God's Plan for Israel | Romans 11:1-11

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All right, Zach.
So I just had to walk outside to

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get a charging cable for my
iPad.

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Got it.
Got it going.

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Charging.
Oh.

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Nice.
And in the air there was a scent

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of, oh, I don't know, it was a
little bit of a herbally skunky

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Bernie smell.
It was not.

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Coming from my house.
Unless yeah, it definitely was

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not coming from my house.
I guess I should leave it at

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that.
You don't think any of your kids

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were were were?
You know, made Joshua.

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Sneaking on in the room.
Yeah, I need to have the talk

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the the that talk with the kids.
Yeah, No, I, I, I, you know, it

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brings me a little bit of
comfort.

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Your neighborhood's a little
newer than our neighborhood.

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And, you know, some, some people
have accused us of living in the

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hood.
I'm like, I don't think it's

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hood, but we there are houses
that we walk by in our

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neighborhood and we're like, OK,
we know what what you're doing

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right now.
It's and I always wonder, and

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maybe I'll get your take on
this.

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Call the police on them.
Like, Hey, I think this house

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is.
Smoking marijuana.

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I don't think maybe the police
don't care anymore.

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Maybe we can do a segment.
We're just walk around calling

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police on people and just take
two podcasts.

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We're calling the cops on you.
I part of me would think like,

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do they care?
I don't know.

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I don't.
I don't know, you know?

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Yeah, they may have like, unless
it's like driving under the

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influence of marijuana or
something, we're just not gonna

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mess with it.
Like they may have a an unspoken

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policy, you know, unwritten
policy.

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I guess you.
This is something I wanted to do

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on Take Two, Leanne said.
It was dumb, so I never brought

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it up.
I thought it would be funny, I

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don't think.
And I think we picked the right

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people.
This is also like calling people

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out in a joking way, like
sometime during a church

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function.
We should like record ourselves

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in the parking lot and be like,
let's see who locks their car.

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Be like Trey Hawk car.
I've seen I've seen these things

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where people go by and they'll
do like hard check and be like,

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oh, Clayton did not lock your
car and just like seeing just as

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like a funny little joke, you
know?

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That'd be good.
Having like a little real.

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And, and, and so if you're
listening, you've got your head

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up warning.
That's up Warning, yes.

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So this is what you get for not
listening?

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Yeah.
If you if you don't like it, you

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weren't listening.
This time we're gonna check.

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Yeah, maybe one Sunday morning.
It's crazy going back to to pot

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or marijuana, Yeah.
Let's not get off track.

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Let's not get off track.
I I could not have told you what

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it smelled like prior to COVID.
Until you were frequent, I mean,

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yeah, prior to COVID.
Yeah, Prior to COVID, till I was

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a frequent, yeah, frequent user.
And then, you know, lost taste

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and smell for a week with COVID.
And then when my smell came

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back, I don't think it's as
sensitive as it was, but it was

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hyper sensitive to the smell of
marijuana, to the fact that we

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were going out duck hunting one
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My kids laugh at me because I
always tell the story.

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We were going out duck hunting
that it would have been December

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2021 or January, January 2021,
sorry.

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And it was late at night because
we were like trying to make

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time, you know, we leave as soon
as we can.

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So like we packed up and left
from here like 9 and we were

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just going to I'll drive you
sleep, you know, I sleep, you

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drive type of thing.
So we're in between Augusta and

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Atlanta.
There's no one on US 20, no one

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on US 20.
We're going West and a car

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coming east on the other side of
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I was like, they're smoking pot.
I could smell it.

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Ohh, man, it's crazy.
Yeah.

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And but then it's calm down.
It's not that sensitive and

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it's.
Not that sensitive, but I could

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have been like a a drug dog, a
drug, you know, dunks right

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there, you know, sit down next
to they're like cinnamon you.

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Just like run out.
Yeah, that would be that.

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You guys said, hey, let that be.
Also warning, don't be.

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Don't be smoking the old Mary
Jane around this guy.

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Yeah, Well, yeah.
So you keep, you keep bringing

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up stuff.
So I smelled it one time when I

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was teaching class at Northwood.
At Northwood.

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OK, Yeah.
And I and I couldn't point it

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out and I didn't want to.
I didn't want to figure it out

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who it was because it was very,
this was like, this was right at

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the time when it was very
sensitive.

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And I thought, well, maybe, you
know, been around a relative and

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you can't really.
You can't.

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Stop.
That's true.

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But I just said, hey, I just
want you to know Mr. Mott has

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very sensitized olfactory, you
know, smells towards pot.

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I I can smell and I smell a
little bit right now.

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So I'm just putting you on
alert.

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Don't be using it because if I
know it's you then I'll feel you

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know honor bound to to turn you
in.

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That's great.
I thought.

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I thought you were going to say
like, you're taking a Sunday

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school and you're like, Over
There by Charlie Summers Smells

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suspicious.
Probably Laurie, what you doing?

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Just kidding.
Never would would accuse them of

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anything like that.
But yeah, I think we're one

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thing I like about the podcast.
We're learning a lot about each

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other, you know, and now I know.
Be careful with the old.

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Make sure we're my deodorant
around you because you're gonna

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you'll know.
Well, yeah, you keep mentioning

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things and I keep having to
address them.

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Crazy enough when I just maybe
nine months ago, I was able to

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smell Bo again, I could not
smell Bo, which was great when I

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was a football coach, yeah, I
could walk into that locker room

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and like this is locker room
doesn't smell bad at all.

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And then it was later I was
like, okay, I can smell it again

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so.
That's funny how it was weird.

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Would you say your back is your
wife smell good?

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It's probably 85% like she still
can't like Doctor Pepper growing

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up.
Favorite soft drink ever.

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She can't drink it 'cause it
just tastes like chemically

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metallic to her still.
So like Sprite I think is OK.

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Root beer is OK for her so most
times she just drinks water.

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Has she ever done smelling salts
before?

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Like to try to get it back or
try to, I don't.

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Know if that would do anything
but I was just curious.

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Have you done have you done
smelling salts?

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I mean I.
Smelled I've got some at my

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house right now I.
Smelled some when we were in

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like junior high high school,
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something and one of the
football players got it out and

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was like.
Dude, that stuff is.

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Out like ammonia, some type of
ammonia or something.

