That's Not Right | Romans 9:19-33

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All right, we are back.
We have stolen the mics back

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from the wives.
They are back in the, should we,

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I shouldn't say back in the
kitchen.

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That would be that would be.
But we love and cherish our

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wives.
Of course, but a little note for

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Leanne and Jill.
Just be careful what you say

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because the mics come back.
Right.

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They do come back and she did
tell, Jill told me that they're

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going to talk about the, their
engagement stories, which has

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always been a tough one for me.
And I, I, I thought she was

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going to make it worse than what
it was.

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But I appreciated, you know,
'cause I did have a plan.

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And then the, the Fernando
Ortega concert got cancelled.

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And then I was like, OK, we'll
come up with a different plan.

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And I was thinking about maybe
going out to there was like a

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Country Club, like with a gazebo
or something and proposing out

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there.
And then like we're driving

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down.
And it wasn't, it wasn't the

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actual ring thing that was in my
pocket, but it was like the

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cardboard box that the ring came
in.

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And I did not do a good job of
I, I thought I had it hidden,

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but apparently it wasn't hidden.
And then it was like just

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derailed from there.
So I was like, oh, everything

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was like unscripted.
But how many years have you ever

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married?
22 I.

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Was like oh I'm not trying to
help you dig a deep Rd. that was

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great but 20?
Two years later.

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We're going strong.
You go on duck hunts and things

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are good.
It's like that's that's a test

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of a strong marriage, you know?
So.

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Worked out, Yeah.
I was trying to think of of

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things Leanne, Leanne said on
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There she said something about
me and the doorbell.

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What?
What did she say?

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Yeah, that that she the best
thing she got this little

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electronic doorbell and that you
don't like it when you're up

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there.
It always like scares you 'cause

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you're not used.
To too much too.

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It's actually a great idea.
But you know, honestly, I

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thought, I thought they'd.
We actually haven't aired their

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episode yet, but I'm assuming
yeah.

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We've heard it though.
Yeah, we've heard it, and you'll

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have heard it by the time you're
hearing this.

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Yeah, 'cause we're recording
this just a little bit early.

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One question Jill had 'cause she
had she your wife was talking

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about y'all's engagement and
walking along the beach, and

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then there was a blue light in
the sand, and the blue light was

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never explained like what it
was.

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Yeah, my memory might be failing
me, so Leanne can.

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How long have y'all been
married?

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Not 20 years to I wow, I think
12 years now that I'm on the

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mic, I'm losing 2012 twelve.
Yeah, yeah.

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So we we had a 12 year mark.
OK, so so we were what?

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What month were you all married?
August 11th.

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So we're exactly 10 years apart,
almost 'cause we were.

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August 4th, 2002.
August 11th, 2012.

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Wow, so you're saying what I'm
hearing is you got my back like

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your your anniversary comes
first, so if you guys are

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celebrating yours, I know all I
got to get on my game.

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But this blue light Leanne was
trying her best to just totally

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ruin this engagement at every
every step she could

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unknowingly.
Like I had a message in a

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bottle.
She talked about it, but she was

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like, I don't wanna touch a
gross, gross bottle.

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Like, no, I'm like, maybe it's
not gross.

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Maybe it's really important you
wanna grab that Did it?

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I think the blue light might
have been maybe it was like

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marking like a spot, like I had
light.

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I had like a it was like old
school had a remote and then

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when I pressed it a bunch of
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But but I think I might have had
one already blinking or there so

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I knew where to go where
everything because I was on the

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beach.
It was dark.

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I'll tell you what too, just a
lot of extension cord going

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everywhere.
It was it was kind of crazy.

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I'll have to show pictures we.
Yeah, if you give me pictures.

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Oh, show up.
I could put them up here.

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It's like one of those the
camera like we didn't have like

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professional pictures taken in
the moment, but we had like,

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it's like, you know, like when
you take a picture in the dark

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and there's lights and the
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you know, moving.
There's a lot of that going on

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where it's kind of crazy, but
documentation that actually

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happened so.
Talking about trying to make

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things go awry unknowingly,
Chris had gotten some.

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Have you heard this story?
And he proposed Luana.

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I don't think I had.
He got some Cracker Jacks and he

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put the ring inside the little,
the little toy so that, you

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know, and, and when Luana got
it, she was about to throw it

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off the Cliff 'cause they're
always like, she's like, these

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are just cheap little toys.
And he's like, no, no, no.

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No, yeah, don't throw that one.
They crack.

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Do people still do Cracker Jack
boxes?

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Have they taken like they used
to be a thing when I was

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kidding?
I know they were like before

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that.
I haven't seen a Cracker Jack

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box in a minute.
I think you can maybe find them

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at Dollar General and and
Cracker Barrel or something like

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that, but they used to be big
everywhere.

