Blessed Are the Feet | Romans 10:14-21

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Well, hey, Zach.
Michael.

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Have a important question for
you?

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Yeah, yeah.
Yesterday morning was the finale

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of the soccer season.
It was.

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And I don't know yet, 'cause we
didn't.

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You know, lots of times we talk
about these things beforehand,

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and I know that you had been
undefeated up to this level.

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You may have won and had
remained undefeated, but you may

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have taken a nail.
I don't know.

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How did it go?
Dominated we we won like they

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did.
Actually it was much closest

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game of the season.
It was two to two at one point.

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Then I think we.
Won.

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I actually was, I was like not
the our last game.

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It was like all of this we did,
we won like 7:00 to 2:00 or 8:00

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to 2:00 that we didn't, we
didn't turn back after we got

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got our footing.
Good way to win the season

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undefeated.
That's good.

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That's what it's all about, you
know, and it was, you know, it

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was good.
So got another.

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Eli on your team or no?
No, he didn't play soccer this

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year.
Oh, he didn't.

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He's playing basketball.
But I, I don't, I guess soccer

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is not his What what he loves
like it's like Emerson.

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It's his mezzo piano on his
Forte.

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That's right.
That's right.

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I love that.
That's good.

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OK, All right.
Sweet.

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That was the only thing I had to
ask you.

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I guess we could also talk
about.

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I think this is.
Is it twice in a row?

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I don't think it's twice in a
row, but twice that I've left my

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iPad on the way.
Over here, yeah, that's.

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One time Chloe had to save US1,
tonight I had to turn around and

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got it because I wasn't that
far.

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But man, that's the toughest
part of podcasting is the

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commute with everything in
Michael's car slash so tough and

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then set, and then the setup is
like, yeah, yeah, oh, labor.

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Yeah, labor of love.
Labor of love.

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Can't wait till we get that
podcast studio.

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I know, yeah.
Yeah.

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So we're looking at, you know,
putting a lot of merch out there

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and getting some sponsors.
So once we're rolling in that

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the.
Once we're rolling.

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The the money then, man, we'll
just build that's.

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Why we got into podcasting,
Yeah, that's, that's why we did

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it for the money, right?
Which honestly, if if we get

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enough money, I'd like to give
away some of that profit.

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Has a teaser.
Yeah, give away the profit.

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Maybe send the gospel out with
it.

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Be beautiful feet.
I love it.

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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And I'll tell you, I will not
name them.

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I don't know if this is, If you
feel this too, there's one.

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This is all love.
One family in our church that

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have they've conditioned me.
They have a particular avulsion

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defeat in a very strong way
'cause I, I, I used to wear flip

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flops all day.
Does this family like if you

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wore flip flops out socks,
they'd be like Zach, your dogs

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are hanging out.
Yes, I went up to them after the

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service.
After the service, like the

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pastor for an attention getter
just for you guys should have

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named the sermon who let the
dogs out.

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That would be great.
It would only apply to a very

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small select group of people,
but they would like love that.

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Yeah.
I grew up.

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One of Jill's best friends was
just like, I want to see feet.

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Like, we would swim, like at a
church team or something, and

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everyone would be, like putting
their feet up next to her.

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And she'd be like, yeah.
And it's one of those things

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like it's not like I love feet,
but I'm fine with flip flops.

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Yeah, yeah, it's normal.
You go to the beach, what are

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you going to do?
We live in feet.

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We live at your house.
On top of the Carolina and it's

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like, man, you just get just oh,
just shamed any any toes out.

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You know, Leanne was wearing
like some.

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Sort of let me ask you this, is
it possible that a future Home

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group will be over their place?
Is it?

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Is it?
Is it?

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It's in the cards.
It's in the cards, so we should

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all show up like with flip flops
and no socks, right?

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And just be like.
The theater plan.

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A plan thing.
That's great.

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Have a tract in one hand, have
open toed shoes, you know, and

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just walk in and you know, yeah,
that'd be beautiful feet.

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That'd be good.
So I love.

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It, well, I think we're, you
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sermon is, but, you know, it's
good.

