That's Not Fair | Romans 9:14-18

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The birthday boy is here with
us.

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And and and and live in living
color.

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Yeah, how?
How was the big day?

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You know, I've had better
birthdays.

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I don't know if you could tell
if you listen to our Halloween

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episode.
I was trying to keep my coughing

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and sniffing, but it's just been
hanging around for like 2-2.

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There I am again, two weeks.
Yeah, once you get older, have

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another birthday, just it's hard
to recover.

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So I actually took off work
because I was like, you know, if

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I want to feel this cruddy, I'm
not going to do it on my

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birthday at work.
Like, can't have all three.

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So I just took work off.
And it's not like it was like, I

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feel horrible.
Yeah, but it's like.

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Got 100.
Percent it was good.

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You know got I got a card for my
kids that made me cry.

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So that's.
That's sweet.

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Yeah.
Phoebe.

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Phoebe was looking out for you
because I am very forgetful

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totally forgot it was your
birthday.

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Phoebe looked at me at home
groups and said tomorrow's my

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dad's birthday and I was like oh
we need to start a happy.

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It's like but then I I asked
around so I was like I don't

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know the rules.
I think it's OK.

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I was like it's pre birthday but
but it was OK.

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It was saying to happy.
Birthday.

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It was a day that was, I don't
know what the cut off that it's

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like 5 days.
You're like, I don't know what

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the, what the, you know, line of
demarcation is, but so, so you

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got a card.
What else happened?

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Got some gifts?
Nice.

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You know nothing, Nothing huge.
You guys eat anywhere, anything

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like that?
Oh yeah, we did go eat at Texas.

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Roadhouse, Texas.
You're speaking my language.

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You know, I'm passionate about
Texas.

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Roadhouse.
It's good.

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It's great.
Food, it's consistently good for

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the most parts.
And you know, I feel like

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people, I feel like people give
places like that a hard time.

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Like there's like chains
sometimes something like that,

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but I I love it.
Well, I mean, I my wife and I

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went to a very fancy steakhouse
where we paid maybe 2 1/2 * 3

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times, I don't know.
And the steak was not as good as

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Texas Roadhouse.
Bet they didn't have cinnamon

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butter.
I bet they didn't have.

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Cinnamon butter, yeah.
Yeah, I bet they the whole

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environment was.
Is good.

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So I did, you know, they had me
take my napkin and like, twirl

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it around like a lasso while
they did their, you know,

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yeehaw, whatever.
Classic Texas Rd.

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I honestly try to go there for
my birthdays many years.

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One year, man, Jayden was alive.
It wasn't that long ago.

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I think it was.
I think it was around COVID,

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maybe shortly thereafter.
September 2020.

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Yeah, maybe it was September
2020 where it's like things had

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like started opening up again.
Maybe that sounds about right.

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I'll have to back check this.
And I went to go order there and

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guess what they were out of.
Bread, green beans, salad.

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Steaks.
They had some steak, but they

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they were out of.
Rib to be a steak house and be

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out of steaks.
Not a good day out of rib eyes

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out of sirloins.
But they did have like New York

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strip.
They, they, I mean, they weren't

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out of all steaks, right?
But you get the rib eye.

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Is that your?
I like I go with the rib eye,

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that's what I get.
I'm a rib eye guy.

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All day.
Jill gets the filet.

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Living a good life that's good,
that's good, but you would think

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like there they would tell you
like hey, just FYI, wore out of

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a couple steaks like I guess
they were hoping I would go

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straight for like.
Sirloin.

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Sirloin.
Sorry.

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No, sorry, we don't have that.
Sirloin.

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Sirloin.
No, sorry, I don't have that

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yet.
Man, but other than that, no, no

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complaints.
And that's to me sounds like,

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sounds like a good birthday.
Yeah, yeah.

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And I did want to mention one
other thing that I had like a

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day a couple days before my
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And you mentioned cinnamon
butter that they have at Texas

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Roadhouse.
So good.

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My wife bought this Italian
bread, OK.

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And it was like artisan Italian
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Sounds good.
Maybe from like, Publix.

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I don't know.
But it was really, honestly, it

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wasn't great sandwich bread.
It wasn't bad.

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Yeah.
But when you toasted it like it

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had like this, it just got super
crunchy, OK.

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It was like, yeah, it was just
the best crunch.

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And I put some butter on there.
OK.

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And I put some cinnamon on it
and I put some honey on there

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and I ate it and it was like, Oh
my goodness, like knock your

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socks off.
And I was like, you know, what I

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need with this is a small glass
of milk, small glass of.

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Milk.
I'll tell you what, honestly,

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that sounds pretty good.
I for the record, I don't love

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Simon Toast grudge.
Everyone does, but I think I

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like eat it and the milk
separate.

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I just don't like the cinnamon.
I'm weird.

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It dissolves everywhere.
Not my thing.

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Yeah, yeah.
But yeah, it made me think of

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and think of you as that cause I
was like, oh, I'm, I got, I'm

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basically, I'm doing the cereal
right here in my hand.

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Cinnamon.
Toast, we should like people.

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We should do some, like cereal
deconstructions like that.

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Like, you know, I don't know
what other ones fit nicely like

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that where you can like that
might be unique.

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Yeah.
So Cookie Crisp.

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I don't love Cookie Crisp.
I feel like it should be better

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than it is.
But anyway, not not the time to

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dissect cereals.
It's the time to talk about

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things that aren't fair.
And that's one of the.

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Like not having steaks when you
go to.

