John 15:16

Ye have not chosen me; they had not first chosen him, but he had chosen them; and their choice of him was the fruit of his choice of them. 1 John 4:19.

Ordained you; set you apart to the work to which I have called you.

That your fruit should remain; that the precious results of your holy labor should remain to the world for all time, and to yourselves and the souls saved by your instrumentality throughout eternity.

That whatsoever ye shall ask of the Father; to be connected, like the preceding clause, immediately with "I have ordained you." The appointment that they should go and bring forth fruit, and that their prayers to the Father should be answered, are both parts of one whole. The originating cause of the salvation of men is not their love to God, or their choosing him as their portion, but his love to them, and his choosing them to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth. 2 Thessalonians 2:13; Ephesians 1:4-5.