1 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:10,400 Are any of you tired of that video yet? 2 00:00:10,566 --> 00:00:12,600 Can you start saying the words ahead of time? 3 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,500 You know, kind of where it's going to be with us for a while. 4 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:17,766 You spent a couple months so far in the book of Romans, 5 00:00:17,766 --> 00:00:22,633 and we're going to be, finishing, finishing out Romans eight this morning. 6 00:00:22,633 --> 00:00:26,466 And so if you have a Bible and brought one with you on a smart device 7 00:00:26,466 --> 00:00:29,466 or whatever turned there, Romans eight, I'll give you a moment to get there. 8 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:33,200 And before we open that up, let me just give you a little bit of, 9 00:00:33,300 --> 00:00:36,300 family business as far as the church is concerned. 10 00:00:36,833 --> 00:00:39,066 Kaylee Dubay has been serving 11 00:00:39,066 --> 00:00:42,066 this church on staff for over four years. 12 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:45,466 And, hey, there's gone by fast for years. 13 00:00:46,533 --> 00:00:48,300 And just this school year, 14 00:00:48,300 --> 00:00:51,700 she accepted a full time position at Stone Creek Elementary. 15 00:00:52,200 --> 00:00:55,800 So for the past seven months, she's working full time there 16 00:00:56,366 --> 00:01:00,133 and then still leading all things children's ministry here. 17 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:03,600 To say that's a big task is an understatement. 18 00:01:04,233 --> 00:01:08,366 And she has been working very hard for a very long time. 19 00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:11,166 And I'm so proud of you. And I thank you. 20 00:01:11,166 --> 00:01:12,333 You've done a great job. 21 00:01:12,333 --> 00:01:15,566 You and Sean have served together for a long time. 22 00:01:16,100 --> 00:01:17,566 But what's happened? 23 00:01:17,566 --> 00:01:20,133 Because as we grow, 24 00:01:20,133 --> 00:01:21,633 we need to make a change. 25 00:01:21,633 --> 00:01:25,200 And Kaylee and I have talked about this, and she's good with it. 26 00:01:25,933 --> 00:01:29,666 But we're making a change as far as Kaylee's role here to. 27 00:01:29,866 --> 00:01:32,766 She won't be on paid staff as she has been. 28 00:01:32,766 --> 00:01:37,466 Michael Rondon, who has been our youth pastor, is moving into the position 29 00:01:37,466 --> 00:01:41,433 of next gen ministry to oversee birth through eighth grade 30 00:01:41,700 --> 00:01:44,166 and to administrate and coordinate the whole thing. 31 00:01:44,166 --> 00:01:48,366 And Kaylee is stepping aside as far as being a paid staff member. 32 00:01:48,666 --> 00:01:52,733 Still loves the church, loves us, loves your kids, 33 00:01:53,533 --> 00:01:57,000 and still involved, but in a way that allows her, 34 00:01:58,266 --> 00:02:01,266 a little bit of breathing room in her. 35 00:02:01,566 --> 00:02:02,600 I know you love her. 36 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:03,300 Say that again. 37 00:02:03,300 --> 00:02:05,866 Jeff's in there. You. Absolutely. 38 00:02:05,866 --> 00:02:08,300 So it's it's it's within. 39 00:02:08,300 --> 00:02:09,900 And this needs to happen. 40 00:02:09,900 --> 00:02:12,900 But also, it's a little bit of a sad heart, too. 41 00:02:13,366 --> 00:02:16,066 So after the service, just make sure you give Kaylee a hug. 42 00:02:16,066 --> 00:02:17,066 Tell her you love her. 43 00:02:17,066 --> 00:02:20,066 Thank her for all of her ministry and her years of service, 44 00:02:20,233 --> 00:02:23,000 and we're going to celebrate her next week a little bit as well. 45 00:02:23,000 --> 00:02:25,966 But just want to let you know that ministry is still in good hands. 46 00:02:25,966 --> 00:02:26,333 Okay. 47 00:02:26,333 --> 00:02:27,933 It's still in really good hands and we're excited. 48 00:02:27,933 --> 00:02:30,100 What God's doing? 49 00:02:30,100 --> 00:02:32,133 But I didn't want this to happen without your knowledge. 50 00:02:32,133 --> 00:02:35,133 I want you to be able to love her and celebrate her in that we're good. 51 00:02:35,866 --> 00:02:37,933 Okay, Cathy. You good? Yeah. 52 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:39,733 All right. 53 00:02:39,733 --> 00:02:42,466 Hey. Romans eight. 54 00:02:42,466 --> 00:02:46,800 Before we were going to be in, verses 29 through 39 today, but. 55 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:51,766 But I need to go back to verse 28 to kind of set the stage for us. 56 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:53,633 We need to set the table before we eat. 57 00:02:53,633 --> 00:02:57,866 So in setting the table, verse 28, and we know that 58 00:02:57,866 --> 00:03:01,766 for those who love God, all things work together for good, 59 00:03:02,100 --> 00:03:05,100 for those who are called according to his purpose. 60 00:03:06,100 --> 00:03:07,066 Here's what I know. 61 00:03:07,066 --> 00:03:11,400 That's a promise from God that he is synergize all things 62 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,800 for good for those who love him and are called according to his purpose. 63 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:17,000 But here's the thing. 64 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:20,033 Our trust in that promise 65 00:03:21,400 --> 00:03:23,933 will be based on our belief 66 00:03:23,933 --> 00:03:26,800 of the character of God. 67 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,433 Our trust in that promise 68 00:03:29,433 --> 00:03:32,000 is going to be the foundation of our trust 69 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,000 in that is going to be on what we believe to be the character of God. 70 00:03:35,100 --> 00:03:39,966 If we don't trust the character of God, we will not trust the providence of God. 71 00:03:41,366 --> 00:03:42,900 Do you understand? 72 00:03:42,900 --> 00:03:45,200 Providence is God's way of working 73 00:03:45,200 --> 00:03:51,066 within natural systems to work out his good and perfect will. 74 00:03:51,200 --> 00:03:54,200 Not. Miraculously, that's when he overrides those systems, 75 00:03:54,200 --> 00:03:58,966 but providentially working within them to accomplish his good purpose and will 76 00:03:59,600 --> 00:04:03,000 and our trust that God is providentially working. 77 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,100 All things, synergize all things providentially 78 00:04:06,100 --> 00:04:09,233 for good is going to be based on how much we trust his character. 79 00:04:09,300 --> 00:04:12,300 If you don't trust his character, you don't trust his providence. 80 00:04:12,500 --> 00:04:15,500 That makes sense to you, doesn't it? 81 00:04:15,500 --> 00:04:17,700 Anytime we start to doubt 82 00:04:17,700 --> 00:04:20,700 the providence of God, 83 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:23,833 it's really a statement that we're starting to doubt his character 84 00:04:24,966 --> 00:04:27,400 because we don't trust him. 85 00:04:27,400 --> 00:04:30,866 And and so so all of this, these promises 86 00:04:30,866 --> 00:04:33,866 to synergize all things together for good. 87 00:04:34,900 --> 00:04:39,300 Our trust resides in the trust of his character, of his heart 88 00:04:41,100 --> 00:04:42,766 and understanding what it is. 89 00:04:42,766 --> 00:04:45,933 He is working all things together for good for. 90 00:04:46,400 --> 00:04:49,400 And that's what gets us to verse 29. 91 00:04:49,833 --> 00:04:52,833 So because I trust his character, I'm going to believe this verse, 92 00:04:53,433 --> 00:04:56,433 that he's synergize all things together 93 00:04:57,300 --> 00:04:59,366 for those whom he for new. 94 00:04:59,366 --> 00:05:03,400 He also predestined to become, to be conformed to the image of His son 95 00:05:03,766 --> 00:05:06,900 in order that he might be the firstborn amongst many brothers. 96 00:05:06,900 --> 00:05:08,933 So we're going to get into this in a minute. 97 00:05:08,933 --> 00:05:13,066 We're going to deal with some some issues here that some people bicker about a lot. 98 00:05:13,066 --> 00:05:16,200 But before we get there, I want you to understand 99 00:05:16,833 --> 00:05:20,133 that verse 29 tells us that verse 28 says 100 00:05:20,133 --> 00:05:24,566 he synergize all things together for good and the good. 101 00:05:24,566 --> 00:05:29,700 He synergize all things together for is to conform us to the image of Jesus. 102 00:05:30,566 --> 00:05:34,500 See, we often think that because God has promised to work 103 00:05:34,500 --> 00:05:38,266 all things together for good, it means our ease and our comfort. 104 00:05:39,100 --> 00:05:41,466 That's how we translate good. 105 00:05:41,466 --> 00:05:45,066 Like God's going to synergize this pain for my pleasure. 106 00:05:45,133 --> 00:05:48,300 God is going to synergize this difficulty for my comfort. 