Are there people chosen by God now? Selected people. God is looking for the faithful

The issue of predestination and free will has been debated in the body of Christ for a long time. Many believe that God has already chosen those who will be saved, and that apart from these people no one will be saved. According to this point of view, the essence of salvation no longer consists in a person accepting by faith the Gospel proclaimed to him. Of course, he must hear and believe, but he is able to do this only because God has “predestined” or “chosen” him to be saved. Without such “election” or “predestination” from above—in the sense of favoring one person over another who is not chosen—that person could not be saved. Consequently, God alone decides ultimately who will be saved and whom He, according to this teaching, “predestined”, i.e. pre-elected to salvation. Those whom God has chosen will be saved, and those whom He has not chosen (in other words: those whom He has denied salvation) will not be saved. This explanation, of course, is very convenient, since it places all responsibility in the process of salvation on God, who, according to this teaching, “has already pre-elected those who are to be saved.” And if you are reluctant to share His Word with others... that's okay! God knows this, and if a person is destined to be saved anyway, He does not necessarily have to bring him to you. In the end, all who need to be saved will be saved... it's God's will. Personally, I believe that, despite all its apparent convenience, this is also a very wrong and dangerous teaching. I also think that it is, even if partially, to blame for the passiveness of many believers regarding evangelism. Christians simply lose their sense of responsibility for spreading the gospel because, according to the doctrine of predestination, ultimately all who are destined to be saved will be saved. I strongly disagree with this way of looking at things. I believe that the Bible teaches us that God gave His Son for ALL people, which means He decided to give salvation to everyone. Therefore, the opinion that God preferred some to others in the matter of salvation cannot be true.

Salvation: God's Plan for Everyone

To understand what God wants when it comes to salvation, let's start with 1 Timothy 2:4. This verse says:

1 Timothy 2:4
“...To our Savior God, who wants so that all people can be saved and attained the knowledge of the truth."

Whose salvation does God desire? What is His will regarding salvation? What does He want, what does He desire? As this passage says, He wants, wants, all people to be saved! “All people” means ALL. He did not choose some people over others, giving His Son only for the elect. But He gave His Son for all people, for everyone living on Earth, and He wants everyone on Earth to be saved!

This is His will, desire and election. In the same letter, in verses 5 and 6 we read:
1 Timothy 2:5-6 “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave Himself FOR THE REDEMPTION OF ALL

. [This was] the testimony in its time.”

How many people did Jesus Christ give Himself to redeem? Not for the redemption of some, but for the redemption of ALL, brothers and sisters. Jesus Christ paid for everyone, this was exactly His purpose - so that everyone could taste salvation. And if so, then wouldn’t it be a contradiction to say that God chose only some of these all for whom He gave His Son, and did not choose (and therefore rejected) the rest? Imagine that you went to a prison, each prisoner of which is very dear to you personally. Imagine that, out of love for these prisoners, you paid the highest price you could—to God, that price was His Son—to free them. How many of them would you like to see released after this? I think EVERYONE. Now imagine that some of those released decided to remain in prison. How would you feel if you knew about this? You would probably be very sad? After all, you paid the highest price! You want their freedom! Personally, I would be very upset to know that they chose prison over freedom, and I think God feels the same way. He gave His Son, the most precious thing to Him, as a ransom for us all, and imagine, He really wants everyone to take advantage of this right to freedom. He wants to free everyone “... from the power of darkness” and bring us all “into the kingdom of His beloved Son” (Colossians 1:13).

The oft-quoted famous passage John 3:16 states:
John 3:16-18 “For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that EVERYONE who believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world, to judge the world, but that the WORLD might be saved through Him.

God loved the WHOLE WORLD (in our analogy with prisoners, this would mean: He loved ALL prisoners, and not just some) and for the whole world, for EVERYONE, He gave His Son. For what? "SO THAT THE WORLD WOULD BE SAVED THROUGH HIM." When God gave His Son to die, He did not intend it for just a few, He did it for all mankind! He wanted to free not a group of individual prisoners, but absolutely EVERYONE. God desires the salvation of all people because His ransom was paid for all. There is not a single person on Earth whom God would have determined to perish in eternity.

What do the verses about the elect mean in the Bible?

To be chosen means to become the object of someone's choice, i.e. when someone chooses you. As we have already read in the above passages, God declares His will that all people should be saved, and to this end He paid for us with the life of His Son. So, if God wants everyone to be saved, then His choice includes us all in His saving will. And if this is His choice, His will, then who are we all in relation to His salvation? THE CHOSEN. In other words, when we read in the Bible that we are chosen, we should not perceive this as being chosen to the detriment of others who are supposedly not chosen. ALL are chosen to be saved because this is God's choice, the decision, for each person (though obviously not everyone will accept His offer). When the Bible speaks of us as the elect, it means election to salvation. Salvation is God's choice, His will for everyone, which means that in relation to salvation, everyone is chosen by Him. However, not everyone will agree to accept His choice, and those who refuse will ultimately perish. The reason for their destruction is not that God did not choose them to salvation, but that they rejected God’s election. Just as the reason for our salvation is not that God chose us over others, not chosen by Him for salvation, but in the fact that we agreed to accept God’s election offered to us and the whole world. Salvation is a matter of faith. The question is not whether God chooses people, but whether people choose God. As for God, there is no doubt: He chose ALL people to be saved, and for this he gave His Son. Let's look at Scripture again:

Acts 10:43
“...everyone who believes in Him will receive forgiveness of sins through His name.”

