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 Today, we're going to begin what I believe, I think, God intends to be three more weeks in chapter 9.

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 In seeing that the large rejection of the gospel by the nation of Israel does not discredit the gospel.

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 And that's why Paul is beginning to have this conversation.

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 The fact that the people who should have gotten it more than any other people by human terms should have understood who the Christ was.

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 The fact that they rejected him does not discredit the gospel.

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 And in fact, the unbelief of Israel is consistent with God's promises, with God's person, with God's prophecies, and with God's provision.

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 You guys proud of me? I'm alliterating now.

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 We're going to look at those four Ps.

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 And today, we're going to look at verses 6 through 13 and see that the unbelief of Israel is consistent with God's promises.

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 But before we do that, let's read together all of chapter 9.

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 Paul writes,

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 To them belong the patriarchs.

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 And from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.

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 But it is not as though the word of God has failed.

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 For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel.

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 And not all children of Abraham, because they are his offspring.

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 But through Isaac shall your offspring be named.

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 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise who are counted as offspring.

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 For this is what the promise said.

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 About this time next year, I will return.

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 And Sarah shall have a son.

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 And not only so, but also when Rebecca had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,

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 though they were not yet born and had not done anything either good or bad,

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

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 not because of works, but because of him who calls,

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 she was told,

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 The older will serve the younger.

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 As it is written,

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 Jacob I loved,

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 but Esau I hated.

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 What shall we say then?

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 Is there injustice on God's part?

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 By no means.

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 For he says to Moses,

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 I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,

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 and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.

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 Something that depends not on human will or exertion,

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 but on God who has mercy.

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 For the scripture says to Pharaoh,

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 For this very purpose I have raised you up,

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 that I might show my power in you,

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 and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

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 So then he has mercy on whomever he wills,

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 and he hardens whomever he wills.

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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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 But who are you,

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 O man,

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 to answer back to God?

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 Will what is molded say to the molder,

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 Why have you made me like this?

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 Has the potter no right over the clay

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 to make out of the same lump

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 one vessel for honorable use

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 and another for dishonorable use?

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 What if God,

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 desiring to show his wrath

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 and to make known his power,

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 has endured with much patience

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 vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

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 in order to make known the riches of his glory

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 for vessels of mercy,

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 which he has prepared beforehand for glory,

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 even us whom he has called,

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 not from the Jews only,

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 but also from the Gentiles.

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 As indeed he says in Hosea,

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 Those who were not my people,

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 I will call my people.

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 And who was not my beloved,

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 I will call beloved.

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 And in the very place

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 where it was said to them,

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 You were not my people,

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 there they will be called

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 sons of the living God.

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 And Isaiah cries out 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 will be saved.

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 For the Lord will carry out

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 this 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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 What shall we say then?

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 That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness

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 have attained it?

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 That is,

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 a righteousness that is by faith?

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 But that Israel who pursued a law

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 that would lead to righteousness

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 did not succeed in reaching the law?

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 Why?

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 Because they did not pursue it by faith.

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 But as if it were based on works,

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 they have stumbled over the stumbling stone.

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 As it is written,

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 Behold, I am laying in Zion

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 a stone of stumbling

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 and a rock of offense.

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 And whoever believes in him

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 will not be put to shame.

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 Join me in prayer.

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 Father God,

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 certainly you have been good

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 to your people.

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 You have rescued us

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 from the mire of sin.

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 The place where we could not

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 rescue ourselves.

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 No effort on our part

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 could have pulled us out

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 of such a dark

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 and terrible place.

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 But you have plucked us

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 from that place.

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 You have brought us out of darkness

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 into your marvelous light.

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 This is a great work of yours.

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 You have also given us the scriptures

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 that we might be guided

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 in our understanding

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 of the gospel.

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 And I pray that this day

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 as we soak in these eight verses

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 that you will find us humble

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 being spoken to from above

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 as your words are inspired.

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 The words on these pages

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 translated from the Greek

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 are inspired

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 and they're for us

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 for this day.

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 And I pray that we will

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 accept them

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 as such.

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 I pray, Father,

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 you will not find us

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 haughty intellectuals

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 standing over the word of God

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 as if we are gods

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 judging you

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 for what you have said.

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 And I pray that all of this

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 is the praise and glory

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 of Jesus Christ.

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 It's in his name I pray.

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 Amen.

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 So we're going to hone in together

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 on verses 6-13.

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 Let me say to you

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 that what we're going to be studying

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 over the next few weeks

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 is heavy doctrine.

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 But it is joyful

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 to understand and to know.

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 I would expect

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 that you will wrestle with it.

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 I have and I do.

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 It's a continual process.

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 But I would ask

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 that you let the word of God

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 speak to your life today.

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 So let's look together

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 beginning in verse 6.

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 Paul says it's not as though

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 the word of God has failed.

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 The things he referenced

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 particularly in verse 4

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 the adoption,

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 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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 the promises.

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 It's not that these things

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 have failed to accomplish

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 their goal.

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 In fact,

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 they will accomplish

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 the exact goal

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 they were set out

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 to accomplish.

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 Isaiah 55-11

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 reads,

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 My word that goes out

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 from my mouth,

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 it shall not return

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 to me empty,

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 but it shall accomplish

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 that which I purpose.

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 It shall succeed

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 in the thing

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 for which I sent it.

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 Many of you

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 are probably familiar

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 with that.

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 Proceeding that,

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 there's another verse,

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 verses,

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 that you're probably

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 very familiar with

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 and we don't often

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 put them together.

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 Verses 8 and 9

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 of Isaiah 55,

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 God says,

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 For my thoughts

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 are not your thoughts,

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 neither are your ways

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 my ways,

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 declares the Lord.

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 For as the heavens

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 are higher than the earth,

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 so are my ways

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 higher than your ways

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 and my thoughts

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 than your thoughts.

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 So God says to us,

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 You can't fully understand me

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 because I am God

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 and you are not.

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 and my word

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 which goes forth

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 will accomplish

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 the very thing

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 that it was sent forth

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 to accomplish.

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 So the word of God

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 has not failed

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 just because

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 some of Israel

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 doesn't believe

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 that Jesus

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 is the Son of God,

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 that He is the Messiah,

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 their Deliverer.

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 It doesn't mean

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 the word of God

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 has failed.

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 The word of God

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 is accomplishing

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 what it was intended

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 to accomplish.

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 He goes on to say

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 the last half,

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 for not all

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 who are descended

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 from Israel

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 belong to Israel.

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 And He begins

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 to frame for us

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 as He's done

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 in chapter 2,

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 verses 28 and 29

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 of Romans,

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 that it's those

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 who belong to Israel

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 by faith

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 that are the true Israel.

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 Those that are

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 the recipients

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 of the promise

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 by faith,

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 not by the flesh.

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 Romans 2, 28 and 29

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 says,

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 For no one is a Jew

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 who is merely one outwardly,

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 nor is circumcision

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 outward and physical,

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 but a Jew

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 is one inwardly,

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 and circumcision

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 is a matter

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 of the heart,

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 by the Spirit,

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 not by the letter.

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 His praise

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 is not from man,

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 but from God.

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 This has always

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 been the way

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 of God.

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 Abraham was a man

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 justified by

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 faith.

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 He believed

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 in the promises

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 of God.

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 He didn't understand

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 the full realization

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 of the promises

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 of God.

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 He didn't know

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 how it was

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 that all the nations

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 of the world

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 would be blessed

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 in his line.

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 He didn't know

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 how it was

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 to happen,

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 but he knew

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 that it would,

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 and he trusted

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 that God would do

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 what he said

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 he would do,

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 and that is why

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 Abraham was justified.

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 Galatians 3,

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 7-9 reads,

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 It is those of faith

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 who are the sons

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 of Abraham,

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 and the scripture

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 foreseeing that God

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 would justify the Gentiles

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 by faith,

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 preached the gospel

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 beforehand to Abraham

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 saying,

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 In you shall all

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 the nations be blessed.

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 So then those

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 who are of faith

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 are blessed along

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 with Abraham,

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 the man of faith.

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 Isn't that phenomenal?

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 The commentary

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 that Paul gives us

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 on the promise

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 given to Abraham,

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 the Abrahamic covenant,

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 that the scripture

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 foreseeing that God

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 would justify Gentiles

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 by faith,

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 preached the gospel

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 to Abraham

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 saying,

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 In you the nations

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 will be blessed.

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 It's phenomenal.

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 And he goes on

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 to expound on that

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 in verses 7 and 8

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 and 9

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 and 10

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 and 11 and 12

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 and 13.

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 Verse 7 he says,

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 And not all are children

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 of Abraham

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 because there is offspring,

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 but through Isaac

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 shall your offspring be named.

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 This means it is not

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 the children of the flesh

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 who are the children of God,

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 but the children of the promise

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 are counted as offspring.

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 For this is what

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 the promise said

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 about this time next year

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 I will return

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 and Sarah

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 shall have a son.

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 Now if you recall

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 the story

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 of Sarah and Abraham

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 long,

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 long into their years

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 beyond childbearing age

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 both of them were,

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 should not have been

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 able to have a son.

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 And God comes

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 and gives to Abraham

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 a promise

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 that he will bless

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 the nations

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 in his line.

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 that his descendants

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 shall be like

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 the stars in heaven.

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 You remember this story?

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 And Abraham believed him.

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 He didn't have a clue

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 how that might happen,

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 but he believed him.

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 And Sarah

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 in her faithlessness

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 didn't believe

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 that it would be possible

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 for her

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 to bear a son.

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 Gave to Abraham

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 Hagar,

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 their servant.

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 You recall this

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 and Abraham

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 took Hagar

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 and she had a son

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 named Ishmael.

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 Sarah became jealous

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 of this relationship

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 and sent Hagar

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 and Ishmael away.

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 And it's there

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 that we see

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 Genesis 18.10

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 which is quoted

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 in verse 9.

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 About this time

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 next year I will return

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 and Sarah

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 shall have a son.

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 The promise

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 is re-given

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 and then in Genesis

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 21.12

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 it says

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 through Isaac

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 shall your offspring

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 be named.

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 And the point

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 that he's making

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 is that it's not

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 Abraham's lineage,

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 it's not just

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 that they came

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 from his flesh

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 that makes them blessed,

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 but it's the promise

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 that God gave

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 that makes them blessed.

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 Verse 8.

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 This means

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 it is not the children

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 of the flesh

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 who are children of God

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 but the children

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 of the promise

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 are counted

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 as offspring.

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 So you have

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 Ishmael.

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 You know who

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 the descendants

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 of Ishmael are?

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 The whole Arab nation.

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 She doesn't exclude

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 them from the gospel

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 but that is the direction

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 that that lineage

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 took off in.

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 In many ways

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 God blessed Ishmael

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 as an offspring

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 of Abraham

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 gave him lands

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 helped him thrive

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 but the promise

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 was for Isaac.

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 Verse 10.

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 And not only so

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 but also when Rebecca

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 had conceived

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 children by one man

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 our forefather Isaac

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 so Rebecca

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 is Isaac's wife

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 twins

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 she had twins

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 she conceived

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 children

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 though they were

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 not yet born

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 and had done nothing

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 either good or bad

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 in order that

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 God's purpose

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 of election

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 might continue

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 not because of works

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 but because of him

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 who calls

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 she was told

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 the older

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 will serve the younger

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 as it is written

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 Jacob I loved

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 but Esau I hated.

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 So Rebecca's

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 pregnant with twins

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 and in this time

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 there was great

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 favor

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 on the first born.

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 So someone pregnant

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 with twin boys

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 although we'd say

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 they're

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 the same age

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 in this case

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 Esau

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 was born first

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 and Jacob

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 was clinging

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 to his heel

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 remember the story

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 when they were born

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 the same time

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 they came out

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 together

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 but Esau

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 culturally

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 was the favored one

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 Esau was the one

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 that should have

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 gotten the blessing

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 of his father

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 Esau was the one

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 that should have

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 inherited

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 his father's lands

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 and then Jacob

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 was just to serve

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 the eldest brother

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 the work here

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 that Esau

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 would have done

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 his work

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 that would have

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 merited him

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 all this favor

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 was that he was

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 born first

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 which we know

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 isn't actually

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 a work of Esau

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 but that would have

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 been the thing

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 credited to him

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 to be the favored one

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 but what does God say

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 the older

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 will serve the younger

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 and then Jacob

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 I have loved

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 but Esau

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 I hated

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 for either of them

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 had done anything

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 good or bad

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 we'll talk about

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 that verse

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 in just a bit

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 we'll frame it

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 in its context

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 so you can see

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 that it is

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 God

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 who acts

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 and not

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 man

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 I want you to

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 hone in on a little

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 phrase

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 in verse 11

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 in order

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 that God's purpose

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 of election

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 might continue

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 not because of works

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 but because of him

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 who calls

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 and it brings us

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 to the doctrine

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 of election

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 we've been anticipating

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 in chapter 9

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 it's not the first time

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 it's been mentioned

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 in the book of Romans

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 upon a careful reading

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 it's introduced

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 in large part

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 in Romans 8

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 verse 29

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 for those whom he foreknew

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 he also predestined

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 to be conformed

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 to the image of his son

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 in order that he might

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 be the first foregone

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 among many brothers

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 and those whom he predestined

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 he also called

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 and those whom he called

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 he also justified

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 and those whom he justified

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 he also glorified

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 there's a sure confidence

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 in the act of God

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 when God decides

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 something will happen

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 it happens

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 God plans the ends

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 and he works the means

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 to see that

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 come to reality

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 and he's expounding

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 here for us now

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 what does that mean

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 what is election

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 and simply

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 election is an act of God

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 before creation

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 in which he chooses

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 a people

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 for salvation

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 not on account

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 of any foreseen merit

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 in them

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 but only because

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 of his sovereign

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 good pleasure

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 this is

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 a biblical reality

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 it will make your head

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 spin

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 I promise

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 it will cause you

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 to question

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 many things

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 we know to be true

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 of God

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 but it is taught

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 in the scriptures

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 now with it comes

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 all kinds

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 of controversy

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 throughout the ages

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 this has been a much

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 debated doctrine

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 and I'll say to you

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 that by and large

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 those who have held

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 to the doctrine

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 of election

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 have won

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 that debate

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 you begin to study

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 church history

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 and you will see

00:16:20.740 --> 00:16:21.980
 that the overarching

00:16:21.980 --> 00:16:23.180
 understanding

00:16:23.180 --> 00:16:24.620
 of this doctrine

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 is that it's true

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 and it's biblical

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 it's very clearly

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 taught

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 but still

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 much dissension

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 has existed

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 around this

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 not because of the doctrine