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Texas, that's not fair.
That was my I was like, it's my

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birthday.
It's not fair.

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We're on our 27th sermon.
Yeah, that's the word I'm

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looking for about on, on Romans.
We're getting into the the heavy

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stuff, so let's go ahead and
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.
That's not fair.

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Not fair.
What a good title for this

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sermon.
I'll tell you, I was telling you

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a little bit of this before we
started, but what I appreciate

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about this sermon is that Pastor
Joel, like glued to the text,

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stuck to the text.
I think you can get in a lot of

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trouble when you preach some of
these more emotionally charged,

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really challenging texts.
And he was just like in a

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lockstep basically the entire
time.

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And I think he just, that's what
you got to do when it's this

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tough and this.
Every word let it let it speak

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for itself.
Yeah, So out out of the gate,

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great title.
That's not fair.

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Because me personally, as a
middle schooler, high schooler,

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that's my reaction reading this
and really kind of in this anti

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sovereignty of God thing where
that's just not fair and God.

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So I think it captures the whole
essence.

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That's what we're going to see
Paul.

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That's what Paul's trying to
address.

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He knows that's going to be the
the objection.

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Did I tell you I taught through
a series for the adults years

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ago, like 20/17/2018 on
salvation in general, the topic

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of soteriology?
So obviously you're going to hit

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some of the Sovereign Grace type
stuff.

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I'm just a lot of scripture.
I think we pulled some of the

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slides that I'd used for our
solo.

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Series.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And Danny was like, oh, you
should teach this for the high

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school kids.
So I taught it and I was like,

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if you have any questions, let
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I put in like a like a
SurveyMonkey so people could put

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in anonymous things.
And someone put in there and it

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was kind of kind of not too
great grammar.

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But basically, this is not fair.
You know, this doesn't seem

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right.
And maybe six months later,

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Chloe said that was me.
I put bad grammar in there so

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you wouldn't know it was me.
But it was her sentiment.

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She she felt like this doesn't
seem fair.

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And I think if you're honest
with yourself, most people,

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that's, that's the first thing
you're going to say.

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I'm so thankful that that's in
Scripture like these objections,

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because if they weren't there,
like what, what are you supposed

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to think?
Like that really helps clarify.

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And that's, and Paul's like, I
know what you're going to think.

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And you, you found this
beautiful quote by by Mike Stone

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that that gets you, gets you in
that mindset.

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Yeah, Joel used this one.
Yeah, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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And did Joel used it?
You cracked it down.

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Yeah, that's what.
Sorry.

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Yeah, that.
Thanks.

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For that, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah.

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So you want me to read it?
Yeah, go for it man.

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You got that word.
There's original.

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I know I'm trying to figure out
where to put this word original

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because I'm trying to keep
something to keep my keep me

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from coughing.
But we'll, we'll do, we'll do

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the we'll, we'll do the best we
can do.

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It's one of those first things
we learned to say in life.

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Not long after we learned to say
Mama and Dada, we learned to say

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it like a rite of passage or a
prerequisite to enroll in the

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local pre-K program.
We must learn to say that's not

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fair.
The kid has to eat his broccoli

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while dad does not.
That's not fair.

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You buy plain Cheerios while all
your friends get Captain Crunch.

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That's not fair.
That's that's a tough one.

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It gets worse when siblings come
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When one child gets to stay up
later than the other, that's not

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fair.
When you run errands with one

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child and buy them an ice cream
cone while you're out, that's

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not fair.
Unfortunately, it doesn't get

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any easier as you get older.
I tried out for the team but the

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teacher's pet made it the cut.
That's not fair.

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I applied for the job but I
didn't have the right last name.

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That's not fair.
I did all the work on the

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project but my Co worker got the
raise.

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That's not fair.
Everybody was driving 78,

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including one guy that blew me
by doing at least 90 and I got

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the ticket.
That's not fair.

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Unfortunately, this attitude,
this demand for fairness, is

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often directed at God over far
more serious matters.

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I want a child and I can't have
one.

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That's not fair.
My spouse died and now I'm

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alone.
That's not fair.

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My child is in rebellion despite
my best attempts.

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That's not fair.
I have cancer despite trying to

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live for God, that's not fair.
My husband lost his job and

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we're in a bind.
That's not fair.

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Well, those are good.
Kind of starts out playful and

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then ramps up to those those
serious ones.

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And I think everyone at every
stage of life has said that

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because, yeah, life's really not
fair all the way around.

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We all experience that.
We know what that feels like.

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Not, not, not a great feeling.
And I think that speaks to the

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polarization, the toughness of
this passage.

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This is at the center of so many
debates, and people are taking

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sides.
It's it's a tough one.

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Yeah, and not to cut to the
chase too early, but I remember

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this is my senior year in high
school.

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I don't know if I've told this
before, maybe I have.

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And we had banned officer
elections.

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I had quit football to be 100%
banned and I had been nominated

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every year up to them.
But it's like if you're not, if

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you're not like doing both like
March and you can't.

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And then the year I quit
football to do band, didn't get

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nominated, didn't get nominated.
And I had made Allstate.

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I came home.
It was my last year to be a band

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officer.
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And I was like in a in a funk.
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Nothing.
What's the matter?

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What's the matter?
I know there's something wrong.

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What's the matter?
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If there's anyone that deserves

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to be a band officer, I deserve
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My mom looked me eyes and she
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you deserve wow is to die and go
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that is God's grace.
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I can argue with that.
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time, and I think as we go
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right perspective.
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Keep keep that in mind because
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place.
So let's get our bearings.

