Why Did God Choose the Jewish People?

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.9 • 7.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2023

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Reading the Old Testament can be so frustrating. We hear the stories of God’s chosen people forming a covenant with God, and then breaking that covenant over and over. How could God allow this?

Today, Fr. Mike helps us read Scripture with a lens towards our own unfaithfulness and stubbornness, and shows why God chose the Jewish people to make manifest his glory.

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0:00.0	So, not clapping.
0:04.1	This shirt is really tight, holy smokes.
0:06.5	The other one was like this performance clerical shirt
0:08.7	I've mentioned in the other.
0:10.1	Oh!
0:13.6	Make no to that.
0:14.4	This is like, nope, it's the actual size.
0:17.3	I'm not gonna clap.
0:18.3	I can hardly breathe, I'm getting fainted.
0:24.0	This is me not clapping.
0:25.1	Head to, okay, here we go.
0:26.0	How my name's Father Mike Schmitz
0:27.0	and this is a center of presents.
0:28.3	So, I was talking with some people the other day
0:30.5	and they had gone through the Bible in a year
0:32.3	and they had said, you know, it's so frustrating.
0:36.1	They said to be reading through the Old Testament
0:38.7	in the Hebrew scriptures and to see how,
0:43.2	in some ways, like I said, unfaithful.
0:45.9	God's chosen people are.
0:47.0	And they asked the question, they said,
0:48.8	so why did God choose the Jewish people in the first place?
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