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arion:
--- Quote from: Kat on April 03, 2014, 08:04:12 PM ---But of the "many called," we are told, "few are chosen" (Matt. 20:16). Why is that? God has intended it to be such.
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Reminds me of another story from the scriptures. They are pregnant with examples and types for us once God takes off the blinders. Here is one of my favorites. Can we see ourselves in here?
Judges 7:2-7 And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me. Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand. And the LORD said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go. So he brought down the people unto the water: and the LORD said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink. And the number of them that lapped, putting their hand to their mouth, were three hundred men: but all the rest of the people bowed down upon their knees to drink water. And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
Once again we see it played out between the few and the many. God is choosing 'few' to bring the many to salvation in the ages ahead. There are so many examples for us once God allows us to see it.
Mike Gagne:
Thanks Arion. There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven- A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted. A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up. A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance. A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing. A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away. A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace. What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves. (Ecclesiastes 3:1-10 Then I think it's safe to say if you are the elect your whole life has been apart of getting you ready for the first resurrection ? For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little: (Isaiah 28:10 ) I think I see it now, that the life time of afflictions and suffering are all part of preparing those who are the elect and that their whole life is a part of the process to become the First fruits of God. If I am wrong would some one show me different? Thanks again everyone. Blessing
Dave in Tenn:
I think that's true, Mike...but not ONLY about the Elect. There is a FIRST, but the fall harvest is the big one. That's the one that makes Jesus the Savior of the world. We always take HIS yoke. That's the way it works.
Mike Gagne:
Thank God that his fall harvest will include all the rest!!! It's hard when you see all the suffering in the world to understand the difference between the elects afflictions and suffering and the worlds ?
onelovedread:
Does God really play favorites? His Word says He is no respecter of persons.
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the spirit; yet where the spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom."
18 Now we all, with uncovered face, mirroring the Lord's glory, are being transformed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as from the Lord, the spirit."
Is it God who gave Himself to save man who has blinded man's eyes, or is it satan, the god of this world?
2 Corinthians 4: 3 Now, if our evangel is covered, also, it is covered in those who are perishing, 4 in whom the god of this eon blinds the apprehensions of the unbelieving so that the
illumination of the evangel of the glory of Christ, Who is the Image of the invisible God, does not irradiate them."
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