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 Please take out your copy of God's Word, which I hope you brought with you this morning, and turn to Paul's letter to the Romans chapter 10.

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 To be honest and humble this morning, I have been dreading coming to this point in the book of Romans.

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 And by this point, I mean chapter 11, verse 26, which we're going to get to today, if you can believe it or not.

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 But, beginning in chapter 9, I have been wrestling with the meaning and the implications contained in such difficult, difficult text.

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 I have taken some comfort in kind of widely reading and seeing that I'm not the only one, a bit confused by it.

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 I take comfort that Peter himself, the apostle in 2 Peter chapter 3, verse 16, said that there are some things in Paul's writings that are hard to understand.

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 Even Peter himself was a tad confused at times.

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 I have been actually kind of physically in anguish over the bearing and the meaning of this text that we're going to get to today.

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 You're going to think I'm crazy.

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 We are going to go from chapter 10, verse 16, through chapter 11, verse 32, taking a particular look at Israel and the meaning.

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 What is Paul getting at about Israel?

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 How is it that the grace of God is relating to Israel?

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 And that has been really the argument that he began for us at the beginning of chapter 9.

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 So let's read it together.

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 And I just ask that you be very attentive.

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 As we normally do verse-by-verse exposition, I won't be quite verse-by-versing it today.

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 So this is your verse-by-verse dose.

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 And then I'm going to kind of jump a little bit through the chapter so that we can actually make it through today.

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 And I hope you'll see the value in that by the time we finish our time together, which is starting at 11.

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 We'll see how this goes.

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 All right.

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 So begin reading in verse 16 of chapter 10.

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 But they have not all obeyed the gospel.

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 For Isaiah says,

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 Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?

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 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

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 But I ask, have they not heard?

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 Indeed they have.

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 For their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the end of the world.

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 But I ask, did Israel not understand?

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 First, Moses says, I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation.

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 With a foolish nation, I will make you angry.

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 Then Isaiah is so bold as to say, I have been found by those who did not seek me.

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 I have shown myself to those who did not ask for me.

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 But of Israel, he says, all day long I've held up my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.

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 I ask then, has God rejected his people?

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 By no means.

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 For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

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 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew.

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 Do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah?

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 How he appeals to God against Israel?

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 Lord, they have killed your prophets.

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 They have demolished your altars.

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 And I alone am left, and they seek my life.

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 But what is God's reply to him?

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 I have kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.

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 So too, at the present time, there is a remnant chosen by grace.

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 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works.

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 Otherwise, grace would no longer be grace.

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 What then?

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 Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking.

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 The elect obtained it, but the rest were hardened.

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 As it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see, and ears that would not hear, down to this very day.

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 And David says, let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them.

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 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see, and bend their backs forever.

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 So I asked, did they stumble in order that they might fall?

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 By no means.

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 Rather, through their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous.

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 Now, if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles,

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 how much more would their full inclusion mean?

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 Now, I am speaking to you, Gentiles, and as much then as I am an apostle to the Gentiles,

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 I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous and thus save some of them.

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 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?

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 If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

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 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others,

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 and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches.

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 If you are, remember it is not you who support the root, but the root that supports you.

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 Then you will say, branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.

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 That is true.

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 They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith.

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 So do not become proud, but fear.

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 For if God did not spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

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 Note then the kindness and the severity of God.

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 Severity toward those who have fallen, but God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness.

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 Otherwise you too will be cut off.

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 And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.

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 For if you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted contrator nature into a cultivated olive tree,

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 how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree?

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 Lest you be wise in your own sight.

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 I want you to understand this mystery, brothers.

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 A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

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 And in this way, all Israel will be saved.

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 As it is written, the Deliverer will come from Zion.

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 He will banish ungodliness from Jacob.

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 And this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.

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 As regards the gospel, they are enemies of God for your sake.

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 But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers.

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 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

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 For just as you were at one time disobedient to God, but now have received mercy because of their disobedience,

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 so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you, they also may now receive mercy.

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 For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.

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 Let's pray together.

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 Father God, I feel the weight of this text this morning.

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 But I pray as we've read from your Holy Scripture,

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 and as we listen to the preaching of it, and just even as I preach it,

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 that you will teach us from it.

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 We know that all Scripture is profitable.

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 So this text is for us this day.

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 And I pray, God, that will be the case.

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 That by your Spirit, we will feel the truth, and it will move us to action.

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 And I pray this in Christ's name.

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 Amen.

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 So we've been in the book of Romans for quite some time now.

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 We've been marching through it.

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 I need to go back and look and actually see how long we've been at this now together.

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 But those of you who are here may remember in Romans chapter 3,

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 I preached a sermon on verses 19 through 16,

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 and I said that this text was the crux of Romans.

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 For those of you not familiar with that term,

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 I used to, I don't really anymore, but used to rock climb quite a bit.

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 And every route has or had, for me, a crux.

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 And the crux was always the most difficult move in the entire climb.

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 So if you could pull the crux off, with fair certainty,

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 you were going to be able to finish that particular route.

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 And that is this for Romans.

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 Martin Luther actually called it the center of the Bible,

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 verses 19 through 26.

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 And it's where we see that the whole world,

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 verse 19, is going to be held accountable to God.

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 For no human being will be justified in his sight.

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 Down in verse 22, there's no distinction.

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 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

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 And could be then only justified, verse 24,

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 by his grace as a gift through the redemption that is in Jesus Christ,

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 who's the propitiation, the replacement for our sin.

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 We received his righteousness in what Martin Luther called the great exchange.

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 So to understand the entirety of Scripture,

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 as well as just where we're at today in Romans,

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 we have to get this right.

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 The case that Paul has been building,

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 beginning in chapter 1 and working his way through,

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 is that all man is condemned in God's sight,

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 because all men have sinned.

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 There is no good thing we can do.

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 There's no lineage we can have,

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 no associations,

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 no activity that's going to make us right before God

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 except faith in his Son,

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 which is a grace to us.

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 I didn't know it at the time.

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 I didn't have verse 26 and chapter 11 in mind

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 when I said that this was so key,

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 so important that we get this absolutely right.

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 I'm glad I did,

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 and I'm glad I'm saying it again now.

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 We must see that this is the case.

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 This is the lens by which we must look at

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 the rest of Romans and all of the Scriptures.

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 It's very key that we get that right.

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 Man has sinned,

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 and therefore we are found unworthy.

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 We are depraved,

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 utterly worthless in God's sight.

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 But by the propitiation,

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 the work of Christ,

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 and our faith in him,

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 we can be redeemed,

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 have a right standing before God.

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 That is the way of salvation.

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 Not a way of salvation.

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 That is the way of salvation.

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 So Paul continues to go on

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 and build a case for what now life in Christ looks like.

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 This receiving of the Spirit

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 and life by the Spirit.

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 The difficulty that we're going to experience

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 as Christians in chapter 8.

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 And then he gets at the end of chapter 8

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 to talk about the sovereignty of God in salvation.

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 And so if God was sovereign in our salvation,

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 he's also going to be sovereign in our perfection

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 and our final completion.

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 He is sovereign over all things.

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 So as we suffer,

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 we have this great and glorious truth

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 that if God is for us,

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 who can be against us?

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 No one.

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 Not even ourselves.

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 Right?

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 He is good and loving to us

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 because he is God

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 and he is in control.

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 Right?

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 Then he, in chapter 9,

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 says,

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 but,

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 the question in his own mind,

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 and I'm sure the question he was asked many times

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 is,

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 what about the Jews?

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 What about the people that,

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 that culturally they had an understanding

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 were God's people?

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 These were the people

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 that God had given all these blessings to.

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 You see in verse 4 and verse 5 of chapter 9,

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 they had the glory,

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 the covenants,

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 the giving of the law,

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 the worship,

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 and the promises,

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 the patriarchs.

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 And it's from their flesh,

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 according to the flesh,

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 that Christ was born.

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 He himself was a Jew.

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 What about those people,

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 right,

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 that had all these benefits

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 given to them?

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 And Paul then gives us his famous argument

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 in chapter 9

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 of God's sovereignty and salvation.

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 We see the introduction of the term election

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 in verse 11.

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 That God's purpose of election might stand

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 not on the basis of works.

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 Jacob and Esau is the example

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 given there, right?

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 Esau was the eldest son.

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 His work was that he came out of the womb first,

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 but the promise was given to Jacob,

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 so that the eternal purpose of election

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 might stand not on the basis of works,

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 but because of him who calls.

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 That's verse 11.

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 He turns back then in chapter 10,

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 end of 9 and then into 10,

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 to talk once again about the Jews.

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 So what is it that's going on

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 in God's sovereign eternal purposes?

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 How is it that he still is relating

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 and he kind of rewinds back

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 to the beautiful simplicity

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 of the gospel

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 that anyone who believes in him,

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 verse 13 of chapter 10,

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 for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord

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 will be saved.

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 Verse 14,

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 how will they call on whom they have not believed

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 and how will they believe in him

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 and whom they have never heard?

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 And how are they here without someone preaching?

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 We talked over the past three weeks

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 about the mission of the church,

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 which is to preach the gospel,

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 the good news of Jesus Christ,

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 because anyone who hears it

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 and believes it

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 and calls on the name of the Lord

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 will be saved.

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 So as Paul talks about

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 the exclusion of some

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 in Romans chapter 9,

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 he then wraps it back around

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 and says,

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 but anyone who believes

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 will be saved.

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 And then he turns back

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 in the most challenging text

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 I've ever had to preach,

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 I hope ever will have to preach,

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 at the end of 10

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 and into 11

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 to continue to address Israel.

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 And that's what we're going to talk,

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 we're going to focus in on today.

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 Next week,

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 Lord willing,

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 we're going to talk about us,

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 the Gentiles,

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 and how it is we've benefited

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 from this.

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 This morning's going to be

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 a bit academic,

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 and for that I apologize.

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 At the end,

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 I promise to make it practical

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 for your living.

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 But I think it's important

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 that we get this

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 absolutely right

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 to the best of our ability

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 by the grace of God.

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 But let's see things.

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 In Paul's argument,

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 he's argued in chapter 9,

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 verse 27 through 29,

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 that God has always saved

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 a remnant of Israel.

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 Okay, so look at that there

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 at the end.

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 And Isaiah cries out

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 concerning Israel,

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 though the number of the sons of Israel

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 be as the sand of the sea,

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 only a remnant of them

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 will be saved.

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 For the Lord will carry out

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 his sentence upon the earth

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 fully and without delay.

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 And as Isaiah predicted,

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 if the Lord of hosts

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 had not left us offspring,

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 we would have been like Sodom

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 and become like Gomorrah.

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 So, number one,

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 we have to recall

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 that he's already stated

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 that God has always saved

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 a remnant of Israel,

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 remnant being the operative word

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 in this case.

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 Secondly, God has the right

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 to show mercy

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 or to harden

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 whomever he desires.

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 He is God.

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 We talked about him

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 being the great I am.

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 Everything plugs into him,

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 but he plugs into nothing else.

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 He is God.

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 And the question

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 asked in verse 19 of chapter 9,

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 the person who says,

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 you will say to me then,

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 why does he still find fault?

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 For who can resist his will?

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 And Paul's response to them is,

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 who are you, O man?

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 To answer back to God.

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 God has spoken.

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 He has decreed

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 that he'll have mercy

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 on whom he will

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 and he'll harden whom he will

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 because he's God.

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 Don't be so haughty.

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 Don't be so arrogant

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 and stand in judgment over him.

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 He's God.

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 You're a man.

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 As the creation,

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 worship your creator

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 for who he is.

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 He's worthy of that praise.

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 So that's the second one.

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 God has the right

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 to show mercy

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 or to harden

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 whomever he desires.

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 Number three,

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 Israel has rebelled

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 against God

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 throughout her history.

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 It's been a constant theme

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 throughout the history of Israel.

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 Rebellion,

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 even though they had received

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 all of these

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 beautiful pictures

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 of God's grace,

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 the things that were meant

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 to point to

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 the Christ that was coming,

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 the tabernacle,

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 the law,

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 the sacrifice,

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 the patriarchs,

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 the prophets,

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 all of those things,

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 these reflections

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 or shadows,

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 if you will,

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 of the coming glory

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 in Christ.

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 Yet,

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 she continued to rebel

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 in chapter 10,

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 verse 21.

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 But of Israel,

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 he says,

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 all day long,

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 I've held out my hands

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 to a disobedient

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 and a contrary people.

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 And that's the stage.

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 We can't divorce

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 where we're about to be

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 in chapter 11

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 from where we've been

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 in chapters 1

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 through

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 first half of 10.

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 Right?

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 We can't do it.

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 It would be

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 exegetically unfaithful

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 to do so.

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 But let's step

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 even a little bit

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 further back

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 from the book of Romans.

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 Okay?

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 And let's just see

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 how Jesus

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 dealt with the Jews,

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 speaking to the Jews

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 in Matthew chapter 8.

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 If you'll turn with me there,

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 we're going to look

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 at three texts

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 in Matthew

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 and then two in Zechariah,

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 which you don't have

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 to turn to.

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 Okay?

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 Matthew chapter 8,

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 verse 11.

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 Jesus says,

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 now remember,

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 in all three of these texts,

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 he's speaking to a Jewish audience.

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 He says,

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 I tell you,

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 many will come from east

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 and west,

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 the world,

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 and recline at table

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 with Abraham,

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 Isaac,

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 and Jacob

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 in the kingdom of heaven,

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 while the sons

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 of the kingdom,

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 Israelites,

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 will be thrown

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 into the outer darkness.

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 In that place,

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 there will be weeping

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 and gnashing

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 of teeth.

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 Here,

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 Jesus is already

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 beginning to expand

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 the gospel message

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 out beyond

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 just the nation

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 of Israel.

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 Okay?

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 We see Paul

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 as the carrier

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 of that message,

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 as the culmination,

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 the fulfillment

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 of what Jesus

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 is saying here

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 as he begins

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 to take the gospel

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 out to the Gentiles.

