Choice

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A 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

Malachi 1:2–3 ESV

“I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have you loved us?” “Is not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob but Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

See also Ro 9:10–15; Ex 33:19; 1 Co 1:27–28; Jas 2:5

God’s chosen people

Israel

Deuteronomy 7:6 ESV

“For you are a people holy to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the face of the earth.

See also Ex 19:4–6; Dt 14:2; Ps 65:4; Is 14:1; Is 41:9; Je 3:14

NT believers

Ephesians 1:4 ESV

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love

God chooses people for special tasks

Exodus 3:10 ESV

Come, I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.”

See also 1 Sa 9:17; 1 Sa 16:1–13; Hag 2:20–23; Mk 3:13–19; Ac 9:10–15; Ga 1:15–16

God chose where he was to be worshipped

Deuteronomy 12:5 ESV

But you shall seek the place that the Lord your God will choose out of all your tribes to put his name and make his habitation there. There you shall go,

See also Dt 12:11; Dt 12:14; Dt 12:18; Dt 12:26; Dt 14:23; Dt 16:2; Dt 16:6–7; Dt 16:11; Dt 16:15–16; Dt 26:2; Dt 31:11

People must choose between good and evil

Jos 24:15; Pr 16:16

See also Ex 32:26; Dt 30:19; 1 Ki 18:21; Pr 3:31; Pr 8:10; Jn 7:17

Examples of bad choices

James 4:4 ESV

You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

See also Pr 1:28–33; Is 65:12; Is 66:3–4; Mt 27:21

Examples of wise choices

Hebrews 11:24–26 ESV

By faith Moses, when he was grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to be mistreated with the people of God than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.