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Yeah, it.
Used to be the thing but that

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that's smart.
Put the nice ring in there and

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just out that we'll have to ask
about that next, maybe next home

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groups he can he can share that
engagement stories.

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If, if she had thrown that off,
Chris could have said that's not

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right.
I I.

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Was looking for what we did too.
So Michael beat me to the punch.

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Title of the sermon today.
The 28th sermon in Romans is

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God.
That's not right.

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Really this response that that
Paul is hypothetically, you

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know, raising and answering in
Romans 9.

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So let's go ahead and take it to
the next level from the hearts

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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.
Romans 9.

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Romans 9 A tough.
One pastor's working his way

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through it really well.
And you know what, what pastor

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does well, he does several
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I think what he's done well in
this passage in particular is he

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has stuck so close to the text.
He's not doing a ton of these

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outside illustrations.
He's trying to use the text

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illustrations.
And on top of that, he was

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doing, and he's staying in the,
he's really reviewing this

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context, which he will do.
But he did this really cool

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thing.
We got a couple of the younger

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children, like teenage, like
young adults, I don't know, like

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12:15.
Something 10. 12 Yeah, to

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actually participate.
In.

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An illustration those kids will
probably never forget Romans 9.

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That's right, that's right,
'cause he gave them some clay

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and said here, here, make
something with the clay.

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And one of them made a, a fairly
nice cross with the heart.

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The other one, I'm not sure what
he was making.

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He he asked for some extension,
some extra time.

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It's good.
It's a good lesson in

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illustration.
Sometimes I struggle with

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illustrations.
I want to get the text right and

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I people have all sorts of
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Sometimes they can really drive
home a point or help you

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understand, but sometimes pick
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If someone's not careful about
like tied, you're like, that's

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like the only thing I remember
or I can't tie it to the point

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or didn't really make the point.
It was kind of adjacent.

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It's kind of hard to weave in
like perfect ones, but it can't

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get more perfect than taking it
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From the test, no, that's good.
That's good.

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Often times when I'm teaching
it'll be the next day I'm like,

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oh, that would have been a
perfect way to illustrate that.

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And So what I've tried to do
now, especially if I'm teaching

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a sermon or something, I'll try
to maybe type it up a little bit

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a couple days ahead of time.
And that way because I'm, I, I'm

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generally busy enough that I'm
like on Saturday, if I'm

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preaching for Joel, like that's
the day I'm like trying to pull

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everything together.
And that really, you know, I

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think there's something that
your mind does kind of in the

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background.
Sometimes it it you think of

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things a day or two afterwards
you.

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Know that that that that that's
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The kind of things we're
wrestling with today that Pastor

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Joel really helped explain are,
you know, this idea we're

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working our way through Romans
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It's it's really not fair that
that God chose to extend mercy

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to some but not others.
And if that's how things go when

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God is sovereign, it's how is it
right that he holds people

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accountable?
He's got this quote by William

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McDonald.
It, you know, it's some ways it

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seems like we're all pawns on a
divine checkerboard.

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What agency do we have if this
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So I think really good.
Questions.

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What checker game William
McDonald is playing that has

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pawns in it?
You know what I'm saying?

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That's what I was wondering, was
like pawns on the checkerboard

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OK?
Spoken like that.

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What what what?
What's your?

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What's the title?
Are you a chess coach?

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A chess sponsor?
Like what?

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Yeah, I get called both of
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Yeah.
Chess coach, chess sponsor.

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Yeah, do.
Do do it all well, what we can

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jump into, It's so helpful.
Everyone just like takes a

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passage in Romans 9 and fights
about it, but it's like work

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your way back up to that context
and see the big picture.

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And then you kind of you kind of
get a lay of the land.

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Yeah, that's good.
And So what Joel has

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consistently done is taken us
back to the end of Chapter 8

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where we see this.
What has some have termed the

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golden chain of redemption.
It's kind of starts off in 828.

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And we know that God causes all
things to work together for good

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to those who love God, to those
who are called according to his

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purpose.
And then here it comes.

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For those whom he foreknew, he
also predestined to become

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conformed to the image of his
Son, so that he would be the

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first born among many brethren.
And those whom he predestined,

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he also called.
And these whom he called he also

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justified, and these whom he
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Those are all past tense
Speaking of, you know, this past

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action that had ongoing effects.
But really you get that.

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And then you read the end where
it says nothing's going to

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separate us from the love of
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Huge things.
But then someone might be going

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Paul, just look around you.
What's going on with the Jews?

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They're they're falling away.
They're not.

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Not all of them believe has Has
his promises failed.

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It's it's such, such a good
thing to consider because I

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think of myself and I think of
my brothers and sisters at

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Charleston Bible Church and my
view is most of these people

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have a relationship with God.
This is great.

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But Can you imagine being in a
context where you look around

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and you're like, man, good news
for me.

