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 Okay, team, we continue our series in the doctrines of grace.

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 If we were to pose to Scripture the question, take me to the very beginning of my salvation,

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! the very dawn of its unfolding, the very fountainhead of its first springs, where would

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 Scripture lead us? Its answer is a beginning before our beginning. It would trace the fountainhead

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 of our salvation to an ancient choice. What do we mean by ancient? If our thoughts could

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 strain to make the journey, back to the beginning of time, back when the morning stars were begotten

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 and the galaxies sprang forth and the sun and the moon were launched into their orbs by the

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 word of God's mouth, back farther still when our created world slept in the mind of the

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 Creator. There, we, the elect people, before we even had a created existence, were the objects

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 of God's loving purpose. But here, inevitably, words fail. For how could we designate a time

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 before time? The Apostle's phrase is simple, yet majestic. Before the foundations of the world.

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 Ephesians 1.4. It was then the triune God set their loving choice upon their beloved, a people who would

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 become the everlasting bride of the Son who would take on flesh. There is the fountainhead of our salvation,

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 an ancient choice and purpose of God, an ancient compact of Father, Son, and Spirit to unite

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 everlastingly with the people of their sovereign, gracious love. Across the pages of Scripture,

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 the objects of this ancient choice are called God's elect. The Apostle expresses to the Thessalonian

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 believers, we are bound to give thanks always for you, brothers and sisters, beloved of the Lord,

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 because God has, from the beginning, chosen you to salvation. 1 Thessalonians 2.13 and 14.

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 Spurgeon once said of this verse,

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 If there were no other text in the sacred word except this one, I think we should all be bound to

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 receive and acknowledge the truthfulness of the great and glorious doctrine of God's

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 ancient choice of God's life. True enough, it would suffice, but it need not, for such assertions

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 crowd the sacred text. From Abram chosen out of all the multitude of nations and their brimming

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 population, through the patriarchs and through Israel, as the psalmist exclaims in wonder,

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 blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his inheritance.

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 Psalm 33.12.

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 At the coming of Christ, we have his choosing of a new Israel in union with himself, the twelve.

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 You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, John 15.16.

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 A new people of his choice, elect from every tongue, tribe, and nation, described as, quote,

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 chosen and destined by God the Father. 1 Peter 1.12.

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 Some of those elect now gathered around the heavenly throne.

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 Others in the midst of their earthly pilgrimage of faith.

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 Others still chosen, but yet to be gathered by the proclamation of the gospel.

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 As the apostle Paul wrote momentarily in prison as he sought to reach the ends of the earth with his gospel

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 proclamation, I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain salvation

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 that is in Christ Jesus, 2 Timothy 2.10.

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 So God chooses his elect.

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 The expression is really redundant, for that's precisely what elect means.

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 Chosen.

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 As to the basis of this ancient choice, we are not told what inspired or revoked it,

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 other than God's good pleasure expressed in the language of love.

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 He simply declares of Christ's bride to be,

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 I have loved you with an everlasting love.

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 Jeremiah 33.3.

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 Or as Moses told the Israelites,

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 Behold, to the Lord your God belong heaven and the heaven of heavens,

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 the earth and all that is in it.

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 Yet the Lord has set his heart in love on your fathers

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 and chose their offspring after them, you above all the peoples.

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 Deuteronomy 10.14 and 15.

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 Though beyond his own distinguishing love,

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 we are not told what his choice is based upon,

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 it is clearly disclosed to us what it is not based upon.

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 It is not based upon our worthiness.

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 As if the choice were somehow predictable and evident by virtue of some distinguishing quality in us,

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 the beloved.

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 As if the choice were elicited and found its source and origin in some attractiveness or excellency

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 or comparatively surpassing virtue of our own.

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 No.

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 The testimony of Scripture is uniform and forceful in shutting the door on that supposition.

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 As Moses assured Israel concerning God's choice of them,

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 The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession

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 out of all the peoples who were on the face of the earth.

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 It was not because you were more in number than the other peoples

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 that the Lord set his love on you and chose you.

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 For you were the fewest of all the peoples.

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 Note bene, don't flatter yourself.

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 No, it was because the Lord loves you.

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 Deuteronomy 7.6 and 7.

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 It is as if Scripture knew such a supposition would naturally occur to us.

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 The recipients of his loving choice.

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 Imagining that something native to us caught the divine eye

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 and ensorcelled his heart and so elicited his choice.

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 We flatter ourselves to imagine his choice of us as somehow explicable

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 in virtue of our superiority, whether number or character

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 or some endearing attractiveness relative to others.

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 That the ground of God's selection of us is our blue ribbon qualities.

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 Bigger, better, faster, stronger, wiser, more virtuous, more faithful, more pious.

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 And so more worthy than the competition.

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 Such a notion the Scriptures soundly dispel.

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 Such self-congratulatory fancy is snuffed out.

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 Taking the very categories we naturally think might commend us to God's choice of us.

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 Eye-catching wisdom, power, nobility, strength.

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 The apostle writes to the believers in Corinth.

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 For consider your calling, brothers and sisters.

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 Not many of you were wise according to worldly standards.

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 Not many were powerful.

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 Not many were of noble birth.

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 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise.

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 God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

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 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even the things that are not,

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 to bring to nothing things that are,

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 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.

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 1 Corinthians 1, 27-29.

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 Spurgeon observes of this passage getting to the heart of the matter as he always does.

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 We select those who are best because they are most deserving.

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 He, God, selects those who are worst because they are least deserving.

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 That so his choice may be more clearly seen to be an act of grace and not of merit.

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 Spurgeon goes on to observe how very gracious God's choice is.

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 For he writes, what a fabulous thought this is.

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 God's choice is gracious even in its exclusion.

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 It does not say, Spurgeon writes, not any wise man.

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 It only says not many.

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 So that the great ones are not altogether shut out.

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 Isn't that marvelous?

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 Even gracious in his exclusion.

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 At least one is appreciated at this point.

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 The Countess of Huntington of English nobility upon reading these verses exclaimed,

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 Thank God for the M.

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 Thankfully, it does not say not any of noble birth, but not many of noble birth.

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 Thank God for the M.

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 Clearly, Scripture inscribes false over the notion that it is anything in us,

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 whether nobility or ignobility,

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 or any virtue or excellency or religious or moral exertions

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 or attainments that elicit God's choice.

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 As the Apostle insists concerning God's election,

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 it depends not on human will or exertion,

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 but on God who has mercy.

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 Romans 9, 16.

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 One vivid way Scripture rather forcefully makes this point,

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 excluding our imagined superior profile or fancied worthiness

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 and underscoring its sheer graciousness,

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 is by asserting that God's choice of his own

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 was before they had any possible worthiness at all,

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 for it was a choice of them before they were born.

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 Thus, before they could have assembled some supposedly impressive,

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 morally majestic, or religiously resplendent CV.

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 As the Apostle presses,

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 taking the example of the twins,

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 Jacob and Esau,

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 I mean twins,

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 I mean about as close as you can get,

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 He writes,

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 though they were not yet born

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 and had done nothing,

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 either good or bad,

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 in order that God's purpose of election might continue,

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 not because of works,

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 but because of him who calls,

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 she, the mother,

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 was told the older will serve the younger.

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 As it is written,

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 Jacob I have loved,

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 but Esau,

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 I hate it.

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 Romans 9,

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 11 through 13.

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 To clarify the matter,

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 we might frame the question this way.

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 What is cause,

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 and what effect?

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 Does God's choice flow from our goodness,

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 good works as scripture often terms it,

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 or do our good works flow from God's choice?

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 which is the cause,

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 which the effect?

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 Here again,

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 the scripture is crystal clear.

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 As the Apostle writes to the Ephesians,

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 even as God chose us in Christ

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 before the foundation of the world,

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 that we should be holy and blameless before him.

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 1-4.

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 That,

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 we should be holy,

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 expresses purpose.

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 We are chosen not from our good works,

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 but for good works.

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 Why is this so seemingly important

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 for scripture to clarify?

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 Because there is a vital principle

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 and purpose at stake.

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 The insistent principle

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 is what we have abundantly seen,

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 that God's choice of his elect

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 is gracious.

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 It is all of grace.

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 God's choice is according to his own free favor,

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 utterly unconstrained

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 or influenced

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 by anything that arises

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 from the objects of his choice.

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 There is no cause

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 or trigger

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 of God's choice

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 in the elect.

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 The ground and cause

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 has its source

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 and sustenance

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 entirely

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 and exclusively

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 in the heart of God

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 and his heart purposes.

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 There is in the gospel

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 an illuminating phrase

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 Jesus said of

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 those full of animosity

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 toward him

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 they hated me

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 without a cause.

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 John 15 25

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 That is,

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 they hated me

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 without there being

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 any cause in me

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 to elicit their hatred.

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 It arose entirely

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 from their own heart stance.

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 And so it is

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 with God's loving election

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 where we might equally say

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 God lovingly elected me

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 without a cause.

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 That is,

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 without a cause in me.

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 Literally in the Greek

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 gratuitously

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 or gift wise.

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 One might even

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 translate that

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 graciously.

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 They hated me

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 graciously.

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 And why

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 is this

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 of crucial significance?

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 That God's election

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 of his beloved

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 is a gracious choice.

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 grace.

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 Ah,

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 because

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 it is his grace

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 that God seeks

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 marvelously to display.

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 It is his grace

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 that is so praiseworthy.

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 As the apostle

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 writes to the Ephesians,

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 God chose us

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 according to the purpose

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 of his will

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 to

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 the praise

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 of his glorious

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 grace.

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 Ephesians 1.6

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 That is,

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 the unfathomable

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 graciousness

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 of his electing

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 choice of his people

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 will be the

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 ceaseless theme

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 of God's

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 eternal praise.

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 The great

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 non-perial display

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 of his glory.

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 And because

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 his electing love

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 is all of grace,

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 without a moat

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 of credit

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 going to us,

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 so shall

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 no speck

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 of praise

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 be transferred

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 from the creator

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 to the creature.

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 All of grace

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 means

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 none of us.

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 Not to us.

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 Not to us,

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 O Lord.

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 But to thy name

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 be glory.

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 Psalm 115.1

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 Thus,

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 there is not

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 a dry

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 morsel of credit

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 to energize

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 a breath

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 of self-congratulation.

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 So,

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 as the apostle

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 expresses it,

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 so that

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 no human being

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 might boast

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 in the presence

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 of God.

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 1 Corinthians 1.29

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 This

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 is what is

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 at stake

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 and the ultimate

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 purpose

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 behind the principle,

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 God's exclusive

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 and unrivaled

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 glory

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 with which

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 he will share

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 with none.

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 For as

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 Jehovah declares,

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 I am the Lord.

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 That is

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 my name.

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 My glory

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 I will give

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 to no

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 other.

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 Isaiah 42.8

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 Now,

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 if,

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 or rather

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 since,

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 this is

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 indeed

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 the testimony

00:18:20.019 --> 00:18:20.680
 of Scripture

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 that God

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 elects to salvation

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 those he will

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 passing over

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 others

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 according to

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 his sovereign

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 unconstrained

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 choice,

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 perhaps

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 one may

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 feel

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 what we

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 might call

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 splinters

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 in our

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 sensibilities.

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 Let us

00:18:43.179 --> 00:18:44.139
 acknowledge

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 and interrogate

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 some of

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 these splinters.

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 Here's

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 one

00:18:51.779 --> 00:18:52.539
 which has

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 been voiced

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 and

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 perhaps

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 we may

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 feel,

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 we ourselves

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 may feel it,

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 maybe even

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 forcefully.

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 if

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 God

00:19:03.959 --> 00:19:05.019
 chooses

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 some

00:19:05.659 --> 00:19:06.379
 to life

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 and not

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 others

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 based

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 alone

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 on his

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 sovereign

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 choice,

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 that

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 doesn't

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 seem

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 fair.

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 A

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 distinguishing

00:19:21.019 --> 00:19:21.619
 love?

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 A

00:19:23.599 --> 00:19:24.259
 choice

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 of some

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 and not

00:19:25.819 --> 00:19:26.339
 others?

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 Jacob,

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 have I

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 loved?

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 Esau,

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 have I

00:19:30.159 --> 00:19:30.500
 hated?

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 This is a

00:19:32.339 --> 00:19:33.379
 hard saying.

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 Who can

00:19:34.220 --> 00:19:34.779
 hear it?

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 It

00:19:39.740 --> 00:19:40.059
 certainly

00:19:40.059 --> 00:19:40.839
 cuts against

00:19:40.839 --> 00:19:41.399
 our

00:19:41.399 --> 00:19:42.339
 contemporary

00:19:42.339 --> 00:19:43.019
 notion

00:19:43.019 --> 00:19:44.220
 that

00:19:44.220 --> 00:19:45.079
 none

00:19:45.079 --> 00:19:45.639
 should get

00:19:45.639 --> 00:19:46.019
 favored

00:19:46.019 --> 00:19:46.619
 treatment.

00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:48.480
 It

00:19:48.480 --> 00:19:49.379
 rubs us

00:19:49.379 --> 00:19:49.819
 the wrong

00:19:49.819 --> 00:19:50.299
 way,

00:19:50.539 --> 00:19:50.679
 that

00:19:50.679 --> 00:19:51.740
 anyone

00:19:51.740 --> 00:19:52.299
 should get

00:19:52.299 --> 00:19:53.159
 anything

00:19:53.159 --> 00:19:53.740
 not given

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 to all.

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 Indeed,

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 in our

00:19:57.300 --> 00:19:57.760
 times,

00:19:58.100 --> 00:19:58.740
 this is a

00:19:58.740 --> 00:19:59.340
 sensibility

00:19:59.340 --> 00:20:00.820
 on steroids.

00:20:02.660 --> 00:20:03.580
 John Rawls,

00:20:03.600 --> 00:20:03.980
 the political

00:20:03.980 --> 00:20:04.400
 theorist,

00:20:04.440 --> 00:20:05.120
 asserts that

00:20:05.120 --> 00:20:06.000
 our liberal

00:20:06.000 --> 00:20:06.640
 democracy

00:20:06.640 --> 00:20:07.060
 here in

00:20:07.060 --> 00:20:07.400
 America

00:20:07.400 --> 00:20:08.580
 is based

00:20:08.580 --> 00:20:09.880
 on this

00:20:09.880 --> 00:20:10.340
 notion

00:20:10.340 --> 00:20:11.160
 of fairness.

00:20:14.280 --> 00:20:15.140
 But

00:20:15.140 --> 00:20:15.960
 the

00:20:15.960 --> 00:20:16.300
 scriptures

00:20:16.300 --> 00:20:17.860
 challenge

00:20:17.860 --> 00:20:18.620
 this

00:20:18.620 --> 00:20:19.560
 sensibility

00:20:19.560 --> 00:20:21.140
 and

00:20:21.140 --> 00:20:22.240
 reframe

00:20:22.240 --> 00:20:22.660
 the

00:20:22.660 --> 00:20:23.240
 relevant

00:20:23.240 --> 00:20:24.180
 issue.

00:20:24.380 --> 00:20:25.940
 they

00:20:25.940 --> 00:20:26.360
 recognize

00:20:26.360 --> 00:20:26.660
 the

00:20:26.660 --> 00:20:27.040
 objection

00:20:27.040 --> 00:20:27.860
 but

00:20:27.860 --> 00:20:28.760
 pose

00:20:28.760 --> 00:20:29.460
 a

00:20:29.460 --> 00:20:29.760
 counter

00:20:29.760 --> 00:20:30.300
 question.

00:20:33.580 --> 00:20:34.440
 As

00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:34.860
 the

00:20:34.860 --> 00:20:35.280
 apostle

00:20:35.280 --> 00:20:36.540
 states

00:20:36.540 --> 00:20:37.020
 in Romans

00:20:37.020 --> 00:20:37.400
 9,

00:20:37.480 --> 00:20:38.000
 14,

00:20:38.700 --> 00:20:39.200
 what shall

00:20:39.200 --> 00:20:39.640
 we say

00:20:39.640 --> 00:20:40.000
 then?

00:20:41.080 --> 00:20:41.760
 Is there

00:20:41.760 --> 00:20:42.560
 injustice

00:20:42.560 --> 00:20:43.400
 on God's

00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:43.820
 part?

00:20:44.820 --> 00:20:46.120
 By no

00:20:46.120 --> 00:20:47.060
 means.

00:20:47.780 --> 00:20:48.280
 For God

00:20:48.280 --> 00:20:48.760
 says to

00:20:48.760 --> 00:20:49.080
 Moses,

00:20:49.700 --> 00:20:50.220
 I will

00:20:50.220 --> 00:20:51.060
 have mercy

00:20:51.060 --> 00:20:52.220
 on whom

00:20:52.220 --> 00:20:52.640
 I will

00:20:52.640 --> 00:20:53.440
 have mercy.

00:20:53.440 --> 00:20:54.779
 and I

00:20:54.779 --> 00:20:55.180
 will have

00:20:55.180 --> 00:20:55.840
 compassion

00:20:55.840 --> 00:20:56.740
 on whom

00:20:56.740 --> 00:20:57.420
 I will

00:20:57.420 --> 00:20:57.820
 have

00:20:57.820 --> 00:20:58.539
 compassion.

00:21:00.759 --> 00:21:01.960
 That is

00:21:01.960 --> 00:21:02.180
 the

00:21:02.180 --> 00:21:02.539
 scriptures

00:21:02.539 --> 00:21:03.940
 response

00:21:03.940 --> 00:21:04.880
 to our

00:21:04.880 --> 00:21:06.440
 dis-ease

00:21:06.440 --> 00:21:07.940
 with

00:21:07.940 --> 00:21:08.759
 an

00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:09.480
 assertion

00:21:09.480 --> 00:21:10.600
 of God's

00:21:10.600 --> 00:21:11.160
 sovereign

00:21:11.160 --> 00:21:12.240
 prerogative.

