Chosen Ones

For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD Jehovah your God. The LORD Jehovah your God has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.  Deut 7:6

Happy is the nation whose God is the LORD— the people He has chosen to be His own possession! Psalm 33:12
I brought you from the ends of the earth and called you from its farthest corners. I said to you: You are My servant; I have chosen you and not rejected you.  Isaiah 41:9
 
You are My witnesses" "and My servant whom I have chosen, so that you may know and believe Me and understand that I am He. No god was formed before Me, and there will be none after Me. Isaiah 43:10


Many are invited, but few are chosen. Matt 22:14 
If you were of the world, the world would love [you as] its own. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it, the world hates you. John 15:19
Brothers, consider your calling: not many are wise from a human perspective, not many powerful,  not many of noble birth.  Instead, God has chosen the world's foolish things to shame the wise, and God has chosen the world's weak things to shame the strong. God has chosen the world's insignificant and despised things  —the things viewed as nothing—so He might bring to nothing the things that are viewed as something
1 Cor 1: 26-28
Therefore, God's chosen ones, holy and loved, put on heartfelt compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness,  and patience, accepting one another and forgiving one another if anyone has a complaint against another. Just as the Lord has forgiven you, so also you must [forgive]. Col 3:12-13 
Since you have tasted that the Lord is good. Coming to Him, a living stone—rejected by men but chosen and valuable to God— you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:3-5
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. 1 Peter 2:9
My sons (and daughters), don't be negligent now, for the LORD has chosen you to stand in His presence, to serve Him, and to be His ministers. 2 Cron 29:11
For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.  And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith. Gal 6:8-10

When a person is weary they will often resort to sowing to the flesh instead of sowing to the Spirit.  When a person is weary they become negligent of the things of God.   Have you ever just become so tired that a simple task of reading your bible became a struggle?  
He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,  But those who wait on the LORD Jehovah Shall renew their strength;  They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.   Isaiah 40:29-31.

We are not to neglect our duty and abandon our post.   We are soldiers in the Army of the Lord.
Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus. To please the recruiter, no one serving as a soldier gets entangled in the concerns of everyday life.  2 Tim 2:3-4 

We must not take our eyes off the Lord. 
Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. For consider Him who endured such hostility from sinners against Himself, lest you become weary and discouraged in your souls.  You have not yet resisted to bloodshed, striving against sin.
Heb 12:2-4 

Is your House in Order?

As obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires of your former ignorance but, as the One who called you is holy, you also are to be holy in all your conduct; for it is written, Be holy, because I am holy. 1 Peter 1:14-16

So rid yourselves of all wickedness,all deceit,hypocrisy, envy, and all slander. Like newborn infants, desire the unadulterated spiritual milk, so that you may grow by it in [your] salvation, since you have tasted that the Lord is good. Coming to Him, a living stone—rejected by men but chosen and valuable to God— you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house for a holy priesthood to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. 1 Peter 2:1-6  You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
1 Peter 2:9 
For it would have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them.  2 Peter 2:21

But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief; on that [day] the heavens will pass away  with a loud noise, the elements will burn and be dissolved, and the earth and the works on it will be disclosed. Since all these things are to be destroyed in this way, [it is clear] what sort of people you should be in holy conduct and godliness as you wait for and earnestly desire the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be on fire and be dissolved, and the elements will melt with the heat. 2 Peter 3: 10-12  

Great and awe-inspiring are Your works, Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are Your ways, King of the Nations. Lord, who will not fear and glorify Your name? Because You alone are holy,because all the nations will come and worship before You,because Your righteous acts have been revealed. Rev 15:3-5

Circumcision of the Heart

What happens when Christ enters our lives?   We experience a circumcision of the heart.    In the Old testament we see that the Jewish people performed a sacred act of the surgical removal of the foreskin.  This became an outward sign of their obedience and their relationship to God in spiritual purification. Circumcision was a sign that one was a citizen of the Nation of Israel and that they had certain rights under the covenant.   The circumcision of the flesh could not create a saving relationship with God.  The circumcision of the heart through repentance leads to salvation. 

Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no longer stubborn.   For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of Lords, the Great, the Mighty, and the terrible God, who is not partial and takes no bribe.  He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.  Deut 10:16-18

We cannot expect to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling if we are willfully being stubborn and resisting the Lord in certain areas of our heart.   Isn't it funny how we can allow Jesus to be Lord in one area of our hearts and not in another area?   He desires that we serve Him with our whole hearts and our willful obedience to His Word is what He requires.  

Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.  Circumcise yourselves to the Lord, remove the foreskin of your hearts, O men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn with none to quench it because of the evil of your doings.  Jeremiah 4:3-4

And the Lord your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring, so that you will love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.  Deut 30:6

He is a Jew who is one inwardly, and real circumcision is a matter of the heart, spiritual and not literal. 
Rom 2:29

We are the circumcision, the ones who serve by the Spirit of God, boast in Christ Jesus,and do not put confidence in the flesh. Phil 3:3

In Him (Jesus) you were also circumcised with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh, in the circumcision of the Messiah.  Having been buried with Him in baptism, you were also raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. Col 2:11-12

Sinners in the hands of God

When a person sets it firmly in their heart to discard God and to take upon themself a full life of murder; It is written, saying; "GOD ALMIGHTY, Yehovah~Yahweh~Yeshua gives them fully over to a reprobate mind.
" Romans 1: 28-32 "And even as they did not want to retain God in their knowledge, GOD gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; BeingFILLED with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,; full of envy, MURDER, debate, deceit, malignity, whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful, Who knowing the judgment of GOD, that they who commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them."
For God's wrath is revealed from heaven against all godlessness and unrighteousness of people who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth, since what can be known about God is evident among them, because God has shown it to them.  From the creation of the world His invisible attributes, that is, His eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood through what He has made.
As a result, people are without excuse.  For though they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God or show gratitude. Instead, their thinking became nonsense, and their senseless minds were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man, birds, four-footed animals, and reptiles. Therefore God delivered them over in the cravings of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served something created instead of the Creator, who is blessed forever.

God promised eternal life to those who by patiently doing good seek for glory, honor, and immortality; but wrath and indignation to those who are self-seeking and disobey the truth, but are obeying unrighteousness; affliction and distress for every human being who does evil, first to the Jew, and also to the Greek;  Rom 2:7-9   

Psalms 58:10 "The righteous shall REJOICE when he sees the vengence: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked." Psalms 59: 13 "Consume them in wrath, consume them, THAT THEY MAY NOT BE: and let them know that God rules in Jacob unto the ends of the Earth!" Romans 13:3-4

"For rulers are not a TERRORIST to good works, but to the EVIL. Wilt thou then not be afraid of that power? Do that which is good, & thou wilt have praise of the same: For HE IS the High Priest of GOD to thee for good. BUT IF THOU DOEST WHICH IS EVIL, BE AFRAID; FOR HE BEARS NOT THE SWORD IN VAIN: FOR HE IS THE HIGH PRIEST OF GOD, A REVENGER TO EXECUTE WRATH UPON HIM THAT DOETH EVIL!" THerefore Daughter of the Lord, you do not speak from knowledge of the FULL WORD of GOD but as one having been taught the late 20th & early 21st Century easy believe, God is a Sugar Daddy Tit giver of life to anyone.

Jesus said; "I did not come to bring peace, but rather a sword, for from this day forth, every house will be devided against itself for cause of me." Preachers and Pastors today, to frequently, only teach the sugar coated gospel! They do not teach the fulness of the Word of God! When a person so fully gives themself over to wickedness as Benni Boy did......God writes them off. Read his word again. He writes them off, and they become fully reprobate, severed from God and simply breathing until their damnation. King David declared in the Psalms that the Righteous would see his feet washed in the blood of the wicked as God set forth vengence. Paul the Apostle, a Roman Senator for Life, decreed that the Soldiers are by God's hand the WRATH of GOD to destroy the evil doers!