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 we don't ever blame

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 the doctrine

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 for that

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 because men

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 don't hold dear

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 to the scriptures

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 men want to apply

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 their own understanding

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 their own wisdom

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 and their own logic

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 to debate

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 this issue

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 there have been

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 many labels

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 that have been put on

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 people who believe

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 these things

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 Calvinists

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 Reform

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 that's the famous

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 one right now

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 and I would say

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 to you

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 coming to a

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 new place

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 in my life

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 that we should

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 try

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 at all costs

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 to avoid

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 those kinds

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 of labels

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 often it's the

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 easy way to

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 communicate

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 what you may

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 believe about

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 a certain thing

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 but you know

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 that every label

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 in this world

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 comes with

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 all kinds

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 of baggage

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 you have to know

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 that not just

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 around this topic

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 but around

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 every other topic

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 in the world

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 that there is

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 somebody out there

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 tossing a rock

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 in the air

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 ready to hurl it

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 at the first person

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 who says

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 I am a

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 because they have

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 some idea

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 I had to practice

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 doing this by the way

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 to get this right

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 you can imagine

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 a rock right

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 they have some idea

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 that they do not

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 like about that

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 person

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 and when you take

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 the label

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 it all comes

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 with it

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 Chris and I

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 got in a conversation

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 with a man

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 who had a bag

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 of rocks

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 a couple of months

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 ago

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 I am glad

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 he took them

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 out one at a

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 time

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 and hurled

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 them at us

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 rather than

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 beating us

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 with a bag

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 he was

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 furious

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 at anyone

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 that might

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 say they are

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 reformed

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 and I think

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 that his

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 emotion

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 was justified

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 he had had

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 some experience

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 with some

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 young men

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 that really

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 frustrated him

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 and at one point

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 I had to say

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 you are not

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 mad at me

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 put down the rocks

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 let's have a

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 conversation

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 let's talk

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 this out

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 together

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 these things

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 come with

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 so

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 much

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 the doctrine

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 of election

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 has not

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 ever caused

00:18:38.480 --> 00:18:39.299
 any Christian

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 to live

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 one way

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 or necessarily

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 another

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 right

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 the

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 Calvinist

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 that you may

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 know

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 that's been

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 unloving

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 that's

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 tried to

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 shrub

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 these type

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 of doctrines

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 down your

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 throat

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 that has

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 been haughty

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 has been

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 arrogant

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 it's not

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 the fault

00:18:53.440 --> 00:18:53.740
 of the

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 doctrine

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 it's the

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 fault

00:18:55.100 --> 00:18:55.900
 of the

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 lack

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 of love

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 and compassion

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 in their

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 life

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 a couple

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 of weeks

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 ago

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 we talked

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 about the

00:19:00.380 --> 00:19:00.759
 danger

00:19:00.759 --> 00:19:01.180
 of

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 preaching

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 truth

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 but doing

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 so

00:19:03.779 --> 00:19:04.540
 without

00:19:04.540 --> 00:19:04.960
 love

00:19:04.960 --> 00:19:06.120
 and so

00:19:06.120 --> 00:19:06.720
 I'm saying

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 all this

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 because

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 what I

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 want you

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 to do

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 if you're

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 sitting

00:19:10.380 --> 00:19:10.920
 out there

00:19:10.920 --> 00:19:11.560
 is put

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 down

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 your

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 rocks

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 I love

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 Jesus

00:19:15.700 --> 00:19:16.080
 Christ

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 I love

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 the gospel

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 I

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 dearly

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 love

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 people

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 and I

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 want to

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 see

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 God's

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 kingdom

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 go rampant

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 throughout

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 the earth

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 I love

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 the scriptures

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 I think

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 that they

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 are sufficient

00:19:29.839 --> 00:19:30.659
 and inerrant

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 they're

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 complete

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 there's a

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 part of

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 me

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 that wants

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 to make

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 my own

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 little

00:19:36.599 --> 00:19:37.819
 theological

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 system

00:19:39.239 --> 00:19:40.239
 and then

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 do my

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 very best

00:19:41.479 --> 00:19:42.459
 to read

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 it into

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 the scripture

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 that's

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 called

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 isogesis

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 because I

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 can kind

00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:47.939
 of neaten

00:19:47.939 --> 00:19:48.259
 up the

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 package

00:19:48.779 --> 00:19:49.299
 in my

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 own

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 mind

00:19:49.959 --> 00:19:51.659
 what do

00:19:51.659 --> 00:19:52.059
 I do

00:19:52.059 --> 00:19:52.319
 when I

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 do

00:19:52.679 --> 00:19:52.940
 that

00:19:52.940 --> 00:19:53.139
 I

00:19:53.139 --> 00:19:53.519
 become

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 my

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 own

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 God

00:19:54.339 --> 00:19:56.259
 and what

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 I'm

00:19:56.399 --> 00:19:56.579
 really

00:19:56.579 --> 00:19:56.819
 doing

00:19:56.819 --> 00:19:56.960
 is

00:19:56.960 --> 00:19:57.359
 worshipping

00:19:57.359 --> 00:19:58.059
 myself

00:19:58.059 --> 00:19:58.980
 and I'm

00:19:58.980 --> 00:19:59.299
 taking the

00:19:59.299 --> 00:19:59.679
 revelation

00:19:59.679 --> 00:20:00.200
 of God

00:20:00.200 --> 00:20:00.960
 and I'm

00:20:00.960 --> 00:20:01.579
 patting myself

00:20:01.579 --> 00:20:01.819
 on the

00:20:01.819 --> 00:20:02.099
 back

00:20:02.099 --> 00:20:04.559
 I don't

00:20:04.559 --> 00:20:04.759
 want to

00:20:04.759 --> 00:20:05.179
 do that

00:20:05.179 --> 00:20:06.240
 I want

00:20:06.240 --> 00:20:06.440
 to be

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 humble

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 I want

00:20:07.599 --> 00:20:07.740
 to say

00:20:07.740 --> 00:20:08.379
 I am

00:20:08.379 --> 00:20:08.899
 a created

00:20:08.899 --> 00:20:09.259
 thing

00:20:09.259 --> 00:20:09.599
 and you

00:20:09.599 --> 00:20:09.859
 are the

00:20:09.859 --> 00:20:10.279
 creator

00:20:10.279 --> 00:20:11.359
 and if

00:20:11.359 --> 00:20:11.559
 you have

00:20:11.559 --> 00:20:11.960
 chosen to

00:20:11.960 --> 00:20:12.419
 reveal a

00:20:12.419 --> 00:20:12.779
 truth to

00:20:12.779 --> 00:20:12.919
 me

00:20:12.919 --> 00:20:13.319
 even though

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 it may

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 not

00:20:13.759 --> 00:20:14.159
 fully

00:20:14.159 --> 00:20:14.440
 make

00:20:14.440 --> 00:20:14.740
 sense

00:20:14.740 --> 00:20:15.019
 in my

00:20:15.019 --> 00:20:15.419
 thinking

00:20:15.419 --> 00:20:16.319
 and I

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 humbly

00:20:16.599 --> 00:20:16.619
!

00:20:16.619 --> 00:20:17.099
 submit to

00:20:17.099 --> 00:20:17.359
 that

00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:18.079
 and then I

00:20:18.079 --> 00:20:18.399
 ask

00:20:18.399 --> 00:20:19.039
 why?

00:20:19.259 --> 00:20:19.559
 why?

00:20:19.700 --> 00:20:20.019
 why are

00:20:20.019 --> 00:20:20.119
 you

00:20:20.119 --> 00:20:20.419
 teaching

00:20:20.419 --> 00:20:20.619
 me

00:20:20.619 --> 00:20:20.899
 this?

00:20:21.359 --> 00:20:21.859
 if this

00:20:21.859 --> 00:20:22.159
 is a

00:20:22.159 --> 00:20:22.579
 necessary

00:20:22.579 --> 00:20:22.919
 thing

00:20:22.919 --> 00:20:23.179
 for me

00:20:23.179 --> 00:20:23.299
 to

00:20:23.299 --> 00:20:23.679
 know

00:20:23.679 --> 00:20:25.220
 why?

00:20:26.220 --> 00:20:26.539
 did God

00:20:26.539 --> 00:20:26.819
 just get

00:20:26.819 --> 00:20:27.480
 carried away

00:20:27.480 --> 00:20:27.839
 and begin

00:20:27.839 --> 00:20:28.319
 writing?

00:20:30.059 --> 00:20:30.279
 and he's

00:20:30.279 --> 00:20:30.379
 like

00:20:30.379 --> 00:20:31.099
 that was

00:20:31.099 --> 00:20:31.619
 too much

00:20:31.619 --> 00:20:32.220
 I wish

00:20:32.220 --> 00:20:32.480
 I hadn't

00:20:32.480 --> 00:20:32.919
 said that

00:20:32.919 --> 00:20:33.720
 that's

00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:33.899
 going to

00:20:33.899 --> 00:20:34.059
 cause

00:20:34.059 --> 00:20:34.440
 all kinds

00:20:34.440 --> 00:20:34.879
 of issues

00:20:34.879 --> 00:20:35.659
 people are

00:20:35.659 --> 00:20:35.679
 going to

00:20:35.679 --> 00:20:35.940
 be so

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 totally

00:20:36.220 --> 00:20:36.599
 confused

00:20:36.599 --> 00:20:36.859
 about

00:20:36.859 --> 00:20:37.079
 that

00:20:37.079 --> 00:20:38.220
 if I

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 could

00:20:38.339 --> 00:20:38.519
 take

00:20:38.519 --> 00:20:38.619
 it

00:20:38.619 --> 00:20:38.839
 back

00:20:38.839 --> 00:20:39.119
 but it's

00:20:39.119 --> 00:20:39.279
 already

00:20:39.279 --> 00:20:39.419
 been

00:20:39.419 --> 00:20:39.679
 written

00:20:39.679 --> 00:20:40.099
 the

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 scrolls

00:20:40.440 --> 00:20:40.539
 have

00:20:40.539 --> 00:20:40.799
 been

00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:41.819
 reproduced

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 now the

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 printing

00:20:43.139 --> 00:20:43.399
 press

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 is

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 everywhere

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 he

00:20:45.119 --> 00:20:45.279
 didn't

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 do it

00:20:45.659 --> 00:20:46.940
 he knew

00:20:46.940 --> 00:20:47.039
!

00:20:47.039 --> 00:20:47.399
 exactly

00:20:47.400 --> 00:20:47.700
 what he

00:20:47.700 --> 00:20:47.820
 was

00:20:47.820 --> 00:20:48.100
 doing

00:20:48.100 --> 00:20:48.860
 when

00:20:48.860 --> 00:20:49.100
 he

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 had

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 the

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 writers

00:20:50.860 --> 00:20:50.980
 of

00:20:50.980 --> 00:20:51.080
 the

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 Bible

00:20:51.320 --> 00:20:51.759
 write

00:20:51.759 --> 00:20:52.240
 these

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 words

00:20:52.800 --> 00:20:54.019
 so

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 let's

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 be

00:20:56.560 --> 00:20:56.759
 humble

00:20:56.759 --> 00:20:57.160
 together

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 let me

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 give you

00:20:57.700 --> 00:20:58.000
 a great

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 example

00:20:58.400 --> 00:20:59.519
 it's a

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 really

00:20:59.660 --> 00:21:00.140
 famous

00:21:00.140 --> 00:21:01.200
 conversation

00:21:01.200 --> 00:21:01.660
 between

00:21:01.660 --> 00:21:02.740
 a man

00:21:02.740 --> 00:21:02.920
 named

00:21:02.920 --> 00:21:03.240
 Charles

00:21:03.240 --> 00:21:03.640
 Simeon

00:21:03.640 --> 00:21:04.259
 and

00:21:04.259 --> 00:21:04.500
 John

00:21:04.500 --> 00:21:04.800
 Wesley

00:21:04.800 --> 00:21:07.160
 Charles

00:21:07.160 --> 00:21:07.500
 Simeon

00:21:07.500 --> 00:21:08.220
 in

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 England

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 was the

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 leader

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 I hope

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 I'm

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 getting

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 this

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 right

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 of the

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 evangelical

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 movement

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 of the

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 Church

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 of England

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 so

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 here's

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 a man

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 passionate

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 about

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 evangelism

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 actually

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 working

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 to see

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 the

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 Church

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 of

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 England

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 become

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 evangelistic

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 in their

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 practice

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 and

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 John

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 Wesley

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 who

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 is

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 the

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 founder

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 of

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 Methodism

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 also

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 a

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 phenomenal

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 man

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 John

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 Wesley

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 said to be

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 the

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 prince

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 of

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 Armenians

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 those

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 who

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 would

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 reject

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 the

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 doctrine

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 of

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 election

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 although

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 he

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 really

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 didn't

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 but we'll

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 get into

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 that

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 later

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 Charles

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 Simeon

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 and

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 John

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 Wesley

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 were

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 being

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 pressed

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!

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 to debate

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 by

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 lots

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 and lots

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 of

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 us

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 the

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 unloving

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 those

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 who

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 really

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 want

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 to see

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 the

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 big

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 guys

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 beat up

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 on each

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 other

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 over

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 issues

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 like

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 this

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 and

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 here's

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 the

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 conversation

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 that they

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 had

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 as led

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 by

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 Charles

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 Simeon

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 Charles

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 Simeon

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 said

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 Wesley

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 A few questions.

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 Pray, sir, do you feel yourself a depraved creature,

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 so depraved that you would ever have thought of turning to God

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 if God had not first put it into your heart?

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 Wesley replied, yes, I do indeed.

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 Simeon said, and do you utterly despair of recommending yourself to God

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 by anything you can do,

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 and look for salvation solely through the blood and righteousness of Christ?

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 To which Wesley replied, yes, solely through Christ.

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 But, sir, supposing you were at first saved by Christ,

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 are you not somehow or other to save yourself afterwards by your own works?

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 Wesley said, no, I must be saved by Christ from first to last.

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 Allowing, then, that you were first turned by the grace of God,

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 are you not in some way or other to keep yourself by your own power?

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 Wesley simply said,

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 no.

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 What, then, are you to be upheld every hour and every moment by God

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 as much as an infant in its mother's arms?

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 Wesley said, yes, altogether.

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 And is all your hope and the grace and mercy of God

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 to preserve you unto his heavenly kingdom?

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 Wesley says, yes, I have no hope but in him.

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 To which Simeon concluded, then, sir, with your leave,

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 I will put up my dagger again.

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 For this is all my Calvinism.

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 This is my election, my justification by faith, my final perseverance.

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 It is in substance all that I hold and as I hold it.

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 And therefore, if you please,

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 instead of searching out terms and phrases to be a ground of contention between us,

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 we will cordially unite in those things wherein we agree.

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 To which Wesley responded, to this I add nothing.

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 And that was their great debate that everyone had pressed them to.

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 To see that really, both of them were Bible-believing men.

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 And they had been led astray in their framing of their argument.

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 And Simeon brought it together in such a beautiful way.

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 Do you believe?

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 Yes.

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 Do you believe?

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 Yes.

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 How about this?

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 Nope.

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 And they all, and they realized, really?

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 When it all came down to it,

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 they were right there on the same page together.

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 Now, these doctrines are important.

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 They should be talked about.

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 They should be taught.

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 But you have to recognize that most of the people that you encounter,

00:24:36.659 --> 00:24:40.799
 those of us in this room that may not fully embrace the doctrine of election,

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 we have so much more in common than those things that we have apart.

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 You know that?

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 That we're a pretty conservative denomination being Southern Baptists.

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 We're not debating things like the inerrancy of Scripture.

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 That's a blessing to us.

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 It's good that we're debating things that we can debate with Scripture.

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 That ultimately, we're all walking on a tightrope

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 between the sovereignty of God and the responsibility of man.

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 If I'm going to err, if our church is going to err,

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 we're going to tend to err off the sovereignty of God's side.

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 So, I usually balance like this.

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 If I'm going to fall, it's going to be to the sovereignty of God's side of things.

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 I'm going to neglect the teaching that we are, in fact, responsible for our actions.

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 If others are going to err, many of our Georgia Baptist pastors,

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 it's going to be to the other side.

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 And they're going to neglect teaching that God is, in fact, in control.

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 You are to act.

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 You are to work out your salvation with fear and trembling

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 because it's God at work in you to accomplish His goodwill.

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 They'll neglect that side.

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 Why is there so much contention around this?

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 I honestly don't know.

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 But I can tell you that one thing I see as a possibility

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 is that I get held on the tightrope

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 by those who don't embrace this doctrine in the way that I do.

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 Those men keep me from neglecting the teaching

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 that we are, in fact, responsible,

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 even though God is fully in control.

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 So, let's look at the Scriptures together.

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 I want to remind you, before we do that,

00:26:32.220 --> 00:26:34.940
 that Paul's discussion of this doctrine

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 as it relates to the Gentiles and to Israel

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 ends in chapter 11, beginning in verse 33.

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 He says,

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 Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom of knowledge of God!

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 How unsearchable are His judgments

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 and how inscrutable His ways!

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 For who has known the mind of the Lord

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 or who has been His counselor

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 or who has given a gift to Him

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 that He might be repaid?

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 For from Him and through Him and to Him

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 are all things.

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 To Him be glory forever.

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 Amen.

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 This is a great doxology.

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 And let's keep in mind that that's where He heads.

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 In His mind, as He's having a proper understanding of this

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 and He's pinning it down for us,

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 that's where He ends up.

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 He starts in the beginning of verse 9

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 with a lament over Israel,

00:27:16.940 --> 00:27:18.519
 His brethren according to the flesh,

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 those that He has a dear, dear heart for,

00:27:21.720 --> 00:27:22.539
 His nation.

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 But He ends in His understanding

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 by praising God

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 that He can't fully grasp

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 the height of God's wisdom and knowledge.

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 So let's recall that.

00:27:34.779 --> 00:27:35.359
 This week,

00:27:36.220 --> 00:27:38.119
 my dear mother shared with me

00:27:38.119 --> 00:27:39.759
 Job 26.14.

00:27:40.420 --> 00:27:40.980
 Job says,

00:27:40.980 --> 00:27:41.839
 Behold,

00:27:42.200 --> 00:27:44.660
 these are but the outskirts of His ways

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 and how small a whisper do we hear of Him

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 but the thunder of His power

00:27:49.779 --> 00:27:51.299
 who can understand.

00:27:52.240 --> 00:27:52.680
 Isn't that good?

00:27:53.079 --> 00:27:54.819
 These are but the outskirts of His ways

00:27:54.819 --> 00:27:57.400
 and how small a whisper do we hear of Him

00:27:57.400 --> 00:27:59.380
 but the thunder of His power

00:27:59.380 --> 00:28:00.960
 who can understand.

00:28:01.140 --> 00:28:03.039
 We are to understand

00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:05.039
 and know what God has given us

00:28:05.039 --> 00:28:06.400
 to understand and know

00:28:06.400 --> 00:28:07.779
 and accept it by faith.

00:28:07.779 --> 00:28:09.079
 Someday,

00:28:09.859 --> 00:28:10.740
 our minds are going to be

00:28:10.740 --> 00:28:11.879
 blown wide open.

00:28:13.000 --> 00:28:14.379
 So let's let the Scriptures speak.

00:28:15.579 --> 00:28:16.980
 John 6.44.

00:28:17.359 --> 00:28:17.619
 Actually,

00:28:17.779 --> 00:28:18.700
 turn there with me.

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 I want you to work with me through.

00:28:20.759 --> 00:28:22.160
 We're going to go in order

00:28:22.160 --> 00:28:23.099
 through the New Testament.

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 I have eight Scriptures for you.

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 Which is not the extent of the Scriptures

00:28:42.959 --> 00:28:44.659
 that speak to this topic.

00:28:45.240 --> 00:28:46.199
 John 6.44.

00:28:46.359 --> 00:28:47.159
 The words of Christ.

00:28:47.419 --> 00:28:48.459
 No one can come to me

00:28:48.459 --> 00:28:50.279
 unless the Father who sent me

00:28:50.279 --> 00:28:51.480
 draws him.

00:28:51.480 --> 00:28:53.099
 The Greek word draws

00:28:53.099 --> 00:28:56.140
 is more powerful in the Greek

00:28:56.140 --> 00:28:57.360
 than it is in English.

00:28:57.620 --> 00:29:00.039
 It means literally to drag off.

00:29:01.480 --> 00:29:03.319
 The picture is of us

00:29:03.319 --> 00:29:04.660
 clinging to sin.

00:29:05.799 --> 00:29:07.059
 Have you ever seen a child

00:29:07.059 --> 00:29:07.759
 throw a tantrum?

