God's Plan for Israel Pt 3 | Romans 11:17-36

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All right, so you ever have any
mishaps while you're at work?

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Oh, mishaps all the time.
People, people making mistakes,

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people left and right.
Like any of your patients follow

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or anything while you're having
different exercises.

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Not, not my patients.
We have had a patient in the

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past working on some stair
negotiation.

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You don't want a patient falling
down the stairs during therapy.

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So this is a challenge with
therapy.

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You a lot of our patients, we're
really trying to improve balance

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and to improve balance, you do
have to challenge balance.

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Just like you're trying to make
a muscle stronger.

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You need to And so you have to
put people in precarious

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situations.
Hopefully you're guarding them

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and safe.
But every now and something so

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real quick and then we'll,
we'll, we'll move on.

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When I was early in my career, I
was seeing someone out in Bono

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and he was like big dude, like
over 400 lbs.

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And we were, we were going to
work on some walk in took took

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AI mean he didn't like take a
tumble, but he was going down

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and he just like, don't, don't
save me, you're going to die.

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And it was like he lived on a
street with like several family

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members, like 4 family members
couldn't get him up.

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Like fire department came
because they know this guy by

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name.
They're like trying to get up

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again.
It was like 8 guys like bed

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sheets in certain places.
It was like a fiasco, but you

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know, I'll kick it to you.
Mishaps on your end?

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Yeah.
Yeah.

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So we, we just, so we're
recording this on the Sunday

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that we just finished our
Christmas house for the holidays

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things and we, we had one mishap
per show, three shows.

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Different mishaps you show like.
Different mishaps.

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So the first one, you know, I
have this eldest daughter.

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You may or may not know that she
was running slides for the show.

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Oh, no, I did not know that.
And we get there Friday evening.

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Everything is on.
Yeah, supposedly.

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So I know it's going.
And she got some, she got some

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extra duties to her in her
defense, she got some extra

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because she had to like do like
some stuff that for the audience

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that wasn't normally there
'cause she's normally doing like

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our confidence screen so that we
can see the words.

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Cause in theory we have the
lyrics memorized but.

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Sure, yeah.
And so for the first 3 songs,

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there were no lyrics for Wow.
So you're just.

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I mean, hopefully you know them,
but it's nice to have a safety

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net.
Right.

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And and so how the show is, it's
a lot of like solos and duets or

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quartets.
So it was a men's quartet, A2

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ladies duo and then A and a
husband and wife.

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And I didn't hear anything.
I was just sitting backstage

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oblivious till the husband and
wife came back and they're like,

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she was like no lyrics.
And I was like.

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This was the first night.
This was the first night and she

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was like, oh, I'm sure, 'cause
my two solos are in the second

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act.
She's like, I'm sure like, you

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know your solos and I'm sure
they'll have it fixed by the

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second act.
And I was like, I'm not worried

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about my solos, 'cause I, I have
those memorized.

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But like there's a place that we
either her husband sings another

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part where we either are singing
with him or we echo.

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And it's like on our slides that
remind us, OK, you're singing

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with him now you're echoing.
And it's like, I don't know that

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stuff.
But the projector just was not

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turned on.
And she hadn't had to do that

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yet.
So boom, second night we had

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these times where the cat, the
ensemble's coming in and off the

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stage.
And we try to do it fast because

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you know, you don't, you want
it, you know, quick, quick.

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And this gal is coming off this.
It's only maybe a one foot

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riser, you know.
Oh, someone took a tumble.

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And I think she, she was wrapped
'cause we had to come around the

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corner and I think maybe just
the hem of her dress, like got

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underneath her shoe and she lost
friction.

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Her feet just went right out
from under.

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I was right behind her.
So I, we picked her up and went,

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and I said something to my, to
some people who are in the

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audience.
She's like, we didn't see that

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at all or hear that at all.
So it was kind of covered up.

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So it was good.
And then tonight or this

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afternoon, for some reason,
those that second act, the two

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ladies singing, chestnuts
roasting on open fire.

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One of my big Christian
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Songs so for a little.
Bit no, I hate, I hate that.

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I mean, I know that stuff
happens when you got a lot of

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mics running, but you, you
always think like, why can't

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they have the mics on?
But I know it's more

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complicated.
Than that, yeah.

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And I know they're they're using
cues.

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So for your AV folks, maybe only
Aaron, but basically you have it

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set up how you want it and then
you just, you're just going from

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Q1 to Q2 to Q3 and something
must have gotten changed about

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that.
Queue.

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So then they have to look up 1.
You have to realize the mics

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aren't on, then you have to go
like turn them on.

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So yeah.
I do want to, I'll point this

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out.
Do you have video of any of what

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you did?
Is that going to be like

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available in any capacity?
Did like your wife like sneak

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like, oh, I'm going to record?
It said don't do any filming.

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I'm not aware of anyone that did
filming.

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I did buy.
So they, I think they like,

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record all three shows and then
they my guess is they take the

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best version of each song out of
three shows, put it together and

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and release it.
Well, I was going to say we

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should go head to head because I
don't even know about my

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background, but as a fourth
grader at the Christmas school I

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went to did a pretty fancy solo
in.

