1 00:00:04,066 --> 00:00:04,533 Thank you for 2 00:00:04,533 --> 00:00:07,533 the opportunity that Sean I had last week to be gone visiting our fam. 3 00:00:07,533 --> 00:00:09,533 We had a great time. 4 00:00:09,533 --> 00:00:12,533 I appreciate David being here and sharing. 5 00:00:12,766 --> 00:00:14,533 Most of chapter ten with us. 6 00:00:14,533 --> 00:00:15,233 It was good. 7 00:00:15,233 --> 00:00:18,233 But I want to ask you this question. 8 00:00:18,466 --> 00:00:21,233 What if you could know 9 00:00:21,233 --> 00:00:23,766 God's cosmic plan 10 00:00:23,766 --> 00:00:26,600 to save anybody who desire to be saved? 11 00:00:26,600 --> 00:00:29,400 Well, what if you could know 12 00:00:29,400 --> 00:00:33,266 how God chooses to respond to your disobedience? 13 00:00:34,366 --> 00:00:37,366 Well, like if you could know God's cosmic plan 14 00:00:38,533 --> 00:00:41,033 and how we respond to those who reject. 15 00:00:41,033 --> 00:00:42,933 Wouldn't that be amazing? 16 00:00:42,933 --> 00:00:46,200 If you could know not just his plan for your life, 17 00:00:46,200 --> 00:00:49,200 but his cosmic plan for you? 18 00:00:49,700 --> 00:00:52,533 Think about it. 19 00:00:52,533 --> 00:00:55,533 Chapters nine and ten. 20 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:56,500 Sorry. 21 00:00:56,500 --> 00:00:57,900 Nine through 11. 22 00:00:57,900 --> 00:01:02,500 Tell us about God's cosmic plan and how he responds. 23 00:01:03,866 --> 00:01:06,866 When people reject him and reject it. 24 00:01:08,400 --> 00:01:11,700 The entire book of Romans is divided into four sections 25 00:01:12,700 --> 00:01:15,700 the Wrath of God, chapters one, two, and three. 26 00:01:16,233 --> 00:01:17,400 The Grace of God. 27 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:20,400 The last part of three all the way through chapter eight. 28 00:01:20,666 --> 00:01:22,666 We just close that out. 29 00:01:22,666 --> 00:01:25,333 And the the last little series. 30 00:01:25,333 --> 00:01:28,333 And now we're in this section, 31 00:01:29,100 --> 00:01:32,533 about the plan of God, chapters nine, ten, 11. 32 00:01:33,566 --> 00:01:36,300 So so we're at the tail end of looking at God's plan. 33 00:01:36,300 --> 00:01:38,933 That's why I asked if you could know God's cosmic plan. 34 00:01:38,933 --> 00:01:40,500 Wouldn't that be awesome? 35 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:42,700 But we can. 36 00:01:42,700 --> 00:01:45,433 It's chapters nine, ten, 11. 37 00:01:45,433 --> 00:01:48,733 Next week we start the the fourth section of the Book of Romans, 38 00:01:48,866 --> 00:01:50,400 which is about the will. 39 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,166 So the wrath of God. 40 00:01:52,166 --> 00:01:54,266 The grace of God, the plan of God and the. 41 00:01:54,266 --> 00:01:55,366 And the will of God. 42 00:01:56,466 --> 00:01:57,166 Chapters 12 43 00:01:57,166 --> 00:02:00,166 through 16 where it gets super practical. 44 00:02:00,233 --> 00:02:03,333 But before we get to to when Paul says, look, this is 45 00:02:03,333 --> 00:02:06,333 how now how you live in light of all this stuff, 46 00:02:06,866 --> 00:02:09,866 we gotta finish out this one little section 47 00:02:10,266 --> 00:02:13,266 about the plan of God. 48 00:02:14,033 --> 00:02:16,900 Now, I want to encourage you with this, 49 00:02:16,900 --> 00:02:19,900 that God has a plan and you're part of it. 50 00:02:20,833 --> 00:02:22,833 So be encouraged. 51 00:02:22,833 --> 00:02:25,833 But be humble 52 00:02:25,833 --> 00:02:28,833 because God doesn't have to include you in it. 53 00:02:30,133 --> 00:02:31,166 So be encouraged. 54 00:02:31,166 --> 00:02:34,166 You're part of God's cosmic plan, but be humble 55 00:02:34,966 --> 00:02:37,966 because God doesn't have to let you be a part of it. 56 00:02:38,433 --> 00:02:41,433 You understand? 57 00:02:42,066 --> 00:02:45,066 The heartbeat of Romans. 58 00:02:46,566 --> 00:02:48,333 Is God's unstoppable 59 00:02:48,333 --> 00:02:51,400 plan to save sinners by grace through faith. 60 00:02:51,433 --> 00:02:53,633 That's the heartbeat of it. 61 00:02:53,633 --> 00:02:56,633 And I would add to that statement this 62 00:02:56,833 --> 00:03:00,600 our proper response as an act of worship and service. 63 00:03:01,333 --> 00:03:02,833 That's the heartbeat of Romans. 64 00:03:04,066 --> 00:03:07,333 His unstoppable plan to save anybody who needs saving. 65 00:03:07,900 --> 00:03:12,166 And once that happens, our response in serving 66 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,133 and giving our lives as an act of worship, that's the proper response. 67 00:03:16,133 --> 00:03:18,933 That's what Trump 316 is all about. 68 00:03:18,933 --> 00:03:22,200 Now, last week, David did a good job of introducing 69 00:03:22,200 --> 00:03:27,233 a Greek word that used four times in chapter ten, four times in 21 verses. 70 00:03:27,866 --> 00:03:31,566 It comes from the Greek word, the root word sozo, 71 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 which means salvation or to be saved. 72 00:03:35,366 --> 00:03:38,366 And the, the, the, the, 73 00:03:39,066 --> 00:03:42,500 the study of soteriology is the study of salvation. 74 00:03:42,766 --> 00:03:44,700 Who saved by what? 75 00:03:44,700 --> 00:03:46,833 Like what they're saved from? And by whom? 76 00:03:46,833 --> 00:03:47,833 Who does the saving? 77 00:03:47,833 --> 00:03:50,100 So that's the study of soteriology. 78 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:53,400 Salvation from the Greek word sozo. 79 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:59,066 In chapters nine talks about Israel's past 80 00:04:00,166 --> 00:04:01,533 and God's saving work. 81 00:04:01,533 --> 00:04:04,133 Chapter ten talks about Israel's present and what he does 82 00:04:04,133 --> 00:04:06,900 now, and chapter 11 talks about Israel's future. 83 00:04:06,900 --> 00:04:09,900 And it all has to do with the saving of humanity. 84 00:04:12,233 --> 00:04:15,133 So, so. 85 00:04:15,133 --> 00:04:16,433 But here's what we have to understand. 86 00:04:16,433 --> 00:04:17,766 And this is where it gets. 87 00:04:17,766 --> 00:04:20,766 Even though chapters 9 to 11 is about Israel. 88 00:04:21,333 --> 00:04:23,200 It has also to do with us. 89 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:24,866 And we have to understand the interplay 90 00:04:24,866 --> 00:04:28,866 and the interconnection between Israel and us, because the truth 91 00:04:28,866 --> 00:04:32,766 is, God's promises to Israel shape his promises to us. 92 00:04:34,466 --> 00:04:35,033 Okay. 93 00:04:35,033 --> 00:04:38,000 So God called the people out 94 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:41,700 and adopted them as his own, and he called them 95 00:04:41,700 --> 00:04:45,300 Israel put his name on this people that were not a people. 96 00:04:46,233 --> 00:04:47,933 And through Abraham created this. 97 00:04:47,933 --> 00:04:51,233 People called Israel put his name on them. 98 00:04:51,366 --> 00:04:52,733 We know them as the Jews. 99 00:04:52,733 --> 00:04:54,666 Everybody follow me so far. 100 00:04:54,666 --> 00:04:56,300 Okay, so he's saying them. 101 00:04:56,300 --> 00:04:57,466 He chose them to be his own. 102 00:04:57,466 --> 00:05:02,400 And his interaction with that people is all about their saving. 103 00:05:03,900 --> 00:05:05,800 Now, as a nation, 104 00:05:05,800 --> 00:05:08,433 they rejected the idea of the Messiah 105 00:05:08,433 --> 00:05:11,533 who would be their Savior as a nation. 106 00:05:12,533 --> 00:05:15,466 And so God then turned the invitation 107 00:05:15,466 --> 00:05:18,466 of salvation to us non-Jews. 108 00:05:18,800 --> 00:05:21,700 Bible calls him, calls us Gentiles. 109 00:05:21,700 --> 00:05:23,866 So God said, I'm going to take this, people. 110 00:05:23,866 --> 00:05:25,566 I'm going to give them my name. 111 00:05:25,566 --> 00:05:27,000 I'm going to call him Israel. 112 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:29,500 They're going to be the Jewish people, and I. 113 00:05:29,500 --> 00:05:31,033 I'm going to save them. 114 00:05:31,033 --> 00:05:34,100 They rejected the Messiah, their Savior. 115 00:05:34,133 --> 00:05:37,700 And so God said, fine, you reject my Savior, though not all of you. 116 00:05:37,700 --> 00:05:39,533 There's always a remnant that has hasn't. 117 00:05:39,533 --> 00:05:41,066 But as a nation. 118 00:05:41,066 --> 00:05:43,300 So I'm going to turn my attention now to the Gentiles. 119 00:05:43,300 --> 00:05:47,266 So God's promises to Israel shape his promises to us. 120 00:05:47,266 --> 00:05:49,233 You follow. Okay. 121 00:05:53,633 --> 00:05:56,600 Now, just because we have 122 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,300 those who have believed believe in this message of God, 123 00:06:00,300 --> 00:06:04,100 his love for us is expression of his love for us through Jesus on the cross, 124 00:06:04,100 --> 00:06:05,333 and call ourselves Christians. 125 00:06:05,333 --> 00:06:08,400 We have to understand that Jesus was not a Christian. 