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Right, No, Yeah, a lot a lot of
them have ammonia in it.

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We one last side trail then
we'll get we'll get to it for

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impact.
One lesson I brought in smelling

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salts for like, you know, if, if
the Holy Spirit, you know, come

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to your off, it's going to
change you, You can't, you can't

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just you can't sit there and
smell spelling talk to do

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nothing.
You know, the most frequent

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injury people get injured from
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Most of it's head injuries from
whipping, whipping their head

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back.
They'll hit a wall.

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If they're not, you know,
they're close to a concrete wall

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or something.
So you know to be careful of

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your surroundings.
But COVID Steven Bostick smell,

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he just smelled that like
nothing and it's unbelievable.

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Because he just held it up
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Just held it took a big sniff
and if you take like a faint

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sniff like like a foot away, it
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I can't do that.
It's like.

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Crazy.
Punch so that that like breaks

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my heart when someone like if
you can't smell that, that's

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insane cuz that stuff is strong
and he was just like it was

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nothing that's.
Crazy.

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Maybe one time, maybe next time
on the podcast, we'll get some

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smelling salts in here to do
some show and tell.

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No, Steven's still not in this.
Like he's recovered from it.

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I this was like years ago so I I
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He would be.
You just hit him when he was

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probably contagious with it
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Probably so because I thought he
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He's like, I won't be able to
smell it.

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He like like there's no it's one
of those things you cannot fake.

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I don't.
Think.

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It's like a reflex, but anyway
that how do we tie this to God's

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plan for Israel?
Oh well, because you know, just

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like you may have thought that
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That's right, we do have a plan
and and even though you may

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think that God doesn't have a
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He does have a plan for Israel.
That's I guess that's how you

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tied in that's.
Great Romans 11.

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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.

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Romans 11.
Can I make one note before we

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jump into it?
Sure.

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I got my notes here.
Yeah.

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Yeah, Pastor Joel, we got the,
we got the color notes.

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I think you got a red period on
the back there, but it just

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looks when you got the light
blue and there's like, oh, I was

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like, these are fancy notes.
Were you thinking we shouldn't

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be paying for color?
Copies of I was kind of like an

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old man, like, are we paying for
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But at the same time And every
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did it this time, but sometimes
we have like premium paper

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that's like a random time.
You're like, oh, this.

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I feel like I can't fold this in
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No, I think what happens is they
have some premium paper, they

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run some stuff and then some.
Sometimes it gets left in there.

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And if someone prints stuff out,
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Yeah, sometimes you feel feel
what is the color like?

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Wow, this is this is fancy
heavyweights.

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That's good.
But to introduce this sermon

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title is God's Plan for Israel,
Romans 11/1 through 11 making

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our way through Romans and and
the the color ink was used on

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this lovely Jensen.
Chart.

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Oh, it was, yeah.
So we've we've talked about the

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Jensen chart before and we'll
put it back up here so you can

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talk about it, but you have it
right in front of you.

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So you want to kind of talk us
through that?

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I would.
Love to and so there's five

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major sections in Romans.
We are currently in Section 4.

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So we're we're really
progressing through the book

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Romans 118 through 320.
The emphasis is on sin, our need

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for salvation.
It pivots in Romans 321 to 521

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to what many would say
salvation, really honing in on

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justification, talking about the
way of salvation already

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establishing all of sins.
Well, how do how do we come to

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Christ?
And that's through Jesus Christ

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alone.
And Romans 6 through Romans 8,

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we really emphasize
sanctification or Paul

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emphasizes it.
It really shows us how do we

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live a life of salvation.
That brings us to Romans 9

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through 11, the section we're in
right now, huge emphasis on

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God's sovereignty and the scope
of salvation.

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When we think in the scope, we
think about how God has worked

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in Jewish history, we, we look
at how he, he has worked with

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the Gentiles and how he's going
to work with, with the Jews.

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And so we see a lot of, a lot of
back and forth.

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You know, Paul's talking all the
time about Jew and Gentile and

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here he's kind of going back and
forth a little bit in Romans 11.

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We're really going to learn and
what the future holds for ethnic

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Israel and then we'll go on to
talk about service and the

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service of salvation Roman 12
through 16 and a few few sermons

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from now.
But that that's kind of where we

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are at in in the chart.
That's good.

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And so picking up with Chapter
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deeper.
So remember, we've reviewed 8-9

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and 10 a couple times, but we
end chapter 8 with these

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glorious declarations of God's
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We have a golden chain of
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Nothing can separate us from the
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And then boom, Chapter 9, these
questions like, well, if that's

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true Paul, then what about
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And then Paul's going to kind of
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his sovereign plan, and he'll
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of God has failed, for there are
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from Israel.
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through this idea that God is
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individuals and in people
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think Pharaoh and Moses are in
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sovereign plan of salvation.
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Then we get to chapter 10 and
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trying to point out is you guys
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I've held out my hands.
I've been patient with you.

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You've been obstinate and
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I've established memes that, you
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you know, phrase these famous
verses in Romans 10 that, you

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know, how can you hear without a
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How can someone preach unless
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chain And he's saying I'm
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means.
Not only that, I've used these

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memes with you.
I've said prophet after prophet

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after prophet.
You've actually rejected me.

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So he's kind of not turning the
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that's, that's where you're at.
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might be thinking like, man, I
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We'll answer that or Paul will
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later.
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Romans 11 is about how, how is
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forward with Israel?
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And you know, my mom was born in
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Wow.
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And so I remember her saying,
you know, Israel came into

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existence the modern day country
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that was such a huge thing that
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There's a Israel again.
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So you you know, Chapter 9.
Hey, he's moving sovereignly.

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Chapter 10.
There are means, human means

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that I use and I've done that
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Chapter 11.
I'm not done with you, Israel.

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There is a future plan for you.
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Yeah.
So that's really, that's really

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great.
And it's hard to even fathom

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just Israel not existing.
Yeah, just in my because it's in

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the news all the time.
I'm hearing that was like what

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Israel didn't always exist.
Like no like 2 about 2000 years

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there was no country Israel
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Now it's back as a a sovereign
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Yeah, that that's pretty crazy.
That's where Pastor Joel opened

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up the miracle of Israel's
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That that's been, you know,
around 70 ish years that this

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unprecedented act in history
that really, you know, it's

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been, you know, like you were
saying Michael, thousands of

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years.
Really, this can only come about

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by by divine intervention.
Especially it's coming out of

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the Holocaust, right?
Yeah, that that is, it was huge.

