Chosen By God - I Am Chosen I Am Prepared For Eternity

Chosen By God

Intro:

This is the last day of our 7-Day Dawn Watch in December and we have heard many exhortations pertaining to our theme this month “I Am Chosen, I Am Prepared for Eternity.

However, I was asking God what is His intention in choosing us? Among all the creations He created, why choose us humans? Well, there is a purpose and a reason for it. He mentioned this purpose on one of His reasons of choosing us found in our text this morning in…

John 15:16 “You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.

First, I want to emphasize that we know nothing about this purpose, and that God is the One initiated this purpose to be seen in us. His purpose can be seen in 3 parts. He wants us to (1) Go, (2) bear fruit (3) maintain that fruit to last. And what will be the result in living in God’s purpose? Whatever we ask in Jesus’ name, the Father will give it!

Let us look and analyze God’s purpose of choosing us by looking at His intention.

His intention in choosing us is to…

1. Show His Mastery.

God chose us because He wanted to show His works over us for we are His masterpiece!

Ephesians 2:10 “For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

Let us compare this verse to…

Ephesians 1:4 “For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight.”

This only means that we are being chosen by God before the world began to be His mastery of good works by being holy, blameless in His sight. How can we do this? It’s because we are created according to His own image. This means that as a masterpiece, we are a mastery of His own works, for what purpose? First purpose is to Go and show the whole world that we are His great works within us!

Now if we are a masterpiece, Apostle Peter confirmed this in 1 Peter 2:9 “But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”

We are called to go and speak to others the works of God in us since we are His masterpiece!

2. Show His Miracles.

By bringing us from darkness to light is a product of God’s miracle of righteousness over us. How many times in the Bible we saw God chose ordinary men in order to be a vehicle of His supernatural powers?

We saw how Jesus chose His 12 disciples, that from being fishermen they became fishers of men. He has chosen these people in order to bring about in them a purpose – and that purpose is to put their faith in God on whatever miracles they will see. There was about 37 recorded miracles Jesus performed in the Bible from turning water into wine to the second catching of fish in the Sea of Tiberias, all of this purpose is to bear fruit of faith among His disciples.

But one notable miracle I wanted to emphasize is the healing of an invalid man in John 5:1-15.

1 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of disabled people used to lie—the blind, the lame, the paralyzed. 5 One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. 6 When Jesus saw him lying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time, he asked him, “Do you want to get well?” 7 “Sir,” the invalid replied, “I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred. While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” 8 Then Jesus said to him, “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.”9 At once the man was cured; he picked up his mat and walked.

The miracle of this story is that, Jesus is the one who chose this invalid man to be healed. He saw many of the people who have their own sickness but only this man caught the attention of Jesus. Why? Because according to the customs, since this man is invalid, he can’t go to the pool and stir it in order to get healed while others may be blind but have feet and hands to go there, same with the deaf and the mute. But an invalid man for 38 years would love to get healed and maybe spent most of his life to be on this pool so he can have a chance to get healed.