126 00:06:11,433 --> 00:06:14,433 You okay with that? 127 00:06:15,900 --> 00:06:18,466 Okay, we call ourselves Christ followers and Christians, 128 00:06:18,466 --> 00:06:21,466 but Jesus was never a Christian. 129 00:06:22,166 --> 00:06:25,566 He was a Jew, a fully Jew, 130 00:06:26,833 --> 00:06:29,833 circumcised on the eighth day, 131 00:06:29,833 --> 00:06:32,300 bar mitzvah, 132 00:06:32,300 --> 00:06:34,800 obeyed the laws and fulfilled the laws. 133 00:06:34,800 --> 00:06:37,800 As a obedient Jew. 134 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:42,133 Jesus never became a Christian. 135 00:06:44,200 --> 00:06:46,300 And he said, you don't have to. 136 00:06:46,300 --> 00:06:49,300 You Gentiles don't have to become Jewish. 137 00:06:49,833 --> 00:06:52,500 What God has done is said, 138 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:55,500 I want to adopt you into my family, 139 00:06:55,966 --> 00:06:58,400 even though you were never part of my people. 140 00:06:59,533 --> 00:07:01,800 You understand? 141 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:03,533 But it's not like Jesus converted 142 00:07:03,533 --> 00:07:06,533 to Christianity. 143 00:07:06,966 --> 00:07:08,800 And, but but here's here's some more. 144 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:12,600 Most people think that Jesus is a Christian. 145 00:07:12,600 --> 00:07:14,033 And that's why America is so great. 146 00:07:14,033 --> 00:07:17,033 Because America is a Christian nation following Jesus, right? 147 00:07:17,600 --> 00:07:21,400 And we create American ism with Christianity 148 00:07:22,300 --> 00:07:24,333 and assume that Jesus is a Christian. 149 00:07:24,333 --> 00:07:27,233 So he's on our side. 150 00:07:27,233 --> 00:07:30,233 You know, you understand this. 151 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,600 That's not how this works. 152 00:07:35,700 --> 00:07:36,000 Though 153 00:07:36,000 --> 00:07:39,966 Jesus was never a Christian, and though we never have to become Jewish. 154 00:07:40,900 --> 00:07:44,733 God's made incredible promises to the Jewish people. 155 00:07:44,766 --> 00:07:49,066 Those promises still stand, and those promises will still be fulfilled. 156 00:07:49,966 --> 00:07:52,366 But God's promises to Israel shape 157 00:07:52,366 --> 00:07:55,366 his promises to us. 158 00:07:55,866 --> 00:07:57,466 And now what God has done. 159 00:07:57,466 --> 00:08:00,466 And this is what chapter ten and 11 are about in Romans. 160 00:08:00,500 --> 00:08:04,600 What God has done now is use Gentiles to make Jews 161 00:08:04,600 --> 00:08:09,100 jealous that we get what was originally intended just for them. 162 00:08:10,500 --> 00:08:12,400 Did you know that 163 00:08:12,400 --> 00:08:16,733 God uses us Gentiles to make his people jealous? 164 00:08:17,266 --> 00:08:19,766 That we get what was intended to them? 165 00:08:19,766 --> 00:08:23,433 That's why I say God's promises to Israel shape his promises to us. 166 00:08:24,766 --> 00:08:27,533 And this was God's intent. 167 00:08:27,533 --> 00:08:31,466 Chapter ten and 11 are about the invitation 168 00:08:33,200 --> 00:08:35,733 to us 169 00:08:35,733 --> 00:08:37,900 by God to be a part of his family. 170 00:08:37,900 --> 00:08:42,066 But it's also about God still fulfilling his promises 171 00:08:42,300 --> 00:08:45,300 to his people as a nation. 172 00:08:46,700 --> 00:08:49,466 These two chapters particular are so important 173 00:08:49,466 --> 00:08:54,133 for us to talk about today because of this wave of unprecedented 174 00:08:54,133 --> 00:08:57,400 in the last few generations of anti-Semitism 175 00:08:58,066 --> 00:09:01,833 that have swept through social media and college campuses. 176 00:09:02,533 --> 00:09:06,433 We're seeing it on a global level as never before. 177 00:09:07,200 --> 00:09:09,666 Since the Holocaust. 178 00:09:09,666 --> 00:09:12,666 This incredible wave of anti-Semitism 179 00:09:13,566 --> 00:09:17,633 where both the, the, the, the unrepentant world 180 00:09:17,633 --> 00:09:22,766 and oftentimes the evangelical world is turning against Israel 181 00:09:24,333 --> 00:09:25,200 because of what 182 00:09:25,200 --> 00:09:29,000 they're believing on the geopolitical scheme of the globe. 183 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:32,000 And it's horrific. 184 00:09:34,100 --> 00:09:37,066 Christians. 185 00:09:37,066 --> 00:09:40,333 And the church should love the Jews 186 00:09:41,900 --> 00:09:45,933 because we are eternally indebted to them. 187 00:09:48,733 --> 00:09:51,733 And church, I want to tell you to be very mindful 188 00:09:51,733 --> 00:09:54,733 and very cautious and very intelligent 189 00:09:56,166 --> 00:09:59,300 about this anti-Semitic wave 190 00:09:59,900 --> 00:10:03,166 that is taking over every screen that you're on 191 00:10:04,833 --> 00:10:07,833 and every campus. 192 00:10:08,966 --> 00:10:11,966 That our kids attend. 193 00:10:12,500 --> 00:10:13,900 God has made promises 194 00:10:13,900 --> 00:10:17,466 to his people that will stand and will be fulfilled. 195 00:10:17,666 --> 00:10:21,633 And the only reason we get to experience any of that is because God 196 00:10:21,666 --> 00:10:25,433 has invited us to participate in his plan for his people. 197 00:10:28,333 --> 00:10:31,333 He certainly isn't done with them. 198 00:10:31,833 --> 00:10:33,366 And to set up chapter 11, 199 00:10:33,366 --> 00:10:36,366 I want to go back to chapter ten, 200 00:10:36,466 --> 00:10:38,600 verses 14 through the rest. 201 00:10:39,733 --> 00:10:40,700 And I want to begin 202 00:10:40,700 --> 00:10:43,700 with the purpose, God's purpose of this whole thing 203 00:10:44,533 --> 00:10:48,366 and God's purpose for us in this world. 204 00:10:48,833 --> 00:10:51,900 And he is the fact that he has turned his attention 205 00:10:51,900 --> 00:10:55,133 to us, to make his people, the Jews, jealous. 206 00:10:55,200 --> 00:11:00,366 So they will come back to him, and they will do. 207 00:11:01,166 --> 00:11:04,500 But to set up chapter ten, verse four down and to go all over the Bible 208 00:11:04,500 --> 00:11:06,433 doing that today. Okay. 209 00:11:06,433 --> 00:11:09,433 You get your little fingers ready because I want you to like 210 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:11,100 follow along here in your Bibles. 211 00:11:11,100 --> 00:11:14,100 But I want to start in first Peter 315 212 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:18,666 in our hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy. 213 00:11:19,200 --> 00:11:19,900 How do you do that? 214 00:11:19,900 --> 00:11:21,666 How do you honor Jesus as holy? 215 00:11:21,666 --> 00:11:25,666 Well, you're always prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you 216 00:11:25,666 --> 00:11:27,466 for the reason for the hope that is in you. 217 00:11:28,866 --> 00:11:30,366 How do you honor Jesus? 218 00:11:30,366 --> 00:11:34,100 You're ready at the drop of a hat, to give a reason for the hope 219 00:11:34,100 --> 00:11:37,333 that you have of forgiveness and salvation. 220 00:11:40,666 --> 00:11:45,433 And when we have been adopted into God's family and understand 221 00:11:45,433 --> 00:11:48,666 what he's done to adopt us as his own, though 222 00:11:48,666 --> 00:11:51,666 we are not his original people. 223 00:11:51,933 --> 00:11:53,900 And someone asks us about that hope 224 00:11:53,900 --> 00:11:57,300 it is dishonoring to Christ and not be ready 225 00:11:58,933 --> 00:12:01,933 to give a reason to understand. 226 00:12:03,933 --> 00:12:08,033 Yes. You okay? 227 00:12:11,033 --> 00:12:13,733 But when you when we open our mouths about this, 228 00:12:13,733 --> 00:12:16,733 make sure that we do with gentleness and respect 229 00:12:17,300 --> 00:12:19,500 and be belligerent about it. 230 00:12:19,500 --> 00:12:21,400 There's enough about my life that's belligerent. 231 00:12:21,400 --> 00:12:25,400 Like I don't need to add this, like, just be gentle when it comes to Jesus. 232 00:12:25,400 --> 00:12:29,100 And in this message, we do it with gentleness and in respect to people. 233 00:12:31,366 --> 00:12:34,566 For it is this everybody who says that they follow 234 00:12:34,566 --> 00:12:39,000 Jesus has a responsibility and a command to be ready at the moment's notice. 235 00:12:39,066 --> 00:12:41,366 So here's why I believe it. 236 00:12:41,366 --> 00:12:44,366 Here's why I have hope. 237 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:47,266 And friends just 238 00:12:47,266 --> 00:12:50,600 if you're not ready right now to give a reason 239 00:12:50,600 --> 00:12:53,600 for the hope that you have to someone who has no hope. 240 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:58,600 The Bible says it is dishonoring to Christ. 241 00:12:59,333 --> 00:13:01,466 So if you don't know how to do this and you're not ready, 242 00:13:01,466 --> 00:13:04,466 you better learn. 243 00:13:05,066 --> 00:13:06,133 Go to our app. 244 00:13:06,133 --> 00:13:08,333 Go to Unfiltered and Uncensored. 