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>>GOOD MORNING, FRIENDS,
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>>LET'S BOW OUR HEADS
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FOR A WORD OF PRAYER.
DEAR FATHER IN HEAVEN, ONCE
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AGAIN WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE
OPPORTUNITY TO OPEN UP YOUR WORD
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AND STUDY AND WE ASK LORD, THAT
YOUR SPIRIT WOULD COME AND GUIDE
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OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS AS
WE STUDY THIS IMPORTANT PASSAGE
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IN THE BOOK OF ROMANS.
AND, THANK YOU, FATHER FOR YOUR
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PROMISE TO LEAD US INTO A CLEAR
UNDERSTANDING OF YOUR WILL FOR
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OUR LIVES, IF WE COME TO YOU
WITH SIMPLICITY OF HEART, FOR WE
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ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
OUR LESSON THIS MORNING IS GOING
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TO BE BROUGHT TO
US BY CHUCK HOLTRY.
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THANK YOU,
CHUCK. >>GOOD MORNING.
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I'M LOOKING
FORWARD TO THIS STUDY.
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IT'S EXCITING. ROMANS
CHAPTER 10 - OUR LESSON
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THIS WEEK IS FROM
ROMANS 10 AND ROMANS 11.
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THE TITLE IS THE ELECT AND I
WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT ANOTHER
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TITLE THAT I WANTED TO GIVE
IT, THEN I REALIZED THAT WHOEVER
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WROTE THIS, I
APPRECIATE THEIR TITLE MAKING -
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THE CHOSEN - THE ELECT .
IN OUR STUDY TODAY, WE'RE
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GOING TO GO THROUGH A COUPLE OF
DIFFERENT THINGS, IF YOU DON'T
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MIND, AND I'D LIKE TO
READ THE FIRST FEW VERSES HERE,
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STARTING WITH VERSE 1. "BRETHREN
MY HEART'S DESIRE AND PRAYER TO
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GOD FOR ISRAEL IS,
THAT THEY MIGHT BE SAVED.
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FOR I BEAR THEM RECORD THAT
THEY HAVE A ZEAL OF GOD, BUT NOT
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ACCORDING TO KNOWLEDGE. FOR
THEY BEING IGNORANT OF GOD'S
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND GOING
ABOUT TO ESTABLISH THEIR OWN
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, HAVE NOT
SUBMITTED THEMSELVES UNTO
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THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF GOD.
FOR CHRIST IS THE END OF THE
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LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS TO
EVERY ONE THAT BELIEVETH."
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IN A WAY, VERSE 4 IS THE
CULMINATION OR AN APEX, IN A
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STUDY OF RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT
WE'VE COVERED, SO FAR, IN THE
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BOOK OF ROMANS. I'D
LIKE TO JUST REMIND YOU A
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LITTLE BIT OF WHERE WE'VE BEEN.
ROMANS CHAPTER 1 - ACTUALLY, NOT
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THAT FAR BACK - ROMANS CHAPTER
3 - ROMANS CHAPTER 3 AND LET'S
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LOOK AT VERSE 23 - YOU
COULD PROBABLY QUOTE THIS FOR ME
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- ROMANS 3:23, "FOR ALL HAVE
SINNED, AND COME SHORT OF THE
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GLORY OF GOD;" - SO THERE'S A
- A KEY THING WE MUST REMEMBER
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IS EVERYONE IS SHORT OF GOD'S
GLORY, SO EVERYONE NEEDS WHAT?
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THEY NEED A SAVIOR AND
THEY NEED RIGHTEOUSNESS, YES?
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SO WE SEE THAT
EVERYONE NEEDS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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CHAPTER 1 FOCUSED ON THE
GENTILES AND THEIR NEED FOR
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RIGHTEOUSNESS.
CHAPTER 2 FOCUSED ON THE JEWS'
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NEED OF RIGHTEOUSNESS BY
SHOWING BOTH HAVE FALLEN SHORT.