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 And just in case

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 you don't know,

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 Gentiles is everybody

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 but Jews,

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 just in case.

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 I think we're all,

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 I'm pretty sure,

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 we're all Gentiles

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 in this room.

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 That's what the scriptures mean.

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 All right?

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 So,

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 there's going to be

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 this passing

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 of the gospel

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 from the unbelieving Jews

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 to the nations,

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 to the world.

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 Matthew chapter 21,

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 verse 43.

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 He says,

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 I'm going to read it

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 as you're getting there.

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 Please don't dislike me

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 for that.

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 Therefore,

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 I tell you,

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 the kingdom of God

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 will be taken away

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 from you

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 and given

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 to a people

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 producing its fruits.

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 Okay?

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 So,

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 again,

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 the same thing

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 he's been saying

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 in Matthew chapter 8.

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 The gospel

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 is going to be

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 passing from the Jews

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 to the Gentiles.

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 Okay?

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 And then,

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 Matthew 22.

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 So,

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 turn just a little bit there.

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 Verse 1.

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 And again,

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 Jesus spoke to them

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 in parables,

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 saying,

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 The kingdom of heaven

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 may be compared

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 to a king

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 who gave a wedding feast

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 for his son,

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 God throwing a wedding feast

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 for Jesus Christ,

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 and sent his servants

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 to call those

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 who were invited

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 to the wedding feast,

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 but they would not come.

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 Again,

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 he sent other servants,

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 saying,

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 Tell those who are invited,

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 See,

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 I have prepared my dinner,

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 my oxen and my fat calves

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 have been slaughtered,

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 and everything is ready.

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 Come to the wedding feast.

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 Okay?

00:19:04.540 --> 00:19:04.620
 So,

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 these are all the blessings

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 given to Israel.

00:19:06.360 --> 00:19:06.640
 All right?

00:19:06.740 --> 00:19:07.360
 The prophets,

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 the sacrificial system,

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 the tabernacle,

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 all these things,

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 these pictures

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 of the coming Christ.

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 Verse 5.

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 But they paid no attention

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 and went off,

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 one to his farm,

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 another to his business,

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 while the rest seized his servants,

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 treated them shamefully,

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 and killed them.

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 And those are the prophets.

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 The king was angry,

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 and he sent his troops

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 and destroyed those murderers

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 and burned their city.

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 Then he said to his servants,

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 The wedding feast is ready,

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 but those invited were not worthy.

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 Go therefore to the main roads

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 and invite to the wedding feast

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 as many as you find.

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 And those servants went out

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 into the roads

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 and gathered all whom they found,

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 both bad and good.

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 So the wedding hall

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 was filled with guests,

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 but when the king came in

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 to look at the guests,

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 he saw there a man

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 who had no wedding garment,

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 and he said to him,

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 Friend, how did you get in here

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 without a wedding garment?

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 And he was speechless.

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 Then the king said to the attendants,

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 Bind him hand and foot

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 and cast him into the outer darkness.

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 In that place,

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 there will be weeping

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 and gnashing of teeth.

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 For many are called,

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 but few are chosen.

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 So there's this expansion,

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 once again,

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 of the invitation

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 to come to the party.

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 Both good and bad,

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 he says,

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 are invited.

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 The both good and bad,

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 in reference here,

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 are the Jews

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 and the Gentiles.

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 The Jews

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 and the Gentiles.

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 So they go out

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 and he invites,

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 he brings.

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 And a man comes in

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 and he's not wearing

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 a wedding garment.

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 In these days,

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 if you showed up to a wedding,

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 you were given something

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 to put on

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 to show that you were

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 an invited guest.

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 I didn't have time

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 to research what it was

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 you would put on,

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 but it was a garment

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 of some sort

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 you would wear

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 and you would joyfully

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 put it on to say,

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 I am here celebrating

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 what's going on

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 in this place.

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 And this is ultimately

00:20:48.860 --> 00:20:49.600
 talking about

00:20:49.599 --> 00:20:50.559
 the marriage supper

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 of the Lamb.

00:20:51.339 --> 00:20:52.259
 Jesus Christ

00:20:52.259 --> 00:20:54.299
 feasting with his people

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 and guess what

00:20:55.119 --> 00:20:55.719
 our wedding garment

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 is going to be?

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 It's going to be

00:20:56.579 --> 00:20:57.719
 the righteousness of Christ.

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 Because we're invited guests.

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 So there's this picture.

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 Then in Zechariah,

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 there's just some prophecy.

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 So Zechariah 12.10,

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 God speaks through Zechariah

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 and says,

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 and I will pour out

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 on the house of David

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 and the inhabitants

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 of Jerusalem

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 a spirit of grace

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 and please for mercy

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 so that when they look

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 on me

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 on whom they have pierced

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 they shall mourn for him

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 as one mourns

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 for an only child

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 and weep bitterly

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 over him

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 as one weeps

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 over a firstborn.

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 Chapter 13,

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 verse 1 of Zechariah.

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 On that day

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 there shall be

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 a fountain open

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 for the house of David

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 and the inhabitants

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 of Jerusalem

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 to cleanse them

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 from sin

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 and uncleanliness.

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 So we see

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 that the gospel

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 passes

00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:42.900
 from the Jews

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 to the Gentiles

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 but it has not

00:21:45.440 --> 00:21:46.820
 left them entirely.

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 The grace of God

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 has been expanded

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 across the world

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 including those

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 who are of the nation

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 of Israel,

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 including the Jewish people.

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 Paul asks that question

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 in chapter 11,

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 verse 1, right?

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 I ask then,

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 has God rejected

00:22:04.059 --> 00:22:04.580
 his people?

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 By no means.

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 And he makes the case

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 of himself,

00:22:06.700 --> 00:22:07.620
 his present day self.

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 I'm a Jew

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 and I'm a believer.

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 By and large

00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:12.620
 the nation

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 had rejected Christ

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 but many Jewish

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 yep,

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 not a good word for that,

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 Jewish people,

00:22:19.839 --> 00:22:20.019
 right?

00:22:20.480 --> 00:22:21.240
 Many Jewish people

00:22:21.240 --> 00:22:22.380
 had been turning

00:22:22.380 --> 00:22:22.880
 to Christ

00:22:22.880 --> 00:22:23.400
 at this time.

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 God hadn't rejected

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 his people

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 and you see here

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 the teaching

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 of Jesus

00:22:28.099 --> 00:22:28.819
 and Matthew

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 and this prophecy

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 in Zechariah.

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 We see these two things.

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 Both

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 are going

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 to be true

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 and that's

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 where Paul's wrestling.

00:22:38.740 --> 00:22:38.900
 Alright?

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 So we've

00:22:39.559 --> 00:22:40.839
 seen the stage

00:22:40.839 --> 00:22:42.199
 in Romans.

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 We've come back

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 from it a little bit

00:22:43.539 --> 00:22:43.980
 just to look at

00:22:43.980 --> 00:22:44.839
 some other scriptures

00:22:44.839 --> 00:22:45.579
 generally.

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 And so we get

00:22:48.439 --> 00:22:49.919
 to this phrase

00:22:49.919 --> 00:22:51.299
 in chapter 11,

00:22:52.139 --> 00:22:53.000
 verse 26.

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 And in this way

00:22:55.799 --> 00:22:57.339
 all Israel

00:22:57.339 --> 00:22:58.980
 will be saved.

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 There are three

00:23:01.259 --> 00:23:02.039
 major

00:23:02.039 --> 00:23:03.839
 arguments

00:23:04.559 --> 00:23:05.839
 for what this means.

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 And within those

00:23:08.919 --> 00:23:09.299
 three majors

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 there are some

00:23:09.660 --> 00:23:10.820
 variations certainly

00:23:10.820 --> 00:23:11.600
 on them.

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 I say to you

00:23:13.860 --> 00:23:14.240
 humbly

00:23:14.240 --> 00:23:15.480
 that I have

00:23:15.480 --> 00:23:15.980
 an opinion

00:23:15.980 --> 00:23:17.240
 that is not

00:23:17.240 --> 00:23:18.440
 inspired.

00:23:19.779 --> 00:23:20.920
 Certainly what I say

00:23:20.920 --> 00:23:22.140
 should only be

00:23:22.140 --> 00:23:22.640
 weighed against

00:23:22.640 --> 00:23:23.100
 the scriptures.

00:23:23.259 --> 00:23:23.779
 I hope I make

00:23:23.779 --> 00:23:24.380
 a clear case

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 because if I don't

00:23:25.320 --> 00:23:27.380
 then I shouldn't

00:23:27.380 --> 00:23:28.340
 be studying to preach.

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 I hope that

00:23:29.600 --> 00:23:30.180
 the opinion

00:23:30.180 --> 00:23:30.880
 I've arrived at

00:23:30.880 --> 00:23:31.740
 makes some sense

00:23:31.740 --> 00:23:32.480
 to you

00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:33.519
 as I present it

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 to you.

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 But I want to

00:23:35.019 --> 00:23:35.880
 quickly tell you

00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:37.060
 these three arguments

00:23:37.060 --> 00:23:38.120
 and then tell you

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 kind of where

00:23:38.500 --> 00:23:39.700
 I rest

00:23:39.700 --> 00:23:40.400
 on this.

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 Number one,

00:23:42.619 --> 00:23:43.420
 there's an argument

00:23:43.420 --> 00:23:44.140
 that when

00:23:44.140 --> 00:23:45.859
 he refers to

00:23:45.859 --> 00:23:46.700
 all Israel

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 that he's

00:23:47.660 --> 00:23:48.539
 speaking of

00:23:48.539 --> 00:23:49.579
 the church.

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 And that kind

00:23:50.759 --> 00:23:51.299
 of logic is

00:23:51.299 --> 00:23:51.920
 pulled from

00:23:51.920 --> 00:23:52.660
 the beginning

00:23:52.660 --> 00:23:53.400
 of chapter 9,

00:23:53.460 --> 00:23:54.099
 verse 6

00:23:54.099 --> 00:23:55.319
 when Paul says,

00:23:55.799 --> 00:23:56.220
 but it is not

00:23:56.220 --> 00:23:56.720
 as though the word

00:23:56.720 --> 00:23:57.380
 of God has failed

00:23:57.380 --> 00:23:58.079
 for not all

00:23:58.079 --> 00:23:58.660
 who are descended

00:23:58.660 --> 00:23:59.359
 from Israel

00:23:59.359 --> 00:24:00.759
 belong to Israel.

00:24:01.880 --> 00:24:02.619
 And he makes

00:24:02.619 --> 00:24:03.079
 this argument

00:24:03.079 --> 00:24:04.539
 that those of us

00:24:04.539 --> 00:24:05.440
 who are of the church

00:24:05.440 --> 00:24:06.579
 are of the spiritual

00:24:06.579 --> 00:24:07.079
 Israel.

00:24:07.519 --> 00:24:07.839
 And certainly

00:24:07.839 --> 00:24:08.240
 the scriptures

00:24:08.240 --> 00:24:08.879
 do that.

00:24:09.659 --> 00:24:10.639
 They do do that.

00:24:10.659 --> 00:24:11.119
 And I can see

00:24:11.119 --> 00:24:11.500
 why somebody

00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:12.019
 would be tempted

00:24:12.019 --> 00:24:12.799
 because it cleans

00:24:12.799 --> 00:24:13.039
 it up.

00:24:13.079 --> 00:24:13.379
 It makes it

00:24:13.379 --> 00:24:13.819
 really nice

00:24:13.819 --> 00:24:14.220
 and neat

00:24:14.220 --> 00:24:14.939
 to do it

00:24:14.939 --> 00:24:15.339
 that way.

00:24:15.859 --> 00:24:16.779
 But you kind

00:24:16.779 --> 00:24:17.099
 of have to

00:24:17.099 --> 00:24:17.819
 ignore the rest

00:24:17.819 --> 00:24:18.339
 of the chapter

00:24:18.339 --> 00:24:19.079
 for that to be

00:24:19.079 --> 00:24:19.500
 possible.

00:24:20.659 --> 00:24:21.659
 Paul is speaking

00:24:21.659 --> 00:24:23.439
 of the nation

00:24:23.439 --> 00:24:24.139
 of Israel.

00:24:24.379 --> 00:24:25.339
 Look with me.

00:24:25.439 --> 00:24:25.859
 I'm going to do

00:24:25.859 --> 00:24:26.779
 this really fast

00:24:26.779 --> 00:24:27.299
 so we don't

00:24:27.299 --> 00:24:28.119
 run out of time.

00:24:28.819 --> 00:24:29.759
 But look with me

00:24:29.759 --> 00:24:30.439
 beginning in

00:24:30.439 --> 00:24:33.119
 verse 1 of chapter 11.

00:24:34.279 --> 00:24:35.019
 He asks the question,

00:24:35.019 --> 00:24:35.720
 has God rejected

00:24:35.720 --> 00:24:36.519
 his people?

00:24:37.539 --> 00:24:37.859
 No.

00:24:38.019 --> 00:24:38.960
 I myself am an

00:24:38.960 --> 00:24:39.740
 Israelite.

00:24:39.859 --> 00:24:40.339
 So he's talking

00:24:40.339 --> 00:24:42.639
 about his heritage.

00:24:42.879 --> 00:24:43.619
 I'm an Israelite.

00:24:43.680 --> 00:24:44.059
 His people

00:24:44.059 --> 00:24:45.420
 an Israelite.

00:24:45.799 --> 00:24:46.259
 Then he goes on

00:24:46.259 --> 00:24:46.599
 in verse 2

00:24:46.599 --> 00:24:47.019
 to talk about

00:24:47.019 --> 00:24:47.639
 his people

00:24:47.639 --> 00:24:48.559
 whom he foreknew.

00:24:48.900 --> 00:24:49.400
 And at the end

00:24:49.400 --> 00:24:50.960
 of verse 2

00:24:50.960 --> 00:24:52.539
 being Israel.

00:24:53.599 --> 00:24:54.480
 Verse 7.