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Sure, But it's like, why has why
is this not worked out?

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You know, if Jews were God's
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So I think that that's good.
Just like you just mentioned

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that verse, verse 6, has the
glory to God failed.

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It's it's keeping that in mind.
It hasn't failed.

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And Paul, Paul's going on saying
This is why because God is

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sovereign, it has not failed.
We've got this quote we've

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mentioned a few times by Douglas
Moo.

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If God's plan depended on the
vagaries of sinful human beings

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for its continuance, then indeed
God's word were to fall into the

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ground long ago.
But God's purpose and history is

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fulfilled because he himself
elects people to be part of that

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purpose that it all hinges on
God hinges on me, man.

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I do a lot of things good.
I do far more things bad or drop

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the ball or miss something,
yeah.

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Yeah.
So this section, last sermon and

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this sermon are what could be
formally called a diatribe.

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We use that word a lot of times.
Oh, that person just went on

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diatribe like this is the formal
and Webster and Marian actually

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call it the archaic definition,
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against these hypothetical
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And that's what we covered last
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You know, it's not fair.
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God has mercy on some but
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we don't think that's fair.
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look at today is that God is
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the case, then how can he hold
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Yeah, that that's the objection
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Who can resist his will?
How can God find fault?

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How can God be just all this?
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through the Paul.
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like these Jews that they're
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And so here's the answer up
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Potter have right over the clay
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vessel for honorable use and
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So that's the answer.
We'll go ahead and develop it

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because it, it is a hard, it is
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what fairness actually is versus
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Yeah, I, I think, 'cause when I
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well, God could send us all to
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Yeah, he could.
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Or God could send everyone to
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person, but the person is making
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The person is deciding, OK, I
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all seem OK with us.
Either, you know, universalism,

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everyone gets saved.
I don't know what the name is.

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If we all go to hell, universal
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I don't know.
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but we'd say it's fair.
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God brings everyone kind of up
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And then they decide, you know,
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The Bible explicitly says it
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runs, but it depends on God.
And that's what people are

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uncomfortable with.
It, it's very uncomfortable,

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even even if I know Scripture to
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something in you.
Like I think pastor as he was

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talking through it, like maybe
struggle's not the right word.

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Maybe it is, but it's something
that you have any you're like,

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but we, you know, submit to the
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So looking ahead at this
passage, Paul in verse 19 starts

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with the criticism that we
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We'll bring an illustration and
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through 29.
He gives a little application,

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then wraps up a conclusion,
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So we'll go ahead and work our
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that criticism in verse 19.
Yeah, so this is verse 19.

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We're actually going to back up
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So then he has mercy on whom he
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desires.
Who will say to me that why does

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he still find fault?
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who resists his will?
Slipped into a different

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translation there that I had
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We got a few few translations up
here and, and you read something

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like that and you get this idea
that, man, everything is rigged

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against us.
It's like what?

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How can you find fault?
Like if this is how it goes

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down, what can we do?
We mentioned pawns on a

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checkerboard and NLTS
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I like this as well.
Then you might say, why does God

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blame people for not responding?
Haven't they simply done what he

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makes them to do?
But I think this probably is the

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natural response.
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this and not Paul, because
Paul's going to answer it

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clearly his way, I would go, OK,
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Adam was our, you can either say
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in him, like in a genetic
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And Adam sinned on behalf of all
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So we all sin, we all have
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we're all going our own way.
He punched all of us over this

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Cliff, and now we're all running
away from God, and God chooses

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to mercy some.
But Paul's answer is a little

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bit yeah, more punchy than.
Mine, it's very punchy and he

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just he doesn't beat around the
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He gets right to the point.
I'm in verse 20 and 21 he says

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On the contrary, who are you, O
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The thing molded will not say to
the molder, why'd you make me

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like this?
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Or does the Potter have a right
over the clay to make from the

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same lump 1 vessel for honorable
use and another for common use?

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Basically, he's just going right
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distinction that you're not like
God, your perspectives not like

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God.
Like how?

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Almost.
Yeah, how dare you like even

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even question in this tone.
You know what?

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What has got to do?
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we can all sympathize with the
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Yeah.
And Paul's going to be like,

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yeah, not I'm not really even
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you're thinking the wrong way.
You're you're you're coming at

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this the wrong way.
He's.

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Just coming.
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cutting it off right there on
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Says it this way.
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brings a little bit of flavor to
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Who in the world do you think
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Do you for one moment suppose
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call God into question?
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fingers that mold it, saying,
why'd you shape me like this?