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Yeah.
That's what it's called.

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Just short and sweet.
Beautiful.

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Feet.
There we go.

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Let's take it to the next level.
From the hearts of the Low

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Country in South Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next.
Level Hobby Lobby.

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Hobby Lobby, I mean, if you
didn't already have a good

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reason to be spending your money
there, we want to give you some

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more reasons to spend your money
at Hobby Lobby and.

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Have you heard anyone, like
anyone just speak?

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I'll like people, you know, like
actually maybe you hear like

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some people like online with
like politically driven.

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But outside of that, I don't
think I've never heard anything.

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Everyone loves hobby.
I feel like I think so and it

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seems to be neater and you're
better kept than my namesake

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Michael's 'cause you go to
Michael's and it's like.

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That's a disaster.
It's it is sometimes just a

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disaster in there, but Hobby
Lobby is fairly clean.

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There's spacious.
You feel like you can go in

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there and find stuff.
It rhymes.

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I like that.
That's nice.

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Nice little touch.
Right?

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Right.
I haven't been to Hobby Lobby in

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a while, but I know Leanne likes
to venture in there from time.

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From time to time.
And everyone.

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Yeah.
Hobby Lobby.

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Hobby Hobby Lobby.
Good reputation.

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Did you know their CEO when he
said David Green?

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I would not have put those two
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David Green to me is a football
coach at Northwood Academy.

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Yeah, David Green, you'd be like
you, you're the, you're 80 year

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old CEO of Hobby Lobby.
That would be surprising.

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Yeah, it's a pretty like generic
name, you know, David and

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Greene.
So I never know what to say

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'cause he put like the book up
there and it was like by the CEO

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of Hobby Lobby.
And he's like, how many of you

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know this?
And I was like, well, I, I can't

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raise my hand 'cause I didn't
know it, but I'm looking at the

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slide and I know it.
But David Greene, CEO, very

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successful and part he's got 12
steps to success or something

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like that.
We got one.

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Or two steps to success.
And one of his steps was give

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away your prophet.
You know, he's got this quote

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here that says God has blessed
Hobby Lobby immensely, which we

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know is tied to our giving.
Still, the Bible doesn't promise

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us more business success if we
give more at Hobby Lobby, we

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don't get more so we can get
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We get more so we can give more.
We have come to experience the

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truth of Acts 2035.
It's more blessed to give than

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to receive.
I think he said that really well

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concisely and captured it 'cause
there's a lot of ways that could

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go wrong.
It's well packaged there and,

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and the point, I mean,
obviously, you know, it's always

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good when people, I, I, I say
it's always good.

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I mean, I think that you can
teach giving so much that people

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are putting their family in
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But generally if people are
giving and your average American

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family has more than what they
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But if you can teach, you know,
so I'm, I'm over caveatting what

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I'm saying, but in, in general,
it's good when you give your

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material, you know, give some,
some time and some treasure and

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talents to the church.
But what's even better is when

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you give the gospel out to
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And sometimes those times,
talents and treasure kind of

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what walk along beside the
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But Joe's main point was here is
like, if Hobby Lobby's giving

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away some of their money, we
should be giving away the

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gospel.
Absolutely.

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And, and that kind of frames
this whole passage.

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Pastor, I like what he's doing.
He does this a lot.

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He does this here.
So he'll just like stop and do

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application, then do it's like
applications kind of sprinkled

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throughout.
He started at the beginning

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like, hey, this is an
illustration to get us to grasp

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the main point even before we
get into the text.

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So it's you can't walk away from
the Serbian.

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What, what was he talking about?
It's it's very, very apparent.

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And so just to, you know, review
where we are at, we are in

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Romans 10.
We're in the section 9 through

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11. 30th sermon.
Wow, in the book of Romans.

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That's that's impressive.
And we've come off a few sermons

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in the past.
Romans Chapter 9, tough, tough

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to hear a little bit sometimes
really leaning heavily into

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God's sovereignty.
It can be emotional.