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No, it wasn't house for the
holidays, but it was called a

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peanut butter Christmas and I
don't see if I can pull that

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back.
It's so embarrassing 'cause I

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cannot sing.
And I was like, whatever, 10

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years old or something.
But maybe I'll pull that up and

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we'll we'll go head to head.
Who sang it back 4th grade from

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like 4th grade or?
Something like something because

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yeah, 4th grade I was Santa
Claus and North Pole was

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rock'n'roll.
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And I have that on video too.
Wow.

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We we, we should maybe post a
bonus clip of that.

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I went to a Christian School
that we would never do something

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called Santa and Rock'n'roll.
We'd be.

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Whoa.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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That's like double bad stuff.
Yeah, so this was like Santa, he

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wants to be cool.
He's worried he's not cool.

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And I was the classic Santa.
And then like then and this

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other guy comes on, he plays the
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but it like just keeps failing
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And then so they all want the
classic Santa back.

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And then I come back and I just
saved the day, you know?

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So yeah.
Wow.

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Well.
North Pole goes rock'n'roll.

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I'm excited.
I'm not excited to show any of

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my single, but it's like
hilarious because it's so bad.

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So I think the world needs to
just make fun of me.

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So that'll be good.
A lot of Christmas stuff.

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Did you?
Just get cast by your charisma

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alone, you know, or.
Well, this is what happens when

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you have a class size of like 35
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You just get and like the church
church school was connected.

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We always, I was always doing
stuff like with our church.

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And so it's just like you get,
you get picked for stuff and

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then eventually, you know, so it
was, those were the gore days.

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And.
Then I never got a solo again.

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It was very strange, so I can
all trace it back back to this,

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but great stuff, not as exciting
as God's plan for Israel.

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Yeah, yeah.
Not, not clear, and not as

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really as important as God's
plan for Israel.

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Definitely not.
It's very forgettable, my solo,

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but join us as we're in, he said
Sermon 35.

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Sermon 30, he said. 35 weeks.
Oh, gotcha.

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'Cause I was like 35.
I think it's 35 weeks but not

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sermon 35.
I need to go.

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Back I will I will count.
We'll find the truth.

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We've been doing that a lot
later.

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Well, Romans 11, Part 317
through 33, God's plan for

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Israel.
Let's take it to the next level

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from the hearts of the Low
Country in South Carolina.

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It's the Take Two podcast where
we take theology to the next

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level.
All right, God's plan for

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Israel, Part 3, finishing a
major section of the book of

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Romans.
Next time we're talking about

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Romans, man, it's all it's going
to be.

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It's going to be a therefore,
and we'll be like, because of

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all the last 11 chapters,
because this is like, not only

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have there been sections in
Romans, but this is the, you

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know, most Pauline epistles have
this huge dividing line,

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theology, theology, theology,
theology, and then application.

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How do you live in light of
that?

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And so 11 ends this theology
section of Romans 12.

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It's this huge man.
Therefore now how we're going to

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live in light of all that.
So we're finishing up 11.

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It's the end of an era.
Are you telling me we're getting

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out the ginsengraph next week?
Is that what you're saying?

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I'm.
Saying the ginsengraph is

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probably going to be right here
next week and we're going to be

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talking about those different s
s for, you know, salvation.

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And you know, this is our third
sermon alone in 11.

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If you look at the broader
section, 9 through 11, a lot of

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sermon.
Spence, I do want to say kind of

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a follow up to our last sermon
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Did a little research, watch a
video for my good friend RC

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Sprill, who's no longer with us.
And I just want to throw this

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out there.
This is we should link the video

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or something.
He was asked on a panel, how do

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you interpret Romans 11?
And you know, and I was reading

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between the lines, but I got the
he preached a sermon.

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He referenced that he was in
agreement with John MacArthur.

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This guy's asking the questions
was kind of like, Are you sure

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you want to throw your eggs in
that basket based on, you know,

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your Presbyterian awmil,
whatever.

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It's much different.
And he and he just deadpan

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straight face said, yeah, I've
got the pre meal understanding

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of Romans 11, just like John
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And does he name drop someone
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I don't know, maybe just those
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But I was like, OK, so if you're
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that's their view.
I looked it up.

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Apparently most of the Puritans
thought this due to their post

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millennial eschatology that the
golden age was going to usher in

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the Jews.
Not in the same way.

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Pre mill is like getting worse
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Theirs getting better and
better, but the same end 'cause

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I always kind of thought this
was a dividing line of sorts,

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but apparently it's not right.
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Just just in case anyone missed
it.

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So what you're saying is RC
Sproull who?

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Who are the other reformers?
John Calvin going back to the

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Reformers and then Jonathan
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Puritans.
All take Romans 11 to refer to

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national ethic ethnic Jews,
Israel, not a spiritualized

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version of Israel.
Just fascinating.

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Too right?
So real Jewish ethnic people,

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descendants, physical
descendants of Abraham will will

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have a major revival at some
point in time, at the end of the

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age of the Gentiles, wherever
that is.

