God for what He can do for them.

But God chooses a people for what they can do for Him.

Thank God, He loved us so much He was willing to adopt us.

Do we love Him enough to bring

Him pleasure and fulfill His will?

Scripture Reading

Matthew 22:1-14 NIV

22:1 Jesus spoke to them again in parables, saying:

2 "The kingdom of heaven is like

a king who prepared a wedding banquet for his son.

3 He sent his servants to those who had been invited

to the banquet to tell them to come, but they refused to come.

4 "Then he sent some more servants and said,

'Tell those who have been invited that I have prepared my dinner:

My oxen and fattened cattle have been butchered, and everything is ready.

Come to the wedding banquet.'

5 "But they paid no attention and went off —

one to his field, another to his business.

6 The rest seized his servants, mistreated them and killed them.

7 The king was enraged.

He sent his army and destroyed those murderers and burned their city.

8 "Then he said to his servants,

'The wedding banquet is ready, but those I invited did not deserve to come.

9 Go to the street corners and invite to the banquet anyone you find.'

10 So the servants went out into the streets

and gathered all the people they could find, both good and bad,

and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

11 "But when the king came in to see the guests,

he noticed a man there who was not wearing wedding clothes.

12'Friend,' he asked, 'how did you get in here without wedding clothes?'

The man was speechless.

13 "Then the king told the attendants,

'Tie him hand and foot, and throw him outside, into the darkness,

where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.'

14 "For many are invited, but few are chosen." 

Deuteronomy 7:5-11 NIV

 6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God.

The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples

on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession.

7 The LORD did not set his affection on you

and choose you because you were more numerous than other peoples,

for you were the fewest of all peoples.

8 But it was because the LORD loved you

and kept the oath he swore to your forefathers

that he brought you out with a mighty hand

and redeemed you from the land of slavery,

from the power of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

9 Know therefore that the LORD your God is God;

he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love

to a thousand generations of those

who love him and keep his commands.

10 But those who hate him he will

repay to their face by destruction;

he will not be slow to repay to

their face those who hate him.

11 Therefore, take care to follow the commands,

decrees and laws I give you today.

1 Peter 2:9-10 NIV

9 But you are a chosen people,

a royal priesthood, a holy nation,

a people belonging to God,

that you may declare the praises of him

who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.

10 Once you were not a people,

but now you are the people of God;

once you had not received mercy,

 but now you have received mercy.