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Isn't that obvious that a Potter
has a perfect right to shape 1

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Olympic clay into a vase for
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a pot for cooking beans?
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pottery especially designed to
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another style carefully crafted
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isn't that all right?
I like the Liberty's take with

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the message for the with the
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It's like different purposes.
And you know, we don't, you

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know, get mad at these, you
know, people who produce these

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different types of pottery and
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It's a it's a good argument.
Like you're saying, man, it's

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hard, hard.
It just hit pudges you in the

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face.
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And I, I have often prayed and
I, I would encourage you if you

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are a parent or you have loved
ones who you're praying for, I,

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I pray God, I ask you to make
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Like that's what my prayer is
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It's been, I think the God of
eternity hears those prayers and

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you know, he can act like we're
asking God to move and to, to

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have compassion and mercy on
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And I, and, and I think it's, it
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I know it's tough.
It's one thing for us to talk

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about this in the abstract.
It's tough when you have a

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family member you've been
praying for, for years and

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years, you've presented the
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there can be somewhat

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legitimate.
This doesn't seem fair.

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And this is what Paul is exactly
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And you know, the pushback isn't
just limited to your everyday

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layperson.
Pastor Joe will often reference

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Barclays commentary,
particularly for its historical

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insight, and his notes here is
flat out man.

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Paul uses a bad analogy.
One great New Testament

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commentator said that this is
one of the few passages which we

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wish Paul had not written.
And that's that's, I mean, you

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think about writing a
commentary, that's one way to go

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to say like, I don't, I don't
this is bad.

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This is bad.
I don't like this.

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Paul made a mistake.
I don't know how you I'd like to

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read what that person says on
the passages that say all

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scripture is God breathed and
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Like how did they interpret
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And then because I'm assuming
they can still consider the

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script.
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And you would think, and it's
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on one sense, I definitely don't
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of like the honesty there
instead of saying something

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like, well, what Paul is really
saying and then like watering it

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out to where he says nothing.
That's the other thing you can

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try.
I don't know.

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That's a tough one to do with
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Passage said when he said X is,
what he really meant was Y, you

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know, and it's like.
People do that kind of thing.

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So that really sets up, you
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analogy, this Potter and clay
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Then Paul is going to move on to
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We'll look at Application part
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Yeah, so this covers verses
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It says, what if God, although
willing to demonstrate His wrath

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to make His power known, endured
with much, much patience vessels

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of wrath, prepared for
destruction, and He did so to

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make known the riches of His
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which He prepared beforehand for
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And so kind of going back to
these, you know, the different

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types of clay that He can make,
vessels of honor, vessels for

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common use, vessels of wrath,
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God's the Potter and he is
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And I think Joel did a good job.
Like they're definitely verses

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that talk about our
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nature, our desire to be our own
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Those are in the Bible too.
And when we get to those, we

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preach those, we teach those.
But right now we're in Romans 9.

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This is big untrans sovereignty.
And so that's what we're doing.

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We're preaching and and teaching
those God makes those vessels so

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that he can demonstrate himself
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It's like, how do we know he's
merciful if we don't know he's

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also just?
How do we know he's just if he's

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not also merciful?
I think I think that that's

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good.
It's what's at stake is God's

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glory and God is all these
things.

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He hates sin, he's just, he's
perfect, but he's also loving,

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merciful, gracious and kind.
He's all of these things.

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And this is how we see he
displays, he's chosen to display

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his glory.
It's the same kind of thinking,

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I think when it comes to
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Everyone wants to emphasize, you
know, God, God loves you, but

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they don't want to emphasize
that there was a price to pay,

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right?
And it's like it's all these

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things.
It's not balanced and we might

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not understand it why it has to
be done this way to its fullest

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extent, but man, God is I like
this.

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You have this in the notes,
Michael, the just justifier.

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I almost.
Screamed that out.

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I was like, should I pull a Jack
here and and yell out the just

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justifier?
But that's what was ringing

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because that's what he's
demonstrating.

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I'm just I'm wrathful.
I take sin seriously.

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At the same time, I provided a
way for you, I, I can justify

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you because of that.
So it's those two natures of of

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himself that he's revealing to
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And that, that's so good to keep
keep that in mind.

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And at the end of the day, you
know, you can read this text

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with God's glory in mind.
You can read this text with me

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in mind.
And, you know, getting that

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focus on him, I think helps
clarify everything else.

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And, and this is the part of the
show where Michael sings a song.

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Yeah, because he had in here.
It's ultimately about God and

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his glory, and it's about him,
not us.

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And have you seen this parody
song where this guy sings It's

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all about me for my glory and my
fame, You know, taking the

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taking the song that that was
originally written.

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It's all about you.
That feels great.

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But it's all about me.
Yeah.

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Yeah, nice.
And and also not only the part

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of the podcast where we're
seeing, but it's the part of the

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podcast where we go to the
Puritans.

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That's right.
Jonathan Edwards, pastor.

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Jill's getting the heavy hitters
out.

449
00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,600
You know you're getting into
some deep, deep theology.

