CHOSEN GENERATION

Text:  Mark 1:16-20

Introduction:

Ps 139:14 I will praise thee for I am wonderfully made ...

He says 'I will make you fishers of men.......'  Always looking for somebody to transform his life.

Reasons for calling

1.  Failure Lk 5.5       -  Astonished  Lk 5:7-9

2. Sick  Mk 9:2,    John 5:9-11 - palsy

3. Provision  Lk 19:42,  Is 45:2-3,  Matt 6:26-34

4. Dead Lk 7:14

5. Deliverance Mk 5:1-11

6. Hopelessness Acts 3:1-11

7. Blind 10:49 stood still

8. Sinners - Lk 5:32  to call sinners to repentance

                      - Lk 19:10  to seek the lost

                                 -  Woman caught in adultery

Those that refused

1.  Are condemned  John 3:36

2. Cursed  Gal 3:10  cursed be whoever refuses to continue to do whatever is written in the book of the law.

3. Always sorrowful Matt 19:21-22

How to follow Him

1.  Mk 1:20  leaving all and forgetting the past

2. Gen 17:1  Walk before Him

3. Deut 25.26,  28:1  Obey Him

4. James 4:7 Surrender and submit to His control

Conclusion:

- He chose His disciples

- You were chosen to be here today

- You have been chosen for the redemptive rights, and

- Also chosen to be with Him eternally.