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If we're dealing with, you know,
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know where, where do we, where
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We're coming out of Romans 8,
this fantastic passage about the

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golden chain of redemption.
God's going to finish what he

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began.
He's going to work through all

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of this.
Paul, if God keeps his word and

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completes what he begins, then
why are the Jews rejecting and

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falling away?
Can Christians trust God that

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that's probably the sentiment.
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saying, well, I mean, So what
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It's like you guys have just
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kind of left us in the dust.
What happened to all of these

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promises?
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I think Pastor Joel even kind of
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9 getting here to highlight
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theme past verse of this pastor
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some of that stuff.
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We Paul talks about, hey,
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privileges and yet you didn't
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It says, but it's not as though
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Like that's like has huge
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Like what do we do with that?
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And so he moves on to, you know,
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sovereignty guarantees the
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not or will not fail.
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examples from Abraham's life
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Ishmael.
Look, I'm carrying out my

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promise.
It's just not how you, maybe you

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thought it was going to be.
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and Esau.
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Esau.
I'm going to fulfill my promise

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to you, Abraham, but it's going
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What what a great example
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history, probably good indicator
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That's like the verse.

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Keep in your mind the word of
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And then I always like peeking
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Chapter 11.
That's all of this rejoicing and

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all this praise like you who can
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It's just unsearchable.
The mind of the Lord is just

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superior than ours.
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in your mind, I think it helps
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part so much.
Doug MU has got this commentary

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on Romans.
He says if God's plan depended

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on the vagaries of sinful human
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indeed God's word were to fall
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But God's purpose in history is
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elects people to be part of that
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It all hangs on him.
It's all God.

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And if it was me or you or
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were we're, we're doomed.
We're just, it's just like Adam.

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2 point O.
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So really we talked about, you
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we're about to be in Romans 914
through 23 you could describe as

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a diatribe.
Paul is answering these

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hypothetical critics and they're
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And basically it mounts to some
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That's not fair.
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So if we're starting in verse
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say?
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God, is there?
May it never be very strong

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language.
Then he starts getting into it a

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little bit more.
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mercy on whom I have mercy, and
I'll have compassion on whom I

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have compassion.
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man who wills or the man who
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For the Scripture says a
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I raised you up to demonstrate
my power and you, and that my

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name might be proclaimed
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So then he has mercy on whom he
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desires right there.
It's pretty clear it all hangs

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on God.
So maybe we can go go through

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this and start out breaking it
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Yeah.
So Paul starts out with this

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objection and he gives you kind
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interlocutioner, inner
interlocutor, I like that says

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what shall we say then?
There is no injustice with God,

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is there?
So he's raising this question

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and he gives this very strong
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Supreme I.
Think I've learned that.

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And so right from there, Paul's
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examples, 2 illustrations.
And like you said, Joel doesn't

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wonder off reservation, he just
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that he gives.
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positive illustration, and one
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negative.
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Of that and it's beautiful
because not only is it positive

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negative, but it's the same
story like God's accomplishing

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his purpose through these people
and it's like it all just fits.

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It's like wow those you probably
can't get any more clear than

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that because even if you would
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parts maybe you I don't know.
It's like man, it's right there.

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So we get into the Moses
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It's a quotation from Exodus 33.
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I will have mercy on whom I have
mercy, and I will have

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compassion on whom I have
compassion.

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Strong statement in and of
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I love that Pastor Joel took us
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that really does paint a
picture, gives us a lot of

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insight, sees the context of
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That helps us understand that
this this concept even more.

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know, they've, they've gone to
the Red Sea, they've made it to

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Mount Sinai.
He's gone up on the mountain.

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He was there.
He said 100 days, but Jack said

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40 days.
I thought I remembered 40 days.

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Maybe it's 40 days for one thing
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I didn't Fact Check it but I
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commandments but maybe they were
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Was it a year maybe?
I don't know.

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Maybe, maybe they can.
But they Sinai, I think.

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That's what, Yeah, Yeah, I think
that's what it was.

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But, you know, Moses comes down
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and he sees them, you know, with
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Aaron's like, oh, it wasn't me.
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information from I think First

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Corinthians where Paul says they
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they, they got down to eat and
they rose up to play or

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something like that.
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there were probably some sexual
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Moses gets mad, throws the the
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them are killed and basically
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God's mad and he's like, I'm not
going to be able to dwell with

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you like I've been because I'm
just going to get irritated and

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kill you.
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Exodus 33 says now, therefore, I
pray you, if you found favor, I

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pray you, if I have found favor
in your sight, let me know your

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ways that I may know you so I
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Consider too, that this nation
is your people, and he, God

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said, My presence shall go with
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Then he said to him, If your
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not lead us up from here.
For how then can it be known

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that I have found favor in your
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Is it not by your going with us,
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may be distinguished from all
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the face of the earth?
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also do this thing of which you
have spoken, for you have found

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favor in my sight, and I've
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name.
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me your glory.
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know, a crescendo, part of
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And he says, I myself will make
all my goodness pass before you

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and will proclaim the name of
the Lord before you, And I will

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be gracious to whom I will be
gracious, and I will show

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compassion on whom I will show
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So there's our quote at the very
end of the story, but it comes

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out of Moses really kind of
interceding on behalf of the

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Israelites.
Now we can talk about does God

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really change his mind?
We does he is he really mad?

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We've kind of talked about in
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So go back to 1:00 and 2:00.
For that, go check, go check it

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out.
And I think it's all wrapped up

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in God showing his glory.
We see that in Romans.

