Being chosen means you get to tell everybody else what to think, what to do, and how to do it. Of course, there's a charge for that.
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[I]f the root is holy, so are the branches. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, a wild olive shoot, were grafted in their place to share the richness of the olive tree, do not boast over the branches. If you do boast, remember it is not you that support the root, but the root that supports you. ... For if you have been cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these natural branches be grafted back into their own olive tree. ... For the gifts and the call of God are irrevocable.
-- Romans 11:16ff.