00:29:08.240 --> 00:29:09.380
 They don't want to go out the door

00:29:09.380 --> 00:29:10.099
 and you've seen that parent

00:29:10.099 --> 00:29:11.019
 that rather than just like

00:29:11.019 --> 00:29:12.319
 spanking them and dealing with it

00:29:12.319 --> 00:29:13.579
 plays the game

00:29:13.579 --> 00:29:14.960
 and drags them across the floor

00:29:14.960 --> 00:29:16.160
 and they're like clawing on the carpet.

00:29:16.759 --> 00:29:18.200
 That's the picture of this word.

00:29:18.200 --> 00:29:19.759
 That is the way that the Father

00:29:19.759 --> 00:29:21.519
 draws us to Christ.

00:29:21.980 --> 00:29:23.940
 We don't love him.

00:29:24.340 --> 00:29:25.640
 We love sin.

00:29:25.759 --> 00:29:27.240
 That is our natural inclination

00:29:27.240 --> 00:29:29.519
 before we are brought

00:29:29.519 --> 00:29:31.360
 to life in Christ.

00:29:32.380 --> 00:29:33.200
 No one can come to me

00:29:33.200 --> 00:29:34.759
 unless the Father who sent me

00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:35.319
 draws him.

00:29:36.039 --> 00:29:37.200
 In other Greek literature

00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:38.200
 that term is used

00:29:38.200 --> 00:29:39.960
 for the bringing of water up

00:29:39.960 --> 00:29:40.920
 from a well.

00:29:40.920 --> 00:29:44.320
 How does that happen?

00:29:44.500 --> 00:29:45.340
 Does the water willingly

00:29:45.340 --> 00:29:47.240
 climb up the side of the well?

00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:47.840
 Never.

00:29:48.800 --> 00:29:48.980
 Right?

00:29:49.420 --> 00:29:51.160
 Water is fully subjected

00:29:51.160 --> 00:29:52.539
 to the law of gravity.

00:29:53.640 --> 00:29:53.759
 Right?

00:29:54.060 --> 00:29:55.759
 That term there used

00:29:55.759 --> 00:29:57.960
 draw as a physical forcing

00:29:57.960 --> 00:29:59.120
 of something

00:29:59.120 --> 00:30:00.279
 to come to Christ.

00:30:01.259 --> 00:30:02.539
 John 15, 16.

00:30:06.560 --> 00:30:07.320
 Jesus says

00:30:07.320 --> 00:30:07.900
 and I don't know how

00:30:07.900 --> 00:30:09.080
 you can get more clear than this

00:30:09.080 --> 00:30:09.880
 but Jesus says

00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:11.360
 you did not choose me

00:30:11.360 --> 00:30:13.620
 but I chose you.

00:30:15.340 --> 00:30:16.160
 Do I have to

00:30:16.160 --> 00:30:17.680
 give commentary to that?

00:30:19.680 --> 00:30:21.020
 I didn't write this guys.

00:30:21.840 --> 00:30:23.480
 I don't have some special version.

00:30:24.240 --> 00:30:24.760
 Yours might read

00:30:24.760 --> 00:30:25.400
 slightly different

00:30:25.400 --> 00:30:26.680
 but it says the same thing.

00:30:27.340 --> 00:30:28.100
 Jesus says

00:30:28.100 --> 00:30:29.820
 you did not choose me

00:30:29.820 --> 00:30:31.820
 but I chose you.

00:30:33.820 --> 00:30:34.240
 Acts

00:30:34.240 --> 00:30:36.420
 13, 48.

00:30:38.420 --> 00:30:39.500
 Paul's in Antioch.

00:30:39.880 --> 00:30:40.980
 And he preaches

00:30:40.980 --> 00:30:43.960
 a beautiful sermon.

00:30:44.040 --> 00:30:44.600
 I would encourage you

00:30:44.600 --> 00:30:45.440
 to go through the book of Acts

00:30:45.440 --> 00:30:46.340
 and just read the sermons.

00:30:46.720 --> 00:30:47.440
 The times when

00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:48.720
 Paul and Stephen,

00:30:48.960 --> 00:30:49.960
 Peter are before people

00:30:49.960 --> 00:30:51.420
 and they're preaching the gospel.

00:30:52.400 --> 00:30:53.600
 And at the end of all that

00:30:53.600 --> 00:30:55.200
 it says in verse 48,

00:30:55.280 --> 00:30:55.840
 chapter 13,

00:30:55.960 --> 00:30:57.760
 as many as were appointed

00:30:57.760 --> 00:30:58.920
 to eternal life

00:30:58.920 --> 00:30:59.720
 believed.

00:31:01.580 --> 00:31:03.120
 Can we get around that language?

00:31:04.320 --> 00:31:05.600
 Those who were in this presence

00:31:05.600 --> 00:31:06.560
 who heard the preaching

00:31:06.560 --> 00:31:07.200
 of the gospel,

00:31:07.200 --> 00:31:08.559
 the word of God

00:31:08.559 --> 00:31:09.220
 went forth

00:31:09.220 --> 00:31:09.980
 and it accomplished

00:31:09.980 --> 00:31:10.480
 what?

00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:11.900
 Exactly

00:31:11.900 --> 00:31:13.240
 what it was intended

00:31:13.240 --> 00:31:14.620
 to accomplish.

00:31:15.380 --> 00:31:16.620
 As many as were appointed

00:31:16.620 --> 00:31:17.600
 to eternal life

00:31:17.600 --> 00:31:18.840
 believed.

00:31:20.340 --> 00:31:20.940
 Ephesians,

00:31:21.400 --> 00:31:22.480
 chapter 1,

00:31:23.100 --> 00:31:24.160
 verses 3 through 6.

00:31:24.160 --> 00:31:38.940
 Paul writes to the Ephesian

00:31:38.940 --> 00:31:39.580
 believers,

00:31:39.720 --> 00:31:40.420
 blessed be the God

00:31:40.420 --> 00:31:41.080
 and Father of our Lord

00:31:41.080 --> 00:31:41.620
 Jesus Christ

00:31:41.620 --> 00:31:42.340
 who has blessed us

00:31:42.340 --> 00:31:42.700
 in Christ

00:31:42.700 --> 00:31:43.900
 with every spiritual blessing

00:31:43.900 --> 00:31:44.740
 in the heavenly places

00:31:44.740 --> 00:31:46.500
 even as he chose us

00:31:46.500 --> 00:31:46.940
 in him

00:31:46.940 --> 00:31:47.740
 before the foundation

00:31:47.740 --> 00:31:48.920
 of the world

00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:50.019
 that we should be holy

00:31:50.019 --> 00:31:50.500
 and blameless

00:31:50.500 --> 00:31:51.100
 before him.

00:31:51.500 --> 00:31:52.620
 In love he predestined us

00:31:52.620 --> 00:31:53.500
 for adoption as a son

00:31:53.500 --> 00:31:54.220
 through Jesus Christ

00:31:54.220 --> 00:31:54.940
 according to the purpose

00:31:54.940 --> 00:31:55.500
 of his will

00:31:55.500 --> 00:31:56.420
 to the praise

00:31:56.420 --> 00:31:57.440
 of his glorious grace

00:31:57.440 --> 00:31:59.240
 with which he has blessed us

00:31:59.240 --> 00:32:00.440
 in the beloved.

00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:03.059
 I'm already here

00:32:03.059 --> 00:32:03.720
 so we're just going to do it.

00:32:03.779 --> 00:32:04.299
 It wasn't my plan.

00:32:04.500 --> 00:32:05.380
 About 2, 8, and 9.

00:32:07.920 --> 00:32:09.019
 Ephesians 2, 8, and 9.

00:32:09.279 --> 00:32:10.279
 For by grace you have been saved

00:32:10.279 --> 00:32:10.740
 through faith

00:32:10.740 --> 00:32:12.299
 and this is not your own doing.

00:32:12.400 --> 00:32:13.500
 Referring to the faith,

00:32:13.980 --> 00:32:15.019
 you'll hear arguments otherwise.

00:32:15.660 --> 00:32:16.140
 Through faith

00:32:16.140 --> 00:32:17.279
 and this is not your own doing.

00:32:17.559 --> 00:32:18.839
 It is the gift of God

00:32:18.839 --> 00:32:20.240
 not as a result of works

00:32:20.240 --> 00:32:22.119
 so that no one may boast.

00:32:22.119 --> 00:32:23.399
 All praise and honor

00:32:23.399 --> 00:32:25.439
 belongs to the one

00:32:25.439 --> 00:32:26.779
 who saves us.

00:32:27.819 --> 00:32:30.399
 1 Thessalonians 1, 4, and 5.

00:32:33.459 --> 00:32:34.699
 You can always turn right,

00:32:34.779 --> 00:32:35.199
 I promise.

00:32:35.419 --> 00:32:35.959
 I double checked.

00:32:37.679 --> 00:32:40.719
 1 Thessalonians 1, 4, and 5.

00:32:40.720 --> 00:32:52.480
 For we know,

00:32:52.940 --> 00:32:53.779
 brothers loved by God,

00:32:53.819 --> 00:32:54.860
 that he has chosen you

00:32:54.860 --> 00:32:57.539
 because our gospel came to you

00:32:57.539 --> 00:32:58.620
 not only in word

00:32:58.620 --> 00:32:59.799
 but also in power

00:32:59.799 --> 00:33:01.259
 and in the Holy Spirit

00:33:01.259 --> 00:33:03.420
 and with full conviction.

00:33:05.079 --> 00:33:06.740
 Paul writes to the Thessalonian believers,

00:33:06.740 --> 00:33:08.059
 brothers, we know

00:33:08.059 --> 00:33:10.140
 that you're brothers loved by God

00:33:10.140 --> 00:33:11.140
 and that he's chosen you.

00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:11.660
 Why?

00:33:12.220 --> 00:33:13.380
 Because the gospel came

00:33:13.380 --> 00:33:14.839
 with the power of God

00:33:14.839 --> 00:33:15.960
 not just in word

00:33:15.960 --> 00:33:17.740
 but with the Spirit

00:33:17.740 --> 00:33:19.079
 and with full conviction.

00:33:19.259 --> 00:33:20.059
 These people's lives

00:33:20.059 --> 00:33:21.900
 had been changed.

00:33:22.680 --> 00:33:23.799
 And Paul witnesses this

00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:25.059
 in Thessalonian believers

00:33:25.059 --> 00:33:26.180
 and what does he say?

00:33:26.579 --> 00:33:27.220
 We know,

00:33:28.059 --> 00:33:29.620
 brothers loved by God,

00:33:29.799 --> 00:33:30.819
 that he has chosen you.

00:33:31.480 --> 00:33:32.279
 It wouldn't have happened

00:33:32.279 --> 00:33:33.120
 otherwise.

00:33:33.119 --> 00:33:36.559
 2 Timothy 1, 9.

00:33:37.599 --> 00:33:38.459
 We're almost there.

00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:52.219
 He saved us

00:33:52.219 --> 00:33:53.119
 and called us

00:33:53.119 --> 00:33:54.059
 to a holy calling

00:33:54.059 --> 00:33:55.879
 not because of our works

00:33:55.879 --> 00:33:57.599
 but because of his own purpose

00:33:57.599 --> 00:33:58.319
 and grace

00:33:58.319 --> 00:34:00.059
 which he gave us in Christ

00:34:00.059 --> 00:34:01.699
 before the ages began.

00:34:03.119 --> 00:34:05.619
 1 Peter 1, 9.

00:34:06.379 --> 00:34:07.219
 Peter calls us,

00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:07.939
 you don't have to worry about this one,

00:34:08.000 --> 00:34:08.779
 Peter calls us

00:34:08.779 --> 00:34:10.299
 a chosen race.

00:34:12.739 --> 00:34:14.719
 Revelation 13, 8

00:34:14.719 --> 00:34:16.739
 speaks of what will happen

00:34:16.739 --> 00:34:17.380
 to those

00:34:17.380 --> 00:34:18.480
 whose names

00:34:18.480 --> 00:34:19.339
 have not been written

00:34:19.339 --> 00:34:20.440
 before the foundation

00:34:20.440 --> 00:34:20.960
 of the world

00:34:20.960 --> 00:34:21.920
 in the book of life

00:34:21.920 --> 00:34:22.539
 of the Lamb

00:34:22.539 --> 00:34:23.440
 who was slain.

00:34:23.519 --> 00:34:23.960
 Again,

00:34:24.579 --> 00:34:26.000
 in chapter 17, verse 8.

00:34:26.940 --> 00:34:28.940
 Speaks of the eternal destruction,

00:34:29.139 --> 00:34:30.039
 the praise of the beast

00:34:30.039 --> 00:34:30.880
 that will happen

00:34:30.880 --> 00:34:31.839
 to those whose names

00:34:31.840 --> 00:34:32.820
 were not written

00:34:32.820 --> 00:34:34.280
 in the book of life

00:34:34.280 --> 00:34:35.960
 before the foundation

00:34:35.960 --> 00:34:37.160
 of the world.

00:34:38.800 --> 00:34:39.320
 So,

00:34:39.640 --> 00:34:41.160
 many,

00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:42.519
 I have heard argue

00:34:42.519 --> 00:34:44.680
 that, yeah,

00:34:44.940 --> 00:34:45.400
 Peter,

00:34:45.820 --> 00:34:46.440
 or Paul,

00:34:46.860 --> 00:34:48.120
 seems to be a bit

00:34:48.120 --> 00:34:50.039
 Calvinistic.

00:34:50.360 --> 00:34:51.320
 He speaks a lot

00:34:51.320 --> 00:34:52.160
 of this doctrine

00:34:52.160 --> 00:34:52.680
 of election.

00:34:53.620 --> 00:34:54.900
 But what about Jesus?

00:34:55.539 --> 00:34:56.420
 You can find

00:34:56.420 --> 00:34:57.800
 his words in red.

00:34:57.800 --> 00:34:58.840
 That's what God will say.

00:34:58.840 --> 00:34:59.320
 Right?

00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:00.660
 We've got here

00:35:00.660 --> 00:35:02.100
 Jesus Christ.

00:35:02.300 --> 00:35:03.019
 We've got a record

00:35:03.019 --> 00:35:03.660
 of what's happening

00:35:03.660 --> 00:35:04.240
 in Acts.

00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:05.460
 We've got Paul writing

00:35:05.460 --> 00:35:05.880
 to a number

00:35:05.880 --> 00:35:06.360
 of the churches.

00:35:06.519 --> 00:35:07.160
 We have Peter.

00:35:07.760 --> 00:35:08.620
 We have John

00:35:08.620 --> 00:35:09.680
 who wrote the book

00:35:09.680 --> 00:35:10.200
 of Revelation.

00:35:11.940 --> 00:35:12.820
 You can't

00:35:12.820 --> 00:35:14.340
 embrace the doctrine

00:35:14.340 --> 00:35:14.660
 of election,

00:35:14.760 --> 00:35:15.620
 not understand it

00:35:15.620 --> 00:35:16.200
 necessarily,

00:35:16.579 --> 00:35:17.240
 but say,

00:35:17.420 --> 00:35:18.760
 the Bible teaches this.

00:35:19.460 --> 00:35:20.220
 Then you really

00:35:20.220 --> 00:35:21.579
 should at Matthew

00:35:21.579 --> 00:35:23.340
 tear it out,

00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:23.880
 throw it away.

00:35:23.880 --> 00:35:26.059
 And you know,

00:35:26.140 --> 00:35:26.519
 actually,

00:35:27.220 --> 00:35:29.880
 all of the New Testament

00:35:29.880 --> 00:35:31.700
 is in great way

00:35:31.700 --> 00:35:32.240
 commentary

00:35:32.240 --> 00:35:33.780
 of the Old Testament.

00:35:34.720 --> 00:35:35.480
 So why don't you

00:35:35.480 --> 00:35:35.920
 just go ahead

00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:36.680
 and take the entire

00:35:36.680 --> 00:35:37.700
 thing and toss it?

00:35:41.000 --> 00:35:42.160
 It doesn't mean

00:35:42.160 --> 00:35:43.019
 you have to be

00:35:43.019 --> 00:35:44.039
 comfortable with it.

00:35:44.559 --> 00:35:44.980
 Again,

00:35:45.099 --> 00:35:45.860
 you don't have to

00:35:45.860 --> 00:35:47.519
 fully grasp

00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:49.400
 how it works out

00:35:49.400 --> 00:35:50.220
 in daily living.

00:35:50.219 --> 00:35:52.179
 the fact that

00:35:52.179 --> 00:35:53.000
 God is sovereign

00:35:53.000 --> 00:35:53.519
 and completely

00:35:53.519 --> 00:35:54.019
 in control

00:35:54.019 --> 00:35:55.039
 over all things

00:35:55.039 --> 00:35:57.799
 and yet I experience

00:35:57.799 --> 00:35:59.319
 day-to-day choices.

00:36:00.199 --> 00:36:00.799
 Every day,

00:36:00.879 --> 00:36:01.719
 I experience that.

00:36:01.799 --> 00:36:03.179
 That's what I feel

00:36:03.179 --> 00:36:03.879
 to be true.

00:36:04.500 --> 00:36:05.099
 How do those things

00:36:05.099 --> 00:36:05.659
 interplay?

00:36:06.619 --> 00:36:07.239
 How is it that

00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:07.839
 I'm held fully

00:36:07.839 --> 00:36:08.639
 responsible for all

00:36:08.639 --> 00:36:09.179
 of my actions

00:36:09.179 --> 00:36:09.839
 yet God is

00:36:09.839 --> 00:36:10.799
 totally in control?

00:36:10.879 --> 00:36:11.759
 I don't know.

00:36:12.099 --> 00:36:12.919
 I don't know.

00:36:13.579 --> 00:36:14.459
 I would like to be

00:36:14.459 --> 00:36:15.399
 the wisest guy

00:36:15.399 --> 00:36:15.899
 and be able to

00:36:15.899 --> 00:36:17.319
 just lay it all out

00:36:17.319 --> 00:36:17.539
 for you.