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Which is pretty amazing.
And they obviously would not go

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as far as they say, oh, these
physical land promises are the

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same.
They would, I would assume,

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spiritualize those and say,
what's we bigger and better than

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what you know, you're kind of
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Jerusalem is not maybe going to
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It might be different, but it
was just interesting because I

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feel like Romans 11 gets thrown
out there that it's like this

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huge the body line, but maybe
it's like down the line when you

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take that logic and you run,
that's where it happens.

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Yeah, I would think Matthew 2425
would be a dividing line.

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I mean, I got the best of both
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there's a, there was probably a
clearly, you know, there were

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Christians who escaped because
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surrounded the first time.
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because Caesar died and they
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Like that saved a lot of people.
Clearly there was a partial

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fulfilment then so.
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Anyway, that just piqued my
interest as we were going

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through it and also throughout
the question on the Theology

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Matters Facebook group.
And no one and and no, no one

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embraced that position.
No one took a spirit of that.

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It was not.
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since the, the, the foil are
Gentiles, you know, So I, I just

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know how you, you could, could
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All right, the universe, it's
big.

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It's it is big.
A lot is happening.

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We spent some time, you know,
trying to get get our bearings.

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Threw out some fat facts,
Charlie.

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You know the speed of light.
I have my hand raised and I did

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not get called.
I don't know, I I'm in a science

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field.
I don't know a lot, but I feel

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like that's one of those things
like not everyone knows, but you

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know that, you know, the sun's
93,000,000 miles.

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That's about if you didn't learn
anything in science class in 4th

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grade, that's like the things
you know. 93,000,000 miles away,

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8 minutes to for the light of
the sun to get here and the

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speed of light is 186,000 miles
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So those are things, things you
should know.

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I feel like I don't know a lot,
but those things stuck and

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Pastor did go to great lengths
to be like, universe is

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incredible and huge and gigantic
and we don't know the half of

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it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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I got several questions about
dark manager, dark matter, dark

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matter and dark energy on the
way home by by, but the point of

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it is the universe
incomprehensible, like we can't

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really understand it.
The Milky Way's 100,000 light

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years across crazy, you know
what, 200 a 100 billion stars in

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our Galaxy alone, man, somewhere
between 200 billion to 2

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trillion galaxies like and
you've, I know you're not into

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maybe looking at stars and
stuff, but go look at some of

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the new James Webb pictures.
Because what used to look like,

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like just a square of black,
just a square of black in this,

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you know, tiny square black,
they blow that up and it's just

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like a sea of galaxies that you
can see that it's crazy.

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And that's like one tiny, tiny
little and like that's

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everywhere.
So trillions and trillions of of

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galaxies incomprehensible.
And that's what we're going to

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talk about today because our
passage today is going to end

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with this verse.
O the depth of the riches of the

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wisdom and the knowledge of God,
how unsearchable, just like a

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Galaxy are His judgments, and
unfathomable His ways.

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Yeah, you get through this whole
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I feel like if you're not ending
up or Paul's ending up you,

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you're missing something or
you're doing one of these things

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that Paul says, don't do that,
that we'll talk about soon

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'cause this passage does humble
us, particularly those who are

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Gentiles who might have the, you
know, propensity to get Eric and

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be like these Jews just don't
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We're so smart that that would
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So we've been working our way
through this Chapter 11 got

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future plans for Israel.
We're going to zoom out get our

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bearings.
There's two major questions that

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that we're looking at in this
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with the question God hasn't
rejected his people has he may

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it never be uses Paul.
Paul talks about hey, I'm here,

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Elijah also, you know, had that
remnants and then in verse 11

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kind of starts a new a question
that these Jews they didn't

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stumble as to fall, did they
again saying may it never be

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that that they're not totally
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Yeah, and we ended last week
arguing with this lesser to

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greater verses 12 and verses 15.
Now, if their transgression is

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richest for the world, and their
failure is richest for the

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Gentiles, how much more will
their fulfilment be?

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For if their rejection is the
reconciliation of the world,

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what will their acceptance be
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So this, this man, if God can do
these amazing things through the

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failure of the Jews, wow, how
much more can he do when he

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brings them back and he
sanctifies this remnant?

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And again, if we're thinking of
nine through 11 as this section

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in verse 9, he's kind of
arguing, has the word of God

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failed?
Why?

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Why is this the case in Romans
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What's going on?
If you back up to verse 16,

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there's these promises made to
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The verse 16 says that the, if
the first piece of dough is

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holy, the lump is also, and if
the root is holy, the branches

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are too.
I just love the thought of like

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holy dough, you know, But it's
it, the idea is these

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patriarchs, there were promises
made long ago.

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And because of this, because of
God's character, he's going to

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see these things through.
He's not going to say, yeah,

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that was a long time ago.
Everyone, I think everyone

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forgot about that.
No one's going to know.

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It's like, no, no, he's got to
continue on with with the Jewish

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people.
Speaking of holy dough, I've

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made some sour bread in my day.
I haven't made it recently, but

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we got some sour bread from
Catherine Who?

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How was it?
I bet it's good.

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Chloe has had my sour bread and
she said this was the best bread

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she's ever eaten in her life.
Wow.