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We see that here.
And I find it interesting just a

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few verses later is when we have
this great declaration that we

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see, you know, 7910 times
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The Lord, the Lord of God,
that's merciful, gracious, slow

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to anger, abounding and
steadfast like that just around

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the corner too, like all this is
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And I think that's instructive
that this is a positive thing.

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It's because God is merciful and
slow to anger and he's trying to

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and he's showing his glory.
And it's like, man, that that

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just gives so much more insight
to this short quote.

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Really, really bolsters it, I
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Yeah.
And one thing that I I think I

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pointed this out before, but in.
It's a little bit, not that it's

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soft in English, but it's like
it's almost passive.

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I have mercy on those who I have
mercy, but in the original

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language is an action verb.
I mercy those who I want to

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mercy and show compassion on
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So God is active in in that.
And we don't you don't have to

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read far be super familiar with
the Old Testament.

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We're in the college aged
individuals were going through

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Ezra Nehemiah and you know,
Nehemiah and he basically is

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recounting all of Israel's
history and it's like God was

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good and then we messed up and
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unfaithful over and over.
And he's like we got another

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chance here.
We're out of the exile.

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We're coming back and guess
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We mess and Nehemiah ends with
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It ends on a bummer.
Like all the you know, it's like

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it, doesn't he?
Married the the not the people

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from the other nations
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Exactly right.
It doesn't end like hey,

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everything's happy.
It ends with he physically beat

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people and pulled their hair
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And that's the story of
Nehemiah, this great leader,

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right.
And so it just, you don't have

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to be this expert to know
that's, I know what happens all

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the time is humanity messes up
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So all that together, I think
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So then the statement in Romans,
we're coming back-to-back to

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Paul.
It doesn't depend on the man who

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wills or the man who runs, but
it depends on God who has mercy.

449
00:21:17,920 --> 00:21:20,400
There's this quote.
No one has a claim on God's

450
00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,000
mercy.
He can bestow it or not.

451
00:21:22,280 --> 00:21:26,040
If the nation had gotten
justice, all would be destroyed.

452
00:21:26,480 --> 00:21:28,640
When you start demanding mercy,
guess what?

453
00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,360
It ain't mercy.
RC Sparrow.

454
00:21:31,360 --> 00:21:33,040
I don't know if Pastor Joel's
mentioned in the past, it's

455
00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:35,880
maybe in his book Holiness of
God, he talks about being a

456
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,880
professor and like first paper
that was due, he extended the

457
00:21:39,880 --> 00:21:42,840
deadline.
People forgot and you know, next

458
00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,760
time, same thing.
And by the third time this

459
00:21:44,760 --> 00:21:47,320
happened, people were like not
turning in their paper.

460
00:21:47,320 --> 00:21:48,720
They're like, we'll get it to
you get.

461
00:21:48,720 --> 00:21:51,240
It to your Prof.
Prof That's like the yeah.

462
00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:54,640
Then the last one, he keeps the
dandelion and that's been the

463
00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,440
expectation.
And he comes down on it and

464
00:21:56,440 --> 00:21:58,600
they're like, what?
You can't do that?

465
00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,160
It's like, well, no, he had
mercy so you could get your

466
00:22:01,160 --> 00:22:04,120
stuff in and then you just
abused that.

467
00:22:04,120 --> 00:22:07,960
It was like you a chance and
that that I think that's where

468
00:22:07,960 --> 00:22:10,200
it's at.
I feel that in my own life I

469
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,480
want to demand mercy, but then
I'm like, yeah, it's not it's

470
00:22:13,480 --> 00:22:14,640
not mercy.
Then I'm calling the.

471
00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:18,760
Shots right, that's right.
So that was Moses positive

472
00:22:18,760 --> 00:22:24,000
example of God showing mercy,
mercying those whom he will and

473
00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,040
and just to be clear, Moses and
Israel did not deserve his

474
00:22:27,040 --> 00:22:29,120
mercy.
They had both, they had both

475
00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:31,200
failed right.
So like like you said, they had

476
00:22:31,200 --> 00:22:38,080
no claim to demand God's mercy.
Pharaoh says for this very

477
00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:41,760
purpose I raised you up to
demonstrate my power in you, and

478
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:44,520
that my name might be proclaimed
throughout the whole earth.

479
00:22:44,880 --> 00:22:48,360
Again, this is a quote from
Exodus 13.

480
00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:52,280
You want to read this 13?
I got it, Exodus 913 through 17

481
00:22:52,280 --> 00:22:54,160
says.
Then the Lord said to Moses,

482
00:22:54,480 --> 00:22:57,080
Rise up early in the morning and
stand before Pharaoh, and say to

483
00:22:57,080 --> 00:23:00,360
him, Thus says the Lord, the God
of the Hebrews, Let my people

484
00:23:00,360 --> 00:23:03,680
go, that they may serve me.
For this time I will send all my

485
00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:06,600
plagues on you and your servants
and your people, so that you may

486
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,800
know that there's no one like me
in all the earth.

487
00:23:09,280 --> 00:23:12,320
For if by now I had put forth my
hand and struck you and your

488
00:23:12,320 --> 00:23:14,800
people with pestilence, you
would then have been cut off

489
00:23:14,800 --> 00:23:17,680
from the earth.
But indeed, for this reason I

490
00:23:17,680 --> 00:23:21,680
have allowed you to remain in
order to show you my power and

491
00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,320
in order to proclaim my name
through all the earth.