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WE ARE ALL SINNERS, ALL IN NEED
OF THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF CHRIST.
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SO THAT'S A KEY
FOUNDATION THAT WE LOOK AT.
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VERSE 9 AND 10, THERE IN CHAPTER
3 - VERSE 9 IN ROMANS 3 SAYS,
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"WHAT THEN? ARE
WE BETTER THAN THEY?
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NO, IN NO WISE: FOR WE
HAVE BEFORE PROVED BOTH JEWS AND
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GENTILES, THAT THEY ARE ALL
UNDER SIN; AS IT IS WRITTEN,
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THERE IS NONE RIGHTEOUS, NO,
NOT ONE:" - SO THE PICTURE WE'RE
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SEEING EARLY ON IN OUR LESSON IS
- I'M JUST REMINDING US HERE, IF
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THAT'S OKAY - NONE OF US
ARE RIGHTEOUS, SO WE NEED
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RIGHTEOUSNESS.
AND SO, DO THE JEWS
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NEED RIGHTEOUSNESS? YES.
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AND SO, THERE'S THIS REMINDER
THAT PAUL'S GIVING, IN ROMANS
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CHAPTER 10, THE JEWS, ALSO,
ARE IN NEED OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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AS WE LOOK AT THAT - AT THIS
GOSPEL CALL THAT PAUL IS MAKING
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TO THE JEWISH NATION IN CHAPTERS
10 AND 11, WE CAN ALSO SEE THE
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GOSPEL CALL TO OURSELVES.
LET'S CONTINUE: WHERE ELSE
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DO I SEE RIGHTEOUSNESS?
CHAPTER 3 - LET'S STAY IN 3 FOR
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AWHILE - VERSE 20 - CHAPTER 3
AND VERSE 20, "THEREFORE BY THE
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DEEDS OF THE LAW THERE
SHALL NO FLESH BE" - WHAT?
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- "JUSTIFIED IN HIS SIGHT:" -
OR MADE RIGHTEOUS IN HIS SIGHT -
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"FOR BY THE LAW IS
THE KNOWLEDGE OF SIN."
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SO WE SAW, IN CHAPTER 10, VERSE
4, THAT CHRIST IS THE END OF THE
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LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND NOW
WE'RE BEING REMINDED, HERE, THAT
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THE LAW'S PURPOSE ISN'T TO MAKE
ONE RIGHTEOUS, THE PURPOSE OF
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THE LAW IS TO GIVE
KNOWLEDGE. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?
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THE PURPOSE OF THE LAW IS NOT TO
GIVE RIGHTEOUSNESS, THE PURPOSE
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OF THE LAW IS TO GIVE KNOWLEDGE.
WE'VE SEEN THIS - IF YOU'VE BEEN
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TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR OR YOU'VE
SEEN SOMEONE TALK ABOUT THE
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LAW OF GOD - YOU'VE
SEEN THE ILLUSTRATION WITH
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THE MIRROR, RIGHT?
SOMEONE CAN LOOK AT THE MIRROR
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- THE MIRROR CAN TELL ME WHETHER
I'M LOOKING OKAY OR NOT, WHETHER
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THERE'S A PROBLEM OR NOT,
BUT THE MIRROR CAN'T CHANGE
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ANYTHING, IT IS SIMPLY A
COMMUNICATOR OF INFORMATION.
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I CAN'T SAY THAT FOR THE LAW,
PER SE, BUT I WANT TO EMPHASIZE
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IT IS A COMMUNICATOR OF
INFORMATION. IT'S PURPOSE IS NOT
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TO CHANGE US, IT'S PURPOSE IS
TO POINT US TO SOMEONE WHO CAN
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CHANGE US AND THAT'S THE
PICTURE WE SEE OF THE LAW.
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SO WHEN WE SAY THAT
CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW FOR
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RIGHTEOUSNESS, THAT
MAKES COMPLETE SENSE.
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THE LAW CAN'T BRING
RIGHTEOUSNESS, CAN IT?