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We don't want to forget.
You know, the whole point of

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this is that verse six of nine.
That's not as though the Word of

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God has failed.
And then we kind of turned a

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corner and as we got into
Chapter 10 and emphasis kind of

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changed, talked a lot about
human responsibility and that's

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going to continue extensively
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Yeah, Yep.
And so if you're looking at the

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beginning of chapter 10, it's
going to start off talking

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about, you know, the gospel.
It's not a very complicated

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thing.
It's pretty simple to

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understand, even though it can
be offensive to our sinful,

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rebellious nature.
So a lot of people are going to

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reject it.
It's not a difficult message.

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And we talked about this stat
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About 85% of people say 14 or
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Before 15.
You were before 15.

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Yeah, I'm.
I'm in the 15%.

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Yeah, 17.
Can we get a?

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Can we get an updated pie chart
that one thing is from Microsoft

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1990?
Eight, my chart was was pretty

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old looking.
But the point was was apparent,

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you know, so, so much so.
And I know, you know, we've

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emphasized this with like kids
connecting these other clubs

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were doing, but DL Moody has
this really.

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I mean, everyone knows DL Moody
Moody Biden wants a two big

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name.
He he says, if I could relive my

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life, I would devote my entire
ministry to reaching children

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for God.
Pretty strong statement.

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But that's if you're if you're
you know, we're in an analytical

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culture.
That's where the analytics are

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going to tell you to spend your.
Time I remember that talking

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about analytical culture.
It's just a crazy rabbit trail,

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but I love it.
You know the the guy that took

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over for the Raiders like 3 or 4
years ago and he was like, we're

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not doing any analytics.
So it's like just and he didn't

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do very well.
Did not think it was that was

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that Was that Grudem or?
Not Wayne.

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Not Wayne that.
Would be amazing.

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Wayne Grudem like coaching
football.

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Love it.
So, so good.

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So yeah, that we've been going
through.

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We're in Romans 10 and I, we'll
probably mention it, but it's

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just on my mind right now.
We have that kind of confusing

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passage in a way where it Paul
writes, don't say in your heart

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who will ascend to heaven or
hold ascend to the abyss.

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But what does it say?
The word is near you that what

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exactly what you said.
This is a simple message.

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It's staring you in the face.
Don't overcomplicate it.

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It's not going to be searching
everywhere for, it's right here.

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Yep, Yep.
And it goes on to say that in

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verses 10 through 13, for the
Scripture says whoever believes

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in him will not be disappointed.
For there's no distinction

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between the Jew and the Greek.
For the same Lord is Lord of all

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abounding and riches for all who
call on him.

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For whoever will call the name
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So it's a simple gospel.
You're not having to ascend to

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the heights or down to the
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World.
Wow, I I love that a lot.

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And that leads seamlessly into
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time.
Our text starts in verse 14.

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I'm going to read 14 through 17,
probably passage most I've heard

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before Paul writes.
How then will they call on him

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and whom they have not believed?
How will they believe in him

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whom they have not heard?
And how will they hear without a

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preacher?
How will they preach unless they

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are sent just as it is written?
How beautiful are the feet of

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those who bring good news of
good things.

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However, they did not all heed
the good news, for Isaiah says

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Lord, who has believed our
report.

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

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Yeah, it's a very simple logical
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You can't call on if you don't
believe.

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It makes sense.
You can't believe it if you

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haven't heard it.
Checks out.

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You can't have heard it unless
someone's told it to you.

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Airtight logic.
It's pretty straightforward.

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And so again, I, I think, you
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out there, we have a, a job to
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You know, you can camp in
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here's chapter 10 and it's like,
you need to go out there.

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You need to be the beautiful
feet telling people the gospel.

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It's, I mean, we just went over,
it's like Paul is like he's not

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just saying bring the gospel.
He's like, they can't believe it

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unless they it's like he's like
really laboring over these basic

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things.
It's like he's, I love how I

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think we've said this a lot.
It's like it's hard to miss the

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point, like you cannot read this
paragraph and no be like Paul,

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what are you saying?
It's like he's going slowly

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breaking it out.
And what pastor does really

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well, here's he pauses and he's
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this?
He's probably thinking in his

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mind, You've all heard this
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I'm not like breaking news.
Let's like bring it to real life

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And he starts this.
I thought this was really

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creative because I, I don't, I
wouldn't, wouldn't come to my

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mind right away.
You write a thank you note to

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the person who LED you to the
Lord or, or someone who had an

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instrumental impact like that.
That's a really good application

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to think back and thank that
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encouraging to them.
And, you know, people probably

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don't realize the impact they
have or, you know, 20 years

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later, 30 years later that that
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Yeah, it's very good.
Do you?