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So there you go.
I'm thinking.

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There you go, Catherine.
I'm I don't know if Catherine's

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got a name for a company, but
she should call it Holy Dough.

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Holy Romans 11/16 is like the
tagline.

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This is Holy Dough and she's
just sponsored the podcast

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that's.
Right.

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That's right.
Yeah, Yeah, that.

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That'd be great.
So, all right, so we're going to

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read some longer passages, but
then we'll comment on them.

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So we're gonna, we're moving
through the rest of Romans 11.

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So this is 17 through 24.
And this is going to be talking

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about this olive tree and the
fact that it was pruned.

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Some of those branches went away
and we added some men, but guess

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what?
Some of those branches could be

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added back in.
So here we go.

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But if some of the branches were
broken off, and you, being a

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wild olive, were grafted in
among them, and became partaker

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with them of the rich root of
the olive tree, do not be

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arrogant towards the branches.
But if you are arrogant,

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remember that it is not you who
supports the root, but the root

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supports you.
You will say, then branches were

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broken off so that I might be
grafted in quite right.

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They were broken off for their
unbelief.

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But you stand by your faith.
Do not be conceited, but fear.

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For if God did not spare the
natural branches, He will not

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spare you either.
Behold then the kindness and

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severity of God to those who
fell severity, but to you God's

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kindness, if you continue in His
kindness, otherwise you will

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also be cut off.
And they also, if they do not

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continue, and their unbelief
will be grafted in, for God is

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able to graft them in again.
For if you were cut off from

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what is by nature a wild olive
tree, and were grafted contrary

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to nature in a cultivated olive
tree, how much more will those

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who are natural branches be
grafted into their own olive

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tree?
It's a big, big paragraph.

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We'll kind of look at piece by
piece or these key phrases.

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The first one that stands out
you you're reading happens a

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couple times.
Paul says don't be arrogant

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verse 18.
Then just a few verses later

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verse 20, he says don't be
conceited.

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Actually, instead of being
conceited, you should fear like

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that should be your response,
'cause you can read this easily

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and say like wow man, they've
rejected God.

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I mean, great for me, I'm
awesome.

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They're missing the boat.
But if that's your take away,

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you're totally missing the the
point because if this thing

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happened, happened to the Jews,
guess what?

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What could happen to you?
And, and we were talking a

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little bit about this after the
last podcast, just as we were

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chatting and wrapping up after
we were done recording.

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And I, and I haven't used
ChatGPT to try to find this, but

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I know I've only googled it
before ChatGPT.

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But I know Dennis Prager, Jewish
talk show host, he did something

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where he went through a series
of countries, through history

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that went up against Jews, tried
to annihilate them and then the

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downfall that they had
afterwards.

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We can think, you know, probably
Spain is not on most people's

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minds as a superpower.
At one point in time, they were

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the world superpower had the
Spanish Armada like they owned

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the seas Spanish Armada taken
down.

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That happened after the Spanish
Inquisition, and Spanish

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Inquisition was that they killed
a lot of.

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Non Catholics, including a lot
of Jews, Germany, we can think

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of after World War 2 being
brought down, you know, kind of

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just now, you know, getting back
on their feet in the past 20

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years or so.
And I'll try to find other

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nations that, you know, 'cause
he had a list.

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And listen, I was like kind of
overwhelmed by it, but I don't

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remember all of them.
But I mean, you see, you know,

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this kind of practically still
happening.

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Yeah, it's pretty, pretty
amazing.

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Just think what it should your
response be.

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It should lead you to where Paul
goes, that incomprehensibility

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more than, hey, I'm so great.
Cause Paul's, when he's kind of

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applying this, he says you need
to take into account the

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kindness and the severity of God
there.

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There's both of these things
that play and your experience

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God's kindness, but God, God's
also severe too.

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So, so don't get haughty, don't
get conceited 'cause you could

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literally be at the mercy of
God.

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And if you've never seen a video
of someone grafting in a branch,

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it is cool.
They do it with a lot of fruit

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trees and stuff.
But yeah, you can go see that

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and that there has to be a
particular match.

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And I think that's the point
Paul's making, like, hey, if God

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is able to take these wild
things and graft them into the

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root, how much more can he re
graft in some of the originals

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to that tree?
And so that is within God's

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ability and so application.
Just like you were saying, we

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need to dwell on both the
kindness and the severity of God

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and man.
If God can be kind to others, we

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should be too.
Now that that is a good, good

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take away.
It's, you know, the opposite,

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opposite of I'm arrogant.
It's like, no, I need to be kind

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because I've been extended so
much mercy.

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We see Paul kind of appealing to
this and even other parts of

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Scripture.
You look at 2nd Corinthians 9,

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he's making this case for, you
know, giving, cheerful giving.

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Really at the end of his
motivations, the primary

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motivation is thanks be to God
for his indescribable gift.

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God's a great gift giver.
We can give gifts too.

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And so at the end of the day,
humility's the name of the game.

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It's not, it's not pride.
Yeah.

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And see how would you, I mean,
we have 321 here listed.