245 00:13:08,333 --> 00:13:11,133 And I've done an entire multi-hour thing 246 00:13:11,133 --> 00:13:14,833 on how to share your faith in a way that's natural and fits you. 247 00:13:14,833 --> 00:13:17,833 It's not difficult. 248 00:13:18,966 --> 00:13:22,166 Because God has invited us who were not his, into his family. 249 00:13:22,166 --> 00:13:24,366 Should we do the same thing to others on this family? 250 00:13:29,566 --> 00:13:32,566 And this is what Paul's getting at. 251 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:35,933 In the last part of of Romans ten, I need to set this up 252 00:13:35,933 --> 00:13:37,700 because it sets up 11. 253 00:13:37,700 --> 00:13:39,533 And I want to dive in just a little bit. 254 00:13:39,533 --> 00:13:42,833 How then what they call on him in whom they have not believed. 255 00:13:42,900 --> 00:13:47,366 Remember God's cosmic plan to offer salvation to anybody who needs saving. 256 00:13:48,100 --> 00:13:50,433 And so Paul's saying, well, he'll do it. 257 00:13:50,433 --> 00:13:54,000 But how can they call on him if they've not believed in him? 258 00:13:54,300 --> 00:13:57,200 And how can they believe in him if they've not heard about him? 259 00:13:57,200 --> 00:14:00,200 And how can they hear without someone preaching 260 00:14:00,566 --> 00:14:03,566 and how can they preach unless they're sent 261 00:14:04,833 --> 00:14:05,733 as it's written? 262 00:14:05,733 --> 00:14:08,933 How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news? 263 00:14:08,966 --> 00:14:10,000 Let me make this point. 264 00:14:12,633 --> 00:14:13,400 There is a 265 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:16,800 chain reaction in what we call salvation. 266 00:14:17,400 --> 00:14:20,100 And the chain reaction is this 267 00:14:20,100 --> 00:14:23,166 someone is sent to preach so someone can believe and receive. 268 00:14:24,066 --> 00:14:27,366 But people don't believe and receive until someone has preached, 269 00:14:27,666 --> 00:14:29,233 has spoken the good news. 270 00:14:29,233 --> 00:14:31,500 And this is the point I want to make about this. 271 00:14:31,500 --> 00:14:34,633 This is why we're so committed to church planting. 272 00:14:35,533 --> 00:14:38,533 This is why we're so committed to the mission work that we do, 273 00:14:38,933 --> 00:14:40,966 both in America and in other countries. 274 00:14:40,966 --> 00:14:43,033 This is why we're so committed to it. 275 00:14:43,033 --> 00:14:46,733 Did you know that there are that there are 200 pastors 276 00:14:46,733 --> 00:14:50,133 in Ukraine right now who know that there 277 00:14:50,700 --> 00:14:55,066 if things go as they go in, pretty soon they're going to die. 278 00:14:55,733 --> 00:14:58,933 And there's a revival going on in Ukraine right now 279 00:14:59,100 --> 00:15:02,400 of these people who want to plant churches because they know 280 00:15:02,400 --> 00:15:05,400 that their countrymen are being killed. 281 00:15:05,466 --> 00:15:10,300 I don't care what you believe about the political state of Russia and Ukraine. 282 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:13,700 The fact is, people are dying in real time 283 00:15:14,066 --> 00:15:17,100 and there are Christians there who want to plant churches, 284 00:15:17,333 --> 00:15:21,233 and they've asked us to step into that country 285 00:15:21,500 --> 00:15:24,900 and train 200 to go out and plant churches. Why? 286 00:15:25,166 --> 00:15:27,366 Because how can they believe unless they've heard? 287 00:15:27,366 --> 00:15:30,333 How can they hear unless someone's pretty shocking someone, unless they've seen. 288 00:15:30,333 --> 00:15:32,400 How beautiful is this that we get to do it? 289 00:15:33,500 --> 00:15:36,500 Do you understand? 290 00:15:39,266 --> 00:15:42,100 And I have the opportunity to get to be on the frontlines 291 00:15:42,100 --> 00:15:45,100 and literally on the front lines. 292 00:15:47,633 --> 00:15:50,633 How beautiful is that? 293 00:15:51,166 --> 00:15:54,166 Why? Because this is God's global plan. 294 00:15:58,566 --> 00:16:00,666 In Cuba. 295 00:16:00,666 --> 00:16:03,100 Because we started this church planting movement there. 296 00:16:03,100 --> 00:16:06,666 There's 120 churches that have started there because of what we've done, 297 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:11,400 and 100 pastors who have gone through the description of what we do or to plant 298 00:16:11,400 --> 00:16:14,700 churches, because there's a revival going on in Cuba right now. 299 00:16:16,966 --> 00:16:20,300 They have no food and no resources, but there's a spiritual revival 300 00:16:20,300 --> 00:16:23,366 going on that that that little island is coming to faith. 301 00:16:23,366 --> 00:16:26,366 It's amazing. 302 00:16:28,366 --> 00:16:29,333 That's one of the churches 303 00:16:29,333 --> 00:16:32,333 in Cuba that we helped put there, 304 00:16:32,600 --> 00:16:35,600 completely packed. 305 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:39,000 With people are coming to faith. 306 00:16:39,800 --> 00:16:40,733 That's Guatemala. 307 00:16:42,566 --> 00:16:43,066 That's where 308 00:16:43,066 --> 00:16:46,066 we have those five academies in that slum right there, 309 00:16:46,800 --> 00:16:50,133 where they get food and education and love and medicine 310 00:16:50,133 --> 00:16:53,133 and the gospel. 311 00:16:54,400 --> 00:16:56,033 That's a picture of a of a church 312 00:16:56,033 --> 00:16:59,166 that we're that we're helping fund and build in Guatemala. 313 00:17:02,266 --> 00:17:05,266 Those are our lead pastors in Guatemala. 314 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,000 That are just absolute warriors 315 00:17:11,266 --> 00:17:15,300 who are giving themselves and their families and their lives to church. 316 00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:16,933 And because they know that, how can people believe 317 00:17:16,933 --> 00:17:19,933 when I say, you're not going to hear some of those people are going to be 318 00:17:20,166 --> 00:17:21,300 unless they're saying, guess what? 319 00:17:21,300 --> 00:17:24,300 We're sending? 320 00:17:27,700 --> 00:17:30,700 This is why we do what we do. 321 00:17:32,566 --> 00:17:33,000 Excel 322 00:17:33,000 --> 00:17:36,066 leadership networks out there to help lead 100 churches. 323 00:17:36,066 --> 00:17:38,400 We started last year in the states, 100 more this year. 324 00:17:40,900 --> 00:17:43,800 Because this is and guys this is part of 325 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:47,533 this is part of how you are part of God's cosmic plan. 326 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,800 We see all the time that you don't give to us. 327 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:53,800 You give through us. 328 00:17:54,133 --> 00:17:55,866 We send a majority of our money 329 00:17:55,866 --> 00:17:58,866 away, away from us. 330 00:17:58,900 --> 00:18:00,433 Because this is so important. 331 00:18:00,433 --> 00:18:04,366 This is God's cosmic plan to turn his attention to those of us 332 00:18:04,366 --> 00:18:07,500 who are not Jews, to make the Jews jealous that they'll come back to him. 333 00:18:08,833 --> 00:18:11,700 But we have to send people and we have to send people, 334 00:18:11,700 --> 00:18:13,700 and we have to send people that. 335 00:18:13,700 --> 00:18:16,866 That's why we're not threatened to start a church in Fresno. 336 00:18:17,433 --> 00:18:18,533 We're not threatened to start 337 00:18:18,533 --> 00:18:21,800 to help start a church in, in in Riverstone, right next door. 338 00:18:22,433 --> 00:18:24,733 We're not threatened by it, by the proximity 339 00:18:24,733 --> 00:18:26,600 of starting other churches and coaching other churches 340 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:29,266 and helping others who are threatened by that. It's all part of God's kingdom. 341 00:18:31,100 --> 00:18:32,100 Most churches will 342 00:18:32,100 --> 00:18:35,100 never start a church down the road because they're threatened by them. 343 00:18:35,933 --> 00:18:38,500 The goal for the church next door if we need to like it. 344 00:18:38,500 --> 00:18:41,300 Just part of God's plan. 345 00:18:41,300 --> 00:18:44,300 I agree. 346 00:18:44,966 --> 00:18:47,966 You understand what I'm saying? 347 00:18:50,133 --> 00:18:53,133 We're headed to Mexico in a few weeks. 348 00:18:53,866 --> 00:18:56,200 I'll be preaching a church there and building stuff there. 349 00:18:56,200 --> 00:18:58,600 You you either need to go or you need a fund. 350 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,600 I'm just telling you right now. 351 00:19:01,933 --> 00:19:04,333 It's part of God's plan. 352 00:19:04,333 --> 00:19:06,766 You need to go or you need to fund. 353 00:19:06,766 --> 00:19:09,300 We've had QR codes up to give you information. 354 00:19:09,300 --> 00:19:10,633 If you haven't, take advantage of that. 355 00:19:10,633 --> 00:19:12,900 That's that's that's your fault is not mine. 356 00:19:12,900 --> 00:19:15,900 So so go figure that out. 357 00:19:20,033 --> 00:19:23,266 Now. So faith comes from hearing and hearing through the word of Christ. 