107 00:05:48,300 --> 00:05:52,500 God is going to synergize this turmoil for my ease. 108 00:05:52,566 --> 00:05:54,933 And that's not what God means by good. 109 00:05:54,933 --> 00:05:58,766 What God means by good is to conform us to the image of His Son. 110 00:05:59,366 --> 00:06:00,766 We have to understand that 111 00:06:01,733 --> 00:06:03,400 because if we think that God's going to 112 00:06:03,400 --> 00:06:06,566 synergize, work together, all things together for my ease and comfort. 113 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:09,300 How many of us can give testimony that you know what? 114 00:06:09,300 --> 00:06:12,300 Sometimes my life doesn't turn out that way, right? 115 00:06:13,200 --> 00:06:15,300 But through all things, 116 00:06:15,300 --> 00:06:18,800 we can reflect the image of Christ to the world. 117 00:06:19,733 --> 00:06:21,000 Does that make sense? 118 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:24,666 That's the good God is working us towards 119 00:06:24,666 --> 00:06:28,933 and synergize us toward so that we have to. 120 00:06:28,933 --> 00:06:32,700 And so let's just let let's go back now and put 29 and 30 together. 121 00:06:32,933 --> 00:06:36,900 For those whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed 122 00:06:36,900 --> 00:06:38,100 to the image of His son, 123 00:06:38,100 --> 00:06:41,333 in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 124 00:06:41,666 --> 00:06:45,633 And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called. 125 00:06:45,633 --> 00:06:48,333 He also justified in the same jealous fire also glorified. 126 00:06:48,333 --> 00:06:48,766 There's a 127 00:06:50,366 --> 00:06:52,500 there's a lot of people 128 00:06:52,500 --> 00:06:56,100 that want to sit down and talk about this whole idea 129 00:06:56,100 --> 00:07:01,000 of predestination or free will, and that's what they get out of these verses. 130 00:07:01,000 --> 00:07:03,500 Well, let's debate is it predestination or is it free will? 131 00:07:03,500 --> 00:07:06,400 Does God predestined some to heaven or predestined some to hell? 132 00:07:06,400 --> 00:07:08,500 If so, it doesn't seem like people have much choice. 133 00:07:08,500 --> 00:07:11,833 And there's others are like, you know, God just it's all free will. 134 00:07:11,833 --> 00:07:12,700 You choose God? 135 00:07:12,700 --> 00:07:15,433 And that's up to you. Listen, 136 00:07:15,433 --> 00:07:17,366 let me explain to you 137 00:07:17,366 --> 00:07:20,266 when Paul uses these words foreknowledge, 138 00:07:20,266 --> 00:07:24,300 predestination, calling, justification. 139 00:07:24,300 --> 00:07:27,300 Gloria Fication. Those are the biggies. 140 00:07:27,766 --> 00:07:30,966 Yes, God for knows all things. 141 00:07:30,966 --> 00:07:34,866 We call it omniscient, all knowing. 142 00:07:35,933 --> 00:07:38,766 So God knows ahead of time 143 00:07:38,766 --> 00:07:41,833 everybody who's going to respond to him. 144 00:07:42,966 --> 00:07:44,600 You understand that? 145 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:47,400 Listen, here's the deal we have to get this foreknowledge 146 00:07:47,400 --> 00:07:50,400 does not necessarily imply content 147 00:07:50,700 --> 00:07:52,066 or consent. 148 00:07:52,066 --> 00:07:54,300 Foreknowledge is not imply consent. 149 00:07:54,300 --> 00:07:57,700 You can know your kid's going to sneak out and be an idiot, 150 00:07:58,633 --> 00:08:01,033 but does that mean you consent to it? 151 00:08:01,033 --> 00:08:03,666 No. Okay, so 152 00:08:03,666 --> 00:08:06,000 so foreknowledge doesn't necessarily imply consent. 153 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:08,900 God has, for all he knows, all things, 154 00:08:08,900 --> 00:08:12,433 and what he knows is what he has called. 155 00:08:12,433 --> 00:08:15,000 He has predestined everybody. 156 00:08:15,000 --> 00:08:17,533 Second Peter three nine the Lord is not willing or not 157 00:08:17,533 --> 00:08:22,433 slow to fulfill his promise, as some consider slowness, but is patient 158 00:08:22,433 --> 00:08:26,100 toward you and me, not wishing that any should 159 00:08:26,100 --> 00:08:29,100 what he don't want anybody perish. 160 00:08:29,300 --> 00:08:32,300 He doesn't predestined anybody to perish. 161 00:08:32,366 --> 00:08:36,133 But all that all should what come to repentance? 162 00:08:36,633 --> 00:08:40,500 So his predetermined destination is repentance. 163 00:08:40,500 --> 00:08:42,000 That's what he wants for everybody. 164 00:08:43,133 --> 00:08:43,966 He, in his 165 00:08:43,966 --> 00:08:47,100 foreknowledge, knows those who will and those who won't. 166 00:08:47,766 --> 00:08:51,933 Just because he knows someone doesn't mean that he consents to those who won't. 167 00:08:52,100 --> 00:08:53,866 That's their choice. 168 00:08:53,866 --> 00:08:56,700 So his foreknowledge knows all. 169 00:08:56,700 --> 00:08:57,833 He is predestined. 170 00:08:57,833 --> 00:09:02,400 Every person that's been created by him to live with him. 171 00:09:03,500 --> 00:09:07,266 And though that is his predestined 172 00:09:07,866 --> 00:09:10,966 destination, ultimately that's what he desires. 173 00:09:11,500 --> 00:09:14,100 So then he calls. 174 00:09:14,100 --> 00:09:14,733 Let's go back. 175 00:09:14,733 --> 00:09:17,433 Those whom he predestined, he also called. 176 00:09:17,433 --> 00:09:20,400 So he puts out the call to everyone 177 00:09:20,400 --> 00:09:23,400 and calls them to respond. 178 00:09:23,433 --> 00:09:24,666 Romans three. 179 00:09:24,666 --> 00:09:24,900 Sorry. 180 00:09:24,900 --> 00:09:27,833 Revelation 320 behold, I stand at the door and knock. 181 00:09:27,833 --> 00:09:28,833 I'm calling. 182 00:09:28,833 --> 00:09:31,233 I want you. 183 00:09:31,233 --> 00:09:34,366 If you open the door and let me in. 184 00:09:34,766 --> 00:09:36,266 We'll have fellowship. 185 00:09:36,266 --> 00:09:39,033 So? So he knows who will and who won't. 186 00:09:39,033 --> 00:09:42,000 His predetermined death desire is that we 187 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:45,400 all are a part of his family through faith. 188 00:09:46,066 --> 00:09:48,900 He calls us to respond. 189 00:09:50,700 --> 00:09:53,733 And those who respond, he justifies 190 00:09:55,666 --> 00:09:58,666 for those who foreknow it predestined to become the image of the son on earth. 191 00:09:58,666 --> 00:10:02,166 Those might be the firstborn of his, of the brethren, of the brothers, 192 00:10:03,233 --> 00:10:07,733 those who whom he predestined, he called, those he called and respond 193 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:10,800 with, or are justified were made right with him 194 00:10:11,533 --> 00:10:13,966 through faith by his grace, 195 00:10:13,966 --> 00:10:16,666 not of our own doing. 196 00:10:16,666 --> 00:10:18,766 And whoever he justifies, he, 197 00:10:18,766 --> 00:10:22,333 he, he also has glorified. Now 198 00:10:23,700 --> 00:10:28,300 God's know it foreknowledge knows who is going to open the door and who's not. 199 00:10:28,300 --> 00:10:31,300 Who's going to reject that, 200 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:33,300 though he knows, doesn't mean 201 00:10:33,300 --> 00:10:36,300 that he has determined solely. 202 00:10:37,133 --> 00:10:41,066 He's determined that the desired destination is a relationship. 203 00:10:41,266 --> 00:10:45,100 And so he calls and whoever opens the door of their free 204 00:10:45,100 --> 00:10:48,966 will because God has initiated that, 205 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:51,666 he enters. 206 00:10:51,666 --> 00:10:55,000 And because of what Jesus did on the cross has justified made them right with God. 207 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:59,000 And whoever is justified through faith because of God's grace. 208 00:10:59,933 --> 00:11:03,266 The Paul says, is is glorified. 209 00:11:03,266 --> 00:11:07,266 Now the word of glorified means completely made new. 210 00:11:07,833 --> 00:11:11,566 It's the glorification that happens when we are with God in heaven. 211 00:11:12,000 --> 00:11:13,900 All things new. 212 00:11:13,900 --> 00:11:17,000 And Paul talks about it as if it's already happened. 213 00:11:17,833 --> 00:11:20,833 Now listen, I have been justified 214 00:11:20,866 --> 00:11:23,800 through Jesus with the father. 215 00:11:23,800 --> 00:11:27,866 So God looks at me through faith because of his grace, as if I had never sinned. 216 00:11:28,066 --> 00:11:30,600 Now Paul says, I am right now glorified. 217 00:11:30,600 --> 00:11:31,733 Now here's my problem. 218 00:11:31,733 --> 00:11:34,733 I looked in the mirror this morning. 219 00:11:35,333 --> 00:11:36,900 And though he talks about me 220 00:11:36,900 --> 00:11:40,500 as being glorified, I don't feel glorified. 221 00:11:41,100 --> 00:11:41,766 Anybody else? 222 00:11:43,066 --> 00:11:44,000 Yeah. 223 00:11:44,000 --> 00:11:45,500 So why would he say that? 224 00:11:45,500 --> 00:11:45,866 Here's why. 225 00:11:45,866 --> 00:11:48,866 He says that because of who God is. 226 00:11:49,533 --> 00:11:53,066 Let me just expand on who this God is. 227 00:11:53,733 --> 00:11:57,466 God is what we call omnipresent. 228 00:11:59,300 --> 00:12:00,800 God is. 229 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:01,266 God is. 230 00:12:01,266 --> 00:12:06,866 So God get this that he's outside the space time continuum. 