Romans 9:33, 10:11
"...whoever believes in Him will not be put to shame."

1 John 5:1
“Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God.”

John 11:26
“And everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die.”

John 3:16
“...so that whoever believes in Him should not perish, but have eternal life.”

John 12:46-48
“...so that whoever believes in Me will not remain in darkness. And if anyone hears My words and does not believe, I do not judge him, for I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. He who rejects Me and does not accept My words has a judge for himself: the word that I have spoken will judge him at the last day.”

Notice the repetition of the word “everyone” throughout these passages. EVERYONE - that means anyone, no matter who he is - will be saved or not saved, depending on whether he believes or not. The one who believes will be saved, since this is God’s election, God’s will for him. He who does not believe will not be saved, and the reason for this will not be God’s election, but his own choice. Everything is very simple.

To summarize: there are two types of election. One type is the preference of one person over another, in other words: “I choose you over him.” In this sense and according to this doctrine of election, God has chosen us and rejected others. He predestined us Christians to be saved, but not everyone else.. God does not select the especially privileged from the general mass in order to save only them. If this were so, then He would be partial, but He is NOT:

Acts 10:34
"God is no respecter of persons."

On the contrary, God is open to everyone who seeks Him, and even Himself seeks those who strive for Him in order to reveal Himself to them:

Psalm 14:2
“The Lord looked down from heaven on the sons of men, to see if there was one who understood and sought after God.”

And Deuteronomy 4:29
“But when you seek the Lord your God there, you will find [Him] if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

If a person seeks God and with all his heart sincerely asks Him to reveal himself to him, God will definitely answer his prayer. He will attract this person to him. In the same way, He will answer the prayer of anyone who calls on Him. God seeks those who seek Him, and those who seek Him with all their hearts will find Him. This does not happen occasionally to random people, it is a PRINCIPLE established by God's Word. If a person calls out to God with his heart, God will definitely answer him and draw him to Himself. It is in the light of this principle that we must understand what is written in the Gospel of John:

John 6:44
“No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me draws him.”

Many people interpret this passage as follows: “You see, everything is in God’s hands. If God wants, he will attract a person to himself. And if He doesn’t need him, then He won’t attract him.” But this interpretation of this Bible passage makes God partial and misses the fact that Jesus died for ALL so that ALL would be saved. God does not specifically select anyone to draw to Himself, but reveals Himself to everyone who seeks Him. This - spiritual law established by Himself. We'll look at this issue in more detail in the next section.

Salvation: what depends on God and what depends on us

There is no doubt that God has the primary role in our salvation, but God provides responsibility and a role on our part. 2 Corinthians 5:18-21 clearly states what our responsibility is in the process of reconciliation between man and God:

2 Corinthians 5:18-21
“All things are from God, who reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ and who gave US the ministry of reconciliation, because God in Christ reconciled the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to [people], and gave us a word of reconciliation. So WE are messengers on behalf of Christ, and as if God Himself exhorts through us; On behalf of Christ we ask: be reconciled with God. For He made Him who knew no sin for us to be [a sacrifice for] sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.”

By giving His Son for us, God reconciled humanity to Himself. In other words, from now on the path to God is open. If we return to the prisoner example, we can say that the prison doors are no longer locked! But the prisoners are blind and do not see this. They are blinded by “the god of this world” (2 Corinthians 4:4), the devil, and do not see the way of salvation open to them. They need a messenger who will say: “The path to God is open! Be reconciled to God, for He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God!” In this proclamation of the saving message to people, in calling them to the Lord, lies the ministry of reconciliation. And who is entrusted with this ministry? The answer is simple: US. We are responsible for them to hear, we are ambassadors of Christ. If you contact a foreign power, you do so through the embassy, ​​through the authorized representatives of this power in your country - ambassadors (i.e. envoys). And WE are the messengers of God. God opened the doors of the prison and opened the way for us to come to Himself. He reconciled the world to Himself by giving His Son. And now we, the once blind prisoners, having been freed, must proclaim to those who are still blind and imprisoned: “Come to God, the path is free!”

1 Corinthians 3:5-6 explains our responsibilities in more detail:

1 Corinthians 3:5-6
“Who is Paul? who is Apollos? They are only ministers through whom you believed, and this as the Lord gave to each. I planted, Apollos watered, but God increased.”

Pay attention to the distribution of responsibilities. to God the most important role is to nurture. However, someone must first plant the seed and someone must water it. And this “someone” is no longer God, but us! This is the duty of ministers, but not of church clergy, but of us, who carry out the ministry of reconciliation. This passage does not say, “God planted, God watered, God increased.” Part of the ministry was carried out by people whom God called to this. People who proclaimed to others: “Here is God, make peace with Him!” And if those who heard the call answered it, God, in His turn, approached them and brought them closer to Himself. Some men, like Apollos, watered the seed sown in people's hearts by explaining the Word of God and teaching them Bible truths. Notice also the emphasis I have placed on “through whom” (“through whom you believed”). These words speak of the role of Paul and Apollos assigned to them by God in the ministry of reconciliation, the role of mediators, peacemakers, messengers of Christ, the role of those who sow and water.

It was through them that other people came to faith. But imagine what would happen if we told a person: “God will reveal himself to you,” but God did not do this.