00:21:13.200 --> 00:21:13.620
 He has

00:21:13.620 --> 00:21:14.220
 mercy

00:21:14.220 --> 00:21:15.600
 on whomever

00:21:15.600 --> 00:21:16.080
 he

00:21:16.080 --> 00:21:17.120
 wills.

00:21:17.720 --> 00:21:17.900
 Verse

00:21:17.900 --> 00:21:18.299
 18.

00:21:19.460 --> 00:21:20.400
 This is

00:21:20.400 --> 00:21:20.600
 the

00:21:20.600 --> 00:21:21.120
 decisive

00:21:21.120 --> 00:21:21.700
 answer.

00:21:22.640 --> 00:21:23.200
 But the

00:21:23.200 --> 00:21:23.540
 apostle

00:21:23.540 --> 00:21:24.280
 recognizes

00:21:24.280 --> 00:21:24.680
 that for

00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:25.000
 some

00:21:25.000 --> 00:21:25.240
 this

00:21:25.240 --> 00:21:26.660
 dis-ease

00:21:26.660 --> 00:21:27.740
 may not

00:21:27.740 --> 00:21:28.300
 be entirely

00:21:28.300 --> 00:21:28.880
 set to

00:21:28.880 --> 00:21:29.360
 rest

00:21:29.360 --> 00:21:30.259
 by this.

00:21:30.820 --> 00:21:31.300
 Puzzles

00:21:31.300 --> 00:21:31.840
 persist.

00:21:33.080 --> 00:21:33.660
 So he

00:21:33.660 --> 00:21:34.160
 continues.

00:21:34.960 --> 00:21:35.540
 Will you

00:21:35.540 --> 00:21:35.860
 say to

00:21:35.860 --> 00:21:36.280
 me then,

00:21:36.500 --> 00:21:37.420
 why does

00:21:37.420 --> 00:21:37.960
 God still

00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:38.560
 find fault

00:21:38.560 --> 00:21:38.920
 for who

00:21:38.920 --> 00:21:39.440
 can resist

00:21:39.440 --> 00:21:40.040
 his will?

00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:42.440
 Ah,

00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:43.120
 but this

00:21:43.120 --> 00:21:43.940
 persistent

00:21:43.940 --> 00:21:44.580
 question

00:21:44.580 --> 00:21:45.820
 fails to

00:21:45.820 --> 00:21:46.480
 recognize

00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:47.720
 whose

00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:48.559
 will

00:21:48.559 --> 00:21:50.120
 it is

00:21:50.120 --> 00:21:51.120
 we are

00:21:51.120 --> 00:21:51.480
 speaking

00:21:51.480 --> 00:21:51.839
 of.

00:21:52.880 --> 00:21:53.599
 It is

00:21:53.599 --> 00:21:54.120
 the will

00:21:54.120 --> 00:21:54.559
 of the

00:21:54.559 --> 00:21:55.299
 creator

00:21:55.299 --> 00:21:56.539
 who

00:21:56.539 --> 00:21:57.559
 as

00:21:57.559 --> 00:21:58.460
 creator

00:21:58.460 --> 00:21:59.400
 has

00:21:59.400 --> 00:21:59.980
 sovereign

00:21:59.980 --> 00:22:00.539
 rights

00:22:00.539 --> 00:22:01.819
 over his

00:22:01.819 --> 00:22:02.420
 creatures.

00:22:05.099 --> 00:22:06.180
 So as the

00:22:06.180 --> 00:22:06.860
 apostle insists,

00:22:07.299 --> 00:22:07.980
 who are

00:22:07.980 --> 00:22:08.700
 you,

00:22:09.120 --> 00:22:09.860
 O man,

00:22:10.360 --> 00:22:11.120
 to answer

00:22:11.120 --> 00:22:11.680
 back to

00:22:11.680 --> 00:22:12.259
 God?

00:22:13.059 --> 00:22:13.500
 Will

00:22:13.500 --> 00:22:13.900
 what is

00:22:13.900 --> 00:22:14.680
 molded

00:22:14.680 --> 00:22:15.700
 say to

00:22:15.700 --> 00:22:15.880
 the

00:22:15.880 --> 00:22:16.340
 molder?

00:22:17.100 --> 00:22:17.400
 Why

00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:17.600
 have

00:22:17.600 --> 00:22:17.740
 you

00:22:17.740 --> 00:22:17.980
 made

00:22:17.980 --> 00:22:18.120
 me

00:22:18.120 --> 00:22:18.360
 like

00:22:18.360 --> 00:22:18.799
 this?

00:22:19.880 --> 00:22:20.340
 Has

00:22:20.340 --> 00:22:20.600
 the

00:22:20.600 --> 00:22:21.160
 potter

00:22:21.160 --> 00:22:21.420
 no

00:22:21.420 --> 00:22:21.759
 right

00:22:21.759 --> 00:22:22.080
 over

00:22:22.080 --> 00:22:22.279
 the

00:22:22.279 --> 00:22:22.640
 clay

00:22:22.640 --> 00:22:23.120
 to

00:22:23.120 --> 00:22:23.380
 make

00:22:23.380 --> 00:22:23.660
 out

00:22:23.660 --> 00:22:23.840
 of

00:22:23.840 --> 00:22:24.460
 some,

00:22:25.460 --> 00:22:25.720
 out

00:22:25.720 --> 00:22:25.819
 of

00:22:25.819 --> 00:22:25.980
 the

00:22:25.980 --> 00:22:26.240
 same

00:22:26.240 --> 00:22:26.620
 lump,

00:22:26.900 --> 00:22:27.400
 one

00:22:27.400 --> 00:22:27.799
 vessel

00:22:27.799 --> 00:22:28.080
 for

00:22:28.080 --> 00:22:28.519
 honorable

00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:29.059
 use,

00:22:29.519 --> 00:22:29.779
 and

00:22:29.779 --> 00:22:30.120
 another

00:22:30.120 --> 00:22:30.440
 for

00:22:30.440 --> 00:22:31.019
 dishonorable

00:22:31.019 --> 00:22:31.559
 use?

00:22:32.480 --> 00:22:33.180
 Verse 20

00:22:33.180 --> 00:22:33.980
 and 21.

00:22:35.680 --> 00:22:36.380
 Notice

00:22:36.380 --> 00:22:37.360
 the

00:22:37.360 --> 00:22:37.860
 apostles

00:22:37.860 --> 00:22:39.480
 reframing

00:22:39.480 --> 00:22:40.240
 the issue

00:22:40.240 --> 00:22:41.059
 from one

00:22:41.059 --> 00:22:41.200
 of

00:22:41.200 --> 00:22:42.539
 fairness,

00:22:43.799 --> 00:22:44.819
 whatever

00:22:44.819 --> 00:22:45.720
 shape-shifting

00:22:45.720 --> 00:22:46.500
 sense that

00:22:46.500 --> 00:22:48.179
 term has,

00:22:48.619 --> 00:22:49.619
 to

00:22:49.619 --> 00:22:51.019
 justice.

00:22:52.200 --> 00:22:52.859
 Is there

00:22:52.859 --> 00:22:54.299
 injustice on

00:22:54.299 --> 00:22:54.919
 God's part

00:22:54.919 --> 00:22:55.480
 by no

00:22:55.480 --> 00:22:56.079
 means?

00:22:56.460 --> 00:22:57.159
 Verse 14.

00:22:58.639 --> 00:22:59.240
 Jesus

00:22:59.240 --> 00:23:00.179
 takes up

00:23:00.179 --> 00:23:00.960
 the same

00:23:00.960 --> 00:23:01.599
 question

00:23:01.599 --> 00:23:03.159
 and answers

00:23:03.159 --> 00:23:04.139
 it in the

00:23:04.139 --> 00:23:05.259
 same key

00:23:05.259 --> 00:23:05.799
 as the

00:23:05.799 --> 00:23:06.220
 apostle.

00:23:07.439 --> 00:23:07.919
 In his

00:23:07.919 --> 00:23:08.539
 parable of the

00:23:08.539 --> 00:23:09.179
 laborers in the

00:23:09.179 --> 00:23:09.539
 vineyard,

00:23:09.659 --> 00:23:10.480
 Matthew 20,

00:23:10.480 --> 00:23:11.799
 at day's

00:23:11.799 --> 00:23:12.380
 end,

00:23:12.980 --> 00:23:13.120
 the

00:23:13.120 --> 00:23:13.660
 master

00:23:13.660 --> 00:23:14.579
 pays

00:23:14.579 --> 00:23:15.180
 some

00:23:15.180 --> 00:23:16.539
 a day's

00:23:16.539 --> 00:23:17.200
 wage

00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:18.120
 for a

00:23:18.120 --> 00:23:18.579
 day's

00:23:18.579 --> 00:23:19.099
 work.

00:23:19.940 --> 00:23:20.400
 Good to

00:23:20.400 --> 00:23:21.099
 his pledge

00:23:21.099 --> 00:23:22.039
 to give

00:23:22.039 --> 00:23:23.259
 whatever

00:23:23.259 --> 00:23:24.360
 is right.

00:23:25.220 --> 00:23:25.779
 Verse 4.

00:23:27.039 --> 00:23:27.680
 He acts

00:23:27.680 --> 00:23:28.420
 in regard

00:23:28.420 --> 00:23:29.140
 to some

00:23:29.140 --> 00:23:30.779
 according

00:23:30.779 --> 00:23:31.740
 to strict

00:23:31.740 --> 00:23:32.660
 justice.

00:23:33.759 --> 00:23:34.420
 To others,

00:23:34.640 --> 00:23:35.700
 astonishingly,

00:23:35.819 --> 00:23:36.519
 he gives

00:23:36.519 --> 00:23:37.660
 with extravagant

00:23:37.660 --> 00:23:38.339
 generosity

00:23:38.339 --> 00:23:39.419
 a whole

00:23:39.419 --> 00:23:40.059
 day's

00:23:40.059 --> 00:23:40.639
 pay

00:23:40.639 --> 00:23:41.480
 for a

00:23:41.480 --> 00:23:41.659
 mere

00:23:41.659 --> 00:23:42.579
 hour's

00:23:42.579 --> 00:23:43.039
 work.

00:23:43.799 --> 00:23:44.319
 He acts

00:23:44.319 --> 00:23:45.279
 according

00:23:45.279 --> 00:23:46.879
 to grace.

00:23:48.179 --> 00:23:49.079
 When those

00:23:49.079 --> 00:23:49.500
 dealt with

00:23:49.500 --> 00:23:50.059
 according to

00:23:50.059 --> 00:23:50.259
 strict

00:23:50.259 --> 00:23:50.679
 justice

00:23:50.679 --> 00:23:51.439
 grumbled

00:23:51.439 --> 00:23:53.059
 and protested,

00:23:53.740 --> 00:23:54.199
 the master

00:23:54.199 --> 00:23:54.879
 replies,

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 Friend,

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 I am

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 doing you

00:23:58.319 --> 00:23:58.980
 no wrong.

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 Did you

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 not agree

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 with me

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 for a

00:24:01.980 --> 00:24:02.500
 denarius,

00:24:02.899 --> 00:24:03.480
 a day's

00:24:03.480 --> 00:24:03.959
 wage

00:24:03.959 --> 00:24:04.299
 for a

00:24:04.299 --> 00:24:04.659
 day's

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 work?

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 Take

00:24:06.919 --> 00:24:07.639
 what belongs

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 to you

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 and go.

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 I choose

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 to give

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 to this

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 last worker

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 graciously.

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 Am I

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 not allowed

00:24:18.700 --> 00:24:19.740
 to do

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 what I

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 choose

00:24:20.740 --> 00:24:21.859
 with what

00:24:21.859 --> 00:24:22.319
 belongs

00:24:22.319 --> 00:24:22.859
 to me?

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 Or

00:24:24.680 --> 00:24:25.660
 do you

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 begrudge

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 my

00:24:26.759 --> 00:24:27.620
 generosity?

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 Verse 13

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 through 15.

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 Again,

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 as with

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 the apostle,

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 Jesus

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 frames the

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 issue

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 in terms

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 of God's

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 sovereign

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 prerogative.

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 Am I

00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:42.639
 not allowed

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 to do

00:24:43.119 --> 00:24:43.559
 what I

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 choose

00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:45.460
 with what

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 belongs

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 to me?

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 And

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 neither

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 will his

00:24:49.659 --> 00:24:50.039
 choice

00:24:50.039 --> 00:24:51.019
 ever

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 fall

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 foul

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 of

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 justice.

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 We

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 need

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 not

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 worry

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 here.

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 He

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 will

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 never

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 give

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 less

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 than we

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 are due.

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 Friend,

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 I am

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 doing you

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 no wrong.

00:25:05.680 --> 00:25:06.099
 God

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 will

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 never,

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 neither

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 can he,

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 fall

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 short

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 of

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 whatever

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 is

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 right.

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 Though

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 in his

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 sovereign

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 freedom,

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 he may

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 act

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 with

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 extraordinary

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 generosity

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 of grace.

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 Would

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 we,

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 from our

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 fairness,

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 sensibility,

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 begrudge

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 and deny

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 him such

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 free

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 generosity

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 to some

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 of his

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 choosing?

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 I don't

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 think so.

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 Another

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 worry has

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 arisen for

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 some.

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 Some have

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 felt such

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 a choice

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 of God's

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 as the

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 decisive

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 determination

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 in salvation

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 can't be

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 right.

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 For such

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 would be to

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 show

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 partiality.

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 And

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 scripture

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 assures us

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 God

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 shows

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 no

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 partiality

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 or

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 favoritism.

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 Or as

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 the old

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 King James

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 version put

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 it,

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 God

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 is no

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 respecter

00:26:06.679 --> 00:26:06.859
 of

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 persons.

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 Romans

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 2,

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 11.

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 Wouldn't

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 electing

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 some

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 and not

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 others

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 make

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 him

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 so?

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 While

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 it might

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 appear

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 choosing

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 some

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 and not

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 others

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 could be

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 an instance

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 of

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 favoritism,

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 the way

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 God

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 chooses

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 is

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 actually

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 the

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 very

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 opposite.

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 It

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 does not

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 violate

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 the

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 no

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 favoritism

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 principle,

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 it rather

00:26:36.980 --> 00:26:37.600
 fulfills

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 it.

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 God

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 in his

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 choosing,

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 we have

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 noticed,

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 does not

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 show

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 favoritism

00:26:46.019 --> 00:26:46.800
 to the

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 noble

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 over the

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 ignoble,

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 the Jew

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 over the

00:26:51.000 --> 00:26:51.519
 Gentile,

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 the morally

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 presentable

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 over the

00:26:54.259 --> 00:26:54.980
 manifestly

00:26:54.980 --> 00:26:55.599
 dissolute.

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 He does

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 not even

00:26:58.259 --> 00:26:58.519
 show

00:26:58.519 --> 00:26:59.200
 favoritism

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 to the

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 ignoble

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 over the

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 noble,

00:27:01.319 --> 00:27:01.819
 the poor

00:27:01.819 --> 00:27:02.240
 over the

00:27:02.240 --> 00:27:02.599
 wealthy,

00:27:02.880 --> 00:27:03.279
 for he

00:27:03.279 --> 00:27:03.700
 chooses

00:27:03.700 --> 00:27:04.940
 his elect

00:27:04.940 --> 00:27:06.640
 from all

00:27:06.640 --> 00:27:07.120
 of those

00:27:07.120 --> 00:27:07.900
 categories,

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 excluding

00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:10.360
 none.

00:27:12.940 --> 00:27:13.599
 None

00:27:13.599 --> 00:27:14.360
 of these

00:27:14.360 --> 00:27:15.000
 are conditions

00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:15.599
 for God's

00:27:15.599 --> 00:27:16.059
 choice.

00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:17.660
 In fact,

00:27:17.819 --> 00:27:18.380
 they are all

00:27:18.380 --> 00:27:19.700
 non-conditions.

00:27:21.120 --> 00:27:21.660
 His election

00:27:21.660 --> 00:27:24.400
 is non-conditional

00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:25.019
 or

00:27:25.019 --> 00:27:26.480
 unconditional

00:27:26.480 --> 00:27:28.100
 and so

00:27:28.100 --> 00:27:28.680
 shows no

00:27:28.680 --> 00:27:29.560
 partiality,

00:27:30.120 --> 00:27:30.480
 none.

00:27:32.560 --> 00:27:32.960
 As

00:27:32.960 --> 00:27:33.620
 Thomas Goodwin

00:27:33.620 --> 00:27:34.340
 tersely

00:27:34.340 --> 00:27:34.880
 answers the

00:27:34.880 --> 00:27:35.279
 objection,

00:27:36.420 --> 00:27:36.960
 as God

00:27:36.960 --> 00:27:38.019
 respects no

00:27:38.019 --> 00:27:38.620
 persons,

00:27:39.160 --> 00:27:39.680
 so he

00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:40.759
 respects no

00:27:40.759 --> 00:27:42.200
 condition upon

00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:42.720
 which he

00:27:42.720 --> 00:27:43.500
 gives salvation

00:27:43.500 --> 00:27:44.140
 to us.