231 00:12:07,466 --> 00:12:08,866 If I can just blow your mind for a minute. 232 00:12:08,866 --> 00:12:11,866 There was a time when time wasn't. 233 00:12:13,466 --> 00:12:15,966 All of time exists within God. 234 00:12:15,966 --> 00:12:17,633 He's bigger than time. 235 00:12:17,633 --> 00:12:18,900 So if you can. 236 00:12:18,900 --> 00:12:21,000 You understand. I'm saying, like there's a time when time was that. 237 00:12:21,000 --> 00:12:22,100 You understand that? 238 00:12:22,100 --> 00:12:24,400 No you don't. It's too big. I don't understand it either. 239 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:27,400 We understand the words, but we can't get our minds around that. 240 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,133 But because God is outside of this space time continuum, 241 00:12:32,633 --> 00:12:36,133 he talks about things that are in our future as if they've already happened. 242 00:12:36,133 --> 00:12:38,000 Because for him, they have. 243 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:40,200 So he sees us. 244 00:12:40,200 --> 00:12:44,033 He's already at that point when we're glorified with him in heaven. 245 00:12:44,100 --> 00:12:47,900 And so he talks about us as if you're in me through my son. 246 00:12:47,933 --> 00:12:50,400 You're glorified. It's a done deal. 247 00:12:50,400 --> 00:12:52,466 You don't have to hope that happens one day. 248 00:12:52,466 --> 00:12:54,266 It's a done deal. 249 00:12:56,700 --> 00:12:58,000 And so that's what he's saying. 250 00:12:58,000 --> 00:13:02,700 He said so listen, God is synergize all things together 251 00:13:03,000 --> 00:13:07,866 for the good so that you look like my son because he's desired you. 252 00:13:08,133 --> 00:13:09,766 He's called you. 253 00:13:09,766 --> 00:13:12,000 You've opened the door. 254 00:13:12,000 --> 00:13:14,100 You're right with me through my son. 255 00:13:14,100 --> 00:13:17,100 And you stand now glorified before me. 256 00:13:18,466 --> 00:13:20,433 It's amazing. 257 00:13:20,433 --> 00:13:23,133 Definitely amazing. 258 00:13:23,133 --> 00:13:25,833 No, a lot of people use these verses 259 00:13:25,833 --> 00:13:28,833 to debate predestination or for or free will. 260 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:31,700 Listen, I will never have that conversation with you 261 00:13:31,700 --> 00:13:35,733 because these passages are not about the debate of predestination. 262 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:39,133 These verses are about the assurance of culmination. 263 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:43,300 This is where it's headed. 264 00:13:43,300 --> 00:13:46,300 It's not so that we can debate destination or free will. 265 00:13:46,800 --> 00:13:48,066 Listen. 266 00:13:48,066 --> 00:13:49,533 If you could know, 267 00:13:49,533 --> 00:13:53,033 there are some things in Scripture that are just in tension with each other. 268 00:13:53,133 --> 00:13:55,233 They're not in contradiction. Their intention. 269 00:13:56,533 --> 00:13:56,866 And if 270 00:13:56,866 --> 00:14:00,733 we could understand everything that's in tension in Scripture, 271 00:14:00,733 --> 00:14:04,333 if we could understand all of that about God, God wouldn't be very majestic. 272 00:14:05,933 --> 00:14:09,366 I'm comfortable living with the tension that is in Scripture 273 00:14:09,866 --> 00:14:12,866 because it says to me, My God is so big. 274 00:14:13,366 --> 00:14:13,833 Listen. 275 00:14:13,833 --> 00:14:16,900 Any of you men who are married, can 276 00:14:16,900 --> 00:14:19,900 you understand everything about your wife? 277 00:14:19,933 --> 00:14:21,366 You know, 278 00:14:21,366 --> 00:14:24,000 they give testimony. 279 00:14:24,000 --> 00:14:25,566 We don't even understand a thing about a wife. 280 00:14:25,566 --> 00:14:28,200 How can we think we can understand everything about God? 281 00:14:28,200 --> 00:14:32,366 There are things about God that cause tension. 282 00:14:32,366 --> 00:14:34,300 Like I don't understand. 283 00:14:34,300 --> 00:14:37,500 And personally, I'm comfortable living in that tension 284 00:14:38,866 --> 00:14:40,833 because it just shows me. Here's the deal. 285 00:14:40,833 --> 00:14:44,900 I can make a case from Scripture and convince you 286 00:14:45,033 --> 00:14:48,733 about predestination that God has chosen from the beginning 287 00:14:48,733 --> 00:14:50,433 who will come to faith and who will not like. 288 00:14:50,433 --> 00:14:52,733 It's his decision and it predestined. 289 00:14:52,733 --> 00:14:54,200 I can make a biblical case from that. 290 00:14:55,366 --> 00:14:58,966 I can also make a biblical case that you wouldn't be able to argue with that. 291 00:14:58,966 --> 00:15:00,966 It's about our free will. 292 00:15:00,966 --> 00:15:03,966 I can make a case for both biblically, 293 00:15:04,300 --> 00:15:06,100 that's tension. 294 00:15:06,100 --> 00:15:10,333 And I'm comfortable living in that tension, because what Scripture tells me 295 00:15:10,333 --> 00:15:12,766 is not about the process, what Scripture tells me. 296 00:15:12,766 --> 00:15:15,300 It's about the culmination. 297 00:15:15,300 --> 00:15:18,266 Do you understand? 298 00:15:18,266 --> 00:15:20,700 For you and I, 299 00:15:20,700 --> 00:15:23,100 he is knocking on the door of your heart. 300 00:15:23,100 --> 00:15:25,733 He's chosen you already, 301 00:15:25,733 --> 00:15:28,233 but he knocks on the door. 302 00:15:28,233 --> 00:15:30,466 He has chosen you. 303 00:15:30,466 --> 00:15:33,466 But yet Jesus says, whoever will come, let him come. 304 00:15:34,766 --> 00:15:37,166 So there's still the choice. 305 00:15:37,166 --> 00:15:40,166 And that's the tension. 306 00:15:42,233 --> 00:15:45,233 Watch what he says. 307 00:15:46,400 --> 00:15:46,833 Where am I? 308 00:15:46,833 --> 00:15:47,600 Verse 31. 309 00:15:47,600 --> 00:15:49,933 What then shall we say to these things? 310 00:15:49,933 --> 00:15:51,600 If God is for us, who can be against us? 311 00:15:51,600 --> 00:15:54,166 Okay, so so what's your response as he says, what's your response? 312 00:15:54,166 --> 00:15:55,166 What are you gonna say? 313 00:15:55,166 --> 00:15:57,500 Now, we don't know exactly what Paul's talking about. 314 00:15:57,500 --> 00:15:59,966 He could be talking to all of Romans up to this point. 315 00:15:59,966 --> 00:16:01,833 He could be talking about. So what do you say now? 316 00:16:03,033 --> 00:16:03,700 What is it now? 317 00:16:03,700 --> 00:16:05,200 You deserve wrath. 318 00:16:05,200 --> 00:16:08,200 But, Jesus, what do you say now? 319 00:16:09,033 --> 00:16:11,566 He could be talking about everything we've talked about in the book of Romans. 320 00:16:11,566 --> 00:16:15,566 Or he could just be talking about what we've talked about in in Romans eight. 321 00:16:16,133 --> 00:16:17,666 And what do you say now? 322 00:16:17,666 --> 00:16:19,866 Now there's no condemnation because of Jesus. 323 00:16:19,866 --> 00:16:21,400 So what do you say about that? 324 00:16:21,400 --> 00:16:22,200 What do you say now? 325 00:16:22,200 --> 00:16:24,766 Now you've been adopted. All the rights and privileges. A son is yours. 326 00:16:24,766 --> 00:16:26,766 You're a career with Christ. What do you say? 327 00:16:26,766 --> 00:16:28,433 What do you say now? Romans 828. 328 00:16:28,433 --> 00:16:31,800 All things God synergize us for the good so you'll look like Jesus. 329 00:16:31,833 --> 00:16:32,666 What do you say about that? 330 00:16:32,666 --> 00:16:34,733 That's what he could be talking about. Everything in Romans eight. 331 00:16:34,733 --> 00:16:37,733 Or he could just be talking about this whole 332 00:16:37,966 --> 00:16:41,100 foreknowledge, predestination call justification and glorification. 333 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:42,966 What do you say about that? 334 00:16:42,966 --> 00:16:45,600 What he's doing is he's asking you for a response. 335 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:48,600 He's asking me for a response no matter what it is. 336 00:16:48,666 --> 00:16:51,433 He's. What do you think? What's your response? 337 00:16:52,433 --> 00:16:54,533 And then he answers his own question. 338 00:16:54,533 --> 00:16:57,533 If God is for us, who can be against us? 339 00:16:57,766 --> 00:17:01,866 Now, a lot of people could be against us. 340 00:17:01,900 --> 00:17:04,033 That's the answer. 341 00:17:04,033 --> 00:17:05,766 Right. 342 00:17:05,766 --> 00:17:07,566 If you ever had someone against you. 343 00:17:07,566 --> 00:17:09,633 Do you have had someone against your faith? 344 00:17:09,633 --> 00:17:12,633 Have you ever had someone against the way you're trying to live? 345 00:17:12,733 --> 00:17:13,766 There's a lot of people. Could be. 346 00:17:13,766 --> 00:17:15,966 But the the question is not. 347 00:17:15,966 --> 00:17:17,400 Well, nobody can be against it. Well done. 348 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,400 A lot of people could be against it, but who cares? 