1 Ye are the children of the LORD your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.
2 For thou art an holy people unto the LORD thy God, and the LORD hath chosen thee to be a peculiar people unto himself, above all the nations that are upon the earth.
Here Moses was telling the Israelites that God has chosen them. Chosen them?
God had chosen them and NOT any other nation or people? Chosen them above all the nations that are upon the earth. Is that fair? Was God showing favoritism toward the Israelites and discriminating against every other nation on earth? What love is this? How can God be so mean?
No! God was not showing favoritism toward the Israelites because of something they did for God is NOT a respecter of persons (Acts 10:34). Paul calls them stiff-necked (Acts 7:51), Moses calls them stiff-necked (Deuteronomy 9:6), God Himself even calls them stiff-necked (Exodus 32:9). So it was certainly not for anything Israel had done or would do that God chose them.
The point is not why God chose them, but that He DID choose them - and it wasn’t because of anything they did but it was so God’s purpose according to election would stand (Romans 9:11). And in choosing Jacob, was He was being “unfair” to every other nation on earth? NO! Nothing God does is unfair!
No one deserves mercy and no one deserves compassion. Because of Adam, every single human being conceived of man deserves Hell because no one is righteous (Romans 3:10). God grants mercy and compassion to whoever He wants (Romans 9:15). God chose Israel for the same reason He chose us to be saved and chose us to reveal the mystery of His will (Ephesians 1:5, 1:9), because of His good pleasure. This is the reason for which we were all created (Revelation 4:11).
We were created for His good pleasure.
We were created for His good pleasure.
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