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IT'S IMPOSSIBLE. WHO
BRINGS RIGHTEOUSNESS?
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CHRIST - HE IS THE END OF
THE LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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I'M ASSUMING, THEN, AT LEAST
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THEY WERE
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SAVED BY THEIR OWN
RIGHTEOUSNESS. CAN I ASSUME
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THAT? NO. CHAPTER
4, VERSE 3 - WE'RE
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ALMOST DONE WITH OUR LITTLE
REVIEW BEFORE WE JUMP IN HERE
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- CHAPTER 4, VERSE 3,
"FOR WHAT SAITH THE SCRIPTURE?
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ABRAHAM" - DID WHAT? >>BELIEVED.
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>>HE "BELIEVED GOD, AND IT WAS
COUNTED UNTO HIM FOR" - WHAT?
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- >>RIGHTEOUSNESS.
"RIGHTEOUSNESS."
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SO THE BELIEF THAT ABRAHAM
HAD IS HOW HE HAD RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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THROUGH HIS BELIEF HE WAS
COUNTED AS IF HE WAS RIGHT WITH
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GOD. NOW THAT IS
GRACE. THAT'S AMAZING.
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THAT'S WHY THEY
CALL IT AMAZING GRACE.
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BECAUSE OF MY BELIEF IN CHRIST,
I CAN BE ACCOUNTED RIGHTEOUS.
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IT'S GOOD NEWS.
THAT WAS GOOD NEWS FOR
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A JEW, TOO, BY THE WAY.
IF YOU'VE EVER MET A PERSON
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WHO'S PRETTY SURE OF THEMSELVES
- OF THEIR OWN RIGHTNESS - MAYBE
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YOU HAVEN'T MET SOMEONE, BUT
I'VE MET PEOPLE LIKE THAT AND
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HAVE PROBABLY BEEN IN THAT
BOAT MYSELF AT TIMES. 'I'M OKAY.
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RIGHT NOW I'M NOT
ARGUING WITH MY PARENTS.
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RIGHT NOW I'M NOT NECESSARILY
FIGHTING WITH ANYONE, SO I'M IN
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PRETTY GOOD SHAPE. YOU
KNOW, RIGHT NOW, I HAVEN'T
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HAD ANY UNCLEAN THOUGHTS FOR
A FEW DAYS NOW, SO THAT'S GOOD.
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AND' - RIGHT? WE HAVE
THESE KIND OF PICTURES
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OF OURSELVES - 'I HAVEN'T STOLEN
ANYTHING, AT LEAST SINCE I WAS
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A CHILD - I DON'T
HATE ANYONE. I AM OKAY.
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I AM RIGHTEOUS.' WE WOULD NEVER
SAY IT IN OUR OWN MIND, BECAUSE
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WE KNOW IT'S NOT TRUE, BUT
SOMETIMES WE GET THAT FEEL, AND
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THIS IS JUST GOOD REMINDER, HERE
- THE JEWS MIGHT HAVE FELT THAT
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WAY A LITTLE BIT.
'I GIVE TITHES OF ALL
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THAT I POSSESS.' RIGHT?
'I FAST' - HOW MANY TIMES?
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'AT LEAST TWICE A WEEK, MAYBE
MORE THAN THAT.' AND SO, THERE'S
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THIS PICTURE THAT THE
JEWS COULD CONNECT HERE.
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HE'S MAKING IT CRYSTAL CLEAR,
'YES, I KNOW THAT YOU HAVE A LAW
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AND YOU HAVE BEEN PRETTY
FAITHFUL, BUT THE REALITY IS
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NONE OF US ARE RIGHTEOUS.'
CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW FOR
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RIGHTEOUSNESS.
VERSES 6 AND 7, THERE IN
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CHAPTER 4, "EVEN AS DAVID ALSO
DESCRIBETH THE BLESSEDNESS OF
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THE MAN, UNTO WHOM GOD
IMPUTETH RIGHTEOUSNESS WITHOUT
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THE WORKS," - WOW.