349 00:17:20,533 --> 00:17:22,866 Who cares? That's the point of it. 350 00:17:22,866 --> 00:17:25,433 Who cares who's against me? Why? 351 00:17:25,433 --> 00:17:27,266 Because God's for me. 352 00:17:27,266 --> 00:17:30,200 And God's already made his declaration over me. 353 00:17:30,200 --> 00:17:33,200 He loves me. He gave his son for me. 354 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:34,800 I'm right with him. 355 00:17:34,800 --> 00:17:36,666 So your opinion. You. 356 00:17:39,833 --> 00:17:42,833 Do you really think I care about your opinion? 357 00:17:42,833 --> 00:17:45,366 Like whenever I say stuff like that, my wife is like Carl. 358 00:17:45,366 --> 00:17:48,000 Like, don't be mean. 359 00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,100 You should care. 360 00:17:49,100 --> 00:17:51,233 Sometimes, 361 00:17:51,233 --> 00:17:54,233 I guess, but. 362 00:17:54,933 --> 00:17:57,666 I'm not suggesting be a jerk and don't care. 363 00:17:57,666 --> 00:18:00,100 I'm not saying that. 364 00:18:00,100 --> 00:18:02,366 But like, Paul is going to develop this further. 365 00:18:02,366 --> 00:18:05,366 Like, as if God is for us. Who cares? 366 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:10,033 Verse 32, he who did not spare his own son, but gave him up for us all, 367 00:18:10,066 --> 00:18:13,133 how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 368 00:18:14,733 --> 00:18:16,200 Listen, Paul's making both 369 00:18:16,200 --> 00:18:19,200 a logical and a theological argument. 370 00:18:19,233 --> 00:18:22,100 He's saying, If God gave you his son, 371 00:18:22,100 --> 00:18:25,766 why would he hold anything else back from you that you need? 372 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:27,900 Does that make sense? 373 00:18:27,900 --> 00:18:29,533 He gave you his son, 374 00:18:30,966 --> 00:18:33,966 so why would he hold anything else from you? 375 00:18:36,933 --> 00:18:39,133 Think about it like this. 376 00:18:39,133 --> 00:18:42,133 The most expensive diamond in the world. 377 00:18:45,833 --> 00:18:47,433 It's called the pink. 378 00:18:47,433 --> 00:18:48,866 The pink lady. 379 00:18:48,866 --> 00:18:51,300 Okay. The most pensive diamond in the world. 380 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:54,600 I think it's 52 carats, $72 million. 381 00:18:55,866 --> 00:18:58,200 Can you imagine 382 00:18:58,200 --> 00:18:58,666 it now? 383 00:18:58,666 --> 00:19:03,033 Now, consider for a moment the one who own that says to you. 384 00:19:03,733 --> 00:19:06,166 There's just something about you. 385 00:19:06,166 --> 00:19:09,166 And I so value you and treasure you. 386 00:19:09,266 --> 00:19:11,166 I'm captivated by you. 387 00:19:11,166 --> 00:19:14,100 I want to gift you this diamond 388 00:19:14,100 --> 00:19:17,100 gives you that $72 million diamond, 389 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:21,700 and you're taking it back. 390 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:24,866 And think about it for a moment. 391 00:19:24,866 --> 00:19:27,300 You're holding this diamond in your hand, 392 00:19:27,300 --> 00:19:30,300 and you say the gift to the gift or of that diamond. 393 00:19:30,566 --> 00:19:32,366 This is 394 00:19:32,366 --> 00:19:34,733 some think 395 00:19:34,733 --> 00:19:37,566 I don't want to carry it out of my pocket, though. 396 00:19:37,566 --> 00:19:39,600 And I don't want to get all smudgy. 397 00:19:39,600 --> 00:19:40,433 Can I have. 398 00:19:40,433 --> 00:19:43,433 Will you give me a little black velvet? 399 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:46,133 You know, a little case to put it in. 400 00:19:46,133 --> 00:19:48,633 Can you imagine after they just gave you that diamond? 401 00:19:48,633 --> 00:19:49,733 Can you imagine the saying? 402 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:55,333 What do you want me to give you for free? 403 00:19:56,100 --> 00:19:57,366 A little baggie? 404 00:19:57,366 --> 00:20:00,066 Are you kidding me? Who do you think you are? 405 00:20:00,066 --> 00:20:02,900 Why would I just give that to you? 406 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:05,900 That makes no sense. 407 00:20:06,133 --> 00:20:09,133 Why do we approach God that way? 408 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:11,700 He just gave us his son. 409 00:20:11,700 --> 00:20:14,466 Why did we come before him and think. 410 00:20:14,466 --> 00:20:17,933 Can can I bother you for something? No. 411 00:20:20,566 --> 00:20:23,566 Like, could you at all see it in your heart? 412 00:20:25,966 --> 00:20:28,966 Do you understand? 413 00:20:29,133 --> 00:20:29,633 He just. 414 00:20:29,633 --> 00:20:32,700 Paul saying this is both logical and theological. 415 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:36,566 Someone gave you his son. 416 00:20:36,566 --> 00:20:39,166 God gave you his son. 417 00:20:39,166 --> 00:20:42,166 Why would he keep anything else from you? 418 00:20:44,400 --> 00:20:48,333 Now? Apparently, 419 00:20:49,166 --> 00:20:51,500 we have the freedom 420 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:54,500 to ask the father for anything 421 00:20:55,366 --> 00:20:58,100 because he didn't spare his own son. 422 00:20:58,100 --> 00:21:02,666 And so, if you have a need, I will boldly tell you to ask. 423 00:21:04,100 --> 00:21:06,566 Just ask. 424 00:21:06,566 --> 00:21:09,566 Be bold in that. 425 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:10,800 And the reason I can be 426 00:21:10,800 --> 00:21:13,800 so bold in telling you to be bold is because I know you're not asking me. 427 00:21:13,800 --> 00:21:14,633 You're asking God. 428 00:21:14,633 --> 00:21:17,700 If you're asking me for something, you better temper your ask. 429 00:21:18,133 --> 00:21:19,933 Yeah. 430 00:21:19,933 --> 00:21:22,933 Do you understand? 431 00:21:23,000 --> 00:21:24,333 I will not give my son for you. 432 00:21:24,333 --> 00:21:26,400 I won't get my bulldog for you. 433 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:29,400 I don't know that I'll give you my sandwich, let alone you know. 434 00:21:30,933 --> 00:21:33,933 And so you can ask God boldly. 435 00:21:35,033 --> 00:21:38,033 But in your ask, you trust his character, 436 00:21:38,133 --> 00:21:41,366 and you know that his answer to your ask 437 00:21:41,366 --> 00:21:45,700 is going to be in line with what energizes you into the image of Jesus. 438 00:21:45,800 --> 00:21:51,200 So sometimes that ask will be in line with his synergy to make you like Jesus. 439 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:52,900 And he will say, absolutely. 440 00:21:52,900 --> 00:21:54,566 Thank you for trusting me and asking. 441 00:21:54,566 --> 00:21:56,200 And other times you will say no 442 00:21:57,500 --> 00:22:00,133 because to say no 443 00:22:00,133 --> 00:22:03,800 is works a greater good of the image of His Son in you. 444 00:22:05,266 --> 00:22:08,266 Do you follow? 445 00:22:08,666 --> 00:22:11,666 So ask. 446 00:22:12,766 --> 00:22:13,733 The verse to leave off, 447 00:22:13,733 --> 00:22:16,733 and I don't remember. 448 00:22:18,033 --> 00:22:21,000 He didn't say, okay, so look at verse 33. 449 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:24,000 So who shall bring any charge against God's elect? 450 00:22:24,600 --> 00:22:26,533 It's God who justifies. 451 00:22:26,533 --> 00:22:29,033 Verse 34, who is to condemn Christ? 452 00:22:29,033 --> 00:22:30,733 Jesus is the one who died. 453 00:22:30,733 --> 00:22:32,400 And more than that was also raised. 454 00:22:32,400 --> 00:22:36,133 He was at the right hand of God, who in is indeed is interceding for us. 455 00:22:36,600 --> 00:22:39,600 He says, look who's going to bring a charge against us. 456 00:22:39,633 --> 00:22:42,633 Well, like we just said, a lot of people. 457 00:22:43,000 --> 00:22:44,400 Anybody can bring a charge. 458 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,400 So for me, 459 00:22:47,766 --> 00:22:49,266 you know, 460 00:22:49,266 --> 00:22:51,500 the uniqueness of the charges against me 461 00:22:51,500 --> 00:22:54,500 are pretty significant because here's the deal. 462 00:22:54,766 --> 00:22:56,666 I have this role as pastor, 463 00:22:57,733 --> 00:22:58,800 and people have brought a 464 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:01,800 lot of charges because they don't agree with my faith. 465 00:23:02,666 --> 00:23:03,566 You understand? 466 00:23:03,566 --> 00:23:06,300 It's a lot of church hurt out there, a lot of religious people out there, 467 00:23:06,300 --> 00:23:09,666 a lot of non-religious people out there who would make charges. 468 00:23:09,766 --> 00:23:11,100 Okay, I get it. 469 00:23:11,100 --> 00:23:12,400 But not only as a pastor. 470 00:23:12,400 --> 00:23:14,566 I'm also a high school coach. 471 00:23:14,566 --> 00:23:17,566 And anybody who coaches the high school understands 472 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:20,100 they're going to be a lot of people 473 00:23:20,100 --> 00:23:23,100 like players, moms. 474 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:28,200 It's like, just, 475 00:23:28,433 --> 00:23:31,433 like. 476 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:34,800 You could never please anybody, 477 00:23:35,166 --> 00:23:38,066 you know, like as a pastor or a coach, right? 478 00:23:38,066 --> 00:23:41,066 Eric? 479 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:45,000 Is the point is, nobody's going to make a charge. 