492
00:23:24,800 --> 00:23:29,520
Still you exalt yourself against
my people by not letting them

493
00:23:29,520 --> 00:23:33,040
go.
And then again, very clear here.

494
00:23:33,240 --> 00:23:35,320
And it's funny you, I mean, you
read Exodus.

495
00:23:35,320 --> 00:23:38,040
There's this huge theme of
knowing the Lord.

496
00:23:38,040 --> 00:23:41,640
We get introduced to Yahweh or
Moses does, and then we see

497
00:23:41,640 --> 00:23:44,080
phrases like this.
I'm doing this for my name.

498
00:23:44,080 --> 00:23:45,600
It's like, what's The Who is the
Lord?

499
00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:50,560
You kind of learn this over and
over and God, you know, God is

500
00:23:50,560 --> 00:23:52,400
saying this through Moses, that
man, you could have been done a

501
00:23:52,400 --> 00:23:54,280
long time ago, but I kept you
around because I'm showing

502
00:23:54,280 --> 00:23:56,680
people who I am.
Again, I'm displaying my glory

503
00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,120
kind of on the other side of
things.

504
00:23:58,280 --> 00:24:01,200
No, it's good.
And so you read through that,

505
00:24:01,240 --> 00:24:04,560
that same passage, you'll read
places where it says Pharaoh

506
00:24:04,560 --> 00:24:07,560
hardened his heart, read places
where God hardened his heart.

507
00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:10,240
But Pharaoh was all about
Pharaoh.

508
00:24:10,280 --> 00:24:13,920
He was exalting himself.
And God allowed that to continue

509
00:24:14,200 --> 00:24:16,040
so that he could then humble
them.

510
00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:18,640
And you know, we all know the 10
plagues.

511
00:24:19,480 --> 00:24:22,040
What would be, you know,
obviously the death of your

512
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,360
first born would be bad, but
other than that one, what would

513
00:24:24,400 --> 00:24:26,560
what what probably would bother.
All of them sound pretty bad.

514
00:24:26,560 --> 00:24:28,680
I'm not I'm not a fan of like,
you know, frog.

515
00:24:28,680 --> 00:24:31,680
I'm not a fan of like all of
these animals just everywhere.

516
00:24:32,240 --> 00:24:34,400
I don't like darkness either.
Like if it's totally pitch

517
00:24:34,400 --> 00:24:35,440
black, there's a lot of these
things.

518
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,000
I don't like the.
Flies the gnats.

519
00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:40,560
That would have been bad.
Man, yeah, that's not not not

520
00:24:40,560 --> 00:24:41,120
cool.
That would.

521
00:24:41,120 --> 00:24:44,360
Not turning to blood.
I've always sorry we have a

522
00:24:44,360 --> 00:24:47,280
shorter side.
Was it literally blood?

523
00:24:48,600 --> 00:24:51,800
Did it have platelets in it?
Oh, 'cause if it did, wouldn't

524
00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:53,840
it coagulate?
Like those are the kind of

525
00:24:53,840 --> 00:24:56,720
questions my mind this is.
What we need, we need to know.

526
00:24:56,920 --> 00:24:59,760
You know, some have surmised
that it was like that red tide,

527
00:24:59,760 --> 00:25:03,960
the dinoflagellates and it
wasn't literally blood, but they

528
00:25:03,960 --> 00:25:05,360
just called it blood.
I don't know.

529
00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:07,720
It's like those are.
That's one of the one of the

530
00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:09,200
questions I need.
To ask that's good.

531
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:11,640
We need to get some we need to
do some bump.

532
00:25:11,640 --> 00:25:14,160
We I guess we can't know on this
this side.

533
00:25:14,160 --> 00:25:16,480
I think I read in the Dead Sea
Scrolls, but it was actually

534
00:25:16,920 --> 00:25:19,480
uncoagulated blood.
It was blood minus the

535
00:25:19,520 --> 00:25:23,760
platelets, no vitamin K, So,
yeah, so.

536
00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,960
But if if you're a student of
this, you know that the Nile

537
00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:33,080
frogs, those beasts, all of
those different things were

538
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:37,160
different Egyptian gods.
And so through all ten of these

539
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:42,480
plagues, God is showing that he
is the true God and that these

540
00:25:42,480 --> 00:25:45,520
false gods are nothing,
including Pharaoh himself who

541
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,320
was treated as a God.
And so his family is is killed

542
00:25:49,320 --> 00:25:51,000
in that last.
Place yeah that's pretty amazing

543
00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:53,680
and then we Fast forward not in
the too distant future but we

544
00:25:53,680 --> 00:25:57,200
get to the time of Joshua you
know we're looking 40 something

545
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,440
around there 40 years later and
people are like Rahab's like

546
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:03,160
we've heard we've heard of your
God like word gets around right

547
00:26:03,240 --> 00:26:04,680
I.
Wonder how old she was when this

548
00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,080
happened, if she was alive, like
maybe she was like a four year

549
00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,200
old.
And so now she's like 44 and

550
00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:12,880
she's like, I remember growing
up and everyone being afraid.

551
00:26:14,120 --> 00:26:15,400
I you know.
Yeah, yeah, that, that's

552
00:26:15,400 --> 00:26:16,120
fascinating.
Yeah.

553
00:26:16,120 --> 00:26:20,600
Very well that I, I would love
to like meet put in context like

554
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,920
ages and stuff, like where you
as young as I thought you were

555
00:26:23,920 --> 00:26:28,440
old, you know what's going on.
The point being Paul is it gets

556
00:26:28,440 --> 00:26:31,280
back to in Romans.
The point really is he's going

557
00:26:31,280 --> 00:26:33,360
to have God's going to have
mercy on whom he desires.

