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Harris Creek Baptist Church

You Are Chosen

Harris Creek Baptist Church

Harris Creek

Religion & Spirituality

4.8523 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Why did God choose you? He chose you forevermore according to His pleasure. Even when you have nothing to offer Him , he brought you into His family. 

 

You’ve been chosen by the Father

You have been forgiven and redeemed by Christ

You have been sealed by His Holy Spirit 

 

Life Group Discussion:

Why did God choose you?

What is your story of grace and redemption?

What does it mean to be affected for The Kingdom?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's go. How are we doing Harris Creek? Come on, come on. Hey, one of the first jobs I had after

0:06.4

college was I worked at 24-hour fitness slanging gym memberships, selling those gym memberships.

0:12.8

A hundred percent commission, you know, just trying to make bank. I was a brand new believer.

0:18.1

And I really had one ambition at this moment in my life, and that was to be

0:23.3

rich. And so the Holy Spirit was working on me. I was brand new into the church, and I wanted to

0:28.9

be rich. And as we sell those memberships, there was one membership that was different than the others.

0:33.4

It was this like 42-month prepaid membership that nobody bought because of it was so expensive.

0:41.1

And it came with all these training and all the benefits of the gym.

0:44.8

And you could go to any club, anywhere in the world.

0:47.3

And it was just the one that, I mean, truly, I'd never sold one.

0:50.5

And this guy walks in and he's dressed real nice and he's got these BMW keys and I would notice these kinds of things.

0:57.6

And he sits down and I kind of showing him what we have and he goes, what about that one?

1:03.2

And I tell him about it and he goes, I'll take it.

1:06.4

He goes, I'll take it.

1:07.3

No question.

1:07.9

He's like, that's the one I want.

1:09.0

And I'm just like, amazing because I'm about to get paid. And I go, hey, what do you do? And he said, well, I'm in telecom.

1:19.1

And I said, man, that's, that's so interesting because I've always wanted to be in telecom.

1:24.1

And he goes, and he goes, really, why is that? And I go, well, because I want to be just like you. And he was kind of endeared by that. So he goes, I tell you what, and he wrote down a name, Walter. He wrote Walter and a phone number. And he said, call this guy. And I was like, done. This feels like one of those moments where your life's about to change, you know, and I'm like, okay. So I'm just calling Walter every day, leaving voicemails. Hey, I just met Paul, you know, my name is Jonathan, and I want to be in telecom. I've always dreamed about being in telecom. Like, I am your telecom expert, you know. And so finally, I didn't realize

2:01.8

if I was calling the VP of this company,

2:04.0

and finally someone calls me back.

2:05.9

I get an interview.

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