480 00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:46,900 This is a legal term. Par sock. Right. 481 00:23:46,900 --> 00:23:49,900 And he says, who's going to sustain a charge? 482 00:23:50,500 --> 00:23:51,300 You cannot. 483 00:23:51,300 --> 00:23:53,866 So you can make a charge against God and against his people. 484 00:23:53,866 --> 00:23:54,433 You can make it. 485 00:23:54,433 --> 00:23:55,400 Anybody can make a charge. 486 00:23:55,400 --> 00:23:57,600 Anybody could file a claim. 487 00:23:57,600 --> 00:23:59,400 But can you sustain it in court? 488 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:00,566 Not even a little bit. 489 00:24:01,533 --> 00:24:04,266 Who's going to sustain a charge against God? 490 00:24:04,266 --> 00:24:07,200 Go ahead and try. 491 00:24:07,200 --> 00:24:09,800 And God has made his declaration about me spiritually. 492 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,266 You want to make a charge against me spiritually? 493 00:24:12,266 --> 00:24:13,800 God's always made his declaration. 494 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:15,133 You can't sustain a charge against me. 495 00:24:15,133 --> 00:24:18,233 So your opinion, Paul says, I'm not saying this. 496 00:24:18,233 --> 00:24:19,166 I'm not being mean right now. 497 00:24:19,166 --> 00:24:19,833 Like my wife would say. 498 00:24:19,833 --> 00:24:22,833 I'm being like, so you're 499 00:24:23,266 --> 00:24:25,500 what's the old adage the lion doesn't care about the opinion 500 00:24:25,500 --> 00:24:28,500 of the sheep? 501 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:30,333 Who's going 502 00:24:30,333 --> 00:24:33,333 to sustain the charge against God? 503 00:24:33,566 --> 00:24:37,600 It's Jesus who died and who was raised and who is, 504 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,200 who is at the right hand of God interceding 505 00:24:41,200 --> 00:24:44,200 for us like right now, 506 00:24:44,200 --> 00:24:47,933 the son Jesus is standing between you and the father, 507 00:24:48,800 --> 00:24:51,133 and Jesus is pleading your case 508 00:24:51,133 --> 00:24:54,133 to him, to the father right now. 509 00:24:54,166 --> 00:24:57,233 He's interceding for he's pleading on your behalf. 510 00:24:57,566 --> 00:24:59,000 Can you imagine? 511 00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:03,066 Now, I love the opportunity to pray with you and for you. 512 00:25:03,700 --> 00:25:07,166 And there's a group of us that meet at first Tuesday of every month 513 00:25:07,500 --> 00:25:10,200 that pray over the needs of you. 514 00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:13,800 If you let us know, and your church, it would be so much more power 515 00:25:13,800 --> 00:25:17,100 if you were to come and pray with us for you and your church. 516 00:25:18,000 --> 00:25:19,933 But we stand and we love that. 517 00:25:24,300 --> 00:25:28,300 But can you imagine Jesus himself 518 00:25:29,166 --> 00:25:32,166 interceding for you? 519 00:25:32,666 --> 00:25:35,400 How much like you don't need me to go to God. 520 00:25:35,400 --> 00:25:36,600 You don't need a priest. 521 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:40,200 You don't need a saint, a patron saint for any of that stuff. 522 00:25:41,366 --> 00:25:45,300 You can go to God because the son is interceding for you. 523 00:25:45,466 --> 00:25:49,666 And why do we need the son to make intercession for us? 524 00:25:50,133 --> 00:25:53,133 Because we have an accuser against us. 525 00:25:53,600 --> 00:25:56,600 Revelation 12 verse ten. 526 00:25:59,100 --> 00:26:00,866 And I heard a loud voice 527 00:26:00,866 --> 00:26:04,066 in heaven saying, now the salvation and the power, 528 00:26:04,066 --> 00:26:08,100 and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come. 529 00:26:08,100 --> 00:26:12,200 For the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, 530 00:26:12,200 --> 00:26:15,200 who accuses them day and night before God. 531 00:26:15,266 --> 00:26:19,633 The reason we need an intercessor before God other than us, who is Jesus, 532 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:23,966 is because we have the devil against us, who stands before the father day 533 00:26:23,966 --> 00:26:25,333 and night saying stuff like this 534 00:26:26,800 --> 00:26:29,733 God, you know, 535 00:26:29,733 --> 00:26:31,800 you know what Carl did? 536 00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:33,800 You know what a failure he is. 537 00:26:33,800 --> 00:26:35,600 You know what a sinner he is. 538 00:26:35,600 --> 00:26:38,933 You know, he still struggles with, you know, he's still messed up. 539 00:26:38,966 --> 00:26:41,266 You know, 540 00:26:41,266 --> 00:26:43,566 you can't 541 00:26:43,566 --> 00:26:46,533 you shouldn't move on his behalf. 542 00:26:46,533 --> 00:26:49,200 You should be offended at him. 543 00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:52,033 You should be disappointed at him. 544 00:26:52,033 --> 00:26:55,100 You should have discouragement in your heart because that's the guy 545 00:26:55,100 --> 00:26:55,600 you chose. 546 00:26:55,600 --> 00:26:56,933 Are you kidding me? 547 00:26:56,933 --> 00:26:59,666 That's what the devil does day and night. 548 00:26:59,666 --> 00:27:02,666 And in the midst of that, Jesus like. 549 00:27:04,766 --> 00:27:06,600 Father, 550 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,600 see Carl through me 551 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:13,833 and so well, the devil makes all these accusations day and night. 552 00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:16,500 God the father goes, la la la la la la la la la la. 553 00:27:16,500 --> 00:27:19,500 Shut up! 554 00:27:19,866 --> 00:27:21,866 I don't pay attention to the thing you say. 555 00:27:23,566 --> 00:27:25,133 Jesus is there interceding. 556 00:27:25,133 --> 00:27:25,733 No, father. 557 00:27:25,733 --> 00:27:28,566 Now I covered him, remember, I covered him, I covered him. 558 00:27:28,566 --> 00:27:31,566 You got some else to say? I covered that to. 559 00:27:31,633 --> 00:27:34,633 Do you understand? 560 00:27:36,466 --> 00:27:36,833 That's why 561 00:27:36,833 --> 00:27:39,833 you can approach his throne of grace with confidence. 562 00:27:40,200 --> 00:27:43,133 Because we know that will receive grace and mercy to help us in our time of need. 563 00:27:43,133 --> 00:27:45,366 Scripture says 564 00:27:45,366 --> 00:27:47,333 interceding for us. 565 00:27:47,333 --> 00:27:50,133 And so, Paul, in a summary statement, 566 00:27:50,133 --> 00:27:53,166 he wraps this thing up with this who 567 00:27:54,766 --> 00:27:57,766 who shall separate us from the love of Christ? 568 00:27:57,900 --> 00:28:00,700 Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, 569 00:28:00,700 --> 00:28:02,900 or nakedness, or danger or sword? 570 00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:04,600 He says, who's going to separate us from his love? 571 00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:07,600 And then he lists seven things that are pretty bad things. 572 00:28:08,633 --> 00:28:13,566 He lists seven things that would make the ordinary person question God's love. 573 00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:15,166 If you've 574 00:28:15,166 --> 00:28:18,333 ever lived in the seasons of troubles and tribulations 575 00:28:18,333 --> 00:28:22,100 and distress and persecution and famine and want and need 576 00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:25,900 and nakedness and danger and peril, if you've ever lived in those seasons, 577 00:28:25,900 --> 00:28:29,233 at some point probably we've asked God why, 578 00:28:30,533 --> 00:28:33,066 if you love me, why do you allow this? 579 00:28:33,066 --> 00:28:36,400 If you love me, why did you let my family, my wife, my child? 580 00:28:36,566 --> 00:28:39,566 If you love me, why right? 581 00:28:41,100 --> 00:28:43,500 So Paul doesn't say these things won't come. 582 00:28:43,500 --> 00:28:45,833 He says just when they come. 583 00:28:45,833 --> 00:28:49,366 Don't let these things make you question God's love. 584 00:28:49,366 --> 00:28:53,633 Because he gave you his son, and he synergize even those things 585 00:28:53,633 --> 00:28:56,633 to make you in the image of his son, 586 00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:59,800 who suffered. 587 00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:03,366 So when you and I go through these seven very terrible things, 588 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:07,200 we have confidence in God's character 589 00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:10,400 that he synergize even those things to make us into 590 00:29:10,400 --> 00:29:13,400 the image of his son, so that when we go through those things, 591 00:29:13,500 --> 00:29:17,700 the question we ask ourselves is, I'm going through trouble right now? 592 00:29:18,266 --> 00:29:20,933 Is my response that trouble look like Jesus 593 00:29:20,933 --> 00:29:23,933 as a response to his troubles? 594 00:29:26,533 --> 00:29:28,933 I am really hurt by people. 