I PRAISE GOD FOR IT.
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GOD CAN IMPUTE RIGHTEOUSNESS
- OR RIGHT DOING, OR RIGHTNESS -
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INTO CHUCK WITHOUT WORKS? YES.
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IN FACT, THAT'S THE
ONLY WAY I HAVE ANY HOPE.
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NOW DON'T GET ME WRONG, HE ALSO
IMPARTS RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHERE HE
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COMES IN AND HE
LIVES HIS LIFE IN ME.
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BUT IT IS GOOD NEWS, TODAY, THAT
GOD CAN TAKE HIS RIGHT DOING AND
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INJECT IT INTO YOUR LIFE AND
YOUR PAST IS NOW CLEAN IN THE
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EYES OF GOD. THAT'S GOOD NEWS.
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IN FACT, THAT'S WHAT IS SAYS
IN CHAPTER 3 AND VERSE 25 - BUT
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WE'RE NOT GOING TO GO THERE, BUT
YOU CAN WRITE THIS DOWN IN YOUR
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NOTES IF YOU ARE
TAKING NOTES. RIGHTEOUSNESS IS
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THE FOCUS OF ROMANS.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO FOCUS ON THIS
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LESSON BECAUSE YOU'VE READ A
LOT ABOUT RIGHTEOUSNESS SO FAR.
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BUT I WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT
CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW FOR
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RIGHTEOUSNESS.
IF YOU ARE DESIRING
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RIGHTEOUSNESS THIS MORNING -
IF YOU'RE DESIRING RIGHTEOUSNESS
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IN YOUR LIFE RIGHT NOW, I CAN
GUARANTEE YOU THAT THE LAW IS
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NOT WHERE YOU'RE
GOING TO FIND IT.
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THE LAW IS GOING TO SHOW
YOU WHAT THE STANDARD IS.
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IT'S GOING TO DESCRIBE CHRIST
TO YOU, BUT IT IS GOING GIVE YOU
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ONLY ONE HOPE, AND
THAT HOPE IS CHRIST.
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HE IS THE END OF THE
LAW FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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SO THAT'S THE PICTURE.
PAUL IS MAKING SURE - 'MY
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JEWISH FRIENDS HAVE TO GET THIS.
THEY CANNOT ATTAIN RIGHTEOUSNESS
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ON THEIR OWN WORKS -
IT'S IMPOSSIBLE - ONLY
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CHRIST CAN GET IT. YOU
SEE, THAT'S THE PICTURE
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THAT HE STARTS OUT WITH.
NOW, OUR LESSON, ACTUALLY, SKIPS
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THE REMAINDER OF CHAPTER 10.
I WISH WE DIDN'T HAVE TO DO SO
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BUT, FOR THE SAKE OF TIME, I'M
GOING TO GO TO CHAPTER 11 AND
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WE'RE GOING TO SPEND THE REST OF
OUR TIME IN ROMANS CHAPTER 11.
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ROMANS 10, IF YOU CONTINUE
ON THROUGH, IS A - IS A - A
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DISSERTATION ENNUI, IF YOU WILL,
ON THE GOSPEL BELIEF - FAITH -
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SOME GREAT VERSES
COME FROM THAT PASSAGE.
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BUT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE
ON TO READ ROMANS CHAPTER 10 AND
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WE'LL LOOK AT VERSE 1 - EXCUSE
ME, ROMANS CHAPTER 11 - AND
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LET'S GO AND LOOK AT VERSE 1, "I
SAY THEN, HATH GOD CAST AWAY HIS
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PEOPLE?" - WHAT'S HIS
RESPONSE? >>CERTAINLY NOT.
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>>CERTAINLY NOT - "GOD FORBID.
FOR I ALSO AM AN ISRAELITE,
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OF THE SEED OF ABRAHAM,
OF THE TRIBE OF BENJAMIN.
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GOD HATH NOT CAST AWAY
HIS PEOPLE WHICH HE FOREKNEW.
