What Does It Mean to be Chosen by God? > 목회자칼럼

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We can see that to be chosen by God, simply means at some point God 

made the choice for something to happen according to His perfect wisdom, 

foreknowledge, and will. We also see that it is because of His reason, not ours. 

We have to remember that God has known from the foundations of the world what 

our choices would be in any given situation. 

Because of this, He also knows how to accomplish His perfect will, 

while yet still allowing man to make choices, either good or bad. 

For example, as we saw in Romans 8:28-30, God foreknew who would love 

Him. This means He foreknew that given every situation we could ever be 

in, He knew who would trust Christ as their Savior and who would not. 

Those He foreknew would love Him, or trust Christ, He predestined to be 

conformed to the image of His Son. This means that by God’s perfect will 

and power, He would bring it to pass that believers would one day stand 

before Him in a perfected state as His Son is perfect. 

Yet, He also knew that there are some people that no matter what, 

they will never trust Christ as their Savior so God predestined them that they would 

not stand before Him in a perfected state. 

Instead, they would stand before Him in their sinful state at the Great White 

Throne Judgement where they would hear those fateful words, “I never knew you, 

depart from Me, ye that worketh iniquity” 

(Matthew 7:23; Matthew 25:41; Revelation 20:11-15). 

The phrase “chosen by God” is used in a variety of ways. 

The Bible is very clear that there are people chosen by God to do specific things. 

This simply means at some point God made the choice for something to happen 

according to His perfect wisdom, foreknowledge, and will. Because of this, 

God’s choices are perfect and will result in the fulfillment of His perfect will.