595 00:29:28,933 --> 00:29:32,566 Does my response in the midst of that hurt look like Jesus's response 596 00:29:33,700 --> 00:29:36,700 when he was hurt by people? 597 00:29:37,533 --> 00:29:39,300 Where in scripture do we read that 598 00:29:39,300 --> 00:29:44,100 Jesus got so stressed and angry he just couldn't sleep at night? 599 00:29:45,100 --> 00:29:46,500 Where do we read the Scripture? 600 00:29:46,500 --> 00:29:50,433 Where he laid his head on his pillow and was still haunted by the injustice 601 00:29:50,433 --> 00:29:51,300 that was done? 602 00:29:51,300 --> 00:29:54,866 Where do we read in Scripture where he just lost his mind 603 00:29:55,666 --> 00:29:56,900 over what God would allow? 604 00:29:58,300 --> 00:30:00,500 We don't. 605 00:30:00,500 --> 00:30:02,733 And so Romans 828, for 606 00:30:02,733 --> 00:30:06,100 we know that God is centralizing all things to make us look like Jesus. 607 00:30:08,533 --> 00:30:11,166 And sometimes we all go through tribulation 608 00:30:11,166 --> 00:30:14,166 and distress and persecution, or famine, or nakedness and danger and sword, 609 00:30:15,900 --> 00:30:18,566 because God synergize all those things to give us 610 00:30:18,566 --> 00:30:21,566 the opportunity to look like Jesus in this world. 611 00:30:21,566 --> 00:30:24,566 It doesn't mean he makes things good and easy. 612 00:30:24,566 --> 00:30:28,300 It means he makes us look like his Son and our responsibility, 613 00:30:28,300 --> 00:30:31,300 and is to trust the character of God 614 00:30:31,500 --> 00:30:34,500 and in those moments, respond like Jesus, 615 00:30:35,533 --> 00:30:37,866 dare I say in those moments to post 616 00:30:37,866 --> 00:30:40,866 like Jesus. 617 00:30:44,333 --> 00:30:47,333 You follow. You. 618 00:30:48,633 --> 00:30:51,633 How in the world is this possible? 619 00:30:52,333 --> 00:30:55,500 I mean, does this sound like our our normal modus operandi? 620 00:30:55,500 --> 00:30:57,800 Is this is this how we normally respond when stuff happens? 621 00:31:00,633 --> 00:31:03,633 Okay, I'll go on. 622 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:05,366 Verse 36 and 37 623 00:31:05,366 --> 00:31:08,600 for your as it is written for your sake, we're being killed all day long. 624 00:31:08,600 --> 00:31:10,566 We are. We are like sheep to be slaughtered. 625 00:31:10,566 --> 00:31:13,366 That's a direct quote from Psalm. 4422. 626 00:31:13,366 --> 00:31:14,600 And I don't have time to get into that. 627 00:31:14,600 --> 00:31:16,700 But you Bible students might want to dive into that psalm. 628 00:31:16,700 --> 00:31:17,666 It's profound. 629 00:31:17,666 --> 00:31:18,333 It says no. 630 00:31:18,333 --> 00:31:21,133 And all these things were more than conquerors through him who loved us. 631 00:31:21,133 --> 00:31:23,100 How do you how do you respond? 632 00:31:23,100 --> 00:31:24,233 Like how do you 633 00:31:24,233 --> 00:31:27,500 how do you embody the image of Christ for the wounded going through all this stuff? 634 00:31:28,266 --> 00:31:32,000 And Paul says, we can't, but but in Christ we're more than conquerors. 635 00:31:32,166 --> 00:31:34,733 And this is a profound statement 636 00:31:34,733 --> 00:31:37,733 that Paul has just made about being more than a conqueror. 637 00:31:38,500 --> 00:31:39,300 Here's why. 638 00:31:40,766 --> 00:31:41,700 When he uses 639 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:44,766 this, this whole idea more than conquerors 640 00:31:44,766 --> 00:31:47,766 is this Greek word that he kind of puts a couple Greek words together. 641 00:31:47,933 --> 00:31:49,200 Harbor Nick. 642 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,200 Oh, two different words. 643 00:31:52,333 --> 00:31:54,533 This is what they mean. 644 00:31:54,533 --> 00:31:59,400 The word hypo hyper means super or more than Nick. 645 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:02,933 Oh, is that from the Greek god Nike, 646 00:32:03,466 --> 00:32:05,966 which means conqueror? 647 00:32:05,966 --> 00:32:07,533 And so he puts these two together. 648 00:32:07,533 --> 00:32:09,100 He says, you're just not a conqueror. 649 00:32:09,100 --> 00:32:11,166 You are a super conqueror. 650 00:32:11,166 --> 00:32:12,233 You're just not a conqueror. 651 00:32:12,233 --> 00:32:14,600 You're a hyper conqueror. 652 00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:17,133 Like, here's how you know the difference. 653 00:32:17,133 --> 00:32:20,133 A conqueror gets through the battle, 654 00:32:20,466 --> 00:32:23,400 realizes they've won, and rejoices in the victory. 655 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,033 I'm a conqueror, a hyper conqueror, a super conquer. 656 00:32:27,100 --> 00:32:30,633 Paul says you're more than conquerors is one who knows ahead of time. 657 00:32:30,633 --> 00:32:34,733 They're already a conqueror, and they rejoice in the midst of the battle. 658 00:32:35,833 --> 00:32:37,566 Do you understand the difference? 659 00:32:37,566 --> 00:32:39,066 Most of us live life. 660 00:32:39,066 --> 00:32:41,566 We're in these troubles and difficulty, the trials and tribulations, 661 00:32:41,566 --> 00:32:44,366 and we think, God, get me out of this. Get me through it. 662 00:32:44,366 --> 00:32:47,366 And when God does one, we're a little bit surprised at a word. 663 00:32:47,466 --> 00:32:50,633 And two, we're like, oh yes, now I'm a conqueror. 664 00:32:50,733 --> 00:32:55,666 And the super conquers, say God in the midst of it before you do a thing. 665 00:32:55,700 --> 00:32:57,733 I am already a hyper conqueror. 666 00:32:57,733 --> 00:33:00,733 I will rejoice in the battle. 667 00:33:01,633 --> 00:33:04,633 Again, stand. 668 00:33:05,533 --> 00:33:08,366 Most of us have decided I want to live as a conqueror. 669 00:33:08,366 --> 00:33:10,500 Because I want God to fix. 670 00:33:10,500 --> 00:33:12,433 Paul says that is not who we are in Christ. 671 00:33:12,433 --> 00:33:15,433 We are hyper conquerors in the midst of it. 672 00:33:17,733 --> 00:33:19,400 Has that been your experience? 673 00:33:20,800 --> 00:33:23,633 If not, as they say, 674 00:33:23,633 --> 00:33:26,633 we're leaving money on the table. 675 00:33:27,033 --> 00:33:30,033 Let me put it to you in terms of cards 676 00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:33,333 in the car world, a conqueror is one 677 00:33:33,333 --> 00:33:36,400 who can get us from point A to point B I I'm on this journey. 678 00:33:36,400 --> 00:33:39,233 I'm on traveling. I need to get from point A to point B. 679 00:33:39,233 --> 00:33:41,100 You can do that in a lot of different cars. 680 00:33:41,100 --> 00:33:44,166 For instance, you could do that in a Chevy Spark, 681 00:33:45,200 --> 00:33:47,266 get you to point A to point B, you conquered the journey. 682 00:33:47,266 --> 00:33:48,433 Good for you. 683 00:33:48,433 --> 00:33:50,800 You you used all of your 84 684 00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,800 horsepower to do it. 685 00:33:54,033 --> 00:33:55,933 Did you make it 686 00:33:55,933 --> 00:33:58,933 through? 687 00:33:59,333 --> 00:33:59,866 Probably not 688 00:33:59,866 --> 00:34:02,866 with a lot of confidence or speed or elegance, but. 689 00:34:02,900 --> 00:34:05,200 And isn't that how we go through difficulties sometimes? 690 00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:07,633 God, I just I just want to get to the end of this, 691 00:34:08,666 --> 00:34:10,133 and you just putt along 692 00:34:10,133 --> 00:34:13,166 and you just plod along like, man, 693 00:34:13,166 --> 00:34:16,166 I hope the engine. 694 00:34:16,966 --> 00:34:18,533 That's a conqueror. 695 00:34:18,533 --> 00:34:21,533 You know what the super conqueror is? 696 00:34:21,733 --> 00:34:24,633 The Hennessey Venom F5, 697 00:34:24,633 --> 00:34:27,633 only 24 made. 698 00:34:28,300 --> 00:34:31,300 $7 million or so. 699 00:34:32,800 --> 00:34:37,600 The Hennessey Venom F5 6.6l twin turbo V8. 700 00:34:37,766 --> 00:34:41,133 I wrote it down 1817 horsepower, 701 00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:44,400 speed of 311 miles an hour. 702 00:34:45,266 --> 00:34:48,166 That's a super conquer, 703 00:34:48,166 --> 00:34:50,633 you understand 704 00:34:50,633 --> 00:34:52,500 something? Most people have come to Jesus 705 00:34:52,500 --> 00:34:55,500 and they just leave it a as a as a Chevy Spark. 706 00:34:55,800 --> 00:34:58,133 And they got these hills, they got to climb and they just plugged 707 00:34:58,133 --> 00:35:01,133 along, praying that the engine didn't give out in their own road back down hill. 708 00:35:02,066 --> 00:35:03,700 And when they make it to the top, they're like, whoo 709 00:35:03,700 --> 00:35:05,300 hoo, boy, I don't ever want to do that again. 710 00:35:06,600 --> 00:35:07,366 Oh, you're a conqueror. 711 00:35:07,366 --> 00:35:10,366 I guess you made it. Is that really it? 712 00:35:11,033 --> 00:35:14,033 When Paul says you're not a Chevy Spark? 713 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:18,266 You're a Hennessey Venom F5. 714 00:35:18,266 --> 00:35:21,666 You got 1850 horsepower under the hood. 715 00:35:22,066 --> 00:35:24,166 You don't go 311 miles an hour. 716 00:35:24,166 --> 00:35:26,566 You can make it up the hill and then another one after that. 717 00:35:26,566 --> 00:35:27,266 With no problem. 