00:36:17.639 --> 00:36:18.259
 Just have you

00:36:18.259 --> 00:36:19.339
 completely be able

00:36:19.339 --> 00:36:20.179
 to wrap your mind

00:36:20.179 --> 00:36:20.500
 around it.

00:36:20.759 --> 00:36:21.559
 Convince you

00:36:21.559 --> 00:36:22.799
 with my reason

00:36:22.799 --> 00:36:24.399
 that this is the case.

00:36:25.039 --> 00:36:25.879
 I can't.

00:36:26.639 --> 00:36:27.639
 I can't do it.

00:36:28.460 --> 00:36:29.619
 There's some gaps

00:36:29.619 --> 00:36:30.259
 in there.

00:36:30.839 --> 00:36:31.440
 But again,

00:36:32.199 --> 00:36:33.059
 rather than writing

00:36:33.059 --> 00:36:33.899
 my own

00:36:33.899 --> 00:36:36.159
 salvation plan

00:36:36.159 --> 00:36:37.480
 and then having

00:36:37.480 --> 00:36:38.440
 to hop around

00:36:38.440 --> 00:36:39.199
 in the scriptures

00:36:39.199 --> 00:36:40.399
 piecemeal together

00:36:40.399 --> 00:36:40.960
 little things

00:36:40.960 --> 00:36:41.619
 that I like

00:36:41.619 --> 00:36:42.179
 that support

00:36:42.179 --> 00:36:43.119
 my opinion

00:36:43.119 --> 00:36:44.159
 of things,

00:36:44.679 --> 00:36:46.259
 stand over God

00:36:46.259 --> 00:36:47.319
 and judge Him,

00:36:48.039 --> 00:36:48.639
 have Him play

00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:49.379
 my game

00:36:49.379 --> 00:36:50.480
 my way,

00:36:51.059 --> 00:36:52.019
 I would much

00:36:52.019 --> 00:36:52.359
 rather

00:36:52.359 --> 00:36:53.940
 be humble

00:36:53.940 --> 00:36:54.839
 and a bit

00:36:54.839 --> 00:36:55.339
 confused.

00:36:56.279 --> 00:36:57.299
 Put myself

00:36:57.299 --> 00:36:58.779
 as the creation

00:36:58.779 --> 00:37:00.199
 trying to understand

00:37:00.199 --> 00:37:01.239
 how it is

00:37:01.239 --> 00:37:01.739
 that God's

00:37:01.739 --> 00:37:02.339
 working out

00:37:02.339 --> 00:37:03.659
 His glorious

00:37:03.659 --> 00:37:04.519
 plan of salvation

00:37:04.519 --> 00:37:05.480
 in this earth

00:37:05.480 --> 00:37:06.500
 and why

00:37:06.500 --> 00:37:07.679
 I am any part

00:37:07.679 --> 00:37:08.000
 of it

00:37:08.000 --> 00:37:08.759
 at all.

00:37:10.519 --> 00:37:11.420
 I'll tell you,

00:37:11.519 --> 00:37:12.019
 you hang out

00:37:12.019 --> 00:37:12.500
 with us much,

00:37:12.539 --> 00:37:13.079
 you're going to hear us

00:37:13.079 --> 00:37:13.219
 say,

00:37:13.219 --> 00:37:14.139
 we do not

00:37:14.139 --> 00:37:15.559
 serve God's grace.

00:37:16.319 --> 00:37:17.579
 We fail to be grace.

00:37:17.839 --> 00:37:18.179
 We did.

00:37:18.879 --> 00:37:19.519
 We are

00:37:19.519 --> 00:37:21.199
 humble recipients

00:37:21.199 --> 00:37:22.359
 of God's work

00:37:22.359 --> 00:37:23.879
 in our lives.

00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:24.259
 So,

00:37:24.480 --> 00:37:25.480
 you ask the question,

00:37:26.819 --> 00:37:27.299
 why does

00:37:27.299 --> 00:37:28.579
 God's inspired word

00:37:28.579 --> 00:37:30.299
 make us privy

00:37:30.299 --> 00:37:31.399
 to God's

00:37:31.399 --> 00:37:31.899
 elective purpose?

00:37:32.019 --> 00:37:32.239
 Why?

00:37:32.339 --> 00:37:32.799
 What purpose

00:37:32.799 --> 00:37:33.399
 does it serve?

00:37:33.639 --> 00:37:34.599
 If it seems

00:37:34.599 --> 00:37:35.199
 that it serves

00:37:35.199 --> 00:37:37.059
 more harm

00:37:37.059 --> 00:37:37.819
 than good,

00:37:38.079 --> 00:37:38.899
 it seems

00:37:38.899 --> 00:37:40.119
 that this division

00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:41.059
 and these issues

00:37:41.059 --> 00:37:42.440
 are rooted

00:37:42.440 --> 00:37:43.319
 in this type

00:37:43.319 --> 00:37:43.819
 of teaching,

00:37:44.039 --> 00:37:44.420
 why?

00:37:46.179 --> 00:37:46.739
 It causes

00:37:46.739 --> 00:37:47.400
 confusion.

00:37:47.599 --> 00:37:47.980
 Why?

00:37:48.099 --> 00:37:48.480
 Why did

00:37:48.480 --> 00:37:49.819
 God do this?

00:37:51.819 --> 00:37:52.639
 How is it

00:37:52.639 --> 00:37:53.299
 practical?

00:37:53.559 --> 00:37:53.739
 Have you ever

00:37:53.739 --> 00:37:54.099
 heard the term

00:37:54.099 --> 00:37:55.039
 practical theology?

00:37:55.339 --> 00:37:56.639
 I despise it.

00:37:57.059 --> 00:37:58.019
 High theologians

00:37:58.019 --> 00:37:58.619
 talk about

00:37:58.619 --> 00:37:59.639
 practical theology.

00:37:59.799 --> 00:38:00.319
 All theology

00:38:00.319 --> 00:38:00.759
 is practical.

00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:01.900
 The study of God

00:38:01.900 --> 00:38:02.839
 has reality

00:38:02.839 --> 00:38:03.480
 for our lives

00:38:03.480 --> 00:38:04.639
 every single day.

00:38:04.719 --> 00:38:04.819
 So,

00:38:04.900 --> 00:38:06.099
 never buy the lie

00:38:06.099 --> 00:38:06.460
 that there are

00:38:06.460 --> 00:38:06.980
 some things

00:38:06.980 --> 00:38:07.839
 that are just to know

00:38:07.839 --> 00:38:09.279
 and there are

00:38:09.279 --> 00:38:09.679
 some things

00:38:09.679 --> 00:38:10.159
 that you know

00:38:10.159 --> 00:38:10.980
 so that you can do.

00:38:11.359 --> 00:38:11.899
 We know

00:38:11.899 --> 00:38:12.639
 so that we can

00:38:12.639 --> 00:38:13.359
 do,

00:38:14.199 --> 00:38:15.039
 think properly,

00:38:15.759 --> 00:38:16.539
 deal with emotions

00:38:16.539 --> 00:38:17.039
 properly.

00:38:18.139 --> 00:38:18.359
 So,

00:38:18.440 --> 00:38:19.019
 how is this

00:38:19.019 --> 00:38:19.440
 then

00:38:19.440 --> 00:38:21.299
 practical

00:38:21.299 --> 00:38:22.039
 for us?

00:38:22.079 --> 00:38:22.440
 And I have

00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:23.480
 three things

00:38:23.480 --> 00:38:23.759
 for you

00:38:23.759 --> 00:38:24.039
 and this is

00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:24.899
 going to

00:38:24.899 --> 00:38:25.339
 wrap us

00:38:25.339 --> 00:38:25.699
 to an end.

00:38:27.619 --> 00:38:28.319
 Three things

00:38:28.319 --> 00:38:28.519
 that the

00:38:28.519 --> 00:38:29.179
 doctrine of election

00:38:29.179 --> 00:38:29.919
 accomplishes

00:38:29.919 --> 00:38:31.619
 and was intended

00:38:31.619 --> 00:38:32.460
 to accomplish.

00:38:33.440 --> 00:38:33.839
 Firstly,

00:38:34.359 --> 00:38:35.159
 is to serve

00:38:35.159 --> 00:38:36.099
 as a comfort

00:38:36.099 --> 00:38:37.480
 to our souls.

00:38:38.539 --> 00:38:39.039
 It's where

00:38:39.039 --> 00:38:39.500
 we started

00:38:39.500 --> 00:38:40.039
 in Romans

00:38:40.039 --> 00:38:40.980
 chapter 8,

00:38:41.260 --> 00:38:41.880
 verse 28.

00:38:42.079 --> 00:38:42.539
 I think you guys

00:38:42.539 --> 00:38:42.940
 all know,

00:38:43.119 --> 00:38:43.519
 828,

00:38:43.739 --> 00:38:44.079
 and we know

00:38:44.079 --> 00:38:44.460
 that for those

00:38:44.460 --> 00:38:45.019
 who love God,

00:38:45.280 --> 00:38:45.880
 all things work

00:38:45.880 --> 00:38:46.460
 together for good

00:38:46.460 --> 00:38:47.079
 for those who

00:38:47.079 --> 00:38:47.500
 are called

00:38:47.500 --> 00:38:48.320
 according to

00:38:48.320 --> 00:38:48.760
 his purpose.

00:38:48.880 --> 00:38:49.260
 And then he

00:38:49.260 --> 00:38:50.300
 goes on

00:38:50.300 --> 00:38:50.920
 into his

00:38:50.920 --> 00:38:51.559
 explanation.

00:38:51.760 --> 00:38:52.000
 For those

00:38:52.000 --> 00:38:52.320
 he before

00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:52.500
 knew,

00:38:52.579 --> 00:38:52.820
 he also

00:38:52.820 --> 00:38:53.300
 predestined

00:38:53.300 --> 00:38:53.500
 to be

00:38:53.500 --> 00:38:53.980
 conformed

00:38:53.980 --> 00:38:54.639
 to the

00:38:54.639 --> 00:38:54.860
 image of

00:38:54.860 --> 00:38:55.300
 his son.

00:38:56.300 --> 00:38:57.139
 Because this

00:38:57.139 --> 00:38:58.219
 life is going

00:38:58.219 --> 00:38:58.699
 to be

00:38:58.699 --> 00:38:59.199
 difficult.

00:39:00.300 --> 00:39:00.840
 We are

00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:02.019
 going to

00:39:02.019 --> 00:39:02.460
 suffer.

00:39:03.659 --> 00:39:04.059
 Can you

00:39:04.059 --> 00:39:04.920
 imagine how

00:39:04.920 --> 00:39:05.599
 precious

00:39:05.599 --> 00:39:06.739
 the doctrine of

00:39:06.739 --> 00:39:07.239
 election would

00:39:07.239 --> 00:39:07.559
 have been

00:39:07.559 --> 00:39:08.699
 to first

00:39:08.699 --> 00:39:09.480
 century Jews?

00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:11.219
 Those who

00:39:11.219 --> 00:39:12.599
 were paraded

00:39:12.599 --> 00:39:13.219
 in Rome

00:39:13.219 --> 00:39:13.659
 into the

00:39:13.659 --> 00:39:14.279
 Colosseum

00:39:14.279 --> 00:39:14.860
 and fed

00:39:14.860 --> 00:39:15.360
 the lions.

00:39:16.000 --> 00:39:16.579
 Those who

00:39:16.579 --> 00:39:17.099
 were put on

00:39:17.099 --> 00:39:17.920
 stakes and

00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:18.900
 lit on fire

00:39:18.900 --> 00:39:19.480
 to light

00:39:19.480 --> 00:39:20.099
 Nero's

00:39:20.099 --> 00:39:20.880
 garden parties.

00:39:22.539 --> 00:39:23.759
 Those today

00:39:23.759 --> 00:39:24.820
 who when they

00:39:24.820 --> 00:39:25.659
 accept Christ,

00:39:26.199 --> 00:39:27.059
 they lose all

00:39:27.059 --> 00:39:27.559
 ties to their

00:39:27.559 --> 00:39:27.940
 family.

00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:28.759
 They may not

00:39:28.759 --> 00:39:29.159
 be able to

00:39:29.159 --> 00:39:29.460
 go to

00:39:29.460 --> 00:39:30.079
 university.

00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:31.299
 They may be

00:39:31.299 --> 00:39:31.779
 thrown in

00:39:31.779 --> 00:39:32.179
 prison.

00:39:32.179 --> 00:39:33.039
 They may be

00:39:33.039 --> 00:39:33.639
 killed.

00:39:33.759 --> 00:39:33.940
 Can you

00:39:33.940 --> 00:39:34.559
 imagine how

00:39:34.559 --> 00:39:35.759
 precious this

00:39:35.759 --> 00:39:36.599
 doctrine would

00:39:36.599 --> 00:39:37.099
 be to them?

00:39:37.159 --> 00:39:37.420
 But we're

00:39:37.420 --> 00:39:37.880
 all so

00:39:37.880 --> 00:39:38.519
 comfortable.

00:39:38.819 --> 00:39:39.000
 Right?

00:39:39.940 --> 00:39:40.400
 We don't

00:39:40.400 --> 00:39:40.779
 suffer.

00:39:41.239 --> 00:39:41.880
 We sit on

00:39:41.880 --> 00:39:42.539
 our couches

00:39:42.539 --> 00:39:43.159
 and we read

00:39:43.159 --> 00:39:43.679
 our Bibles

00:39:43.679 --> 00:39:44.059
 and say,

00:39:44.159 --> 00:39:44.539
 no, that's

00:39:44.539 --> 00:39:44.900
 not my

00:39:44.900 --> 00:39:45.239
 God.

00:39:46.759 --> 00:39:47.299
 It is

00:39:47.299 --> 00:39:47.819
 your God

00:39:47.819 --> 00:39:48.400
 and it's

00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:48.900
 for you

00:39:48.900 --> 00:39:49.319
 because you

00:39:49.319 --> 00:39:49.739
 begin to

00:39:49.739 --> 00:39:50.619
 live for

00:39:50.619 --> 00:39:51.339
 Christ.

00:39:51.900 --> 00:39:52.579
 You will

00:39:52.579 --> 00:39:53.079
 suffer.

00:39:54.339 --> 00:39:55.059
 You will

00:39:55.059 --> 00:39:56.059
 be persecuted.

00:39:56.739 --> 00:39:57.299
 Even in

00:39:57.299 --> 00:39:58.199
 this nation,

00:39:58.500 --> 00:39:59.219
 we begin to

00:39:59.219 --> 00:39:59.940
 put ourselves

00:39:59.940 --> 00:40:00.699
 out there

00:40:00.699 --> 00:40:01.759
 for him.

00:40:02.460 --> 00:40:02.940
 People are

00:40:02.940 --> 00:40:04.019
 not going

00:40:04.019 --> 00:40:04.819
 to like

00:40:04.819 --> 00:40:05.179
 us.

00:40:05.179 --> 00:40:07.619
 beyond that,

00:40:07.679 --> 00:40:08.059
 we suffer

00:40:08.059 --> 00:40:08.679
 physically.

00:40:09.399 --> 00:40:09.699
 I have

00:40:09.699 --> 00:40:10.480
 health issues.

00:40:10.639 --> 00:40:11.279
 That's part

00:40:11.279 --> 00:40:11.500
 of the

00:40:11.500 --> 00:40:11.919
 suffering

00:40:11.919 --> 00:40:12.599
 that's

00:40:12.599 --> 00:40:12.919
 included

00:40:12.919 --> 00:40:13.559
 in this.

00:40:14.859 --> 00:40:15.539
 And praise

00:40:15.539 --> 00:40:16.099
 God, I

00:40:16.099 --> 00:40:16.859
 know that

00:40:16.859 --> 00:40:17.579
 I am

00:40:17.579 --> 00:40:18.399
 his in

00:40:18.399 --> 00:40:18.779
 all the

00:40:18.779 --> 00:40:19.179
 things I'm

00:40:19.179 --> 00:40:19.679
 experiencing.

00:40:19.919 --> 00:40:20.219
 Everything

00:40:20.219 --> 00:40:20.619
 that goes

00:40:20.619 --> 00:40:20.879
 on in

00:40:20.879 --> 00:40:21.339
 my life,

00:40:21.879 --> 00:40:22.299
 internally,

00:40:22.719 --> 00:40:23.159
 externally,

00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:24.259
 are all

00:40:24.259 --> 00:40:24.879
 for my

00:40:24.879 --> 00:40:25.319
 good.

00:40:27.339 --> 00:40:27.859
 Further,

00:40:28.259 --> 00:40:28.919
 I am

00:40:28.919 --> 00:40:29.299
 fairly

00:40:29.299 --> 00:40:29.719
 wretched.

00:40:30.759 --> 00:40:31.739
 I sin

00:40:31.739 --> 00:40:32.319
 still.

00:40:32.440 --> 00:40:32.699
 I've been

00:40:32.699 --> 00:40:33.399
 delivered from

00:40:33.399 --> 00:40:34.059
 it and yet

00:40:34.059 --> 00:40:34.559
 I enslave

00:40:34.559 --> 00:40:35.139
 myself to

00:40:35.139 --> 00:40:35.340
 it.

00:40:35.739 --> 00:40:35.980
 Praise

00:40:35.980 --> 00:40:36.519
 God that

00:40:36.519 --> 00:40:37.239
 he's in

00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:38.259
 control of

00:40:38.259 --> 00:40:39.000
 my salvation.

00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:40.579
 That I

00:40:40.579 --> 00:40:41.000
 can't do

00:40:41.000 --> 00:40:42.599
 anything to

00:40:42.599 --> 00:40:43.739
 reject that.