Would this person be able to enter into a union of faith with God? No, no matter how much he wanted it, it would be impossible. However, God really reveals Himself to seekers, meets them halfway and draws them to Himself. Therefore, the words from the Gospel of John: “... no one can come to the Father unless the Father draws him to Himself” are absolutely true, i.e., without action on the part of God, without His cultivation, we can plant and water as much as we want - and that’s all will be to no avail. But God really reveals Himself to the seeker, He attracts him to Himself and grows him. The only question is, will we fulfill the ministry of reconciliation entrusted to us, planting and watering, will we be faithful to the commandment to “go into ALL the world and preach the gospel to ALL creation” (Mark 16:15)? Responsibility for these actions does not lie with God - He commanded us to do all this. Conclusion and sisters, let us summarize: the doctrine that God allegedly chooses some to save them, but does not choose others is very convenient, and, nevertheless, false. God's election, His will, is that all should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth. If this election concerns everyone, then who are these “all”? The Chosen Ones! Ultimately, whether a person will be saved or not depends on whether he believes or not. By believing, he will be saved, but by rejecting God, he will not be saved. Does God have any influence in this situation? Naturally, and most directly: when a person turns his heart to God and wants to find Him, God will reveal himself to him and draw Him to Himself. This is what Jesus means when he says that only those who are drawn by the Father can come to Him. Those who have experienced this personal experience

, know what I'm talking about. This revelation of God is not just an accident, it is His natural actions, what He promised in His Word. He who seeks Him with all his heart will find Him, so it is written in the Word. To those who sincerely seek Him, God will reveal Himself without any doubt.

As for us, God has entrusted to US the ministry of reconciliation, the ministry of sowing the Word and watering. He, for his part, provides cultivation (draws a person to Himself), but sowing and watering, bringing people to the Lord is the ministry of reconciliation entrusted to us. The doctrine that God has chosen only some to be saved and, accordingly, has chosen others to perish in hell, is a very false doctrine that lulls people to sleep because they believe that God will still save everyone he wants to save. This is wrong. Brothers and sisters, we have a responsibility to preach the Word and look for opportunities to evangelize. Preach the Word, tell the prisoners they can be free. Whether they listen to you or not is their business, but our business is to tell them and testify about the Father. The Father, for His part, hopes with all his heart that they will come to Him! He gave the same ransom for them as he gave for us, and is ready to receive them with open arms, just as he once received us.

I was recently asked, “How does God choose the people He wants to work through?” This is an important question that you should ask yourself if you want God to choose you. If you look closely at God's chosen ones doing something significant, you will understand that God does not choose people based on their talents and abilities. And if so, there must be another reason that prompts Him to lay His hand on a person in order to use him in a special way.

WHAT IS THIS REASON?

There are several answers to this question. There are certain qualities by which God chooses people, and you need to know these qualities.

FAITHFUL, RELIABLE, TRUSTWORTHY

One of the answers to this question is given to us by the Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 4:2. He states this here so emphatically that one gets the impression that this quality is high on God's list of requirements for those chosen to do His work. Here's what he wrote:
I would like to draw your attention to the word “faithful”. The Greek word pistos, “faithful,” is derived from the Greek pistis, “faith.” However, in 1 Corinthians 4:2 the word pistos does not mean “faith,” but “fidelity.” It characterizes a person whom God has considered faithful, reliable, trustworthy, and unshakable.

GOD IS WATCHING US CAREFULLY

How does God determine whether a person is faithful, reliable, trustworthy, steadfast? Paul answers this question in the same verse: “It is required of stewards that everyone should be faithful.”

The Greek word eurisko – “to appear” – means to find, to discover. It is important to note that the meaning of the word eurisko implies a discovery made as a result of careful observation.
The meaning of the word eurisko tells us that God is carefully watching us, our actions and reactions. He looks at how we treat people, how we respond to pressure, and whether we have the tenacity to stay on the right path when there are so many distractions around us that are designed to cause us to disobey God. Before He pats us on the shoulder and entrusts us with some new important task, He will look at how well we have completed His previous assignment. Was it done as He expected? Have we finished it completely or is some part left unfinished? And have we done it in a way that glorifies the name of Jesus?

CHARACTER AND ACTIONS ARE WHAT IS IMPORTANT!

If you were God and were looking for a person through whom you could act in a powerful way, would you not look first to his character and actions to make sure that you could trust him with an important task? Even the employer closely monitors employees to understand which of them deserves a promotion.

BEFORE YOU TRUST MORE...

If you were an employer, before you promoted a person and gave him greater responsibility, wouldn't you observe him to see if he would be faithful? If this is what people do when they are looking for a person who can be entrusted with tasks that may be important, but still temporary, from the point of view eternal life, responsibilities, all the more so will God do when choosing people to whom He can entrust a mission, the fulfillment of which will affect where people will spend eternity. There is nothing more serious than eternal destiny, which is why God, before entrusting someone with important spiritual matters, will observe him to see if this person will be faithful.

GOD IS WATCHING AND... YOU!

God wants to know if we are faithful, trustworthy, reliable, steadfast. He is not ignorant and has no illusions about us, He watches us carefully and then makes a decision. This means that God is watching over you too. He watches your actions and reactions. He observes how you treat people and how you behave under pressure from circumstances. He looks to see if you have the tenacity to move forward despite difficulties.
1 Corinthians 4:2 leaves no doubt about how important our quality of fidelity is to God. The word “turned out” strongly indicates that God is watching us over a long period of time to see how we behave in certain circumstances, whether we are faithful, whether we can be relied upon, whether we are trustworthy, how much we reliable and unshakable.
Today I would like to ask you a question: “How did God find you?”