450
00:22:10,200 --> 00:22:13,360
Jonathan Edwards has this
extended quote that Pedro quotes

451
00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,920
he writes.
It's a proper and excellent

452
00:22:15,920 --> 00:22:18,920
thing for infinite glory to
shine forth.

453
00:22:19,160 --> 00:22:21,840
For the same reason it's proper
that the shining 4th of God's

454
00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:26,040
glory should be complete, that
is, that all parts of his glory

455
00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,400
should shine forth, that every
beauty should be proportionally

456
00:22:29,800 --> 00:22:33,840
radiance, that the beholder may
have a proper notion of God.

457
00:22:34,440 --> 00:22:37,560
It's not proper that one glory
should be exceedingly manifested

458
00:22:37,560 --> 00:22:41,400
in another nut so evil is
necessary in order to the

459
00:22:41,400 --> 00:22:44,040
highest happiness of the
creature and the completeness of

460
00:22:44,040 --> 00:22:46,280
that communication of God for
which he made the world.

461
00:22:46,680 --> 00:22:50,720
Because the creatures happiness
consists in the knowledge of God

462
00:22:51,240 --> 00:22:53,120
and the sense of his love.
And if the knowledge of him be

463
00:22:53,120 --> 00:22:57,160
imperfect, the happiness of the
creature must be proportionately

464
00:22:57,480 --> 00:22:59,280
imperfect.
That if we don't see the full

465
00:22:59,280 --> 00:23:03,640
picture of God, we we're not.
We can't glory in God, be as

466
00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,160
happy in God, because we we
don't understand His full

467
00:23:06,360 --> 00:23:08,000
character.
That's right.

468
00:23:08,200 --> 00:23:11,960
That's, I think that's right on
all right, Application Part 2.

469
00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,640
So now we're taking verses 24
through 29 and really Paul's

470
00:23:15,640 --> 00:23:19,040
going to turn to the Old
Testament and show support of

471
00:23:19,040 --> 00:23:24,280
God being merciful in caring,
caring for and caring through

472
00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:28,960
this remnant of Jews.
So it starts out, even us whom

473
00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:34,120
he also called, not from among
Jews only, but also from among

474
00:23:34,120 --> 00:23:38,880
Gentiles, as he says in Hosea.
I will call those who are not my

475
00:23:38,880 --> 00:23:42,920
people, my people, and her who
is not beloved, beloved.

476
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:46,320
And it shall be that in the
place where it was said to them,

477
00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:50,120
You are not my people, there
they shall be called sons of the

478
00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:52,680
living God.
Isaiah cries out concerning

479
00:23:52,680 --> 00:23:54,400
Israel.
Though the number of the sons of

480
00:23:54,400 --> 00:23:57,800
Israel be like the sand of the
sea, it is the remnant that will

481
00:23:57,800 --> 00:24:01,000
be saved, for the Lord will
execute His word on the earth

482
00:24:01,160 --> 00:24:04,920
thoroughly and quickly.
And just as Isaiah foretold,

483
00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:09,320
unless the Lord of the of
Sabbath had left us to a

484
00:24:09,320 --> 00:24:12,680
posterity, we would have become
like Sodom and would have

485
00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:16,120
resembled Gomorrah.
So even in the Old Testament,

486
00:24:16,600 --> 00:24:21,120
God is preserving His people and
others Speaking of Him, calling

487
00:24:21,120 --> 00:24:23,880
out a new people for himself out
of the Gentiles.

488
00:24:24,040 --> 00:24:27,040
Yeah, I think that's pretty
striking that we would have been

489
00:24:27,040 --> 00:24:30,040
like Sodom and Gomorrah without
without you, but got in his

490
00:24:30,040 --> 00:24:35,680
mercy, pulled out a remnant.
Moving on to the conclusion,

491
00:24:36,360 --> 00:24:40,440
verses 30 through 33, Paul
starts to starts to wrap, wrap

492
00:24:40,440 --> 00:24:43,040
up some of his arguments.
He says, what shall we say then?

493
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:46,440
The Gentiles who didn't pursue
righteousness attained

494
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:49,640
righteousness, even the
righteousness which is by faith.

495
00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,960
But Israel pursuing a law of
righteousness did not arrive at

496
00:24:53,960 --> 00:24:55,960
the law, at that law.
Why?

497
00:24:56,520 --> 00:24:59,720
Because they didn't pursue it by
faith, but as though it were by

498
00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,080
works.
They stumbled over the stumbling

499
00:25:02,080 --> 00:25:06,400
stone, just as it's written.
Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of

500
00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:10,160
stumbling and a rock of offense.
And he who believes in him will

501
00:25:10,160 --> 00:25:13,360
not be disappointed.
I'll make a note before I kick

502
00:25:13,360 --> 00:25:15,960
it to you, Michael.
But what I love about Paul as

503
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:20,520
he's dealing with this, you
know, theodicy that this problem

504
00:25:20,520 --> 00:25:23,520
trying to vindicate God's
righteousness about Jewish

505
00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:27,200
people specifically, he's just
layering and Jewish after text.