00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:44.739
 I have

00:40:44.739 --> 00:40:45.340
 been bought.

00:40:45.599 --> 00:40:45.860
 I am

00:40:45.860 --> 00:40:47.059
 in him.

00:40:47.279 --> 00:40:47.639
 He holds

00:40:47.639 --> 00:40:48.139
 me firmly

00:40:48.139 --> 00:40:48.460
 in his

00:40:48.460 --> 00:40:48.719
 hand.

00:40:49.079 --> 00:40:50.380
 Nothing can

00:40:50.380 --> 00:40:50.679
 pluck me

00:40:50.679 --> 00:40:50.900
 out of

00:40:50.900 --> 00:40:51.400
 his hand,

00:40:52.199 --> 00:40:52.559
 even

00:40:52.559 --> 00:40:53.739
 myself.

00:40:55.079 --> 00:40:55.699
 John 10,

00:40:56.360 --> 00:40:57.539
 27-30,

00:40:58.039 --> 00:40:58.500
 Jesus says,

00:40:58.559 --> 00:40:58.900
 My sheep

00:40:58.900 --> 00:40:59.159
 hear my

00:40:59.159 --> 00:40:59.579
 voice and

00:40:59.579 --> 00:40:59.900
 I know

00:40:59.900 --> 00:41:00.360
 them and

00:41:00.360 --> 00:41:00.779
 they follow

00:41:00.779 --> 00:41:00.980
 me.

00:41:01.219 --> 00:41:01.679
 I give

00:41:01.679 --> 00:41:02.079
 them eternal

00:41:02.079 --> 00:41:02.639
 life and

00:41:02.639 --> 00:41:02.940
 they will

00:41:02.940 --> 00:41:03.659
 never perish.

00:41:03.659 --> 00:41:04.539
 No one

00:41:04.539 --> 00:41:05.019
 will snatch

00:41:05.019 --> 00:41:05.299
 them out

00:41:05.299 --> 00:41:05.500
 of my

00:41:05.500 --> 00:41:05.819
 hand.

00:41:06.159 --> 00:41:06.339
 My

00:41:06.339 --> 00:41:06.899
 father who

00:41:06.899 --> 00:41:07.219
 has given

00:41:07.219 --> 00:41:07.559
 them to

00:41:07.559 --> 00:41:07.920
 me is

00:41:07.920 --> 00:41:08.480
 greater than

00:41:08.480 --> 00:41:09.159
 all and

00:41:09.159 --> 00:41:09.879
 no one is

00:41:09.879 --> 00:41:10.239
 able to

00:41:10.239 --> 00:41:10.819
 snatch them

00:41:10.819 --> 00:41:11.199
 out of

00:41:11.199 --> 00:41:11.719
 the father's

00:41:11.719 --> 00:41:11.980
 hand.

00:41:12.399 --> 00:41:12.739
 I and

00:41:12.739 --> 00:41:13.219
 the father

00:41:13.219 --> 00:41:14.639
 are one.

00:41:16.539 --> 00:41:17.239
 The doctrine

00:41:17.239 --> 00:41:17.699
 of election

00:41:17.699 --> 00:41:18.899
 does that.

00:41:19.219 --> 00:41:20.219
 It serves

00:41:20.219 --> 00:41:20.739
 as a comfort

00:41:20.739 --> 00:41:21.599
 to our

00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:21.899
 souls.

00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:24.199
 Secondly,

00:41:25.000 --> 00:41:26.159
 it causes

00:41:26.159 --> 00:41:26.619
 us to

00:41:26.619 --> 00:41:27.699
 praise God.

00:41:27.799 --> 00:41:28.159
 Rightly

00:41:28.159 --> 00:41:28.599
 understood,

00:41:29.119 --> 00:41:29.699
 it causes

00:41:29.699 --> 00:41:30.519
 us to

00:41:30.519 --> 00:41:31.339
 praise God.

00:41:31.340 --> 00:41:34.760
 Malachi 1,

00:41:34.880 --> 00:41:35.220
 2,

00:41:35.260 --> 00:41:35.680
 and 3.

00:41:35.840 --> 00:41:36.260
 I told

00:41:36.260 --> 00:41:36.519
 you we

00:41:36.519 --> 00:41:37.000
 would talk

00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:37.539
 at least

00:41:37.539 --> 00:41:38.160
 in brief

00:41:38.160 --> 00:41:39.539
 about that

00:41:39.539 --> 00:41:40.079
 phrase at

00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:40.340
 the end

00:41:40.340 --> 00:41:40.920
 of verse

00:41:40.920 --> 00:41:41.380
 13,

00:41:41.539 --> 00:41:41.940
 Jacob I

00:41:41.940 --> 00:41:42.260
 loved,

00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:43.340
 but Esau

00:41:43.340 --> 00:41:43.760
 I hated.

00:41:44.640 --> 00:41:44.940
 Let's

00:41:44.940 --> 00:41:45.800
 understand the

00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:46.440
 context.

00:41:47.340 --> 00:41:47.940
 Malachi 1,

00:41:48.059 --> 00:41:48.180
 2,

00:41:48.240 --> 00:41:48.559
 and 3,

00:41:48.960 --> 00:41:49.620
 God says,

00:41:50.000 --> 00:41:50.300
 I have

00:41:50.300 --> 00:41:50.920
 loved you,

00:41:51.200 --> 00:41:51.539
 says the

00:41:51.539 --> 00:41:51.820
 Lord,

00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:52.760
 but you

00:41:52.760 --> 00:41:53.160
 say,

00:41:53.500 --> 00:41:54.000
 speaking to

00:41:54.000 --> 00:41:54.300
 Israel,

00:41:54.640 --> 00:41:55.120
 how have

00:41:55.120 --> 00:41:55.460
 you loved

00:41:55.460 --> 00:41:55.780
 us?

00:41:57.519 --> 00:41:58.160
 God says

00:41:58.160 --> 00:41:58.539
 to Israel,

00:41:58.680 --> 00:41:58.960
 I have

00:41:58.960 --> 00:41:59.559
 loved you.

00:42:00.280 --> 00:42:00.600
 And their

00:42:00.600 --> 00:42:01.200
 response is,

00:42:01.340 --> 00:42:03.300
 how have

00:42:03.300 --> 00:42:03.620
 you loved

00:42:03.620 --> 00:42:03.940
 us?

00:42:05.100 --> 00:42:05.400
 And he

00:42:05.400 --> 00:42:05.620
 said,

00:42:05.700 --> 00:42:06.100
 is not

00:42:06.100 --> 00:42:06.680
 Esau

00:42:06.680 --> 00:42:07.260
 Jacob's

00:42:07.260 --> 00:42:07.519
 brother?

00:42:08.200 --> 00:42:08.800
 By the

00:42:08.800 --> 00:42:09.140
 flesh,

00:42:09.320 --> 00:42:09.660
 descendants

00:42:09.660 --> 00:42:10.460
 together,

00:42:11.300 --> 00:42:11.760
 declares the

00:42:11.760 --> 00:42:11.940
 Lord,

00:42:12.019 --> 00:42:12.360
 yet I have

00:42:12.360 --> 00:42:12.600
 loved

00:42:12.600 --> 00:42:13.019
 Jacob,

00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:14.100
 but Esau

00:42:14.100 --> 00:42:14.519
 I have

00:42:14.519 --> 00:42:14.740
 hated.

00:42:14.880 --> 00:42:15.100
 I have

00:42:15.100 --> 00:42:15.620
 laid waste

00:42:15.620 --> 00:42:15.960
 his hill

00:42:15.960 --> 00:42:16.519
 country and

00:42:16.519 --> 00:42:16.900
 left his

00:42:16.900 --> 00:42:17.519
 heritage to

00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:18.519
 jackals of

00:42:18.519 --> 00:42:18.900
 the desert.

00:42:20.120 --> 00:42:20.740
 I have

00:42:20.740 --> 00:42:21.100
 loved you

00:42:21.100 --> 00:42:21.820
 by bestowing

00:42:21.820 --> 00:42:23.680
 blessing on

00:42:23.680 --> 00:42:24.780
 you who

00:42:24.780 --> 00:42:25.500
 did not

00:42:25.500 --> 00:42:26.700
 deserve it.

00:42:27.760 --> 00:42:28.320
 That's the

00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:28.820
 context.

00:42:28.820 --> 00:42:30.880
 to the

00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:31.760
 praise of

00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:31.880
 his

00:42:31.880 --> 00:42:32.260
 glorious

00:42:32.260 --> 00:42:32.880
 grace.

00:42:33.340 --> 00:42:33.620
 Ephesians

00:42:33.620 --> 00:42:33.880
 1,

00:42:33.940 --> 00:42:34.120
 5,

00:42:34.160 --> 00:42:34.460
 and 6

00:42:34.460 --> 00:42:34.700
 says,

00:42:34.780 --> 00:42:34.840
 he

00:42:34.840 --> 00:42:35.220
 predestined

00:42:35.220 --> 00:42:35.460
 us for

00:42:35.460 --> 00:42:35.800
 adoption

00:42:35.800 --> 00:42:36.140
 of sons

00:42:36.140 --> 00:42:36.300
 through

00:42:36.300 --> 00:42:36.480
 Jesus

00:42:36.480 --> 00:42:36.900
 Christ

00:42:36.900 --> 00:42:37.600
 according

00:42:37.600 --> 00:42:37.800
 to the

00:42:37.800 --> 00:42:38.000
 purpose

00:42:38.000 --> 00:42:38.240
 of his

00:42:38.240 --> 00:42:38.420
 will.

00:42:38.519 --> 00:42:38.740
 We read

00:42:38.740 --> 00:42:38.860
 this

00:42:38.860 --> 00:42:39.100
 earlier,

00:42:39.280 --> 00:42:39.640
 to the

00:42:39.640 --> 00:42:40.120
 praise

00:42:40.120 --> 00:42:40.420
 of his

00:42:40.420 --> 00:42:40.780
 glorious

00:42:40.780 --> 00:42:41.160
 grace,

00:42:41.420 --> 00:42:42.160
 with which

00:42:42.160 --> 00:42:42.800
 he has

00:42:42.800 --> 00:42:43.140
 blessed

00:42:43.140 --> 00:42:43.920
 us in

00:42:43.920 --> 00:42:44.039
 the

00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:44.320
 beloved.

00:42:45.600 --> 00:42:45.800
 To

00:42:45.800 --> 00:42:46.500
 cause

00:42:46.500 --> 00:42:47.460
 us

00:42:47.460 --> 00:42:48.400
 to

00:42:48.400 --> 00:42:48.740
 praise

00:42:48.740 --> 00:42:49.019
 him.

00:42:50.300 --> 00:42:50.740
 We

00:42:50.740 --> 00:42:51.140
 were in

00:42:51.140 --> 00:42:51.600
 1 Peter

00:42:51.600 --> 00:42:52.220
 1,

00:42:52.260 --> 00:42:52.440
 9.

00:42:52.500 --> 00:42:52.640
 I've

00:42:52.640 --> 00:42:52.800
 got to

00:42:52.800 --> 00:42:53.080
 go back

00:42:53.080 --> 00:42:53.280
 there.

00:42:54.780 --> 00:42:55.300
 Because I

00:42:55.300 --> 00:42:55.680
 didn't write

00:42:55.680 --> 00:42:55.960
 it down.

00:42:55.960 --> 00:42:57.159
 1 Peter

00:42:57.159 --> 00:42:57.360
 1,

00:42:57.380 --> 00:42:57.599
 9.

00:42:58.760 --> 00:42:59.159
 Peter

00:42:59.159 --> 00:42:59.420
 says,

00:42:59.500 --> 00:42:59.639
 you are

00:42:59.639 --> 00:43:00.099
 a chosen

00:43:00.099 --> 00:43:00.579
 race,

00:43:01.039 --> 00:43:01.699
 a royal

00:43:01.699 --> 00:43:02.380
 priesthood.

00:43:04.079 --> 00:43:04.500
 I'm

00:43:04.500 --> 00:43:04.659
 almost

00:43:04.659 --> 00:43:04.860
 there.

00:43:05.659 --> 00:43:05.860
 No,

00:43:05.980 --> 00:43:06.280
 not 1

00:43:06.280 --> 00:43:06.400
 Peter

00:43:06.400 --> 00:43:06.559
 1,

00:43:06.579 --> 00:43:06.720
 9.

00:43:07.159 --> 00:43:07.380
 2

00:43:07.380 --> 00:43:07.559
 Peter

00:43:07.559 --> 00:43:07.720
 1,

00:43:07.720 --> 00:43:07.880
 9.

00:43:08.260 --> 00:43:08.559
 Nope.

00:43:09.380 --> 00:43:09.599
 2,

00:43:09.659 --> 00:43:09.780
 9.

00:43:09.900 --> 00:43:10.000
 I'm

00:43:10.000 --> 00:43:10.159
 sorry.

00:43:11.280 --> 00:43:11.539
 But you

00:43:11.539 --> 00:43:11.760
 are a

00:43:11.760 --> 00:43:11.980
 chosen

00:43:11.980 --> 00:43:12.340
 race,

00:43:12.480 --> 00:43:12.840
 a royal

00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:13.400
 priesthood,

00:43:13.500 --> 00:43:13.880
 a holy

00:43:13.880 --> 00:43:14.260
 nation,

00:43:14.340 --> 00:43:14.639
 a people

00:43:14.639 --> 00:43:14.960
 for his

00:43:14.960 --> 00:43:15.119
 own

00:43:15.119 --> 00:43:15.559
 possession.

00:43:16.099 --> 00:43:16.360
 Why?

00:43:18.099 --> 00:43:18.679
 That you

00:43:18.679 --> 00:43:19.599
 may proclaim

00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:20.760
 the excellences

00:43:20.760 --> 00:43:21.280
 of him who

00:43:21.280 --> 00:43:21.900
 called you out

00:43:21.900 --> 00:43:22.420
 of darkness

00:43:22.420 --> 00:43:23.139
 into his

00:43:23.139 --> 00:43:23.440
 marvelous

00:43:23.440 --> 00:43:23.860
 light.

00:43:24.659 --> 00:43:25.599
 That we

00:43:25.599 --> 00:43:26.219
 might be

00:43:26.219 --> 00:43:27.380
 objects of

00:43:27.380 --> 00:43:28.860
 mercy so

00:43:28.860 --> 00:43:29.299
 that we

00:43:29.299 --> 00:43:29.940
 will make

00:43:29.940 --> 00:43:30.679
 God's

00:43:30.679 --> 00:43:31.139
 merciful

00:43:31.139 --> 00:43:31.839
 attributes

00:43:31.839 --> 00:43:32.940
 known to

00:43:32.940 --> 00:43:33.279
 the world.

00:43:35.500 --> 00:43:36.239
 Which brings

00:43:36.239 --> 00:43:36.579
 me to the

00:43:36.579 --> 00:43:36.839
 third.

00:43:39.139 --> 00:43:39.679
 Practical

00:43:39.679 --> 00:43:40.179
 reality,

00:43:40.420 --> 00:43:40.759
 the doctrine

00:43:40.759 --> 00:43:41.219
 of election.

00:43:42.059 --> 00:43:42.799
 The doctrine

00:43:42.799 --> 00:43:43.159
 of election

00:43:43.159 --> 00:43:44.380
 should encourage

00:43:44.380 --> 00:43:45.900
 us to

00:43:45.900 --> 00:43:46.539
 evangelism.

00:43:48.239 --> 00:43:49.000
 You hear me?

00:43:49.860 --> 00:43:50.599
 The doctrine

00:43:50.599 --> 00:43:50.980
 of election

00:43:50.980 --> 00:43:51.920
 should encourage

00:43:51.920 --> 00:43:53.239
 us to

00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:53.779
 evangelism.

00:43:53.780 --> 00:43:57.880
 the doctrine.

00:43:58.200 --> 00:43:58.760
 I'm

00:43:58.760 --> 00:43:58.940
 going to

00:43:58.940 --> 00:43:59.120
 do what

00:43:59.120 --> 00:43:59.320
 he wants

00:43:59.320 --> 00:43:59.580
 to do.

00:43:59.780 --> 00:43:59.920
 Why

00:43:59.920 --> 00:44:00.140
 should I

00:44:00.140 --> 00:44:00.380
 have any

00:44:00.380 --> 00:44:00.620
 part in

00:44:00.620 --> 00:44:00.800
 it?

00:44:02.760 --> 00:44:03.240
 It's a

00:44:03.240 --> 00:44:03.360
 good

00:44:03.360 --> 00:44:03.700
 objection.

00:44:03.880 --> 00:44:04.320
 I can

00:44:04.320 --> 00:44:04.640
 see the

00:44:04.640 --> 00:44:05.060
 logic in

00:44:05.060 --> 00:44:05.280
 that.

00:44:06.300 --> 00:44:06.560
 But in

00:44:06.560 --> 00:44:06.820
 fact,

00:44:06.880 --> 00:44:07.320
 it should

00:44:07.320 --> 00:44:08.400
 encourage

00:44:08.400 --> 00:44:09.580
 us to

00:44:09.580 --> 00:44:09.780
 it.

00:44:10.240 --> 00:44:10.800
 2 Timothy

00:44:10.800 --> 00:44:11.120
 2.

00:44:11.200 --> 00:44:11.420
 10.

00:44:11.519 --> 00:44:11.720
 Listen

00:44:11.720 --> 00:44:12.200
 carefully to

00:44:12.200 --> 00:44:12.540
 these words

00:44:12.540 --> 00:44:12.900
 of Paul.