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I mean that that's a good
application, especially if

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you're a member at CBC.
But I mean, this season makes it

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easy to be kind, like try to,
you know, maybe we can challenge

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one another and our listeners,
you know, try to try to wait to

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find a way to be kind, to show
someone the the love of God.

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I, I, I think that that is
great.

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It just lends itself.
It's just right there doesn't

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get it's only going to get
harder.

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It's it can't be like, oh, labor
day's coming up.

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Like, hey, in the spirit of
Labor, it's like, man, Christmas

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just makes it makes it easy.
So that's, that's that first

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section, first paragraph 17
through 25.

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We're going to shift gears to
verses 25 through 33.

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I will read at least the first
couple version, first couple of

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verses as Paul talks about this
mystery Paul writes for.

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00:23:11,920 --> 00:23:15,880
I don't want you, brethren to be
uninformed of this mystery, so

446
00:23:15,880 --> 00:23:19,200
that you will not be wise in
your own estimation that a

447
00:23:19,200 --> 00:23:22,280
partial hardening has happened
to Israel until the fullness of

448
00:23:22,280 --> 00:23:26,880
the Gentiles has come in.
And so all Israel will be saved,

449
00:23:27,120 --> 00:23:29,400
just as it's written.
The Deliverer will come from

450
00:23:29,400 --> 00:23:32,240
Zion.
He will remove ungodliness from

451
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:34,360
Jacob.
This is my covenant with them

452
00:23:34,440 --> 00:23:37,960
when I take away their sins.
No, it's good.

453
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:43,200
So that was 25 through 27 Paul
references there a mystery and

454
00:23:43,200 --> 00:23:46,360
hopefully if you're a student of
the Bible, Paul uses this word

455
00:23:46,360 --> 00:23:48,840
more than more than one time
throughout the New Testament.

456
00:23:48,840 --> 00:23:52,120
And what Paul means when he says
that is this is a truth

457
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:56,000
previously hidden, now brought
to light and revealed.

458
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:58,480
So it's not like the Gnostic
mysteries, like the secret

459
00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:01,880
knowledge, hidden knowledge.
It's, it's open now, but it was

460
00:24:01,880 --> 00:24:04,840
previously unknown.
And that was the fact that man,

461
00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,920
there was going to be this age
of the Gentiles, basically.

462
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:09,040
That's what some people have
called it.

463
00:24:09,040 --> 00:24:10,440
Some people call it a church
age.

464
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,600
Yeah.
But this this time when Gentiles

465
00:24:15,600 --> 00:24:20,720
are going to be coming to faith,
you know, and, and, and at the

466
00:24:20,760 --> 00:24:22,080
end of that time, we don't know
what that is.

467
00:24:22,080 --> 00:24:24,800
We don't know what triggers it.
But then there's going to be

468
00:24:24,800 --> 00:24:30,720
this revival among Israel and
every single Israelite will be

469
00:24:30,720 --> 00:24:33,000
saved.
I mean, that's So what is that

470
00:24:33,000 --> 00:24:34,400
how we should understand this
all?

471
00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:38,480
So, so this is really good to
talk because it's a lot hangs on

472
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:43,440
this all where if we're looking,
you know, in other places, you

473
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:47,440
know, I, I could say everyone in
America loves ice cream and that

474
00:24:47,440 --> 00:24:50,000
might mean like a lot of
America, but there's always,

475
00:24:50,000 --> 00:24:52,280
there's always one in the crowd.
I'm dairy free or whatever, you

476
00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:53,760
know.
You know Somerville was out for

477
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,320
this event.
Yes, yeah, exactly.

478
00:24:55,360 --> 00:24:58,520
It's it's a common the way we
speak.

479
00:24:58,520 --> 00:25:00,560
What what I want to hit on to
with this.

480
00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:04,280
It says all Israel literally
right before it.

481
00:25:04,280 --> 00:25:08,360
It says a partial hardening has
happened to Israel until the

482
00:25:08,360 --> 00:25:11,080
fullness Gentiles come in.
So we see Israel verse Gentiles

483
00:25:11,560 --> 00:25:13,360
and then this.
This is like where people

484
00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:15,320
spiritualize it.
Apparently not that many people

485
00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:17,680
since RC spill doesn't John
Calvin doesn't John Edwards, but

486
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,240
that this is the place where I
see people are like, oh, that's

487
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:23,840
that's everyone who saved.
But I'm like, we're just talking

488
00:25:23,840 --> 00:25:25,120
about ethnic Israel.
That's clear.

489
00:25:25,320 --> 00:25:27,160
I mean, I could see and but well
by.

490
00:25:27,160 --> 00:25:31,120
Definition Spiritual Israel is
saved, so it doesn't mean what?

491
00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,000
Let's be like me saying X is X
yeah.

492
00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:38,400
So it only makes sense for me to
say that all Israel will be

493
00:25:38,400 --> 00:25:42,520
saved if I mean.
If you.

494
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:46,680
Yeah.
National slash ethnic Israel and

495
00:25:46,680 --> 00:25:49,920
I, and obviously we can't take
all to the extreme.