00:24:54.720 --> 00:24:55.900
 What then Israel

00:24:55.900 --> 00:24:56.740
 failed to obtain

00:24:56.740 --> 00:24:57.319
 what it was seeking?

00:24:57.900 --> 00:24:59.000
 The elect obtained it.

00:25:00.400 --> 00:25:01.240
 Verse 11.

00:25:01.599 --> 00:25:01.940
 They,

00:25:02.519 --> 00:25:03.059
 so I ask

00:25:03.059 --> 00:25:03.839
 did they stumble

00:25:03.839 --> 00:25:04.459
 in order that they

00:25:04.459 --> 00:25:05.099
 might fall?

00:25:05.519 --> 00:25:06.399
 And it goes on

00:25:06.399 --> 00:25:06.899
 and it goes on.

00:25:06.939 --> 00:25:07.259
 I'm probably

00:25:07.259 --> 00:25:08.399
 wasting time

00:25:08.399 --> 00:25:09.099
 to continue to do

00:25:09.099 --> 00:25:09.659
 this, right?

00:25:10.259 --> 00:25:11.059
 Verse 11.

00:25:11.539 --> 00:25:11.839
 There.

00:25:12.419 --> 00:25:12.819
 Israel.

00:25:13.339 --> 00:25:14.000
 Verse 12.

00:25:14.159 --> 00:25:14.480
 There.

00:25:15.139 --> 00:25:15.500
 Then you see

00:25:15.500 --> 00:25:16.119
 the world.

00:25:16.279 --> 00:25:17.099
 And if there.

00:25:17.639 --> 00:25:18.039
 Failure.

00:25:18.799 --> 00:25:19.819
 Riches for the Gentiles.

00:25:19.859 --> 00:25:20.220
 How much more

00:25:20.220 --> 00:25:21.480
 will their inclusion

00:25:21.480 --> 00:25:21.879
 mean?

00:25:22.079 --> 00:25:22.480
 Okay, so

00:25:22.480 --> 00:25:23.619
 if we follow

00:25:23.619 --> 00:25:24.220
 the pronouns

00:25:24.220 --> 00:25:24.919
 through,

00:25:25.000 --> 00:25:25.240
 and I'm just

00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:25.639
 going to stop

00:25:25.639 --> 00:25:25.839
 there,

00:25:25.899 --> 00:25:26.259
 but it keeps

00:25:26.259 --> 00:25:27.359
 on marching

00:25:27.359 --> 00:25:27.839
 its way

00:25:27.839 --> 00:25:29.000
 up to verse 26.

00:25:29.459 --> 00:25:29.879
 We follow

00:25:29.879 --> 00:25:30.379
 the pronouns.

00:25:30.699 --> 00:25:31.419
 Certainly we can't

00:25:31.419 --> 00:25:32.539
 say that he just

00:25:32.539 --> 00:25:33.460
 suddenly changes

00:25:33.460 --> 00:25:33.960
 his language

00:25:33.960 --> 00:25:34.619
 at this point.

00:25:34.759 --> 00:25:35.220
 He just suddenly

00:25:35.220 --> 00:25:36.779
 totally throws out

00:25:36.779 --> 00:25:37.460
 and shifts it

00:25:37.460 --> 00:25:38.920
 just to massively

00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:39.680
 confuse everyone

00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:40.559
 who might read

00:25:40.559 --> 00:25:40.980
 this letter,

00:25:41.180 --> 00:25:41.379
 right?

00:25:41.500 --> 00:25:42.319
 That's not the case

00:25:42.319 --> 00:25:42.619
 at all.

00:25:42.659 --> 00:25:43.379
 So we can very

00:25:43.379 --> 00:25:44.180
 quickly and easily

00:25:44.180 --> 00:25:44.879
 dismiss that.

00:25:45.740 --> 00:25:46.319
 Paul is not

00:25:46.319 --> 00:25:47.899
 arguing here

00:25:47.899 --> 00:25:49.539
 that in verse 26

00:25:49.539 --> 00:25:50.519
 that in this way

00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:51.240
 all Israel,

00:25:51.420 --> 00:25:52.920
 meaning all the

00:25:52.920 --> 00:25:53.279
 church,

00:25:53.279 --> 00:25:54.099
 will be saved.

00:25:55.039 --> 00:25:55.879
 It's not what he

00:25:55.879 --> 00:25:56.180
 means.

00:25:57.240 --> 00:25:58.279
 The second option,

00:25:58.420 --> 00:25:59.099
 and this is the

00:25:59.099 --> 00:26:00.399
 most prevalent

00:26:00.400 --> 00:26:01.040
 and popular,

00:26:01.160 --> 00:26:01.580
 which is not

00:26:01.580 --> 00:26:03.240
 the one I'm

00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:03.780
 resting on,

00:26:03.860 --> 00:26:04.620
 which gives me

00:26:04.620 --> 00:26:05.540
 great hesitation,

00:26:06.160 --> 00:26:08.620
 is the national

00:26:08.620 --> 00:26:09.060
 argument,

00:26:09.519 --> 00:26:09.720
 right?

00:26:09.800 --> 00:26:11.100
 It's an eschatological

00:26:11.100 --> 00:26:11.500
 argument.

00:26:11.600 --> 00:26:12.380
 It's an end times

00:26:12.380 --> 00:26:13.500
 argument that the

00:26:13.500 --> 00:26:14.300
 day will come

00:26:14.300 --> 00:26:16.259
 one day when

00:26:16.259 --> 00:26:17.060
 all of the

00:26:17.060 --> 00:26:17.740
 Gentile peoples

00:26:17.740 --> 00:26:18.180
 meant to be

00:26:18.180 --> 00:26:18.660
 saved will be

00:26:18.660 --> 00:26:19.100
 saved,

00:26:19.280 --> 00:26:21.420
 and then all

00:26:21.420 --> 00:26:21.980
 Israel will be

00:26:21.980 --> 00:26:22.280
 saved.

00:26:23.560 --> 00:26:24.800
 My challenge

00:26:24.800 --> 00:26:26.280
 with this is

00:26:26.280 --> 00:26:27.380
 that it seems

00:26:27.380 --> 00:26:28.220
 inconsistent.

00:26:28.220 --> 00:26:29.799
 I want to

00:26:29.799 --> 00:26:30.360
 focus in,

00:26:30.380 --> 00:26:30.960
 these people do,

00:26:31.039 --> 00:26:31.600
 on the word

00:26:31.600 --> 00:26:32.860
 all Israel.

00:26:33.120 --> 00:26:33.420
 I want to

00:26:33.420 --> 00:26:34.059
 focus in on

00:26:34.059 --> 00:26:34.339
 that,

00:26:34.500 --> 00:26:35.680
 but then neglect

00:26:35.680 --> 00:26:36.759
 what that would

00:26:36.759 --> 00:26:37.660
 actually mean.

00:26:37.880 --> 00:26:38.200
 If we just

00:26:38.200 --> 00:26:38.779
 simply look at

00:26:38.779 --> 00:26:39.220
 the phrasing

00:26:39.220 --> 00:26:39.900
 all Israel,

00:26:40.059 --> 00:26:40.740
 would that not

00:26:40.740 --> 00:26:41.600
 mean every Jew

00:26:41.600 --> 00:26:42.480
 who ever lived?

00:26:43.319 --> 00:26:44.360
 From the beginning

00:26:44.360 --> 00:26:45.200
 to the end?

00:26:45.660 --> 00:26:46.500
 That in some way

00:26:46.500 --> 00:26:47.079
 God is a

00:26:47.079 --> 00:26:48.360
 universalist in

00:26:48.360 --> 00:26:49.160
 regards to this

00:26:49.160 --> 00:26:49.559
 nation?

00:26:50.539 --> 00:26:51.579
 And here's where

00:26:51.579 --> 00:26:52.559
 chapter 3,

00:26:52.720 --> 00:26:53.339
 verse 19 through

00:26:53.339 --> 00:26:54.220
 26 serves us

00:26:54.220 --> 00:26:54.519
 well.

00:26:55.500 --> 00:26:56.160
 There's not a

00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:57.120
 separate promise,

00:26:57.119 --> 00:26:57.839
 as some have

00:26:57.839 --> 00:26:58.279
 suggested.

00:26:58.919 --> 00:26:59.339
 There's a

00:26:59.339 --> 00:27:00.199
 separate covenant

00:27:00.199 --> 00:27:01.059
 for the Jewish

00:27:01.059 --> 00:27:02.279
 people and a

00:27:02.279 --> 00:27:02.939
 different covenant,

00:27:03.959 --> 00:27:04.559
 the covenant of

00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:05.159
 grace, for the

00:27:05.159 --> 00:27:05.599
 church.

00:27:06.399 --> 00:27:07.099
 They're one and

00:27:07.099 --> 00:27:07.500
 the same.

00:27:07.579 --> 00:27:07.899
 That's the

00:27:07.899 --> 00:27:08.599
 argument Paul was

00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:09.500
 making for us.

00:27:09.979 --> 00:27:10.719
 Jew or Gentile,

00:27:10.759 --> 00:27:11.159
 there's no

00:27:11.159 --> 00:27:11.599
 distinction,

00:27:11.719 --> 00:27:12.239
 doesn't matter,

00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:12.759
 all of a sudden

00:27:12.759 --> 00:27:13.219
 fall short of

00:27:13.219 --> 00:27:13.679
 the glory of God

00:27:13.679 --> 00:27:15.000
 and will only be

00:27:15.000 --> 00:27:15.599
 redeemed,

00:27:15.979 --> 00:27:17.319
 only be redeemed

00:27:17.319 --> 00:27:19.079
 through Christ,

00:27:19.239 --> 00:27:19.719
 through his

00:27:19.719 --> 00:27:20.439
 propitiation,

00:27:20.599 --> 00:27:21.419
 the covenant of

00:27:21.419 --> 00:27:22.119
 grace.

00:27:23.119 --> 00:27:23.759
 So if we're

00:27:23.759 --> 00:27:24.219
 going to be

00:27:24.219 --> 00:27:24.839
 exegetically

00:27:24.839 --> 00:27:26.019
 consistent,

00:27:26.019 --> 00:27:27.319
 we can't say

00:27:27.319 --> 00:27:28.180
 that all means

00:27:28.180 --> 00:27:30.200
 all Israel

00:27:30.200 --> 00:27:31.240
 from the beginning

00:27:31.240 --> 00:27:31.740
 to the end,

00:27:31.819 --> 00:27:32.619
 all those who

00:27:32.619 --> 00:27:33.000
 have Jewish

00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:33.460
 heritage.

00:27:34.200 --> 00:27:35.539
 So most who

00:27:35.539 --> 00:27:36.160
 hold this view

00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:36.920
 don't believe

00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:37.119
 that.

00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:37.579
 They believe

00:27:37.579 --> 00:27:38.160
 that there

00:27:38.160 --> 00:27:38.680
 will come a

00:27:38.680 --> 00:27:39.680
 time when

00:27:39.680 --> 00:27:40.319
 all the Gentiles

00:27:40.319 --> 00:27:40.920
 will be included

00:27:40.920 --> 00:27:41.720
 in the end of

00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:42.700
 all things and

00:27:42.700 --> 00:27:44.119
 then all of the

00:27:44.119 --> 00:27:45.000
 Israelites who

00:27:45.000 --> 00:27:46.059
 are left will

00:27:46.059 --> 00:27:46.639
 turn to Christ.

00:27:46.759 --> 00:27:47.119
 There will be a

00:27:47.119 --> 00:27:48.220
 great national

00:27:48.220 --> 00:27:49.980
 turning back to

00:27:49.980 --> 00:27:50.359
 Christ.

00:27:52.359 --> 00:27:53.099
 Maybe, but I

00:27:53.099 --> 00:27:53.379
 don't believe

00:27:53.379 --> 00:27:53.819
 that's what Paul

00:27:53.819 --> 00:27:54.420
 is saying here.

00:27:54.420 --> 00:27:56.240
 There are some

00:27:56.240 --> 00:27:56.820
 who say, well,

00:27:56.860 --> 00:27:57.580
 not all of them,

00:27:57.640 --> 00:27:58.180
 but at least a

00:27:58.180 --> 00:27:58.700
 lot of them.

00:27:58.860 --> 00:27:59.140
 I mean, there's

00:27:59.140 --> 00:27:59.539
 just going to be

00:27:59.539 --> 00:28:00.640
 a big revival

00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:01.259
 that will happen

00:28:01.259 --> 00:28:02.120
 in Israel.

00:28:02.840 --> 00:28:03.360
 But then you

00:28:03.360 --> 00:28:03.900
 have to read it

00:28:03.900 --> 00:28:04.980
 and say, and

00:28:04.980 --> 00:28:05.360
 in this way,

00:28:05.420 --> 00:28:06.019
 all Israel,

00:28:06.300 --> 00:28:06.700
 well, I mean,

00:28:06.720 --> 00:28:07.200
 at least most

00:28:07.200 --> 00:28:07.940
 of them, or

00:28:07.940 --> 00:28:10.360
 not all Israel,

00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:11.940
 but the people

00:28:11.940 --> 00:28:12.300
 who are left

00:28:12.300 --> 00:28:12.980
 alive at this

00:28:12.980 --> 00:28:13.600
 time that we

00:28:13.600 --> 00:28:14.380
 don't understand.

00:28:15.400 --> 00:28:15.800
 That's what you

00:28:15.800 --> 00:28:16.300
 have to do.

00:28:16.560 --> 00:28:18.380
 Now, just to be

00:28:18.380 --> 00:28:19.900
 clear, I disagree

00:28:19.900 --> 00:28:20.920
 with the Johns

00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:21.700
 who all hold

00:28:21.700 --> 00:28:22.140
 this view.

00:28:22.380 --> 00:28:22.539
 You know who

00:28:22.539 --> 00:28:23.120
 the Johns are?