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I read a book recently.
I don't think it was written

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from a religious perspective.
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perspective.
I will look that up and put it

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in the notes, but it just
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challenges as they came into
existence and really walks it

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through modern day.
Highly recommend that you, you

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know, if this is something that
interests you, read it.

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Joel reads a lengthy part of an
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can link that too, called The
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Just really talking about how
just against all odds that this

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happened, like they declared
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day.
These Arab, 5 Arab countries go

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up against them.
We have this kind of a hands off

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policy because, you know, the
leadership that, you know, the

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good thing about America is that
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The bad thing about America is
that we have elections.

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So you have one leader in one
administration in there that's

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like, yeah, we're going to back
you a year later, 12 months

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later, you can have a different
leadership in there.

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That's like, we're not going to
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Good luck, Israel.
And so that was kind of, you

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know, what would happen to them.
And so in this article, he uses

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these phrases like a great
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the resurrection power of God at
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Just as no one looked for this
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Not only do they exist, but they
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they're thriving.
So Pastor Joel, he does this so

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well as he walks us through
context, which we've kind of

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covered.
Then he like glazed the

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groundwork.
This is what Chapter 11, this is

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what it's all about.
This is how Paul is structuring

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it.
It's really two major questions.

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We'll we'll talk about question
1 today, Question 2 probably

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next time.
And Paul opens this up in Romans

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11/1 through two.
He writes, I say then God has

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not rejected his people, has he?
May it never be, for I am to an

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Israelite, a descendant of
Abraham, of the tribe of

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Benjamin.
God has not rejected his people

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whom he foreknew.
So the natural question that

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might be brought up through all
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God's done with Israel.
And so his whole point of these

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11 verses are no, God is not
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Not only that, I'll, I'll show
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I'll show you a couple examples.
Yeah, that's good.

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Example number one, you're
looking at em on I'm Jewish and

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God is using me Michael.
So God God never totally

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abandons his people.
Here's a present day example and

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then he gives US1 more as well.
He talks about I'm losing my

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place on my or maybe this is not
the.

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Spot yeah.
So I think what you so the the

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next thing we have our notes is
just the next question that

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we're going to talk about.
Oh, I see, I see.

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Yeah.
So the next question that's in

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Romans 11 is I say then they did
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So as the fall did.
They may never be but their

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transgression by but by their
transgression and salvation has

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come to the Gentiles to to make
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So those are the two that's
right, main questions.

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And then you were diving into to
question one.

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I'd jump in the gun there.
So I think that's AI think

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that's a good way to frame it.
You're thinking, question number

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one, has he rejected his people?
Question #2 I say then they

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didn't stumble as the fault, did
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And so where we're looking at
has God rejected his people?

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And in Pauling fashion, you
know, screams the may it never

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be like he does.
Very strong statement.

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I think you either read that and
you're like, you know, it's

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strong, or you're like, it's
kind of weird.

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Why is he saying this?
But I think the point is no, no,

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no, no, no.
Right, right, right, all right.

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And so you already mentioned
Paul himself being one example,

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and you could point to Peter,
you point to others who Jews,

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who are of the faith and who are
living it out.

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The second one was Elijah.
Yeah, just a very right, right.

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It's like, OK, where are we
going with this Paul?

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But he says going on in Romans
11/2 through four, God has not

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rejected his people whom he
foreknew.

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Or do you not know the
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Oh, don't you remember what the
Scripture says in the passage

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about Elijah where he pleads
with God against Israel?

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Lord, they have killed your
prophets, they have torn down

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your altars, and I alone am
left, and they are seeking my

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life.
But what is the divine response

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to Him?
I've kept for myself 7000 men

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who have not bowed the need to
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That that is so good.
And I like that Paul is just

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over and over again referencing
all these Old Testament

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passages.
Elijah, everyone knows this guy

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from from the showdown at Mount
Carmel.

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That's right.
Got that.

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Yeah.
That's so good.

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And, you know, sometimes that's
what people know.

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Then after they're like, oh, is
that Elijah or Elijah?

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And I'm getting confused and all
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Pastors kind of recounting the
chronology where that happened.

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You know, all these false
prophets are, are killed.

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He's running for his life after
that, right?

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He's, he's, he's, you know,
enemy #1.

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Yeah, and, and it's, it seems
odd, Elijah, you just called

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down fire from heaven and just
totally took out this altar that

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had been doused in water.
Then you and with some of your

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servants killed all these false
prophets.

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Why are you so struck with fear?
But he was for some reason.

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It's it's crazy.
So Jezebel finds out.

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He loins up his girds, up his
loins, and then runs, outruns

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these Chariots.
Maybe it was muddy.

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I've heard it was muddy.
And that's how he did it.

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I don't that would.
Be a tough, tough task for most

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of us, I think.
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And so then he flees down and
he's in this cave and I'll read.

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I'll read this passage.
This is first Kings 19.

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And if you have watched the
Nativity, this passage shows up

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a couple times and the Nativity.
But so here we go.

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It says, then he, this is
Elijah, came to a cave and

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lodged there.
And behold, the word of the Lord

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came to him.
And he said to him, What are you

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doing here, Elijah?
And he said, I have been very

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zealous for the Lord, the God of
hosts, for the sons of Israel

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have forsaken your covenant,
torn down your altars, and

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killed your prophets with the
sword.

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And I alone am left, and they
seek my life to go, to take it

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away.
So he said, Go forth and stand

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on the mountain before the Lord.
And behold, the Lord was passing

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by, and a great and strong wind
was rending the mountains and

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breaking in pieces the rocks
before the Lord.

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But the Lord was not in the
wind.

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And after the wind and
earthquake, but the Lord was not

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in the earthquake.
And after the earthquake of

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fire, but the Lord was not in
the fire.

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And after the fire, a sound of a
gentle blowing.

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When Elijah heard it, he wrapped
his face in his mantle and went

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out and stood in the entrance of
The Cave.

