“I CHOSE YOU!”

 John 15:12-17                    (ESV)

“[12] “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. [13] Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. [14] You are my friends if you do what I command you. [15] No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my FATHER I have made known to you. [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.”

The six verses of Scripture written above, coupled with Ephesians 1:4 where the Apostle Paul writes that JESUS CHOSE US BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, should give comfort to ANY CHOSEN who reads it!!!

JESUS CHOSE we who BELIEVE BEFORE THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD, but we have to surrender to HIM to complete HIS PLAN!!!  Can any person who has been CHOSEN reject HIM, causing HIS PLAN to be incomplete???  

Dr. John MacArthur says it with a vast amount of wisdom in the passage of a sermon he previously preached::  https://www.facebook.com/share/r/18V7QyW3Dr/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Unless the HOLY SPIRIT “draws” an unbeliever, that person doesn’t have the capability to enter into HEAVEN!!  

We (CHOSEN!) are eternally indebted to HIM, simply because “I CHOSE YOU” before HE CREATED THIS WORLD!!!  Why did HE CHOOSE me??  I have no idea?!?  But HE did and I am SO grateful HE did!!!