00:27:45.100 --> 00:27:45.840
 Or as we

00:27:45.840 --> 00:27:46.580
 might update

00:27:46.580 --> 00:27:47.040
 the language,

00:27:47.340 --> 00:27:47.900
 as God

00:27:47.900 --> 00:27:48.519
 shows no

00:27:48.519 --> 00:27:49.500
 favoritism,

00:27:49.500 --> 00:27:50.619
 so he

00:27:50.619 --> 00:27:51.519
 favors no

00:27:51.519 --> 00:27:52.720
 condition upon

00:27:52.720 --> 00:27:53.180
 which he

00:27:53.180 --> 00:27:53.880
 gives salvation

00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:54.519
 to us.

00:27:59.359 --> 00:28:00.119
 Now,

00:28:00.400 --> 00:28:01.420
 some have

00:28:01.420 --> 00:28:02.299
 attempted to

00:28:02.299 --> 00:28:03.059
 draw out

00:28:03.059 --> 00:28:03.839
 the splinter

00:28:03.839 --> 00:28:05.480
 by proposing

00:28:05.480 --> 00:28:07.039
 that perhaps

00:28:07.039 --> 00:28:08.079
 God's

00:28:08.079 --> 00:28:08.799
 choice of

00:28:08.799 --> 00:28:09.380
 us

00:28:09.380 --> 00:28:10.660
 is

00:28:10.660 --> 00:28:12.000
 actually

00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:12.940
 based on

00:28:12.940 --> 00:28:14.079
 our choice

00:28:14.079 --> 00:28:14.519
 of him.

00:28:14.519 --> 00:28:19.279
 God

00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:20.259
 looks down

00:28:20.259 --> 00:28:20.879
 the corridors

00:28:20.879 --> 00:28:21.660
 of time

00:28:21.660 --> 00:28:23.180
 and sees,

00:28:23.940 --> 00:28:24.920
 foresees,

00:28:25.319 --> 00:28:26.660
 that we

00:28:26.660 --> 00:28:27.740
 are ones

00:28:27.740 --> 00:28:28.440
 who respond

00:28:28.440 --> 00:28:29.139
 with faith

00:28:29.139 --> 00:28:29.879
 to the good

00:28:29.879 --> 00:28:30.599
 news declared.

00:28:31.420 --> 00:28:32.779
 We believe

00:28:32.779 --> 00:28:33.759
 and accordingly

00:28:33.759 --> 00:28:34.379
 we choose

00:28:34.379 --> 00:28:35.480
 Christ and

00:28:35.480 --> 00:28:35.980
 so,

00:28:36.500 --> 00:28:37.500
 in response,

00:28:37.879 --> 00:28:38.440
 he chooses

00:28:38.440 --> 00:28:38.879
 us.

00:28:40.139 --> 00:28:40.940
 He doesn't

00:28:40.940 --> 00:28:41.400
 discriminate.

00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:43.039
 He chooses

00:28:43.039 --> 00:28:44.319
 any and all

00:28:44.319 --> 00:28:45.399
 who choose

00:28:45.399 --> 00:28:45.700
 him.

00:28:47.439 --> 00:28:48.200
 His choice

00:28:48.200 --> 00:28:48.539
 of us

00:28:48.539 --> 00:28:49.119
 is based

00:28:49.119 --> 00:28:49.460
 on our

00:28:49.460 --> 00:28:49.740
 choice

00:28:49.740 --> 00:28:50.159
 of him.

00:28:51.159 --> 00:28:51.980
 He chose

00:28:51.980 --> 00:28:52.759
 us because

00:28:52.759 --> 00:28:53.259
 we first

00:28:53.259 --> 00:28:53.899
 chose him.

00:28:56.119 --> 00:28:56.700
 Well,

00:28:57.299 --> 00:28:58.799
 that is a

00:28:58.799 --> 00:28:59.220
 way to

00:28:59.220 --> 00:28:59.839
 frame and

00:28:59.839 --> 00:29:00.519
 to describe

00:29:00.519 --> 00:29:00.720
 it.

00:29:01.319 --> 00:29:02.339
 It is,

00:29:02.539 --> 00:29:02.819
 in fact,

00:29:02.919 --> 00:29:03.579
 not an

00:29:03.579 --> 00:29:04.059
 uncommon

00:29:04.059 --> 00:29:04.539
 way,

00:29:04.539 --> 00:29:06.659
 but it

00:29:06.659 --> 00:29:07.339
 is certainly

00:29:07.339 --> 00:29:08.299
 not the

00:29:08.299 --> 00:29:09.019
 Bible's

00:29:09.019 --> 00:29:09.879
 way to

00:29:09.879 --> 00:29:10.399
 do so.

00:29:11.579 --> 00:29:11.980
 The

00:29:11.980 --> 00:29:12.359
 Bible,

00:29:13.059 --> 00:29:13.539
 unambiguously,

00:29:14.319 --> 00:29:15.319
 affirms

00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:15.899
 the

00:29:15.899 --> 00:29:16.339
 opposite.

00:29:17.799 --> 00:29:18.319
 No,

00:29:18.960 --> 00:29:19.939
 he chose

00:29:19.939 --> 00:29:20.460
 us,

00:29:21.139 --> 00:29:21.839
 sorry,

00:29:22.139 --> 00:29:22.720
 not

00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:24.220
 he chose

00:29:24.220 --> 00:29:24.599
 us

00:29:24.599 --> 00:29:25.439
 because we

00:29:25.439 --> 00:29:26.159
 first chose

00:29:26.159 --> 00:29:26.480
 him.

00:29:27.299 --> 00:29:27.899
 Rather,

00:29:28.119 --> 00:29:28.759
 we choose

00:29:28.759 --> 00:29:29.240
 him because

00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:29.980
 he first

00:29:29.980 --> 00:29:31.339
 chose us.

00:29:31.439 --> 00:29:31.799
 Or,

00:29:31.879 --> 00:29:32.079
 as the

00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:32.819
 Apostle John

00:29:32.819 --> 00:29:33.500
 expresses it,

00:29:33.700 --> 00:29:34.240
 we love

00:29:34.240 --> 00:29:34.799
 him because

00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:35.460
 he first

00:29:35.460 --> 00:29:36.339
 loved us.

00:29:36.779 --> 00:29:37.579
 1 John 4,

00:29:37.639 --> 00:29:38.000
 19.

00:29:38.000 --> 00:29:40.319
 his ancient

00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:41.099
 choice of

00:29:41.099 --> 00:29:41.839
 love was

00:29:41.839 --> 00:29:42.079
 the

00:29:42.079 --> 00:29:42.880
 wellspring

00:29:42.880 --> 00:29:44.400
 from before

00:29:44.400 --> 00:29:45.019
 the beginning.

00:29:46.019 --> 00:29:46.779
 Our love

00:29:46.779 --> 00:29:47.279
 and choice

00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:47.740
 of God

00:29:47.740 --> 00:29:49.200
 follows.

00:29:50.059 --> 00:29:50.559
 It does

00:29:50.559 --> 00:29:51.700
 not precede

00:29:51.700 --> 00:29:52.319
 God's

00:29:52.319 --> 00:29:53.039
 loving choice

00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:53.660
 of us.

00:29:55.480 --> 00:29:56.220
 Our

00:29:56.220 --> 00:29:57.160
 loving choice

00:29:57.160 --> 00:29:57.680
 of God

00:29:57.680 --> 00:29:58.700
 is the

00:29:58.700 --> 00:29:59.619
 effect

00:29:59.619 --> 00:30:01.000
 of God's

00:30:01.000 --> 00:30:01.619
 loving choice

00:30:01.619 --> 00:30:02.160
 of us,

00:30:02.440 --> 00:30:04.099
 not the

00:30:04.099 --> 00:30:04.579
 reverse.

00:30:04.579 --> 00:30:06.779
 But the

00:30:06.779 --> 00:30:07.079
 ultimate

00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:07.659
 defeater

00:30:07.659 --> 00:30:08.839
 is that

00:30:08.839 --> 00:30:09.119
 this

00:30:09.119 --> 00:30:10.339
 formulation

00:30:10.339 --> 00:30:11.720
 falls

00:30:11.720 --> 00:30:12.299
 upon

00:30:12.299 --> 00:30:12.879
 the

00:30:12.879 --> 00:30:13.579
 wrong

00:30:13.579 --> 00:30:14.359
 side

00:30:14.359 --> 00:30:15.339
 of the

00:30:15.339 --> 00:30:16.019
 great

00:30:16.019 --> 00:30:17.119
 watershed.

00:30:18.699 --> 00:30:19.480
 Whose

00:30:19.480 --> 00:30:20.679
 is the

00:30:20.679 --> 00:30:21.119
 glory

00:30:21.119 --> 00:30:22.159
 and the

00:30:22.159 --> 00:30:22.699
 right of

00:30:22.699 --> 00:30:23.179
 boasting?

00:30:24.500 --> 00:30:25.419
 Is

00:30:25.419 --> 00:30:26.519
 the

00:30:26.519 --> 00:30:27.240
 pivotal

00:30:27.240 --> 00:30:28.599
 decision

00:30:28.599 --> 00:30:30.119
 on which

00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:30.879
 our salvation

00:30:30.879 --> 00:30:31.879
 hangs

00:30:31.879 --> 00:30:33.619
 triggered

00:30:33.619 --> 00:30:35.039
 in us

00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:36.839
 or in

00:30:36.839 --> 00:30:37.379
 God?

00:30:39.059 --> 00:30:39.979
 It's

00:30:39.979 --> 00:30:40.679
 clear where

00:30:40.679 --> 00:30:41.139
 the Bible

00:30:41.139 --> 00:30:41.779
 comes down

00:30:41.779 --> 00:30:42.459
 on this

00:30:42.459 --> 00:30:44.839
 and this

00:30:44.839 --> 00:30:45.500
 proposal

00:30:45.500 --> 00:30:46.739
 falls

00:30:46.739 --> 00:30:47.739
 fatally

00:30:47.739 --> 00:30:48.799
 elsewhere.

00:30:49.959 --> 00:30:50.639
 If,

00:30:51.539 --> 00:30:52.219
 as this

00:30:52.219 --> 00:30:52.719
 proposed

00:30:52.719 --> 00:30:53.239
 scheme

00:30:53.239 --> 00:30:53.659
 would have

00:30:53.659 --> 00:30:54.239
 us believe,

00:30:54.719 --> 00:30:55.359
 election

00:30:55.359 --> 00:30:56.759
 and with

00:30:56.759 --> 00:30:57.399
 it salvation

00:30:57.399 --> 00:30:58.759
 is triggered

00:30:58.759 --> 00:30:59.799
 by our

00:30:59.799 --> 00:31:00.759
 faith,

00:31:01.979 --> 00:31:03.099
 then salvation

00:31:03.099 --> 00:31:04.199
 is ultimately

00:31:04.199 --> 00:31:05.339
 determined

00:31:05.339 --> 00:31:06.639
 by human

00:31:06.639 --> 00:31:07.699
 will and

00:31:07.699 --> 00:31:08.559
 exertion of

00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:09.019
 faith,

00:31:09.500 --> 00:31:10.839
 not on

00:31:10.839 --> 00:31:11.279
 God who

00:31:11.279 --> 00:31:12.079
 shows mercy.

00:31:13.559 --> 00:31:14.000
 And quite

00:31:14.000 --> 00:31:14.500
 apart from

00:31:14.500 --> 00:31:14.859
 Scripture

00:31:14.859 --> 00:31:15.639
 asserting

00:31:15.639 --> 00:31:16.539
 the opposite,

00:31:17.539 --> 00:31:18.259
 it depends,

00:31:18.679 --> 00:31:18.899
 quote,

00:31:19.039 --> 00:31:20.019
 not on

00:31:20.019 --> 00:31:20.559
 human will

00:31:20.559 --> 00:31:21.199
 or exertion,

00:31:21.319 --> 00:31:21.659
 but on

00:31:21.659 --> 00:31:21.959
 God who

00:31:21.959 --> 00:31:22.459
 has mercy,

00:31:22.579 --> 00:31:23.539
 Romans 9.16.

00:31:24.619 --> 00:31:25.240
 Quite apart

00:31:25.240 --> 00:31:25.719
 from that,

00:31:26.099 --> 00:31:26.379
 this

00:31:26.379 --> 00:31:27.659
 construal

00:31:27.659 --> 00:31:29.459
 would furnish

00:31:29.459 --> 00:31:30.159
 the elect

00:31:30.159 --> 00:31:31.279
 with grounds

00:31:31.279 --> 00:31:32.420
 for boasting.

00:31:34.240 --> 00:31:34.960
 For the

00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:35.460
 reason that

00:31:35.460 --> 00:31:36.599
 they are

00:31:36.599 --> 00:31:37.399
 heaven-bound

00:31:37.399 --> 00:31:39.160
 and their

00:31:39.160 --> 00:31:40.379
 twin in

00:31:40.379 --> 00:31:41.160
 every respect

00:31:41.160 --> 00:31:42.180
 is not

00:31:42.180 --> 00:31:44.399
 is because

00:31:44.399 --> 00:31:44.899
 they,

00:31:45.119 --> 00:31:45.819
 unlike their

00:31:45.819 --> 00:31:46.180
 neighbor,

00:31:46.460 --> 00:31:46.940
 her twin,

00:31:47.399 --> 00:31:47.920
 had the

00:31:47.920 --> 00:31:48.700
 good sense

00:31:48.700 --> 00:31:49.559
 to believe

00:31:49.559 --> 00:31:52.680
 that he,

00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:53.440
 in contrast

00:31:53.440 --> 00:31:53.879
 to his

00:31:53.879 --> 00:31:54.240
 unsaved

00:31:54.240 --> 00:31:54.500
 neighbor,

00:31:54.700 --> 00:31:55.160
 had the

00:31:55.160 --> 00:31:55.799
 moral virtue

00:31:55.799 --> 00:31:56.579
 to repent.

00:31:58.240 --> 00:31:59.200
 Well done,

00:31:59.200 --> 00:31:59.900
 that man.

00:32:01.860 --> 00:32:02.440
 And while

00:32:02.440 --> 00:32:02.880
 you might

00:32:02.880 --> 00:32:03.460
 not think

00:32:03.460 --> 00:32:03.940
 to boast

00:32:03.940 --> 00:32:04.340
 of your

00:32:04.340 --> 00:32:04.700
 spiritual

00:32:04.700 --> 00:32:05.140
 prowess

00:32:05.140 --> 00:32:05.539
 in relation

00:32:05.539 --> 00:32:06.080
 to God,

00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:06.920
 you certainly

00:32:06.920 --> 00:32:07.259
 would have

00:32:07.259 --> 00:32:07.920
 grounds for

00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:08.279
 such a

00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:09.140
 boast relative

00:32:09.140 --> 00:32:09.580
 to your

00:32:09.580 --> 00:32:10.140
 less

00:32:10.140 --> 00:32:11.140
 spiritually

00:32:11.140 --> 00:32:11.960
 perceptive

00:32:11.960 --> 00:32:12.319
 neighbor,

00:32:13.319 --> 00:32:13.819
 who lacked

00:32:13.819 --> 00:32:14.180
 these

00:32:14.180 --> 00:32:16.059
 salvation-securing

00:32:16.059 --> 00:32:16.840
 sagacities

00:32:16.840 --> 00:32:18.019
 and sensibilities.

00:32:18.620 --> 00:32:19.019
 Again,

00:32:19.340 --> 00:32:20.220
 well done,

00:32:20.299 --> 00:32:20.900
 that man.

00:32:21.460 --> 00:32:22.480
 Go with

00:32:22.480 --> 00:32:23.279
 the smiling

00:32:23.279 --> 00:32:24.259
 satisfaction

00:32:24.259 --> 00:32:25.019
 in the

00:32:25.019 --> 00:32:25.580
 knowledge of

00:32:25.580 --> 00:32:26.160
 your moral

00:32:26.160 --> 00:32:27.160
 and spiritual

00:32:27.160 --> 00:32:27.779
 superiority

00:32:27.779 --> 00:32:28.799
 through the

00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:29.980
 gates of

00:32:29.980 --> 00:32:30.539
 glory.

00:32:34.319 --> 00:32:35.079
 But,

00:32:35.500 --> 00:32:36.799
 of course,

00:32:37.359 --> 00:32:39.019
 this whole

00:32:39.019 --> 00:32:39.519
 way of

00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:40.139
 thinking

00:32:40.139 --> 00:32:42.559
 conspicuously

00:32:42.559 --> 00:32:44.059
 fails the

00:32:44.059 --> 00:32:45.059
 litmus test

00:32:45.059 --> 00:32:46.259
 of the

00:32:46.259 --> 00:32:46.839
 gospel of

00:32:46.839 --> 00:32:47.299
 grace.

00:32:48.619 --> 00:32:49.660
 God chose,

00:32:50.019 --> 00:32:50.480
 writes the

00:32:50.480 --> 00:32:50.879
 apostle,

00:32:51.680 --> 00:32:52.559
 that no

00:32:52.559 --> 00:32:53.980
 human being

00:32:53.980 --> 00:32:55.220
 might boast

00:32:55.220 --> 00:32:56.019
 in the

00:32:56.019 --> 00:32:56.559
 presence of

00:32:56.559 --> 00:32:56.899
 God.

00:32:57.700 --> 00:32:58.299
 1 Corinthians

00:32:58.299 --> 00:32:59.000
 1.29.

00:33:02.119 --> 00:33:02.799
 And,

00:33:02.879 --> 00:33:03.919
 that faith

00:33:03.919 --> 00:33:04.579
 and repentance

00:33:04.579 --> 00:33:05.559
 that you

00:33:05.559 --> 00:33:06.799
 propose as

00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:07.919
 your

00:33:07.919 --> 00:33:09.819
 salvation-triggering

00:33:09.819 --> 00:33:10.759
 contribution,

00:33:11.440 --> 00:33:12.919
 well,

00:33:12.980 --> 00:33:13.399
 actually,

00:33:13.539 --> 00:33:14.019
 they're gifts

00:33:14.019 --> 00:33:14.579
 of God

00:33:14.579 --> 00:33:16.339
 flowing from

00:33:16.339 --> 00:33:17.019
 election,

00:33:17.559 --> 00:33:18.119
 not

00:33:18.119 --> 00:33:19.099
 securing

00:33:19.099 --> 00:33:19.899
 election.

