Deuteronomy 7:6-8 (ESV Strong's)
“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. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples, but it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
Subject: God's Love in Election
Israel will eventually fall into the trap of believing that they are special because God "choose" them to be His people. The will self medicate on the thought that there was "just something special about them" that God choose them to be His. Paul will write about it in Romans 9-11. The nation believed it when Jesus walked the earth. The nation believed it when the church started and many Jews thought it wrong to mingle with Gentiles .... after all, "they were THE chosen nation." Yet, in the above passage we see why they should NOT think this way. They simply were chosen because God put His love on them out of His own choice. The nation forgot what was spoke by Moses in the above passage. Today's Christian can get that way, as well. We can think that WE are special because God saved us. Yet, if we are saved and the children of God it is because of His love on us and not something special in us. God chooses to save whom He will save (Ephesians 1). We are not saved because of our redeemable value. We are saved because of God's great love and His redemption gave us value. That is why election is so great. It flows from God's love, not our ability or quality.
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