The The Bible makes it clear we don't choose God, we are chosen by Him.

Today on Truth for Life we learn how we can determine if we have truly been chosen by God, and

will discover how all three members of the Trinity are involved in the process of saving

us.

Alistair Begg is teaching from 1st Thessalonians, chapter 1, we're looking at verses 4 through 10. Having begun with this word of encouragement, he proceeds throughout the rest of the

chapter to speak to these dear ones in Thessalenika in terms of great

compassion and of love. Look at the lovely designation with which the fourth verse begins,

Brothers loved by God.

Now what makes this so amazing,

if you cast your eyes down to the very final phrase in the chapter in verse 10

Jesus has rescued us from the coming Roth. That by nature we are under God's Roth, we are under his judgment, we are without hope in the world,

we're without any awareness of God.

And so it is an amazing thing that as a result of his intervention in our lives

somebody could refer to the company of people who have been gathered up into Christ

as those who have been loved by God. It is one thing for us to say, I love God,

but it is quite another thing to be able to ensure ourselves of the fact that God loves us. And the tense which is used here

is an important tense, a present, continuous tense, which stresses the fact that God's love for us is a continuing love and in Christ it is an irrevocable love.

Now in using this phrase he introduces this notion, this biblical truth of the choosing of God.

Now there is no question that the believers in Thessalenika had to themselves hear the gospel.

They had been called to respond to the gospel, and their response to the gospel gospel as we will see at the end of this

was that they had turned away from idols and they had turned to serve the living God.

All of that they had been called to do. And when you think about

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