00:33:20.899 --> 00:33:21.599
 As the

00:33:21.599 --> 00:33:22.259
 scripture says,

00:33:22.359 --> 00:33:23.359
 Philippians 1.29,

00:33:23.359 --> 00:33:24.139
 it was

00:33:24.139 --> 00:33:25.240
 granted

00:33:25.240 --> 00:33:26.619
 to you

00:33:26.619 --> 00:33:27.759
 to believe.

00:33:28.759 --> 00:33:30.159
 Acts 11.18,

00:33:30.679 --> 00:33:31.059
 to you,

00:33:31.159 --> 00:33:31.879
 God has

00:33:31.879 --> 00:33:32.939
 granted

00:33:32.939 --> 00:33:34.059
 repentance

00:33:34.059 --> 00:33:35.199
 that leads

00:33:35.199 --> 00:33:35.979
 to life.

00:33:37.459 --> 00:33:37.879
 As the

00:33:37.879 --> 00:33:38.759
 apostle explains,

00:33:39.099 --> 00:33:40.000
 any difference

00:33:40.000 --> 00:33:40.579
 in the elect?

00:33:41.359 --> 00:33:41.599
 Well,

00:33:42.059 --> 00:33:43.099
 what do you

00:33:43.099 --> 00:33:44.199
 have that

00:33:44.199 --> 00:33:44.839
 you did not

00:33:44.839 --> 00:33:45.479
 receive?

00:33:46.179 --> 00:33:47.199
 If you

00:33:47.199 --> 00:33:47.899
 received it,

00:33:47.939 --> 00:33:48.479
 if then you

00:33:48.479 --> 00:33:49.000
 received it,

00:33:49.219 --> 00:33:50.299
 why would you

00:33:50.299 --> 00:33:51.279
 boast as if

00:33:51.279 --> 00:33:51.699
 you didn't

00:33:51.700 --> 00:33:52.380
 receive it?

00:33:53.660 --> 00:33:54.400
 1 Corinthians

00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:55.340
 4.7.

00:33:57.740 --> 00:33:58.140
 Oh,

00:33:58.240 --> 00:33:58.799
 sisters and

00:33:58.799 --> 00:33:59.160
 brothers,

00:34:00.080 --> 00:34:00.580
 do you

00:34:00.580 --> 00:34:01.740
 not feel

00:34:01.740 --> 00:34:02.580
 this

00:34:02.580 --> 00:34:03.700
 to be

00:34:03.700 --> 00:34:04.120
 so

00:34:04.120 --> 00:34:05.420
 deep in

00:34:05.420 --> 00:34:06.259
 your bones

00:34:06.259 --> 00:34:07.960
 that when

00:34:07.960 --> 00:34:08.340
 it comes

00:34:08.340 --> 00:34:08.679
 to our

00:34:08.679 --> 00:34:09.240
 salvation,

00:34:10.579 --> 00:34:10.980
 God's

00:34:10.980 --> 00:34:11.599
 grace is

00:34:11.599 --> 00:34:12.079
 all,

00:34:12.920 --> 00:34:13.340
 and we

00:34:13.340 --> 00:34:13.760
 contribute

00:34:13.760 --> 00:34:14.260
 nothing?

00:34:15.940 --> 00:34:16.519
 But,

00:34:16.639 --> 00:34:16.940
 let's

00:34:16.940 --> 00:34:18.000
 close with

00:34:18.000 --> 00:34:19.199
 one further

00:34:19.199 --> 00:34:21.079
 heart-rousing

00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:21.759
 truth

00:34:21.759 --> 00:34:22.739
 concerning

00:34:22.739 --> 00:34:23.239
 God's

00:34:23.239 --> 00:34:23.679
 electing

00:34:23.679 --> 00:34:24.179
 love.

00:34:25.799 --> 00:34:26.179
 His

00:34:26.179 --> 00:34:26.659
 ancient

00:34:26.659 --> 00:34:27.399
 choice

00:34:27.399 --> 00:34:28.279
 of his

00:34:28.279 --> 00:34:29.139
 beloved

00:34:29.139 --> 00:34:30.419
 is

00:34:30.419 --> 00:34:31.679
 immutable.

00:34:33.460 --> 00:34:33.799
 God's

00:34:33.799 --> 00:34:34.319
 calling

00:34:34.319 --> 00:34:35.699
 is

00:34:35.699 --> 00:34:36.639
 irrevocable,

00:34:37.159 --> 00:34:37.559
 writes the

00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:37.960
 apostle,

00:34:38.919 --> 00:34:40.079
 Romans 11.29.

00:34:41.759 --> 00:34:42.599
 Election

00:34:42.599 --> 00:34:43.939
 having once

00:34:43.939 --> 00:34:44.699
 pitched upon

00:34:44.699 --> 00:34:45.279
 a person,

00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:46.659
 writes John

00:34:46.659 --> 00:34:47.239
 Aerosmith,

00:34:47.239 --> 00:34:48.279
 it will

00:34:48.279 --> 00:34:49.019
 find him

00:34:49.019 --> 00:34:50.259
 out and

00:34:50.259 --> 00:34:50.939
 call him

00:34:50.939 --> 00:34:51.439
 home,

00:34:52.199 --> 00:34:53.179
 wherever he

00:34:53.179 --> 00:34:53.579
 be.

00:34:55.199 --> 00:34:55.439
 In

00:34:55.439 --> 00:34:56.079
 whatsoever

00:34:56.079 --> 00:34:57.299
 dunghills

00:34:57.299 --> 00:34:57.979
 God's

00:34:57.979 --> 00:34:59.099
 elector hid,

00:34:59.959 --> 00:35:00.559
 election

00:35:00.559 --> 00:35:01.859
 will find

00:35:01.859 --> 00:35:02.359
 them out

00:35:02.359 --> 00:35:03.559
 and bring

00:35:03.559 --> 00:35:04.239
 them home.

00:35:05.559 --> 00:35:06.559
 Isn't that

00:35:06.559 --> 00:35:06.919
 great?

00:35:07.199 --> 00:35:07.959
 I should read

00:35:07.959 --> 00:35:08.519
 that one more

00:35:08.519 --> 00:35:08.859
 time.

00:35:09.899 --> 00:35:10.619
 Election,

00:35:11.619 --> 00:35:12.339
 having once

00:35:12.339 --> 00:35:13.099
 pitched upon

00:35:13.099 --> 00:35:13.659
 a person,

00:35:13.659 --> 00:35:15.440
 it will

00:35:15.440 --> 00:35:16.259
 find him

00:35:16.259 --> 00:35:17.159
 out and

00:35:17.159 --> 00:35:17.819
 call him

00:35:17.819 --> 00:35:18.219
 home,

00:35:18.519 --> 00:35:19.759
 wherever he

00:35:19.759 --> 00:35:20.099
 be.

00:35:20.859 --> 00:35:21.259
 In

00:35:21.259 --> 00:35:22.039
 whatsoever

00:35:22.039 --> 00:35:22.899
 dunghills

00:35:22.899 --> 00:35:23.319
 God's

00:35:23.319 --> 00:35:24.359
 elector hid,

00:35:25.239 --> 00:35:25.819
 election

00:35:25.819 --> 00:35:27.219
 will find

00:35:27.219 --> 00:35:27.739
 them out

00:35:27.739 --> 00:35:29.179
 and bring

00:35:29.179 --> 00:35:29.679
 them

00:35:29.679 --> 00:35:30.339
 home.

00:35:31.759 --> 00:35:32.299
 Well,

00:35:32.359 --> 00:35:32.980
 as to the

00:35:32.980 --> 00:35:33.440
 dunghill

00:35:33.440 --> 00:35:33.980
 in which

00:35:33.980 --> 00:35:34.579
 all God's

00:35:34.579 --> 00:35:34.879
 elector

00:35:34.879 --> 00:35:35.359
 found,

00:35:36.159 --> 00:35:37.099
 the woeful

00:35:37.099 --> 00:35:37.899
 and wrathful

00:35:37.899 --> 00:35:38.699
 condition of

00:35:38.699 --> 00:35:39.739
 our lost

00:35:39.739 --> 00:35:40.299
 estate,

00:35:40.300 --> 00:35:41.920
 and what

00:35:41.920 --> 00:35:42.620
 God's

00:35:42.620 --> 00:35:43.280
 electing

00:35:43.280 --> 00:35:44.480
 love must

00:35:44.480 --> 00:35:46.620
 do to

00:35:46.620 --> 00:35:47.280
 draw them,

00:35:48.280 --> 00:35:48.840
 to draw

00:35:48.840 --> 00:35:49.480
 us out,

00:35:49.940 --> 00:35:50.380
 and to

00:35:50.380 --> 00:35:50.820
 bring us

00:35:50.820 --> 00:35:51.180
 home.

00:35:52.160 --> 00:35:53.140
 Those are

00:35:53.140 --> 00:35:53.760
 the subjects

00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:54.640
 of our

00:35:54.640 --> 00:35:55.080
 scriptural

00:35:55.080 --> 00:35:55.519
 attention

00:35:55.519 --> 00:35:57.160
 next week,

00:35:57.420 --> 00:35:58.200
 Lord willing.

00:35:59.880 --> 00:36:00.680
 Well,

00:36:00.940 --> 00:36:01.640
 we have

00:36:01.640 --> 00:36:02.200
 some time

00:36:02.200 --> 00:36:02.900
 for any

00:36:02.900 --> 00:36:04.019
 questions or

00:36:04.019 --> 00:36:05.240
 comments or

00:36:05.240 --> 00:36:06.220
 observations or

00:36:06.220 --> 00:36:06.640
 praises.

00:36:07.500 --> 00:36:07.880
 Yes,

00:36:07.960 --> 00:36:08.240
 Richard.

00:36:08.420 --> 00:36:09.080
 I would ask

00:36:09.080 --> 00:36:09.360
 you to

00:36:09.360 --> 00:36:10.420
 do me a

00:36:10.420 --> 00:36:10.760
 favor,

00:36:10.980 --> 00:36:11.380
 please.

00:36:12.660 --> 00:36:13.019
 I'm not as

00:36:13.019 --> 00:36:13.400
 good a

00:36:13.400 --> 00:36:13.940
 student as

00:36:13.940 --> 00:36:14.380
 some yet.

00:36:15.559 --> 00:36:16.140
 Could you

00:36:16.140 --> 00:36:16.740
 tell me the

00:36:16.740 --> 00:36:17.380
 scripture in

00:36:17.380 --> 00:36:18.079
 1 Corinthians

00:36:18.079 --> 00:36:19.320
 where he

00:36:19.320 --> 00:36:19.900
 says it

00:36:19.900 --> 00:36:20.539
 is granted

00:36:20.539 --> 00:36:21.120
 to you

00:36:21.120 --> 00:36:21.599
 to do

00:36:21.599 --> 00:36:21.760
 it?

00:36:22.420 --> 00:36:22.860
 Well,

00:36:22.980 --> 00:36:25.099
 that was in

00:36:25.099 --> 00:36:25.559
 Philippians

00:36:25.559 --> 00:36:26.400
 129.

00:36:26.559 --> 00:36:26.680
 Yeah,

00:36:26.760 --> 00:36:27.079
 Philippians

00:36:27.079 --> 00:36:27.599
 129.

00:36:27.660 --> 00:36:27.860
 I told you

00:36:27.860 --> 00:36:28.120
 I wasn't

00:36:28.120 --> 00:36:28.480
 that good

00:36:28.480 --> 00:36:28.559
 as

00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:28.599
 you.

00:36:28.599 --> 00:36:28.840
 Yeah,

00:36:28.980 --> 00:36:29.120
 no,

00:36:29.120 --> 00:36:29.140
 no,

00:36:29.140 --> 00:36:29.420
 that's

00:36:29.420 --> 00:36:29.680
 all right.

00:36:30.400 --> 00:36:31.079
 And then

00:36:31.079 --> 00:36:32.539
 Acts 11,

00:36:33.059 --> 00:36:33.620
 18,

00:36:34.099 --> 00:36:34.599
 God has

00:36:34.599 --> 00:36:35.340
 granted

00:36:35.340 --> 00:36:36.280
 repentance

00:36:36.280 --> 00:36:36.840
 that leads

00:36:36.840 --> 00:36:37.380
 to life.

00:36:37.900 --> 00:36:38.300
 I see.

00:36:38.519 --> 00:36:38.760
 Yeah.

00:36:38.760 --> 00:36:40.340
 And at

00:36:40.340 --> 00:36:40.720
 the very

00:36:40.720 --> 00:36:41.160
 beginning,

00:36:41.380 --> 00:36:41.760
 the scripture

00:36:41.760 --> 00:36:42.980
 from 1

00:36:42.980 --> 00:36:43.880
 Thessalonians

00:36:43.880 --> 00:36:44.380
 that you

00:36:44.380 --> 00:36:44.640
 mentioned.

00:36:45.260 --> 00:36:45.640
 Yes,

00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:46.860
 that is,

00:36:47.680 --> 00:36:49.820
 that's the

00:36:49.820 --> 00:36:50.820
 one that we

00:36:50.820 --> 00:36:51.340
 opened up

00:36:51.340 --> 00:36:51.720
 with.

00:36:52.820 --> 00:36:53.300
 15.

00:36:53.540 --> 00:36:53.840
 Yeah,

00:36:53.980 --> 00:36:54.560
 thank you,

00:36:54.660 --> 00:36:55.020
 Elizabeth.

00:36:55.360 --> 00:36:56.260
 2.15.

00:36:57.680 --> 00:36:58.440
 I thought

00:36:58.440 --> 00:36:59.140
 it was 1

00:36:59.140 --> 00:36:59.760
 Thessalonians

00:36:59.760 --> 00:37:00.060
 2,

00:37:00.340 --> 00:37:01.000
 maybe 13

00:37:01.000 --> 00:37:01.380
 and 14.

00:37:01.480 --> 00:37:01.620
 I think

00:37:01.620 --> 00:37:01.820
 it's a

00:37:01.820 --> 00:37:01.900
 little

00:37:01.900 --> 00:37:02.180
 before

00:37:02.180 --> 00:37:02.620
 15.

00:37:03.740 --> 00:37:03.980
 Yeah,

00:37:04.100 --> 00:37:04.360
 yeah.

00:37:04.360 --> 00:37:05.019
 problem.

00:37:05.160 --> 00:37:05.320
 Yeah,

00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:05.780
 it's funny

00:37:05.780 --> 00:37:07.420
 how we

00:37:07.420 --> 00:37:07.880
 assign

00:37:07.880 --> 00:37:08.620
 blame to

00:37:08.620 --> 00:37:09.019
 God

00:37:09.019 --> 00:37:10.220
 regarding

00:37:10.220 --> 00:37:11.900
 election

00:37:11.900 --> 00:37:12.760
 and redemption

00:37:12.760 --> 00:37:13.820
 and all

00:37:13.820 --> 00:37:14.079
 that,

00:37:14.180 --> 00:37:14.720
 and justification,

00:37:15.240 --> 00:37:15.980
 and we

00:37:15.980 --> 00:37:16.460
 say he's

00:37:16.460 --> 00:37:17.120
 biased

00:37:17.120 --> 00:37:19.519
 and he's

00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:20.340
 unfair,

00:37:21.920 --> 00:37:24.180
 that it

00:37:24.180 --> 00:37:24.720
 leads to

00:37:24.720 --> 00:37:25.320
 cynicism,

00:37:26.220 --> 00:37:26.780
 but not

00:37:26.780 --> 00:37:27.559
 many

00:37:27.559 --> 00:37:30.160
 say,

00:37:30.159 --> 00:37:31.339
 how do

00:37:31.339 --> 00:37:31.659
 I get

00:37:31.659 --> 00:37:32.099
 elected?

00:37:33.239 --> 00:37:34.000
 How do

00:37:34.000 --> 00:37:34.440
 I get

00:37:34.440 --> 00:37:35.059
 to God?

00:37:35.679 --> 00:37:36.039
 It's

00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:36.859
 blaming

00:37:36.859 --> 00:37:37.339
 God.

00:37:37.759 --> 00:37:38.279
 Immediately

00:37:38.279 --> 00:37:38.899
 we put

00:37:38.899 --> 00:37:39.239
 God

00:37:39.239 --> 00:37:39.460
 in the

00:37:39.460 --> 00:37:39.759
 dock.

00:37:40.159 --> 00:37:40.359
 He's

00:37:40.359 --> 00:37:40.940
 unfair.

00:37:41.940 --> 00:37:42.219
 He's

00:37:42.219 --> 00:37:42.579
 not a

00:37:42.579 --> 00:37:42.779
 good

00:37:42.779 --> 00:37:43.159
 God.

00:37:44.759 --> 00:37:45.319
 He's

00:37:45.319 --> 00:37:45.940
 biased.

00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:47.639
 Instead

00:37:47.639 --> 00:37:48.139
 of,

00:37:48.799 --> 00:37:49.159
 where can

00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:50.139
 I find

00:37:50.139 --> 00:37:50.299
 him?

00:37:51.059 --> 00:37:51.779
 How can

00:37:51.779 --> 00:37:51.980
 I get

00:37:51.980 --> 00:37:52.319
 a hold

00:37:52.319 --> 00:37:52.639
 of this

00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:52.960
 God?