00:44:13.519 --> 00:44:14.040
 He says,

00:44:14.120 --> 00:44:14.480
 after talking

00:44:14.480 --> 00:44:14.840
 about some

00:44:14.840 --> 00:44:15.540
 suffering he's

00:44:15.540 --> 00:44:15.840
 endured,

00:44:16.120 --> 00:44:16.360
 he says,

00:44:16.440 --> 00:44:16.700
 I endure

00:44:16.700 --> 00:44:17.480
 everything

00:44:17.480 --> 00:44:18.280
 for the

00:44:18.280 --> 00:44:19.140
 sake of

00:44:19.140 --> 00:44:19.760
 the elect,

00:44:20.140 --> 00:44:20.440
 that they

00:44:20.440 --> 00:44:21.120
 also may

00:44:21.120 --> 00:44:22.040
 obtain salvation

00:44:22.040 --> 00:44:22.580
 that is in

00:44:22.579 --> 00:44:23.139
 Christ Jesus

00:44:23.139 --> 00:44:23.639
 with eternal

00:44:23.639 --> 00:44:23.980
 glory.

00:44:24.539 --> 00:44:24.940
 So Paul

00:44:24.940 --> 00:44:25.139
 doesn't

00:44:25.139 --> 00:44:25.940
 neglect his

00:44:25.940 --> 00:44:27.139
 responsibility in

00:44:27.139 --> 00:44:27.739
 carrying the

00:44:27.739 --> 00:44:28.099
 gospel,

00:44:28.699 --> 00:44:29.139
 but Paul

00:44:29.139 --> 00:44:30.460
 recognizes that

00:44:30.460 --> 00:44:30.900
 he's the

00:44:30.900 --> 00:44:32.119
 means to

00:44:32.119 --> 00:44:32.639
 the end.

00:44:33.539 --> 00:44:33.920
 That he's

00:44:33.920 --> 00:44:34.400
 the tool

00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:35.340
 being used

00:44:35.340 --> 00:44:36.480
 to accomplish

00:44:36.480 --> 00:44:37.380
 God's

00:44:37.380 --> 00:44:37.719
 purpose.

00:44:37.840 --> 00:44:38.099
 So he

00:44:38.099 --> 00:44:38.779
 endures the

00:44:38.779 --> 00:44:39.699
 suffering so

00:44:39.699 --> 00:44:40.139
 that he

00:44:40.139 --> 00:44:40.920
 can be

00:44:40.920 --> 00:44:42.360
 involved in

00:44:42.360 --> 00:44:43.059
 that process.

00:44:44.559 --> 00:44:45.139
 Why does

00:44:45.139 --> 00:44:45.619
 God not just

00:44:45.619 --> 00:44:45.980
 snap his

00:44:45.980 --> 00:44:46.319
 fingers,

00:44:47.659 --> 00:44:48.199
 save those

00:44:48.199 --> 00:44:48.460
 he's going

00:44:48.460 --> 00:44:48.779
 to save,

00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:49.139
 leave the

00:44:49.139 --> 00:44:49.639
 others behind,

00:44:49.940 --> 00:44:50.440
 done deal?

00:44:50.440 --> 00:44:51.599
 Because he

00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:51.900
 loves his

00:44:51.900 --> 00:44:52.200
 people.

00:44:52.920 --> 00:44:53.340
 And he

00:44:53.340 --> 00:44:54.059
 wants us

00:44:54.059 --> 00:44:54.460
 to proclaim

00:44:54.460 --> 00:44:54.920
 his name

00:44:54.920 --> 00:44:55.539
 because it's

00:44:55.539 --> 00:44:56.460
 good for

00:44:56.460 --> 00:44:57.039
 us.

00:44:57.880 --> 00:44:58.360
 It is a

00:44:58.360 --> 00:44:59.179
 great joy

00:44:59.179 --> 00:44:59.800
 to join

00:44:59.800 --> 00:45:00.760
 God in

00:45:00.760 --> 00:45:01.720
 his eternal

00:45:01.720 --> 00:45:02.559
 purpose.

00:45:05.559 --> 00:45:06.240
 Let me

00:45:06.240 --> 00:45:06.880
 speak from

00:45:06.880 --> 00:45:07.300
 history.

00:45:10.099 --> 00:45:10.740
 Many,

00:45:10.960 --> 00:45:12.320
 many great

00:45:12.320 --> 00:45:14.159
 men of

00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:14.599
 missions and

00:45:14.599 --> 00:45:15.200
 evangelism,

00:45:15.300 --> 00:45:15.920
 I would

00:45:15.920 --> 00:45:16.619
 argue some

00:45:16.619 --> 00:45:16.900
 of the

00:45:16.900 --> 00:45:17.840
 greatest men

00:45:17.840 --> 00:45:18.800
 of missions

00:45:18.800 --> 00:45:19.440
 and evangelism

00:45:19.440 --> 00:45:20.560
 held to

00:45:20.560 --> 00:45:20.840
 the doctrine

00:45:20.840 --> 00:45:21.260
 of election

00:45:21.260 --> 00:45:22.580
 not loosely,

00:45:22.740 --> 00:45:23.060
 they held

00:45:23.060 --> 00:45:23.380
 to it

00:45:23.380 --> 00:45:24.039
 tightly.

00:45:25.160 --> 00:45:25.360
 Let me

00:45:25.360 --> 00:45:25.640
 run through

00:45:25.640 --> 00:45:25.840
 a few

00:45:25.840 --> 00:45:25.980
 of them

00:45:25.980 --> 00:45:26.300
 for you.

00:45:27.680 --> 00:45:28.120
 Martin

00:45:28.120 --> 00:45:28.440
 Luther

00:45:28.440 --> 00:45:30.300
 catalyzed

00:45:30.300 --> 00:45:31.120
 the Protestant

00:45:31.120 --> 00:45:31.680
 Reformation,

00:45:33.160 --> 00:45:34.380
 so loved

00:45:34.380 --> 00:45:34.680
 the word

00:45:34.680 --> 00:45:35.140
 of God

00:45:35.140 --> 00:45:36.180
 that he

00:45:36.180 --> 00:45:37.560
 by himself

00:45:37.560 --> 00:45:38.140
 stood

00:45:38.140 --> 00:45:38.780
 against

00:45:38.780 --> 00:45:39.900
 the Catholic

00:45:39.900 --> 00:45:40.300
 Church,

00:45:41.240 --> 00:45:42.600
 loved the

00:45:42.600 --> 00:45:42.940
 doctrine of

00:45:42.940 --> 00:45:43.220
 election.

00:45:44.220 --> 00:45:44.820
 William Tyndale

00:45:44.820 --> 00:45:46.360
 translated the

00:45:46.360 --> 00:45:46.800
 first English

00:45:46.800 --> 00:45:47.920
 Bible in

00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:48.519
 its entirety

00:45:48.519 --> 00:45:49.579
 from the

00:45:49.579 --> 00:45:50.340
 original Hebrew

00:45:50.340 --> 00:45:51.119
 and Greek.

00:45:52.579 --> 00:45:53.180
 There was a

00:45:53.180 --> 00:45:53.460
 man that

00:45:53.460 --> 00:45:53.800
 wanted to

00:45:53.800 --> 00:45:54.059
 see the

00:45:54.059 --> 00:45:54.920
 gospel advance

00:45:54.920 --> 00:45:55.380
 through his

00:45:55.380 --> 00:45:55.720
 scriptures.

00:45:57.039 --> 00:45:57.840
 John Knox

00:45:57.840 --> 00:45:58.720
 led the

00:45:58.720 --> 00:45:59.000
 Protestant

00:45:59.000 --> 00:45:59.500
 Reformation

00:45:59.500 --> 00:46:00.559
 in Scotland.

00:46:01.200 --> 00:46:03.920
 George

00:46:03.920 --> 00:46:04.360
 Whitfield

00:46:04.360 --> 00:46:05.559
 is the

00:46:05.559 --> 00:46:06.039
 best-known

00:46:06.039 --> 00:46:06.700
 preacher of

00:46:06.700 --> 00:46:07.159
 the British

00:46:07.159 --> 00:46:07.700
 Great

00:46:07.700 --> 00:46:08.099
 Awakening.

00:46:09.680 --> 00:46:10.240
 Charles

00:46:10.240 --> 00:46:10.599
 Simeon,

00:46:10.659 --> 00:46:10.940
 we talked

00:46:10.940 --> 00:46:11.380
 about him

00:46:11.380 --> 00:46:11.820
 a bit

00:46:11.820 --> 00:46:12.099
 ago,

00:46:12.300 --> 00:46:12.619
 leader of

00:46:12.619 --> 00:46:12.700
 the

00:46:12.700 --> 00:46:13.159
 evangelical

00:46:13.159 --> 00:46:13.579
 movement

00:46:13.579 --> 00:46:13.920
 of the

00:46:13.920 --> 00:46:14.220
 Church of

00:46:14.220 --> 00:46:14.460
 England.

00:46:15.440 --> 00:46:15.800
 William

00:46:15.800 --> 00:46:16.840
 Carey was

00:46:16.840 --> 00:46:17.180
 a Baptist

00:46:17.179 --> 00:46:17.819
 missionary to

00:46:17.819 --> 00:46:18.159
 India,

00:46:18.319 --> 00:46:18.819
 and he

00:46:18.819 --> 00:46:19.379
 founded the

00:46:19.379 --> 00:46:19.639
 Baptist

00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:20.099
 Missionary

00:46:20.099 --> 00:46:20.639
 Society.

00:46:22.239 --> 00:46:22.619
 Adoniram

00:46:22.619 --> 00:46:23.059
 Judson,

00:46:23.319 --> 00:46:24.099
 the first

00:46:24.099 --> 00:46:25.940
 international

00:46:25.940 --> 00:46:26.759
 missionary sent

00:46:26.759 --> 00:46:27.440
 from North

00:46:27.440 --> 00:46:27.859
 America.

00:46:28.659 --> 00:46:29.139
 Good fact

00:46:29.139 --> 00:46:29.599
 for you who

00:46:29.599 --> 00:46:29.960
 want to be

00:46:29.960 --> 00:46:31.000
 international

00:46:31.000 --> 00:46:31.440
 missionaries.

00:46:32.139 --> 00:46:32.500
 He's a

00:46:32.500 --> 00:46:32.719
 Baptist

00:46:32.719 --> 00:46:33.139
 missionary,

00:46:33.559 --> 00:46:33.779
 and he

00:46:33.779 --> 00:46:34.279
 went and

00:46:34.279 --> 00:46:34.699
 served in

00:46:34.699 --> 00:46:36.440
 Burma for

00:46:36.440 --> 00:46:37.179
 40 years.

00:46:38.319 --> 00:46:38.779
 John G.

00:46:38.859 --> 00:46:39.179
 Patton,

00:46:39.719 --> 00:46:40.500
 one of my

00:46:40.500 --> 00:46:40.980
 favorites,

00:46:41.559 --> 00:46:42.279
 from Scotland

00:46:42.279 --> 00:46:42.699
 also,

00:46:43.059 --> 00:46:43.599
 went and

00:46:43.599 --> 00:46:44.000
 served in

00:46:44.000 --> 00:46:44.519
 the New

00:46:44.519 --> 00:46:45.099
 Hebrides,

00:46:45.440 --> 00:46:46.099
 a group of

00:46:46.099 --> 00:46:46.500
 islands now

00:46:46.500 --> 00:46:46.760
 called

00:46:46.760 --> 00:46:47.300
 Vanuatu,

00:46:48.260 --> 00:46:48.860
 cannibals.

00:46:49.260 --> 00:46:49.559
 He lived

00:46:49.559 --> 00:46:50.179
 for three

00:46:50.179 --> 00:46:50.599
 years on

00:46:50.599 --> 00:46:50.900
 an island

00:46:50.900 --> 00:46:51.239
 and saw

00:46:51.239 --> 00:46:52.099
 one convert,

00:46:52.519 --> 00:46:52.719
 and the

00:46:52.719 --> 00:46:54.260
 entire time

00:46:54.260 --> 00:46:54.820
 he was in

00:46:54.820 --> 00:46:55.320
 danger of

00:46:55.320 --> 00:46:55.719
 being killed

00:46:55.719 --> 00:46:56.019
 and eaten.

00:46:57.159 --> 00:46:58.320
 He left

00:46:58.320 --> 00:46:59.199
 and came

00:46:59.199 --> 00:47:00.119
 back and

00:47:00.119 --> 00:47:00.420
 saw the

00:47:00.420 --> 00:47:00.940
 whole island

00:47:00.940 --> 00:47:01.559
 converted to

00:47:01.559 --> 00:47:01.880
 Christ.

00:47:03.340 --> 00:47:03.980
 When he

00:47:03.980 --> 00:47:04.739
 first got

00:47:04.739 --> 00:47:05.059
 there,

00:47:05.400 --> 00:47:06.139
 his wife

00:47:06.139 --> 00:47:07.179
 of two

00:47:07.179 --> 00:47:08.000
 years and

00:47:08.000 --> 00:47:08.460
 his newborn

00:47:08.460 --> 00:47:09.260
 son both

00:47:09.260 --> 00:47:10.480
 died of

00:47:10.480 --> 00:47:11.340
 a disease,

00:47:12.039 --> 00:47:12.340
 and he

00:47:12.340 --> 00:47:12.739
 stayed and

00:47:12.739 --> 00:47:13.219
 he served,

00:47:13.860 --> 00:47:14.920
 held dearly

00:47:14.920 --> 00:47:15.860
 the

00:47:15.860 --> 00:47:16.240
 doctrine of

00:47:16.240 --> 00:47:16.539
 election.

00:47:17.639 --> 00:47:17.900
 William

00:47:17.900 --> 00:47:18.380
 Wilberforce,

00:47:18.900 --> 00:47:19.559
 familiar with

00:47:19.559 --> 00:47:19.920
 him?

00:47:20.099 --> 00:47:20.400
 He gets

00:47:20.400 --> 00:47:20.780
 talked about

00:47:20.780 --> 00:47:21.119
 a lot here

00:47:21.119 --> 00:47:21.340
 lately.

00:47:21.940 --> 00:47:22.159
 He's the

00:47:22.159 --> 00:47:22.320
 British

00:47:22.320 --> 00:47:22.980
 politician that

00:47:22.980 --> 00:47:23.420
 spent his

00:47:23.420 --> 00:47:24.680
 life ending

00:47:24.680 --> 00:47:25.059
 the English

00:47:25.059 --> 00:47:25.500
 slave trade.

00:47:26.300 --> 00:47:26.720
 Untold

00:47:26.720 --> 00:47:27.980
 thousands of

00:47:27.980 --> 00:47:29.220
 people owe

00:47:29.220 --> 00:47:29.700
 their life to

00:47:29.700 --> 00:47:30.400
 William Wilberforce,

00:47:31.079 --> 00:47:31.860
 and he endured

00:47:31.860 --> 00:47:33.460
 the lifelong

00:47:33.460 --> 00:47:34.360
 struggle to

00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:34.760
 end that

00:47:34.760 --> 00:47:35.180
 slave trade

00:47:35.180 --> 00:47:35.579
 because he

00:47:35.579 --> 00:47:36.180
 knew God

00:47:36.180 --> 00:47:37.000
 was in

00:47:37.000 --> 00:47:37.320
 control.

00:47:38.639 --> 00:47:38.940
 John

00:47:38.940 --> 00:47:39.200
 Newton,

00:47:39.920 --> 00:47:41.519
 he was a

00:47:41.519 --> 00:47:42.099
 slave trader,

00:47:42.460 --> 00:47:42.920
 became an

00:47:42.920 --> 00:47:43.320
 Anglican

00:47:43.320 --> 00:47:43.639
 preacher.

00:47:43.639 --> 00:47:44.960
 He wrote

00:47:44.960 --> 00:47:45.639
 Amazing Grace.

00:47:45.940 --> 00:47:46.119
 You know

00:47:46.119 --> 00:47:47.059
 those precious

00:47:47.059 --> 00:47:47.599
 words that we

00:47:47.599 --> 00:47:48.359
 all sing with

00:47:48.359 --> 00:47:49.059
 such gusto,

00:47:49.779 --> 00:47:50.319
 written by a

00:47:50.319 --> 00:47:51.119
 guy that

00:47:51.119 --> 00:47:51.659
 believed in

00:47:51.659 --> 00:47:51.940
 the doctrine

00:47:51.940 --> 00:47:52.379
 of election,

00:47:52.619 --> 00:47:53.239
 when he

00:47:53.239 --> 00:47:54.420
 says Amazing

00:47:54.420 --> 00:47:54.819
 Grace?

00:47:55.980 --> 00:47:56.579
 That's what

00:47:56.579 --> 00:47:56.799
 he's talking

00:47:56.799 --> 00:47:57.039
 about.

00:48:00.599 --> 00:48:01.159
 Jonathan

00:48:01.159 --> 00:48:01.480
 Edwards,

00:48:01.940 --> 00:48:02.759
 was heralded

00:48:02.759 --> 00:48:03.019
 as the

00:48:03.019 --> 00:48:03.619
 greatest

00:48:03.619 --> 00:48:05.000
 theological

00:48:05.000 --> 00:48:05.480
 mind that

00:48:05.480 --> 00:48:05.920
 North America

00:48:05.920 --> 00:48:06.539
 has ever

00:48:06.539 --> 00:48:07.659
 produced,

00:48:08.019 --> 00:48:08.559
 and was a

00:48:08.559 --> 00:48:09.420
 key figure

00:48:09.420 --> 00:48:10.159
 in the

00:48:10.159 --> 00:48:10.699
 North American

00:48:10.699 --> 00:48:11.539
 Great Awakening.

00:48:11.539 --> 00:48:13.380
 a great

00:48:13.380 --> 00:48:14.119
 evangelist.

