Choice
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· 24 viewsA deliberate act of will or decision, in which God chooses individuals or peoples to be his or calls them to perform certain tasks or responsibilities. Human beings are also required to make choices, particularly between good and evil.
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God’s sovereign choice
God’s sovereign choice
“I have loved you,” says Yahweh, but you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is Esau not Jacob’s brother?” declares Yahweh. “I have loved Jacob, but Esau I have hated. I have made his mountain ranges a desolation, and given his inheritance to the jackals of the desert.”
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God’s chosen people
God’s chosen people
Israel
Israel
For you are a holy people for Yahweh your God; Yahweh your God has chosen you to be for him a people, a treasured possession from among all the peoples that are on the face of the earth.
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NT believers
NT believers
just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love,
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God chooses people for special tasks
God chooses people for special tasks
And now come, and I will send you to Pharaoh, and you must bring my people, the Israelites, out from Egypt.”
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God chose where he was to be worshipped
God chose where he was to be worshipped
But only to the place that Yahweh your God will choose from all of your tribes to place his name there as his dwelling shall you seek, and there you shall go.
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People must choose between good and evil
People must choose between good and evil
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Examples of bad choices
Examples of bad choices
Adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.
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Examples of wise choices
Examples of wise choices
By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing instead to be mistreated with the people of God rather than to experience the transitory enjoyment of sin, considering reproach endured for the sake of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
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