00:37:53.259 --> 00:37:53.440
 It's

00:37:53.440 --> 00:37:53.699
 because

00:37:53.699 --> 00:37:53.960
 we're

00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:54.299
 dead

00:37:54.299 --> 00:37:55.019
 in our

00:37:55.019 --> 00:37:55.339
 sins

00:37:55.339 --> 00:37:55.559
 and

00:37:55.559 --> 00:37:56.319
 trespasses.

00:37:57.319 --> 00:37:57.839
 It's

00:37:57.839 --> 00:37:58.579
 like we

00:37:58.579 --> 00:37:59.000
 can't

00:37:59.000 --> 00:37:59.359
 come to

00:37:59.359 --> 00:37:59.679
 God.

00:37:59.679 --> 00:37:59.899
 It's

00:37:59.899 --> 00:38:00.239
 like a

00:38:00.239 --> 00:38:00.539
 ship

00:38:00.539 --> 00:38:01.179
 and

00:38:01.179 --> 00:38:01.379
 you're

00:38:01.379 --> 00:38:01.599
 dead

00:38:01.599 --> 00:38:01.879
 in the

00:38:01.879 --> 00:38:02.179
 water

00:38:02.179 --> 00:38:03.399
 and they

00:38:03.399 --> 00:38:04.039
 throw you

00:38:04.039 --> 00:38:04.879
 a lifeline

00:38:04.879 --> 00:38:05.359
 but you

00:38:05.359 --> 00:38:05.819
 can't

00:38:05.819 --> 00:38:06.219
 grab

00:38:06.219 --> 00:38:06.500
 that

00:38:06.500 --> 00:38:06.980
 lifesaver

00:38:06.980 --> 00:38:07.339
 because

00:38:07.339 --> 00:38:07.679
 you're

00:38:07.679 --> 00:38:07.960
 dead.

00:38:08.480 --> 00:38:08.960
 Somebody

00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:09.500
 has to

00:38:09.500 --> 00:38:09.759
 make

00:38:09.759 --> 00:38:09.940
 you

00:38:09.940 --> 00:38:10.419
 alive

00:38:10.419 --> 00:38:10.859
 so

00:38:10.859 --> 00:38:11.059
 you

00:38:11.059 --> 00:38:11.239
 can

00:38:11.239 --> 00:38:11.819
 grab

00:38:11.819 --> 00:38:12.099
 that

00:38:12.099 --> 00:38:12.779
 lifesaver

00:38:12.779 --> 00:38:13.759
 and that's

00:38:13.759 --> 00:38:14.119
 salary.

00:38:14.259 --> 00:38:14.519
 I'm going

00:38:14.519 --> 00:38:14.779
 to start

00:38:14.779 --> 00:38:15.279
 taking notes

00:38:15.279 --> 00:38:15.839
 Raul because

00:38:15.839 --> 00:38:16.099
 that's

00:38:16.099 --> 00:38:16.259
 going to

00:38:16.259 --> 00:38:16.579
 be my

00:38:16.579 --> 00:38:17.659
 lecture

00:38:17.659 --> 00:38:18.440
 next week.

00:38:19.559 --> 00:38:20.500
 Just one

00:38:20.500 --> 00:38:20.899
 quick comment

00:38:20.899 --> 00:38:21.179
 on that

00:38:21.179 --> 00:38:21.379
 and then I'll

00:38:21.379 --> 00:38:21.579
 get the

00:38:21.579 --> 00:38:21.679
 other.

00:38:22.139 --> 00:38:22.739
 Yes,

00:38:22.919 --> 00:38:23.579
 and that's

00:38:23.579 --> 00:38:23.879
 so good.

00:38:24.500 --> 00:38:25.259
 We don't

00:38:25.259 --> 00:38:26.579
 look for

00:38:26.579 --> 00:38:27.379
 our salvation

00:38:27.379 --> 00:38:28.000
 to our

00:38:28.000 --> 00:38:28.599
 election.

00:38:29.679 --> 00:38:31.059
 because that

00:38:31.059 --> 00:38:31.739
 is hidden

00:38:31.739 --> 00:38:32.279
 with God.

00:38:32.899 --> 00:38:33.679
 We look

00:38:33.679 --> 00:38:34.219
 for our

00:38:34.219 --> 00:38:34.919
 salvation to

00:38:34.919 --> 00:38:35.579
 the Savior

00:38:35.579 --> 00:38:36.319
 that is

00:38:36.319 --> 00:38:37.039
 offered to

00:38:37.039 --> 00:38:37.519
 all.

00:38:38.239 --> 00:38:38.960
 We look to

00:38:38.960 --> 00:38:39.699
 Christ and

00:38:39.699 --> 00:38:39.940
 live.

00:38:40.079 --> 00:38:40.819
 So don't

00:38:40.819 --> 00:38:41.819
 try to find

00:38:41.819 --> 00:38:42.719
 out your

00:38:42.719 --> 00:38:43.679
 salvation

00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:45.659
 in election.

00:38:46.159 --> 00:38:47.059
 That's not

00:38:47.059 --> 00:38:47.500
 visible.

00:38:47.500 --> 00:38:49.840
 but the

00:38:49.840 --> 00:38:50.840
 Savior of

00:38:50.840 --> 00:38:51.239
 the world

00:38:51.239 --> 00:38:51.719
 has been

00:38:51.719 --> 00:38:52.920
 set forth

00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:53.800
 and we

00:38:53.800 --> 00:38:54.420
 can look

00:38:54.420 --> 00:38:54.960
 to him

00:38:54.960 --> 00:38:55.760
 all the

00:38:55.760 --> 00:38:56.179
 ends of

00:38:56.179 --> 00:38:56.699
 the earth

00:38:56.699 --> 00:38:58.260
 and live.

00:38:59.000 --> 00:38:59.340
 So that's

00:38:59.340 --> 00:38:59.579
 where we

00:38:59.579 --> 00:38:59.820
 look.

00:39:00.079 --> 00:39:00.199
 Yeah.

00:39:00.199 --> 00:39:00.219
 Yeah.

00:39:00.219 --> 00:39:02.859
 In any

00:39:02.859 --> 00:39:03.159
 of your

00:39:03.159 --> 00:39:03.519
 subsequent

00:39:03.519 --> 00:39:04.159
 sessions

00:39:04.159 --> 00:39:04.619
 are you

00:39:04.619 --> 00:39:05.000
 going to

00:39:05.000 --> 00:39:05.399
 be

00:39:05.399 --> 00:39:06.739
 delving

00:39:06.739 --> 00:39:07.599
 more on

00:39:07.599 --> 00:39:08.480
 the

00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:09.159
 assurance

00:39:09.159 --> 00:39:09.539
 of

00:39:09.539 --> 00:39:09.879
 grace?

00:39:11.619 --> 00:39:11.879
 You know,

00:39:11.959 --> 00:39:13.000
 just not

00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:13.959
 Yeah,

00:39:14.039 --> 00:39:14.199
 yeah,

00:39:14.199 --> 00:39:14.459
 yeah,

00:39:14.459 --> 00:39:14.639
 yeah,

00:39:14.639 --> 00:39:14.859
 yeah.

00:39:16.539 --> 00:39:17.059
 Our

00:39:17.059 --> 00:39:18.139
 good

00:39:18.139 --> 00:39:18.739
 brother

00:39:18.739 --> 00:39:19.559
 Tyler

00:39:19.559 --> 00:39:20.659
 is going

00:39:20.659 --> 00:39:20.919
 to be

00:39:20.919 --> 00:39:21.459
 taking up

00:39:21.459 --> 00:39:21.699
 one of

00:39:21.699 --> 00:39:21.839
 the

00:39:21.839 --> 00:39:22.539
 glorious

00:39:22.539 --> 00:39:23.259
 truths

00:39:23.259 --> 00:39:24.439
 of

00:39:24.439 --> 00:39:25.639
 the

00:39:25.639 --> 00:39:27.159
 security

00:39:27.159 --> 00:39:28.719
 of the

00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:29.079
 true

00:39:29.079 --> 00:39:29.579
 believer.

00:39:30.219 --> 00:39:32.139
 And in

00:39:32.139 --> 00:39:32.399
 that

00:39:32.399 --> 00:39:33.079
 context

00:39:33.079 --> 00:39:33.859
 per

00:39:33.859 --> 00:39:34.339
 adventure

00:39:34.339 --> 00:39:35.439
 he

00:39:35.439 --> 00:39:36.539
 might

00:39:36.539 --> 00:39:38.139
 distinguish

00:39:38.139 --> 00:39:39.500
 between

00:39:39.500 --> 00:39:40.259
 the

00:39:40.259 --> 00:39:41.480
 absolute

00:39:41.480 --> 00:39:42.719
 Gibraltar

00:39:42.719 --> 00:39:43.799
 truth

00:39:43.799 --> 00:39:45.039
 of

00:39:45.039 --> 00:39:45.459
 scripture

00:39:45.459 --> 00:39:46.419
 that

00:39:46.419 --> 00:39:47.379
 the

00:39:47.379 --> 00:39:48.759
 one

00:39:48.759 --> 00:39:49.219
 that is

00:39:49.219 --> 00:39:49.519
 in

00:39:49.519 --> 00:39:50.039
 union

00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:50.379
 with

00:39:50.379 --> 00:39:51.039
 Christ

00:39:51.039 --> 00:39:53.099
 is

00:39:53.099 --> 00:39:53.639
 in

00:39:53.639 --> 00:39:54.039
 union

00:39:54.039 --> 00:39:54.579
 with

00:39:54.579 --> 00:39:54.919
 him

00:39:54.919 --> 00:39:55.899
 forever.

00:39:56.519 --> 00:39:56.899
 He

00:39:56.899 --> 00:39:57.239
 has

00:39:57.239 --> 00:39:57.859
 eternal

00:39:57.859 --> 00:39:58.480
 life

00:39:58.480 --> 00:39:59.099
 for it

00:39:59.099 --> 00:39:59.459
 to be

00:39:59.460 --> 00:39:59.940
 eternal

00:39:59.940 --> 00:40:00.480
 life

00:40:00.480 --> 00:40:01.119
 means that

00:40:01.119 --> 00:40:01.780
 it can't

00:40:01.780 --> 00:40:02.380
 suddenly

00:40:02.380 --> 00:40:03.460
 cease

00:40:03.460 --> 00:40:04.039
 in some

00:40:04.039 --> 00:40:04.300
 sort of

00:40:04.300 --> 00:40:04.639
 crisis.

00:40:04.639 --> 00:40:05.320
 So there

00:40:05.320 --> 00:40:05.639
 is

00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:06.780
 absolutely

00:40:06.780 --> 00:40:07.940
 eternal

00:40:07.940 --> 00:40:08.960
 security

00:40:08.960 --> 00:40:09.639
 for the

00:40:09.639 --> 00:40:10.139
 one who

00:40:10.139 --> 00:40:10.500
 is in

00:40:10.500 --> 00:40:10.740
 union

00:40:10.740 --> 00:40:10.960
 with

00:40:10.960 --> 00:40:11.340
 Christ,

00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:11.579
 for

00:40:11.579 --> 00:40:12.039
 everyone

00:40:12.039 --> 00:40:12.800
 who has

00:40:12.800 --> 00:40:13.300
 an interest

00:40:13.300 --> 00:40:13.579
 in

00:40:13.579 --> 00:40:14.000
 Christ.

00:40:14.579 --> 00:40:15.659
 There is

00:40:15.659 --> 00:40:16.320
 a distinction

00:40:16.320 --> 00:40:17.400
 between

00:40:17.400 --> 00:40:18.699
 that being

00:40:18.699 --> 00:40:19.740
 the case

00:40:19.739 --> 00:40:21.479
 and

00:40:21.479 --> 00:40:22.379
 knowing

00:40:22.379 --> 00:40:22.859
 and

00:40:22.859 --> 00:40:23.299
 drawing

00:40:23.299 --> 00:40:23.899
 deep

00:40:23.899 --> 00:40:24.779
 personal

00:40:24.779 --> 00:40:25.319
 existential

00:40:25.319 --> 00:40:26.039
 comfort

00:40:26.039 --> 00:40:26.659
 that it

00:40:26.659 --> 00:40:27.019
 is

00:40:27.019 --> 00:40:27.619
 so.

00:40:28.619 --> 00:40:28.799
 Okay,

00:40:28.899 --> 00:40:29.279
 so there's

00:40:29.279 --> 00:40:29.939
 it's a

00:40:29.939 --> 00:40:30.699
 metaphysical

00:40:30.699 --> 00:40:31.519
 absolute

00:40:31.519 --> 00:40:32.039
 truth,

00:40:32.219 --> 00:40:33.099
 it's an

00:40:33.099 --> 00:40:34.199
 epistemological

00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:34.959
 what we can

00:40:34.959 --> 00:40:35.219
 know

00:40:35.219 --> 00:40:36.279
 blessing,

00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:37.139
 but it is a

00:40:37.139 --> 00:40:38.119
 blessing that

00:40:38.119 --> 00:40:39.399
 God intends

00:40:39.399 --> 00:40:40.079
 for us

00:40:40.079 --> 00:40:40.859
 as believers

00:40:40.859 --> 00:40:41.759
 to enjoy.

00:40:41.760 --> 00:40:45.360
 1 John 5,

00:40:45.640 --> 00:40:45.880
 and these

00:40:45.880 --> 00:40:46.360
 things I write

00:40:46.360 --> 00:40:47.040
 to you who

00:40:47.040 --> 00:40:47.460
 have eternal

00:40:47.460 --> 00:40:47.780
 life that

00:40:47.780 --> 00:40:48.100
 you might

00:40:48.100 --> 00:40:50.020
 know that

00:40:50.020 --> 00:40:50.260
 you have.

00:40:50.280 --> 00:40:50.620
 These things

00:40:50.620 --> 00:40:50.860
 I have

00:40:50.860 --> 00:40:51.080
 written to

00:40:51.080 --> 00:40:51.280
 you that

00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:51.620
 have Christ

00:40:51.620 --> 00:40:51.820
 that you

00:40:51.820 --> 00:40:52.320
 might know

00:40:52.320 --> 00:40:52.560
 that you

00:40:52.560 --> 00:40:52.960
 have eternal

00:40:52.960 --> 00:40:53.300
 life.

00:40:54.160 --> 00:40:54.880
 So that's

00:40:54.880 --> 00:40:55.340
 something that

00:40:55.340 --> 00:40:55.520
 he,

00:40:55.700 --> 00:40:56.040
 that's a

00:40:56.040 --> 00:40:56.940
 blessing that

00:40:56.940 --> 00:40:57.320
 he wants

00:40:57.320 --> 00:40:57.600
 us to

00:40:57.600 --> 00:40:57.880
 enjoy.

00:40:58.080 --> 00:40:58.560
 And that

00:40:58.560 --> 00:40:58.860
 we would

00:40:58.860 --> 00:40:59.180
 call

00:40:59.180 --> 00:41:00.220
 assurance.

00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:01.740
 And the

00:41:01.740 --> 00:41:02.980
 grounds of

00:41:02.980 --> 00:41:03.980
 assurance

00:41:03.980 --> 00:41:06.160
 are going

00:41:06.160 --> 00:41:08.400
 to differ

00:41:08.400 --> 00:41:09.460
 and thus

00:41:09.460 --> 00:41:09.980
 need to be

00:41:09.980 --> 00:41:10.700
 pastorally

00:41:10.700 --> 00:41:11.740
 applied.

00:41:11.760 --> 00:41:13.100
 with skill

00:41:13.100 --> 00:41:14.520
 because the

00:41:14.520 --> 00:41:15.160
 grounds of

00:41:15.160 --> 00:41:15.840
 doubt

00:41:15.840 --> 00:41:16.820
 differ.

00:41:17.560 --> 00:41:18.140
 So depending

00:41:18.140 --> 00:41:18.720
 upon your

00:41:18.720 --> 00:41:19.320
 grounds of

00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:20.580
 doubt about

00:41:20.580 --> 00:41:22.520
 your interest

00:41:22.520 --> 00:41:23.240
 in Christ,

00:41:24.500 --> 00:41:25.300
 then we

00:41:25.300 --> 00:41:25.640
 would need

00:41:25.640 --> 00:41:26.260
 to address

00:41:26.260 --> 00:41:27.440
 what,

00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:28.640
 what those,

00:41:29.360 --> 00:41:29.840
 what your

00:41:29.840 --> 00:41:30.420
 assurance should

00:41:30.420 --> 00:41:30.700
 be.

00:41:31.960 --> 00:41:32.720
 I could

00:41:32.720 --> 00:41:33.400
 make it a

00:41:33.400 --> 00:41:33.640
 little bit

00:41:33.640 --> 00:41:34.180
 more explicit

00:41:34.180 --> 00:41:34.660
 maybe for

00:41:34.660 --> 00:41:35.780
 if, for

00:41:35.780 --> 00:41:36.160
 example,

00:41:36.520 --> 00:41:37.740
 you think,

00:41:37.840 --> 00:41:38.280
 well, you

00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:38.480
 know,

00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:40.000
 I don't

00:41:40.000 --> 00:41:40.660
 know if I

00:41:40.660 --> 00:41:41.060
 am,

00:41:41.059 --> 00:41:42.460
 I don't

00:41:42.460 --> 00:41:43.039
 know if I

00:41:43.039 --> 00:41:43.799
 am indeed

00:41:43.799 --> 00:41:44.599
 Christ's.

00:41:45.019 --> 00:41:45.559
 Oh, why

00:41:45.559 --> 00:41:46.000
 do you say

00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:46.299
 that?

