“He came to His own, and His own people did not receive Him.” John 1:11 HCSB

“But I have chosen Jerusalem so that My name will be there, and I have chosen David to be over My people Israel.””

2 Chronicles 6:6 HCSB

https://www.bible.com/72/2ch.6.6.hcsb

“Happy is the nation whose God is Yahweh — the people He has chosen to be His own possession!”

Psalms 33:12 HCSB

https://www.bible.com/72/psa.33.12.hcsb

“For you are a holy people belonging to the Lord your God. The Lord your God has chosen you to be His own possession out of all the peoples on the face of the earth.”

Deuteronomy 7:6 HCSB

https://www.bible.com/72/deu.7.6.hcsb

“They will not build and others live in them; they will not plant and others eat. For My people’s lives will be like the lifetime of a tree. My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.”

Isaiah 65:22 HCSB

https://www.bible.com/72/isa.65.22.hcsb

Israel is God’s chosen people! He continues to watch over them. 

“But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for His possession, so that you may proclaim the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.”

1 Peter 2:9 HCSB

https://www.bible.com/72/1pe.2.9.hcsb

We have been chosen to be with Israel as his chosen people. We have been grafted into the olive tree God planted with Abraham, Noah, and Adam (Romans 11). Remember God has chosen us. 

“You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.”

John 15:16 HCSB

https://www.bible.com/72/jhn.15.16.hcsb

We are in the olive tree. And the olive tree is there to support us, feed us, and cause us to produce fruit. God wants us to be fruitful and we will! But the question he have to ask is what kind of fruit are we bearing?

“I say then, walk by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desire of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is against the Spirit, and the Spirit desires what is against the flesh; these are opposed to each other, so that you don’t do what you want. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity, idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance — as I told you before — that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control. Against such things there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, we must also follow the Spirit. We must not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.”

Galatians 5:16-26 HCSB

https://www.bible.com/72/gal.5.16-26.hcsb

Are we reaping fruit of the flesh or fruit of the spirit?