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Do you?
Do you remember who I'm getting

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some.
I'm maybe your parents, you

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know?
Yeah, so I, I remember my

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situation kind of came off of, I
can't remember if it was like a

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sermon or like a, it was some
sort of meeting at our church in

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Kentucky.
I was like 7 or 8.

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And that stuck with me as a, as
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aspect of things.
And then later that night I like

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couldn't sleep, found my mom and
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Mom led me to the Lord.
So I was thinking I was like,

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oh, I should write my mom a
letter.

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I should write my past pastor
from Kentucky.

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I should write him a letter.
Like, you know, I haven't talked

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to, I haven't heard of him in a
long time, 'cause I'm, I opened

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in Kentucky for like 2 years as
a kid and we're moving, moving

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around just like, oh, that would
probably be really, really

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encouraging.
And I, you don't have an excuse

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because there's a thank you card
in the bulletin.

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He's making it easy.
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Yeah, no, that, that's good.
So write a thank you note and

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then we should be strategic and
sacrificial in our sending of

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the gospel, whether that's, you
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the globe.
All three of those play.

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If you're not in, you know, you
should be local.

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If you're and if you're not, you
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can at least be local and be
sending those types of things.

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And I like, you know, we talked
about preaching same word we

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used for heralding and we got to
hear Joel being like extra extra

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read all about it.
But it's, you know, just like a

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newsboy.
We're, we should be, you know,

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trying to get that message out
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Yeah, I like that, envisioning
this, this heralding of, of good

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news.
You can think about, you know,

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the time of Paul, time of
Christ, You know, people were

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proclaiming like victory over
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You can, you can understand why,
you know, Caesar might be a

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little threatened with this
heralding 'cause I think that

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was a thing that happened in
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You'd Harold Caesar and these
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And in the last application,
we've done this several times in

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the past and it's good because
it's simple, easy to remember.

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Call it a 321.
Find 3.

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People typically do this around
the holiday season to pray for

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maybe neighbors, maybe Co
workers, whoever they might be.

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Out of those three, pick two to
serve in some way, do a good

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deed, bake them a cake.
You know, I don't know.

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Walk their dog.
I don't know.

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Probably ask them before.
What are you doing with our dog?

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No, just walking your dog.
A good deed and then cleaning.

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Your house.
Yeah, get consent before you do

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these good deeds.
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witness to them or invite them
to our church specifically for a

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Thanksgiving celebration.
We're having Christmas, we're

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going to have a choir new
whatever, but to be intentional

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and think about these things,
great way to put put this kind

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of message into practice.
That's great, got another DL

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Moody quote here.
He says in Proverbs we read he

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that winneth.
He must have been in the old

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English, Old English Bible, the
KJV.

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He that winneth souls is wise.
If any man, woman or child, by a

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godly life and example can win
one soul to God, his life will

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not have been a failure.
He will have outshone all the

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mighty men of his day because he
will have set a stream in motion

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that will flow on and on forever
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Just this beautiful picture of
the impact that Wow bringing one

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person to Christ can have.
And that person is going to have

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an impact.
And that person is going to have

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an impact, just like a ripple's
just spreading out.