00:28:23.119 --> 00:28:24.719
 John Piper,

00:28:25.419 --> 00:28:25.979
 John MacArthur,

00:28:26.399 --> 00:28:27.199
 and Jonathan

00:28:27.199 --> 00:28:27.500
 Edwards.

00:28:29.179 --> 00:28:29.959
 This is what's

00:28:29.959 --> 00:28:30.479
 been making me

00:28:30.479 --> 00:28:31.299
 mentally sick

00:28:31.299 --> 00:28:33.339
 about this.

00:28:34.179 --> 00:28:34.639
 Generally

00:28:34.639 --> 00:28:35.659
 speaking, if

00:28:35.659 --> 00:28:36.139
 you disagree

00:28:36.139 --> 00:28:36.619
 with these

00:28:36.619 --> 00:28:37.059
 three men,

00:28:37.099 --> 00:28:37.719
 you really

00:28:37.719 --> 00:28:38.179
 ought to

00:28:38.179 --> 00:28:39.979
 reconsider your

00:28:39.979 --> 00:28:42.359
 stance, which

00:28:42.359 --> 00:28:42.959
 I've been doing

00:28:42.959 --> 00:28:43.719
 for the past

00:28:43.719 --> 00:28:45.559
 two months,

00:28:45.959 --> 00:28:46.459
 yeah, about

00:28:46.459 --> 00:28:46.719
 two and a

00:28:46.719 --> 00:28:47.139
 half months.

00:28:47.719 --> 00:28:48.119
 I've been

00:28:48.119 --> 00:28:48.599
 really, really

00:28:48.599 --> 00:28:49.519
 wrestling with

00:28:49.519 --> 00:28:49.819
 this.

00:28:49.819 --> 00:28:51.960
 these men

00:28:51.960 --> 00:28:52.859
 are godly

00:28:52.859 --> 00:28:54.519
 and wise.

00:28:55.419 --> 00:28:55.839
 I just

00:28:55.839 --> 00:28:56.339
 think in this

00:28:56.339 --> 00:28:56.740
 case they're

00:28:56.740 --> 00:28:57.099
 wrong.

00:28:57.939 --> 00:28:58.539
 I don't think

00:28:58.539 --> 00:28:59.059
 that's what it

00:28:59.059 --> 00:28:59.399
 means.

00:28:59.539 --> 00:29:00.059
 Now, granted,

00:29:00.700 --> 00:29:01.220
 if they're

00:29:01.220 --> 00:29:01.740
 right, it

00:29:01.740 --> 00:29:02.159
 does not

00:29:02.159 --> 00:29:02.659
 ultimately

00:29:02.659 --> 00:29:03.480
 change what

00:29:03.480 --> 00:29:03.899
 this text

00:29:03.899 --> 00:29:04.599
 really means

00:29:04.599 --> 00:29:05.019
 for us.

00:29:05.059 --> 00:29:05.240
 And we'll

00:29:05.240 --> 00:29:05.480
 get there

00:29:05.480 --> 00:29:05.859
 when we get

00:29:05.859 --> 00:29:06.099
 to the

00:29:06.099 --> 00:29:06.799
 practicality

00:29:06.799 --> 00:29:07.019
 of it.

00:29:07.059 --> 00:29:07.359
 They're not

00:29:07.359 --> 00:29:08.299
 distorting it

00:29:08.299 --> 00:29:09.539
 in order to

00:29:09.539 --> 00:29:10.399
 meet some

00:29:10.399 --> 00:29:10.960
 end of their

00:29:10.960 --> 00:29:11.279
 own.

00:29:11.960 --> 00:29:12.799
 I hope and

00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:13.399
 pray that

00:29:13.399 --> 00:29:13.859
 they're right.

00:29:14.359 --> 00:29:14.879
 I hope and

00:29:14.879 --> 00:29:15.319
 pray that there

00:29:15.319 --> 00:29:15.639
 will come a

00:29:15.639 --> 00:29:16.159
 time when the

00:29:16.159 --> 00:29:17.359
 whole nation

00:29:17.359 --> 00:29:18.099
 of Israel who's

00:29:18.099 --> 00:29:18.799
 alive will turn

00:29:18.799 --> 00:29:19.240
 to Christ.

00:29:19.579 --> 00:29:19.819
 And that

00:29:19.819 --> 00:29:20.299
 may happen.

00:29:20.359 --> 00:29:20.539
 I just

00:29:20.539 --> 00:29:20.879
 don't think

00:29:20.879 --> 00:29:21.339
 that's what

00:29:21.339 --> 00:29:22.379
 Paul is

00:29:22.379 --> 00:29:22.680
 trying to

00:29:22.680 --> 00:29:23.200
 teach us

00:29:23.200 --> 00:29:24.039
 in this

00:29:24.039 --> 00:29:24.399
 case.

00:29:25.039 --> 00:29:25.539
 So the

00:29:25.539 --> 00:29:26.099
 third argument,

00:29:26.680 --> 00:29:27.099
 and the one

00:29:27.099 --> 00:29:27.720
 I believe is

00:29:27.720 --> 00:29:28.960
 right, is

00:29:28.960 --> 00:29:29.220
 that he's

00:29:29.220 --> 00:29:30.019
 referring to

00:29:30.019 --> 00:29:31.299
 the remnant.

00:29:32.019 --> 00:29:32.740
 He's referring

00:29:32.740 --> 00:29:34.139
 to those of

00:29:34.139 --> 00:29:34.779
 Israel that

00:29:34.779 --> 00:29:35.659
 will be saved.

00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:36.299
 He means

00:29:36.299 --> 00:29:38.200
 all of Israel

00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:39.200
 intended to be

00:29:39.200 --> 00:29:39.440
 saved.

00:29:39.500 --> 00:29:39.700
 And I

00:29:39.700 --> 00:29:40.299
 recognize I

00:29:40.299 --> 00:29:40.700
 have to do

00:29:40.700 --> 00:29:41.019
 the same

00:29:41.019 --> 00:29:42.079
 thing, right,

00:29:42.139 --> 00:29:42.779
 to be

00:29:42.779 --> 00:29:44.220
 exegetically

00:29:44.220 --> 00:29:44.639
 consistent.

00:29:44.819 --> 00:29:45.180
 I have to

00:29:45.180 --> 00:29:46.000
 go, but

00:29:46.000 --> 00:29:46.259
 we've got to

00:29:46.259 --> 00:29:46.619
 add a few

00:29:46.619 --> 00:29:47.259
 more words in

00:29:47.259 --> 00:29:47.619
 there to make

00:29:47.619 --> 00:29:47.960
 that make

00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:48.319
 sense.

00:29:48.319 --> 00:29:48.659
 And so I'm

00:29:48.659 --> 00:29:48.779
 going to

00:29:48.779 --> 00:29:49.279
 show you

00:29:49.279 --> 00:29:50.419
 contextually

00:29:50.419 --> 00:29:50.960
 why I

00:29:50.960 --> 00:29:51.419
 think that's

00:29:51.419 --> 00:29:52.099
 what he

00:29:52.099 --> 00:29:52.480
 means when

00:29:52.480 --> 00:29:53.000
 he says

00:29:53.000 --> 00:29:54.240
 all Israel.

00:29:54.500 --> 00:29:55.259
 So, firstly,

00:29:56.079 --> 00:29:56.599
 he's speaking

00:29:56.599 --> 00:29:57.000
 in the present

00:29:57.000 --> 00:29:57.539
 tense throughout

00:29:57.539 --> 00:29:58.139
 the entire

00:29:58.139 --> 00:29:58.980
 chapter up

00:29:58.980 --> 00:29:59.200
 to this

00:29:59.200 --> 00:29:59.439
 point.

00:29:59.539 --> 00:29:59.859
 He's speaking

00:29:59.859 --> 00:30:00.559
 present tense,

00:30:00.679 --> 00:30:01.460
 which is why

00:30:01.460 --> 00:30:02.799
 I believe he's

00:30:02.799 --> 00:30:03.359
 continuing to

00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:04.619
 speak in the

00:30:04.619 --> 00:30:05.339
 present tense.

00:30:05.819 --> 00:30:05.919
 Okay?

00:30:07.119 --> 00:30:07.799
 Many who

00:30:07.799 --> 00:30:08.240
 hold to the

00:30:08.240 --> 00:30:09.379
 remnant still

00:30:09.379 --> 00:30:09.859
 think it's an

00:30:09.859 --> 00:30:10.419
 end times

00:30:10.419 --> 00:30:11.659
 issue, right?

00:30:11.779 --> 00:30:12.439
 I think it's

00:30:12.439 --> 00:30:12.859
 the remnant

00:30:12.859 --> 00:30:13.919
 present day.

00:30:14.759 --> 00:30:15.279
 Because,

00:30:15.740 --> 00:30:17.019
 verse 1,

00:30:17.019 --> 00:30:17.539
 right?

00:30:17.879 --> 00:30:18.319
 When he

00:30:18.319 --> 00:30:18.819
 asks, I

00:30:18.819 --> 00:30:19.099
 ask them,

00:30:19.160 --> 00:30:19.359
 as God

00:30:19.359 --> 00:30:19.859
 rejects his

00:30:19.859 --> 00:30:20.319
 people, he

00:30:20.319 --> 00:30:20.660
 says, by

00:30:20.660 --> 00:30:21.160
 no means,

00:30:21.220 --> 00:30:21.420
 and he

00:30:21.420 --> 00:30:21.839
 gives his

00:30:21.839 --> 00:30:23.019
 current day

00:30:23.019 --> 00:30:23.480
 evidence,

00:30:23.619 --> 00:30:24.299
 present tense.

00:30:24.480 --> 00:30:25.259
 I myself

00:30:25.259 --> 00:30:25.839
 am an

00:30:25.839 --> 00:30:26.339
 Israelite,

00:30:26.480 --> 00:30:27.079
 and I'm

00:30:27.079 --> 00:30:28.119
 a recipient

00:30:28.119 --> 00:30:29.160
 of God's

00:30:29.160 --> 00:30:29.500
 grace.

00:30:30.299 --> 00:30:31.180
 Verse 5,

00:30:31.660 --> 00:30:32.119
 says, so

00:30:32.119 --> 00:30:32.819
 too at the

00:30:32.819 --> 00:30:33.759
 present time

00:30:33.759 --> 00:30:34.400
 there is a

00:30:34.400 --> 00:30:34.799
 remnant

00:30:34.799 --> 00:30:35.839
 chosen by

00:30:35.839 --> 00:30:36.279
 grace.

00:30:37.579 --> 00:30:38.680
 Verse 13

00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:39.359
 and 14,

00:30:39.359 --> 00:30:39.799
 he says,

00:30:39.859 --> 00:30:40.160
 now I'm

00:30:40.160 --> 00:30:40.619
 speaking to

00:30:40.619 --> 00:30:41.299
 you Gentiles.

00:30:41.299 --> 00:30:42.200
 In as much

00:30:42.200 --> 00:30:43.039
 then as I

00:30:43.039 --> 00:30:43.399
 am an

00:30:43.399 --> 00:30:44.039
 apostle to

00:30:44.039 --> 00:30:44.579
 the Gentiles,

00:30:44.740 --> 00:30:45.940
 I magnify

00:30:45.940 --> 00:30:46.619
 my ministry

00:30:46.619 --> 00:30:47.139
 in order to

00:30:47.139 --> 00:30:47.680
 somehow make

00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:48.359
 my fellow

00:30:48.359 --> 00:30:49.519
 Jews jealous

00:30:49.519 --> 00:30:50.220
 and thus

00:30:50.220 --> 00:30:50.700
 save some

00:30:50.700 --> 00:30:50.960
 of them.

00:30:51.039 --> 00:30:51.240
 When?

00:30:51.879 --> 00:30:52.720
 Present tense,

00:30:52.819 --> 00:30:53.019
 right?

00:30:53.099 --> 00:30:53.559
 He's speaking

00:30:53.559 --> 00:30:54.039
 about his

00:30:54.039 --> 00:30:54.460
 ministry.

00:30:54.819 --> 00:30:55.859
 Now, I

00:30:55.859 --> 00:30:56.500
 magnify it

00:30:56.500 --> 00:30:56.960
 to make

00:30:56.960 --> 00:30:58.240
 Gentiles be

00:30:58.240 --> 00:30:58.859
 Christians so

00:30:58.859 --> 00:30:59.200
 that the Jews

00:30:59.200 --> 00:30:59.639
 will be jealous

00:30:59.639 --> 00:31:00.119
 so that some

00:31:00.119 --> 00:31:00.859
 of them will

00:31:00.859 --> 00:31:01.379
 be saved.

00:31:02.119 --> 00:31:02.779
 And then look

00:31:02.779 --> 00:31:03.359
 in verse 30

00:31:03.359 --> 00:31:04.359
 and 31 of

00:31:04.359 --> 00:31:05.240
 the use of

00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:05.940
 now.

00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:06.639
 Okay?

00:31:06.680 --> 00:31:06.960
 So once

00:31:06.960 --> 00:31:07.319
 again,

00:31:07.980 --> 00:31:08.759
 for just as you

00:31:08.759 --> 00:31:09.079
 were at one

00:31:09.079 --> 00:31:09.879
 time disobedient to

00:31:09.879 --> 00:31:10.539
 God, but now

00:31:10.539 --> 00:31:11.240
 have received mercy,

00:31:11.299 --> 00:31:11.680
 because of their

00:31:11.680 --> 00:31:12.200
 disobedience.

00:31:12.599 --> 00:31:13.200
 So they too

00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:14.200
 have now been

00:31:14.200 --> 00:31:14.720
 disobedient in

00:31:14.720 --> 00:31:15.159
 order that by

00:31:15.159 --> 00:31:15.720
 the mercy shown

00:31:15.720 --> 00:31:16.119
 to you, they

00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:17.599
 also may now

00:31:17.599 --> 00:31:18.899
 receive mercy.

00:31:19.539 --> 00:31:19.639
 Right?

