“I CHOSE YOU!”

 John 15:16-19                       (ESV)

“[16] You did not choose ME, but “I CHOSE YOU” and appointed you that YOU SHOULD GO AND BEAR FRUIT and that your fruit should abide, so that whatever you ask the FATHER in MY name, HE MAY GIVE IT TO YOU. [17] These things I command you, so that you will love one another. [18] “If the world hates you, know that it has hated me before it hated you. [19] If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; BUT BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT OF THE WORLD because you are not of the world, but “I CHOSE YOU” out of the world, therefore the world hates you.”

Briefly this morning, we need to REMEMBER that “I CHOSE YOU” means that we had NOTHING to do with our salvation!  Ephesians 1:4 says HE CHOSE US BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD!!  That is far beyond my imagination!!  Even though HE KNEW that I was a vile sinner, HE CHOSE ME!!!

Why did our CREATOR, JESUS, select me, a worthless reject, to extend SALVATION to out of HIS vast options?  I cannot answer that question, because I am not HIM!  All I know is “I CHOSE YOU” are the sweetest words that I have ever heard!!!