358 00:19:24,433 --> 00:19:26,600 The only way to gain faith, 359 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:31,500 the only way to grow in maturity, is to learn and proclaim the Word of God. 360 00:19:31,733 --> 00:19:35,266 You hear it, and you receive it, and they're responsible to share it. 361 00:19:36,566 --> 00:19:38,533 Faith doesn't come by doing. 362 00:19:38,533 --> 00:19:40,266 Faith doesn't come by singing. 363 00:19:40,266 --> 00:19:42,333 Faith doesn't come by. 364 00:19:42,333 --> 00:19:45,333 Faith comes by the Word of God. 365 00:19:46,366 --> 00:19:46,933 We got it. 366 00:19:46,933 --> 00:19:48,600 This is why this is so important. 367 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:51,800 That's why Paul just said this whole thing starts with preaching, 368 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,400 not just from the pulpit, but certainly from the pulpit, 369 00:19:55,800 --> 00:20:00,800 but in your lives to the proclamation of God's Word, to people in your huddle, 370 00:20:01,766 --> 00:20:04,400 those close to you who don't know Jesus, who are struggling, 371 00:20:04,400 --> 00:20:08,100 the proclamation of His Word, and you better be ready at the drop of a 372 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:10,633 hat to give a reason for the hope that you have. 373 00:20:10,633 --> 00:20:12,300 That's what Paul's saying. This is part of his plan. 374 00:20:14,100 --> 00:20:16,433 Look at this receipt to follow with me on on the screen back there. 375 00:20:16,433 --> 00:20:19,300 Look at 18, 19, 20. 376 00:20:19,300 --> 00:20:22,300 But I asked, have they not heard? 377 00:20:22,400 --> 00:20:23,633 Sure they've heard. 378 00:20:23,633 --> 00:20:24,300 For the voice 379 00:20:24,300 --> 00:20:27,466 has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. 380 00:20:27,733 --> 00:20:30,000 But I ask, did Israel not understand? 381 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:32,266 Just like, why didn't they believe? 382 00:20:32,266 --> 00:20:32,766 Don't know. 383 00:20:32,766 --> 00:20:35,400 First Moses says, I will make you jealous. 384 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:37,400 There's that word I'll make you. 385 00:20:37,400 --> 00:20:38,400 He's talking to his own people. 386 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:42,166 I'll make you jealous of those who are not a nation with a foolish nation. 387 00:20:42,166 --> 00:20:43,033 I'll make you angry. 388 00:20:43,033 --> 00:20:46,000 Guess what? We are. 389 00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:48,433 We're the nation. 390 00:20:48,433 --> 00:20:51,200 He said, do my people not believe me in the promises I made? 391 00:20:51,200 --> 00:20:53,633 Because they haven't heard? No. They've heard. 392 00:20:53,633 --> 00:20:55,066 They're just. They're just. 393 00:20:56,033 --> 00:20:57,433 They've ignored me. 394 00:20:57,433 --> 00:21:00,433 So I don't make them jealous by. 395 00:21:02,100 --> 00:21:05,000 By a bunch of fools. 396 00:21:05,000 --> 00:21:07,700 So what kind of flip side is. 397 00:21:07,700 --> 00:21:10,266 And so we are in Isaiah. 398 00:21:10,266 --> 00:21:12,133 So bold to say, 399 00:21:12,133 --> 00:21:15,133 have I been found by those who did not seek, or 400 00:21:15,133 --> 00:21:16,800 I have been found by those who do not see me? 401 00:21:16,800 --> 00:21:20,466 I have shown myself to those who didn't ask for me so I can look. 402 00:21:20,700 --> 00:21:23,700 They weren't even looking for me and I showed myself to them. 403 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:25,766 You and I weren't looking for Jesus. 404 00:21:25,766 --> 00:21:28,766 And he showed up. 405 00:21:29,833 --> 00:21:30,133 Though 406 00:21:30,133 --> 00:21:33,166 the majority of Israel has rejected the Messiah, 407 00:21:33,333 --> 00:21:36,333 a remnant has always believed. 408 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:39,633 And even though the Spirit of God has turned his attention 409 00:21:39,633 --> 00:21:42,966 to us non-Jews to make Israel jealous. 410 00:21:43,700 --> 00:21:47,100 And the key to understanding chapter 11 that we're getting into right now 411 00:21:47,133 --> 00:21:48,700 is that fact 412 00:21:50,633 --> 00:21:51,766 that God is using us 413 00:21:51,766 --> 00:21:54,766 to make Israel jealous because he wants his kids to come back home? 414 00:21:55,500 --> 00:21:58,500 This is a deeply theological truth, 415 00:21:58,966 --> 00:22:00,366 and we have to understand this. 416 00:22:00,366 --> 00:22:03,566 If we're going to send the message of the of 417 00:22:03,866 --> 00:22:06,866 of all of Scripture. 418 00:22:07,800 --> 00:22:09,600 And I love verse 21 of chapter ten. 419 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:15,500 But of Israel he says, all day long I've held out my hands to a disobedient 420 00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:18,766 and contrary people all day long. 421 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:24,200 Do you know he's done that for you and for me 422 00:22:24,433 --> 00:22:25,500 all day long? 423 00:22:25,500 --> 00:22:28,400 He's held out his hands 424 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,400 to an obstinate, 425 00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:34,400 reluctant, difficult person like me. 426 00:22:34,400 --> 00:22:37,400 And like you. 427 00:22:39,133 --> 00:22:41,633 Because his cosmic plan 428 00:22:41,633 --> 00:22:44,633 is for our salvation. 429 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:46,333 And he's not willing 430 00:22:46,333 --> 00:22:49,333 to give up on any of us. 431 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:53,100 How long are you 432 00:22:53,100 --> 00:22:57,066 and I going to resist the outstretched hand of God? 433 00:23:05,533 --> 00:23:08,533 God constantly pursues those who are 434 00:23:10,100 --> 00:23:12,133 disobedient, 435 00:23:12,133 --> 00:23:14,100 obstinate, and contrary. Why? 436 00:23:14,100 --> 00:23:17,666 Because grace is greater than disobedience. 437 00:23:19,333 --> 00:23:22,333 His grace is greater. 438 00:23:23,466 --> 00:23:25,800 And he wants to us to experience is undeserved 439 00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:30,066 an unmerited favor and blessing, even for the disobedient. 440 00:23:33,666 --> 00:23:36,966 And so chapter verse one of chapter 11, you. 441 00:23:36,966 --> 00:23:40,000 We got to understand this principle of the preaching of the Good news 442 00:23:40,000 --> 00:23:42,900 because he, God, is making his kids jealous 443 00:23:42,900 --> 00:23:45,900 because we get to be included in his promises. 444 00:23:46,533 --> 00:23:49,200 So then Paul says, I ask then because of that, 445 00:23:49,200 --> 00:23:52,200 because of that deeply theological truth. 446 00:23:53,433 --> 00:23:56,433 Has God rejected his people? 447 00:23:56,566 --> 00:23:58,766 By no means. 448 00:23:58,766 --> 00:24:01,733 Paul says, for I myself as an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, 449 00:24:01,733 --> 00:24:03,600 a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 450 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:07,066 He said, we can't start thinking that because they've rejected the Messiah, 451 00:24:07,066 --> 00:24:09,133 that God's done with them and done with his promises, 452 00:24:09,133 --> 00:24:13,200 which is what some in the evangelical and the Christian American church think, 453 00:24:14,333 --> 00:24:16,266 that God got so upset with his people 454 00:24:16,266 --> 00:24:20,066 because they denied him that he gave all those, for he turned all his promises. 455 00:24:20,200 --> 00:24:24,400 He hasn't, Paul said he hasn't rejected his people because I'm one of them. 456 00:24:26,166 --> 00:24:28,200 If he rejected this, people would rejected me. 457 00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:30,133 God hasn't rejected his people at all. 458 00:24:30,133 --> 00:24:33,133 He's just included other people in the promise as well. 459 00:24:33,766 --> 00:24:36,766 That's what he's saying. 460 00:24:39,300 --> 00:24:40,700 And then he gives his example. 461 00:24:40,700 --> 00:24:43,700 God has not rejected his people, whom he, 462 00:24:44,766 --> 00:24:45,800 Oh, yeah. 463 00:24:45,800 --> 00:24:47,233 Whom he foreknew. 464 00:24:47,233 --> 00:24:50,100 Do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah? 465 00:24:50,100 --> 00:24:52,966 How he appeals to God against Israel? 466 00:24:52,966 --> 00:24:54,633 Lord, they have killed your prophets. 467 00:24:54,633 --> 00:24:57,933 They have demolished your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life. 468 00:24:57,933 --> 00:24:59,833 But what is God's reply to him? 469 00:24:59,833 --> 00:25:03,300 I have kept for myself 7000 men who have not bowed 470 00:25:03,300 --> 00:25:04,600 the knee to bear what he said. 471 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,433 He's drawing on Old Testament history. 