496
00:25:50,040 --> 00:25:53,240
You know, we gave some examples
where we limit all in our

497
00:25:53,240 --> 00:25:57,800
understanding, but there's going
to be a very large revival among

498
00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:00,720
Jewish people.
Yeah, I think, I think that's

499
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,000
hard.
Just Paul lays it out so well.

500
00:26:03,000 --> 00:26:09,200
It's hard to miss that if we're
continuing on in Romans.

501
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:15,000
In verse 28, Paul writes from
the standpoint of the gospel.

502
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:18,200
They are in a well, I don't know
if is that scripture or enemies

503
00:26:18,200 --> 00:26:20,480
for your sake, but from the
standpoint of God's choice, they

504
00:26:20,480 --> 00:26:23,440
are beloved for the sake of the
fathers, for the gifts and the

505
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:26,680
calling of God, irrevocable.
That's great.

506
00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,080
I didn't know if that was to
make to make it look shorter

507
00:26:29,080 --> 00:26:32,200
than 5 verses, but maybe it is
just a couple in there.

508
00:26:32,240 --> 00:26:34,720
Maybe it's just 28 and 20.
Nine, Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think,

509
00:26:34,840 --> 00:26:36,520
I think I did not update the
end.

510
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,840
It's 2829.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

511
00:26:39,880 --> 00:26:44,720
I read it 28. 29 From the
standpoint of the gospel,

512
00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:48,760
they're enemies for your sake,
but from the standpoint of God's

513
00:26:48,760 --> 00:26:51,960
choice, they are beloved for the
sake of the fathers, For the

514
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,720
gifts and the calling of God are
irrevocable.

515
00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,080
And Paul's really appealing.
I like how he ends that.

516
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,240
If God says something's going to
happen, guess what?

517
00:27:00,240 --> 00:27:01,480
It's going to happen.
Yeah.

518
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,480
And our verse is just above
ended with this is my covenant

519
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,520
with them.
And then these verses end with

520
00:27:06,520 --> 00:27:08,240
the calling of God are
irrevocable.

521
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:10,760
We've talked about this before
or but there are some promises

522
00:27:10,760 --> 00:27:14,400
that God made that were
unconditional.

523
00:27:14,400 --> 00:27:16,200
Like I am going to bring this
about.

524
00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:20,520
It doesn't depend on you.
And because of those, and if you

525
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:23,320
look, you know, if you read
through, you know, the

526
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:28,480
Deuteronomy 292028, there's also
a place, I think it's in

527
00:27:29,760 --> 00:27:32,080
Numbers.
I think it's in Numbers, but we

528
00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:34,800
could, you know, you can look it
up, but basically says, when you

529
00:27:34,800 --> 00:27:37,120
turn away from me, I'm going to
do all these bad things to you.

530
00:27:37,120 --> 00:27:41,960
But I, I will remember you
because of the sake of your

531
00:27:42,280 --> 00:27:45,320
forefathers, like because of my
prompt, my covenant with them,

532
00:27:45,760 --> 00:27:47,600
I'm not going to utterly destroy
you.

533
00:27:47,600 --> 00:27:50,160
And it's like he's saying the
same thing to them now, like

534
00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:53,200
you're, you're broken off
branches, but I'm not going to

535
00:27:53,200 --> 00:27:55,160
forget you utterly.
Like there's going to come a

536
00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,960
time where because of those
promises, I'm going to, I'm

537
00:27:57,960 --> 00:28:00,320
going to bring you back.
No, I, I think, I think you

538
00:28:00,320 --> 00:28:03,680
nailed it, that it's clear that
because of this, because of

539
00:28:03,680 --> 00:28:06,560
these promises, God's not done
with Israel.

540
00:28:06,560 --> 00:28:08,840
At some point in the future, all
Israel will be saved.

541
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:12,440
We qualify that because the
gifts and calling of God are

542
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,840
irrevocable, Paul continues.
And we're making our way quickly

543
00:28:15,840 --> 00:28:21,320
now towards the end of this
chapter, Paul writes for just as

544
00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:24,960
you once were disobedient to
God, but now have been shown

545
00:28:24,960 --> 00:28:26,880
mercy because of their
disobedience.

546
00:28:27,160 --> 00:28:30,440
So these also now have been
disobedient that because of the

547
00:28:30,440 --> 00:28:34,720
mercy shown to you, they also
may now be shown mercy.

548
00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:38,920
For God has shut up all in
disobedience so that he may show

549
00:28:38,920 --> 00:28:42,520
mercy to all over the depths of
the riches, both of the wisdom

550
00:28:42,520 --> 00:28:45,120
and knowledge of God.
How unsearchable are his

551
00:28:45,120 --> 00:28:49,120
judgements and unfathomable his
ways.

552
00:28:49,480 --> 00:28:51,440
Now as you're reading that, you
can just hear the words

553
00:28:51,440 --> 00:28:54,320
disobedient and mercy just kind
of like pop up over and over and

554
00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:54,680
over.
Again.

555
00:28:54,680 --> 00:28:56,560
Yeah, and it hearkens back to
me.