00:31:19.700 --> 00:31:20.460
 So even after

00:31:20.460 --> 00:31:21.779
 the infamous

00:31:21.779 --> 00:31:22.839
 verse 26, we

00:31:22.839 --> 00:31:23.559
 see present

00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:24.460
 tense language

00:31:24.460 --> 00:31:26.419
 in verse 30

00:31:26.419 --> 00:31:28.279
 and verse 31.

00:31:29.039 --> 00:31:29.500
 Okay?

00:31:29.639 --> 00:31:30.119
 So I think

00:31:30.119 --> 00:31:31.139
 we're still

00:31:31.139 --> 00:31:32.000
 speaking in

00:31:32.000 --> 00:31:32.980
 present tense.

00:31:33.180 --> 00:31:33.839
 And I want to

00:31:33.839 --> 00:31:34.539
 show you,

00:31:34.779 --> 00:31:35.639
 beginning in

00:31:35.639 --> 00:31:36.259
 verse 11,

00:31:36.619 --> 00:31:37.359
 and Michael

00:31:37.359 --> 00:31:38.359
 Q, verse 11,

00:31:39.480 --> 00:31:40.659
 a pattern that

00:31:40.660 --> 00:31:41.519
 Paul has

00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:42.140
 established

00:31:42.140 --> 00:31:43.540
 throughout the

00:31:43.540 --> 00:31:44.920
 scripture to

00:31:44.920 --> 00:31:45.420
 get us here.

00:31:45.759 --> 00:31:45.840
 Okay?

00:31:46.240 --> 00:31:46.700
 So number

00:31:46.700 --> 00:31:47.779
 one, we see

00:31:47.779 --> 00:31:48.700
 the Jewish

00:31:48.700 --> 00:31:49.800
 rejection of

00:31:49.800 --> 00:31:50.200
 the gospel.

00:31:50.500 --> 00:31:51.160
 That's the

00:31:51.160 --> 00:31:51.759
 red lettering.

00:31:51.840 --> 00:31:51.980
 Okay?

00:31:51.980 --> 00:31:52.360
 We see the

00:31:52.360 --> 00:31:52.920
 Jewish rejection

00:31:52.920 --> 00:31:53.420
 of the gospel.

00:31:54.160 --> 00:31:55.000
 We see that

00:31:55.000 --> 00:31:56.019
 in chapter 10,

00:31:56.200 --> 00:31:56.880
 verse 21,

00:31:57.340 --> 00:31:57.660
 which is a

00:31:57.660 --> 00:31:58.300
 quotation from

00:31:58.300 --> 00:31:59.300
 Isaiah 65,

00:31:59.519 --> 00:31:59.820
 2.

00:32:00.200 --> 00:32:00.880
 I spread up my

00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:01.460
 hands all the

00:32:01.460 --> 00:32:01.960
 day to a

00:32:01.960 --> 00:32:02.700
 rebellious people

00:32:02.700 --> 00:32:03.880
 who walk in a

00:32:03.880 --> 00:32:04.600
 way that is not

00:32:04.600 --> 00:32:05.580
 good, following

00:32:05.580 --> 00:32:06.160
 their own

00:32:06.160 --> 00:32:06.700
 devices.

00:32:07.400 --> 00:32:07.880
 That's what he's

00:32:07.880 --> 00:32:08.540
 talking about,

00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:09.020
 chapter 10,

00:32:09.080 --> 00:32:09.540
 verse 21.

00:32:09.780 --> 00:32:10.140
 That's why he

00:32:10.140 --> 00:32:10.600
 brings that up.

00:32:10.660 --> 00:32:11.400
 Jewish rejection

00:32:11.400 --> 00:32:12.500
 of the gospel.

00:32:13.540 --> 00:32:14.960
 Secondly, the

00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:15.960
 grace extended to

00:32:15.960 --> 00:32:17.040
 the Gentiles in

00:32:17.040 --> 00:32:18.700
 blue, up here.

00:32:19.180 --> 00:32:20.080
 Grace extended to

00:32:20.080 --> 00:32:20.600
 the Gentiles.

00:32:21.100 --> 00:32:21.920
 Chapter 10,

00:32:22.080 --> 00:32:23.520
 verse 20, he's

00:32:23.520 --> 00:32:23.920
 quoting from

00:32:23.920 --> 00:32:24.860
 Isaiah 65,

00:32:25.280 --> 00:32:25.720
 1.

00:32:26.220 --> 00:32:27.180
 I was ready to

00:32:27.180 --> 00:32:27.840
 be sought by

00:32:27.840 --> 00:32:29.020
 those who did

00:32:29.020 --> 00:32:29.840
 not ask for me.

00:32:29.920 --> 00:32:30.440
 I was ready to

00:32:30.440 --> 00:32:31.580
 be found by

00:32:31.580 --> 00:32:32.340
 those who did

00:32:32.340 --> 00:32:33.120
 not seek me.

00:32:33.240 --> 00:32:33.840
 I said,

00:32:34.220 --> 00:32:34.920
 here I am,

00:32:35.020 --> 00:32:35.680
 here I am,

00:32:35.680 --> 00:32:36.880
 to a nation that

00:32:36.880 --> 00:32:37.800
 was not called

00:32:37.800 --> 00:32:38.800
 by my name.

00:32:39.240 --> 00:32:39.840
 So again,

00:32:39.940 --> 00:32:40.360
 here we see,

00:32:40.860 --> 00:32:41.720
 grace extended to

00:32:41.720 --> 00:32:43.180
 the Gentiles and

00:32:43.180 --> 00:32:44.440
 presented in

00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:45.440
 chapter 10,

00:32:45.580 --> 00:32:46.300
 verse 20,

00:32:46.740 --> 00:32:47.820
 and again and

00:32:47.820 --> 00:32:48.320
 again and again,

00:32:48.380 --> 00:32:48.660
 which I'm going

00:32:48.660 --> 00:32:48.940
 to show you in

00:32:48.940 --> 00:32:49.320
 just a moment.

00:32:49.780 --> 00:32:50.980
 Thirdly, we see

00:32:50.980 --> 00:32:52.220
 the envy of the

00:32:52.220 --> 00:32:52.560
 Jews.

00:32:53.560 --> 00:32:54.380
 Chapter 10,

00:32:54.600 --> 00:32:55.460
 verse 19, he

00:32:55.460 --> 00:32:56.240
 quotes Deuteronomy

00:32:56.240 --> 00:32:57.240
 32, 21.

00:32:57.660 --> 00:32:58.320
 They have made me

00:32:58.320 --> 00:32:59.120
 jealous with what

00:32:59.120 --> 00:33:00.020
 is no God.

00:33:00.160 --> 00:33:00.840
 They have provoked

00:33:00.840 --> 00:33:01.940
 me to anger with

00:33:01.940 --> 00:33:02.440
 their idols.

00:33:02.820 --> 00:33:03.520
 So I will make

00:33:03.520 --> 00:33:04.500
 them jealous with

00:33:04.500 --> 00:33:05.320
 those who are no

00:33:05.320 --> 00:33:05.640
 people.

00:33:05.960 --> 00:33:06.560
 I will provoke

00:33:06.560 --> 00:33:06.860
 them to

00:33:06.859 --> 00:33:07.979
 anger with a

00:33:07.979 --> 00:33:09.079
 foolish nation.

00:33:09.659 --> 00:33:11.159
 So the part of

00:33:11.159 --> 00:33:12.319
 the goal of this

00:33:12.319 --> 00:33:13.539
 rejection is that

00:33:13.539 --> 00:33:14.740
 Gentiles receive the

00:33:14.740 --> 00:33:15.639
 gospel so that

00:33:15.639 --> 00:33:16.579
 Jews become jealous

00:33:16.579 --> 00:33:17.099
 so that Jews

00:33:17.099 --> 00:33:17.740
 receive the gospel.

00:33:18.579 --> 00:33:19.359
 This pattern.

00:33:19.779 --> 00:33:20.240
 And fourthly,

00:33:20.339 --> 00:33:21.539
 the salvation of

00:33:21.539 --> 00:33:22.039
 Israel.

00:33:22.639 --> 00:33:23.399
 Chapter 11,

00:33:23.639 --> 00:33:25.619
 verse 1-4.

00:33:27.019 --> 00:33:27.679
 We see

00:33:27.679 --> 00:33:30.000
 Elijah basically

00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:32.240
 saying,

00:33:32.319 --> 00:33:32.859
 destroy them.

00:33:33.339 --> 00:33:33.899
 I'm the only

00:33:33.899 --> 00:33:34.559
 one left.

00:33:34.559 --> 00:33:36.059
 God's response to

00:33:36.059 --> 00:33:36.119
 them.

00:33:36.119 --> 00:33:36.659
 But what is God's

00:33:36.659 --> 00:33:36.960
 reply?

00:33:37.139 --> 00:33:37.659
 I have kept for

00:33:37.659 --> 00:33:38.799
 myself 7,000 men

00:33:38.799 --> 00:33:39.700
 who have not

00:33:39.700 --> 00:33:40.639
 bowed the knee

00:33:40.639 --> 00:33:41.319
 to Baal.

00:33:41.399 --> 00:33:42.119
 So he establishes

00:33:42.119 --> 00:33:42.639
 it for us there

00:33:42.639 --> 00:33:43.359
 and then continually

00:33:43.359 --> 00:33:44.919
 on and on and

00:33:44.919 --> 00:33:45.179
 on.

00:33:45.940 --> 00:33:46.940
 So the envy of the

00:33:46.940 --> 00:33:47.720
 Jews is in green up

00:33:47.720 --> 00:33:48.379
 there and then the

00:33:48.379 --> 00:33:49.139
 salvation of Israel

00:33:49.139 --> 00:33:50.460
 not found in verse

00:33:50.460 --> 00:33:51.679
 11 is going to be

00:33:51.679 --> 00:33:52.059
 in orange.

00:33:52.159 --> 00:33:52.500
 We're going to go

00:33:52.500 --> 00:33:52.779
 through these

00:33:52.779 --> 00:33:53.099
 together.

00:33:53.359 --> 00:33:53.519
 Okay?

00:33:54.179 --> 00:33:54.579
 Verse 11,

00:33:54.579 --> 00:33:55.199
 So I ask,

00:33:55.259 --> 00:33:55.839
 did they stumble

00:33:55.839 --> 00:33:56.379
 in order they

00:33:56.379 --> 00:33:56.980
 might fall?

00:33:57.119 --> 00:33:57.919
 By no means.

00:33:58.139 --> 00:33:58.439
 Rather,

00:33:59.139 --> 00:33:59.639
 through their

00:33:59.639 --> 00:34:00.399
 trespass,

00:34:00.679 --> 00:34:01.199
 the rejection

00:34:01.199 --> 00:34:02.559
 of the gospel

00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:03.099
 by Jewish

00:34:03.099 --> 00:34:03.500
 peoples,

00:34:03.960 --> 00:34:04.679
 salvation has

00:34:04.679 --> 00:34:05.059
 come to the

00:34:05.059 --> 00:34:05.679
 Gentiles,

00:34:05.980 --> 00:34:06.179
 right?

00:34:06.279 --> 00:34:06.980
 Grace extended

00:34:06.980 --> 00:34:07.799
 to the Gentiles

00:34:07.799 --> 00:34:10.099
 so as to make

00:34:10.099 --> 00:34:11.319
 Israel jealous.

00:34:11.639 --> 00:34:11.739
 Okay?

00:34:11.960 --> 00:34:12.559
 So the third,

00:34:12.779 --> 00:34:13.719
 the envy of the

00:34:13.719 --> 00:34:14.079
 Jews.

00:34:14.659 --> 00:34:14.799
 Right?

00:34:15.019 --> 00:34:15.619
 Verse 12.

00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:18.259
 Now if their

00:34:18.259 --> 00:34:19.019
 trespass,

00:34:19.420 --> 00:34:19.699
 right?

00:34:19.799 --> 00:34:20.420
 Jewish rejection

00:34:20.420 --> 00:34:20.900
 of the gospel,

00:34:21.639 --> 00:34:22.559
 means riches

00:34:22.559 --> 00:34:23.360
 for the world,

00:34:24.059 --> 00:34:24.599
 grace extended

00:34:24.599 --> 00:34:25.320
 to the Gentiles,

00:34:25.559 --> 00:34:26.539
 and if their

00:34:26.539 --> 00:34:27.219
 failure,

00:34:27.679 --> 00:34:28.139
 Jewish rejection

00:34:28.139 --> 00:34:28.579
 of the gospel,

00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:29.779
 means riches

00:34:29.779 --> 00:34:30.699
 for the Gentiles,

00:34:31.079 --> 00:34:31.460
 grace extended

00:34:31.460 --> 00:34:32.059
 to the Gentiles,

00:34:32.299 --> 00:34:33.500
 how much more

00:34:33.500 --> 00:34:34.219
 will their full

00:34:34.219 --> 00:34:35.019
 inclusion mean?

00:34:35.159 --> 00:34:36.440
 Salvation to

00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:36.759
 Israel.

00:34:37.199 --> 00:34:37.619
 So are you

00:34:37.619 --> 00:34:37.880
 seeing the

00:34:37.880 --> 00:34:38.099
 pattern?

00:34:39.139 --> 00:34:39.619
 Here we go

00:34:39.619 --> 00:34:39.799
 again.

00:34:40.019 --> 00:34:40.460
 Verse 13.

00:34:41.259 --> 00:34:41.539
 Now I'm

00:34:41.539 --> 00:34:41.980
 speaking to you

00:34:41.980 --> 00:34:42.420
 Gentiles.

00:34:42.960 --> 00:34:43.559
 Inasmuch then

00:34:43.559 --> 00:34:44.059
 as I am an

00:34:44.059 --> 00:34:44.739
 apostle to the

00:34:44.739 --> 00:34:45.239
 Gentiles,

00:34:45.340 --> 00:34:46.019
 I magnify my

00:34:46.019 --> 00:34:46.360
 ministry.