472 00:25:07,433 --> 00:25:10,500 He says, if you think God is getting this, people just remember Elijah. 473 00:25:10,666 --> 00:25:13,933 Elijah, the prophet of God, goes up the mountain 474 00:25:13,933 --> 00:25:17,666 to do the battle with, with, with the prophets of Baal. 475 00:25:18,600 --> 00:25:20,133 And he does battle with them. 476 00:25:20,133 --> 00:25:22,800 And God shows himself faithful in that. 477 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,400 And all these prophets of Baal, just in this battle, just get slaughtered. 478 00:25:27,133 --> 00:25:30,033 And and in after that great victory, 479 00:25:30,033 --> 00:25:33,700 Elijah goes to this great moment of, of just a down 480 00:25:33,700 --> 00:25:36,700 to whenever there's a mountaintop, there's a valley after it, right? 481 00:25:37,300 --> 00:25:40,866 He goes, this great mountain, top of the heat sinks down in this deep depression, 482 00:25:42,366 --> 00:25:44,533 and he runs away in isolation. 483 00:25:44,533 --> 00:25:48,400 Let me just say this, that that's part of the devil's plan for God's 484 00:25:48,400 --> 00:25:52,500 people is to isolate us, because in isolation comes defeat 485 00:25:52,966 --> 00:25:56,666 and isolation comes depression, and isolation comes frustration. 486 00:25:57,400 --> 00:26:00,500 And we, when we silo ourselves and our isolated 487 00:26:00,500 --> 00:26:03,900 away from God's people, it's very it's a very, very dark place. 488 00:26:03,900 --> 00:26:05,066 And some of you understand this. 489 00:26:06,200 --> 00:26:06,900 And so he's in 490 00:26:06,900 --> 00:26:10,166 isolation and he's in despair and he cries out to God. 491 00:26:10,233 --> 00:26:14,233 He's like, God, I'm the only one, sure, but I'm the only one on your team. 492 00:26:14,800 --> 00:26:16,133 Everybody else is against you. 493 00:26:16,133 --> 00:26:18,466 And God says you, what do you. 494 00:26:18,466 --> 00:26:20,700 I got 7000 that you don't know about. 495 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:22,033 Don't tell me you're the only one. 496 00:26:22,033 --> 00:26:24,733 You're not alone in this. 497 00:26:24,733 --> 00:26:25,833 And yet what he says. 498 00:26:25,833 --> 00:26:28,066 God hasn't rejected me. He's got a remnant. 499 00:26:28,066 --> 00:26:31,066 Still, God hasn't rejected his people. 500 00:26:31,266 --> 00:26:34,266 He's still faithful to his promises. 501 00:26:35,866 --> 00:26:37,133 Look at verse five and six. 502 00:26:37,133 --> 00:26:41,433 So to at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. 503 00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:45,400 They're God's not because they're Jews, not because they're obedient, 504 00:26:45,533 --> 00:26:48,433 but by God's grace. 505 00:26:48,433 --> 00:26:51,500 But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works. 506 00:26:51,500 --> 00:26:53,433 Otherwise your grace would no longer be grace. 507 00:26:54,566 --> 00:26:56,400 God has an abandoned his people. 508 00:26:56,400 --> 00:27:02,100 God has abandoned the Jewish nation, and he's included us in it all by grace, 509 00:27:02,100 --> 00:27:05,100 not by works, nor by birth. 510 00:27:06,300 --> 00:27:08,900 And if it's by works or by birth, 511 00:27:08,900 --> 00:27:11,900 every one of us is doomed. 512 00:27:14,600 --> 00:27:18,100 He's faithful to his people because he's a God that's full of grace. 513 00:27:18,266 --> 00:27:21,600 And he's invited us into those promises because he is a God 514 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:24,600 full of grace. 515 00:27:24,833 --> 00:27:27,833 To understand. 516 00:27:31,233 --> 00:27:31,866 What then? 517 00:27:31,866 --> 00:27:34,266 Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking. 518 00:27:34,266 --> 00:27:37,200 The elect attained it, but the rest were hardened as it is written. 519 00:27:37,200 --> 00:27:38,466 Verse eight. 520 00:27:38,466 --> 00:27:42,033 God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that would not see, and ears 521 00:27:42,033 --> 00:27:44,133 that would not hear down to this very day. 522 00:27:44,133 --> 00:27:47,366 And David says, let their table become a snare and a trap, 523 00:27:47,366 --> 00:27:49,766 a stumbling block and a retribution for them. 524 00:27:49,766 --> 00:27:53,966 Let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see and bend their backs forever. 525 00:27:54,100 --> 00:27:58,033 What he's saying is, look, they chose to reject me. 526 00:27:58,033 --> 00:27:59,900 And so I confirm that choice. 527 00:28:01,266 --> 00:28:03,800 And this is what he does for us. 528 00:28:03,800 --> 00:28:06,000 The more one says no to God, 529 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,000 the easier it is to say no to God. 530 00:28:09,166 --> 00:28:11,433 God doesn't make one say no to him. 531 00:28:11,433 --> 00:28:13,333 He just confirms the choice. 532 00:28:13,333 --> 00:28:16,433 It's exactly what Paul referenced in the previous two chapters 533 00:28:16,433 --> 00:28:19,466 about Pharaoh hardening in his heart and God hiding in after him. 534 00:28:20,100 --> 00:28:23,366 Whatever decision you and I choose to make about 535 00:28:23,366 --> 00:28:26,366 Jesus, God will confirm that choice. 536 00:28:26,666 --> 00:28:31,300 And if you and I choose to close our eyes to the light of the gospel, 537 00:28:31,300 --> 00:28:34,700 if we chose to close our minds to the truth, it close to choose 538 00:28:34,700 --> 00:28:38,600 to close our hearts to the relation of it, God will confirm 539 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,600 that choice. 540 00:28:42,566 --> 00:28:44,133 But conversely, 541 00:28:44,133 --> 00:28:47,700 if we choose to open our eyes to the light of the message of Jesus, 542 00:28:47,900 --> 00:28:51,333 if we choose to open our minds to the truth of that, open our hearts 543 00:28:51,333 --> 00:28:55,066 to the relationship, God will also confirm of that choice. 544 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:56,066 You understand? 545 00:28:59,733 --> 00:29:03,466 As a nation, the Jews chose to reject the Messiah God. 546 00:29:03,466 --> 00:29:08,033 Confirm that choice, though there's always a remnant that chooses by grace 547 00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:12,066 to believe, 548 00:29:12,066 --> 00:29:14,433 and God is faithful 549 00:29:14,433 --> 00:29:16,333 even to the disobedient. 550 00:29:16,333 --> 00:29:16,866 Verse 11. 551 00:29:16,866 --> 00:29:19,533 So I ask, did they stumble in order that they might fall? 552 00:29:19,533 --> 00:29:22,100 By no means rather, through their trespass, 553 00:29:22,100 --> 00:29:25,500 salvation has come to the Gentiles so as to make Israel jealous. 554 00:29:25,500 --> 00:29:27,900 There it is again. 555 00:29:27,900 --> 00:29:30,933 They said, look, they they stumbled, but they didn't fall. 556 00:29:30,933 --> 00:29:32,000 Here's a difference. 557 00:29:32,000 --> 00:29:35,900 A stumble is a stumble is it a trip? 558 00:29:35,900 --> 00:29:37,166 I'm okay. 559 00:29:37,166 --> 00:29:40,166 Have you ever done that in public? 560 00:29:40,666 --> 00:29:43,666 I've. 561 00:29:44,533 --> 00:29:46,200 I it it's all right. 562 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,866 Right? It's different than the old lady. 563 00:29:48,866 --> 00:29:51,866 I fall in and I can't get up. 564 00:29:52,100 --> 00:29:55,600 And so look, you all going to stumble but a stumble in the fall. 565 00:29:56,266 --> 00:29:57,833 A fall means that you're done. 566 00:29:59,233 --> 00:30:01,566 And Israel's not done. 567 00:30:01,566 --> 00:30:04,666 And God's promises to his nation is not done. 568 00:30:05,033 --> 00:30:07,833 They've stumbled, but they've stumbled. Why? 569 00:30:07,833 --> 00:30:10,833 But to say why? 570 00:30:12,466 --> 00:30:16,800 So that we can be included in the promises. 571 00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,900 So that Israel becomes jealous. 572 00:30:24,166 --> 00:30:25,266 He's not done with them. 573 00:30:25,266 --> 00:30:29,133 He's wooing them by being so good to me 574 00:30:30,733 --> 00:30:33,400 and to you. 575 00:30:33,400 --> 00:30:36,133 Now, if they're trespass, verse 12 means riches for the world. 576 00:30:36,133 --> 00:30:38,766 And if they're future, riches. 577 00:30:38,766 --> 00:30:41,300 And if their future means riches for the Gentiles, 578 00:30:41,300 --> 00:30:43,333 how much more will our full inclusion mean? 579 00:30:43,333 --> 00:30:46,300 What he's saying is this, 580 00:30:46,300 --> 00:30:49,766 by their stumble, it meant riches for us. 581 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:52,766 How much better is the world going to be 582 00:30:52,766 --> 00:30:55,766 by their inclusion again? 583 00:30:56,300 --> 00:30:59,300 I mean, how great is that going to be? 584 00:31:00,300 --> 00:31:02,633 Now watch this verse 13 through 15. 585 00:31:02,633 --> 00:31:04,000 Now I'm speaking of the Gentiles. 586 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:04,866 So now he changes. 