506
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,240
He's just Old Testaments in here
a lot.

507
00:25:29,240 --> 00:25:32,160
He's like trying to show no,
God's word hasn't failed and

508
00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,440
this is what the God of the Jews
has said.

509
00:25:34,840 --> 00:25:38,760
No, that's good.
Joel a couple times went to the

510
00:25:38,760 --> 00:25:42,360
message.
So here's that same passage that

511
00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:45,960
Zach just read out of.
Is it Peterson's message?

512
00:25:46,320 --> 00:25:48,480
Yeah, he says.
How can we sum this up?

513
00:25:48,480 --> 00:25:51,560
All those who didn't seem
interested in what God was doing

514
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:54,400
actually embraced what God was
doing as he straightened out

515
00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,160
their lives.
And Israel, who seemed so

516
00:25:57,160 --> 00:25:59,600
interested in reading and
talking about what God was

517
00:25:59,600 --> 00:26:01,920
doing, missed it.
How could they miss it?

518
00:26:02,280 --> 00:26:05,560
Because instead of trusting God,
they took over.

519
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:08,600
They are absorbed in what they
themselves were doing.

520
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,560
They are absorbed in their God
projects.

521
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:15,040
In scare quotes that they didn't
notice God right in front of

522
00:26:15,040 --> 00:26:17,360
them, like a huge rock in the
middle of the road.

523
00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,040
And so they stumbled into him
and went sprawling.

524
00:26:20,320 --> 00:26:23,720
Isaiah again gives us a metaphor
for pulling this together.

525
00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:27,680
Careful, I put a huge stone on
the road to Mount Zion, a stone

526
00:26:27,680 --> 00:26:30,680
you can't get around.
But the stone is me.

527
00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:34,720
If you're looking for me, you'll
find me on the way, not in the

528
00:26:34,720 --> 00:26:36,960
way.
Yeah, We find this kind of thing

529
00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:38,480
quoted a lot in the New
Testament.

530
00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:40,280
I feel like this stumbling
stone.

531
00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:43,560
Yeah, yeah.
That this imagery that you know,

532
00:26:43,560 --> 00:26:46,160
that the Jews missed it and and
Jesus was, was right there

533
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,000
stumbling over him because, you
know, focused on, on works and

534
00:26:49,000 --> 00:26:52,480
not by faith in the Messiah who
was right there.

535
00:26:52,640 --> 00:26:55,520
Yeah, and Joel's like he could
either be a stumbling stone or

536
00:26:55,520 --> 00:26:57,120
stepping stone.
Yeah, that, that's.

537
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,200
Good.
That's a good, good turn of a

538
00:26:59,200 --> 00:27:03,480
phrase there because if you
recognize God for whom Jesus,

539
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:06,280
for whom he is, you recognize
yourself for who you are after

540
00:27:06,280 --> 00:27:09,120
you let the law really be the
tutor that it's meant to be to

541
00:27:09,120 --> 00:27:12,120
show you, you know what, you're
not going to keep the law.

542
00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,000
You're going to daily break the
law.

543
00:27:14,000 --> 00:27:18,920
You're going to, you know, daily
need some type of sacrifice.

544
00:27:18,920 --> 00:27:21,640
You're not ever, you know,
you're go back to the Sermon on

545
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:23,400
the Mount.
Your righteousness is not going

546
00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:24,840
to exceed that of the scribes or
Pharisees.

547
00:27:24,840 --> 00:27:27,320
You're not going to be perfect
as your Father in heaven is.

548
00:27:28,000 --> 00:27:30,680
And so now you can go, OK, I
need help.

549
00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:32,840
And then that's where the stone
comes in, stepping up.

550
00:27:33,200 --> 00:27:36,280
Absolutely.
And so I think as we end Romans

551
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:38,600
9, it's good just to consider
this whole flow of

552
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,760
argumentation.
Has the word of God fail?

553
00:27:41,760 --> 00:27:44,440
You know, is God fair?
God, That can't be right.

554
00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:47,320
And then as we get into chapter
10, we look a little bit more at

555
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:51,280
the means God uses because I
think the accusation, you know,

556
00:27:51,280 --> 00:27:55,120
levied hard against people who
are big on sovereignty of God is

557
00:27:55,520 --> 00:27:57,800
and I guess you don't witness.
And it's like, Oh well, chapter

558
00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,880
10's a lot about the means and
witnessing specifically.

559
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:03,600
So it's like, you know, I think
those things are together in

560
00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,760
Paul's argument for for a
specific reason, right?

561
00:28:05,760 --> 00:28:08,440
Because these things, you know,
really complement each other.

