Aloha and welcome to Amen podcast where we preach the good news of Jesus Christ and how it applies to everyday life.

I'm Lachilani your host and today my husband Alex is preaching about being chosen.

God chooses and we have choices. He is sovereign and we have free will. In the Old

Testament, Israel chose to reject God, so he chose to send His son to redeem us from sin.

When Jesus came, he did so as a suffering servant, not a conquering king.

As a result, God's chosen people look different than what's expected.

Our greatest desire is to be chosen by someone who is far more wonderful than we could imagine.

Infatuation flirts with the object of its

affection, but true love longs to be with the one it has chosen. Jesus made a

decision to die for the undeserving so he could satisfy our heart's desire

to be chosen by God.

It was Jesus's desire to glorify God and satisfy our debt by making the decision to die for the undeserving.

So what does a chosen person's life look like? How do we live like we're chosen? We will study

this in Matthew chapter 12 verses 15 through 21. While you're turning there in

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Let's get into it.

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Matthew chapter 12 verses 15 through 21.

Jesus aware of this withdrew from there and many followed him and healed, and he healed them all,

and ordered them not to make him known.

This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah.

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