00:41:46.820 --> 00:41:47.340
 Well, because

00:41:47.340 --> 00:41:48.000
 I just so

00:41:48.000 --> 00:41:48.699
 persistently

00:41:48.699 --> 00:41:49.259
 live and

00:41:49.259 --> 00:41:50.340
 quite delightfully

00:41:50.340 --> 00:41:51.000
 and delectably

00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:52.039
 live for the

00:41:52.039 --> 00:41:52.380
 world, the

00:41:52.380 --> 00:41:52.739
 flesh, and

00:41:52.739 --> 00:41:53.099
 the devil.

00:41:54.400 --> 00:41:55.559
 Well, that

00:41:55.559 --> 00:41:56.179
 might be

00:41:56.179 --> 00:41:57.219
 good grounds

00:41:57.219 --> 00:41:58.159
 for having

00:41:58.159 --> 00:41:58.799
 doubt.

00:41:59.400 --> 00:41:59.920
 So I

00:41:59.920 --> 00:42:00.219
 wouldn't just

00:42:00.219 --> 00:42:00.340
 say,

00:42:00.440 --> 00:42:00.940
 well, no,

00:42:01.059 --> 00:42:01.860
 ignore those.

00:42:02.079 --> 00:42:02.500
 Here's just

00:42:02.500 --> 00:42:03.099
 a promise

00:42:03.099 --> 00:42:04.380
 of salvation.

00:42:04.380 --> 00:42:05.760
 That would

00:42:05.760 --> 00:42:06.420
 be a

00:42:06.420 --> 00:42:06.880
 pastoral

00:42:06.880 --> 00:42:07.440
 abuse.

00:42:08.599 --> 00:42:09.380
 No, it

00:42:09.380 --> 00:42:09.780
 would be,

00:42:10.059 --> 00:42:10.320
 hey, the

00:42:10.320 --> 00:42:11.079
 gospel involves

00:42:11.079 --> 00:42:11.720
 repentance.

00:42:12.519 --> 00:42:12.860
 Look to

00:42:12.860 --> 00:42:13.280
 Christ.

00:42:14.340 --> 00:42:15.300
 So if,

00:42:15.420 --> 00:42:16.220
 if rather,

00:42:16.579 --> 00:42:17.539
 like some

00:42:17.539 --> 00:42:18.119
 Scottish

00:42:18.119 --> 00:42:19.019
 Presbyterian

00:42:19.019 --> 00:42:19.740
 saint in the

00:42:19.740 --> 00:42:20.599
 Outer Hebrides

00:42:20.599 --> 00:42:22.079
 hasn't taken

00:42:22.079 --> 00:42:23.079
 the Lord's

00:42:23.079 --> 00:42:23.539
 Supper for

00:42:23.539 --> 00:42:24.360
 six years

00:42:24.360 --> 00:42:25.920
 because he

00:42:25.920 --> 00:42:26.519
 just doesn't

00:42:26.519 --> 00:42:27.099
 know if he's

00:42:27.099 --> 00:42:27.640
 worthy enough

00:42:27.640 --> 00:42:28.180
 to receive

00:42:28.180 --> 00:42:28.460
 it,

00:42:29.619 --> 00:42:29.860
 you know,

00:42:29.860 --> 00:42:30.260
 I might say,

00:42:30.519 --> 00:42:30.840
 whoa,

00:42:31.100 --> 00:42:31.620
 friend,

00:42:32.220 --> 00:42:32.800
 brother,

00:42:33.380 --> 00:42:34.240
 don't look to

00:42:34.240 --> 00:42:36.000
 yourself and

00:42:36.000 --> 00:42:37.380
 your relative

00:42:37.380 --> 00:42:37.920
 degree of

00:42:37.920 --> 00:42:38.620
 holiness or

00:42:38.620 --> 00:42:39.059
 unholiness,

00:42:39.360 --> 00:42:39.820
 look to

00:42:39.820 --> 00:42:40.840
 Christ and

00:42:40.840 --> 00:42:41.660
 his righteousness.

00:42:42.480 --> 00:42:43.000
 It's his

00:42:43.000 --> 00:42:43.600
 record, not

00:42:43.600 --> 00:42:44.480
 yours, that

00:42:44.480 --> 00:42:44.800
 gives you

00:42:44.800 --> 00:42:45.180
 access.

00:42:45.740 --> 00:42:46.059
 So you

00:42:46.059 --> 00:42:46.400
 deal with

00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:47.780
 it in a

00:42:47.780 --> 00:42:48.140
 completely,

00:42:48.860 --> 00:42:50.039
 in a different

00:42:50.039 --> 00:42:51.140
 way, but it

00:42:51.140 --> 00:42:51.900
 should be, it

00:42:51.900 --> 00:42:52.340
 should be the

00:42:52.340 --> 00:42:53.019
 privilege of

00:42:53.019 --> 00:42:54.100
 every believer.

00:42:54.480 --> 00:42:54.880
 It is the

00:42:54.880 --> 00:42:55.200
 privilege of

00:42:55.200 --> 00:42:55.539
 every believer

00:42:55.539 --> 00:42:56.579
 to have that

00:42:56.579 --> 00:42:57.200
 assurance.

00:42:57.800 --> 00:42:58.240
 Yeah.

00:42:58.860 --> 00:42:59.579
 I was going

00:42:59.579 --> 00:42:59.760
 to say,

00:42:59.820 --> 00:43:00.120
 I'm going to

00:43:00.120 --> 00:43:00.519
 this issue,

00:43:00.519 --> 00:43:01.259
 predestination

00:43:01.259 --> 00:43:01.759
 would be one

00:43:01.759 --> 00:43:02.860
 that really

00:43:02.860 --> 00:43:04.099
 reveals the

00:43:04.099 --> 00:43:04.940
 human heart

00:43:04.940 --> 00:43:05.460
 is like,

00:43:05.980 --> 00:43:06.280
 I don't

00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:06.960
 know, I

00:43:06.960 --> 00:43:07.179
 don't know

00:43:07.179 --> 00:43:07.840
 if deceitfulness

00:43:07.840 --> 00:43:08.360
 is the right

00:43:08.360 --> 00:43:08.719
 word, but

00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:09.239
 certainly a

00:43:09.239 --> 00:43:10.280
 resistance to

00:43:10.280 --> 00:43:11.840
 believing, I

00:43:11.840 --> 00:43:12.239
 think, what

00:43:12.239 --> 00:43:13.219
 scripture is

00:43:13.219 --> 00:43:14.360
 clearly saying,

00:43:14.840 --> 00:43:15.179
 particularly

00:43:15.179 --> 00:43:15.739
 because I

00:43:15.739 --> 00:43:16.539
 feel like on

00:43:16.539 --> 00:43:17.119
 this particular

00:43:17.119 --> 00:43:18.259
 issue, there

00:43:18.259 --> 00:43:18.800
 are two

00:43:18.800 --> 00:43:20.059
 common, I

00:43:20.059 --> 00:43:20.320
 feel like,

00:43:20.380 --> 00:43:20.940
 what seems

00:43:20.940 --> 00:43:21.500
 like heart

00:43:21.500 --> 00:43:22.300
 motives behind

00:43:22.300 --> 00:43:23.199
 not wanting

00:43:23.199 --> 00:43:23.820
 to believe

00:43:23.820 --> 00:43:24.900
 in election,

00:43:25.400 --> 00:43:25.699
 and it

00:43:25.699 --> 00:43:26.099
 seems like

00:43:26.099 --> 00:43:27.099
 one of them

00:43:27.099 --> 00:43:28.039
 is you

00:43:28.039 --> 00:43:28.820
 don't want

00:43:28.820 --> 00:43:29.500
 to believe

00:43:29.500 --> 00:43:30.500
 that you

00:43:30.500 --> 00:43:30.940
 are that

00:43:30.940 --> 00:43:31.599
 bad, that

00:43:31.599 --> 00:43:32.059
 you would

00:43:32.059 --> 00:43:33.380
 never believe

00:43:33.380 --> 00:43:34.119
 in Christ

00:43:34.119 --> 00:43:34.559
 or anything.

00:43:34.820 --> 00:43:35.219
 But I

00:43:35.219 --> 00:43:35.639
 feel like the

00:43:35.639 --> 00:43:36.159
 second one

00:43:36.159 --> 00:43:36.619
 tends to be

00:43:36.619 --> 00:43:37.179
 more common,

00:43:37.539 --> 00:43:38.380
 which is I

00:43:38.380 --> 00:43:39.000
 think the

00:43:39.000 --> 00:43:39.980
 idea of

00:43:39.980 --> 00:43:41.519
 believing in

00:43:41.519 --> 00:43:42.280
 a God who

00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:43.619
 chooses might

00:43:43.619 --> 00:43:44.619
 appear to so

00:43:44.619 --> 00:43:45.380
 many as

00:43:45.380 --> 00:43:46.079
 something that's

00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:48.099
 totally unfair

00:43:48.099 --> 00:43:49.139
 and unjust,

00:43:49.139 --> 00:43:52.019
 that's

00:43:52.019 --> 00:43:53.099
 the temptation

00:43:53.099 --> 00:43:54.440
 of evangelism

00:43:54.440 --> 00:43:54.879
 and people

00:43:54.879 --> 00:43:56.440
 ask, people

00:43:56.440 --> 00:43:56.839
 ask about

00:43:56.839 --> 00:43:57.319
 predestination,

00:43:57.460 --> 00:43:57.739
 we don't

00:43:57.739 --> 00:43:58.279
 want to say

00:43:58.279 --> 00:43:58.679
 the thing

00:43:58.679 --> 00:43:59.079
 that might

00:43:59.079 --> 00:44:00.039
 seem unpopular

00:44:00.039 --> 00:44:01.099
 or might

00:44:01.099 --> 00:44:01.559
 seem like

00:44:01.559 --> 00:44:02.119
 it's tempting

00:44:02.119 --> 00:44:02.879
 God to be

00:44:02.879 --> 00:44:03.299
 in a certain

00:44:03.299 --> 00:44:03.719
 way.

00:44:04.219 --> 00:44:04.440
 And I'm

00:44:04.440 --> 00:44:05.099
 just curious,

00:44:05.460 --> 00:44:07.019
 why is it

00:44:07.019 --> 00:44:07.659
 that it's so

00:44:07.659 --> 00:44:08.739
 important that

00:44:08.739 --> 00:44:09.139
 in those

00:44:09.139 --> 00:44:09.859
 moments you

00:44:09.859 --> 00:44:10.519
 sort of listen

00:44:10.519 --> 00:44:10.920
 to what

00:44:10.920 --> 00:44:11.699
 scripture has

00:44:11.699 --> 00:44:12.159
 to say

00:44:12.159 --> 00:44:12.819
 instead of

00:44:12.819 --> 00:44:14.639
 going with

00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:15.299
 the thing

00:44:15.300 --> 00:44:15.960
 that we

00:44:15.960 --> 00:44:16.519
 sort of

00:44:16.519 --> 00:44:18.720
 believe society

00:44:18.720 --> 00:44:19.519
 wants us

00:44:19.519 --> 00:44:20.060
 to think?

00:44:21.640 --> 00:44:22.519
 Because I

00:44:22.519 --> 00:44:22.780
 don't know,

00:44:22.820 --> 00:44:23.180
 I just feel

00:44:23.180 --> 00:44:23.780
 like in a

00:44:23.780 --> 00:44:24.080
 lot of

00:44:24.080 --> 00:44:24.380
 it feels

00:44:24.380 --> 00:44:24.600
 like the

00:44:24.600 --> 00:44:25.039
 human part

00:44:25.039 --> 00:44:25.240
 is going

00:44:25.240 --> 00:44:25.580
 to believe

00:44:25.580 --> 00:44:25.820
 what it

00:44:25.820 --> 00:44:26.360
 wants to.

00:44:26.920 --> 00:44:27.940
 It happens

00:44:27.940 --> 00:44:28.500
 in this

00:44:28.500 --> 00:44:29.840
 predestination

00:44:29.840 --> 00:44:30.300
 topic.

00:44:30.420 --> 00:44:30.660
 Yeah,

00:44:30.760 --> 00:44:30.960
 yeah.

00:44:31.600 --> 00:44:31.860
 Yeah,

00:44:32.039 --> 00:44:33.220
 thanks Alex.

00:44:34.280 --> 00:44:34.560
 Yeah,

00:44:34.660 --> 00:44:35.200
 this is

00:44:35.200 --> 00:44:35.500
 important.

00:44:35.800 --> 00:44:36.539
 We always

00:44:36.539 --> 00:44:37.000
 are going

00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:37.480
 to have

00:44:37.480 --> 00:44:39.680
 that dual

00:44:39.680 --> 00:44:40.260
 dynamic

00:44:40.260 --> 00:44:41.920
 of the

00:44:41.920 --> 00:44:42.180
 world

00:44:42.180 --> 00:44:43.000
 conforming

00:44:43.000 --> 00:44:43.500
 us to

00:44:43.500 --> 00:44:44.160
 its image

00:44:44.160 --> 00:44:45.060
 and that

00:44:45.059 --> 00:44:45.880
 is always

00:44:45.880 --> 00:44:46.539
 proceeding

00:44:46.539 --> 00:44:47.139
 apace

00:44:47.139 --> 00:44:47.579
 just by

00:44:47.579 --> 00:44:48.019
 being in

00:44:48.019 --> 00:44:48.360
 the world

00:44:48.360 --> 00:44:48.799
 and seeking

00:44:48.799 --> 00:44:49.079
 to be

00:44:49.079 --> 00:44:49.579
 not of

00:44:49.579 --> 00:44:49.779
 it.

00:44:50.340 --> 00:44:50.559
 And yet

00:44:50.559 --> 00:44:51.279
 it squeezes

00:44:51.279 --> 00:44:51.639
 us into

00:44:51.639 --> 00:44:52.139
 its mold.

00:44:52.679 --> 00:44:53.059
 So yes,

00:44:53.179 --> 00:44:53.500
 a lot of

00:44:53.500 --> 00:44:54.860
 how we

00:44:54.860 --> 00:44:55.900
 think about

00:44:55.900 --> 00:44:56.460
 things and

00:44:56.460 --> 00:44:56.799
 how we

00:44:56.799 --> 00:44:57.840
 feel about

00:44:57.840 --> 00:44:58.360
 things and

00:44:58.360 --> 00:44:58.619
 how we

00:44:58.619 --> 00:45:00.340
 wish things

00:45:00.340 --> 00:45:00.900
 will be

00:45:00.900 --> 00:45:01.259
 conforming

00:45:01.259 --> 00:45:01.400
 to the

00:45:01.400 --> 00:45:01.579
 world.

00:45:01.880 --> 00:45:02.079
 And in

00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:02.659
 contrast to

00:45:02.659 --> 00:45:02.820
 that,

00:45:02.900 --> 00:45:03.380
 we rather

00:45:03.380 --> 00:45:03.960
 need to

00:45:03.960 --> 00:45:04.519
 renew

00:45:04.519 --> 00:45:05.739
 our minds

00:45:05.739 --> 00:45:07.239
 through

00:45:07.239 --> 00:45:08.199
 the word,

00:45:08.299 --> 00:45:08.599
 through the

00:45:08.599 --> 00:45:08.960
 scriptures.

00:45:09.779 --> 00:45:10.460
 So we

00:45:10.460 --> 00:45:10.900
 come to

00:45:10.900 --> 00:45:11.779
 think aright,

00:45:12.340 --> 00:45:13.500
 orthodoxy,

00:45:13.500 --> 00:45:14.699
 and also

00:45:14.699 --> 00:45:15.260
 importantly,

00:45:16.099 --> 00:45:16.760
 we don't

00:45:16.760 --> 00:45:17.199
 often think

00:45:17.199 --> 00:45:17.619
 about this

00:45:17.619 --> 00:45:18.059
 as often,

00:45:18.739 --> 00:45:19.840
 that we

00:45:19.840 --> 00:45:21.079
 act aright,

00:45:21.260 --> 00:45:22.079
 orthopraxy,

00:45:22.460 --> 00:45:23.019
 but also

00:45:23.019 --> 00:45:23.539
 that we

00:45:23.539 --> 00:45:27.579
 feel aright,

00:45:28.139 --> 00:45:29.219
 orthopathy.

00:45:30.500 --> 00:45:31.059
 We ought

00:45:31.059 --> 00:45:31.360
 to,

00:45:31.719 --> 00:45:33.260
 good things

00:45:33.260 --> 00:45:33.739
 ought to

00:45:33.739 --> 00:45:34.260
 exhilarate

00:45:34.260 --> 00:45:34.420
 us.

00:45:34.500 --> 00:45:34.739
 We ought

00:45:34.739 --> 00:45:35.420
 to rejoice

00:45:35.420 --> 00:45:35.960
 in good

00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:36.480
 things.

00:45:36.480 --> 00:45:38.300
 and we

00:45:38.300 --> 00:45:38.940
 ought to

00:45:38.940 --> 00:45:40.360
 feel

00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:42.500
 praise for

00:45:42.500 --> 00:45:42.900
 things that

00:45:42.900 --> 00:45:43.559
 are worthy

00:45:43.559 --> 00:45:44.960
 of praise.

