Sermon 8.7.16 Loved and Chosen by God video

Loved and Chosen by God
August 7, 2016
Rev Bill Snyder
1 Thessalonians 1:1-5

Sermon References

An Elect People

1 Thessalonians 1:4
For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you (ESV)

1 Thessalonians 1:4
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God (KJV)

Salvation Begins with God

John 15:16
You did not choose Me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain, that whatever you ask the Father in My name He may give you. (NKJV)

"This earth exists for one thing, to display the Glory of God"
--Rev. Bill Snyder

Ephesians 1:4-6
4) just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, 5) having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, 6) to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. (NKJV)

Salvation Involves God's Love

1 Thessalonians 1:4
For we know, brothers loved by God, that he has chosen you (ESV)

Romans 5:8
but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (ESV)

Salvation Involves Faith

Ephesians 2:8
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, (ESV)

1 Thessalonians 1:8
For not only has the word of the Lord sounded forth from you in Macedonia and Achaia, but your faith in God has gone forth everywhere, so that we need not say anything. (ESV)

Romans 10:13-14, 17
13) For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. 14) How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher? 17) So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. (KJV)

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