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WOT YE NOT WHAT THE
SCRIPTURE SAITH OF ELIAS?
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HOW HE MAKETH INTERCESSION
TO GOD AGAINST ISRAEL, SAYING,
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'LORD, THEY HAVE KILLED THY
PROPHETS, AND DIGGED DOWN THINE
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ALTARS; AND I AM LEFT ALONE,
AND THEY SEEK MY LIFE.' BUT WHAT
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SAITH THE
ANSWER OF GOD UNTO HIM?
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'I'" - GOD SAYS -
"'HAVE RESERVED TO MYSELF SEVEN
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THOUSAND MEN, WHO HAVE NOT BOWED
THE KNEE TO THE IMAGE OF BAAL.'
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EVEN SO THEN AT THIS PRESENT
TIME ALSO THERE IS A REMNANT
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ACCORDING TO THE
ELECTION OF GRACE.
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AND IF BY GRACE, THEN IS IT NO
MORE OF WORKS: OTHERWISE GRACE
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IS NO MORE GRACE. BUT
IF IT BE OF WORKS, THEN IS
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IT NO MORE GRACE:
OTHERWISE WORK IS NO MORE WORK."
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YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETIMES - I
DON'T WANT TO AGREE WITH FELIX,
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BUT MUCH STUDYING FEELS
LIKE IT'S MADE PAUL MAD.
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HE JUST HAS TO GET IT OUT AS
MANY WAYS AS HE POSSIBLY CAN.
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I DIGRESS, LET'S
CONTINUE - "WHAT THEN?
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ISRAEL HATH NOT OBTAINED THAT
WHICH HE SEEKETH FOR; BUT THE
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ELECTION HATH OBTAINED IT,
AND THE REST WERE BLINDED" -
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OR HARDENED. I WANTED
TO ASK A FEW QUESTIONS
00:18:07.25\00:18:16.42
- POINT OUT THIS: WHILE THE
JEWISH NATION ISN'T THE ELECT
00:18:16.46\00:18:22.73
- WE CAUGHT THAT,
RIGHT? - THE JEWISH NATION
00:18:22.76\00:18:25.97
ISN'T THE ELECT.
INDIVIDUAL JEWS HAVE THE SAME
00:18:26.00\00:18:31.31
OPPORTUNITY AS ANYONE
ELSE TO BE PART OF THE ELECT.
00:18:31.34\00:18:36.88
THAT'S VERY
CLEAR THAT WE SEE HERE.
00:18:36.91\00:18:40.72
IN PAUL'S DAY, THERE WAS A
REMNANT OF JEWS WHO WERE SAVED
00:18:40.75\00:18:45.79
BY GRACE. IN FACT, THE EARLY
CHRISTIAN CHURCH WAS JEWISH.
00:18:45.82\00:18:51.19
THE EARLY CHRISTIAN CHURCH WAS
MADE UP OF JEWISH CHRISTIANS.
00:18:51.23\00:18:54.96
I'VE HEARD ONE HISTORIAN SAY
THAT THERE WERE - THERE WAS A
00:18:55.00\00:18:58.00
CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN JERUSALEM
WITH THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS - HAD
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TO HAVE BEEN. I MEAN,
YOU THINK OF THE DAY OF
00:19:04.07\00:19:06.54
PENTECOST, HOW MANY DO
WE READ ABOUT BEING BAPTIZED
00:19:06.57\00:19:09.14
ON THAT DAY? THREE THOUSAND.
YOU READ A FEW CHAPTERS LATER,
00:19:09.18\00:19:12.11
YOU HEAR ABOUT FIVE THOUSAND.
WE'RE LOOKING AT A MASSIVE
00:19:12.15\00:19:15.18
CHRISTIAN-JEWISH
CHURCH IN JERUSALEM.
00:19:15.22\00:19:21.42
IT WAS BIG - AND
THAT'S JUST AT JERUSALEM.