558
00:26:33,720 --> 00:26:36,160
And by the same virtue, he's
going to harden whom he desires.

559
00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:40,360
And at the end of the day, you
said it, both Pharaoh and and

560
00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:42,800
Moses got whatever.
God got one of them.

561
00:26:42,800 --> 00:26:45,120
Moses got mercy not because he
deserved it, because God

562
00:26:45,120 --> 00:26:48,120
displaying his glory.
And Pharaoh got the justice, He

563
00:26:48,120 --> 00:26:50,440
got the fairness because God was
displaying his glory.

564
00:26:50,720 --> 00:26:55,600
Yep, and if we all got fairness,
none of us would be saved.

565
00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:59,160
Sometimes people raise the
problem of evil and you could

566
00:26:59,160 --> 00:27:03,240
say, well, if God were to snuff
out all evil at 12:00 tonight,

567
00:27:03,240 --> 00:27:04,600
where would you be at 12 O1?
Cool.

568
00:27:05,120 --> 00:27:06,920
Yeah.
Oh, 'cause you're part of the

569
00:27:06,920 --> 00:27:08,200
problem that you're complaining
about.

570
00:27:08,520 --> 00:27:12,320
Man, we said in a the previous
Romans episode, beauty, the the

571
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:13,720
beauty of grace, that it makes
my life there.

572
00:27:13,720 --> 00:27:16,960
We got a comment on Spotify but
I can't see who it is 'cause

573
00:27:16,960 --> 00:27:18,720
it's like numbers.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

574
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,960
So we appreciate that that.
Who are you?

575
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:22,320
Yeah.
I want to know who said that.

576
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:23,360
That's great.
I was like that.

577
00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:26,320
Is awesome 'cause I found out I
don't want to give away too

578
00:27:26,320 --> 00:27:34,240
much, but some of your ways to
get into your home Internet

579
00:27:34,920 --> 00:27:37,520
might be related to this band in
some way.

580
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:38,440
I don't.
I don't give any.

581
00:27:38,440 --> 00:27:42,080
More than that.
So I was like, are you a fan of

582
00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:43,680
this band?
Band?

583
00:27:43,720 --> 00:27:45,400
And I didn't know that so.
Yeah, that's great.

584
00:27:45,400 --> 00:27:48,200
I was, I was, I was as a as a
child, as a teenager.

585
00:27:48,200 --> 00:27:50,880
Big, big fan.
I love it 'cause that song that

586
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:53,720
you were singing, Yeah.
The song after it on the album

587
00:27:53,720 --> 00:27:55,960
is Let It All Out.
And I'm like, that is a huge

588
00:27:55,960 --> 00:27:59,800
emotional one about I think is
describing a salvation

589
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:01,800
experience and like the bad
things that had to come into

590
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:05,840
that person's life in order for
them to see, OK, I need to be

591
00:28:05,840 --> 00:28:06,880
saved.
So yeah, I.

592
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:08,080
Can personally relate to that,
yeah.

593
00:28:08,360 --> 00:28:12,840
Yeah, yeah.
So we get to application.

594
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:16,320
You read this, you're kind of
tracking you like the Moses

595
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,760
part, probably don't like the,
you know, that's not fair.

596
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:20,840
It's kind of that reaction.
But you know, Pharaoh got what

597
00:28:20,840 --> 00:28:22,600
he deserves.
So you think of how do you apply

598
00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:26,240
this application?
Number one, God is sovereign.

599
00:28:26,240 --> 00:28:29,520
We've got this extensive RC
Sproul quote that says Paul

600
00:28:29,520 --> 00:28:32,200
saying that the purpose of God
in elevating Pharaoh to his

601
00:28:32,200 --> 00:28:35,400
position of power was not to
reward Pharaoh's righteousness

602
00:28:35,680 --> 00:28:37,920
or because he merited his
prestigious position.

603
00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:42,000
Rather, God put Pharaoh in that
position for God's purposes.

604
00:28:42,200 --> 00:28:45,200
Here we have an insight into
God's providential rule as the

605
00:28:45,200 --> 00:28:48,160
Lord of all history.
He raises kingdoms up, He brings

606
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:50,280
kingdoms down.
Pharaoh could not become the

607
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,000
most powerful man in the world
apart from the providential rule

608
00:28:53,000 --> 00:28:54,920
of God.
And the purpose of God in

609
00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:57,560
establishing Pharaoh was to show
God's power.

610
00:28:57,920 --> 00:29:00,800
Pharaoh was the most powerful
man in the world at that time.

611
00:29:01,160 --> 00:29:04,000
When his power was brought to
bear against the power of God,

612
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:08,000
Pharaoh appeared impotence and
God's manifesting of his own

613
00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,400
authority reigned supreme.
Very, very well, said Arthy

614
00:29:12,400 --> 00:29:14,400
Sproles.
The man, when it comes to, I

615
00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:16,880
feel like some of these issues
specifically, he's got it just

616
00:29:16,880 --> 00:29:19,440
dialed in really.
Well, he just communicates so

617
00:29:19,440 --> 00:29:20,400
well.
It's really.

618
00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:21,560
Good.
Got the chalkboard always.

619
00:29:21,720 --> 00:29:23,560
Even he's writing Latin for no
reason.

620
00:29:23,560 --> 00:29:25,560
But it just, it works, you know?
Yeah, yeah.