556
00:28:56,720 --> 00:28:58,640
Chapter 9.
I want to mercy who I want to

557
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:02,960
mercy and God ultimately it
doesn't depend on the man who

558
00:29:02,960 --> 00:29:05,160
runs, but on God who shows
mercy.

559
00:29:05,680 --> 00:29:10,280
And so, you know, we had these
Gentiles who were far off and

560
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:13,680
God says, you know what, I'm
going to make them an object of

561
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:17,240
my mercy and make Israel,
because your disobedience, you

562
00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:19,840
know, I'm going to, you know,
break off the branches for a

563
00:29:19,840 --> 00:29:21,280
while.
But then you know what?

564
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,800
I'm going to make you an object
of my mercy.

565
00:29:23,800 --> 00:29:27,120
I'm going to and God's going to
get glory out of how he does

566
00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:29,520
that for both the Gentiles and
then comes back around for the

567
00:29:29,520 --> 00:29:31,920
Jews.
That's, that's pretty amazing.

568
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:35,040
It's, you know, from our vantage
point, hard to see everything.

569
00:29:35,040 --> 00:29:40,000
But man, so, so much mercy.
We've got this illustration

570
00:29:40,000 --> 00:29:44,920
Pastor Joel gave us from Andre
Stamos, this Hungarian soldier

571
00:29:44,920 --> 00:29:47,400
captured by Russians in the
1940s.

572
00:29:48,000 --> 00:29:50,640
He was basically declared, this
guy's just mumble and gibberish.

573
00:29:50,640 --> 00:29:53,280
He's clearly insane, was the
thinking at the time.

574
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:57,120
He was in a psychiatric ward,
you know, many years later.

575
00:29:57,120 --> 00:29:59,840
He's 75 years old.
He's been in confinement 55

576
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,720
years.
And what they found out was

577
00:30:02,720 --> 00:30:05,720
actually he speaks like this,
like obscure dialect, like, he's

578
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:07,480
not insane.
That would be.

579
00:30:08,080 --> 00:30:08,960
That's just the.
Worst.

580
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:11,600
Oh man, can't communicate.
You're trying to talk to

581
00:30:11,600 --> 00:30:13,600
somebody, they won't give you
the time of day.

582
00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:18,480
If I understood what Joel said,
most all this was in solitary

583
00:30:18,480 --> 00:30:22,560
confinement.
Yeah, that's. 75 years or 55

584
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:25,520
years?
Man, I can't imagine that's,

585
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:29,560
that's incredible.
And first thing he asked upon

586
00:30:29,560 --> 00:30:31,760
being released.
What was a mirror and just

587
00:30:31,760 --> 00:30:34,880
seeing yourself?
I was like seeing myself from

588
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:37,880
like my early 20s to now would
be jarring.

589
00:30:38,080 --> 00:30:42,920
I can't imagine like 20 to 75.
Man, yeah, I posted a picture of

590
00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:46,320
my because Navy beat Army.
So I posted a picture of me in

591
00:30:46,320 --> 00:30:50,800
my, you know, Ensign uniform and
Isaac comments like, you know,

592
00:30:51,560 --> 00:30:53,200
and and what was that?
20 years.

593
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,040
So now we're talking about 55
years.

594
00:30:55,760 --> 00:30:58,840
It's crazy.
The point is, God wants all of

595
00:30:58,840 --> 00:31:03,880
us to see our sinful brokenness
just like that man looked at his

596
00:31:03,880 --> 00:31:08,000
face and man how his face was
ravaged by that mistreatment and

597
00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:10,280
the sobbing tears that it
brought.

598
00:31:10,800 --> 00:31:13,960
We should look good on ourselves
in the mirror of God's Word, see

599
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,080
our sinfulness, see our
brokenness, be brought to tears,

600
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:20,560
and then marvel at the
unfathomable, unsearchable mercy

601
00:31:20,560 --> 00:31:23,360
that God has shown us.
Yeah, that's, that's the name of

602
00:31:23,360 --> 00:31:26,080
the game.
Totally getting away from this

603
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:29,920
Pride, arrogance, conceits and I
just it just there's no better

604
00:31:29,920 --> 00:31:33,000
way to end Chapter 11 than with
this great doxology.

605
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,040
Oh, the depth of the riches,
both of the wisdom and knowledge

606
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:38,400
of God.
How unsearchable are his

607
00:31:38,400 --> 00:31:41,640
judgements and unfathomable his
ways for who was known the mind

608
00:31:41,640 --> 00:31:45,240
of the Lord or who became his
counselor or who was first given

609
00:31:45,240 --> 00:31:48,920
to him that he that it might be
paid back to him again for from

610
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:53,200
him and through him and to him
are all things to him be the

611
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:55,120
glory forever.
Amen.

612
00:31:55,440 --> 00:31:58,960
And so he's really, he's really
hitting it from every, every

613
00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:03,760
aspect here that you know, who
are you from what, what you can

614
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,400
see.
You're you don't, you don't know

615
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:07,600
what's going on with God.
He can see everything much more

616
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:09,840
clearly than we can.
Yeah, and Joel's give us a

617
00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:12,280
little insight into this word.
Unsearchable means to have no

618
00:32:12,280 --> 00:32:17,280
footprints or no, no footprints,
no, not be untraceable beyond

619
00:32:17,280 --> 00:32:22,680
our understanding, and ends with
this idea of to him be the glory

620
00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:25,000
forever.
Amen.