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And behold, a voice came to him
and said again, What are you

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doing here, Elijah?
And he said, We're going to get

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the same line again.
I've been very zealous for the

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Lord.
The God of hosts for the sons of

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Israel have forsaken your
covenant, torn down your altars,

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and killed your prophets with
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And I alone and left kind of a
Eeyore complex, and they seek my

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life to take it away.
Then the Lord said to him, Go,

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return on your way to the
wilderness of Damascus.

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And when you have arrived, you
shall anoint Hazal king of Arum,

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and Jehu the son of Nemeshi or
Nimshi, and you shall appoint

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king over Israel, and Elisha the
son of Shafat of Abu Abu

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Mahallah, you shall anoint as a
prophet in your place and shall

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come, and it shall come about.
The one who escaped from the

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sword of Haziel, Jehu shall put
to death, and the one who

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escapes from the sword of Jehu,
Elisha shall put to death.

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And here's our quote.
Yet I will leave 7000 in Israel

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all the knees that have not
bowed to Baal, and every mouth

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that has not kissed him.
Wow, 7000 is probably not most

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of Israel, but it ain't nothing.
It's quite a few, yeah.

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'Cause it's, I think, you know,
to give Elijah some credit, it's

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easy to think like worst case
scenario.

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And he says to us, I'm, I'm all
alone.

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It's like, no, no, no, God
always has a remnants.

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And I think I, I relate to that
a lot.

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You kind of a little
pessimistic.

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You're like, what was me?
Like I said, ER, complex.

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You're like, no, no, God's
provided in amazing ways.

448
00:21:38,000 --> 00:21:41,280
And I don't know if, if we did,
we miss a have we kept the

449
00:21:41,360 --> 00:21:45,240
street going where there's a
song in every servant because

450
00:21:45,240 --> 00:21:47,600
Joel's back on it.
Yeah, yeah, he is back on it.

451
00:21:47,600 --> 00:21:50,560
Yeah.
So like I said, the ER complex

452
00:21:50,880 --> 00:21:54,600
and Joel mentions this song,
Nobody likes me, everyone hates

453
00:21:54,600 --> 00:21:55,640
me.
Guess I'll go eat worms.

454
00:21:55,640 --> 00:21:58,240
And he sings it, and he does a
good, pretty good job.

455
00:21:58,240 --> 00:22:00,120
Singing nails it, man.
Familiar with this song?

456
00:22:00,120 --> 00:22:03,480
I actually not super familiar
outside of like hearing people

457
00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,080
talk about it versus like
knowing the song or hearing the

458
00:22:06,080 --> 00:22:08,960
song.
But I think, I think that nails

459
00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:13,840
it and we get kind of right into
some application here where it's

460
00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:15,200
easy for us all to kind of feel
that well go.

461
00:22:15,200 --> 00:22:17,280
Ahead, Yeah, and you can read.
Go ahead and read this

462
00:22:17,280 --> 00:22:19,520
application by John MacArthur.
But I do have beef with

463
00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:21,880
something John MacArthur says
here, so I do want to reserve.

464
00:22:22,000 --> 00:22:23,880
The He's in bad health right
now, so be careful.

465
00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:24,560
Man.
Oh he is.

466
00:22:24,800 --> 00:22:26,280
Oh, that's not good.
Take it easy on him, I'm.

467
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:29,960
Not, I'm not beef with him
personally.

468
00:22:29,960 --> 00:22:31,240
It's just the words that he
wrote.

469
00:22:31,440 --> 00:22:35,480
Yeah, yeah.
What John MacArthur says the

470
00:22:35,480 --> 00:22:40,320
Lord was passing by the three
phenomena, wind, earthquake and

471
00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:43,720
fire announced the imminent
arrival of the Lord.

472
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,800
The Lord's self revelation to
Elijah came in a faint

473
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:49,360
whispering voice.
The lesson for Elijah was that

474
00:22:49,360 --> 00:22:53,840
Almighty God was quietly,
sometimes imperceptible, doing

475
00:22:53,880 --> 00:22:55,880
His work.
Take him down all.

476
00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:57,960
Right.
Yeah, I think overall it's

477
00:22:57,960 --> 00:23:00,240
great.
I mean, you have these three big

478
00:23:00,240 --> 00:23:01,520
things.
You would think that's just how

479
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,080
the Lord is acting, but we're
really, he's acting also through

480
00:23:05,080 --> 00:23:08,720
this, this blowing, this gentle
blowing, but never does it say

481
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:11,720
he's whispering.
It just says there was a voice

482
00:23:11,720 --> 00:23:13,280
that came out.
He's not whispering.

483
00:23:13,280 --> 00:23:16,400
So the, the phenomenon was
lower, but there was just a

484
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,320
voice.
And so that this goes back to

485
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,840
my, you know, I'm sensitive to
this idea that God whispers to

486
00:23:22,880 --> 00:23:25,200
us or gives us these hints and
stuff that we've talked about.

487
00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:29,840
And this is one verse that
people go back to to try to

488
00:23:29,840 --> 00:23:32,040
support that.
And I'll just point out, it just

489
00:23:32,040 --> 00:23:35,320
says that the voice talked to
him and it wasn't like Elijah

490
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:37,800
was trained to hear.
So the phenomenon came down.

491
00:23:37,800 --> 00:23:38,400
What?
What does?

492
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:41,280
What does your NAASP say?
Right.

493
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:44,280
Yeah, I always.
I always feel like you just got

494
00:23:44,280 --> 00:23:46,920
ACSB on you at all times even
though I know you don't but

495
00:23:46,920 --> 00:23:48,960
that's.
Yeah, 'cause CSB was my go to,

496
00:23:48,960 --> 00:23:52,200
but then I switched back to
NASB, although I love CSB.

497
00:23:52,240 --> 00:23:57,360
Yeah, so it just says when
Elijah after the earthquake

498
00:23:57,360 --> 00:23:59,600
there was a fire, but the Lord
was not in the fire.

499
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:01,960
After the fire was the sound of
a gentle blowing.

500
00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:04,520
You know Elijah heard it.
He wrapped his face and his

501
00:24:04,520 --> 00:24:06,560
mantle went out and stood and
the entrance, and behold, a

502
00:24:06,560 --> 00:24:08,920
voice came to him.
I see.

503
00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:10,320
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's good.

504
00:24:10,320 --> 00:24:12,520
It's two different yeah things
there.

