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  ‘We know that God has chosen you’ (2)     [1 Thessalonians 1:4-10]     Several years ago,  a pastor  from  the same presbytery  asked me to come to his church with other examination committee pastors and do the floor test for those who were  trained  his  church  to become an elder and ordained deacon.   In my memory,  I still cannot forget  that one of the testees  for the ordained deacon  asked  one of   us the  pastors this question : ‘I learned that if we b elieve in Jesus not only that  we  will be saved  but we  will not lose our salvation.   But how about if we commit sins and do things worst that the non-believers?  Will we still go to heaven?’   At that time, I heard  his  question from the side and  kind of knew what he was asking.  But I couldn’t answer his question because a pastor who was s...

  ‘We know that God has chosen you’ (1)     [1 Thessalonians 1:4-5]     A guy who used to come to our church a long time ago asked me: 'Why did God choose some to go to heaven, and didn’t choose some to go to hell?  God is unfair.'  At that time I was a middle school student and I couldn’t answer his question.  Although I thought that he could think that God is unfair, I didn’t agree with him.  Perhaps I did not agree with him because I believed that perfect God can not be unfair.  And yet, I was unable to answer his question why God chose some to go to heaven and not the others because I didn’t have strong faith or biblical knowledge to answer his question.  But now, I think I can answer his question like this: 'God's justice is that it is God's righteousness for all of us to go to hell because we all have sinned.'  But God loved us and chose us among so many people to believe in Jesus Christ...