00:19:21.46\00:19:24.43
THE JEWS THAT HAD DISPERSED OUT
AMONG ALL THE OTHER NATIONS -
00:19:24.46\00:19:28.43
YOU REALIZE MOST OF
THE JEWS DIDN'T LIVE IN -
00:19:28.46\00:19:30.53
NOT MOST, BUT A LOT OF THE JEWS
DIDN'T LIVE IN PALESTINE AT THAT
00:19:30.57\00:19:32.77
TIME. THEY
ACTUALLY LIVED IN OTHER
00:19:32.80\00:19:34.30
COUNTRIES AND THEY WOULD COME
IN FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.
00:19:34.34\00:19:36.64
THAT'S WHY, IN PENTECOST, YOU
HAVE THEM SPEAKING IN ALL THESE
00:19:36.67\00:19:39.57
LANGUAGES TO JEWS - BECAUSE THEY
HAD ALL THESE MOTHER TONGUES
00:19:39.61\00:19:45.71
BECAUSE THEY WERE FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
00:19:45.75\00:19:47.72
IT'S A PICTURE OF
THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
00:19:47.75\00:19:49.98
SO THE CHURCH WAS
PREDOMINANTLY JEWISH.
00:19:50.02\00:19:55.09
LET'S LOOK AT
VERSE 7, "WHAT THEN?
00:19:55.12\00:20:00.33
ISRAEL HATH NOT OBTAINED THAT
WHICH HE SEEKETH FOR; BUT THE
00:20:00.36\00:20:03.63
ELECTION HATH OBTAINED
IT, AND THE REST WERE BLINDED.
00:20:03.67\00:20:07.77
(ACCORDING AS IT IS WRITTEN, GOD
HATH GIVEN THEM THE SPIRIT OF
00:20:07.80\00:20:09.84
SLUMBER, EYES THAT THEY SHOULD
NOT SEE, AND EARS THAT THEY
00:20:09.87\00:20:12.91
SHOULD NOT HEAR;) UNTO THIS DAY.
AND DAVID SAID, 'LET THEIR TABLE
00:20:12.94\00:20:16.54
BE MADE A SNARE, AND A TRAP,
AND A STUMBLING BLOCK, AND A
00:20:16.58\00:20:18.95
RECOMPENSE UNTO THEM: LET THEIR
EYES BE DARKENED, THAT THEY MAY
00:20:18.98\00:20:21.85
NOT SEE, AND BOW DOWN THEIR BACK
ALWAY.'" - I'M READING FROM THE
00:20:21.88\00:20:24.95
KING JAMES, IT'S A LITTLE
TIGHT IN ITS WORDING THERE.
00:20:24.99\00:20:30.06
DID GOD BLIND THE JEWS
SO THEY COULD NOT BE SAVED?
00:20:30.09\00:20:35.16
>>NO. >>GOOD.
00:20:35.20\00:20:37.63
I HEARD A HEARTY 'NO'
FROM OUR AUDIENCE, HERE.
00:20:37.67\00:20:40.44
DID GOD BLIND THE JEWS
SO THEY COULD BE NOT SAVED?
00:20:40.47\00:20:43.64
NO, SO WHAT IS
BEING TALKED ABOUT HERE?
00:20:43.67\00:20:48.48
YOU SAY I'M
SUPPOSED TO TELL YOU THAT.
00:20:48.51\00:20:50.61
WELL, I WISH THIS WAS A CLASS;
WE COULD HAVE DISCUSSION, THEN
00:20:50.65\00:20:52.28
I'D ASK YOU AND YOU
COULD TELL ME, RIGHT?
00:20:52.31\00:20:54.65
BUT I'LL SEE IF I CAN
FIND AN ANSWER IN MY NOTES.
00:20:54.68\00:21:00.96
REMEMBER - AND YOU'LL SEE THIS
IN YOUR LESSON - IT SAYS HERE,
00:21:00.99\00:21:03.53
THE ISSUE HAS NOT BEEN - AND
HASN'T BEEN ALL ALONG - IT'S NOT
00:21:03.56\00:21:06.23
DEALING WITH INDIVIDUAL
SALVATION, IT'S DEALING WITH THE
00:21:06.26\00:21:08.33
ROLE THAT PEOPLE ARE
PLAYING IN GOD'S WORK.
