Somebody said to me recently, I told somebody that I believed that I was chosen and the response

was, well you're very egotistical for saying that. Now if we think that we're chosen because we were so eminently choosable and that God chose

us for something he saw in us or foresaw in us.

Yes, that would be supremely egotistical.

But if the concept that the New Testament teaches is correct, that he chose us according to his

purposes and his good pleasure and strictly by his grace and not by something in us, it's

the end of egotism. like the apostle himself says, where is boasting?

It's excluded.

If my salvation rests completely on the grace of God. I have nothing of which to boast in myself.

It's the end of egotism.

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