587 00:31:04,866 --> 00:31:09,000 He's talking to us in as much then as I'm apostle to the Gentiles, 588 00:31:09,100 --> 00:31:12,100 I magnify my ministry in order 589 00:31:12,200 --> 00:31:15,800 somehow to make my fellow Jews what jealous. 590 00:31:15,800 --> 00:31:16,666 So that what 591 00:31:17,633 --> 00:31:19,166 saved some of them. 592 00:31:19,166 --> 00:31:22,033 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, 593 00:31:22,033 --> 00:31:24,000 what will their acceptance mean? 594 00:31:24,000 --> 00:31:27,000 But life from the dead. 595 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,266 Here's what he's saying. 596 00:31:31,266 --> 00:31:33,100 It is biblical to brag 597 00:31:33,100 --> 00:31:36,100 about how good God is to you. 598 00:31:37,200 --> 00:31:41,533 Not how good you are, not what you've done, 599 00:31:41,933 --> 00:31:44,933 but how good God has been. 600 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,433 He says, I will magnify my ministry. 601 00:31:47,433 --> 00:31:51,666 I'm going to brag about it because God has been so good. 602 00:31:51,933 --> 00:31:54,933 And the more and, 603 00:31:56,100 --> 00:32:00,100 The more that the world who has not experienced 604 00:32:00,100 --> 00:32:03,700 the goodness and grace of God, hears about the goodness and grace of God. 605 00:32:05,333 --> 00:32:08,333 It's intended to make them want to experience the 606 00:32:09,166 --> 00:32:11,933 goodness and grace of God. 607 00:32:11,933 --> 00:32:13,033 Our problem? 608 00:32:13,033 --> 00:32:15,933 We don't have a problem. I'm bragging. 609 00:32:15,933 --> 00:32:18,233 We don't have a problem highlighting. 610 00:32:21,100 --> 00:32:22,766 Everything about us and my 611 00:32:22,766 --> 00:32:26,600 kid and my business and my blah blah blah. 612 00:32:26,966 --> 00:32:27,833 It's amazing. 613 00:32:27,833 --> 00:32:30,833 Once a youth sports starts up, 614 00:32:31,866 --> 00:32:36,133 parents turn into some of the most grandiose bragging in the am I right, 615 00:32:36,133 --> 00:32:38,533 Andy? 616 00:32:38,533 --> 00:32:39,700 Yeah, either 617 00:32:39,700 --> 00:32:42,700 the most grandiose brag of the most grandiose complainers. 618 00:32:43,300 --> 00:32:46,300 Okay, but. 619 00:32:47,633 --> 00:32:48,600 We know how to do it. 620 00:32:48,600 --> 00:32:51,600 We just do it about the wrong things. 621 00:32:51,666 --> 00:32:53,100 And Paul saying, don't do it. 622 00:32:53,100 --> 00:32:56,100 Just brag about God's grace. 623 00:32:57,400 --> 00:33:00,400 Because it makes people want it. 624 00:33:01,966 --> 00:33:02,866 Look at verse 17. 625 00:33:02,866 --> 00:33:05,866 But if some of the branches were broken off, he's 626 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:10,466 the that the Jewish national symbol is an olive tree. 627 00:33:11,033 --> 00:33:11,266 Okay. 628 00:33:11,266 --> 00:33:14,266 That's the that's the national symbols on olive tree. 629 00:33:14,533 --> 00:33:18,000 And, and and Paul is going to talk about this forming an analogy 630 00:33:18,233 --> 00:33:21,300 when you cut off branches and graft new ones in. 631 00:33:21,833 --> 00:33:23,866 Okay. So that's what that's what he's talking about here. 632 00:33:23,866 --> 00:33:27,633 So the national the Jews are the net of the natural olive tree. 633 00:33:28,066 --> 00:33:31,966 Gentiles are these wild offshoots that get grafted into it. 634 00:33:31,966 --> 00:33:32,833 Look says, 635 00:33:32,833 --> 00:33:37,333 but if some of the branches are broken off and you all the a wild olive shoot, 636 00:33:37,700 --> 00:33:40,800 we're grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing 637 00:33:40,800 --> 00:33:42,000 root of the olive tree. 638 00:33:42,000 --> 00:33:45,633 Don't be ignorant towards those natural branches 639 00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:48,900 right? 640 00:33:48,900 --> 00:33:52,566 Then you will say branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in. 641 00:33:53,033 --> 00:33:56,633 Well that's true, they were broken off because of their unbelief. 642 00:33:56,633 --> 00:34:00,833 But you stand fast through faith, so don't become proud. 643 00:34:01,500 --> 00:34:05,833 But fear for of God didn't spare the natural branches. 644 00:34:05,833 --> 00:34:07,200 Neither will he spare you. 645 00:34:07,200 --> 00:34:09,200 Here's what he's saying. 646 00:34:09,200 --> 00:34:14,066 Like because we have, we have gained Christ, the Jewish Messiah, 647 00:34:14,366 --> 00:34:18,566 and the promises of God intended for his people. 648 00:34:18,833 --> 00:34:22,133 We can't say because God favors me. 649 00:34:24,233 --> 00:34:25,900 He says if God was willing 650 00:34:25,900 --> 00:34:28,900 to cut off his own natural branch 651 00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:33,866 and gracious enough to graft you in so you get to partake of all this stuff, 652 00:34:33,966 --> 00:34:37,633 don't you get pride in that powerful and prideful and arrogant 653 00:34:38,033 --> 00:34:39,933 and think those stupid Jews. 654 00:34:41,000 --> 00:34:43,066 Golly! 655 00:34:43,066 --> 00:34:46,633 Because what if God is willing to break off his own branch? 656 00:34:47,333 --> 00:34:49,766 What makes you wild? Shoot. 657 00:34:49,766 --> 00:34:52,766 Think that he won't break you off to 658 00:34:53,533 --> 00:34:57,133 because of your arrogance against his people? 659 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,100 This is true both personally, 660 00:35:01,100 --> 00:35:04,100 politically, and nationally. 661 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:10,000 Do you understand? 662 00:35:10,166 --> 00:35:12,366 This is why he's starting to be encouraged. 663 00:35:12,366 --> 00:35:14,100 God's got a plan and we're part of it. 664 00:35:14,100 --> 00:35:17,100 But be humble because he doesn't have to include us in it. 665 00:35:22,233 --> 00:35:24,466 Pride cuts us off. 666 00:35:24,466 --> 00:35:27,466 Grace graphs us in. 667 00:35:37,933 --> 00:35:39,766 The verse 22. 668 00:35:39,766 --> 00:35:42,400 Note, then, the kindness and severity 669 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:45,533 of God severity toward those who have fallen. 670 00:35:45,700 --> 00:35:50,700 But God's kindness to you, provided you continue in his kindness. 671 00:35:50,700 --> 00:35:53,700 Otherwise you'll be cut off. 672 00:35:54,466 --> 00:35:56,900 The kindness of God. 673 00:35:56,900 --> 00:35:58,866 Listen, friends, we've been given 674 00:35:58,866 --> 00:36:01,800 gifted and grafted. 675 00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:03,966 We've been given the gift of salvation. 676 00:36:05,133 --> 00:36:08,133 Not because we've earned it. 677 00:36:09,366 --> 00:36:11,166 We've been grafted 678 00:36:11,166 --> 00:36:14,166 into a relationship with him, 679 00:36:14,733 --> 00:36:17,100 or gifted in the Holy Spirit in that relationship, 680 00:36:17,100 --> 00:36:20,100 and grafted into his promises and into his family. 681 00:36:21,966 --> 00:36:24,966 As long as we continue in faith. 682 00:36:26,133 --> 00:36:26,766 Understanding. 683 00:36:26,766 --> 00:36:27,866 That's by his grace. 684 00:36:27,866 --> 00:36:30,800 I'm going to jump down to verse 25, 685 00:36:30,800 --> 00:36:32,566 lest you be wise in your own sight. 686 00:36:32,566 --> 00:36:34,533 I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery. 687 00:36:34,533 --> 00:36:36,800 Brothers, a partial hardening has come upon Israel 688 00:36:36,800 --> 00:36:38,633 until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 689 00:36:38,633 --> 00:36:41,633 Let me explain that the mystery of God 690 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:44,733 other place is called the mystery of the gospel. 691 00:36:44,733 --> 00:36:48,166 It's a Greek word mystery on and all it is. 692 00:36:48,666 --> 00:36:52,633 It's a mystery that Gentiles would be included 693 00:36:53,633 --> 00:36:57,300 in the Jewish faith saved by a Jewish Messiah. 694 00:36:57,300 --> 00:37:01,200 That's a mystery that the Jews could never fully understand, 695 00:37:02,966 --> 00:37:05,933 and that's why they rejected it. 696 00:37:05,933 --> 00:37:08,133 The mystery of God 697 00:37:08,133 --> 00:37:11,333 that he, in his grace, would include us. 698 00:37:11,533 --> 00:37:15,533 Not asking us to become Jewish, not asking us to obey law, 699 00:37:15,600 --> 00:37:17,266 but just simply by his grace. 700 00:37:17,266 --> 00:37:21,933 The mystery that by his grace he has included us in his family. 701 00:37:22,500 --> 00:37:24,800 You and I don't deserve it. You and I can't earn it. 702 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,133 It's simply by the grace of God, because grace is greater than you. 703 00:37:28,133 --> 00:37:31,133 Fill in the blank. 704 00:37:31,966 --> 00:37:34,500 And it says, until the full number of Gentiles has come in. 705 00:37:34,500 --> 00:37:36,466 Listen, I can't explain this. 706 00:37:36,466 --> 00:37:38,233 I can only tell you the fact of it. 707 00:37:38,233 --> 00:37:41,866 There is an eternal ticker that God is watching 708 00:37:43,333 --> 00:37:46,333 of non-Jews who are going to come to faith. 