718 00:35:27,266 --> 00:35:30,600 You get to the end destination not just making it, 719 00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:33,600 but making it with power and speed and style. 720 00:35:33,866 --> 00:35:36,866 Like, that's a super conqueror. 721 00:35:37,200 --> 00:35:40,066 And my fear is that so many of us have settled 722 00:35:40,066 --> 00:35:43,066 for a Chevy Spark faith 723 00:35:43,600 --> 00:35:48,200 and never embraced the Hennessey Venom F5. 724 00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,733 Faith. 725 00:35:49,733 --> 00:35:53,166 I want to make it to the end, but I want to make it to the end 726 00:35:53,166 --> 00:35:56,400 knowing that as I go through it, I got power to spare. 727 00:35:56,500 --> 00:35:58,866 What am I worried about right now? 728 00:35:58,866 --> 00:36:01,233 In the trouble and distress and difficulty? 729 00:36:01,233 --> 00:36:03,900 What am I worrying right now about your opinion? 730 00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:06,800 About the world's opinion about me? What am I worried, right? 731 00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,933 I got strength to spare. 732 00:36:08,933 --> 00:36:12,833 I'm a hyper super more than conqueror. 733 00:36:12,900 --> 00:36:17,033 In the midst of it, I'm going to rejoice because I know it's already done. 734 00:36:17,866 --> 00:36:20,400 Thank you. Understand what I'm saying? 735 00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:24,066 And my fear is that we've settled for a Chevy Spark faith. 736 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:27,133 God, I know you gave Jesus 737 00:36:27,133 --> 00:36:30,133 for me and I'm thankful for forgiveness. 738 00:36:31,033 --> 00:36:34,700 Could you please see it within your good 739 00:36:35,266 --> 00:36:38,100 heart to maybe 740 00:36:38,100 --> 00:36:41,100 I just want to make. 741 00:36:45,866 --> 00:36:47,566 As your Christian experience, 742 00:36:47,566 --> 00:36:51,600 as your faith has been, has your life, maybe you're separated from Christ. 743 00:36:51,600 --> 00:36:54,600 You don't even have a Chevy Spark. 744 00:36:55,000 --> 00:36:57,800 Has it looked and felt more like a Chevy Spark existence 745 00:36:57,800 --> 00:37:00,800 than a Hennessy Venom F5? 746 00:37:01,666 --> 00:37:03,233 Do you realize what you've been called to 747 00:37:03,233 --> 00:37:06,233 and gifted? 748 00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:13,866 David, don't say anything else about this. 749 00:37:13,866 --> 00:37:15,400 You're in the first service I'm seeing. You must. 750 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:16,900 Don't miss something. 751 00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:19,866 I think I got it. 752 00:37:19,866 --> 00:37:22,866 What he says. 753 00:37:23,833 --> 00:37:24,600 Verse 38. 754 00:37:24,600 --> 00:37:28,800 For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, 755 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,300 nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, 756 00:37:31,300 --> 00:37:33,700 nor depth, nor anything else, all creation will be able to separate 757 00:37:33,700 --> 00:37:35,400 us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. 758 00:37:39,633 --> 00:37:43,000 Who have been adopted by God. 759 00:37:43,800 --> 00:37:46,166 I'm a coworker with Christ, and nothing going to separate 760 00:37:46,166 --> 00:37:49,166 from his love. 761 00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:55,300 I'm a I'm not just I'm a super conquerors. 762 00:37:55,300 --> 00:37:58,300 Nothing are going to separate me from his love. 763 00:37:59,400 --> 00:38:00,700 I go back to verse one now. 764 00:38:00,700 --> 00:38:01,700 There's no condemnation. 765 00:38:01,700 --> 00:38:04,966 There's no failure in my life that's going to separate me from his love. 766 00:38:06,566 --> 00:38:07,733 I'll go back to verse 15. 767 00:38:07,733 --> 00:38:09,800 I've been adopted by God. 768 00:38:09,800 --> 00:38:11,666 I'm forever loved as his child knows. 769 00:38:11,666 --> 00:38:14,633 I'm going to separate him from that love. 770 00:38:14,633 --> 00:38:17,333 I go to verse 28, 771 00:38:17,333 --> 00:38:20,766 God is synergize in all things together so that I'll look like his son. 772 00:38:20,766 --> 00:38:22,600 He's not going to abandon me now. 773 00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,600 There's nothing will separate me from his love. 774 00:38:25,666 --> 00:38:27,333 I go to verse 30 and 39, death. 775 00:38:27,333 --> 00:38:28,666 That's not going to separate me. 776 00:38:28,666 --> 00:38:30,833 Separate me from his love. I've got eternal life, 777 00:38:32,066 --> 00:38:33,633 rulers and authorities and powers 778 00:38:33,633 --> 00:38:37,000 and he's talking about the forces of hell and Satan himself. 779 00:38:37,000 --> 00:38:38,100 They're not going to separate me from them. 780 00:38:38,100 --> 00:38:41,100 So they've already been conquered and defeated. 781 00:38:41,433 --> 00:38:44,433 No charge they bring against me can stand. 782 00:38:44,600 --> 00:38:47,600 No created thing will ever separate me from his love. 783 00:38:47,866 --> 00:38:49,266 Jesus proved it on the cross. 784 00:38:49,266 --> 00:38:51,300 Romans five eight God shows his love for us in this. 785 00:38:51,300 --> 00:38:53,733 While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. 786 00:38:53,733 --> 00:38:56,733 Nothing's going to separate me from that. 787 00:38:56,766 --> 00:38:59,600 And this is all accessed through faith by his grace. 788 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,733 For by grace you've been saved through faith. 789 00:39:01,733 --> 00:39:03,433 This not of yourselves. 790 00:39:03,433 --> 00:39:04,333 It's not your own doing. 791 00:39:04,333 --> 00:39:06,800 It's the gift of God, not the result of works. 792 00:39:06,800 --> 00:39:07,866 Nobody can brag about it. 793 00:39:07,866 --> 00:39:10,133 God initiated Augustine that God did it. 794 00:39:10,133 --> 00:39:11,400 We just respond to receive it. 795 00:39:13,466 --> 00:39:16,466 Can you imagine this? 796 00:39:18,266 --> 00:39:18,766 Hennessey. 797 00:39:18,766 --> 00:39:21,766 Venom F5. Faith, 798 00:39:22,033 --> 00:39:24,900 strength and power to spare. 799 00:39:24,900 --> 00:39:26,733 Not because you deserve it. Not because I deserve it. 800 00:39:26,733 --> 00:39:29,733 Not because we weren't just, but because of God's grace. 801 00:39:30,266 --> 00:39:31,566 His love is so profound. 802 00:39:31,566 --> 00:39:34,566 And so that's what drives me back to where I started this whole thing. 803 00:39:34,566 --> 00:39:37,566 Grace really is greater than anything you want to put in a blank. 804 00:39:38,766 --> 00:39:41,766 It's the free gift of God. 805 00:39:42,733 --> 00:39:43,633 And if this isn't 806 00:39:43,633 --> 00:39:46,633 your experience, that's not God's fault. 807 00:39:47,233 --> 00:39:50,233 It's the free gift. 808 00:39:51,300 --> 00:39:54,300 Through faith, by grace. 809 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:57,233 And this great thank you, Lord. 810 00:39:57,233 --> 00:40:00,233 That's all I can say is thank you, Lord. 811 00:40:00,266 --> 00:40:02,600 And so, my dear friends, 812 00:40:02,600 --> 00:40:06,966 if this has not been reflective of the faith that you live with, 813 00:40:07,133 --> 00:40:10,133 why not? 814 00:40:15,266 --> 00:40:18,266 A complete transformation 815 00:40:18,800 --> 00:40:20,566 of who I am, of who you are, 816 00:40:21,833 --> 00:40:24,533 is available to us 817 00:40:24,533 --> 00:40:27,066 freely 818 00:40:27,066 --> 00:40:28,933 through faith, 819 00:40:28,933 --> 00:40:31,933 because of God and by his grace. 820 00:40:33,000 --> 00:40:35,133 And I invite you. 821 00:40:35,133 --> 00:40:36,400 It's not my invitation. 822 00:40:36,400 --> 00:40:40,400 Is Jesus's invitation into a super hyper 823 00:40:40,400 --> 00:40:43,400 conquerer faith 824 00:40:43,700 --> 00:40:46,700 because of who Jesus is. 825 00:40:46,800 --> 00:40:48,633 And so 826 00:40:48,633 --> 00:40:49,500 I invite you. 827 00:40:49,500 --> 00:40:53,300 Let's pray. And. 828 00:40:55,466 --> 00:40:56,966 If what we've talked about 829 00:40:56,966 --> 00:40:59,966 has not been your experience, 830 00:41:00,433 --> 00:41:02,600 I want to offer you the invitation 831 00:41:02,600 --> 00:41:05,600 that Jesus has offered. 832 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:10,000 To be made new, 833 00:41:10,433 --> 00:41:12,433 fully understand this 834 00:41:12,433 --> 00:41:15,433 what I'm saying fully and completely new. 835 00:41:16,733 --> 00:41:19,533 To allow yourself to be conformed into the image 836 00:41:19,533 --> 00:41:22,533 of the Son Jesus. 837 00:41:23,466 --> 00:41:26,833 And to receive, by God's grace, freely, 838 00:41:28,100 --> 00:41:32,100 a super hyper conquering faith. 