00:34:46.500 --> 00:34:46.900
 There's the

00:34:46.900 --> 00:34:47.460
 grace extended

00:34:47.460 --> 00:34:48.099
 to Gentiles,

00:34:48.380 --> 00:34:49.539
 in order somehow

00:34:49.539 --> 00:34:50.440
 to make my

00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:51.759
 fellow Jews

00:34:51.759 --> 00:34:52.519
 jealous.

00:34:52.559 --> 00:34:53.400
 There's jealousy

00:34:53.400 --> 00:34:54.079
 to Israel,

00:34:54.480 --> 00:34:55.259
 and thus save

00:34:55.259 --> 00:34:55.900
 some of them.

00:34:56.099 --> 00:34:56.779
 Salvation to

00:34:56.779 --> 00:34:57.059
 Israel.

00:34:57.960 --> 00:34:58.900
 Verse 15.

00:35:01.360 --> 00:35:02.199
 For if their

00:35:02.199 --> 00:35:02.639
 rejection,

00:35:03.259 --> 00:35:04.539
 rejection of the

00:35:04.539 --> 00:35:05.019
 gospel by the

00:35:05.019 --> 00:35:05.219
 Jews,

00:35:05.579 --> 00:35:06.000
 means the

00:35:06.000 --> 00:35:06.420
 reconciliation

00:35:06.420 --> 00:35:07.380
 of the world,

00:35:08.039 --> 00:35:08.539
 grace extended

00:35:08.539 --> 00:35:09.199
 to the Gentiles,

00:35:09.539 --> 00:35:10.699
 what will their

00:35:10.699 --> 00:35:11.679
 acceptance mean

00:35:11.679 --> 00:35:12.559
 but life from

00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:12.920
 the dead?

00:35:13.059 --> 00:35:14.340
 Salvation to

00:35:14.340 --> 00:35:14.739
 the Jews.

00:35:15.860 --> 00:35:16.880
 Verse 25

00:35:16.880 --> 00:35:17.599
 and 26.

00:35:19.460 --> 00:35:20.239
 Lest you be

00:35:20.239 --> 00:35:20.779
 wise in your

00:35:20.779 --> 00:35:21.139
 own sight,

00:35:21.179 --> 00:35:21.699
 I do not want

00:35:21.699 --> 00:35:21.960
 you to be

00:35:21.960 --> 00:35:22.460
 unaware of

00:35:22.460 --> 00:35:22.960
 this mystery,

00:35:23.079 --> 00:35:23.380
 brothers,

00:35:24.019 --> 00:35:24.500
 a partial

00:35:24.500 --> 00:35:25.199
 hardening has

00:35:25.199 --> 00:35:25.599
 come upon

00:35:25.599 --> 00:35:25.940
 Israel,

00:35:26.179 --> 00:35:27.440
 rejection of

00:35:27.440 --> 00:35:27.840
 the gospel

00:35:27.840 --> 00:35:28.519
 by Israel,

00:35:29.019 --> 00:35:29.519
 until the

00:35:29.519 --> 00:35:30.039
 fullness of

00:35:30.039 --> 00:35:30.519
 the Gentiles

00:35:30.519 --> 00:35:30.960
 has come in,

00:35:31.059 --> 00:35:31.880
 extended grace

00:35:31.880 --> 00:35:33.000
 to the Gentiles.

00:35:33.500 --> 00:35:34.240
 And in this

00:35:34.240 --> 00:35:34.519
 way,

00:35:34.619 --> 00:35:35.159
 all Israel

00:35:35.159 --> 00:35:35.760
 will be

00:35:35.760 --> 00:35:36.139
 saved.

00:35:36.780 --> 00:35:37.320
 The inclusion,

00:35:37.579 --> 00:35:38.039
 the salvation

00:35:38.039 --> 00:35:39.059
 of Jews.

00:35:40.280 --> 00:35:40.880
 Verse 30

00:35:40.880 --> 00:35:41.900
 and 31.

00:35:42.000 --> 00:35:42.559
 Let's throw

00:35:42.559 --> 00:35:42.980
 those together.

00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:43.639
 Yeah,

00:35:43.679 --> 00:35:44.019
 I did it up

00:35:44.019 --> 00:35:44.139
 there.

00:35:44.199 --> 00:35:44.300
 Okay.

00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:46.240
 Verse 30

00:35:46.240 --> 00:35:46.619
 and 31.

00:35:46.619 --> 00:35:47.720
 For just as you

00:35:47.720 --> 00:35:48.019
 were at one

00:35:48.019 --> 00:35:48.659
 time disobedient

00:35:48.659 --> 00:35:48.940
 to God,

00:35:48.980 --> 00:35:49.320
 but now have

00:35:49.320 --> 00:35:50.000
 received mercy,

00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:50.559
 grace to the

00:35:50.559 --> 00:35:51.059
 Gentiles,

00:35:51.239 --> 00:35:52.239
 because of

00:35:52.239 --> 00:35:53.320
 their disobedience,

00:35:54.139 --> 00:35:54.940
 rejection of the

00:35:54.940 --> 00:35:55.460
 gospel by the

00:35:55.460 --> 00:35:55.719
 Jews,

00:35:56.079 --> 00:35:56.920
 so they too

00:35:56.920 --> 00:35:57.519
 have now been

00:35:57.519 --> 00:35:58.259
 disobedient,

00:35:58.679 --> 00:35:59.699
 in order that

00:35:59.699 --> 00:36:00.219
 by the mercy

00:36:00.219 --> 00:36:01.059
 shown to you,

00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:02.079
 grace to the

00:36:02.079 --> 00:36:02.500
 Gentiles,

00:36:02.579 --> 00:36:03.719
 they also may

00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:04.960
 now receive

00:36:04.960 --> 00:36:05.440
 mercy.

00:36:06.119 --> 00:36:06.900
 You see the

00:36:06.900 --> 00:36:08.480
 pattern that

00:36:08.480 --> 00:36:09.019
 he's establishing

00:36:09.019 --> 00:36:09.679
 for us there?

00:36:09.900 --> 00:36:10.880
 He's simply

00:36:10.880 --> 00:36:11.599
 making this

00:36:11.599 --> 00:36:12.000
 argument,

00:36:12.679 --> 00:36:12.940
 right?

00:36:13.340 --> 00:36:13.699
 That the

00:36:13.699 --> 00:36:14.199
 rejection of the

00:36:14.199 --> 00:36:14.880
 gospel by the

00:36:14.880 --> 00:36:16.199
 Jews has

00:36:16.199 --> 00:36:16.940
 caused God's

00:36:16.940 --> 00:36:18.019
 grace to extend

00:36:18.019 --> 00:36:18.619
 to the Gentiles

00:36:18.619 --> 00:36:19.019
 by his

00:36:19.019 --> 00:36:19.739
 sovereign plan,

00:36:19.819 --> 00:36:20.299
 not like God

00:36:20.299 --> 00:36:20.920
 threw a plan

00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:21.960
 C in place,

00:36:22.599 --> 00:36:22.799
 right?

00:36:23.019 --> 00:36:23.420
 By his

00:36:23.420 --> 00:36:24.059
 sovereign plan,

00:36:24.119 --> 00:36:24.440
 that's how he

00:36:24.440 --> 00:36:24.900
 always intended

00:36:24.900 --> 00:36:25.420
 for it to be,

00:36:25.519 --> 00:36:26.099
 grace extended

00:36:26.099 --> 00:36:27.559
 to all peoples,

00:36:27.719 --> 00:36:28.219
 praise God,

00:36:28.299 --> 00:36:28.799
 were some of

00:36:28.799 --> 00:36:29.039
 them,

00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:30.039
 right?

00:36:30.259 --> 00:36:31.059
 Will cause the

00:36:31.059 --> 00:36:31.539
 nation of

00:36:31.539 --> 00:36:32.019
 Israel to be

00:36:32.019 --> 00:36:32.279
 jealous,

00:36:32.380 --> 00:36:32.759
 those who are

00:36:32.759 --> 00:36:33.619
 truly worshipping

00:36:33.619 --> 00:36:34.339
 their God,

00:36:35.339 --> 00:36:36.139
 by the right

00:36:36.139 --> 00:36:36.500
 way,

00:36:36.739 --> 00:36:37.400
 and they will

00:36:37.400 --> 00:36:38.799
 turn to

00:36:38.799 --> 00:36:39.099
 Christ.

00:36:39.259 --> 00:36:39.420
 Okay?

00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:39.699
 So,

00:36:39.859 --> 00:36:40.500
 we see this

00:36:40.500 --> 00:36:41.400
 continual pattern

00:36:41.400 --> 00:36:43.099
 being worked

00:36:43.099 --> 00:36:43.480
 through.

00:36:44.059 --> 00:36:44.159
 So,

00:36:44.279 --> 00:36:45.380
 that all needs

00:36:45.380 --> 00:36:46.219
 to be contextually

00:36:46.219 --> 00:36:46.739
 tied together,

00:36:46.819 --> 00:36:47.039
 right?

00:36:47.159 --> 00:36:47.359
 So,

00:36:47.440 --> 00:36:47.980
 as he's referred

00:36:47.980 --> 00:36:48.360
 in the very

00:36:48.360 --> 00:36:48.820
 beginning of

00:36:48.820 --> 00:36:49.699
 chapter 11,

00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:50.619
 verse 5,

00:36:51.139 --> 00:36:51.420
 so at the

00:36:51.420 --> 00:36:51.800
 present time

00:36:51.800 --> 00:36:52.619
 there is a

00:36:52.619 --> 00:36:53.240
 remnant,

00:36:53.960 --> 00:36:54.199
 right?

00:36:54.679 --> 00:36:55.119
 So,

00:36:55.179 --> 00:36:55.400
 what is he

00:36:55.400 --> 00:36:55.940
 referring to

00:36:55.940 --> 00:36:56.480
 then as he

00:36:56.480 --> 00:36:56.900
 says all

00:36:56.900 --> 00:36:57.280
 Israel?

00:36:57.420 --> 00:36:57.699
 And that's

00:36:57.699 --> 00:36:58.119
 why I

00:36:58.119 --> 00:36:59.139
 believe he

00:36:59.139 --> 00:37:00.280
 means all

00:37:00.280 --> 00:37:00.940
 intended

00:37:00.940 --> 00:37:01.440
 Israel.

00:37:01.780 --> 00:37:02.320
 All of

00:37:02.320 --> 00:37:03.079
 those that by

00:37:03.079 --> 00:37:03.940
 sovereign purposes

00:37:03.940 --> 00:37:04.860
 are meant to

00:37:04.860 --> 00:37:05.219
 be saved,

00:37:05.380 --> 00:37:06.079
 will be saved

00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:07.940
 through this

00:37:07.940 --> 00:37:09.179
 process.

00:37:10.539 --> 00:37:12.280
 Verse 26,

00:37:13.179 --> 00:37:13.820
 I'm proud of

00:37:13.820 --> 00:37:14.360
 the ESV.

00:37:14.780 --> 00:37:15.280
 I believe it's

00:37:15.280 --> 00:37:16.039
 properly rendered

00:37:16.039 --> 00:37:16.420
 here,

00:37:16.960 --> 00:37:17.619
 and in this

00:37:17.619 --> 00:37:18.079
 way.

00:37:18.980 --> 00:37:19.420
 Some of

00:37:19.420 --> 00:37:19.659
 your

00:37:19.659 --> 00:37:20.119
 translations

00:37:20.119 --> 00:37:20.739
 might say

00:37:20.739 --> 00:37:21.320
 and then,

00:37:22.599 --> 00:37:22.800
 right?

00:37:22.820 --> 00:37:23.179
 Which has

00:37:23.179 --> 00:37:23.739
 in mind

00:37:23.739 --> 00:37:24.940
 that once

00:37:24.940 --> 00:37:25.320
 the fullness

00:37:25.320 --> 00:37:25.659
 of the

00:37:25.659 --> 00:37:26.159
 Gentiles has

00:37:26.159 --> 00:37:26.759
 come in,

00:37:27.440 --> 00:37:28.559
 then this

00:37:28.559 --> 00:37:28.860
 thing will

00:37:28.860 --> 00:37:29.199
 happen,

00:37:29.519 --> 00:37:29.719
 right?

00:37:29.759 --> 00:37:30.199
 It's not the

00:37:30.199 --> 00:37:30.800
 proper rendering

00:37:30.800 --> 00:37:31.420
 of the Greek

00:37:31.420 --> 00:37:32.179
 phrase there.

00:37:32.619 --> 00:37:33.059
 The proper

00:37:33.059 --> 00:37:33.820
 rendering is

00:37:33.820 --> 00:37:35.099
 and in this

00:37:35.099 --> 00:37:35.880
 way,

00:37:36.119 --> 00:37:36.800
 which I

00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:37.480
 believe,

00:37:37.940 --> 00:37:38.579
 with great

00:37:38.579 --> 00:37:39.000
 humility,

00:37:39.360 --> 00:37:40.059
 refers to

00:37:40.059 --> 00:37:41.199
 the mystery

00:37:41.199 --> 00:37:41.900
 that he

00:37:41.900 --> 00:37:42.960
 mentions in

00:37:42.960 --> 00:37:43.619
 verse 25.

00:37:43.619 --> 00:37:44.219
 Lest you

00:37:44.219 --> 00:37:44.639
 be wise

00:37:44.639 --> 00:37:44.819
 in your

00:37:44.819 --> 00:37:45.079
 own sight,

00:37:45.139 --> 00:37:45.339
 I want

00:37:45.339 --> 00:37:45.440
 you to

00:37:45.440 --> 00:37:45.880
 understand

00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:46.799
 this

00:37:46.799 --> 00:37:47.579
 mystery.

00:37:48.119 --> 00:37:48.759
 That this

00:37:48.759 --> 00:37:49.259
 is the

00:37:49.259 --> 00:37:49.819
 way in

00:37:49.819 --> 00:37:51.059
 which God

00:37:51.059 --> 00:37:52.139
 is including

00:37:52.139 --> 00:37:54.219
 Israel in

00:37:54.219 --> 00:37:54.779
 the plans

00:37:54.779 --> 00:37:55.400
 of grace.