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Yeah, that don't underestimate
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And and pastor broke it down
into someone gets married and

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has kids and even that alone.
Just think of that, that, that,

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that's pretty, pretty amazing.
So that that's Romans 1014

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through 17.
We'll continue on verses 16 and

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17.
Paul writes, however, they did

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not all heed the good news for
Isaiah says Lord, who has

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believed our report.
So faith comes from hearing and

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hearing by the word of Christ.
Also familiar text.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And so there's folks here that

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believe.
There's folks here that did not

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believe.
And this reminded me that Joel

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didn't go to this, but you know,
when Paul is on Mars Hill at the

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Areopagus and he is given his
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Acts 1732 through 34.
Now when they heard of the

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resurrection of the dead, some
began to sneer, but others said,

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we shall hear you again
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So Paul went out of their myths,
but some men joined him and

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believed, among whom also were
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woman named Damaris and others
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So you see kind of these three
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Some ridiculed him.
Some are like, this is

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interesting.
We don't know if we want to

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commit yet, but we'd like to
hear some more.

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And then some believed.
That's kind of what you see when

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you give the gospel.
And that's what Paul is saying

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here.
What kind of he's he's quoting

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Isaiah a lot.
Pastor Joe mentioned this point,

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but particularly through nine,
really throughout all of Romans,

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but nine through 11.
A lot of Old Testament quotes.

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He's addressing ethnic Jews.
He's trying to show them this is

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in your I'm not making this up.
And some of his quote quotations

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have come from Psalm 50I mean,
sorry, Isaiah 51.

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Here's verses one through 3 in
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Isaiah writes, Who's believed
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And to who has the arm of the
Lord been revealed?

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For he grew up before him like a
tender shoot, and like a root

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out of the parks ground.
He has no stately form or

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majesty that we should look upon
Him, nor appearance that we

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should be attracted to him.
He was despised and forsaken of

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men, a man of sorrows and
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And like one from whom men hide
their face, He was despised, and

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we did not esteem him.
So when?

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When this question is asked, who
has believed our message?

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It's saying like who?
Who 'cause there's people that

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have totally rejected it.
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So some rejected, some believed,
and then kind of start asking,

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well, why did they reject it?
So you could say you can kind of

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hear someone saying Paul, why
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And so Paul's going to go
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So when we look at 1018 through
21 from Romans, Paul's going to

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say it's not because they
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That's what verse 18 says.
But I say, surely they've never

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heard, have they?
Indeed they have.

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Their voice has gone out into
all the earth and their words to

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the ends of the world.
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I don't know.
Like I have quoted Psalm 19 a

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lot, but I never connected till
this morning.

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Oh, Paul is quoting Psalm 19
here and it's talking about

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creation and the heavens
declaring the glory of the Lord

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and their speech pouring forth
night after night is going out

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to all the world.
Does it use words?

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No, but it it's heard by
everyone, and that is a

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astounding evidence of who God
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And there's evidence that he's
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Now, do we respond properly?
No, we don't.

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Yes, that, that, that that's
amazing because no one we we

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learn this Romans one anyway,
but just rehashing it here is

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probably where, you know, Paul's
drawing a lot.

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It's like everyone has heard
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There is no excuse.
I know.

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And it's not like Paul is
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Like he went to the synagogues.
We mentioned that that's where

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he started his ministry.
So I love that he's going

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through.
These different objections

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because you could, yeah, you
could see a Jew being like,

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well, maybe all of us haven't
heard it.

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Like, no, no, you have heard.
Not only that it's not because

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you haven't understood either.
In verses 19 through 20, he

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writes.
But I say, surely Isaiah didn't

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know, did they?
I'm sorry.

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Surely Israel didn't know,
didn't they?

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First Moses says, I'll make you
jealous by that which is not a

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nation, by a nation without
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Will I anger you?
And Isaiah is very bold and

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says, I was found by those who
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I became manifest of those who
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And he kind of breaks it down
and a new living translation

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kind of reads between the lines
a little bit or tries to break

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it down.
But he's basically saying you,

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you've heard you've understood
this, like they probably have

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had more understanding or you
know, with scriptures and all of

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this, that really you, you have
not sought me like the like

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Gentiles have.
Sought me, right?

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Yeah.
And the fact that he's going to

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use Gentiles who are kind of new
to all this, like you had

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greater understanding.
You were with the, you had the

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prophecies, you had the law, you
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I told you, you know, back in
the Pentateuch that you know,

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his, her seed was going to, you
know, bruise the head of the

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serpent.
I told you through Abraham that,

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you know, you were going to be a
blessing to all nations.