621
00:29:25,840 --> 00:29:28,960
And I, I think he stopped
smoking in his older age, but

622
00:29:28,960 --> 00:29:32,520
you could tell his his voice had
that very raspy smoker smoker

623
00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:37,360
sound, smoker sound upcoming.
Election.

624
00:29:37,680 --> 00:29:39,560
Yeah, I totally missed that.
No, no.

625
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:43,120
Well, I'm just saying this, this
airs on this will air on

626
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:43,720
Election Day.
I.

627
00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:48,240
Believe wow so so we could sleep
well tonight knowing God's in

628
00:29:48,240 --> 00:29:52,040
control and I think pastor I
think mentioned this too.

629
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:53,840
You know, we're going to read
maybe maybe you mentioned this

630
00:29:53,840 --> 00:29:57,920
hunger, but Romans 10, you know,
the gospel goes due to means it

631
00:29:57,920 --> 00:30:00,440
doesn't just automatically
people get traps.

632
00:30:00,960 --> 00:30:04,400
So there's human accountability
and human means that that goes

633
00:30:04,400 --> 00:30:06,320
into effect.
So you can do your parts, but

634
00:30:06,320 --> 00:30:07,760
you can sleep well because God
is sovereign.

635
00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:09,080
Yeah, yeah.
Do your part.

636
00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,760
Go vote.
We should be active because

637
00:30:12,760 --> 00:30:14,200
that's the government God has
given us.

638
00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:19,800
We should, you know, try to do
what's best for our country

639
00:30:19,960 --> 00:30:24,000
within, you know, reason and and
then you can say, OK, I've done

640
00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,120
my part God.
The rest is up to you.

641
00:30:26,120 --> 00:30:29,840
You're sovereign whether you
punish us like we deserve or

642
00:30:29,840 --> 00:30:32,880
whether you know however this
goes, we can trust in you.

643
00:30:33,240 --> 00:30:36,280
Because I mean, if things go
South, which I hope they don't,

644
00:30:37,680 --> 00:30:40,360
God can be glorified in an
amazing way and things go great,

645
00:30:40,560 --> 00:30:42,240
God can be glorified amazing
way, right?

646
00:30:42,240 --> 00:30:43,680
Yeah.
So it's it's good stuff.

647
00:30:43,680 --> 00:30:45,120
But application number one, God
is sovereign.

648
00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:48,360
Application #2 God is
incomprehensible.

649
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,960
Here's a quote from Romans 1133.
O the depth, the riches both of

650
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,320
the wisdom and knowledge of God.
How unsearchable are His

651
00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,320
judgments and unfathomable His
ways?

652
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,920
For who has known the mind of
the Lord who has became his

653
00:31:00,920 --> 00:31:04,120
counselor, or who has first
given to him, that it might be

654
00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,920
paid back to Him again?
For from Him and through Him and

655
00:31:07,920 --> 00:31:11,560
to Him are all things.
To Him be the glory forever.

656
00:31:11,720 --> 00:31:13,680
Amen, man.
That that is good.

657
00:31:13,680 --> 00:31:18,360
And I think, you know, aptly put
in Romans 11 when all this 9

658
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:21,120
chapters, 910 and 11, all this
crazy stuff's going on.

659
00:31:21,960 --> 00:31:25,400
And what a, what a great example
in, in the book of Job, you're

660
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:30,120
reading through 42 chapters so
much and you're just looking for

661
00:31:30,120 --> 00:31:32,640
the answer.
What, why does suffering happen

662
00:31:32,800 --> 00:31:35,200
to blameless people, upright
people?

663
00:31:35,440 --> 00:31:38,240
And you're like flipping the
pages and you don't get a nice

664
00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:42,160
neat explicit answer.
It's kind of like God just does

665
00:31:42,160 --> 00:31:44,000
what he wants.
And it's, you know, it's a

666
00:31:44,000 --> 00:31:48,920
creator creature distinction.
And yeah, it's, it's, it's

667
00:31:48,920 --> 00:31:52,040
amazing how how that's there.
It's like so many chapters and

668
00:31:52,040 --> 00:31:55,360
it's like, man, that just nails
it, the whole sentiment of, of

669
00:31:55,360 --> 00:31:57,200
who God is.
And he's after his glory.

670
00:31:57,280 --> 00:31:58,760
Yeah.
And I always wonder what some of

671
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:00,240
these animals are that he's
talking about.

672
00:32:00,240 --> 00:32:02,200
Are they, are they our present
day animals?

673
00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:03,160
Are they not?
So I love.

674
00:32:03,160 --> 00:32:05,120
It yeah, I always like, I'm
thinking, you know, a lot of

675
00:32:05,120 --> 00:32:06,400
people are like this could be a
hippo.

676
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:08,000
I'm like a it's got to be more
than a hippo.

677
00:32:08,040 --> 00:32:09,400
I'm like, I'm not satisfied with
that.

678
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:11,520
Tale of a cedar that's not a
hippo.

679
00:32:11,520 --> 00:32:12,880
I'm like.
I don't, I don't love that

680
00:32:12,880 --> 00:32:13,440
answer.
Yeah, all.

681
00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:18,760
Right #3 God is merciful, so
rejoice, don't cop out.

