{"id":1190,"date":"2022-01-30T11:56:58","date_gmt":"2022-01-30T01:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/?p=1190"},"modified":"2022-01-30T11:57:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T01:57:00","slug":"chosen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/2022\/01\/30\/chosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Chosen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Bible Reading<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Matthew 22<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Devotional Thoughts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In this story Jesus is referring to the religious leaders as the invited guests to the wedding feast of His Son. God\u2019s invitation was Jesus. Jesus came to offer them the kingdom. But, they didn\u2019t want to come. Instead they beat and even killed the messenger. So, God went and invited others. It appears that Jesus is saying that it was the \u201cothers\u201d who were the ones he chose (Matt 22:14) Many were invited\u2026 the religious leaders, the line of Judah were all invited. But, they did not deserve to come, because they rejected the invitation and abused and killed the messenger. So, God \u201cchose\u201d the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This upset the Pharisees and caused them to begin looking for ways to trap Jesus in order to build a case against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those who thought they were God\u2019s chosen people, rejected God\u2019s invitation, and were therefore not invited, and not part of the wedding feast. But, the ones God chose were not the elite, the popular, even the religious. God chose the good and bad alike. That\u2019s you and I! Those who were willing to receive His invitation, wear the wedding attire (Matt 22:12) which for us is Jesus in us ((2 Cor 5:21), and join him for the celebration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Declarations<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>I am chosen by God. Before the foundation of the world, He chose me! (Eph 1:4) He adopted me to be his son, even though he knows what I am really like. (Eph 1:5)<\/li><li>Who am I that the Lord of all the earth would care to know my name? I am chosen not because of who I am, but because of what He has done, not because of what I have done, but because of who He is!<\/li><li>God\u2019s invitation to the wedding feast of His son is given to all. God doesn\u2019t desire any to miss out on the party. But only those who choose faith in Him will get to enjoy it. I am so glad for for who I am and what He has done. I long for those who witness my life to know Him to. I want to show it through my life, and witness to it through my words.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bible Reading Matthew 22 Devotional Thoughts In this story Jesus is referring to the religious leaders as the invited guests to the wedding feast of His Son. God\u2019s invitation was Jesus. Jesus came to offer them the kingdom. But, they didn\u2019t want to come. Instead they beat and even killed the messenger. So, God went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[130596],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-declarations-of-truth","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-watters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}