For many are called, but few are chosen.

Key Text: Matthew 22:14 — “For many are called, but few are chosen.”

 

You will agree with me that not everyone invited to an event actually attends that event.

Conversely, not everyone who attended the event were invited.

 

We see in the parable that the King organized his feast in the best way, and invited everyone from all classes of people, but only the classes of the people that live in the highways came to the feast.

                While in the feast, there was one without a garment who was cast out.

The system of choosing few from many has been the lot for almost throughout earth’s history.

¾     Genesis 7:7 – Noah, his wife, his sons and his son’s wives, eight in all were the only Ones who saved from the flood that destroyed the earth.

¾     Genesis 19:16 – Lot, his wife and two daughters were chosen to be saved from the destruction that befell Sodom and Gomorrah. Though Lot’s wife by her actions chose to look back and became a pillar of salt.

¾     Exodus 19:4 – God bore Israel on eagle’s wings and slew the Egyptians; Exodus 33:19 -  I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious to… ¾ The people whom God was gracious to were the Israelites, not because of their greatness. Deuteronomy 9:1-7 makes us understand the unworthiness of the Israelites both in appearance and character, but they were chosen.

It came to the birth of Jesus, and Jesus was born to the low class of people, He grew up among the low people and even the elites, but when He was to choose His disciples, He selected few, who could easily be seen as unworthy by men.

                Infarct, the way that leads to life is a narrow way, its gate is a narrow gate, only few find it.

On the contrary, the gate that leads to destruction is wide and many go in by it.

Many have been called over the millennia, at a point in earth’s history, many people were seen to be keeping God’s commands but as he who received the seed on stony places, when tribulation or persecution arose, they were many who stumbled (Matthew 13:20,21).

 

God’s word does not change because of the number, God destroyed the entire earth of giants (Genesis 6:4) with flood, He will destroy the whole earth of sin soon.

 

Will you follow others to sin against God, simply because the people doing this are in great number?

 

Remember, Heaven and Earth may pass away but God’s word will never pass away ¾ Luke 21:33

The Seventh-Day Adventist is the only Christian denomination that holds onto the teachings of the Bible, the Seventh-Day Adventist appears also to have few members when compared to other Christian denominations and other religions.

 We uphold the Sabbath Commandment among others, but very many other denominations observe Sunday as the Sabbath. While some denominations may observe the Seventh-day Sabbath, they introduce false teachings.

But let us not think that we are saved by the church we have our membership in, even at the wedding there was One who was cast out for not having the wedding garment on.

                We can be in the church and be so lost, without the renewing of the mind (Romans 12:2), without believing in Jesus, we can by no means be saved (John 3:16).
So, in a nutshell, even in the Remnant Church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the few, not even all the members may be saved.

                Our example should be Christ, He is the Way, the Truth and the Life ¾ John 14:6.

                We should never leave the church because of someone, or something. Jesus would never fail, our eyes should be on Him.

                Remember, the broad way that leads to destruction can accommodate the crowd, but the narrow way can be found by few.

               

                Many are called, but few are chosen.