GOD SEEKS THE FAITHFUL!

Having realized from observing a person that he can be trusted, God, as a rule, soon entrusts him with a task. Used in the above verse Greek word zeteo – “to be required” – means to seek, search, look very carefully. This word was a legal term describing a judicial investigation, but it could also refer to scientific research. It describes an intense, thorough search. The verse can be paraphrased as follows: “God makes a careful, all-inclusive, thorough search to find a steward who will be faithful.”

VALUABLE FIND

This means that people who have the qualities that God wants in them in order to use them in carrying out His purposes are not found at every turn. Faithful, reliable, trustworthy, steadfast people are so rare that God has to make a careful, thorough search to find them. And when, as a result of observing a believer, God comes to the conclusion that he really strives to do His will, and the best way, He realizes that he has made a valuable discovery. He has found a faithful person whom he can rely on and entrust him with an important task.

A REAL TREASURE!

Over the years I have had the opportunity to work with a huge amount people, and I know that people you can completely rely on are rare. Most are distracted from completing the task assigned to them by something else. At first they try to be faithful, but then they get distracted by other different things. Almost all pastors can confirm that more often than not, people who start something do not finish it. But when you manage to find a person who is faithful, trustworthy, reliable and unshakable, you can consider this a rare find, a real treasure.
WHAT CAN GOD SAY ABOUT YOUR FAITHFULNESS?

Looking at you, what can God say about your faithfulness? I encourage you to do everything possible so that He can easily say: “This man is a real treasure. I can entrust him with the execution of an important assignment.” And don't let Him say, “Not yet,” because you refused to make the necessary changes.

Because God is watching us, we need to look at ourselves to see what He sees when He looks at our actions, how we keep our promises, and how obedient we are to Him and His Word. Will God say He can trust us, or will He be wise to choose someone else?

THE DOOR TO YOUR CALLING

If you want to move to a higher spiritual level - more responsible, but at the same time more interesting and exciting, and it is at this level that God can give a more important task - then do everything possible to be faithful! If God sees your faithfulness, then soon a door will open before you, entering which you will be able to fulfill what He has called you to do.

DO YOU HAVE A TASK RIGHT NOW?

Today I want to ask you:

What assignment has God given you? Perhaps this assignment is related to work or relationships, an assignment to solve some personal problems? Can you now name the most important assignment God has given you—the one that He is watching most closely? If you don't know what God wants you to do now, ask Him to help you understand what your task is and do it to the best of your ability so that He can entrust you with something more significant. Determine and even commit yourself to do everything in your power so that God will find you faithful in doing His will - in carrying out the simple task He has given you - so that He can then entrust you with a more important task.

GOD IS ALWAYS NEAR!

God is interested in how you complete the tasks assigned to you. He stands beside you to help you, to encourage you, and to strengthen you where you are weak, so that you may be faithful and able to carry out His next assignment with full dedication.

GOD CALLS US TO RAISE HIGHER

Do you think God finds you faithful in doing His will, from the simple tasks assigned to you to such an important matter as fulfilling your calling?
I hope this letter was interesting and useful for you. This letter motivated me to be even more obedient to God and serve Him even better. It became a test for myself, because I always try to do everything that the Lord tells me. Right now He is calling me to rise higher. I know it. What is God calling you to? I am confident that you will be faithful and take on your God-given assignments with renewed vigor and complete them to the best of your ability.

THANK YOU!

Thank you for your prayerful and financial support of the ministry of our church. Not a day goes by that Denise and I do not thank God for all of you and pray that He will lift you even higher and give you the best. It is a great honor for us to pray for you and watch with you how God’s will is carried out in your life.

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Our world is full of secrets and mysteries. For example, when walking down the street, you will never be sure that an ordinary person is walking towards you. Perhaps this is a wizard, a werewolf or a vampire who knows how to hide his essence well. Perhaps you too felt that you were different from others and clearly different from the majority. How do you know that you are not a person, but a supernatural being who has unusual abilities? Let's find out this question, let's see how such creatures differ from ordinary people.

People with unusual abilities, magicians and wizards

There are many such people, and there is evidence of this. So, there are people with telekinesis, mediums, fortune tellers, magicians, sorcerers, etc. How to understand what you have hidden abilities of this kind?

  • You have very developed intuition. You have a good sense of the future - both good and bad, before making an important decision, you can feel the result. You also have a good sense of other people, their characters and moods, and recognize the energy of people, animals, objects, places.
  • You predict the future, you can see it in a dream, or suddenly pictures of events appear before your eyes, which then happen.
  • You see something that most people cannot see. For example, it could be ghosts or auras of people and objects.
  • You can move objects with your eyes.
  • You can take off.
  • You are good at magical practices, you can do magic, you are good at telling fortunes (everything you predict comes true).
  • You can read the thoughts of people and animals.
  • With the help of energy, you can influence people - for example, convince someone of something, cure a person without drugs, influence an enemy by worsening his mood and condition.

To find out that you are not just a person, but that you have any of these abilities, watch yourself, try to learn something unusual from the list above. Perhaps you will notice some strange things behind you.

Classic and energy vampires

To find out that you are not a person, but, say, a vampire, you need to understand how vampires differ from people and check whether you have their characteristics.