562
00:28:08,600 --> 00:28:12,440
Yeah, if if you are as someone
who I've defined as a hyper

563
00:28:12,440 --> 00:28:15,120
Calvinist, then then you're not
taking the full counsel, the

564
00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:16,520
word, because we're still to
pray.

565
00:28:16,800 --> 00:28:19,600
We're still to witness because
we don't, you know, we don't

566
00:28:19,600 --> 00:28:23,600
know how God even uses those in
his, that's right, His sovereign

567
00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:25,560
plan.
So, you know, we're, we're

568
00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:30,040
supposed to be about that.
So application #1 he who

569
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:35,080
believes in God will not be
disappointed.

570
00:28:35,760 --> 00:28:39,480
And he gave this illustration of
this kid who gives his mom this

571
00:28:39,480 --> 00:28:42,600
face mask for Christmas is like,
hey, mom, this face mask is

572
00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:44,480
supposed to make you pretty.
Put it on right now.

573
00:28:44,480 --> 00:28:45,800
And she puts it on, takes it
off.

574
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:49,960
It's like didn't work.
Yeah, that, that that's so good.

575
00:28:49,960 --> 00:28:53,840
So by contrast, you believe in,
in Christ, your faith is in

576
00:28:53,840 --> 00:28:54,880
Christ.
You're a child of God.

577
00:28:54,880 --> 00:28:56,920
You you're not going to be
disappointed, even if that means

578
00:28:56,920 --> 00:29:00,360
you don't understand everything
totally that that's part of

579
00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:02,800
faith too, right?
That you will not be

580
00:29:02,800 --> 00:29:05,560
disappointed that that's a
that's a great first application

581
00:29:06,520 --> 00:29:09,640
because, you know, I think that
that is that emotional side.

582
00:29:09,640 --> 00:29:12,600
You just don't understand, you
know, man, why is people close

583
00:29:12,600 --> 00:29:13,320
to me?
Why?

584
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:14,960
Why is this not working out how
I would hope?

585
00:29:15,520 --> 00:29:18,160
Yeah, and if you find yourself
in that place of disappointment,

586
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:20,680
you know, I would just say go
back to Scripture like Ephesians

587
00:29:20,680 --> 00:29:24,400
one, all that we have in Christ,
Romans 8, which we just read

588
00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:26,080
about, you know, all creations
groaning.

589
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:28,600
We don't ever, we don't
understand how we're supposed to

590
00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:30,800
pray necessarily.
Spirit is groaning on our

591
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:33,040
behalf.
First Corinthians 15, we're

592
00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:34,440
going to get a new body.
We're going to get a

593
00:29:34,440 --> 00:29:36,160
resurrection body just like
Jesus.

594
00:29:36,560 --> 00:29:38,040
Revelation 20.
There's going to be a New

595
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:39,640
Jerusalem.
We're going to be with him.

596
00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,280
You know, there's not going to
be even a need for a son because

597
00:29:42,280 --> 00:29:44,200
he's going to be our light, all
of our tears at light.

598
00:29:44,440 --> 00:29:49,240
So we have all of these promises
for this future hope and what

599
00:29:49,240 --> 00:29:53,040
God's done for us that we should
be able to go OK in the here and

600
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:54,640
now.
I don't exactly understand what

601
00:29:54,640 --> 00:29:56,760
you're doing, God, but I'm, I'm
going to trust you.

602
00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,040
I'm not going to be disappointed
in you.

603
00:29:58,680 --> 00:30:02,960
So, so good application 2, you
know, thinking about divine

604
00:30:02,960 --> 00:30:05,040
sovereignty and human
responsibility.

605
00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:07,480
I think, you know, pastor girl
said it well, I'm going to

606
00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:09,040
preach what the text says.
There's another text that's

607
00:30:09,040 --> 00:30:10,520
going to talk about human
responsibility.

608
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:15,920
I will preach that hard as well.
And I think people unfairly just

609
00:30:16,360 --> 00:30:18,600
put pigeonhole people into one,
one or the other.

610
00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:20,640
And it's like, why can't we have
both, right?

611
00:30:20,840 --> 00:30:23,440
You know, why can't we just
agree that Scripture speaks to

612
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:25,840
both?
And maybe we can't totally in

613
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:27,880
our minds reconcile everything
perfectly.

614
00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:32,560
This great quote by Ward Wersby
says no one will deny that there

615
00:30:32,560 --> 00:30:34,520
are many mysteries that
connected with divine

616
00:30:34,520 --> 00:30:37,160
sovereignty and human
responsibility.

617
00:30:37,440 --> 00:30:40,120
Nowhere does God ask us to
choose between these two truths

618
00:30:40,240 --> 00:30:43,120
because they both come from God
and are part of God's plan.

619
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:45,480
They do not compete, they
cooperate.

620
00:30:46,080 --> 00:30:49,000
The fact that we cannot fully
understand how they work

621
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:51,880
together doesn't deny the fact
that they do.