709 00:37:46,466 --> 00:37:49,466 And when the last clicker clicks 710 00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:52,433 and that number is complete, 711 00:37:52,433 --> 00:37:58,033 then that will be the end times when the nation of Israel will come back 712 00:37:59,166 --> 00:38:01,233 to Christ. 713 00:38:01,233 --> 00:38:03,133 It's amazing. 714 00:38:03,133 --> 00:38:06,133 And right now that ticker is ticking 715 00:38:07,066 --> 00:38:10,400 till the full number of Gentiles has come in. 716 00:38:12,066 --> 00:38:13,800 And this is why Paul's prayer 717 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,800 in Ephesians six is what it is. 718 00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:20,700 Ephesians six, verses 19 and 20. 719 00:38:22,500 --> 00:38:24,900 Talks about give me words and wisdom. 720 00:38:24,900 --> 00:38:29,533 I may proclaim the mystery of the gospel and fiercely proclaim it as I should. 721 00:38:30,700 --> 00:38:34,766 That's my prayer for myself every single morning that words 722 00:38:34,766 --> 00:38:37,866 will be given me there fills your mouth on the mystery of the gospel. 723 00:38:40,233 --> 00:38:43,500 Because I know there's an eternal clicker that's clicking. 724 00:38:44,700 --> 00:38:47,700 And this is why it's so important for us to plant churches. 725 00:38:48,433 --> 00:38:51,433 Because the moment that happens. 726 00:38:55,500 --> 00:38:57,700 Listen, let me read 2020. 727 00:38:57,700 --> 00:38:59,933 And as regards the gospel, they are enemies. 728 00:38:59,933 --> 00:39:02,066 They're talking about Jews as regards the gospel. 729 00:39:02,066 --> 00:39:03,300 They're enemies for your sake. 730 00:39:03,300 --> 00:39:05,733 But as regards election, they're the beloved 731 00:39:05,733 --> 00:39:09,600 for the sake of the forefathers, for the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. 732 00:39:09,600 --> 00:39:12,000 Here's what he's saying regarding salvation 733 00:39:13,066 --> 00:39:16,500 and God's mystery to include us there. 734 00:39:16,500 --> 00:39:19,700 Enemies of that, the Jews as a nation, their enemies so they don't get it. 735 00:39:21,100 --> 00:39:24,933 But regarding God's choosing of them, they're beloved of God 736 00:39:24,933 --> 00:39:27,933 because God made a promise to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. 737 00:39:28,466 --> 00:39:31,466 And God is always faithful to his promise. 738 00:39:33,833 --> 00:39:35,400 For the the, the gifts 739 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:38,400 and coming of God are irrevocable. 740 00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:42,600 They will come back. 741 00:39:44,866 --> 00:39:46,600 The gifts and corner are. 742 00:39:46,600 --> 00:39:49,600 He's not going to renege on his promises. 743 00:39:50,366 --> 00:39:50,733 Here's why. 744 00:39:50,733 --> 00:39:53,833 After God's promises are not seasonal, they're eternal. 745 00:39:55,633 --> 00:39:58,633 And all Israel as a nation will be saved 746 00:39:59,133 --> 00:40:02,733 when that final clicker clicks in the end times. 747 00:40:04,566 --> 00:40:07,800 For just as you were at one time disobedient to God, 748 00:40:07,800 --> 00:40:12,066 but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, they were disobedient. 749 00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:14,100 So God turned his mercy towards us. 750 00:40:15,300 --> 00:40:16,133 So they too 751 00:40:16,133 --> 00:40:20,833 have now been disobedient, in order that by the mercy 752 00:40:20,833 --> 00:40:24,800 shown to you, to us, they also may now receive mercy. 753 00:40:25,633 --> 00:40:28,500 For God has consigned all to disobedience, 754 00:40:28,500 --> 00:40:31,800 that he might have mercy on all he said. 755 00:40:31,800 --> 00:40:35,566 Look, they were disobedient, so God can be merciful to us. 756 00:40:35,566 --> 00:40:40,733 By his grace he was under his grace 757 00:40:41,733 --> 00:40:46,500 is going to, and even our disobey is going to make God turn his mercy towards them. 758 00:40:46,733 --> 00:40:49,966 We're all disobedient so that God can have 759 00:40:49,966 --> 00:40:52,966 mercy on us all. 760 00:40:56,100 --> 00:40:59,100 Let me let me explain this. 761 00:40:59,466 --> 00:41:01,500 There will come a time 762 00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:04,500 when God will save 763 00:41:04,600 --> 00:41:07,800 and keep and fulfill all his promises to the nation of Israel, 764 00:41:08,066 --> 00:41:12,866 and all the Jews will come to faith in the end times. 765 00:41:12,866 --> 00:41:15,400 It's a promise. It's in the book of revelation. 766 00:41:15,400 --> 00:41:16,800 But I want to understand something. 767 00:41:17,933 --> 00:41:18,533 When God 768 00:41:18,533 --> 00:41:21,966 talks about saving his nation, it's not being saved. 769 00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:24,100 Diachronic. 770 00:41:24,100 --> 00:41:26,766 That's a fancy word for saving all Jews from all time. 771 00:41:26,766 --> 00:41:28,800 Since the beginning of time. 772 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:31,600 The Bible talks about saving Jews. 773 00:41:31,600 --> 00:41:34,200 Synchrony. 774 00:41:34,200 --> 00:41:37,200 Sin chronically, which means all Jews at the time. 775 00:41:37,966 --> 00:41:40,933 So there will come a time when the Jews at that time 776 00:41:40,933 --> 00:41:43,933 will all come to faith, 777 00:41:44,033 --> 00:41:47,433 because God has turned his mercy and grace to us, 778 00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:51,600 and because we have preached his word. 779 00:41:52,400 --> 00:41:55,200 And that will make the Jews jealous 780 00:41:55,200 --> 00:41:58,200 in the end times, and they will come back to faith. 781 00:41:59,866 --> 00:42:02,133 This is all part of God's cosmic plan, 782 00:42:02,133 --> 00:42:05,133 and you and I get to be a part of it 783 00:42:05,900 --> 00:42:07,333 in humility, because he doesn't 784 00:42:07,333 --> 00:42:10,333 have to use us to do it. 785 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:13,666 So that he may have mercy on us all. 786 00:42:16,500 --> 00:42:17,233 This God's 787 00:42:17,233 --> 00:42:20,233 mercy and grace are not his reward for my goodness. 788 00:42:20,300 --> 00:42:23,300 They are his response to my need. 789 00:42:24,233 --> 00:42:26,933 God's mercy and grace is not a response to your goodness. 790 00:42:26,933 --> 00:42:29,933 It's a response to your need. 791 00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:32,066 That's why he's merciful. 792 00:42:32,066 --> 00:42:34,200 That's why he's gracious. 793 00:42:34,200 --> 00:42:35,400 Not because we've earned it. 794 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,400 Because we need it. 795 00:42:40,033 --> 00:42:43,033 Let me just wrap up with this. 796 00:42:43,433 --> 00:42:46,233 It's been a lot of Bible today. 797 00:42:46,233 --> 00:42:46,833 You okay? 798 00:42:46,833 --> 00:42:49,833 I got three, like, three more verses. Yes. 799 00:42:50,833 --> 00:42:54,533 And so in light of all this, this is this is, just imagine Paul, 800 00:42:56,066 --> 00:42:59,066 we only have one description physically, of Paul, 801 00:42:59,566 --> 00:43:03,600 and the description is of a short, bald man 802 00:43:05,266 --> 00:43:07,800 with bow legs 803 00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:10,800 and a big hooked nose 804 00:43:11,066 --> 00:43:15,233 that the only description you have is not of an attractive man. 805 00:43:15,733 --> 00:43:18,900 So that's why I identify so well with him. 806 00:43:19,300 --> 00:43:19,800 I mean, there is 807 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:23,066 the short bald guy, bald and a big no. 808 00:43:23,066 --> 00:43:24,600 He just. 809 00:43:24,600 --> 00:43:27,900 And I imagine Paul, he's writing all this down. 810 00:43:27,966 --> 00:43:32,400 And then at the end of this understanding God's cosmic plan for his people 811 00:43:32,400 --> 00:43:36,633 and then turning that plan to us Gentiles, though always leaving a remnant 812 00:43:36,633 --> 00:43:37,833 that is faithful to him. 813 00:43:37,833 --> 00:43:40,500 And ultimately, one day when the clicker clicks 814 00:43:40,500 --> 00:43:44,200 and all his people come back to him, Paul can do nothing is really oh, 815 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:48,266 the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God. 816 00:43:48,533 --> 00:43:52,500 How unsearchable are his judgment, how inscrutable his ways, 817 00:43:53,666 --> 00:43:55,800 his amazing. 818 00:43:55,800 --> 00:43:58,800 And he's drawing on the truth of Isaiah 55, 819 00:43:59,300 --> 00:44:02,366 that God's ways are higher and far above yours. 820 00:44:02,366 --> 00:44:04,900 And my thoughts, his ways are far above. 821 00:44:04,900 --> 00:44:09,566 How incredible is this in light of all of this God, you know what you're doing. 