Features of classic vampires (information taken from legends and opinions of many people):

  • Vampires have two sharp fangs.
  • Vampires drink blood, blood is their source of nutrition.
  • Vampires really don't like werewolves.
  • They can move quickly and are very strong.
  • Vampires are pale, thin and charmingly beautiful, and have a special external charm.
  • Vampires have a magical, soulful gaze.
  • The vampire does not like to go outside on a sunny day; the sun destroys him. He much prefers the night.
  • Many vampires deliberately choose to be alone because they love it.
  • Vampires don't get sick. When a person becomes a vampire, he becomes prettier and his diseases disappear.
  • They are not reflected in the mirror and do not cast shadows.
  • Vampires are smart and intelligent.

It is difficult to judge for sure whether classical vampires exist now, but energy vampires definitely exist, and there are quite a lot of them. How to find out that you energetic vampire? Watch how you interact with other people. Here are the signs of an energy vampire:

  • Such a person feeds off the energy of other people during communication. After communicating with an energy vampire, the interlocutor feels a loss of strength, worsening mood, fatigue, and may become ill. The vampire, on the contrary, becomes more cheerful and cheerful, he is charged with energy, he has a lot of strength.
  • During communication, an energy vampire strives to look a person in the eyes, come close to him, and touch him. A vampire receives the most energy when he manages to awaken strong emotions and feelings in his interlocutor, preferably negative ones - irritation, anger, anger, resentment, jealousy, envy, etc. When a person shows these emotions and feelings, the vampire feeds with pleasure on what he receives. energy.

Werewolves

How do you know that you are not a human, but a werewolf? You are a werewolf if all this is about you:

  • A werewolf can turn into a predator (usually a large wolf) during the full moon and at will.
  • Werewolves are very strong and fast.
  • They don't like vampires and want to kill them.
  • Werewolves do not age or get sick because the tissues of their bodies are constantly renewed.
  • They are smart and cunning in pursuing victims; werewolves are eternal predators and hunters.
  • Werewolves are cautious and cautious, often solitary, but can strive to create packs.

It is worth saying that werewolves can be imaginary. If the werewolf is imaginary, then he is sick with lycanthropy. Lycanthropy is a magical disease that causes changes in a person's body that turn him into a wolf. Lycanthropy can also be mental: in this case, the human appearance does not change, but the person seriously begins to consider himself a wolf or other animal.

Mermaids

How do you know that you are not a person, but a mermaid? Here are the signs of a real mermaid:

  • The mermaid is beautiful. In most cases, she is a thin young girl with very pale skin and long hair. A mermaid's hair can be silver or greenish.
  • Mermaids can transform into animals and various objects if necessary.
  • Mermaids, of course, love water very much, they love to swim and bathe. It is believed that when a mermaid touches the water, she grows a long tail instead of legs.
  • Mermaids are endowed with magical powers, which they can use both for good (to help nature) and for evil (for example, there are many legends about how mermaids captured men and dragged them with them to the bottom of a reservoir).
  • Mermaids love to visit fields and forests, get together, dance in circles, sing, weave wreaths, and comb their hair.

So we looked at some signs of supernatural creatures. If you encounter certain of them, then know that you are not just a person and have abilities that are unknown to most.

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Father Oleg Molenko

ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE LORD GOD TO THE MANY CALLED AND THE LITTLE CHOSEN, AND ALSO ABOUT THE FACT THAT LOVE FAILS FROM DECREASED COMMUNICATION

I have always been concerned about the small number of people being saved. I just can’t understand why people choose not just the worst, but eternal death and constant isolation with endless and unspeakably terrible torment. Of course, this is their choice, which the Lord God Himself takes into account, but I, who chose God, light, truth and grace, cannot understand the reason for this choice.

From Holy Scripture and observations in my life, I discovered a terrible truth - that the number of people being saved is much less number perishing, and the number of those dying incomparably exceeds the number of those being saved. It would seem that upon coming to the Church of Christ, I finally found a place in which 99% of its members should be saved. But, alas, here too the number of Church members being saved is less than the number of its members perishing. We are talking only about those members who remained in the Church until death, not counting those who fell away from it during their lifetime.

In His earthly sermon, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ spoke terrible truths for us:

  • that many are called, but few are chosen;
  • that few people walk the narrow and cramped path that leads to eternal life;
  • that He has a small flock;
  • that not everyone who says “Lord, Lord...” will be saved;
  • that He does not pray for the whole world, but only for those whom His Heavenly Father has given Him.

So, we - members of the true Church of Christ - face a real problem, which we can call the problem of many called and a small number of chosen. The main thing in this problem is to understand the attitude of the Lord God towards the many who are called and towards the few who are chosen. Its main practical aspect for each of us is to find out which of these categories each of us falls into.

Let's try to establish who or what categories of people who turned to Christ make up the number of many called. Those named include:

  • small number of chosen ones;
  • people who came to Church by chance;
  • people who are like grain fallen by the roadside, from whose hearts Satan immediately takes away the word of truth and the taste for truth;
  • people are like grain sown on a stone and having no roots;
  • people who are like a sprout suppressed by thorns, i.e. worries about earthly goods and vanity;
  • people who could not stand the test of sorrows, hardships or persecution for the faith.

To this number one could add “tares,” but they, as planted in the Church by Satan, cannot even be included in the number of those called. It is still understandable that the “tares” perish through their wickedness. This is their original evil choice. And that’s why those who joyfully accepted the word God's people then they reject Christ and their salvation, it is impossible to understand. We are not talking about apparent reasons here, but about their deep choice. This choice remains unclear to us.

However, let’s leave the discussion about people and turn to God’s attitude towards the called and the chosen. God's providence for us cannot be fully comprehended, which is why we can only touch on what we are allowed to touch by the Lord God Himself.