682
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,160
You know, we need to stay in
there and rejoice even in the

683
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,960
end times.
This don't cop out was an

684
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:32,800
allusion to, you know, in this
discussion of salvation

685
00:32:32,800 --> 00:32:35,360
soteriology.
You know, there could be people

686
00:32:35,360 --> 00:32:40,360
who disagree with how we're
taking this and some people get

687
00:32:40,800 --> 00:32:43,720
kind of you know, some people
love to talk about it and some

688
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:47,040
people are like, I'm done with
this conversation, but you but

689
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,200
don't be so done with the
conversation that you forget to

690
00:32:49,200 --> 00:32:52,680
rejoice that God has saved us.
The gospel is true.

691
00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,120
You know, we can kind of talk
about how some of these things

692
00:32:55,120 --> 00:32:57,120
work out.
And he also mentioned the end

693
00:32:57,120 --> 00:32:59,680
times, you know, pre Trib, post
Trib Ammillenal.

694
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:03,240
You know, don't lose sight of
the fact in all those

695
00:33:03,240 --> 00:33:05,400
discussions that Jesus is coming
again.

696
00:33:05,800 --> 00:33:08,320
He's And that's the thing, you.
Can be so apathetic where it's

697
00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:11,040
like you miss out in that
glorious reality.

698
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:15,520
Right, so you know you I think
you can swing to oh, I want to

699
00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:18,720
bit Noid the details or I don't
even want to think about it.

700
00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:22,120
And both of those can are
extremes where we can talk about

701
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:23,480
the details.
That's so good.

702
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:26,800
But ultimately, you know, we
need to keep the big things, the

703
00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:29,760
big things.
Man, I love it We have some

704
00:33:29,760 --> 00:33:32,560
further questions actions.
You should just keep on reading

705
00:33:32,880 --> 00:33:36,600
through Romans 9 meditating on
this and I think it's point #2

706
00:33:36,600 --> 00:33:38,240
is good.
Follow that argument.

707
00:33:38,240 --> 00:33:41,360
I think it's so important to
start with Paul having the zeal.

708
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:43,640
He's like I, I, I want to be the
one that's cursed.

709
00:33:43,640 --> 00:33:47,440
This is how much this pains me
bleeding into God's word has his

710
00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:49,840
promises have not failed.
It's like all of this together

711
00:33:49,840 --> 00:33:51,800
is very, very important to
understand this a little bit

712
00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:53,040
better.
Yeah.

713
00:33:53,040 --> 00:33:55,760
And this question about how do
you respond when things aren't

714
00:33:55,760 --> 00:33:58,320
fair because, you know,
sometimes things don't go our

715
00:33:58,320 --> 00:34:00,920
way.
And when we have unmet

716
00:34:00,920 --> 00:34:05,440
expectations, IE we think that
things are unfair, We, we, you

717
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:08,679
know, that can rock our boat and
what's inside of us is going to

718
00:34:08,679 --> 00:34:10,760
spill out.
And so are we storing up

719
00:34:10,760 --> 00:34:14,760
bitterness and angerment, anger
and, and discouragement, or are

720
00:34:14,760 --> 00:34:17,960
we stirring up, you know, you
know, peace and joy and meekness

721
00:34:17,960 --> 00:34:21,000
and gentleness and kindness and
steadfastness, all those things

722
00:34:21,560 --> 00:34:24,400
so that when our boat gets
rocked, those are the things

723
00:34:24,400 --> 00:34:27,840
that spill out and, and are we
trusting in God for ultimately

724
00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:29,440
the end of what we're going
through?

725
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:33,400
Now that that that's so good and
#4 pray with Moses.

726
00:34:33,400 --> 00:34:36,000
God, show me your glory.
If you're actively seeking God's

727
00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:38,960
glory, I think some of these
things doesn't make them easier,

728
00:34:38,960 --> 00:34:41,040
but you see them in a different
light.

729
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:43,600
No, that's good.
Meditating on the ideas of

730
00:34:43,600 --> 00:34:45,840
justice and mercy.
What's the difference?

731
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,840
And I think it's fine to want
justice, because that's a good

732
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:52,679
thing.
God wants justice, but note that

733
00:34:52,920 --> 00:34:54,639
we probably don't want it when
it comes to us.

734
00:34:54,639 --> 00:34:57,480
We want the mercy.
So you you be able to kind of

735
00:34:57,480 --> 00:35:00,280
look through the eyes that God
has and you know, kind of seeing

736
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:04,520
how he is merciful to to some.
And finally, what do you learn

737
00:35:04,520 --> 00:35:07,360
about God here that you can
apply to your life?

738
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:09,240
If you're asking that question,
you're asking the right question

739
00:35:09,240 --> 00:35:11,440
because it is.
What can I learn about about

740
00:35:11,480 --> 00:35:13,360
God?
It's who God is and his glory

741
00:35:13,360 --> 00:35:17,600
and all, all of these things.
And I think that that has direct

742
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:20,440
application in in a number of
ways to to our lives.

743
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,360
All right, that is the 27th
sermon.

744
00:35:25,400 --> 00:35:28,240
We're getting there in Romans, a
little over halfway.

745
00:35:28,240 --> 00:35:32,200
I think 12 and 13 will start,
probably take off some larger

746
00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,400
chunks of pass here because you
never know.

747
00:35:34,480 --> 00:35:36,560
You never know.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, We could.

748
00:35:36,600 --> 00:35:38,920
We could spend the whole sermon
on 12/1 and two, you know.

749
00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:40,640
That, yeah, I could go both
ways, right?

750
00:35:40,800 --> 00:35:41,560
Yeah.
Well, great.

751
00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:43,200
All right.
Anything else to add?

752
00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,000
I I got nothing.
All right, that's our take.

753
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:51,160
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754
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755
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