839 00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:36,900 Towards that end, 840 00:41:36,900 --> 00:41:40,266 I invite you in this moment in prayer 841 00:41:42,233 --> 00:41:45,000 to say, God, 842 00:41:45,000 --> 00:41:48,000 I'm realizing what it is 843 00:41:49,133 --> 00:41:51,200 I am and you are. 844 00:41:53,500 --> 00:41:56,500 I am weak, 845 00:41:56,566 --> 00:41:59,566 I fail. 846 00:41:59,833 --> 00:42:02,833 And I've just been surviving. 847 00:42:04,500 --> 00:42:07,500 And I want more. 848 00:42:07,833 --> 00:42:10,833 I acknowledge who you are, 849 00:42:11,700 --> 00:42:14,700 and I accept who you are 850 00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:18,800 to be the God and the leader of my life. 851 00:42:22,433 --> 00:42:25,433 I confess my sin to you. 852 00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:28,133 Jesus. 853 00:42:28,133 --> 00:42:31,400 I accept what you did for me on the cross. 854 00:42:33,400 --> 00:42:36,400 And I receive 855 00:42:36,800 --> 00:42:39,800 through faith, by grace 856 00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:42,900 a right standing before you. 857 00:42:42,900 --> 00:42:45,200 Father 858 00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:47,800 and I receive the gift 859 00:42:47,800 --> 00:42:52,633 of a hyper super conqueror faith no longer 860 00:42:53,966 --> 00:42:57,100 do I want to live as Chevy Spark. 861 00:42:57,333 --> 00:43:00,333 Life. 862 00:43:02,033 --> 00:43:05,033 I want to be a super conqueror 863 00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,400 that rejoices in the battle. 864 00:43:09,233 --> 00:43:11,300 Because I'm being made 865 00:43:11,300 --> 00:43:14,300 into the image of your son, 866 00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:18,000 tell him I trust your character. God, 867 00:43:19,200 --> 00:43:22,200 because I know you love me. 868 00:43:25,433 --> 00:43:27,100 The Bible says, keep your eyes close to me. 869 00:43:27,100 --> 00:43:27,633 Just be in prayer. 870 00:43:27,633 --> 00:43:31,100 The Bible says that God looks to and fro about the earth 871 00:43:32,033 --> 00:43:37,600 for those whose hearts are firmly his, that he may strongly support them. 872 00:43:40,366 --> 00:43:43,366 He's looking for you right now. 873 00:43:44,033 --> 00:43:46,866 His name is called Elroy, the God who sees. 874 00:43:46,866 --> 00:43:49,866 He's looking for us right now. 875 00:43:51,333 --> 00:43:52,666 To solidify 876 00:43:52,666 --> 00:43:55,666 your commitment, not just in your heart, 877 00:43:56,066 --> 00:43:59,066 but to solidify that commitment. 878 00:44:00,133 --> 00:44:01,833 So I can pray with you. 879 00:44:01,833 --> 00:44:03,933 So, Jeff. So David can. 880 00:44:03,933 --> 00:44:06,333 Would you just. I'm going to pray over you specially. 881 00:44:06,333 --> 00:44:07,066 Just a minute. 882 00:44:07,066 --> 00:44:09,600 Would you just raise up your hand and say, I prayed that prayer. 883 00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:12,266 I want to be a super conqueror. 884 00:44:12,266 --> 00:44:14,400 I want what God offers me. 885 00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:17,100 Thank you. Good. Just keep it up for me. A pray over your hand. 886 00:44:17,100 --> 00:44:19,200 I'm gonna pray over. You're raising your hand. 887 00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:19,600 Thank you. 888 00:44:19,600 --> 00:44:21,933 Good for you, good for you, good for you, good for you. 889 00:44:21,933 --> 00:44:23,700 Just keep them. Keep them. Let me see. 890 00:44:24,866 --> 00:44:25,800 This isn't for me. 891 00:44:25,800 --> 00:44:27,900 It's for you. I just want you to solidify this. 892 00:44:27,900 --> 00:44:29,800 I want you to allow me the opportunity, the privilege to put. 893 00:44:29,800 --> 00:44:30,200 Thank you. 894 00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:31,233 Good good good good good. 895 00:44:31,233 --> 00:44:33,800 There you go. Thank you. 896 00:44:33,800 --> 00:44:36,466 Just keep your hands off them and just let me just receive 897 00:44:36,466 --> 00:44:39,466 this prayer, agree with me and pray you guys with your hands. It. 898 00:44:39,666 --> 00:44:42,533 Father, I thank you for these with their hands up 899 00:44:42,533 --> 00:44:46,533 that their body is representing the position of their heart. 900 00:44:46,533 --> 00:44:48,933 They want you. 901 00:44:48,933 --> 00:44:50,866 They want to receive all you have. 902 00:44:50,866 --> 00:44:54,100 Thank you that it's not contingent upon what we've done about what they do, 903 00:44:54,100 --> 00:44:57,100 but just and receiving every great show in the name of Jesus right now. 904 00:44:57,600 --> 00:44:59,100 Do what you said you would do. 905 00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:03,533 I pray a measure of your grace that is so profound 906 00:45:03,533 --> 00:45:06,533 and so unknown to them, that it would wow them with who you are, 907 00:45:07,666 --> 00:45:10,300 that they would receive it as a free gift. 908 00:45:10,300 --> 00:45:13,300 This hyper conqueror of faith, 909 00:45:13,333 --> 00:45:16,333 that they would be allowed to be the image of you in this world. 910 00:45:16,933 --> 00:45:20,133 That they would feel your presence in such a mighty way, such a profound way. 911 00:45:20,133 --> 00:45:24,066 Father, that they would be so overwhelmed and impressed with you, 912 00:45:24,066 --> 00:45:24,933 so grateful 913 00:45:24,933 --> 00:45:28,666 for what you've done in their lives and for them that they would walk and move 914 00:45:28,666 --> 00:45:32,500 and think and respond and be hyper conquerors in this world. 915 00:45:33,633 --> 00:45:35,100 That is your desire. 916 00:45:35,100 --> 00:45:38,166 You said that you're looking for people right now whose hearts are firmly yours. 917 00:45:38,166 --> 00:45:39,700 God, see these hands? 918 00:45:39,700 --> 00:45:42,966 See these people now in the name of Jesus, strongly support them 919 00:45:43,966 --> 00:45:46,166 according to your word, 920 00:45:46,166 --> 00:45:48,400 God. Thank you. 921 00:45:48,400 --> 00:45:49,800 Thank you for these. 922 00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,266 Thank you for this time. We love you. 923 00:45:52,266 --> 00:45:54,533 In your name I pray. Amen. 924 00:45:54,533 --> 00:45:55,933 Listen, 925 00:45:55,933 --> 00:45:57,966 it's good for us to be this good to go through His Word. 926 00:45:57,966 --> 00:46:00,900 His word is alive and active, sharpened to an end to a sword. 927 00:46:00,900 --> 00:46:04,100 It recreates us, his spirit, us through his word. 928 00:46:04,100 --> 00:46:06,366 This is good, if you may. 929 00:46:06,366 --> 00:46:08,033 If you prayed some prayer like that. 930 00:46:08,033 --> 00:46:11,566 Jeff, David, and we'd love to talk with you. 931 00:46:11,566 --> 00:46:14,500 To pray with you again. I'll be here. We'll be in the welcomes. 932 00:46:14,500 --> 00:46:18,166 Just come talk to us and let us just pray specifically 933 00:46:18,200 --> 00:46:21,200 if that'd be good. 934 00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:23,400 If you just want to spend time praying yourself, 935 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,633 there's a prayer in my back there. Nobody's in it. 936 00:46:25,633 --> 00:46:27,766 You just need a little bit of time. Just a you and God to 937 00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,433 stick her ahead and see if anybody needs some prayer. 938 00:46:31,433 --> 00:46:34,433 And I know Bob and Jennifer would love to pray with you too. And 939 00:46:35,266 --> 00:46:38,266 anyway, don't let this moment 940 00:46:38,533 --> 00:46:40,266 I love you. 941 00:46:40,266 --> 00:46:42,166 It's good for us to be together on this week. 942 00:46:42,166 --> 00:46:46,866 Now go through Romans eight again and then read Romans nine Romans. 943 00:46:47,100 --> 00:46:51,333 We just there's four sections to Romans write God's wrath, God's grace, 944 00:46:51,600 --> 00:46:53,100 God's plan, and God's will. 945 00:46:53,100 --> 00:46:56,933 We just finish this, that God's the God's grace part. 946 00:46:57,000 --> 00:47:00,000 Now we're going to get into God's plan in Romans nine. 947 00:47:00,166 --> 00:47:02,533 And it gets really pretty deep. 948 00:47:02,533 --> 00:47:04,666 And I'm going to actually geek out over this stuff. 949 00:47:04,666 --> 00:47:07,000 So I hope you don't mind, but it's going to be fun. 950 00:47:07,000 --> 00:47:07,900 And I want you to read, 951 00:47:07,900 --> 00:47:11,466 try to get your minds ready for what God's going to reveal to us in Romans 911. 952 00:47:12,000 --> 00:47:12,333 Okay, 953 00:47:13,300 --> 00:47:13,966 I love you. 954 00:47:13,966 --> 00:47:16,966 I'm proud of you fellas. One more song. 955 00:47:17,400 --> 00:47:18,566 You guys doing a great job. 956 00:47:18,566 --> 00:47:20,666 All of our band's up at camp. Yep. 957 00:47:20,666 --> 00:47:21,600 You guys doing a great job. 958 00:47:21,600 --> 00:47:23,100 We're running lean and lean. 959 00:47:23,100 --> 00:47:24,466 This morning is good, 960 00:47:24,466 --> 00:47:26,833 but I'm sure we're going to sing something about Jesus and love. 961 00:47:26,833 --> 00:47:27,500 You will be me. 962 00:47:27,500 --> 00:47:29,500 We're going to go back a few years, right? 963 00:47:29,500 --> 00:47:30,933 Stand up. Let's sing. Let's be happy.