Why does it happen in life that there are always more called than chosen? We know that after creation, man was endowed with free will, which is manifested by the freedom of his choice. As a being created by God, man makes his first choice in relation to his emerging being, or more precisely, in relation to his being that emerged from nothing. What can a person choose in this regard? One of two things is to agree with one’s creatureliness and one’s created being or to disagree with it. Man's disagreement with his created existence reveals his pride and makes man an opponent of God and a self-destructor striving for non-existence. Since, according to God’s conditions, the dissolution of rational beings is not provided for, this choice of man and this desire of his can only be formalized in the form of an eternal stay in a place specially isolated from God and His creations, which agree with their existence, called hell (i.e., a place , deprived of light), with eternal suffering of that measure of unspeakable torment, which is determined for each opponent of God according to the truth of God. This measure of torment is different for everyone who has chosen not God and the non-existence of man. It's there inevitable consequence this person's choice of striving for non-existence. To the extent that a person strives for non-existence, the extent to which he opposes God. To the extent that he resists God, he does not love God and hates Him and His creation. As much as he hated God and His creations, he created for himself his eternal torment. Thus, the eternal torment of a person is his constant attempt to accomplish the impossible - to tear apart his indestructible existence, contrary to the will of Almighty God, and to cease his incessant existence.

Resistance to God (conscious or unconscious) is resistance to Life, Truth, Light and Love, and the Source of life, light, love and truth. That is why this resistance is a source of constant torment for every God-resister, which can be called eternal death.

Who chooses whom: God, me, or I, God? Of course, God chooses first. He first chooses me to be and creates me out of nothing! Creates perfect, equipped with everything necessary, capable of communication with God and love, rational, verbal and judicious.

As soon as I realized myself and my being - I am, I exist - as well as my creatureliness and dependence on God, I immediately faced a choice. I am invited to agree with God's choice, to humbly accept my being, my existence, my creation and my dependence on My Creator and Lord God. I am also given the right to disagree with my creation and existence, and even to resist my Creator, the Lord God.

It is this right and opportunity to choose something other than God that shows everyone that those who chose God did so freely and voluntarily! This first choice of God is their first merit before Him. However, there are people who used their freedom of choice in such a way that they disagreed with their creation, existence and being. They disagreed with what God chose to be! They did not accept their creatureliness and dependence on God, but fell into pride and became resistant to God. Such people become uninteresting and unnecessary to God, and He no longer chooses them, but leaves them to their evil choice. They make up the number of beings rejected by God and are forced to unite with those rejected before them. fallen angels who have become spirits of malice and resistance to God. Such people are not among those called. God left them to their bad choice and no longer calls them to Himself.

Man's first good choice - agreement with his existence, with his creatureliness and dependence on God - is valuable in the eyes of God. However, it is not sufficient for the further development of a relationship with God. For the further development of relationships, God offers a person voluntary acceptance of obedience to Him. This obedience is offered to man in the form God's commandment or commandments. This is the second call of God to people to Himself. Man again faces a choice: agree with God and humbly accept obedience to Him, carried out by the exact fulfillment of God's commandment or commandments, or disagree with God, reject obedience to Him by breaking the commandment. Those who reject obedience to God reject God Himself and join the ranks of rejected people and spirits. They become strangers to God, uninteresting and unnecessary. He leaves them to their self-will and their bad choices.

Accepting obedience and fulfilling the commandment(s) of God gives a person the opportunity to love his Lord God and Creator and to demonstrate this love actively. The creation of a good union between man and God, based on love, begins with obedience. Obedience is also a means of communication with God and a way of knowing God. That is why Christ God told us that those who love Him will fulfill His commandments.

During this period of creation of the relationship between God and the man He created (historically it was Adam), the fall of man and his entire nature occurred. The fall of Adam and Eve was their bad choice, but it was due to some circumstances that mitigated their guilt. The first circumstance was God's creation of a wife for Adam, to whom he became very attached and whom he loved very much. If there had been no wife, then Adam could have passed the test of obedience, the test of God’s commandment. The second circumstance was the existence of rejected spirits and their firstborn and leader - the fallen star, called Satan (i.e., the enemy of God) and the devil (i.e., the slanderer). Satan is also a lie and the father of lies.

God did not classify the sinners Adam and Eve as the rejected ones only because they sinned not by their own conscious choice, but by the deception of Satan, who used the serpent and lies. Fallen people were expelled from paradise to earth and deprived of the opportunity to consolidate their fallen state in eternity. They fell under the power of Satan and his demons who deceived them, were cursed by God and were punished with death. Their entire nature was greatly damaged and distorted. However, God, because of the use of cunning and deceit against them, left them among those called. He left them hope in the form of a good promise about their deliverance from death, fall and the power of demons in the Person of the coming Savior. God did not stop calling man to Himself. Only now, to accept this call, a person needed faith - faith in a good God. The very call of God (the third) was to repentance, i.e. a radical change of oneself from a fallen, sin-loving, corruptible person into a new person created in the image and likeness of God. Now, in order to restore man’s friendly relations with God and develop these relations, God offered His Covenant to people, i.e. agreement with the entire program necessary conditions. All these conditions and commandments are needed by the person himself for his healing and restoration. Here again, man was faced with a choice: to enter into a Covenant with God and humbly accept all His conditions, or not to enter into a Covenant with God and reject all His conditions and the repentance offered by God. Those who have rejected the Covenant with God and repentance before Him are united with rejected people and spirits. They are left to their fall and destruction, but the call of God does not stop to them throughout their entire earthly life. Until his last breath, every person can, through repentance, enter into a Covenant with God and receive hope for pardon and salvation.

