Why was Christ chosen out of the people? Speak, my heart, for heart-thoughts are best. Was it not that He might be able to be our brother, in the blest tie of kindred blood? Oh, what relationship there is between Christ and the believer! The believer can say, "I have a Brother in heaven; I may be poor, but I have a Brother who is rich, and is a King, and will He suffer me to want while He is on His throne? Oh, no! He loves me; He is my Brother." Believer, wear this blessed thought, like a necklace of diamonds, around the neck of thy memory; put it, as a golden ring, on the finger of recollection, and use it as the King's own seal, stamping the petitions of thy faith with confidence of success. He is a brother born for adversity, treat Him as such.
Christ was also chosen out of the people that He might know our wants and sympathize with us. "He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin." In all our sorrows we have His sympathy. Temptation, pain, disappointment, weakness, weariness, poverty-He knows them all, for He has felt all. Remember this, Christian, and let it comfort thee. However difficult and painful thy road, it is marked by the footsteps of thy Saviour; and even when thou reachest the dark valley of the shadow of death, and the deep waters of the swelling Jordan, thou wilt find His footprints there. In all places whithersoever we go, He has been our forerunner; each burden we have to carry, has once been laid on the shoulders of Immanuel.
"His way was much rougher and darker than mine
Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?"
Take courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track upon the road, and
consecrated the thorny path for ever.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Christ wwas promised. He did have to by free will obey God same as we and he did it perfectly. Many do not realize that Jesus could have said no.
The reason Mary was the one to receive the promise lay in her responses to Gabriel when he told her she would be having a child before even having sex. She said "behold the servant (doulos) of the lord" and "be it unto me according to thy word". She simply believed the promise of genesis 3:15 and she became the mother of God's promise to redeem man from the death Adam's disobedience visited upon us.
Also, look at the word "called" a bit more closely, Man is invited to receive the gift of holy spirit and must By free will receive it. The Greek word is kleesis and means to be invited. We get invited and we accept. Every person on earth gets that invite. Many are called but few are "chosen" few accept.
Many does not equal all, and to be chosen there is more than accepting, there is submitting.
Works are hugely important, in fact that is what we are judged by, and Jesus himself, not Paul or any other apostles had even said that "No one can call them selves my disciple unless they have cast off all they own. Given the context of the rest of his teaching, not Paul's teaching, but Jesus we can say that this was a literal ultimatum, not some meaningless saying that people dismiss it as.
So very very few will actually be chosen. Most of the church is not, but whether out of greed or simple submission they work for Mammon.
Believe it or not, Jesus is the only messages that God sent, and the only one with God's message. It seems criminal to me that everything he says is dismelissed by Christians as some poetic expression instead of taking it literal. If God sends a messenger, listen to that messenger, not someone else
So as the church lives in the world believing they are saved by their faith, they are not. Literally very few people have been saved.
The meek shall inherit the earth. Not easy, being meek.