Choosen

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Being selected
Notes based on Ps. Arman Harijanto's sermon
here is the original sermon - podcast

Our will or God's will

God, through his Son, has entered into deep communion with us.
Question:
What deep communion do we enter into with Him and His calling?
He who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source...
He is not ashamed to call them brothers, saying:..
“Behold, I and the children God has given me.”
Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
Heb 2:11.13. 14-15.
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He helps the offspring of Abraham. Therefore he had to be made like his brothers in every respect, so that he might become merciful and faithful high priest in the service of God, to make propitiation for the sins of the people. For because He himself has suffered when tempted, he is able to help those who are being tempted.
Heb 2:16-17. 18
though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
Phil 2:6-7
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Focus:
· human is His objective (not animals or plants)
· the lowest position (no excuses: "I can not" or "impossible")
· living as a regular & ordinary person (using the given resources)
This life has Fruits:
- recovery
- growth
- sacrifice in the next wave too
it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,* so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Phil 1:9-11
*may choose (discernment)
Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good & acceptable & perfect.
Rm 12:2
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.
Jn 15:16

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