"Have You Been Chosen?"

If you haven't watched 'The Chosen' yet, maybe you should. Rotten Tomatoes rates it at 99% (two thumbs way up) and so far as season one goes (they plan on 7 seasons), we agree.

In case you haven't heard, 'The Chosen' is the most successful crowd-funded television project of all time.

Though it was initially released on the Christian streaming service Vid Angel for a fee, the producers felt led by God to take a leap of faith and offer the series entirely free of charge.

Since then, funding for the project has quadrupled, and its popularity has exploded into a global phenomenon. 

'The Chosen' isn't the first major project in Hollywood to depict the life of Christ, but it is among the most unique and well done.

To view the trailer, click here: THE CHOSEN: "Trouble" trailer-youtube

And while God may use a television series to draw people to His Son (as thousands report He has), the doctrine of election (being chosen by God) is one of the most hotly debated mysteries of the Christian life.

Does God really choose us or do we choose Him?

According to Got Questions.org: "Historically, there have been two major interpretations of the concept of God's choosing us.

Behind door #1: Calvinism teaches that God's choosing means the believer has nothing to do with his own salvation; even the faith of the believer is itself a gift.

Behind door #2: Arminian teaching emphasizes the believer's choice and suggests that God's choice is based on God's knowledge of what the believer would choose.

Got Questions.org believes there is a third door: God is sovereign--He chose us before the foundation of the world (Ephesians 1-4), but He places the responsibility of faith upon the individual (Ephesians 2:8).

In other words--God chooses those who choose Him through faith in Christ.

"For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love He predestined us for adoption into His own family by bringing us to Himself through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of His will" (EPHESIANS 1: 4-5).

As the days we live in grow ever more dark and the time that remains is shorter than ever before-make your choice firm and don't delay. Today is the day of salvation. No one is promised tomorrow. 

A wise man once said: "The seal or mark of ownership in believers' lives is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our guarantee that God will give us everything He promised. Interestingly, the Greek word for guarantee can also be used to indicate an engagement ring. As Christ is the Bridegroom and the church is the bride, so the Holy Spirit is the sign we belong to Him." -- Philip W. Comfort, Ph.D.

"And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart" (JEREMIAH 29:13).

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"Are You Being Deceived?"

NEWSFLASH: We are no longer a predominantly Christian society. In fact, anti-Christian sentiment so permeates our public discourse, one would think the mere mention of Christ (except as an expletive) might actually corrupt our brains.

The end result is a people ignorant of biblical truth and polluted by sin.

The pursuit of a secular life without God leaves a spiritual vacuum that will, of necessity, be filled with deception.

Take God out and an empty, lost society will fill the void with something else. Some popular options?

• Drugs
• Alcohol
• Materialism
• Politics
• Environmentalism or some other false religion 

The Bible predicts that a time of spiritual apostacy will precede the end and pave the way for the arrival of the Antichrist.

The word apostacy comes from the Greek word apostasia which means "to defect, or to forsake the faith."

Most scholars believe this apostacy is the product of a false Christianity--people who claim to be Christian, but who don't follow Christ. These counterfeit Christians will have only the appearance of godliness, but will be devoid of the Spirit and the Truth that could save them. They are deceived into believing repentance (a change of heart in regards to Jesus and sin) is unnecessary for salvation.

According to noted theologian J. Hendryx, this issue is so critical that the church in America is in serious danger of becoming the last days Laodicean (aka 'lukewarm') church of Revelation 3...a church that left Jesus on the outside looking in.

"God deals with us personally," Hendryx said, "as those who have transgressed His law, who are hostile and in rebellion against His legitimate authority in our lives. The seriousness of man's fallen condition has often been put aside in modern churches. The casualness of our message to merely "accept Jesus" without helping people to understand our wretched condition, allows many to remain stubbornly unyielding in their sin and pride. This large scale "user-friendly" message in today's evangelical churches has given rise to hollow, unrenewed false converts who still delight in sin. Many in the church are unwilling to give the Lord their allegiance because they have not been born again."

A wise man once said: "The same Jesus who turned water into wine can transform your home, your life, your family, and your future. He is still in the miracle-working business, and His business is the business of transformation. You must be born again." -- Adrian Rogers

"Jesus answered him, 'Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God" (JOHN 3:3).

"Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come" (2 CORINTHIANS 5:17).

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