00:37:56.079 --> 00:37:56.779
 He hasn't

00:37:56.779 --> 00:37:57.619
 rejected them,

00:37:57.659 --> 00:37:58.019
 he hasn't

00:37:58.019 --> 00:37:58.619
 cast them

00:37:58.619 --> 00:37:59.960
 off entirely,

00:37:59.960 --> 00:38:00.739
 he's still

00:38:00.739 --> 00:38:02.440
 working amongst

00:38:02.440 --> 00:38:03.380
 the people

00:38:03.380 --> 00:38:04.199
 of Israel,

00:38:04.460 --> 00:38:04.960
 the peoples

00:38:04.960 --> 00:38:05.539
 of the world

00:38:05.539 --> 00:38:06.500
 and the

00:38:06.500 --> 00:38:07.719
 people of

00:38:07.719 --> 00:38:08.039
 Israel.

00:38:10.199 --> 00:38:11.359
 Verse 30,

00:38:11.360 --> 00:38:12.980
 verse 32,

00:38:14.800 --> 00:38:15.280
 for just as

00:38:15.280 --> 00:38:15.539
 you were at

00:38:15.539 --> 00:38:15.820
 one time

00:38:15.820 --> 00:38:16.340
 disobedient to

00:38:16.340 --> 00:38:16.620
 God but

00:38:16.620 --> 00:38:17.019
 now have

00:38:17.019 --> 00:38:17.579
 received mercy

00:38:17.579 --> 00:38:18.180
 because of

00:38:18.180 --> 00:38:18.300
 their

00:38:18.300 --> 00:38:18.860
 disobedience,

00:38:18.920 --> 00:38:19.220
 so they

00:38:19.220 --> 00:38:20.340
 have now

00:38:20.340 --> 00:38:20.539
 been

00:38:20.539 --> 00:38:21.019
 disobedient

00:38:21.019 --> 00:38:21.260
 in order

00:38:21.260 --> 00:38:21.519
 that by

00:38:21.519 --> 00:38:21.880
 the mercy

00:38:21.880 --> 00:38:22.300
 shown to

00:38:22.300 --> 00:38:22.500
 you they

00:38:22.500 --> 00:38:23.220
 also may

00:38:23.220 --> 00:38:23.980
 now receive

00:38:23.980 --> 00:38:24.340
 mercy.

00:38:24.720 --> 00:38:25.059
 For God

00:38:25.059 --> 00:38:25.620
 has consigned

00:38:25.620 --> 00:38:26.019
 all to

00:38:26.019 --> 00:38:26.880
 disobedience

00:38:26.880 --> 00:38:27.140
 that he

00:38:27.140 --> 00:38:27.579
 may have

00:38:27.579 --> 00:38:28.740
 mercy on

00:38:28.740 --> 00:38:29.160
 all.

00:38:29.680 --> 00:38:30.260
 We are

00:38:30.260 --> 00:38:30.640
 not

00:38:30.640 --> 00:38:31.579
 universalists.

00:38:32.539 --> 00:38:33.059
 If you

00:38:33.059 --> 00:38:33.599
 read this

00:38:33.599 --> 00:38:34.099
 out of its

00:38:34.099 --> 00:38:34.660
 context,

00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:35.140
 you have

00:38:35.140 --> 00:38:35.480
 to be.

00:38:36.340 --> 00:38:36.880
 If I

00:38:36.880 --> 00:38:37.300
 hand you

00:38:37.300 --> 00:38:37.880
 just

00:38:37.880 --> 00:38:39.140
 verse 32

00:38:39.140 --> 00:38:39.559
 and say

00:38:39.559 --> 00:38:39.940
 these are

00:38:39.940 --> 00:38:40.320
 the scriptures,

00:38:40.320 --> 00:38:42.019
 the scripture.

00:38:43.039 --> 00:38:43.740
 You read it

00:38:43.740 --> 00:38:43.960
 that way,

00:38:44.019 --> 00:38:44.140
 you say,

00:38:44.200 --> 00:38:44.400
 man,

00:38:45.180 --> 00:38:45.580
 God's pretty

00:38:45.580 --> 00:38:46.300
 fantastic because

00:38:46.300 --> 00:38:47.580
 all people will

00:38:47.580 --> 00:38:48.260
 be saved even

00:38:48.260 --> 00:38:48.559
 though they're

00:38:48.559 --> 00:38:49.500
 all his

00:38:49.500 --> 00:38:49.720
 enemies,

00:38:49.880 --> 00:38:50.500
 all people,

00:38:50.800 --> 00:38:51.039
 it doesn't

00:38:51.039 --> 00:38:51.340
 matter.

00:38:51.920 --> 00:38:52.460
 It's not

00:38:52.460 --> 00:38:52.940
 the case.

00:38:53.160 --> 00:38:53.720
 Faith in

00:38:53.720 --> 00:38:54.240
 Jesus Christ,

00:38:54.320 --> 00:38:54.640
 that's what

00:38:54.640 --> 00:38:55.100
 brings to

00:38:55.100 --> 00:38:55.660
 us the

00:38:55.660 --> 00:38:56.180
 salvation of

00:38:56.180 --> 00:38:56.440
 God.

00:38:57.680 --> 00:38:59.039
 So contextually

00:38:59.039 --> 00:38:59.580
 what is he

00:38:59.580 --> 00:39:00.100
 saying?

00:39:00.960 --> 00:39:01.700
 What is he

00:39:01.700 --> 00:39:02.039
 saying?

00:39:02.140 --> 00:39:03.160
 We've all

00:39:03.160 --> 00:39:03.820
 been consigned

00:39:03.820 --> 00:39:04.559
 to disobedience

00:39:04.559 --> 00:39:05.059
 so that he

00:39:05.059 --> 00:39:05.380
 can have

00:39:05.380 --> 00:39:05.900
 mercy on

00:39:05.900 --> 00:39:07.480
 all kinds

00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:08.600
 of people,

00:39:09.240 --> 00:39:09.700
 Jews,

00:39:09.699 --> 00:39:10.659
 and

00:39:10.659 --> 00:39:11.539
 Gentiles.

00:39:13.699 --> 00:39:14.759
 So why?

00:39:16.139 --> 00:39:16.659
 Why?

00:39:17.619 --> 00:39:18.299
 Why does

00:39:18.299 --> 00:39:18.699
 he tell us

00:39:18.699 --> 00:39:19.019
 all this?

00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:19.719
 What is

00:39:19.719 --> 00:39:20.139
 the point?

00:39:20.339 --> 00:39:20.639
 And how

00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:20.939
 does this

00:39:20.939 --> 00:39:21.519
 mean anything

00:39:21.519 --> 00:39:21.960
 for our

00:39:21.960 --> 00:39:23.119
 lives today?

00:39:24.679 --> 00:39:25.199
 Practically.

00:39:25.779 --> 00:39:26.460
 Verse 25,

00:39:27.219 --> 00:39:27.659
 he says,

00:39:28.019 --> 00:39:28.599
 lest you

00:39:28.599 --> 00:39:29.399
 be wise

00:39:29.399 --> 00:39:29.839
 in your

00:39:29.839 --> 00:39:30.539
 own sight.

00:39:31.699 --> 00:39:32.139
 And in

00:39:32.139 --> 00:39:32.739
 this case,

00:39:32.960 --> 00:39:33.259
 he is

00:39:33.259 --> 00:39:34.179
 referring to

00:39:34.179 --> 00:39:34.859
 the Gentiles.

00:39:35.159 --> 00:39:35.539
 He has

00:39:35.539 --> 00:39:36.359
 turned and

00:39:36.359 --> 00:39:37.480
 began speaking

00:39:37.480 --> 00:39:37.939
 to them in

00:39:37.939 --> 00:39:38.559
 verse 13.

00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:38.880
 He says,

00:39:38.940 --> 00:39:39.159
 now I'm

00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:39.639
 speaking to

00:39:39.639 --> 00:39:41.259
 you Gentiles.

00:39:41.900 --> 00:39:42.579
 And he

00:39:42.579 --> 00:39:43.039
 actually has

00:39:43.039 --> 00:39:44.239
 already brought

00:39:44.239 --> 00:39:45.900
 some correction

00:39:45.900 --> 00:39:47.299
 that the

00:39:47.299 --> 00:39:47.799
 Gentiles might

00:39:47.799 --> 00:39:48.779
 understand who

00:39:48.779 --> 00:39:49.239
 they are,

00:39:49.360 --> 00:39:50.099
 wild olive

00:39:50.099 --> 00:39:50.579
 trees being

00:39:50.579 --> 00:39:51.519
 branched,

00:39:51.519 --> 00:39:52.679
 being grafted

00:39:52.679 --> 00:39:54.279
 in to the

00:39:54.279 --> 00:39:54.940
 holy root,

00:39:55.579 --> 00:39:56.079
 the root

00:39:56.079 --> 00:39:57.820
 that is

00:39:57.820 --> 00:39:58.880
 the nation,

00:39:59.000 --> 00:39:59.500
 the peoples

00:39:59.500 --> 00:40:00.679
 of Israel.

00:40:01.739 --> 00:40:02.259
 Lest you

00:40:02.259 --> 00:40:03.159
 be wise

00:40:03.159 --> 00:40:03.719
 in your own

00:40:03.719 --> 00:40:04.099
 sight,

00:40:04.199 --> 00:40:04.659
 there is a

00:40:04.659 --> 00:40:06.019
 history in

00:40:06.019 --> 00:40:06.380
 the Christian

00:40:06.380 --> 00:40:07.880
 church of

00:40:07.880 --> 00:40:08.460
 anti-Semitism,

00:40:09.340 --> 00:40:10.179
 a history

00:40:10.179 --> 00:40:10.539
 of it,

00:40:11.119 --> 00:40:12.320
 of Christian

00:40:12.320 --> 00:40:13.179
 Gentiles looking

00:40:13.179 --> 00:40:13.780
 down their

00:40:13.780 --> 00:40:15.340
 noses at

00:40:15.340 --> 00:40:15.940
 Jews because

00:40:15.940 --> 00:40:17.320
 they were

00:40:17.320 --> 00:40:17.820
 the people

00:40:17.820 --> 00:40:18.599
 that killed

00:40:18.599 --> 00:40:19.119
 the Messiah.

00:40:21.079 --> 00:40:22.219
 It's prevalent

00:40:22.219 --> 00:40:23.380
 still today,

00:40:23.440 --> 00:40:24.000
 it certainly

00:40:24.000 --> 00:40:25.119
 existed in

00:40:25.119 --> 00:40:25.460
 the first

00:40:25.460 --> 00:40:26.320
 century church,

00:40:26.780 --> 00:40:27.679
 judging those

00:40:27.679 --> 00:40:28.059
 who had

00:40:28.059 --> 00:40:28.639
 originally

00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:29.900
 received these

00:40:29.900 --> 00:40:31.280
 benefits and

00:40:31.280 --> 00:40:31.820
 had rejected

00:40:31.820 --> 00:40:32.360
 Christ,

00:40:32.820 --> 00:40:33.460
 looking down

00:40:33.460 --> 00:40:33.960
 their noses

00:40:33.960 --> 00:40:34.380
 at them.

00:40:35.340 --> 00:40:35.960
 I don't

00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:36.619
 really think

00:40:36.619 --> 00:40:37.019
 that's a

00:40:37.019 --> 00:40:37.679
 problem for

00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:38.139
 any of us

00:40:38.139 --> 00:40:38.400
 in this

00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:38.659
 room.

00:40:39.659 --> 00:40:39.860
 I don't

00:40:39.860 --> 00:40:40.320
 think any

00:40:40.320 --> 00:40:40.559
 of us

00:40:40.559 --> 00:40:41.019
 really have

00:40:41.019 --> 00:40:41.780
 a disdain

00:40:41.780 --> 00:40:42.240
 for anybody

00:40:42.240 --> 00:40:42.599
 who said,

00:40:42.679 --> 00:40:42.760
 yeah,

00:40:42.780 --> 00:40:42.980
 I'm of

00:40:42.980 --> 00:40:43.480
 Jewish descent,

00:40:43.559 --> 00:40:43.800
 we've in

00:40:43.800 --> 00:40:44.440
 any way in

00:40:44.440 --> 00:40:44.860
 our minds

00:40:44.860 --> 00:40:45.119
 think,

00:40:45.320 --> 00:40:45.840
 you killed

00:40:45.840 --> 00:40:46.280
 the Messiah.

00:40:46.519 --> 00:40:46.679
 I don't

00:40:46.679 --> 00:40:47.079
 think any

00:40:47.079 --> 00:40:47.480
 of us

00:40:47.480 --> 00:40:48.659
 have that

00:40:48.659 --> 00:40:49.619
 issue in

00:40:49.619 --> 00:40:50.139
 our lives,

00:40:50.380 --> 00:40:51.579
 but we

00:40:51.579 --> 00:40:52.380
 just may

00:40:52.380 --> 00:40:53.740
 have a

00:40:53.740 --> 00:40:54.139
 superiority

00:40:54.139 --> 00:40:54.720
 complex.

00:40:55.400 --> 00:40:55.980
 We just

00:40:55.980 --> 00:40:56.659
 may still

00:40:56.659 --> 00:40:58.119
 think that

00:40:58.119 --> 00:40:58.740
 we're better

00:40:58.740 --> 00:41:00.139
 because somehow

00:41:00.139 --> 00:41:01.220
 we figured

00:41:01.220 --> 00:41:01.720
 it out.

00:41:02.220 --> 00:41:02.340
 See,

00:41:02.420 --> 00:41:03.460
 crazy Jews,

00:41:03.960 --> 00:41:04.460
 you guys

00:41:04.460 --> 00:41:05.079
 know the

00:41:05.079 --> 00:41:05.639
 Old Testament

00:41:05.639 --> 00:41:06.059
 and it

00:41:06.059 --> 00:41:06.500
 points to

00:41:06.500 --> 00:41:06.960
 Christ.