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You know, I told David, he's
going to have a son who reigns

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forever.
I told you through Isaiah.

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So all of these things the Jews
should have known and yet they,

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00:21:34,120 --> 00:21:35,680
they didn't see it.
And now he's going to take

450
00:21:35,680 --> 00:21:42,000
Gentiles and use them kind of as
a a way to make the Jews

451
00:21:42,040 --> 00:21:44,600
jealous, to help me bring some
of them back.

452
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:48,080
That that that's really good.
So a, it's not because the Jews

453
00:21:48,080 --> 00:21:49,640
haven't heard.
They've rejected the mentions,

454
00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:50,920
not because they haven't
understood.

455
00:21:51,400 --> 00:21:54,120
Then the Third Point, it really
gets to the heart of it.

456
00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:57,600
Probably not what a a Jew is
wanting to hear, but it's

457
00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:58,600
because.
If you're witnessing, you may

458
00:21:58,600 --> 00:22:00,280
not.
This may not be the first thing

459
00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:04,840
that you lead with.
They they are disobedient and

460
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,080
obstinate.
Verse 21 says, but As for

461
00:22:07,080 --> 00:22:11,520
Israel, he says all the day
long, I have stretched out my

462
00:22:11,520 --> 00:22:14,720
hands to a disobedient and
obstinate people.

463
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:17,840
And to to your point, Michael,
they had all these things, they

464
00:22:17,840 --> 00:22:20,760
had the temple.
They, they had things that no

465
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,880
one that all these other nations
did not have.

466
00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:26,200
And, and really, that's God's
patience and kindness and he is

467
00:22:26,200 --> 00:22:29,640
just being rejected.
This image of my hand is

468
00:22:29,640 --> 00:22:31,400
stretched out to you.
You're the one not accepting.

469
00:22:32,080 --> 00:22:34,200
Yeah.
And so this is part of the

470
00:22:34,200 --> 00:22:36,040
message.
Message, if you've read it, it

471
00:22:36,040 --> 00:22:39,440
just is like it doesn't give you
exact verses 'cause it's so

472
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:41,440
paraphrased.
But so this is kind of some of

473
00:22:41,440 --> 00:22:44,160
the last verses that we've read.
I think it kind of goes up into

474
00:22:44,640 --> 00:22:47,880
18 and 20, but it says Isaiah
dared to speak out these words

475
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,600
of God.
People found and welcomed me who

476
00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,400
never so much as looked for me,
and I found and welcomed people

477
00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,400
who had never even asked about
me.

478
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:59,040
Then he capped it with a damning
indictment.

479
00:22:59,040 --> 00:23:03,440
Day after day after day, I
beckoned Israel with open arms

480
00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:06,440
and got nothing for my trouble
but cold shoulders and icy

481
00:23:06,440 --> 00:23:09,000
stairs.
Clearly a paraphrase, but he's

482
00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,880
trying to capture, you know,
what these last verses have been

483
00:23:11,880 --> 00:23:13,440
saying.
No, that that's good.

484
00:23:13,440 --> 00:23:16,240
And and Pastor Joe's got this
great illustration to drive it

485
00:23:16,240 --> 00:23:18,000
home.
They're all the rage these the

486
00:23:18,000 --> 00:23:20,000
lasting 5 or 10 years or
whatever.

487
00:23:20,000 --> 00:23:22,840
These gender reveal parties.
You did not do you do one for

488
00:23:22,840 --> 00:23:23,600
Phoebe?
No.

489
00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:26,120
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, 'cause we don't know

490
00:23:26,120 --> 00:23:28,880
until the day, until we don't
find out.

491
00:23:29,440 --> 00:23:32,200
Yeah, it's the I'm going to say
both the gender reveal parties

492
00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:33,520
we do are not open to the
public.

493
00:23:36,920 --> 00:23:40,600
All righty.
Oh, but everyone does them.

494
00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:46,080
It seems like he was mentioning,
you know, his granddaughter for

495
00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:48,400
what gender she was going to be
to reveal all these things.