621
00:32:25,520 --> 00:32:28,240
And we had this quote from
Ventura.

622
00:32:28,440 --> 00:32:30,800
I'll read it.
It says what is Paul's point in

623
00:32:30,800 --> 00:32:33,840
these final words.
It is this since God is the

624
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:39,360
author of all things in the
verses for from Him, and since

625
00:32:39,360 --> 00:32:44,200
God is the agent of all things,
the quote is and through him and

626
00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:48,800
God is the aim of all things,
and the quote is and to Him, He

627
00:32:48,800 --> 00:32:54,120
alone is the sole focus of our
worship and praise for all

628
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:57,840
things.
Man, great way to end this

629
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,440
sermon.
Looking at application, it's

630
00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:03,280
really simple.
Marvel that Marvel had the right

631
00:33:03,280 --> 00:33:06,960
things.
It's easy for us to just be

632
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:10,520
captivated by things that really
don't matter or even worse,

633
00:33:10,680 --> 00:33:13,480
missing, missing the point,
taking the glory off of God.

634
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:18,080
And you know, I I love that the
emphasis has been on context and

635
00:33:18,160 --> 00:33:20,720
9 through 11 all goes together
because there are some hard

636
00:33:20,720 --> 00:33:23,240
things and but it's like man, at
the end of the day, it just

637
00:33:23,400 --> 00:33:26,480
should glorify God.
And I appreciate Joe's focus on

638
00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:30,480
keeping the text, saying what
the text is, because I can

639
00:33:30,480 --> 00:33:34,280
imagine someone, myself
included, being tempted to kind

640
00:33:34,280 --> 00:33:38,920
of, OK, we're talking about the
end times here, Let's railroad a

641
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:41,920
whole bunch of what we think is
going to happen.

642
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:44,760
Not saying that that's a bad
discussion, but that's not where

643
00:33:44,760 --> 00:33:48,120
Paul goes.
Paul goes from God's not done

644
00:33:48,120 --> 00:33:50,680
with Israel, man.
We need to worship God.

645
00:33:50,960 --> 00:33:55,000
We need to marvel at who he.
Is yes, some may have hoped that

646
00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:58,720
Paul would say and I'm pre mill
and then go into this

647
00:33:58,920 --> 00:34:01,800
toxicology, but he didn't.
And that's, that's, that's

648
00:34:01,800 --> 00:34:03,200
instructive, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.

649
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,520
All right.
Anything else to add?

650
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:09,639
End of a section.
It feels like it's the end of

651
00:34:09,639 --> 00:34:13,040
the era because, you know, it's
like we're turning that corner

652
00:34:13,199 --> 00:34:15,440
and and it's not downhill from
here.

653
00:34:15,440 --> 00:34:18,880
But it's, you know, we, we can
see the the end inside of

654
00:34:18,880 --> 00:34:19,520
Romans.
Yeah.

655
00:34:20,040 --> 00:34:23,320
Wow.
Well, 32 sermons down, how many

656
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,199
more you think we got?
12 through 16.

657
00:34:25,840 --> 00:34:30,480
I would say what I'm assuming
we're going to wrap 16 up in

658
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:32,440
one, but I don't know sometimes.
We can.

659
00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:35,360
I don't know how Joel's going to
handle all those names and the

660
00:34:35,360 --> 00:34:38,320
different correspondences
because then, you know, like the

661
00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:41,600
last chapter of Galatians
towards the end, you know, Paul

662
00:34:41,600 --> 00:34:44,560
can be like, oh, and let me just
flip in some theology here and

663
00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:48,000
then I'm going to say goodbye.
I was actually looking at pastor

664
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:52,040
out some notes for 16 done and
one of his sermons or just it's

665
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:55,080
called overrated names.
It's interesting I don't know.

666
00:34:55,199 --> 00:34:57,600
Oh, is your daughter How did?
You get to peek at.

667
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Is your, Is your daughter on
that list?

668
00:34:59,920 --> 00:35:00,560
Is a.
Rated name.

669
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:01,800
I'm just kidding.
I was.

670
00:35:01,920 --> 00:35:04,920
I was like, how did you?
One, I'm amazed that Joel

671
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already has notes for chapter
16.

672
00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:08,280
Two, how did you get to see
them?

673
00:35:08,640 --> 00:35:10,360
But now the joke overrated
names.

674
00:35:10,360 --> 00:35:12,200
All right, all right.
OK, I'll tell Phoebe.

675
00:35:12,840 --> 00:35:13,960
I'm.
I'll tell Julian.

676
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:16,040
Great, great names, great names
all around.

677
00:35:16,040 --> 00:35:17,160
But I got nothing else.
What about?

678
00:35:17,720 --> 00:35:18,480
You.
I think I'm good.

679
00:35:19,080 --> 00:35:22,360
That's our take.
Thanks for listening to Take

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Two.
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