505
00:24:13,040 --> 00:24:15,720
And then kind of runs back,
Pastor Joel, to Philippians 4,

506
00:24:15,720 --> 00:24:19,040
four through 5, rejoice.
And the Lord always again, I

507
00:24:19,040 --> 00:24:21,840
will say rejoice.
Let your gentle spirit be known

508
00:24:21,840 --> 00:24:25,360
to all men.
The Lord is near.

509
00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:27,320
And so I like he's been doing
this a lot, kind of throwing in

510
00:24:27,320 --> 00:24:31,160
these applications as we're
working our way through it and

511
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:32,680
really encouraging us.
Like, you know, Paul's

512
00:24:32,680 --> 00:24:34,760
referencing these texts, Like
get into these texts if you want

513
00:24:34,760 --> 00:24:37,600
to understand, you know, just
like anyone else making a

514
00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:39,920
literary reference.
I mean, Paul's making one to the

515
00:24:39,920 --> 00:24:40,840
word of God.
So it's different.

516
00:24:40,840 --> 00:24:42,640
But if it's like, oh, the
Shakespeare thing, like, it

517
00:24:42,640 --> 00:24:45,080
would behoove you to know what's
going on here if you're going to

518
00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:46,600
capture the analogy.
Yeah.

519
00:24:46,640 --> 00:24:49,280
And there are a lot of online
tools you can figure out.

520
00:24:49,360 --> 00:24:51,240
You know, you don't have to have
your whole Old Testament

521
00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:52,720
memorized to figure out where
these are.

522
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:54,480
There's there's ways you can
find out.

523
00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:59,000
Oftentimes get to know your
translation for the NASB.

524
00:24:59,000 --> 00:25:01,360
Oftentimes it puts it in all
caps when it's a quote.

525
00:25:01,360 --> 00:25:02,960
Yeah, that's nice.
I like that about NASB.

526
00:25:03,000 --> 00:25:05,280
It's very apparent.
Yeah, it'll put it in all caps

527
00:25:05,280 --> 00:25:09,240
the but even, you know, if you
have something like the Blue

528
00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:12,200
Letter Bible or Bible Gateway,
you can find some cross

529
00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:14,360
references to tell you where,
where those Old Testament

530
00:25:14,360 --> 00:25:17,560
passages are.
All right, on to verse 5 of

531
00:25:17,560 --> 00:25:20,200
Romans.
And the key kind of phrase out

532
00:25:20,200 --> 00:25:22,800
here is a remnant according to
God's gracious choice.

533
00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:26,400
So in it, it says in the same
way then, so in the same way

534
00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:30,840
that God reserved 7000 back in
that day in a similar way.

535
00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:33,760
So Paul's making that analogy
from what God did during

536
00:25:33,760 --> 00:25:38,440
Elijah's time to now, there has
also come to be at the present

537
00:25:38,440 --> 00:25:42,120
time a remnant according to
God's gracious choice.

538
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:47,920
But if it is by grace, it is no
longer on the basis of works.

539
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:50,960
Otherwise, grace is no longer
grace.

540
00:25:50,960 --> 00:25:53,120
Huge key.
I like that.

541
00:25:53,200 --> 00:25:57,360
It's a pretty big theological
statement, but in a in a small

542
00:25:57,360 --> 00:25:58,480
package.
Yeah, I like that.

543
00:25:58,480 --> 00:26:02,040
He like, is making sure you know
what Grace is like.

544
00:26:02,160 --> 00:26:04,360
He could have easily said it's
all by grace, but he's like,

545
00:26:04,720 --> 00:26:07,200
he's like, no, grace is no
longer grace.

546
00:26:07,360 --> 00:26:08,760
Like he's over explaining
himself.

547
00:26:08,760 --> 00:26:11,960
And I'm glad he does, because
there's still confusion around

548
00:26:11,960 --> 00:26:13,120
this kind of stuff sometimes,
right?

549
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:19,520
Yeah, and it's almost like our
boys, Reliant K, they knew this

550
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,960
verse when they said grace is
what makes life not fair.

551
00:26:22,960 --> 00:26:23,760
Is that the?
That's right.

552
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:26,400
Yeah, that's right.
The beauty of grace is makes

553
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:27,480
life not fair.
Yeah, I love that.

554
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:28,280
Who?
I got to look.

555
00:26:28,280 --> 00:26:31,360
Someone commented on our Spotify
and I was like I want to know

556
00:26:31,360 --> 00:26:32,960
who you?
Are their username is just

557
00:26:32,960 --> 00:26:35,000
numbers.
Tell us who you are, numbers.

558
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:37,720
That's great.
Yeah, that is so, so good.

559
00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:42,040
So Paul kind of spells that out
for us, leading us to verse 7.

560
00:26:42,240 --> 00:26:46,760
What then what Israel is
seeking, which is a workspace

561
00:26:46,760 --> 00:26:48,960
righteousness, it hasn't
obtained, but those who were

562
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,680
chosen obtained it.
You know, Gentiles, a grace

563
00:26:51,680 --> 00:26:55,480
based righteousness and the rest
were hardened or I mean, even

564
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:59,240
the Israel lights, you know,
seeking God, you know, as Paul

565
00:26:59,240 --> 00:27:02,520
kind of outlines earlier and and
then the rest rest were

566
00:27:02,520 --> 00:27:04,480
hardened.
And really I like the way Pastor

567
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:08,280
Jill said it kind of given over
to their hard hearts, because I

568
00:27:08,280 --> 00:27:12,480
think this term hardened is a
tough one to articulate.

569
00:27:12,480 --> 00:27:14,960
Like what do you mean?
Is God actively hardened?

570
00:27:14,960 --> 00:27:17,720
It is he just giving you over,
you know, per Romans, one kind

571
00:27:17,720 --> 00:27:19,360
of thing.
Is there more to it?

572
00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:21,240
How do you kind of define that
kind of thing?

573
00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:24,360
Yeah, I think that's good.
You could go back to, you know,

574
00:27:25,080 --> 00:27:30,000
kind of the the characteristic
guy that you would talk to about

575
00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:31,720
getting his heart hardened as
Pharaoh.

576
00:27:31,960 --> 00:27:34,640
You read through that.
Sometimes it says God does,

577
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:37,400
sometimes Pharaoh does.
A lot of people have said, you

578
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,600
know, what God has done is turn
Pharaoh over to his own devices.