496
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:51,360
And then you can go online and
there's a million things, if you

497
00:23:51,360 --> 00:23:53,360
can imagine that, that did not
go well.

498
00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:56,600
And from a tree catching on fire
only I don't know if I'm missing

499
00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:57,800
any.
And then he gets to his like his

500
00:23:57,800 --> 00:23:58,680
main point.
Right.

501
00:23:58,680 --> 00:24:01,320
Yeah.
So I think he mentioned one

502
00:24:01,320 --> 00:24:04,840
sister who was upset with
getting a brother and then a

503
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,640
dad, which is this is really
bad, being upset that it's a

504
00:24:07,640 --> 00:24:09,640
girl instead of a boy.
I guess there's a video out

505
00:24:09,640 --> 00:24:10,320
there.
But he didn't.

506
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:11,480
Say it.
It actually was Michael.

507
00:24:11,480 --> 00:24:13,160
He didn't want to bring it up.
I'm I'm just kidding.

508
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,560
Well, I think that's that is one
of the beauty because you know,

509
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:19,760
obviously we plan on having 2
girls, 2 boys at least.

510
00:24:19,760 --> 00:24:22,040
Like we're let's have keep on
having kids.

511
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,800
So we have at least 2 of each
and then everyone have a sister,

512
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:27,240
Everyone have a brother.
Well, everyone has a sister.

513
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:29,960
Got halfway there.
Yeah, that's.

514
00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:31,360
Right.
And no one has a brother.

515
00:24:31,360 --> 00:24:36,640
But yeah, so I think not finding
out is great because, you know,

516
00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,000
that day of you see that baby,
Yes, that's right.

517
00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:41,480
You just, you just love him or
her immediately, you know?

518
00:24:41,480 --> 00:24:47,360
So but those big reveals that
went bad, Jesus Christ, you

519
00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:50,760
know, take the lesser to the
much lesser to the much greater.

520
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:55,800
He was a big reveal, walked onto
the stage of humanity, showed

521
00:24:55,800 --> 00:24:59,080
up, declared who he was.
But most of the Jews weren't

522
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:02,400
were not happy with this reveal.
Not not loving it so much that

523
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:07,440
they stumbled over him like it
again, it's not like who was

524
00:25:07,480 --> 00:25:08,640
Jesus?
We had no idea.

525
00:25:08,640 --> 00:25:10,400
We didn't know, we didn't
understand everything.

526
00:25:10,400 --> 00:25:12,920
It's a lot of it was
disobedient, obstinate

527
00:25:12,920 --> 00:25:16,760
stubbornness.
John Stutz got this quote and he

528
00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:18,480
says so.
Paul concludes his second

529
00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:22,040
exploration into the unbelief of
Israel in Chapter 9.

530
00:25:22,360 --> 00:25:26,080
He attributed it to God's
purpose of election, on account

531
00:25:26,080 --> 00:25:29,080
of which many were passed by and
only a remnant was left, and

532
00:25:29,080 --> 00:25:31,760
Israel within Israel.
In chapter 10, however, he

533
00:25:31,760 --> 00:25:33,920
attributed to Israel's own
disobedience.

534
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:39,240
Their fall was their faults.
The antenony between divine

535
00:25:39,240 --> 00:25:42,800
sovereignty and human
responsibility remains.

536
00:25:43,000 --> 00:25:44,120
I like that.
Yeah, it's good.

537
00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:45,360
Yeah.
Yeah.

538
00:25:45,360 --> 00:25:49,840
So we talked about, you know,
was it a I think it was Moody

539
00:25:49,840 --> 00:25:53,520
quoting Spurgeon or or it was
like a double quotation.

540
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,480
But one of them is like, you
know, I never try to reconcile

541
00:25:55,480 --> 00:25:56,560
friends.
That's good.

542
00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,720
And then this one says, you
know, I like this one because

543
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:03,880
the antenna me it, it recognizes
there's some tension there.