00:48:15.259 --> 00:48:16.179
 Charles Spurgeon,

00:48:17.139 --> 00:48:17.619
 the British

00:48:17.619 --> 00:48:17.960
 Baptist

00:48:17.960 --> 00:48:18.400
 preacher,

00:48:18.719 --> 00:48:19.420
 it's estimated

00:48:19.420 --> 00:48:19.880
 that he

00:48:19.880 --> 00:48:20.840
 preached to

00:48:20.840 --> 00:48:22.079
 10 million

00:48:22.079 --> 00:48:23.679
 plus people

00:48:23.679 --> 00:48:23.980
 in his

00:48:23.980 --> 00:48:24.639
 lifetime.

00:48:24.900 --> 00:48:25.820
 10 million

00:48:25.820 --> 00:48:26.679
 people.

00:48:27.300 --> 00:48:27.920
 And often

00:48:27.920 --> 00:48:28.440
 throughout his

00:48:28.440 --> 00:48:28.900
 life, he

00:48:28.900 --> 00:48:29.659
 preached 10

00:48:29.659 --> 00:48:30.259
 sermons a

00:48:30.259 --> 00:48:30.759
 week.

00:48:31.659 --> 00:48:32.500
 I barely

00:48:32.500 --> 00:48:32.980
 feel like I

00:48:32.980 --> 00:48:33.320
 get through

00:48:33.320 --> 00:48:34.119
 one every

00:48:34.119 --> 00:48:34.420
 week.

00:48:34.639 --> 00:48:34.980
 He preached

00:48:34.980 --> 00:48:36.239
 10 sermons

00:48:36.239 --> 00:48:37.300
 a week.

00:48:38.019 --> 00:48:38.639
 A man who

00:48:38.639 --> 00:48:39.900
 loved the

00:48:39.900 --> 00:48:40.320
 doctrine of

00:48:40.320 --> 00:48:40.599
 election.

00:48:40.599 --> 00:48:42.039
 And then

00:48:42.039 --> 00:48:42.639
 I've got to

00:48:42.639 --> 00:48:43.039
 tell you about

00:48:43.039 --> 00:48:43.559
 my favorite.

00:48:43.679 --> 00:48:43.920
 I'm going to

00:48:43.920 --> 00:48:44.339
 read you a

00:48:44.339 --> 00:48:44.900
 quote from

00:48:44.900 --> 00:48:45.119
 him.

00:48:46.119 --> 00:48:46.539
 George

00:48:46.539 --> 00:48:46.799
 Mueller.

00:48:47.019 --> 00:48:47.440
 If you get

00:48:47.440 --> 00:48:47.799
 to know me

00:48:47.799 --> 00:48:48.279
 much at

00:48:48.279 --> 00:48:48.739
 all, you

00:48:48.739 --> 00:48:48.960
 know that

00:48:48.960 --> 00:48:49.139
 George

00:48:49.139 --> 00:48:49.519
 Mueller is

00:48:49.519 --> 00:48:49.900
 one of my

00:48:49.900 --> 00:48:50.239
 heroes.

00:48:50.880 --> 00:48:51.259
 In the

00:48:51.259 --> 00:48:52.799
 earlier stages

00:48:52.799 --> 00:48:53.039
 of his

00:48:53.039 --> 00:48:53.519
 life, he

00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:54.239
 pastored a

00:48:54.239 --> 00:48:54.779
 church and

00:48:54.779 --> 00:48:55.920
 he had an

00:48:55.920 --> 00:48:56.380
 orphanage.

00:48:56.880 --> 00:48:57.139
 And throughout

00:48:57.139 --> 00:48:57.719
 his life,

00:48:58.339 --> 00:48:59.699
 was directly

00:48:59.699 --> 00:49:00.319
 and indirectly

00:49:00.319 --> 00:49:01.440
 involved with

00:49:01.440 --> 00:49:02.239
 caring for

00:49:02.239 --> 00:49:03.819
 10,000 or

00:49:03.819 --> 00:49:04.940
 more orphans

00:49:04.940 --> 00:49:05.420
 that came

00:49:05.420 --> 00:49:06.819
 through his

00:49:06.819 --> 00:49:07.099
 care.

00:49:08.019 --> 00:49:08.860
 He traveled

00:49:08.860 --> 00:49:09.519
 later in his

00:49:09.519 --> 00:49:10.460
 life over

00:49:10.460 --> 00:49:11.759
 200,000

00:49:11.759 --> 00:49:13.340
 miles preaching

00:49:13.340 --> 00:49:13.960
 and sharing

00:49:13.960 --> 00:49:14.440
 the gospel.

00:49:14.920 --> 00:49:15.219
 I guess the

00:49:15.219 --> 00:49:16.199
 orphanage was

00:49:16.199 --> 00:49:16.840
 running efficiently

00:49:16.840 --> 00:49:18.280
 and he took

00:49:18.280 --> 00:49:18.539
 off.

00:49:18.599 --> 00:49:18.920
 He traveled

00:49:18.920 --> 00:49:19.340
 around the

00:49:19.340 --> 00:49:19.679
 states.

00:49:20.900 --> 00:49:22.159
 200,000

00:49:22.159 --> 00:49:22.559
 miles.

00:49:23.619 --> 00:49:24.159
 He started a

00:49:24.159 --> 00:49:24.960
 missionary society

00:49:24.960 --> 00:49:25.639
 that supported

00:49:25.639 --> 00:49:27.400
 187 international

00:49:27.400 --> 00:49:28.320
 missionaries.

00:49:28.820 --> 00:49:29.400
 Hudson Taylor

00:49:29.400 --> 00:49:29.920
 being one of

00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:30.059
 them.

00:49:30.179 --> 00:49:30.599
 You guys are

00:49:30.599 --> 00:49:32.199
 missionary

00:49:32.199 --> 00:49:33.059
 historians.

00:49:33.179 --> 00:49:33.639
 Hudson Taylor

00:49:33.639 --> 00:49:35.059
 who worked in

00:49:35.059 --> 00:49:35.820
 China for many,

00:49:35.940 --> 00:49:36.360
 many years.

00:49:36.659 --> 00:49:37.179
 And when I say

00:49:37.179 --> 00:49:37.940
 supported, it

00:49:37.940 --> 00:49:38.400
 doesn't mean

00:49:38.400 --> 00:49:40.220
 that he wrote

00:49:40.220 --> 00:49:40.559
 a little bit

00:49:40.559 --> 00:49:41.079
 of money each

00:49:41.079 --> 00:49:41.880
 month and

00:49:41.880 --> 00:49:42.260
 it was part

00:49:42.260 --> 00:49:42.500
 of their

00:49:42.500 --> 00:49:42.900
 support.

00:49:43.599 --> 00:49:44.119
 His missionary

00:49:44.119 --> 00:49:45.300
 society fully

00:49:45.300 --> 00:49:47.480
 funded 187

00:49:47.480 --> 00:49:48.380
 missionaries

00:49:48.380 --> 00:49:49.400
 around the

00:49:49.400 --> 00:49:49.700
 world.

00:49:50.740 --> 00:49:51.940
 A phenomenal,

00:49:52.139 --> 00:49:52.920
 phenomenal

00:49:52.920 --> 00:49:55.880
 activist for

00:49:55.880 --> 00:49:56.200
 the kingdom

00:49:56.200 --> 00:49:56.700
 of God.

00:49:57.920 --> 00:49:58.420
 And I want

00:49:58.420 --> 00:49:58.780
 you to listen

00:49:58.780 --> 00:49:59.200
 to what he

00:49:59.200 --> 00:49:59.500
 wrote.

00:50:01.159 --> 00:50:01.740
 Many will

00:50:01.740 --> 00:50:02.119
 say in his

00:50:02.119 --> 00:50:03.000
 autobiography he

00:50:03.000 --> 00:50:03.880
 didn't write

00:50:03.880 --> 00:50:04.500
 an autobiography,

00:50:04.619 --> 00:50:05.800
 he journaled.

00:50:05.900 --> 00:50:06.320
 But he wrote

00:50:06.320 --> 00:50:06.679
 this.

00:50:06.679 --> 00:50:07.559
 He said,

00:50:07.799 --> 00:50:08.159
 Before this

00:50:08.159 --> 00:50:09.119
 period I

00:50:09.119 --> 00:50:09.359
 had been

00:50:09.359 --> 00:50:10.219
 much opposed

00:50:10.219 --> 00:50:10.579
 to the

00:50:10.579 --> 00:50:11.039
 doctrines of

00:50:11.039 --> 00:50:11.399
 election,

00:50:11.960 --> 00:50:12.419
 particular

00:50:12.419 --> 00:50:13.099
 redemption and

00:50:13.099 --> 00:50:13.739
 final preserving

00:50:13.739 --> 00:50:14.599
 grace, so

00:50:14.599 --> 00:50:15.960
 much so that

00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:16.399
 I called

00:50:16.399 --> 00:50:17.359
 election a

00:50:17.359 --> 00:50:18.079
 devilish

00:50:18.079 --> 00:50:18.579
 doctrine.

00:50:19.919 --> 00:50:20.599
 Some of

00:50:20.599 --> 00:50:20.859
 you sit

00:50:20.859 --> 00:50:21.440
 there that

00:50:21.440 --> 00:50:21.799
 way this

00:50:21.799 --> 00:50:22.079
 morning.

00:50:23.039 --> 00:50:23.339
 I called

00:50:23.339 --> 00:50:23.980
 election a

00:50:23.980 --> 00:50:24.319
 devilish

00:50:24.319 --> 00:50:24.639
 doctrine.

00:50:25.579 --> 00:50:26.019
 Before I

00:50:26.019 --> 00:50:26.259
 read on,

00:50:26.279 --> 00:50:26.519
 let me tell

00:50:26.519 --> 00:50:26.719
 you just

00:50:26.719 --> 00:50:27.099
 an interesting

00:50:27.099 --> 00:50:27.779
 side story

00:50:27.779 --> 00:50:28.819
 about him.

00:50:29.399 --> 00:50:30.079
 In a

00:50:30.079 --> 00:50:30.599
 gathering of

00:50:30.599 --> 00:50:31.000
 believers

00:50:31.000 --> 00:50:32.960
 sharing the

00:50:32.960 --> 00:50:33.639
 Bible, he

00:50:33.639 --> 00:50:35.339
 firmly supported

00:50:35.339 --> 00:50:36.599
 what is called

00:50:36.599 --> 00:50:37.360
 paedo-baptism,

00:50:37.440 --> 00:50:38.019
 the baptism of

00:50:38.019 --> 00:50:39.000
 infants, and

00:50:39.000 --> 00:50:40.679
 rejected credo-baptism,

00:50:40.799 --> 00:50:40.980
 which is

00:50:40.980 --> 00:50:41.759
 believer's baptism,

00:50:42.039 --> 00:50:42.960
 what we hold

00:50:42.960 --> 00:50:44.039
 to here.

00:50:45.500 --> 00:50:46.239
 Firmly supported

00:50:46.239 --> 00:50:46.880
 the one, rejected

00:50:46.880 --> 00:50:47.880
 the other, and

00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:49.480
 afterwards an

00:50:49.480 --> 00:50:50.860
 old lady, elderly

00:50:50.860 --> 00:50:51.619
 lady came up to

00:50:51.619 --> 00:50:52.139
 him and said,

00:50:52.519 --> 00:50:52.679
 Mr.

00:50:52.739 --> 00:50:53.159
 Mueller, I

00:50:53.159 --> 00:50:53.699
 would suggest

00:50:53.699 --> 00:50:54.679
 to you that

00:50:54.679 --> 00:50:55.279
 you not draw

00:50:55.279 --> 00:50:56.079
 opinions until

00:50:56.079 --> 00:50:56.860
 you have read

00:50:56.860 --> 00:50:57.420
 the scripture

00:50:57.420 --> 00:50:58.299
 concerning them

00:50:58.299 --> 00:50:58.880
 and walked

00:50:58.880 --> 00:50:59.139
 away.

00:50:59.139 --> 00:51:02.619
 and he was

00:51:02.619 --> 00:51:03.859
 so convicted,

00:51:04.299 --> 00:51:05.139
 really realized

00:51:05.139 --> 00:51:05.440
 that he

00:51:05.440 --> 00:51:06.539
 hadn't really

00:51:06.539 --> 00:51:07.139
 addressed the

00:51:07.139 --> 00:51:07.819
 scriptures on

00:51:07.819 --> 00:51:08.159
 the matter,

00:51:08.879 --> 00:51:09.659
 that he went

00:51:09.659 --> 00:51:10.259
 and he read

00:51:10.259 --> 00:51:11.059
 the whole New

00:51:11.059 --> 00:51:11.879
 Testament through

00:51:11.879 --> 00:51:13.359
 with that in

00:51:13.359 --> 00:51:14.460
 mind, baptism.

00:51:14.719 --> 00:51:15.059
 What does the

00:51:15.059 --> 00:51:16.059
 Bible teach about

00:51:16.059 --> 00:51:16.420
 baptism?

00:51:17.179 --> 00:51:17.819
 At the end of

00:51:17.819 --> 00:51:18.940
 that was

00:51:18.940 --> 00:51:19.819
 converted.

00:51:20.059 --> 00:51:20.699
 He then

00:51:20.699 --> 00:51:21.960
 believed in

00:51:21.960 --> 00:51:24.159
 credo-baptism,

00:51:24.440 --> 00:51:25.079
 in believer's

00:51:25.079 --> 00:51:25.480
 baptism.

00:51:25.480 --> 00:51:27.119
 Then he made

00:51:27.119 --> 00:51:28.039
 it a habit in

00:51:28.039 --> 00:51:29.260
 his life to

00:51:29.260 --> 00:51:29.880
 do that with

00:51:29.880 --> 00:51:30.619
 anything he

00:51:30.619 --> 00:51:31.119
 didn't have an

00:51:31.119 --> 00:51:31.639
 answer to.

00:51:32.360 --> 00:51:32.619
 Isn't that

00:51:32.619 --> 00:51:33.099
 phenomenal?

00:51:33.840 --> 00:51:34.440
 When it was an

00:51:34.440 --> 00:51:34.860
 issue that would

00:51:34.860 --> 00:51:35.039
 have been

00:51:35.039 --> 00:51:36.260
 addressed primarily

00:51:36.260 --> 00:51:36.599
 in New

00:51:36.599 --> 00:51:37.900
 Testament, he

00:51:37.900 --> 00:51:38.240
 would just read

00:51:38.240 --> 00:51:38.460
 the New

00:51:38.460 --> 00:51:38.940
 Testament, but

00:51:38.940 --> 00:51:39.179
 it was an

00:51:39.179 --> 00:51:39.599
 issue that was

00:51:39.599 --> 00:51:40.260
 addressed throughout

00:51:40.260 --> 00:51:40.619
 the scriptures,

00:51:40.719 --> 00:51:40.980
 he would read

00:51:40.980 --> 00:51:41.619
 the entire

00:51:41.619 --> 00:51:43.139
 Bible with

00:51:43.139 --> 00:51:44.659
 that topic in

00:51:44.659 --> 00:51:45.900
 mind to gain

00:51:45.900 --> 00:51:46.539
 an understanding

00:51:46.539 --> 00:51:46.940
 of it.

00:51:48.059 --> 00:51:48.740
 So here we

00:51:48.740 --> 00:51:48.900
 go.

00:51:49.440 --> 00:51:50.059
 I went to

00:51:50.059 --> 00:51:50.460
 the Word,

00:51:51.240 --> 00:51:51.820
 reading the

00:51:51.820 --> 00:51:52.219
 New Testament

00:51:52.219 --> 00:51:52.539
 from the

00:51:52.539 --> 00:51:52.960
 beginning with

00:51:52.960 --> 00:51:53.480
 a particular

00:51:53.480 --> 00:51:54.240
 reference to

00:51:54.240 --> 00:51:54.920
 these truths.

00:51:55.480 --> 00:51:56.059
 To my great

00:51:56.059 --> 00:51:56.780
 astonishment, I

00:51:56.780 --> 00:51:57.320
 found that the

00:51:57.320 --> 00:51:58.099
 passages which

00:51:58.099 --> 00:51:59.179
 speak decidedly

00:51:59.179 --> 00:52:00.099
 for election and

00:52:00.099 --> 00:52:00.820
 preserving grace

00:52:00.820 --> 00:52:01.980
 were about four

00:52:01.980 --> 00:52:02.780
 times as many as

00:52:02.780 --> 00:52:03.519
 those which speak

00:52:03.519 --> 00:52:04.760
 apparently against

00:52:04.760 --> 00:52:05.320
 these truths.

00:52:05.900 --> 00:52:06.659
 And even those

00:52:06.659 --> 00:52:07.480
 few, shortly

00:52:07.480 --> 00:52:08.500
 after, when I

00:52:08.500 --> 00:52:09.240
 had examined and

00:52:09.240 --> 00:52:09.820
 understood them,

00:52:09.920 --> 00:52:10.639
 served to confirm

00:52:10.639 --> 00:52:11.599
 me in the above

00:52:11.599 --> 00:52:12.159
 doctrines.

00:52:13.320 --> 00:52:14.260
 In the course of

00:52:14.260 --> 00:52:15.500
 time, it pleased

00:52:15.500 --> 00:52:16.320
 God then to show

00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:17.360
 to me the doctrines

00:52:17.360 --> 00:52:18.139
 of grace in a way

00:52:18.139 --> 00:52:18.980
 in which I had not

00:52:18.980 --> 00:52:19.960
 seen them before.

00:52:20.619 --> 00:52:21.619
 At first, I hated

00:52:21.619 --> 00:52:21.840
 them.

00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:23.380
 If this were true,

00:52:23.460 --> 00:52:24.159
 I could do nothing

00:52:24.159 --> 00:52:24.920
 at all in the

00:52:24.920 --> 00:52:25.420
 conversion of

00:52:25.420 --> 00:52:26.579
 sinners, as all

00:52:26.579 --> 00:52:27.159
 would depend on

00:52:27.159 --> 00:52:27.880
 God and on the

00:52:27.880 --> 00:52:28.320
 work of His

00:52:28.320 --> 00:52:28.619
 Spirit.