579
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:44,960
And that's what Joel says here.
And there's nothing, you know,

580
00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,160
you've also said, you know,
there's ice and clay.

581
00:27:48,160 --> 00:27:49,600
You can put them in the
sunshine.

582
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:55,240
One melts 11 gets hardened and
and tough God can put people in

583
00:27:55,240 --> 00:27:58,240
different circumstances and
that's there's nothing God's not

584
00:27:58,240 --> 00:28:00,800
doing anything wrong because
like whatever circumstance you

585
00:28:00,800 --> 00:28:04,880
find yourself in, you're still
you know you're still are to

586
00:28:04,880 --> 00:28:06,760
love God with all your heart,
soul, mind, strength and and.

587
00:28:06,960 --> 00:28:10,200
So no, no one's doing that.
I'm speaking off the cup here,

588
00:28:10,200 --> 00:28:12,080
which is usually a bad, bad
idea.

589
00:28:12,320 --> 00:28:17,480
I want to say this Hebrew word
for hardened can mean

590
00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:20,400
strengthened.
I don't know if this is true, so

591
00:28:20,480 --> 00:28:23,520
I need to look this up.
But I think it lends itself to

592
00:28:23,520 --> 00:28:28,240
kind of what Pastor Joel was
saying that yeah, yeah, that's

593
00:28:28,240 --> 00:28:31,000
what I get for going over the
cup, that it has this idea of

594
00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:32,680
strengthening.
Not that, you know, perfect

595
00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,600
etymology is a definition
anyway, but I think there might

596
00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:39,600
be something there where, you
know, God strengthens in the

597
00:28:39,600 --> 00:28:43,160
giving you over.
So anyway, something to ponder

598
00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:47,000
something something to think
about more because Paul will

599
00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:51,200
kind of develop that in just a
just the next verse quoting the

600
00:28:51,240 --> 00:28:53,240
the Old Testament.
No, that's very good.

601
00:28:53,920 --> 00:28:57,000
So I'm just looking through here
'cause this is so this is the.

602
00:28:57,600 --> 00:28:58,800
Let's see.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

603
00:28:58,800 --> 00:29:04,240
So verse 8 says just as it is
written, God gave them a spirit

604
00:29:04,240 --> 00:29:11,120
of stupor, eyes to see not and
ears to hear not down to this

605
00:29:11,120 --> 00:29:13,440
very day.
And David says, let their table

606
00:29:13,440 --> 00:29:16,840
become a snare and a trap and a
stumbling block and a

607
00:29:16,840 --> 00:29:19,760
retribution to them.
Let their eyes be darkened to

608
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:22,440
sea not and bend their backs
forever.

609
00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,720
So pretty kind of imprecatory
ish there.

610
00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:29,120
Yeah, this is, this is, you
know, Paul, Paul's using some,

611
00:29:29,160 --> 00:29:32,920
some tough language there where
I know I, you know, a lot of us

612
00:29:32,960 --> 00:29:36,760
like to shy away from.
So it's imprecatory Psalms, but

613
00:29:36,760 --> 00:29:40,480
he's using it to describe this
is this is what exactly what is

614
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:46,400
happening to to these Jews that
have rejected rejected grace.

615
00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:47,840
They're they're stumbling over
Christ.

616
00:29:47,840 --> 00:29:50,240
They're trying to earn their
salvation.

617
00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,520
Not this is this is not not
great.

618
00:29:53,520 --> 00:29:55,360
And you know, David talks about
this.

619
00:29:55,360 --> 00:30:00,920
There's also, you know, looking
at Deuteronomy 29, looking at at

620
00:30:00,920 --> 00:30:05,360
this quote to pastors that
that's that first one is Moses,

621
00:30:05,360 --> 00:30:07,560
I guess, and the second one is
David.

622
00:30:07,680 --> 00:30:10,360
But I appreciated how pastor
kind of went to the back story

623
00:30:10,360 --> 00:30:15,360
of this Deuteronomy 29 passage,
one of Moses's, you know, last

624
00:30:15,560 --> 00:30:17,560
great speeches.
And he, you know, a lot of his

625
00:30:17,560 --> 00:30:19,960
last speeches, he's saying, Hey,
you do good, God will bless you,

626
00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:22,440
you do bad, God will curse you
to his covenant blessings.

627
00:30:22,440 --> 00:30:27,040
And I think I meant to look this
up, but I think at the end he's

628
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:30,080
basically like you guys are
going to fail.

629
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:32,680
Like he even, he even was like,
if you do good, it's good, but

630
00:30:32,680 --> 00:30:33,560
you're not going.
To do right?

631
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:36,880
No, no, that is in there.
I think it may be like because I

632
00:30:36,880 --> 00:30:39,280
think this speech maybe
stretches across a couple of

633
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,720
chapters that may be like
towards a couple Deuteronomy 31

634
00:30:42,720 --> 00:30:43,680
ish.
OK.

635
00:30:43,720 --> 00:30:45,600
Yeah, just kind of.
Checking our memory of

636
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:48,080
Deuteronomy, but that, that's
what I remember and that's where

637
00:30:48,080 --> 00:30:50,280
you get this.
Some of the stuff we talked with

638
00:30:50,280 --> 00:30:54,000
Michael Heizer is there too.
Like, yeah, it's all in that

639
00:30:54,000 --> 00:30:57,160
same, that same section, you
know, going to the gates of hell

640
00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:01,120
and stuff and the and the rock.
Yeah, all that's there in this

641
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:04,760
bigger section of Deuteronomy.
So, so Paul is like getting some

642
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,120
of the heavy hitters up.
Moses says this, David says

643
00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:08,680
this.
You are, you know, fulfilling

644
00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,840
this in, in a way, again like
you were saying, Michael, pretty

645
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:15,960
strong, pretty strong language.
Yeah, did we want to read

646
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,040
Deuteronomy 21?
Yeah, that's great.

647
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:20,480
All right, these are the words
the covenant which the Lord

648
00:31:20,480 --> 00:31:23,320
commanded Moses to make with the
sons of Israel in the land of

649
00:31:23,320 --> 00:31:26,800
Moab, besides the covenant which
he made with them at Horeb.

