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Being Chosen
1 Peter 2:9-10
Online Sermon:
http://www.mckeesfamily.com/?page_id=3567
I remember when I was a young boy, I often got up early
Saturday morning to go to the lake to play hockey.
A crowd of
youth would quickly form and prepare the ice for what would be
some rather rough but exhilarating time of skating, passing the
puck, checking, and rooting one another on to what hopefully
would be a glorious victory.
Once the ice was ready the two best
players were assigned
captains whose first
task was to take turns
picking members for
their teams.
I dreaded
this greatly for who
wanted to pick the one
who skated like a
drunken sailor stepping
off a Tilt-A-Whirl
spinning
at
warp
speed?
When a captain picks a person to be on their team, do
they not choose the most skilled person first?
For example, if
one was to choose a person to join one’s baseball team would not
one jump at the chance to get a person that has the baseball skills
of Babe Ruth or Ty Cobb?
If one was to choose a person to join
one’s football team would not one first, choose a person that has
the football skills of Jerry Rice or Jim Brown?
If one was to
choose a player to join one’s hockey team would not one’s first
pick be the person who plays hockey like Wayne Gretzky or
Mario Lemieux?
And if one was to choose a person to join one’s
Texas Scramble team would not one first choose a person that
plays golf like Tiger Woods, Jack Nicklaus, or our very own
Mike Fahey?
The reason why people get picked to be added to
groups is usually because they have something special of value
to add to the group.
The way in which God chooses people to be part of His
kingdom servants is not based on their human abilities or status.
God chose an occasional drunk man Noah to build an ark.
God
chose the 100-year-old man Abraham to become the father of a
great nation.
God chose a conniver and supper-controller Jacob
to be called Israel.
God chose a shepherd boy, adulterer, and
murderer to be king of Israel.
God chose a fear-driven wimp
Gideon to lead His army.
God chose the prostitute Rahab to
provide refuge for the Israelite spies scouting Jericho and to be
part of Jesus’ lineage.
God chose a tax
collector of Rome
Matthew to be one of
His twelve disciples.
God chose a small boy
to provide the five
loaves and two fish
used in the feeding of
the 5,000.
God chose
a persecutor of His very own Son Paul to be an apostle and
spread the Good News to the Gentiles!
To be a kingdom servant
and do great things in Jesus’ name does not require human but
divine abilities.
In writing to the church of Corinth Apostle Paul
said, “not many of you were wise by human standards; not many
were influential; not many were of noble birth” when chosen by
God to serve in His kingdom.
“God chose the foolish things of
this world to shame the wise; God choose the weak things of this
world to shame the strong” (1 Corinthians 1:26-27).
When we
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Christians were called from darkness into His glorious light (1
Peter 2:9) we were lost, entangled in sin, and without divine help
incapable of becoming saved (Matthew 19:16-26).
God chose us before the foundation of the
world (Ephesians 1:4) not because of our
merits, public status, or genealogy but out of
His pleasure and by our faith in the atoning
sacrifice of His Son (Ephesians 1:4-6; John
3:16) we became not just members but heirs
of His kingdom (Romans 8:17).
It was only upon our conversion that we were given the spiritual
gifts needed to perform the divine tasks He has assigned to us (1
Corinthians 12)!
This was done so that no one could boast, and
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