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Monday, May 10,
2010
Chosen
John 15:16-19 Ye have not chosen me, but
I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth
fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of
the Father in my name, he may give it you. (17) These things I command you,
that ye love one another. (18) If the world hate you, ye know that it hated
me before it hated you. (19) If ye were of the world, the world would love
his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of
the world, therefore the world hateth you. (KJV)
Strong’s definition for ‘chosen’:
1586
eklegomai (ek-leg'-om-ahee); middle voice from 1537 and 3004 (in its
primary sense); to select: KJV-- make choice, choose (out), chosen.
Have you ever heard someone make the
statement “I found God”? Well, when you really stop and think about it, the
question is “was God lost”? Did you actually find God when you were reborn
into His realm, or was it God that found you when you called out to Him in
a humble contrite manner? The reality is that there is a big difference
between who man calls and ordains, and those that answer the calling of our
Lord. Those who God calls know their ordination is Spiritual, not some
piece of paper that man gives out. Remember the letter kills; it’s in the
realm of the Spirit which is where you will find life.
1John 2:15-17 Love not the world, neither
the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of
the Father is not in him. (16) For all that is in the world, the lust of
the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the
Father, but is of the world. (17) And the world passeth away, and the lust
thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever. (KJV)
Those that are truly chosen of God do not
seek the Lord in the outward realm, or what is described as the world. The
chosen people that God ordains are not concerned with titles like Rabbi,
Reverend, or any other things that man has dreamed up and concocted. The
real chosen of God seek to please Him, and Him only; while the people
pleasers and ear ticklers will find themselves at the back of the line of
applicants.
1John 4:1-3 Beloved, believe not every
spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false
prophets are gone out into the world. (2) Hereby know ye the Spirit of God:
Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of
God: (3) And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in
the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye
have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. (KJV)
There is a simple way to know the calling
of those many that have heard the call but did not respond in Spirit, and
according to truth. Those that do not have an understanding of the doctrine
of Christ are seeking their evidence of God’s existence in the outward
realm, promising people liberty when they are still the servants of
corruption.
1John 4:4-6 Ye are of God, little
children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you,
than he that is in the world. (5) They are of the world: therefore speak
they of the world, and the world heareth them. (6) We are of God: he that
knoweth God heareth us; he that is not of God heareth not us. Hereby know
we the spirit of truth, and the spirit of error. (KJV)
Those that God has chosen to deliver His
message of truth are seeking the things above, not the things down here in
this fallen realm. Those that God truly has chosen will be looked at and
thought of as being a bit peculiar, not like all the other worldly
religious people who profess to know God but in works or lifestyle deny
Him. Do you know your calling today, and are you responding the way that our
Lord intended and chose for you to answer, in Spirit and in truth?
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