00:41:07.480 --> 00:41:07.920
 You had

00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:08.679
 all these

00:41:08.679 --> 00:41:09.119
 benefits,

00:41:09.280 --> 00:41:09.740
 all these

00:41:09.740 --> 00:41:10.079
 blessings,

00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:10.460
 you have

00:41:10.460 --> 00:41:10.980
 all these

00:41:10.980 --> 00:41:11.519
 national

00:41:11.519 --> 00:41:12.099
 holidays

00:41:12.099 --> 00:41:12.699
 that are

00:41:12.699 --> 00:41:13.280
 supposed to

00:41:13.280 --> 00:41:13.800
 show you

00:41:13.800 --> 00:41:14.599
 Jesus and

00:41:14.599 --> 00:41:14.880
 you miss

00:41:14.880 --> 00:41:15.420
 the point.

00:41:16.220 --> 00:41:16.659
 But I

00:41:16.659 --> 00:41:17.199
 got it

00:41:17.199 --> 00:41:18.780
 because I

00:41:18.780 --> 00:41:19.320
 am pretty

00:41:19.320 --> 00:41:20.360
 darn smart.

00:41:23.179 --> 00:41:24.019
 Lest we

00:41:24.019 --> 00:41:25.139
 become wise

00:41:25.139 --> 00:41:26.199
 in our own

00:41:26.199 --> 00:41:27.440
 sight,

00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:28.460
 that's what

00:41:28.460 --> 00:41:28.740
 he's saying

00:41:28.740 --> 00:41:29.159
 to us.

00:41:30.360 --> 00:41:30.980
 Recognize,

00:41:31.099 --> 00:41:31.480
 church,

00:41:32.079 --> 00:41:32.800
 that God

00:41:32.800 --> 00:41:33.280
 has consigned

00:41:33.280 --> 00:41:33.860
 all the

00:41:33.860 --> 00:41:34.320
 disobedience

00:41:34.320 --> 00:41:34.580
 that he

00:41:34.580 --> 00:41:34.920
 might have

00:41:34.920 --> 00:41:35.920
 mercy on

00:41:35.920 --> 00:41:36.140
 all.

00:41:36.660 --> 00:41:37.280
 That our

00:41:37.280 --> 00:41:38.320
 understanding,

00:41:38.560 --> 00:41:39.420
 our realization,

00:41:40.160 --> 00:41:40.800
 even though we

00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:41.320
 didn't have

00:41:41.320 --> 00:41:42.380
 all these

00:41:42.380 --> 00:41:42.900
 benefits,

00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:44.780
 is all

00:41:44.780 --> 00:41:45.140
 the work

00:41:45.140 --> 00:41:45.760
 of grace.

00:41:46.320 --> 00:41:47.080
 It's all

00:41:47.080 --> 00:41:47.460
 mercy.

00:41:47.600 --> 00:41:48.100
 It's all

00:41:48.100 --> 00:41:48.560
 the display

00:41:48.560 --> 00:41:48.760
 of his

00:41:48.760 --> 00:41:49.360
 loving kindness

00:41:49.360 --> 00:41:50.640
 toward us.

00:41:51.019 --> 00:41:51.280
 And we

00:41:51.280 --> 00:41:52.080
 have no

00:41:52.080 --> 00:41:52.700
 reason to

00:41:52.700 --> 00:41:53.280
 boast in

00:41:53.280 --> 00:41:54.680
 anything but

00:41:54.680 --> 00:41:55.019
 the cross

00:41:55.019 --> 00:41:55.460
 of Christ,

00:41:55.780 --> 00:41:56.340
 in anything

00:41:56.340 --> 00:41:56.800
 but our

00:41:56.800 --> 00:41:57.360
 God who

00:41:57.360 --> 00:41:57.960
 has saved

00:41:57.960 --> 00:41:58.340
 us.

00:41:58.340 --> 00:41:59.800
 we

00:41:59.800 --> 00:42:00.019
 ought to

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 be humble

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 and present

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 ourselves

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 as such

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 to the

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 world.

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 This

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 truth that

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 Paul has

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 presented to

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 us,

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 whether he's

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 speaking about

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 final things

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 in all

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 Israel or

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 the case

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 that I've

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 made to

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 you today,

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 speaks of

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 the nature

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 of God.

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 We ought to

00:42:19.940 --> 00:42:20.340
 turn our

00:42:20.340 --> 00:42:20.720
 hearts to

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 praise him

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 because we

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 see another

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 example,

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 just one

00:42:24.100 --> 00:42:24.900
 other example,

00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:25.880
 of God's

00:42:25.880 --> 00:42:26.579
 goodness and

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 loving kindness

00:42:27.280 --> 00:42:27.920
 to people

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 who do

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 not deserve

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 it,

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 who have

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 rejected him

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 at every

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 turn,

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 who have

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 willfully

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 sinned

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 against him,

00:42:33.260 --> 00:42:33.640
 who have

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 said to

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 God,

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 you are

00:42:34.440 --> 00:42:34.860
 my enemy

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 and I

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 hate you.

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 It's another

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 picture of

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 God's

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 goodness to

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 his people,

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 including the

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 peoples of

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 Israel,

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 the nation.

00:42:44.519 --> 00:42:45.540
 God continues

00:42:45.540 --> 00:42:46.260
 to love

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 and to love

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 and to love,

00:42:48.680 --> 00:42:49.340
 beckon people

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 to himself.

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 It's the

00:42:51.200 --> 00:42:51.640
 picture in

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 Hosea of

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 when Gomer

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 gets kind of

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 cast out of

00:42:55.120 --> 00:42:56.519
 the city and

00:42:56.519 --> 00:42:57.120
 God talks

00:42:57.119 --> 00:42:57.940
 about alluring

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 his wife

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 back to

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 himself,

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 this constant

00:43:02.019 --> 00:43:02.659
 picture of

00:43:02.659 --> 00:43:03.380
 God's goodness

00:43:03.380 --> 00:43:04.299
 and loving

00:43:04.299 --> 00:43:04.779
 kindness.

00:43:05.179 --> 00:43:05.679
 It ought to

00:43:05.679 --> 00:43:06.579
 cause us to

00:43:06.579 --> 00:43:07.219
 praise him.

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 And those two

00:43:08.719 --> 00:43:09.500
 things should tie

00:43:09.500 --> 00:43:09.859
 together,

00:43:09.940 --> 00:43:10.559
 our humility,

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 our understanding,

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 our right

00:43:12.219 --> 00:43:12.819
 understanding that

00:43:12.819 --> 00:43:13.579
 the gospel of

00:43:13.579 --> 00:43:14.239
 grace is still

00:43:14.239 --> 00:43:15.400
 being extended to

00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:15.980
 the people of

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 Israel as well

00:43:17.000 --> 00:43:17.719
 as the nations

00:43:17.719 --> 00:43:20.219
 and this immense

00:43:20.219 --> 00:43:21.099
 view of God's

00:43:21.099 --> 00:43:22.199
 love for the

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 world that should

00:43:23.719 --> 00:43:24.199
 move us to

00:43:24.199 --> 00:43:24.819
 evangelism.

00:43:24.820 --> 00:43:29.080
 God's

00:43:29.080 --> 00:43:29.720
 love for the

00:43:29.720 --> 00:43:30.400
 people of

00:43:30.400 --> 00:43:31.280
 God's

00:43:31.280 --> 00:43:32.080
 love for the

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 people of

00:43:32.539 --> 00:43:32.980
 the world,

00:43:33.160 --> 00:43:33.740
 including

00:43:33.740 --> 00:43:34.980
 Jewish peoples.

00:43:36.100 --> 00:43:37.039
 The church of

00:43:37.039 --> 00:43:37.780
 Christ should be

00:43:37.780 --> 00:43:38.980
 actively pursuing

00:43:38.980 --> 00:43:40.539
 Jewish people,

00:43:40.940 --> 00:43:41.320
 Israel.

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 We should be

00:43:41.940 --> 00:43:42.660
 going after

00:43:42.660 --> 00:43:43.019
 them.

00:43:43.400 --> 00:43:43.640
 Why?

00:43:43.820 --> 00:43:45.000
 Because they'll

00:43:45.000 --> 00:43:45.280
 be made

00:43:45.280 --> 00:43:45.700
 jealous.

00:43:46.000 --> 00:43:46.519
 God's working

00:43:46.519 --> 00:43:47.620
 in their hearts

00:43:47.620 --> 00:43:49.100
 to see that

00:43:49.100 --> 00:43:50.580
 by his grace,

00:43:50.579 --> 00:43:52.619
 we know why.

00:43:53.619 --> 00:43:54.239
 Why the

00:43:54.239 --> 00:43:54.519
 temple?

00:43:54.699 --> 00:43:55.079
 Why the

00:43:55.079 --> 00:43:55.519
 sacrifice?

00:43:55.840 --> 00:43:56.199
 Why the

00:43:56.199 --> 00:43:56.799
 patriarchs?

00:43:56.840 --> 00:43:57.639
 We understand

00:43:57.639 --> 00:43:58.219
 the prophets.

00:43:58.340 --> 00:43:58.719
 What were they

00:43:58.719 --> 00:43:59.460
 talking about?

00:43:59.759 --> 00:44:00.380
 We get all

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 that because we

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 know the

00:44:01.719 --> 00:44:02.559
 Messiah of

00:44:02.559 --> 00:44:03.299
 whom they all

00:44:03.299 --> 00:44:04.420
 spoke and we

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 ought to be

00:44:04.719 --> 00:44:05.539
 active and

00:44:05.539 --> 00:44:06.480
 seeking to

00:44:06.480 --> 00:44:06.799
 bring the

00:44:06.799 --> 00:44:07.779
 gospel to

00:44:07.779 --> 00:44:08.239
 the nation

00:44:08.239 --> 00:44:09.119
 of Israel.

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 And so that's

00:44:10.719 --> 00:44:11.039
 what it means

00:44:11.039 --> 00:44:12.239
 to us in

00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:13.239
 this large

00:44:13.239 --> 00:44:14.239
 academic pursuit

00:44:14.239 --> 00:44:15.299
 of patterns of

00:44:15.299 --> 00:44:15.819
 words.

00:44:16.360 --> 00:44:16.960
 That's how it

00:44:16.960 --> 00:44:17.559
 comes down and

00:44:17.559 --> 00:44:18.299
 it comes home

00:44:18.299 --> 00:44:19.279
 for us.

00:44:19.280 --> 00:44:20.340
 We should

00:44:20.340 --> 00:44:20.680
 have no

00:44:20.680 --> 00:44:21.200
 disdain,

00:44:21.300 --> 00:44:21.860
 no superiority

00:44:21.860 --> 00:44:23.080
 complex over

00:44:23.080 --> 00:44:23.460
 the Jews

00:44:23.460 --> 00:44:24.380
 because they

00:44:24.380 --> 00:44:24.840
 are people

00:44:24.840 --> 00:44:25.580
 like us

00:44:25.580 --> 00:44:26.560
 separated from

00:44:26.560 --> 00:44:27.360
 the grace of

00:44:27.360 --> 00:44:27.900
 God by their

00:44:27.900 --> 00:44:29.060
 sin and they

00:44:29.060 --> 00:44:30.400
 need him and

00:44:30.400 --> 00:44:30.700
 they need

00:44:30.700 --> 00:44:31.480
 messengers to

00:44:31.480 --> 00:44:32.480
 carry the

00:44:32.480 --> 00:44:33.240
 gospel to

00:44:33.240 --> 00:44:33.500
 them.

00:44:33.560 --> 00:44:33.880
 And if we

00:44:33.880 --> 00:44:34.600
 rightly understand

00:44:34.600 --> 00:44:35.120
 who we are

00:44:35.120 --> 00:44:35.600
 and we rightly

00:44:35.600 --> 00:44:36.200
 understand who

00:44:36.200 --> 00:44:36.780
 God is,

00:44:37.120 --> 00:44:37.500
 this will

00:44:37.500 --> 00:44:37.880
 happen.

00:44:38.220 --> 00:44:38.480
 This will

00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:40.019
 flow out of

00:44:40.019 --> 00:44:40.320
 us.

00:44:40.880 --> 00:44:41.420
 So as we

00:44:41.420 --> 00:44:42.660
 pump academics

00:44:42.660 --> 00:44:43.220
 into our

00:44:43.220 --> 00:44:44.220
 heads, it's

00:44:44.220 --> 00:44:44.940
 my prayer that

00:44:44.940 --> 00:44:45.400
 it works its

00:44:45.400 --> 00:44:46.519
 way into our

00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:47.100
 hearts.

00:44:48.160 --> 00:44:49.040
 That we walk

00:44:49.039 --> 00:44:49.599
 out of here

00:44:49.599 --> 00:44:50.900
 both gladdened

00:44:50.900 --> 00:44:51.480
 and abased.

00:44:51.639 --> 00:44:52.300
 Glad in who

00:44:52.300 --> 00:44:53.019
 our God is,

00:44:53.179 --> 00:44:53.460
 his great

00:44:53.460 --> 00:44:53.980
 loving kindness

00:44:53.980 --> 00:44:54.380
 to us,

00:44:54.679 --> 00:44:55.019
 and abased

00:44:55.019 --> 00:44:55.480
 because we

00:44:55.480 --> 00:44:56.619
 know that we

00:44:56.619 --> 00:44:57.340
 were wretched.

00:44:57.579 --> 00:44:58.139
 We did not

00:44:58.139 --> 00:44:58.940
 deserve the

00:44:58.940 --> 00:44:59.400
 love that he's

00:44:59.400 --> 00:45:00.099
 lavished on us

00:45:00.099 --> 00:45:00.519
 and that ought

00:45:00.519 --> 00:45:01.320
 to be such a

00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:02.360
 motivating factor

00:45:02.360 --> 00:45:03.699
 to share that

00:45:03.699 --> 00:45:04.480
 with the world.

00:45:05.139 --> 00:45:05.579
 Let's pray.

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 Amen.

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