In His Economy, the Lord God provided for the path of salvation of people and human nature through the incarnation and incarnation of the Second Hypostasis - the Son of God. Upon his incarnation, the task of the Son of God, who incomprehensibly became a perfect Man, included: preaching to people the truth and righteousness of God; call them to repentance, and through repentance to Himself and into His eternal Kingdom of Heaven; to redeem them from their fall, sin, the power of Satan and his demons, from hell and death; to create a new union of God and man, impossible before the incarnation of God, in the form of the Church of Christ for the salvation and deification of people. Now people were called to the Church of Christ! There were many such people who were called, but the Lord did not choose all of them.

Here we need to understand the difference between the redemption of human nature in general and the salvation of individual human individuals redeemed by Christ. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, redeemed all human nature through His suffering. In this sense, through human nature, He redeemed every person He called into existence. After all, every person is endowed with human nature, and this nature manifests itself only in people and the God-man. In the person of Adam the nature of men fell, but in the person of Christ It was redeemed and restored, and raised to an even better state than that which Adam and Eve had before their fall. Through participation in the common human nature, each person was redeemed and included in the number of those called to salvation. However, if human nature could be redeemed by the feat of the Son of God, then it can only be saved in the form of individuals! All people are redeemed, but only those who agree with redemption and God's Economy are saved! That is why, although all people are redeemed, only a few are saved, for there are few who responded to the call of Christ, took up their Cross and followed Him along the narrow and cramped path of salvation He offered. We, all people, have redemption in fact, but it will mean nothing to me, as an individual, if I myself do not reject myself in my fallen state, do not reject this world, which lies in evil, and do not follow Christ to His conditions. I personally need to achieve and assimilate salvation. He who has assimilated God's salvation thereby testifies to himself that he is God's chosen one! There are elect among the elect - these are God's saints, called saints. There are chosen ones from the saints - these are Holy Mother of God Virgin and Most Holy John the Theologian.

So, in addition to general redemption, I need a personal Savior in the Person of Christ the Son of God, which means restoration of friendly relations with Him, and through Him with the Holy Spirit and Heavenly Father.

That is why we, called by Christ to salvation and into His eternal Kingdom through His Church, are rightly called Christians, and for us the saying is true: “For a Christian, Christ is everything”!

God has determined that the basis of our personal relationship with Him is love. That is why His two highest and most important commandments for us, to which all the others are reduced, are the commandments about love for God (primarily in the Person of Christ) and for one’s neighbor. According to the fulfillment of these commandments, we create relationships with our God and with our neighbors.

Why didn’t the Lord Jesus Christ say “love every person” or “love all people”, but said “love your neighbor”? Because love presupposes a union of individuals who know each other and communicate with each other. God can love all people and every person, for He has access to each of us and knows every person He created. We do not have access to all people and to every person, but we have access and the opportunity to communicate only with our neighbors, i.e. those people with whom God's providence brings us together in life. We can only love people we know and with whom we have communication. We cannot love people unknown to us and unfamiliar to us, who are inaccessible to us and with whom we cannot have any communication. Whoever says that he loves all of humanity and all people is lying and is a demagogue. In the Church of Christ we have the opportunity to meet, love and have fellowship with those holy people whom we have never met in life and could not meet. The main means of communicating with them is prayer to them. On their part, we have intercession for us with God, help us, visit us and protect us. Whichever saint we love, we pray to him from the heart, and whomever we pray from the heart, we love him.

From this truth that we have learned, that love can only be for known people with whom we have communication (that’s why Christ’s words to evil sinners “I don’t know you” sound so scary), we can move on to another, which is the basis of our love for another person (God or man) there can only be communication with this person. Regarding the love of husband and wife, Scripture clearly says that a man shall cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh! This is the pinnacle of carnal communication between wife and husband. Without such communication there can be no marriage and love between spouses. The Holy Apostle Paul rightly transfers the image of marriage and communion to Christ and His Church.

And in the Church of Christ, each of us - chosen by God - is some kind of member and part. But this is not a soulless part, like a brick or a board, but a living, god-like personality. That is why the image of the marriage union is applicable not only to the great union of Christ and the Church, but also to the small union of Christ and each member of the Church chosen by Him! On this wondrous personal union of Christ and this person and on the commandment that requires us to love the Lord God with all our hearts, with all our souls, with all our thoughts and with all our strength, the union of love of Christ God and man is built. On the part of man, this love for Christ must be manifested in constant communication with Him, which can be characterized as a kind of marriage union with clinging to Christ so that two individuals become one Spirit!