544
00:26:04,120 --> 00:26:07,480
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's right.
That that the Bible doesn't

545
00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,560
necessarily seek to resolve like
we try to, you know, pull up

546
00:26:10,560 --> 00:26:15,440
some ways of understanding it,
but ultimately God sovereign and

547
00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:17,840
he's responsible.
Yeah, that, that is good.

548
00:26:17,840 --> 00:26:20,640
He's going to pastor Joe's going
to close it out with another

549
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:26,040
application encouraging us to
pray for, look for and act on

550
00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,480
opportunities to have beautiful
feet.

551
00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:30,840
As we come into the holiday
season, consider yourself sense

552
00:26:31,200 --> 00:26:34,240
how beautiful are the feet of
those who bring good news of

553
00:26:34,240 --> 00:26:37,040
good things.
And you know, if you're thinking

554
00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:39,800
about this, what you know, if
you're trying to get a picture,

555
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:41,600
it's, it's funny, 'cause it's
beautiful feet.

556
00:26:42,160 --> 00:26:43,760
But what, what do these feet
look like?

557
00:26:44,200 --> 00:26:47,600
Probably callous, dusty, dirty.
They're doing work, right?

558
00:26:47,600 --> 00:26:50,200
So you have like this like
paradox or contrast or you know,

559
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,840
this image.
Those are what beautiful feet

560
00:26:51,840 --> 00:26:53,680
aren't necessarily kicking your
feet up and you're getting the

561
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,800
pedicure or whatever.
You know, it's like all they're.

562
00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:57,320
Beautiful for what?
For what they've done.

563
00:26:57,320 --> 00:26:59,320
Not that's not their their view.
Yeah.

564
00:26:59,400 --> 00:27:02,560
No, that that's good.
So, you know, get that, get

565
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,480
that, get the.
Get comfortable with feet.

566
00:27:06,080 --> 00:27:06,720
That's right.
Yeah.

567
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:11,640
Yeah, That, that is good.
Anything else on Romans 10?

568
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:13,000
Romans 10's in the.
Books.

569
00:27:13,080 --> 00:27:15,400
Roman 10 is in the books, is it?
In the book.

570
00:27:15,640 --> 00:27:20,360
It's in the book, The Big Book,
looking at Romans 11 coming up.

571
00:27:21,120 --> 00:27:23,760
You know, don't do get too
haughty, Gentiles.

572
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:25,760
That, that's right, 'cause that
would be the natural.

573
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:27,560
I love how Paul ain't playing
favorites.

574
00:27:27,560 --> 00:27:29,800
You know, he's, he's, he's
telling it how it is and he's

575
00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:32,520
calling things out.
And yeah, that's right,

576
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:34,520
Gentiles, watch out.
Grafted in.

577
00:27:34,880 --> 00:27:38,720
So I mean, we, we could, we
could stream this on for another

578
00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:40,120
30 minutes, talk about what that
means.

579
00:27:40,120 --> 00:27:43,760
But you know, I, I've always
wondered, you know, because you

580
00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:47,960
have, we grew up with some very
hard line dispensationalists.

581
00:27:49,040 --> 00:27:52,160
Where is Paul?
Is he in the church or is he in

582
00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:55,200
Jews?
I don't know if if you take.

583
00:27:55,200 --> 00:27:58,240
A very hard line.
Dispensationalist view, where's

584
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:02,160
Peter church or, or the Jew?
But I think Romans 11 makes that

585
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:06,480
clear that Gentiles are grafted
into that tree.

586
00:28:06,800 --> 00:28:09,920
And the church in in Ephesians
will talk about bringing down

587
00:28:09,920 --> 00:28:13,560
that dividing wall so that
there's one Organism that we

588
00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:18,640
call the church, which is the
blending of spiritual Israel and

589
00:28:18,800 --> 00:28:22,160
with with national Jews and
Gentiles who believe.

590
00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:23,440
But I mean that that's good
little.

591
00:28:23,440 --> 00:28:27,680
Preview.
Little preview yeah, I I love it

592
00:28:27,880 --> 00:28:31,760
sounds good Next next time the
31st chapter.

593
00:28:31,760 --> 00:28:34,080
So we'll see see y'all then
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594
00:28:35,640 --> 00:28:36,920
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