622
00:30:52,040 --> 00:30:54,440
When a man asked Charles
Spurgeon how he reconciled

623
00:30:54,440 --> 00:30:57,520
divine sovereignty and human
responsibility, Spurgeon

624
00:30:57,520 --> 00:31:00,480
replied, I never try to
reconcile friends.

625
00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:06,000
And so I, I, I think sometimes
you can be so focused on one of

626
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:07,120
those, you can kind of minimize
it.

627
00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:09,400
It's a good, it's a good give
and take, a good balance.

628
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,560
I think at the end of the day,
you just want to be anchored to

629
00:31:12,720 --> 00:31:15,120
some text and that and that
helps.

630
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:18,240
But no one's saying your actions
don't matter.

631
00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:19,240
Right.
Yeah.

632
00:31:19,240 --> 00:31:22,360
And I think you have to be
faithful to the text.

633
00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,920
And then you got to find out,
you know, in your systematic

634
00:31:24,920 --> 00:31:28,800
theology, which everyone has,
whether they realize it or not,

635
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:33,000
you have to figure out a way
that you can kind of be true to

636
00:31:33,000 --> 00:31:36,040
all these different texts, like
what way of understanding

637
00:31:36,040 --> 00:31:39,880
salvation or what way of
understanding who God is really

638
00:31:39,960 --> 00:31:43,040
can be faithful to all these
different texts and how we

639
00:31:43,040 --> 00:31:46,480
understand them.
And so, but yeah, there's,

640
00:31:46,560 --> 00:31:48,960
there's, there's texts out there
that talk about God's

641
00:31:48,960 --> 00:31:52,400
sovereignty, text that talks
about our responsibility.

642
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:55,600
And you really should not
shouldn't be a A cause of

643
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:59,200
argument because it's clearly
what scripture says.

644
00:31:59,680 --> 00:32:01,520
Right, right there.
It's in the Bible.

645
00:32:01,520 --> 00:32:03,640
That's why we believe in the
sovereignty of God.

646
00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:06,920
People can get bogged down.
It's not these are important

647
00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:10,440
truths, but you can really get
bogged down and not and be

648
00:32:10,440 --> 00:32:14,080
talking past each other.
And then kind of that concluding

649
00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,600
passage that Paul mentioned
that, you know, Christ is a

650
00:32:17,600 --> 00:32:19,800
stumbling stone, but you're not
not for us.

651
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:24,800
If you have faith, faith in
Christ, you can rest, rest in

652
00:32:24,800 --> 00:32:27,600
this truth and not and not be
like the Jews that were, you

653
00:32:27,600 --> 00:32:29,720
know, just trying to work it out
on their own.

654
00:32:31,040 --> 00:32:33,880
Then we looked at Communion
because we took communion today

655
00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:39,520
and, you know, his blood
inaugurated the new Covenant.

656
00:32:40,000 --> 00:32:42,600
And I don't you're, you're not a
big movie guy, so I'm gonna make

657
00:32:42,600 --> 00:32:44,960
a reference.
You may or may not see How to

658
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:46,000
Train a Dragon.
Have you seen?

659
00:32:46,160 --> 00:32:47,240
That I have not.
I've heard it's good.

660
00:32:48,120 --> 00:32:51,520
So like in that, in that movie,
in the second movie in all the

661
00:32:51,520 --> 00:32:54,240
series, like there's the main
character Hiccup, he'll always

662
00:32:54,240 --> 00:32:57,480
say stuff like they'll find
something out that's new or, and

663
00:32:57,480 --> 00:33:00,160
he'll say this changes
everything.

664
00:33:00,600 --> 00:33:03,760
I was like, that's we need to
take that clip from him saying

665
00:33:03,760 --> 00:33:06,960
that like married up with like
something like, you know, the

666
00:33:06,960 --> 00:33:08,920
blood of the covenant or Christ
resurrection.

667
00:33:08,920 --> 00:33:12,040
Like this changes everything.
And it should be a cause for us

668
00:33:12,040 --> 00:33:14,680
to rejoice in in who Christ is
and when He's done for us.

669
00:33:15,040 --> 00:33:17,640
Romans 9.
Romans 9 in the books In the

670
00:33:17,640 --> 00:33:20,080
books.
Moving on to to Romans 10.

671
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:22,520
Still got a lot of lot of
romance to go.

672
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A lot of romance to go.
I can't wait till, you know, we

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get to that last chapter.
We'll get a lot of names in

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there.
That's right.

675
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You're getting Michael's whole
family in there.

676
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That's great.
Yeah, Phoebe and Julia are are

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in there I believe.
Wow.

678
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Pretty, pretty cool.
Any anything else you got

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Michael?
No, I, I'm good.

680
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Awesome, That's our take.
Thanks for listening to Take 2.

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