We know and confess that Jesus Christ ascended into Heaven and sat down at the right hand of His Father in His glory. He will return to us only in His second and final coming in glory to judge the living and the dead. How, then, can we have fellowship with Him personally? For this purpose, He founded His Church for us, in which He established two means given to His chosen ones for communication with Him - the communion of His Most Pure Body and His Most Holy Blood and the invocation of His Divine and Most Holy Name. The holy king and prophet David, moved by the Holy Spirit, noted these means in his psalter: “I will take the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord”. For loving Christ It is so natural and so desirable for a Christian to constantly call on the name of the Beloved and cleave to Him as often as possible through partaking of His Most Pure Body and His Most Holy Blood! Thus here we can note the characteristics of God's chosen man:

  1. He loves Christ God with all his soul and strength and testifies to this love by his obedience to Him, his humility before Him and his heartfelt fulfillment of His commandments, commands and advice.
  2. He loves Christ with all his thoughts and therefore strives to call upon His blessed and longed-for name as often as possible, reaching the point of incessantly calling upon it. He is spiritually united with the name of Christ and, due to the inseparability of His name from Himself, is incomprehensibly united with Christ God Himself, living with Him and in Him! For this, in due time, Christ God comes to him with His Father, and They move into this person, create an abode for themselves in him and live in him! God-bearing is an exceptional quality of God’s chosen one!
  3. He loves Christ God with all his heart and therefore strives to unite with Him in the most intimate and mysterious way - through partaking of His Most Pure Body and Most Holy Blood, becoming one spirit, one soul and one body with Christ! The sign of God's chosen one is in the desire for the Cup of Life, in uniting with the Life of Christ by partaking of His Body and Blood, in the thirst for this partaking and in worthy communion of the Holy Sacraments!

So, if you easily indulge your passions, you do not love Christ and are not His chosen one. If you do not fulfill at least one of His commandments, or if you do, but formally or feignedly, you do not love Christ and testify to yourself that you are not chosen by Him.

If you do not have a thirst for communion of the Holy Mysteries, if you do not strive to live like this and do everything in your power to worthily partake of the Holy Body and Blood of the Beloved Christ as often as possible, then you do not love Him with all your heart, and therefore you are not chosen They were just called.

If you do not strive to call on the name of the Beloved Christ as often as possible so that you can live, be saturated with it and breathe it, then you do not love Christ with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your thoughts, which means you are called, but not chosen.

If you do not reject yourself in your fallen form, do not reject this world, which lies in evil and quickly passes, do not take up your cross with zeal and do not follow Christ to your Golgotha ​​along a narrow and cramped path, so that there you can be crucified with your Beloved Christ, then you are not You love Him with all your strength and are only called, but not chosen.

If you are chosen by God, it means that you do not fall under what the Holy Father said from God - Reverend Simeon New Theologian (“Creations” Volume 2, p. 560): “Whoever does not deign with all love and strong desire through humility to achieve unity with the last of the saints (i.e., union in life with the currently living accessible carrier of the Holy Spirit), but has acquired some small distrust towards him, he will in no way ever be united and will not stand on the same rank with him with the former and preceding saints, even if he imagined that he had all faith and all love for God and for all the saints. He will be rejected by them, since he failed to occupy, with the help of humility, the place that was determined by God before the ages.”

If you are only called, then you directly fall under what the monk wrote and fall into the number of those rejected by God and His saints.

Let's try with God's help, as far as it is possible for us, to look at the process of choosing people by God from His side.

We know and confess that God is Omnipotent and Omniscient. He knows any person and everything that will happen to him, his choices in life, his deeds, words and thoughts even before the creation of this person. This knowledge of God does not in any way affect a person’s choice, his actions, words and thoughts. God knows in advance exactly what a person will choose and how he will act, but this His knowledge depends on the choice and action of the person himself. Nevertheless, without influencing a person in any way with His advance knowledge about him, God cannot ignore this knowledge about him. If God, for example, sees that this person If he rejects him, He will not choose him, but will only call him on a general basis, so that he will be unrequited at His judgment. But God will reveal His non-election only after this man’s real historical rejection of God in his earthly life. A person himself can be deceived by the title and falsely believe that he is God’s chosen one.

So, the basis for the election of a person by God is the response of this particular person to God with love to His love, known in advance. God knew that I would humble myself before Him and love Him, that it was joyful, desirable and longing for me to be with Him, on His terms - and therefore He chose me (I say out of weakness, that from my mother’s womb) for one more (for me one, only) unique, intimate and inimitable love union with Him, in which there is and will not be a place for anyone else. At the same time, I am in another common union with God through the union of Christ and His Church. In this blessed union I have my place, my function, my task, my obedience and my reward. This union does not interfere with my personal union with God. God loves me personally, but He also loves me in the Church, as part of it.

I also love Him Personally, but I also love Him as the Head of the Church, the King, the High Priest and the Perfect Man! I love Him in front of everyone, as God and the Source of all my good! I love Him alone from all creation, as a person, a Person, as a spirit - Spirit, as endlessly striving for Divine perfection - Divine Perfection Itself, as called to be God by grace - God by nature! I am marvelously surprised at my God! I am amazed at Him! I admire Him endlessly! I admire Him endlessly! I praise His Perfection and His qualities! I rejoice that I have Him, and I have Him! I reverently worship His Omnipotence! I praise His Wisdom! I rejoice and cannot rejoice enough at His mercy and favor towards people! I rejoice at His amazing creativity! I thank Him for the gift of life, light, truth, salvation, grace, Kingdom, Church, purity, holiness, deification and blessedness! I am blissful from His attention to me, from His touches, from our connection in spirit! I bless Him, the Blessed One! I thank Him for everything and everyone! I insatiably glorify and glorify my Beloved God for His Divine and perfect love! I caress Him like a loving child towards its beloved mother! I ask to be held in His arms, like a little, loving son to his beloved Father, with Whom it is so good, so protective, so reliable and so blissful! I am delighted... I melt... and fall silent with my lips and mind...

Be with me, God! Do what you want!

I hope that this word of mine will bring you, your souls and hearts great benefit, will be of help and guidance!

Be chosen by God! Love God, for He first loved you! Amen!



Virgo