650
00:31:26,920 --> 00:31:30,960
Horeb and Moses summoned all
Israel and said of them, You

651
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:35,040
have seen all the land, all the
sorry, you have seen all that

652
00:31:35,040 --> 00:31:40,080
the Lord did before your eyes in
the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and

653
00:31:40,080 --> 00:31:44,240
all his servants and all his
land, the great trials which

654
00:31:44,320 --> 00:31:48,040
your eyes have seen, those great
signs and wonders.

655
00:31:48,040 --> 00:31:53,000
Yet to this day the Lord has not
given you a heart to know, nor

656
00:31:53,000 --> 00:31:57,920
eyes to see, nor ears to hear.
And so you, it's kind of the

657
00:31:57,920 --> 00:31:59,920
same thing that we say and of
course we're all in it.

658
00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:04,760
How did these Israelites miss it
all that they had seen, all the

659
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,160
wonders, but as soon as they get
into the promised Land, you read

660
00:32:07,160 --> 00:32:10,840
through judges and they are just
all kinds of of messed up.

661
00:32:10,840 --> 00:32:13,480
You know, each one did what was
right in their own eyes, which

662
00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:15,720
sometimes is good, sometimes was
not good.

663
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:22,080
Yeah, problem, problem city.
We read over and over that, you

664
00:32:22,080 --> 00:32:24,200
know, you'll get think of the
Jews of Jesus day.

665
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,480
They had really access to so
much, experienced so much, but

666
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,480
lacked that spiritual
understanding.

667
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,720
And so then that second quote,
the snare and the trap and this

668
00:32:31,720 --> 00:32:36,480
kind of thing.
That's David in Psalm 69. 36

669
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:40,120
nice long 36 verses.
Yeah, go ahead and read it

670
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because it is imprecatory.
It will kind of talk about some

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of that stuff.
But it's also messianic because

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the one verse that we pull out
of here says they also gave me

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gall for my food and for my
thirst.

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They gave me vinegar to drink.
Clearly, you know what we see

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with Jesus saying on on the
cross.

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00:32:56,400 --> 00:33:02,360
But again, Paul is is using this
in support of this idea that you

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know, they have been judged.
All right, Psalm 69, Save me, O

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God, for the waters have come up
to my neck.

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00:33:09,920 --> 00:33:12,760
I sink in deep mire where
there's no foothold.

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00:33:13,080 --> 00:33:16,240
I've come into deep waters and
the flood sweeps over me.

681
00:33:16,680 --> 00:33:19,280
I'm weary with my crying out.
My throat is parched.

682
00:33:19,280 --> 00:33:21,800
My eyes grow dim with waiting
for my God.

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00:33:22,200 --> 00:33:24,800
More in number than the hairs of
my head are those who hates me

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00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,040
without cause.
Mighty are those who would

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00:33:27,040 --> 00:33:29,680
destroy me, those who attack me
with lies.

686
00:33:30,320 --> 00:33:32,320
What did I not steal?
Must I now restore?

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00:33:32,840 --> 00:33:35,920
Oh God, you know my folly.
The wrongs I've done are not

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00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:39,000
hidden from you.
Let not those who hope in you be

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00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,480
put to shame through me, O Lord
God of host.

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00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,680
Let not those who seek you be
brought to dishonor through me,

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00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,560
O God of Israel, for it's for
your sake that I boy reproach.

692
00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:50,120
That dishonor has covered my
face.

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00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,120
I have become a stranger to my
brothers, an alien to my

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00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:55,840
mother's sons.
For zeal for your house has

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00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:59,240
consumed me, and the reproaches
of those who reproach you have

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00:33:59,240 --> 00:34:01,680
fallen on me.
When I wept and humbled my soul

697
00:34:01,680 --> 00:34:03,480
with fasting, it became my
reproach.

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00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:06,640
When I made sackcloth my
clothing, I became a byword to

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00:34:06,680 --> 00:34:09,480
them on the talk of those who
sit in the gate, and the

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00:34:09,480 --> 00:34:13,800
drunkards make songs about me.
But As for me, my prayer is to

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00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:16,280
you, O Lord, at an acceptable
time.

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00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:19,000
O God, in the abundance of Your
steadfast love, answer me.

703
00:34:19,600 --> 00:34:22,840
In Your saving faithfulness,
deliver me from sinking in the

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00:34:22,840 --> 00:34:24,960
mire.
Let me be delivered from my

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00:34:24,960 --> 00:34:29,000
enemies and from my deep waters.
Let not the flood sweep over me,

706
00:34:29,000 --> 00:34:32,320
or the deep swallow me up, or
the pit close its mouth over me.

707
00:34:32,679 --> 00:34:35,560
Answer me, O Lord, for Your
steadfast love is good.

708
00:34:35,840 --> 00:34:37,360
According to Your abundant
mercy.

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00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:40,360
Turn to me.
Hide not Your face from Your

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00:34:40,360 --> 00:34:44,280
servant, for I am in distress.
Make haste to answer me.

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00:34:44,679 --> 00:34:47,440
Draw near to my soul.
Redeem me, ransom me.

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00:34:47,440 --> 00:34:50,320
Because of my enemies, you know
my reproach, and my shame and my

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00:34:50,320 --> 00:34:53,120
dishonor.
My foes are all, are all known

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00:34:53,120 --> 00:34:55,960
to you.
Reproaches have broken my heart

715
00:34:55,960 --> 00:34:58,520
so that I'm in despair.
I looked for pity, but there was

716
00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,640
none, and for comforters but I
found none.

717
00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:02,880
They gave me poison for food and
for my thirst.

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00:35:03,200 --> 00:35:06,440
They gave me sour wine to drink.
Let their own table before them

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00:35:06,440 --> 00:35:09,520
become a snare.
When they are a peace, let it

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00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:11,760
become a trap.
Let their eyes be darkened so

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00:35:11,760 --> 00:35:14,200
that they can't see, and make
their own tremble.

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00:35:14,200 --> 00:35:17,640
Continually pour out your
indignation upon them, and let

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00:35:17,640 --> 00:35:19,160
your burning anger overtake
them.

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00:35:19,520 --> 00:35:22,800
May their camp be a desolation.
Let no one dwell in their tents,

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00:35:22,800 --> 00:35:26,120
for they persecute him whom you
have struck down, and they

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00:35:26,120 --> 00:35:28,120
recount the pain of those who
have wounded.