00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:47.280
 So yes,

00:45:47.440 --> 00:45:47.800
 we do

00:45:47.800 --> 00:45:48.219
 need to

00:45:48.219 --> 00:45:48.500
 have

00:45:48.500 --> 00:45:48.940
 scripture

00:45:48.940 --> 00:45:49.780
 continue to

00:45:49.780 --> 00:45:51.079
 train us

00:45:51.079 --> 00:45:52.139
 such that

00:45:52.139 --> 00:45:52.400
 our

00:45:52.400 --> 00:45:54.380
 affections,

00:45:55.300 --> 00:45:56.300
 what our

00:45:56.300 --> 00:45:57.079
 heart begins

00:45:57.079 --> 00:45:57.699
 to be trained

00:45:57.699 --> 00:45:58.500
 to incline

00:45:58.500 --> 00:45:59.460
 itself toward

00:45:59.460 --> 00:46:00.240
 with our

00:46:00.240 --> 00:46:01.119
 hearty amen

00:46:01.119 --> 00:46:01.980
 and praise

00:46:01.980 --> 00:46:02.380
 the Lord

00:46:02.380 --> 00:46:03.300
 and hallelujah

00:46:03.300 --> 00:46:04.059
 and God

00:46:04.059 --> 00:46:04.340
 be praised.

00:46:04.740 --> 00:46:05.420
 That is

00:46:05.420 --> 00:46:05.780
 something that

00:46:05.780 --> 00:46:06.120
 we do

00:46:06.120 --> 00:46:06.620
 need to

00:46:06.620 --> 00:46:07.740
 work on.

00:46:07.840 --> 00:46:08.280
 Absolutely,

00:46:08.440 --> 00:46:08.660
 Alex,

00:46:08.720 --> 00:46:09.440
 and it's

00:46:09.440 --> 00:46:09.880
 often a

00:46:09.880 --> 00:46:10.280
 challenge.

00:46:10.800 --> 00:46:11.320
 It's always

00:46:11.320 --> 00:46:11.900
 a challenge.

00:46:12.860 --> 00:46:12.980
 Yeah.

00:46:13.700 --> 00:46:13.920
 Yeah,

00:46:14.080 --> 00:46:14.360
 go ahead.

00:46:14.780 --> 00:46:14.900
 Sure.

00:46:15.360 --> 00:46:16.080
 So the

00:46:16.080 --> 00:46:16.980
 scriptural idea

00:46:16.980 --> 00:46:17.760
 of God

00:46:17.760 --> 00:46:18.840
 receiving all

00:46:18.840 --> 00:46:19.460
 glory and

00:46:19.460 --> 00:46:19.920
 salvation,

00:46:20.640 --> 00:46:21.480
 I think that's

00:46:21.480 --> 00:46:22.240
 obviously true,

00:46:22.360 --> 00:46:22.920
 but how do

00:46:22.920 --> 00:46:23.480
 we reconcile

00:46:23.480 --> 00:46:24.240
 that with

00:46:24.240 --> 00:46:25.360
 language and

00:46:25.360 --> 00:46:26.160
 parable

00:46:26.160 --> 00:46:26.760
 talents,

00:46:26.900 --> 00:46:27.360
 well done,

00:46:27.700 --> 00:46:27.920
 that would

00:46:27.920 --> 00:46:28.100
 be

00:46:28.100 --> 00:46:28.360
 true.

00:46:29.360 --> 00:46:30.040
 Does it

00:46:30.040 --> 00:46:30.360
 seem like

00:46:30.360 --> 00:46:30.600
 they would

00:46:30.600 --> 00:46:30.760
 need

00:46:30.760 --> 00:46:31.160
 attention?

00:46:33.760 --> 00:46:34.840
 How do

00:46:34.840 --> 00:46:35.840
 you find

00:46:35.840 --> 00:46:37.600
 the tension

00:46:37.600 --> 00:46:38.039
 there?

00:46:39.000 --> 00:46:39.780
 That a

00:46:39.780 --> 00:46:41.160
 commendation,

00:46:42.700 --> 00:46:43.519
 if, well,

00:46:43.620 --> 00:46:44.019
 could it not

00:46:44.019 --> 00:46:44.519
 be resolved

00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:45.079
 this way?

00:46:46.600 --> 00:46:48.240
 When God

00:46:48.240 --> 00:46:50.860
 commends us

00:46:50.860 --> 00:46:51.920
 with well

00:46:51.920 --> 00:46:54.220
 done, if we

00:46:54.220 --> 00:46:55.280
 actually are

00:46:55.280 --> 00:46:56.579
 orthodox and

00:46:56.579 --> 00:46:57.780
 orthopathic,

00:46:57.860 --> 00:46:59.440
 we will realize,

00:46:59.840 --> 00:47:00.840
 aha, why,

00:47:00.840 --> 00:47:01.559
 thank you,

00:47:02.340 --> 00:47:03.740
 but as

00:47:03.740 --> 00:47:04.280
 you and I

00:47:04.280 --> 00:47:05.059
 both know,

00:47:06.200 --> 00:47:07.200
 what do I

00:47:07.200 --> 00:47:07.820
 have that I

00:47:07.820 --> 00:47:08.760
 haven't received?

00:47:09.920 --> 00:47:10.980
 So this

00:47:10.980 --> 00:47:12.140
 just reverberates

00:47:12.140 --> 00:47:13.300
 back to

00:47:13.300 --> 00:47:14.120
 your glory,

00:47:14.680 --> 00:47:15.380
 God, because

00:47:15.380 --> 00:47:16.840
 if I were

00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:17.440
 left to my

00:47:17.440 --> 00:47:18.960
 own, why,

00:47:19.019 --> 00:47:19.559
 that talent

00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:19.960
 would be

00:47:19.960 --> 00:47:20.519
 buried in the

00:47:20.519 --> 00:47:21.480
 napkin still,

00:47:21.920 --> 00:47:22.160
 you know,

00:47:22.220 --> 00:47:23.079
 six feet under,

00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:24.079
 just like my

00:47:24.079 --> 00:47:24.400
 nature.

00:47:25.360 --> 00:47:26.940
 So, you

00:47:26.940 --> 00:47:27.180
 know, the

00:47:27.180 --> 00:47:28.000
 echo back is

00:47:28.000 --> 00:47:28.519
 with a

00:47:28.519 --> 00:47:28.920
 combination,

00:47:29.220 --> 00:47:29.880
 not to us,

00:47:29.880 --> 00:47:30.720
 O Lord, but

00:47:30.720 --> 00:47:31.460
 to thy name

00:47:31.460 --> 00:47:32.300
 be glory.

00:47:33.019 --> 00:47:34.579
 So, it's

00:47:34.579 --> 00:47:36.619
 just, that's

00:47:36.619 --> 00:47:37.380
 just how it

00:47:37.380 --> 00:47:38.000
 works if we

00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:39.619
 recognize, and

00:47:39.619 --> 00:47:40.160
 when we see

00:47:40.160 --> 00:47:41.340
 things as they

00:47:41.340 --> 00:47:42.099
 truly are,

00:47:42.460 --> 00:47:43.180
 that will be

00:47:43.180 --> 00:47:44.240
 perfectly understood

00:47:44.240 --> 00:47:45.360
 when we are

00:47:45.360 --> 00:47:45.740
 in his

00:47:45.740 --> 00:47:46.260
 presence.

00:47:47.079 --> 00:47:48.420
 Really, any

00:47:48.420 --> 00:47:48.780
 sort of

00:47:48.780 --> 00:47:49.400
 inclination to

00:47:49.400 --> 00:47:50.320
 boast really

00:47:50.320 --> 00:47:51.340
 can't occur

00:47:51.340 --> 00:47:53.420
 to a

00:47:53.420 --> 00:47:54.300
 glorified

00:47:54.300 --> 00:47:55.280
 saint in

00:47:55.280 --> 00:47:56.680
 the presence

00:47:56.680 --> 00:47:57.519
 of God.

00:47:58.099 --> 00:47:58.380
 So I

00:47:58.380 --> 00:47:58.680
 think that

00:47:58.679 --> 00:47:59.119
 that's,

00:47:59.759 --> 00:48:00.679
 we are,

00:48:02.199 --> 00:48:02.879
 what he,

00:48:04.339 --> 00:48:04.879
 we,

00:48:05.159 --> 00:48:06.259
 when he

00:48:06.259 --> 00:48:06.759
 gives us

00:48:06.759 --> 00:48:07.759
 crowns, he's

00:48:07.759 --> 00:48:08.619
 simply crowning

00:48:08.619 --> 00:48:09.379
 his gifts.

00:48:10.399 --> 00:48:11.139
 So maybe

00:48:11.139 --> 00:48:11.719
 think about it

00:48:11.719 --> 00:48:12.179
 like that.

00:48:13.059 --> 00:48:13.259
 Yeah?

00:48:13.259 --> 00:48:13.319
 Yeah.

00:48:13.819 --> 00:48:14.679
 You talk

00:48:14.679 --> 00:48:15.419
 about, like,

00:48:16.759 --> 00:48:17.179
 the,

00:48:18.299 --> 00:48:19.099
 he doesn't

00:48:19.099 --> 00:48:20.119
 choose

00:48:20.119 --> 00:48:20.639
 everybody,

00:48:21.000 --> 00:48:21.259
 and it's

00:48:21.259 --> 00:48:21.460
 like,

00:48:21.539 --> 00:48:21.639
 no,

00:48:22.359 --> 00:48:23.440
 the world

00:48:23.440 --> 00:48:23.839
 wants to

00:48:23.839 --> 00:48:25.159
 make it to

00:48:25.159 --> 00:48:25.559
 where it's

00:48:25.559 --> 00:48:25.840
 like,

00:48:26.500 --> 00:48:27.719
 everybody

00:48:27.719 --> 00:48:28.699
 has this

00:48:28.699 --> 00:48:30.380
 option to

00:48:30.380 --> 00:48:31.440
 go after

00:48:31.440 --> 00:48:31.840
 God.

00:48:32.400 --> 00:48:32.799
 And so it

00:48:32.799 --> 00:48:33.219
 made me think

00:48:33.219 --> 00:48:33.599
 about the

00:48:33.599 --> 00:48:34.000
 scripture,

00:48:34.820 --> 00:48:35.159
 many are

00:48:35.159 --> 00:48:35.440
 called,

00:48:35.599 --> 00:48:35.799
 few are

00:48:35.799 --> 00:48:36.059
 chosen.

00:48:36.199 --> 00:48:36.500
 So what's

00:48:36.500 --> 00:48:36.840
 the difference

00:48:36.840 --> 00:48:37.360
 between being

00:48:37.360 --> 00:48:37.799
 called and

00:48:37.799 --> 00:48:38.159
 being chosen?

00:48:38.219 --> 00:48:39.099
 Excellent, yeah.

00:48:39.579 --> 00:48:40.980
 So many are

00:48:40.980 --> 00:48:42.139
 called, few

00:48:42.139 --> 00:48:42.799
 are chosen.

00:48:43.579 --> 00:48:44.179
 What's the

00:48:44.179 --> 00:48:45.360
 difference between

00:48:45.360 --> 00:48:46.420
 being called and

00:48:46.420 --> 00:48:46.940
 being chosen?

00:48:46.940 --> 00:48:47.360
 What was the

00:48:47.360 --> 00:48:47.619
 question?

00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:50.800
 Well, he's

00:48:50.800 --> 00:48:51.240
 just asking,

00:48:51.480 --> 00:48:52.659
 what it says

00:48:52.659 --> 00:48:54.220
 certain ones are

00:48:54.220 --> 00:48:54.720
 chosen and

00:48:54.720 --> 00:48:55.539
 others are not,

00:48:55.659 --> 00:48:56.320
 but it says

00:48:56.320 --> 00:48:57.539
 the calling

00:48:57.539 --> 00:48:58.099
 seems to be

00:48:58.099 --> 00:48:59.000
 broader than

00:48:59.000 --> 00:48:59.639
 the choice.

00:49:00.019 --> 00:49:00.400
 What's the

00:49:00.400 --> 00:49:01.300
 difference between

00:49:01.300 --> 00:49:02.639
 being called

00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:04.059
 and being

00:49:04.059 --> 00:49:04.700
 chosen?

00:49:05.400 --> 00:49:06.300
 So, a

00:49:06.300 --> 00:49:06.860
 great question.

00:49:07.920 --> 00:49:08.619
 The scriptural

00:49:08.619 --> 00:49:09.559
 difference is

00:49:09.559 --> 00:49:10.820
 that the

00:49:10.820 --> 00:49:12.320
 call of

00:49:12.320 --> 00:49:13.039
 God goes

00:49:13.039 --> 00:49:13.700
 out to

00:49:13.700 --> 00:49:14.940
 every human

00:49:14.940 --> 00:49:15.480
 creature.

00:49:15.480 --> 00:49:17.619
 and it

00:49:17.619 --> 00:49:18.539
 is both

00:49:18.539 --> 00:49:20.000
 an invitation,

00:49:21.579 --> 00:49:22.840
 look to

00:49:22.840 --> 00:49:23.300
 the Lord,

00:49:23.420 --> 00:49:24.139
 all the

00:49:24.139 --> 00:49:24.579
 ends of

00:49:24.579 --> 00:49:24.980
 the earth

00:49:24.980 --> 00:49:25.460
 and be

00:49:25.460 --> 00:49:26.059
 saved.

00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:27.000
 So the

00:49:27.000 --> 00:49:27.639
 gospel,

00:49:27.780 --> 00:49:28.500
 the announcement

00:49:28.500 --> 00:49:29.599
 that God

00:49:29.599 --> 00:49:30.219
 has provided

00:49:30.219 --> 00:49:31.059
 a savior for

00:49:31.059 --> 00:49:31.480
 the world,

00:49:31.820 --> 00:49:32.559
 look to him

00:49:32.559 --> 00:49:33.099
 and live,

00:49:33.320 --> 00:49:34.019
 that call

00:49:34.019 --> 00:49:34.940
 goes out

00:49:34.940 --> 00:49:36.139
 to all.

00:49:36.440 --> 00:49:36.960
 It is a

00:49:36.960 --> 00:49:37.619
 universal

00:49:37.619 --> 00:49:38.699
 call.

00:49:40.119 --> 00:49:41.340
 And that

00:49:41.340 --> 00:49:42.119
 is something

00:49:42.119 --> 00:49:42.900
 that we are

00:49:42.900 --> 00:49:43.740
 invited to

00:49:43.740 --> 00:49:44.559
 respond to

00:49:44.559 --> 00:49:45.579
 and indeed

00:49:45.579 --> 00:49:46.119
 we have

00:49:46.119 --> 00:49:46.739
 an obligation

00:49:46.739 --> 00:49:47.400
 to respond

00:49:47.400 --> 00:49:48.019
 to morally.

00:49:48.659 --> 00:49:49.539
 As Paul

00:49:49.539 --> 00:49:50.340
 writes to

00:49:50.340 --> 00:49:51.440
 the Athenians,

00:49:51.860 --> 00:49:53.119
 said to

00:49:53.119 --> 00:49:53.880
 the Athenians,

00:49:54.900 --> 00:49:55.860
 God is,

00:49:55.940 --> 00:49:56.920
 in Acts 17,

00:49:57.239 --> 00:49:57.779
 God is

00:49:57.779 --> 00:49:58.779
 commanding

00:49:58.779 --> 00:49:59.699
 all people

00:49:59.699 --> 00:50:00.480
 everywhere

00:50:00.480 --> 00:50:02.259
 to repent

00:50:02.259 --> 00:50:03.039
 and to

00:50:03.039 --> 00:50:03.440
 believe.

00:50:03.779 --> 00:50:04.299
 So the

00:50:04.299 --> 00:50:05.539
 gospel call

00:50:05.539 --> 00:50:06.480
 is both an

00:50:06.480 --> 00:50:07.299
 invitation and

00:50:07.299 --> 00:50:07.799
 a command.

00:50:07.940 --> 00:50:08.239
 There's an

00:50:08.239 --> 00:50:08.799
 obligation.

00:50:09.920 --> 00:50:10.820
 But not

00:50:10.820 --> 00:50:11.380
 all answer

00:50:11.380 --> 00:50:11.940
 that call.

00:50:11.940 --> 00:50:13.019
 In fact,

00:50:13.340 --> 00:50:14.440
 we are so

00:50:14.440 --> 00:50:17.619
 self-centered

00:50:17.619 --> 00:50:18.159
 and curved

00:50:18.159 --> 00:50:18.599
 in upon

00:50:18.599 --> 00:50:19.200
 ourselves

00:50:19.200 --> 00:50:20.360
 that we're

00:50:20.360 --> 00:50:21.340
 like teflonized

00:50:21.340 --> 00:50:21.960
 against that.

00:50:22.519 --> 00:50:22.940
 So God

00:50:22.940 --> 00:50:23.400
 has to

00:50:23.400 --> 00:50:24.200
 actually go

00:50:24.200 --> 00:50:25.900
 in and

00:50:25.900 --> 00:50:26.500
 like do

00:50:26.500 --> 00:50:27.059
 an intervention,

00:50:27.400 --> 00:50:28.300
 shake us

00:50:28.300 --> 00:50:28.780
 from our

00:50:28.780 --> 00:50:29.240
 spiritual

00:50:29.240 --> 00:50:29.960
 stupor,

00:50:30.420 --> 00:50:31.039
 open our

00:50:31.039 --> 00:50:32.139
 closed eyes,

00:50:32.920 --> 00:50:33.559
 make our

00:50:33.559 --> 00:50:34.960
 hard heart

00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:35.700
 malleable,

00:50:35.960 --> 00:50:36.480
 and our

00:50:36.480 --> 00:50:37.579
 stiff neck

00:50:37.579 --> 00:50:38.579
 able to

00:50:38.579 --> 00:50:39.599
 actually turn

00:50:39.599 --> 00:50:40.460
 and look

00:50:40.460 --> 00:50:40.900
 to the

00:50:40.900 --> 00:50:41.219
 serpent

00:50:41.219 --> 00:50:41.799
 on the

00:50:41.799 --> 00:50:43.519
 rod,

00:50:44.019 --> 00:50:45.319
 on the

00:50:45.319 --> 00:50:45.679
 pole,

00:50:46.179 --> 00:50:47.659
 because we

00:50:47.659 --> 00:50:51.360
 would never

00:50:51.360 --> 00:50:52.299
 do that.