00:52:29.539 --> 00:52:30.099
 But when it

00:52:30.099 --> 00:52:30.740
 pleased God to

00:52:30.740 --> 00:52:31.440
 reveal these truths

00:52:31.440 --> 00:52:32.200
 to me, and my

00:52:32.200 --> 00:52:32.940
 heart was brought

00:52:32.940 --> 00:52:33.639
 to such a state

00:52:33.639 --> 00:52:34.460
 that I could say,

00:52:35.039 --> 00:52:36.019
 I am not only

00:52:36.019 --> 00:52:37.039
 content simply to

00:52:37.039 --> 00:52:38.139
 be a hammer, an

00:52:38.139 --> 00:52:39.420
 axe, or a saw in

00:52:39.420 --> 00:52:40.860
 God's hands, but I

00:52:40.860 --> 00:52:41.659
 shall count it an

00:52:41.659 --> 00:52:42.519
 honor to be taken

00:52:42.519 --> 00:52:43.500
 up and used by

00:52:43.500 --> 00:52:44.680
 Him in any way.

00:52:45.400 --> 00:52:45.900
 And if sinners

00:52:45.900 --> 00:52:46.579
 are converted

00:52:46.579 --> 00:52:46.960
 through my

00:52:46.960 --> 00:52:48.139
 instrumentality, for

00:52:48.139 --> 00:52:49.400
 my inmost soul, I

00:52:49.400 --> 00:52:50.059
 will give Him all

00:52:50.059 --> 00:52:50.519
 the glory.

00:52:51.539 --> 00:52:51.980
 Catch what he

00:52:51.980 --> 00:52:52.220
 said.

00:52:52.440 --> 00:52:52.920
 When he came to

00:52:52.920 --> 00:52:53.320
 the place where

00:52:53.320 --> 00:52:53.820
 he could say,

00:52:54.260 --> 00:52:54.960
 not only am I

00:52:54.960 --> 00:52:56.119
 content to be a

00:52:56.119 --> 00:52:56.760
 tool in God's

00:52:56.760 --> 00:52:57.860
 hands, but I'm

00:52:57.860 --> 00:52:58.900
 also content with

00:52:58.900 --> 00:52:59.740
 whatever the outcome

00:52:59.740 --> 00:53:00.500
 of that may be.

00:53:01.800 --> 00:53:02.680
 When sinners are

00:53:02.680 --> 00:53:03.460
 converted, I will

00:53:03.460 --> 00:53:04.559
 give Him all the

00:53:04.559 --> 00:53:04.840
 glory.

00:53:05.559 --> 00:53:05.800
 That's what he

00:53:05.800 --> 00:53:06.119
 just said.

00:53:06.780 --> 00:53:07.440
 Then he says,

00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:09.059
 when he arrived at

00:53:09.059 --> 00:53:09.780
 that place, the

00:53:09.780 --> 00:53:11.519
 Lord gave me to

00:53:11.519 --> 00:53:12.079
 see fruit.

00:53:12.360 --> 00:53:13.180
 The Lord gave me to

00:53:13.180 --> 00:53:13.940
 see fruit in

00:53:13.940 --> 00:53:14.500
 abundance.

00:53:15.360 --> 00:53:15.840
 Sinners were

00:53:15.840 --> 00:53:16.579
 converted by

00:53:16.579 --> 00:53:17.240
 scores.

00:53:17.740 --> 00:53:18.639
 And ever since,

00:53:18.720 --> 00:53:19.639
 God has used me in

00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:20.900
 one way or other

00:53:20.900 --> 00:53:22.079
 in his service.

00:53:23.579 --> 00:53:25.299
 How precious the

00:53:25.299 --> 00:53:26.980
 doctrine of

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 election.

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 We're not going

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 to arrive at all

00:53:31.059 --> 00:53:31.679
 the answers in the

00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:32.119
 next couple of

00:53:32.119 --> 00:53:32.400
 weeks.

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 There are some

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 answers.

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 It is worth

00:53:36.859 --> 00:53:38.039
 wrestling with.

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 But at the end of

00:53:39.119 --> 00:53:39.739
 it all, you have to

00:53:39.739 --> 00:53:40.279
 decide if you're

00:53:40.279 --> 00:53:40.799
 going to be humble

00:53:40.799 --> 00:53:41.699
 and submit yourself

00:53:41.699 --> 00:53:43.179
 to the scriptures,

00:53:43.920 --> 00:53:44.699
 to the God who

00:53:44.699 --> 00:53:47.299
 wrote them, or if

00:53:47.299 --> 00:53:48.199
 you're going to be

00:53:48.199 --> 00:53:49.799
 arrogant, and

00:53:49.799 --> 00:53:50.480
 stand in judgment

00:53:50.480 --> 00:53:50.859
 of them.

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 And I know I'm

00:53:52.419 --> 00:53:53.139
 saying harsh things

00:53:53.139 --> 00:53:54.000
 to you, but it's

00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:54.279
 true.

00:53:55.279 --> 00:53:56.199
 The rest of chapter

00:53:56.199 --> 00:53:56.659
 nine.

00:53:57.559 --> 00:53:58.619
 Chapter nine has

00:53:58.619 --> 00:53:59.759
 within it twelve

00:53:59.759 --> 00:54:00.299
 Old Testament

00:54:00.299 --> 00:54:00.779
 quotes.

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 Twelve Old

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 Testament quotes.

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 Nine of them are

00:54:06.059 --> 00:54:07.980
 first person God

00:54:07.980 --> 00:54:08.339
 quotes.

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 So God wrote all

00:54:09.500 --> 00:54:10.480
 scripture inspired.

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 Nine of them,

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 though, are first

00:54:12.219 --> 00:54:13.799
 person record of

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 what God has to

00:54:14.399 --> 00:54:14.699
 say.

00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:15.579
 And what I

00:54:15.579 --> 00:54:16.899
 believe Paul is

00:54:16.899 --> 00:54:18.059
 saying to us when

00:54:18.059 --> 00:54:19.239
 we ask questions

00:54:19.239 --> 00:54:20.639
 that the scriptures

00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:21.699
 don't answer is,

00:54:22.059 --> 00:54:23.099
 be quiet.

00:54:24.559 --> 00:54:25.500
 Who are you,

00:54:25.860 --> 00:54:26.380
 oh man?

00:54:26.980 --> 00:54:27.539
 Who do you think

00:54:27.539 --> 00:54:27.960
 you are?

00:54:28.059 --> 00:54:28.360
 That's what he's

00:54:28.360 --> 00:54:29.059
 saying in our

00:54:29.059 --> 00:54:29.559
 language.

00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:30.239
 Who do you think

00:54:30.239 --> 00:54:31.019
 you are to ask

00:54:31.019 --> 00:54:31.599
 such questions of

00:54:31.599 --> 00:54:31.820
 God?

00:54:32.699 --> 00:54:33.239
 Look what he said

00:54:33.239 --> 00:54:34.059
 here, and here,

00:54:34.179 --> 00:54:34.779
 and here, and

00:54:34.779 --> 00:54:34.980
 here.

00:54:36.239 --> 00:54:36.880
 That is the

00:54:36.880 --> 00:54:37.259
 reality.

00:54:38.159 --> 00:54:39.299
 I pray that as a

00:54:39.299 --> 00:54:40.000
 church, and you

00:54:40.000 --> 00:54:40.639
 as individuals,

00:54:40.799 --> 00:54:42.159
 will embrace the

00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:42.659
 doctrines of

00:54:42.659 --> 00:54:44.119
 scripture, including

00:54:44.119 --> 00:54:44.860
 the doctrine of

00:54:44.860 --> 00:54:45.639
 election, and see

00:54:45.639 --> 00:54:46.559
 how it serves your

00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:47.119
 good.

00:54:47.119 --> 00:54:48.500
 you'll see that

00:54:48.500 --> 00:54:50.460
 it compels you to

00:54:50.460 --> 00:54:50.960
 have a soul

00:54:50.960 --> 00:54:51.799
 satisfied in

00:54:51.799 --> 00:54:52.239
 Christ.

00:54:53.119 --> 00:54:54.420
 It helps you

00:54:54.420 --> 00:54:56.079
 bear up under

00:54:56.079 --> 00:54:56.539
 suffering.

00:54:58.159 --> 00:54:59.119
 I pray you give

00:54:59.119 --> 00:55:00.440
 great praise to

00:55:00.440 --> 00:55:01.960
 God for his work,

00:55:02.099 --> 00:55:02.539
 because you can't

00:55:02.539 --> 00:55:03.119
 take any credit

00:55:03.119 --> 00:55:03.579
 for it.

00:55:05.059 --> 00:55:05.839
 And I pray that

00:55:05.839 --> 00:55:07.440
 it moves you to

00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:08.500
 evangelism, that

00:55:08.500 --> 00:55:10.079
 you become radical,

00:55:10.199 --> 00:55:11.420
 because you know

00:55:11.420 --> 00:55:12.519
 that the outcome

00:55:12.519 --> 00:55:13.960
 is in God's

00:55:13.960 --> 00:55:14.299
 hands.

00:55:14.300 --> 00:55:15.820
 I started

00:55:15.820 --> 00:55:17.240
 hunting this

00:55:17.240 --> 00:55:17.440
 year.

00:55:18.720 --> 00:55:19.420
 I bought my

00:55:19.420 --> 00:55:20.060
 first camouflage

00:55:20.060 --> 00:55:20.880
 hat this past

00:55:20.880 --> 00:55:21.519
 week, which is

00:55:21.519 --> 00:55:23.340
 really kind of

00:55:23.340 --> 00:55:23.640
 odd.

00:55:25.160 --> 00:55:25.980
 But Wes took

00:55:25.980 --> 00:55:27.539
 me rifle hunting,

00:55:27.740 --> 00:55:28.620
 we saw nothing,

00:55:28.680 --> 00:55:29.200
 last year,

00:55:29.400 --> 00:55:30.460
 twice, and I

00:55:30.460 --> 00:55:30.920
 decided I'm going

00:55:30.920 --> 00:55:31.340
 to be a bow

00:55:31.340 --> 00:55:31.519
 hunter.

00:55:31.720 --> 00:55:32.100
 So I've been

00:55:32.100 --> 00:55:32.700
 working on that.

00:55:32.780 --> 00:55:33.000
 And this

00:55:33.000 --> 00:55:33.620
 Saturday, both

00:55:33.620 --> 00:55:34.240
 season opened

00:55:34.240 --> 00:55:34.840
 up, and so I

00:55:34.840 --> 00:55:35.460
 went out and

00:55:35.460 --> 00:55:36.940
 killed my hopes

00:55:36.940 --> 00:55:37.460
 and nothing

00:55:37.460 --> 00:55:37.720
 else.

00:55:37.800 --> 00:55:39.480
 It was kind

00:55:39.480 --> 00:55:39.860
 of a boring

00:55:39.860 --> 00:55:40.740
 time, but

00:55:40.740 --> 00:55:42.159
 there's no

00:55:42.159 --> 00:55:44.280
 guarantee at

00:55:44.280 --> 00:55:45.360
 all that I'm

00:55:45.360 --> 00:55:45.860
 going to shoot

00:55:45.860 --> 00:55:46.559
 a deer this

00:55:46.559 --> 00:55:46.760
 year.

00:55:47.619 --> 00:55:48.699
 None, whatsoever.

00:55:49.280 --> 00:55:49.840
 Some things I

00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:50.179
 can do to

00:55:50.179 --> 00:55:50.820
 prepare for it,

00:55:50.880 --> 00:55:52.039
 there's a bit

00:55:52.039 --> 00:55:52.659
 of a science

00:55:52.659 --> 00:55:53.420
 to it, but

00:55:53.420 --> 00:55:54.599
 there's zero,

00:55:54.780 --> 00:55:55.420
 zero guarantee.

00:55:55.760 --> 00:55:56.059
 And I've

00:55:56.059 --> 00:55:56.579
 already said,

00:55:57.280 --> 00:55:57.639
 let's see how

00:55:57.639 --> 00:55:58.099
 long I stick

00:55:58.099 --> 00:55:58.760
 with this, because

00:55:58.760 --> 00:55:59.240
 if this just

00:55:59.240 --> 00:55:59.800
 keeps happening

00:55:59.800 --> 00:56:00.719
 and I go sit

00:56:00.719 --> 00:56:01.199
 in the woods

00:56:01.199 --> 00:56:02.079
 beginning at

00:56:02.079 --> 00:56:03.019
 six o'clock in

00:56:03.019 --> 00:56:03.440
 the morning for

00:56:03.440 --> 00:56:04.019
 three hours and

00:56:04.019 --> 00:56:04.619
 nothing happens,

00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:06.039
 I may not be a

00:56:06.039 --> 00:56:06.260
 hunter.

00:56:06.500 --> 00:56:07.139
 It may not be

00:56:07.139 --> 00:56:08.900
 my hobby of

00:56:08.900 --> 00:56:09.240
 choice.

00:56:10.019 --> 00:56:11.280
 But what if

00:56:11.280 --> 00:56:11.679
 God had said

00:56:11.679 --> 00:56:12.920
 to me, oh

00:56:12.920 --> 00:56:13.280
 no, you're

00:56:13.280 --> 00:56:13.559
 going to kill

00:56:13.559 --> 00:56:13.840
 stuff.

00:56:15.619 --> 00:56:16.280
 You do it the

00:56:16.280 --> 00:56:16.800
 way I told you

00:56:16.800 --> 00:56:17.800
 to do it, I'm

00:56:17.800 --> 00:56:18.320
 in control.

00:56:18.579 --> 00:56:18.920
 They're coming

00:56:18.920 --> 00:56:19.659
 your way, I

00:56:19.659 --> 00:56:20.139
 promise.

00:56:20.740 --> 00:56:21.179
 They're coming

00:56:21.179 --> 00:56:21.519
 by.

00:56:22.119 --> 00:56:23.360
 I intend for

00:56:23.360 --> 00:56:24.519
 you to kill

00:56:24.519 --> 00:56:24.719
 deer.

00:56:25.679 --> 00:56:26.320
 I'd go every

00:56:26.320 --> 00:56:26.639
 time.

00:56:27.599 --> 00:56:28.199
 Not that every

00:56:28.199 --> 00:56:29.619
 time I go, there

00:56:29.619 --> 00:56:30.139
 would be a deer,

00:56:30.460 --> 00:56:31.219
 but you know

00:56:31.219 --> 00:56:31.579
 what I would do?

00:56:31.659 --> 00:56:32.000
 I'd say, well,

00:56:32.619 --> 00:56:33.079
 God did not

00:56:33.079 --> 00:56:33.559
 intend for me to

00:56:33.559 --> 00:56:33.840
 kill a deer

00:56:33.840 --> 00:56:34.240
 this day.

00:56:35.400 --> 00:56:36.139
 But next time

00:56:36.139 --> 00:56:37.119
 I go, maybe

00:56:37.119 --> 00:56:37.860
 that day I

00:56:37.860 --> 00:56:38.059
 will.

00:56:38.059 --> 00:56:41.079
 the doctrine

00:56:41.079 --> 00:56:41.519
 of election.

00:56:42.779 --> 00:56:43.639
 Get out and

00:56:43.639 --> 00:56:43.980
 share your

00:56:43.980 --> 00:56:44.460
 faith.

00:56:45.000 --> 00:56:45.599
 Be the means

00:56:45.599 --> 00:56:46.239
 for the end.

00:56:47.659 --> 00:56:48.340
 He does it

00:56:48.340 --> 00:56:48.860
 for you.

00:56:49.519 --> 00:56:50.199
 He wants you

00:56:50.199 --> 00:56:50.820
 to be involved.

00:56:51.179 --> 00:56:51.619
 Sit on your

00:56:51.619 --> 00:56:52.079
 hands if you

00:56:52.079 --> 00:56:52.719
 want to and

00:56:52.719 --> 00:56:53.420
 deny yourself the

00:56:53.420 --> 00:56:54.679
 joy of advancing

00:56:54.679 --> 00:56:55.059
 the kingdom.

00:56:55.299 --> 00:56:55.599
 He'll use

00:56:55.599 --> 00:56:56.139
 someone else

00:56:56.139 --> 00:56:57.119
 because he

00:56:57.119 --> 00:56:58.279
 will accomplish

00:56:58.279 --> 00:56:59.299
 his eternal

00:56:59.299 --> 00:56:59.699
 purposes.

00:57:00.279 --> 00:57:00.899
 Let's pray

00:57:00.899 --> 00:57:01.199
 together.

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:01.819
 Let's pray

00:57:01.819 --> 00:57:01.199
 together.

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:01.819
 Let's pray

00:57:01.819 --> 00:57:01.199
 together.

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:01.819
 Let's pray

00:57:01.819 --> 00:57:01.199
 together.

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:01.819
 Let's pray

00:57:01.819 --> 00:57:01.199
 together.

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:01.819
 Let's pray

00:57:01.819 --> 00:57:01.199
 together.

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:01.819
 Let's pray

00:57:01.819 --> 00:57:01.199
 together.

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:01.819
 Let's pray

00:57:01.819 --> 00:57:01.199
 together.

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:01.819
 Let's pray

00:57:01.819 --> 00:57:01.199
 together.

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:01.819
 Let's pray

00:57:01.819 --> 00:57:01.199
 together.

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:01.819
 Let's pray

00:57:01.819 --> 00:57:01.199
 together.

00:57:01.199 --> 00:57:01.819
 Let's pray

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!

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 Let's pray

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!

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 Let's pray

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