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00:35:28,120 --> 00:35:30,840
You have wounded.
Add to them punishment upon

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00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,120
punishment.
May they have no acquittal from

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00:35:33,120 --> 00:35:35,000
you.
Let them be blotted out of the

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00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:37,360
book of the living.
Let them not be unrolled among

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00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:40,400
the righteous.
But I am afflicted and in pain.

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00:35:40,680 --> 00:35:43,080
Let your salvation, O God, set
me on high.

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00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:45,640
I will praise the name of God
with a song.

734
00:35:46,040 --> 00:35:47,720
I will magnify him with
Thanksgiving.

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00:35:48,160 --> 00:35:51,280
This will please the Lord more
than an ox or a bull with horns

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00:35:51,280 --> 00:35:53,560
and hoofs.
When the humble see it, they'll

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00:35:53,560 --> 00:35:55,560
be glad.
You who seek God, let your

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00:35:55,560 --> 00:35:59,000
hearts revive.
For the Lord hears the needy and

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00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:01,280
doesn't despise his own people
who are prisoners.

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00:36:01,800 --> 00:36:04,080
Let heaven and earth praise him
to seize, and everything that

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00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:07,040
moves in them.
For God will save Zion and build

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00:36:07,040 --> 00:36:09,760
upon the cities of Judah, and
the people shall dwell there and

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00:36:09,760 --> 00:36:12,400
possess it.
The offspring of His servants

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00:36:12,400 --> 00:36:15,600
shall inherit it, and those who
love His name shall dwell in it.

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00:36:16,120 --> 00:36:19,880
All right, that's good.
So kind of zooming back out,

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00:36:20,240 --> 00:36:23,920
kind of two categories of these
Jewish folks, ones that have

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00:36:23,920 --> 00:36:28,400
been saved as a remnant, those
who are going to recognize that

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00:36:28,400 --> 00:36:32,760
righteousness comes through
grace, those who are trying to

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00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,920
get righteousness through works,
a workspace.

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00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:38,320
And God says, I'm going to
harden them, I'm going to judge

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00:36:38,320 --> 00:36:40,920
them.
And, and, and you know, this

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00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:44,760
Psalm and then what we read in
Deuteronomy both speak to them.

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00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:49,480
But the end question is, has God
rejected the Israel's or the

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00:36:49,480 --> 00:36:55,920
Israel's, the Jews or Israel?
No, no, he is saving a remnant

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00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,160
for him and you can read other
passages.

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00:36:58,160 --> 00:37:00,840
We go other places where it
talks about that, a remnant

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00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,920
coming back to life.
Now this is good so that that's

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00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:06,560
the first question next week
we'll tackle the second question

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00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,160
moving towards application.
Pastor Jill keeping it simple.

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00:37:11,440 --> 00:37:13,960
Pray, pray, pray, pray some
more.

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00:37:15,080 --> 00:37:19,320
Even thinking back to the sermon
last week, just prayer is so

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00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:21,920
vital.
That's really without God

763
00:37:21,920 --> 00:37:23,480
working, there's not a lot of
hope.

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00:37:23,760 --> 00:37:25,640
Yep.
And second one, we've mentioned

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00:37:25,640 --> 00:37:29,360
this two or three Times Now, but
I know for for me, it's good to

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00:37:29,360 --> 00:37:32,200
have that weekly reminder.
Oh, I was going to do something.

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00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:34,560
My week started and I completely
forgot.

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00:37:34,560 --> 00:37:38,680
So pray for three people, serve
two people, invite one person

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00:37:38,680 --> 00:37:42,720
out to where your ever local
festivities are or into your

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00:37:42,720 --> 00:37:44,160
home, you know, whatever it
might be.

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00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,080
And then he has underneath the
application kind of these read,

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00:37:48,080 --> 00:37:50,000
review and memorize types of
things.

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00:37:50,000 --> 00:37:53,600
Number one by way of review,
just reread Romans from where we

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00:37:53,600 --> 00:37:56,680
are, chapter one through 11.
It's not that big of a ask.

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00:37:56,840 --> 00:37:59,520
And and then he gets like, OK,
maybe not everyone's going to do

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00:37:59,520 --> 00:38:00,760
that.
So at least read 9 through 11.

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00:38:00,840 --> 00:38:03,960
Yeah, at least nine through 11
#2 question.

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00:38:03,960 --> 00:38:06,880
How would you respond?
How do you respond when things

779
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,440
go really bad?
What did we learn from Elijah's

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00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:10,560
response?
You know.

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00:38:11,560 --> 00:38:13,640
Now that that that's good
because I can feel so sorry for

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00:38:13,640 --> 00:38:16,840
myself #3 memorize Philippians
4, four through 5.

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00:38:16,840 --> 00:38:19,640
Four of those times we maybe
feel overwhelmed and all alone.

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00:38:19,640 --> 00:38:23,240
A good passage to have in your
back pocket.

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00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:25,080
And then this question we were
kind of wrestling with, what

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00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:26,640
does it mean?
The rest were hardened.

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00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:29,240
How does God harden people?
Yeah.

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00:38:29,240 --> 00:38:32,920
And then lastly, what do you
understand the place of Israel

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00:38:32,920 --> 00:38:35,840
to be in the future?
Hopefully you recognize that

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00:38:35,840 --> 00:38:38,600
there is a place for Israel and
that's a good, you know,

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00:38:38,600 --> 00:38:41,120
conversation that you can have.
There's different views out

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00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:45,600
there.
You know, at least Jesus is an

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00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,960
Israelite.
He's a Jew and he's coming back.

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00:38:48,360 --> 00:38:51,960
So there's there's that.
What plans does God have for his

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00:38:51,960 --> 00:38:53,280
people?
It's good.

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00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:57,600
Hang in there because we'll talk
a lot more about this and

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00:38:57,600 --> 00:39:02,200
upcoming upcoming sermons.
This is great Romans 31 and the

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00:39:02,200 --> 00:39:04,760
books 31st sermon.
Yeah, that's a lot of them.

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00:39:04,840 --> 00:39:07,280
So anything else to add?
I got nothing all.

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Right, that's our take.
Thanks for listening to Take

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00:39:11,280 --> 00:39:13,520
Two.
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802
00:39:13,520 --> 00:39:16,000
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