822 00:44:09,733 --> 00:44:12,000 If you left after me, I'd have done it different. 823 00:44:12,000 --> 00:44:14,166 I'm so glad you didn't leave it up to me. 824 00:44:14,166 --> 00:44:15,600 Your ways are right. 825 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:17,166 Your ways are higher. 826 00:44:17,166 --> 00:44:18,800 Your ways are profound. 827 00:44:18,800 --> 00:44:21,200 I can't even understand them. But I know they're right. 828 00:44:23,100 --> 00:44:26,066 And then he ends with this. 829 00:44:26,066 --> 00:44:28,433 For from him and through him 830 00:44:28,433 --> 00:44:31,433 and to him are all things. 831 00:44:31,700 --> 00:44:33,733 To him be glory forever. Amen. 832 00:44:33,733 --> 00:44:37,833 I love how he writes this, because notice what he says, for from him 833 00:44:38,133 --> 00:44:41,366 and through him and to him are all things, 834 00:44:41,366 --> 00:44:44,366 all one syllable words. 835 00:44:45,666 --> 00:44:48,500 In essence, he's making it as simple as possible. 836 00:44:48,500 --> 00:44:52,733 If you can utter a one syllable word, you know the truth of the gospel, 837 00:44:52,833 --> 00:44:57,200 for from him and through him and to him are all things. 838 00:44:57,200 --> 00:44:58,933 Some of you right now don't believe in your Savior. 839 00:44:58,933 --> 00:45:01,933 It isn't really one syllable. 840 00:45:03,066 --> 00:45:04,266 Right? 841 00:45:04,266 --> 00:45:08,766 For from him and through him and to him are all things. 842 00:45:09,066 --> 00:45:11,300 How much more simple can it be? 843 00:45:11,300 --> 00:45:15,600 Oh, God, you are so great and your plan is so inscrutable. 844 00:45:15,666 --> 00:45:17,100 I can't understand it, 845 00:45:17,100 --> 00:45:20,633 but at the end of the day, I am so overwhelmed with who you are. 846 00:45:20,633 --> 00:45:21,266 Jesus 847 00:45:22,333 --> 00:45:23,500 forth from you 848 00:45:23,500 --> 00:45:26,700 and through you and to you are all things. 849 00:45:27,300 --> 00:45:28,733 To him be glory forever. 850 00:45:28,733 --> 00:45:29,200 Amen. 851 00:45:29,200 --> 00:45:33,000 Like he's so wrapped up in this thing. Why? 852 00:45:33,100 --> 00:45:36,100 Because God's cosmic plan 853 00:45:36,233 --> 00:45:40,033 is not just for salvation of anybody who needs to be saved. 854 00:45:40,266 --> 00:45:44,000 It's also his cosmic plan for the glorification of his son. 855 00:45:44,100 --> 00:45:49,200 And that's how Paul ends this section of Romans and the glorification of the son. 856 00:45:49,200 --> 00:45:53,433 For from him and through him and to him are all things. 857 00:45:53,600 --> 00:45:56,933 To God be the glory forever. 858 00:45:57,600 --> 00:45:59,233 Amen, 859 00:45:59,233 --> 00:46:02,233 Amen. 860 00:46:03,233 --> 00:46:05,933 And the fact that you and I, 861 00:46:05,933 --> 00:46:08,466 in spite of ourselves, 862 00:46:08,466 --> 00:46:11,466 get to be adopted into this. 863 00:46:14,000 --> 00:46:17,000 What that means about you. 864 00:46:17,866 --> 00:46:20,866 You know, means about God. 865 00:46:22,800 --> 00:46:23,466 I don't know about you. 866 00:46:23,466 --> 00:46:25,833 This makes me walk around with a little bit straighter back and higher head. 867 00:46:28,433 --> 00:46:31,433 Because I know it's not anything I've done. 868 00:46:31,466 --> 00:46:32,933 It's not because of the grace of God. 869 00:46:32,933 --> 00:46:35,600 Because grace 870 00:46:35,600 --> 00:46:38,600 is greater. 871 00:46:40,533 --> 00:46:43,200 Praise be to God, 872 00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:43,566 father. 873 00:46:43,566 --> 00:46:46,566 Thank you. 874 00:46:46,700 --> 00:46:49,033 You didn't have to, 875 00:46:49,033 --> 00:46:52,033 but you chose to in your mercy and by your grace, 876 00:46:53,233 --> 00:46:56,233 turn your attention and your promises to people like me 877 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,000 and people like us. 878 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:02,100 Thank you. 879 00:47:02,100 --> 00:47:05,100 Thank you that you're not done with your people. 880 00:47:05,200 --> 00:47:07,933 Thank you that you're not done with your nation. 881 00:47:07,933 --> 00:47:13,866 And thank you that we get to be supporters of your people and of your nation. 882 00:47:13,866 --> 00:47:16,866 What an honor that is for us. 883 00:47:20,166 --> 00:47:20,600 Thank you 884 00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:23,866 for the honor you've given us to invest our lives 885 00:47:23,866 --> 00:47:26,866 and our money in planting churches. 886 00:47:28,533 --> 00:47:30,666 To accomplish your global plan, 887 00:47:30,666 --> 00:47:33,800 your cosmic plan of the saving of many. 888 00:47:37,033 --> 00:47:39,133 Thank you for the responsibility 889 00:47:39,133 --> 00:47:42,133 you've given us to give a reason for the hope that we have. 890 00:47:45,166 --> 00:47:48,866 That others may step into your cosmic plan 891 00:47:48,866 --> 00:47:51,866 of being saved. 892 00:47:54,200 --> 00:47:55,633 For. For you and through you. 893 00:47:55,633 --> 00:47:58,633 And to you are all things. 894 00:47:59,766 --> 00:48:02,766 You to be glorified forever. 895 00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:04,733 Friends, in this moment, 896 00:48:04,733 --> 00:48:07,733 I want to give you a chance to align your life 897 00:48:08,966 --> 00:48:11,766 with the cosmic plan of God 898 00:48:11,766 --> 00:48:14,066 with the life of His Son, 899 00:48:14,066 --> 00:48:17,100 and step into the reality and the destiny 900 00:48:17,800 --> 00:48:20,800 that he has intended for you. 901 00:48:21,366 --> 00:48:23,633 By faith. 902 00:48:23,633 --> 00:48:26,633 Because of God's grace. 903 00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:32,200 I invite you of this moment to say, God, I'm yours. 904 00:48:32,333 --> 00:48:34,300 It's real simple. 905 00:48:34,300 --> 00:48:37,300 You simple words, God, I'm yours. 906 00:48:37,766 --> 00:48:39,333 I receive 907 00:48:39,333 --> 00:48:42,166 what Jesus did for me on the cross. 908 00:48:42,166 --> 00:48:44,400 I accept that work 909 00:48:44,400 --> 00:48:47,966 of forgiveness in my life and I step into. 910 00:48:50,000 --> 00:48:52,566 Both my 911 00:48:52,566 --> 00:48:55,566 present and my destiny. 912 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,400 To glorify and magnify the name of your son. 913 00:49:09,033 --> 00:49:10,766 Help me in this moment. 914 00:49:10,766 --> 00:49:15,066 Learn and know what I must now do. 915 00:49:15,466 --> 00:49:17,266 Because of what you've done. 916 00:49:17,266 --> 00:49:20,266 To follow you more faithfully, 917 00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:25,200 more purposefully, with great humility 918 00:49:26,666 --> 00:49:29,666 and thanksgiving. 919 00:49:29,933 --> 00:49:32,700 God, you are a good God. 920 00:49:32,700 --> 00:49:35,700 Thank you for your word that speaks so clearly 921 00:49:36,433 --> 00:49:36,900 in your name. 922 00:49:36,900 --> 00:49:39,300 I pray now 923 00:49:39,300 --> 00:49:40,933 listen. 924 00:49:40,933 --> 00:49:43,566 You all have been through three weeks of 925 00:49:43,566 --> 00:49:47,266 deeply theological and doctrinal truths from Romans nine 1011. It. 926 00:49:47,766 --> 00:49:49,433 Yeah, those are some tough chapters. 927 00:49:49,433 --> 00:49:52,033 Most people don't preach on that and most people don't read it. 928 00:49:52,033 --> 00:49:54,800 I'm proud of you. Great job. 929 00:49:54,800 --> 00:49:57,800 I would encourage you to go back and read 1911 again with some new eyes. 930 00:49:58,466 --> 00:50:00,566 Read chapter 12. Chapter 12 is a lot of fun. 931 00:50:00,566 --> 00:50:02,700 It's going to get a lot of fun now as we go finish this book out. 932 00:50:03,800 --> 00:50:04,466 Now, here's the other thing. 933 00:50:04,466 --> 00:50:07,466 I ask those little cards in front of you. 934 00:50:07,800 --> 00:50:08,900 You made some decision. 935 00:50:08,900 --> 00:50:10,400 You want to talk with a staff person? 936 00:50:10,400 --> 00:50:11,733 Fill that out, please. 937 00:50:11,733 --> 00:50:14,733 Put it in the little box on the, on the on the wall back there. 938 00:50:14,833 --> 00:50:15,666 Take it by the start. 939 00:50:15,666 --> 00:50:18,066 Here, booth, stop by the welcome center. 940 00:50:18,066 --> 00:50:20,933 Like, communicate with us. 941 00:50:20,933 --> 00:50:22,033 I'd love to talk to you, Jeff. 942 00:50:22,033 --> 00:50:22,933 Love to talk to you, Ali. 943 00:50:22,933 --> 00:50:25,933 Love talk to like any of would like to communicate with us. 944 00:50:26,866 --> 00:50:28,666 That's why we stand around after service 945 00:50:28,666 --> 00:50:31,666 and let other people clean up so we can just get. 946 00:50:33,300 --> 00:50:35,233 Listen 947 00:50:35,233 --> 00:50:38,233 for him, through him and to him are all things. 948 00:50:38,333 --> 00:50:39,366 To him be glory forever. 949 00:50:39,366 --> 00:50:41,266 Amen. 950 00:50:41,266 --> 00:50:42,833 Stand up and let's sing it like we believe it.