00:21:08.36\00:21:11.57
THE ROLE THAT THE JEWS HAD
PLAYED IN GOD'S WORK WAS NOW
00:21:11.60\00:21:15.30
THEY WERE BEING
BLINDED. NO LONGER WERE THEY
00:21:15.34\00:21:17.51
HAVING THE SAME ROLE.
NO LONGER WERE THEY THE
00:21:17.54\00:21:19.87
CHOSEN NATION AT THIS POINT.
GOD HAD CHOSEN A NEW PEOPLE.
00:21:19.91\00:21:25.25
WE READ ABOUT THIS
IN MATTHEW 21, VERSE 43.
00:21:25.28\00:21:27.78
GOD HAS CHOSEN A
NEW GROUP OF PEOPLE.
00:21:27.82\00:21:29.55
SO THIS IS NOT - THIS IS
NOT SPEAKING OF INDIVIDUAL
00:21:29.58\00:21:33.25
SALVATION. SO, WERE THE JEWS
00:21:33.29\00:21:37.49
BLINDED TO NOT BE
SAVED? YOU WOULD SAY 'NO'.
00:21:37.53\00:21:41.10
WELL, LET'S LOOK AT A FEW VERSES
- CHAPTER 10, VERSE 21, "BUT TO
00:21:41.13\00:21:48.70
ISRAEL HE SAITH, 'ALL DAY LONG
I HAVE STRETCHED FORTH MY HANDS
00:21:48.74\00:21:54.78
UNTO A DISOBEDIENT AND
GAINSAYING PEOPLE.'" WHO'S
00:21:54.81\00:21:57.41
SPEAKING HERE? GOD IS SPEAKING.
HE SAID, 'I'M STRETCHING FORTH
00:21:57.45\00:22:01.18
MY HANDS.' DOES THAT SOUND LIKE
HE'S SAYING 'DON'T BE SAVED'?
00:22:01.22\00:22:05.39
IT ALMOST LOOKS THE
OPPOSITE, DOESN'T IT?
00:22:05.42\00:22:07.46
HE IS CALLING
FOR THEM TO BE SAVED.
00:22:07.49\00:22:09.26
'I'M STRETCHING OUT MY
HANDS. COME TO ME.' AND WHAT
00:22:09.29\00:22:12.46
IS THEIR
RESPONSE? WELL, IT SAYS HERE
00:22:12.49\00:22:15.43
THEY'RE NOT RESPONDING. HE
DOESN'T USE THOSE WORDS BUT
00:22:15.46\00:22:17.53
HE SAYS THEY'RE A DISOBEDIENT,
GAINSAYING PEOPLE.' NO RESPONSE.
00:22:17.57\00:22:23.64
LET'S LOOK AT ANOTHER PASSAGE -
CHAPTER 10, VERSE 12, "FOR THERE
00:22:23.67\00:22:28.98
IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE JEW
AND THE GREEK: FOR THE SAME LORD
00:22:29.01\00:22:31.55
OVER ALL IS RICH UNTO
ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM."
00:22:31.58\00:22:34.08
IF YOU CALL UPON THE LORD, WILL
YOU BE RE - WILL GOD RESPOND TO
00:22:34.12\00:22:38.32
YOU? >>YES.
00:22:38.35\00:22:39.95
>>DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE
WHETHER YOU'RE JEW OR GREEK?
00:22:39.99\00:22:41.59
>>NO. >>NO, THERE IS NO
00:22:41.62\00:22:43.12
DIFFERENCE HERE. LET'S
LOOK AT OUR NEXT PASSAGE.
00:22:43.16\00:22:46.09
CHAPTER 10, VERSE 13, "FOR
WHOSOEVER SHALL CALL UPON THE
00:22:46.13\00:22:49.83
NAME OF THE LORD
SHALL BE" - WHAT?
