From the very beginning of time, people have always fallen in the temptation of getting sidetracked

from the one and only call in life. When God called Abraham four thousand years ago, he told him

that the world will be blessed through you, how? By his testimony, that he's going to testify to

Jehovah God and the world will see God in Him and they'll become blessed, that they will come to him

and to his son down the road, his descendant, Jesus down the road. God said to Israel, from the

moment he took them out of the land of slavery, he had said to them,

You shall be a light to the nations.

How?

That they're going to be his witnesses in the world.

That's the call of their life, that they will make him known on all the earth.

That is really the very call, and the very reason why God called to Israel and did not call the Amorites and the Amunites and on one of those other mosquito bites. I mean, he called Israel specifically to be a light to the nations. But listen, this has been the modus operandi of God from the very beginning that he calls a people.

He calls his people to make him known.

He calls his people to testify to him.

Called his people to lift up the name of Jesus.

He calls his people to lead others to him alone.

He called his people to light the way to Christ. But what happened?

Israel became an exclusivist group. Israel became an elitist nation. Israel became a holy huddle.

Israel became smug and self-centered and self-focused. Israel, in fact, stood in the way

and would not let people come to God. And again and again, God in His Word in the Old Testament,

through one prophet after another, he called on them to remember their original calling, to remember

the purpose for which he called

them, that they are to be for the praise of his glory, that they are to be a light to the world,

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