00:50:52.619 --> 00:50:53.059
 It's not

00:50:53.059 --> 00:50:53.380
 that we

00:50:53.380 --> 00:50:54.579
 could never

00:50:54.579 --> 00:50:55.179
 do that.

00:50:55.259 --> 00:50:55.619
 It's not

00:50:55.619 --> 00:50:55.980
 that our

00:50:55.980 --> 00:50:56.259
 will,

00:50:56.400 --> 00:50:56.619
 like a

00:50:56.619 --> 00:50:57.099
 weather vane,

00:50:57.159 --> 00:50:57.839
 is soldered

00:50:57.839 --> 00:50:58.199
 so it

00:50:58.199 --> 00:50:58.860
 can't turn.

00:50:59.559 --> 00:51:00.299
 It's just

00:51:00.299 --> 00:51:01.579
 that the

00:51:01.579 --> 00:51:02.440
 prevailing wind

00:51:02.440 --> 00:51:02.839
 from our

00:51:02.839 --> 00:51:03.420
 hearts are

00:51:03.420 --> 00:51:04.219
 always blowing

00:51:04.219 --> 00:51:04.719
 in the same

00:51:04.719 --> 00:51:05.199
 direction.

00:51:05.719 --> 00:51:06.339
 We prefer

00:51:06.339 --> 00:51:07.059
 the delectable

00:51:07.059 --> 00:51:07.599
 doings of

00:51:07.599 --> 00:51:08.039
 darkness.

00:51:08.039 --> 00:51:09.400
 God comes

00:51:09.400 --> 00:51:10.300
 in as

00:51:10.300 --> 00:51:10.639
 light,

00:51:11.119 --> 00:51:11.820
 but men

00:51:11.820 --> 00:51:12.659
 love darkness

00:51:12.659 --> 00:51:13.420
 rather than

00:51:13.420 --> 00:51:13.940
 light because

00:51:13.940 --> 00:51:14.420
 their deeds

00:51:14.420 --> 00:51:14.860
 are evil.

00:51:15.559 --> 00:51:16.159
 So God

00:51:16.159 --> 00:51:16.840
 has to

00:51:16.840 --> 00:51:17.539
 actually

00:51:17.539 --> 00:51:18.480
 choose

00:51:18.480 --> 00:51:19.179
 certain

00:51:19.179 --> 00:51:19.519
 people

00:51:19.519 --> 00:51:20.079
 and

00:51:20.079 --> 00:51:22.539
 change

00:51:22.539 --> 00:51:23.000
 their hearts,

00:51:23.139 --> 00:51:23.900
 regenerate

00:51:23.900 --> 00:51:24.599
 them so

00:51:24.599 --> 00:51:25.699
 they do

00:51:25.699 --> 00:51:26.779
 respond to

00:51:26.779 --> 00:51:27.440
 that gospel.

00:51:27.840 --> 00:51:28.199
 So that's

00:51:28.199 --> 00:51:28.619
 the difference.

00:51:29.039 --> 00:51:29.920
 So that,

00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:31.179
 what some

00:51:31.179 --> 00:51:31.579
 theologians

00:51:31.579 --> 00:51:32.079
 call an

00:51:32.079 --> 00:51:32.759
 inward

00:51:32.759 --> 00:51:33.199
 call.

00:51:33.619 --> 00:51:33.960
 So the

00:51:33.960 --> 00:51:34.239
 outer

00:51:34.239 --> 00:51:34.639
 call,

00:51:34.759 --> 00:51:35.179
 we all

00:51:35.179 --> 00:51:35.519
 hear with

00:51:35.519 --> 00:51:36.079
 our ears,

00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:37.059
 whatever,

00:51:37.340 --> 00:51:37.800
 I'm busy,

00:51:37.800 --> 00:51:38.600
 I'm doing

00:51:38.600 --> 00:51:39.039
 things,

00:51:39.480 --> 00:51:40.680
 versus an

00:51:40.680 --> 00:51:41.700
 inward call

00:51:41.700 --> 00:51:42.019
 that he

00:51:42.019 --> 00:51:42.900
 makes effectual

00:51:42.900 --> 00:51:43.260
 where,

00:51:43.420 --> 00:51:43.680
 oh,

00:51:44.600 --> 00:51:45.140
 this is

00:51:45.140 --> 00:51:45.620
 life.

00:51:46.220 --> 00:51:46.880
 This is

00:51:46.880 --> 00:51:47.440
 a savor

00:51:47.440 --> 00:51:48.019
 of life

00:51:48.019 --> 00:51:48.400
 to those

00:51:48.400 --> 00:51:48.580
 who are

00:51:48.580 --> 00:51:48.860
 appointed

00:51:48.860 --> 00:51:49.400
 to life,

00:51:49.560 --> 00:51:49.800
 he says

00:51:49.800 --> 00:51:50.280
 in Corinthians.

00:51:51.000 --> 00:51:51.200
 So,

00:51:51.519 --> 00:51:51.740
 does that

00:51:51.740 --> 00:51:52.340
 make some

00:51:52.340 --> 00:51:52.480
 sense?

00:51:52.720 --> 00:51:53.220
 Okay,

00:51:53.400 --> 00:51:53.600
 good.

00:51:53.940 --> 00:51:54.200
 Yes,

00:51:54.320 --> 00:51:54.480
 back.

00:51:55.480 --> 00:52:00.200
 Go ahead,

00:52:00.280 --> 00:52:00.440
 back.

00:52:00.440 --> 00:52:01.619
 many of us,

00:52:01.679 --> 00:52:02.260
 if not all

00:52:02.260 --> 00:52:02.639
 of us,

00:52:02.700 --> 00:52:03.220
 have had

00:52:03.220 --> 00:52:03.740
 people

00:52:03.740 --> 00:52:04.340
 near to

00:52:04.340 --> 00:52:04.679
 us

00:52:04.679 --> 00:52:05.159
 who

00:52:05.159 --> 00:52:06.039
 have

00:52:06.039 --> 00:52:07.559
 seemed

00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:08.039
 to show

00:52:08.039 --> 00:52:08.740
 genuine

00:52:08.740 --> 00:52:09.400
 faith

00:52:09.400 --> 00:52:09.740
 and

00:52:09.740 --> 00:52:10.159
 belief

00:52:10.159 --> 00:52:11.079
 and then

00:52:11.079 --> 00:52:12.099
 fallen away.

00:52:12.240 --> 00:52:13.960
 And it's

00:52:13.960 --> 00:52:14.659
 upsetting.

00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:15.460
 Yeah,

00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:15.780
 yeah,

00:52:15.780 --> 00:52:16.000
 yeah.

00:52:16.000 --> 00:52:16.119
 Yeah.

00:52:16.119 --> 00:52:16.200
 Yeah.

00:52:24.200 --> 00:52:24.619
 Yeah.

00:52:25.279 --> 00:52:25.279


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00:52:25.279 --> 00:52:28.559
 about

00:52:28.559 --> 00:52:28.880
 that?

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00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:29.299
 you

00:52:29.299 --> 00:52:29.719
 reconcile

00:52:29.719 --> 00:52:30.039
 them?

00:52:30.179 --> 00:52:30.519
 How do

00:52:30.519 --> 00:52:30.699
 you

00:52:30.699 --> 00:52:31.119
 counsel

00:52:31.119 --> 00:52:31.500
 them

00:52:31.500 --> 00:52:31.859
 as

00:52:31.859 --> 00:52:32.699
 friends

00:52:32.699 --> 00:52:32.960
 or

00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:33.400
 family?

00:52:33.539 --> 00:52:33.900
 Yeah,

00:52:33.980 --> 00:52:34.119
 yeah,

00:52:34.119 --> 00:52:34.539
 yeah,

00:52:34.679 --> 00:52:35.119
 no,

00:52:35.199 --> 00:52:35.440
 no,

00:52:35.440 --> 00:52:35.639
 no,

00:52:35.639 --> 00:52:35.759
 no,

00:52:35.759 --> 00:52:35.779
 no,

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 no,

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 no,

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00:52:25.280 --> 00:52:28.840
 How do you think about that?

00:52:28.940 --> 00:52:30.060
 How do you reconcile that?

00:52:30.200 --> 00:52:33.420
 How do you counsel that as friends or family?

00:52:33.519 --> 00:52:34.860
 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:52:34.940 --> 00:52:35.800
 No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

00:52:35.800 --> 00:52:36.400
 Great question.

00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:42.060
 And that's, that topic is going to fall to, to, to, to Tyler soon.

00:52:42.120 --> 00:52:46.200
 So you're going to get, you're going to get a much fuller, you're going to get a deeper,

00:52:46.200 --> 00:52:50.760
 a broader, an all around better answer from Tyler.

00:52:51.640 --> 00:52:52.200
 But, but.

00:52:52.560 --> 00:52:53.580
 I'm going to start taking notes.

00:52:53.660 --> 00:52:54.000
 Yeah, yeah.

00:52:55.280 --> 00:53:03.060
 But I'll just say a few words because we're at, at, at time here.

00:53:03.900 --> 00:53:05.800
 Yes, it is heart rending.

00:53:06.940 --> 00:53:13.880
 I would bet it might even be so heart rending back that, that, that we're stirred to cry out

00:53:13.880 --> 00:53:17.160
 to God and his mercy, to sovereign hearts, to pray.

00:53:18.200 --> 00:53:24.040
 Maybe even to lovingly confront, to plead.

00:53:24.039 --> 00:53:32.659
 To, to, to examine ourselves to see if, if we in any way are putting a stumbling block before

00:53:32.659 --> 00:53:39.059
 these people that are so close to us physically and, and affect in, in, in, in kinship of affection.

00:53:39.059 --> 00:53:46.179
 So we find ourselves very much animated to plead to God.

00:53:46.179 --> 00:53:50.679
 And, and, and that is a good, good sign.

00:53:50.679 --> 00:53:59.299
 Because God does not simply ordain the ends.

00:53:59.300 --> 00:54:00.480
 And the ends are accomplished.

00:54:00.480 --> 00:54:00.580
 And the ends are accomplished.

00:54:00.960 --> 00:54:12.019
 Most, many of which, most of which are these very things that maybe you are beginning to feel evidence for in your heart.

00:54:12.019 --> 00:54:16.099
 rather than feeling indifference to the fate of your friend,

00:54:16.380 --> 00:54:20.900
 you actually feel deep solicitude and a passion.

00:54:20.900 --> 00:54:24.800
 And you find yourself praying and calling on God to open eyes.

00:54:26.519 --> 00:54:28.739
 And that's a good sign.

00:54:28.840 --> 00:54:33.960
 You're beginning to see some of the very means that God ordains to use to achieve these ends

00:54:33.960 --> 00:54:35.940
 activated in your heart.

00:54:36.480 --> 00:54:40.739
 That seems to me to be great grace at work,

00:54:40.739 --> 00:54:45.959
 which would be just the sort of thing that we would notice

00:54:45.959 --> 00:54:48.739
 if God actually had saving a tent for that person.

00:54:48.739 --> 00:54:53.659
 So that tends to make us more hopeful and hopefully not then more complacent.

00:54:53.779 --> 00:54:55.079
 Oh, it looks like God's going to do it. Great.

00:54:55.159 --> 00:54:58.519
 Well, I'll go back to my comic book, but more eager.

00:54:59.259 --> 00:55:05.679
 So my sense is that the fact that you have a deep concern and a deep care,

00:55:06.019 --> 00:55:09.099
 that's a good sign that God is at work

00:55:09.099 --> 00:55:13.440
 and should be an added motivation to you to persist at it,

00:55:13.599 --> 00:55:20.099
 to persist at that good work of exhortation and warning and appeal and that.

00:55:21.000 --> 00:55:22.319
 So that's what I begin with.

00:55:22.539 --> 00:55:23.019
 Yeah, yeah.

00:55:23.799 --> 00:55:27.739
 Team, we're probably at time and we better go.

00:55:27.900 --> 00:55:29.900
 And Lord willing, we'll see you next week

00:55:29.900 --> 00:55:32.039
 where we are going to take up the question of

00:55:32.039 --> 00:55:39.400
 what does God's electing love need to overcome

00:55:39.400 --> 00:55:44.099
 in order to bring us from that dunghill back home.

00:55:44.599 --> 00:55:47.360
 So we will be looking at our condition, Lord willing.

00:55:47.559 --> 00:55:47.980
 Thank you.

00:55:47.980 --> 00:55:55.800
 I'd just like to tell you one thing.

00:55:55.920 --> 00:55:56.159
 Yeah.

00:55:57.059 --> 00:55:59.900
 This teaching is not new for me,

00:55:59.900 --> 00:56:04.079
 but it comes as a reminder at an interesting time

00:56:04.079 --> 00:56:06.740
 in my 51-year walk with the Lord.

00:56:06.740 --> 00:56:07.800
 Wow. Say more, Richard.

00:56:07.800 --> 00:56:15.620
 And that's because I'm reading a book by M. David Litwa right now

00:56:15.620 --> 00:56:17.900
 called Marcion,

00:56:18.560 --> 00:56:21.560
 The Gospel of a Holy Good God.

00:56:21.900 --> 00:56:22.300
 Ah.

00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:27.660
 And Marcion would have a much different reply

00:56:27.659 --> 00:56:33.659
 from either some of the skeptical pronouncements

00:56:34.339 --> 00:56:36.779
 that you voiced this morning,

00:56:37.399 --> 00:56:38.219
 as Devils, huh?

00:56:38.440 --> 00:56:39.119
 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:56:41.639 --> 00:56:45.559
 Or anything else modern, really.

00:56:46.480 --> 00:56:46.539
 Yeah.

00:56:46.739 --> 00:56:48.619
 So he would say that,

00:56:49.279 --> 00:56:50.239
 look to me,

00:56:50.699 --> 00:56:52.859
 I've loved you with an everlasting love,

00:56:53.000 --> 00:56:54.059
 from Jeremiah, for example.

00:56:54.079 --> 00:56:54.659
 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:56:54.659 --> 00:56:57.980
 He would say, well, that's the Creator God.

00:56:58.239 --> 00:56:58.879
 Yeah, yeah.

00:56:58.879 --> 00:57:00.779
 And we would say, yeah, that's right.

00:57:00.779 --> 00:57:01.639
 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:57:02.399 --> 00:57:04.420
 But then you would go on to say,

00:57:04.420 --> 00:57:06.699
 but it's not the Father of our Lord Jesus.

00:57:07.119 --> 00:57:08.099
 Yes, yes, yes, yes.

00:57:08.099 --> 00:57:09.659
 Who's saying this.

00:57:09.879 --> 00:57:10.379
 Yes, yes.

00:57:10.379 --> 00:57:13.940
 And so the love he proffers in Jeremiah there

00:57:13.940 --> 00:57:15.519
 is a tainted love.

00:57:15.659 --> 00:57:16.980
 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:57:17.159 --> 00:57:20.980
 Yeah, Marcionism, that early heresy,

00:57:20.980 --> 00:57:27.320
 was, it seemed to not be able to integrate

00:57:27.320 --> 00:57:30.079
 and hold together the witness of the Old Testament

00:57:30.079 --> 00:57:30.880
 and the New Testament

00:57:30.880 --> 00:57:38.619
 and failed to see that actually Jesus is

00:57:38.619 --> 00:57:41.659
 the place where we understand the Father best.

00:57:41.659 --> 00:57:45.359
 So rather than thinking that there is a contrast,

00:57:45.480 --> 00:57:46.659
 we need to integrate them

00:57:46.659 --> 00:57:49.379
 because God has supremely,

00:57:49.579 --> 00:57:52.259
 God, Jehovah, has supremely revealed himself

00:57:52.259 --> 00:57:55.619
 in his son, Hebrews 1, 3.

00:57:56.059 --> 00:57:58.079
 And that's, I think, where Marcion's approach

00:57:58.079 --> 00:57:59.299
 is just mistaken.

00:57:59.899 --> 00:58:00.619
 Luther says,

00:58:01.219 --> 00:58:04.599
 to look for God outside the face of Christ

00:58:04.599 --> 00:58:05.759
 is the devil.

00:58:05.760 --> 00:58:10.000
 So, you know, so we ought to say,

00:58:10.260 --> 00:58:11.800
 no, no, no, the best revelation

00:58:11.800 --> 00:58:15.920
 of the nature of God, the Father,

00:58:16.340 --> 00:58:17.700
 is the Son,

00:58:17.980 --> 00:58:21.200
 rather than thinking that they could be contrasted.

00:58:21.220 --> 00:58:22.100
 They need to be integrated.

00:58:22.280 --> 00:58:24.760
 I think that's where Marcion goes wrong.

00:58:25.240 --> 00:58:27.900
 Well, do you know of this scholar?

00:58:28.540 --> 00:58:29.660
 I've heard the name,

00:58:29.800 --> 00:58:30.960
 but I haven't read that book.

00:58:31.320 --> 00:58:33.300
 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I haven't read that book.

00:58:33.300 --> 00:58:35.020
 His earlier book was called,

00:58:35.019 --> 00:58:37.400
 The Evil Creator.

00:58:37.800 --> 00:58:40.400
 Ah, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:58:41.300 --> 00:58:41.699
 Yeah.

00:58:42.440 --> 00:58:43.340
 All right, all right.

00:58:43.460 --> 00:58:44.139
 Thank you, Richard.