00:22:49.86\00:22:51.53
>>SAVED. >>SEE,
SO WE HAVE A PICTURE
00:22:51.57\00:22:52.57
THAT'S STARTING TO BE
VERY CLEARLY REITERATED HERE.
00:22:52.60\00:22:55.34
SO WHEN IT SAYS THAT THEY'RE
BLINDED, IT CAN'T BE BLINDED TO
00:22:55.37\00:22:58.07
SALVATION BECAUSE GOD'S SAYING
SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT HERE
00:22:58.11\00:23:00.91
IN THIS SECTION.
IT'S BLINDED ACCORDING
00:23:00.94\00:23:02.64
TO THEIR ROLE. VERSE
13 SAID THAT "...WHOSOEVER
00:23:02.68\00:23:05.88
SHALL CALL UPON THE NAME
OF THE LORD SHALL BE SAVED."
00:23:05.91\00:23:08.25
SO YOU'RE TRYING TO TELL ME THAT
IF I AM GREEK I CAN CALL UPON
00:23:08.28\00:23:12.09
GOD AND BE SAVED? >>AMEN.
00:23:12.12\00:23:14.29
>>IF I'M A JEW I CAN
CALL UPON GOD AND BE SAVED?
00:23:14.32\00:23:17.03
IF I'M AUSTRALIAN I CAN
CALL UPON GOD AND BE SAVED.
00:23:17.06\00:23:19.76
IF I'M AN AFRICAN I CAN
CALL UPON GOD AND BE SAVED.
00:23:19.79\00:23:22.40
IF I'M FROM SWEDEN I CAN
CALL UPON GOD AND BE SAVED.
00:23:22.43\00:23:25.53
HOW ABOUT A CANADIAN? >>AMEN.
00:23:25.57\00:23:28.34
>>ANYBODY CAN. GOOD NEWS, AMEN?
00:23:28.37\00:23:33.71
GOD DOESN'T BLIND TO SALVATION
AND I THINK IT'S A KEY FOR US TO
00:23:33.74\00:23:38.75
PICK OUT IN THIS PASSAGE.
LET'S LOOK AT 11, VERSE 2,
00:23:38.78\00:23:43.69
"HATH" - EXCUSE ME - "GOD
HATH NOT CAST AWAY HIS PEOPLE
00:23:43.72\00:23:48.86
WHICH HE FOREKNEW."
SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT
00:23:48.89\00:23:50.66
CRYSTAL CLEAR, THIS
BLINDING, HERE, IS NOT AN
00:23:50.69\00:23:52.43
ISSUE OF SALVATION.
IT'S A PASSAGE AND GOD IS
00:23:52.46\00:23:56.10
SPEAKING OF THE ROLE OF THE
JEWISH PEOPLE IN GOD'S PLAN.
00:23:56.13\00:24:00.64
GOD IS NOT A
RESPECTER OF PERSONS.
00:24:00.67\00:24:02.44
HAVE YOU
NOTICED THAT? I LOVE IT.
00:24:02.47\00:24:05.27
YOU LOOK AT THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
00:24:05.31\00:24:06.44
REMEMBER, HE WAS TRAVELING
THROUGH SAMARIA, HE STOPPED AT
00:24:06.47\00:24:12.01
THE WELL OF JACOB NEAR SYCHAR
AND HE'S SITTING OUT THERE
00:24:12.05\00:24:15.58
WAITING AND A LADY CAME UP TO
HIM AND SHE WAS A SAMARITAN AND
00:24:15.62\00:24:18.65
SHE HAD KIND OF A
- A TROUBLED PAST.
00:24:18.69\00:24:20.79
CAN WE USE THAT TERM? IS
HE A RESPECTER OF PERSONS?
00:24:20.82\00:24:25.59
NO, ONE OF THE GREATEST TALKS HE
EVER GAVE ONE ON ONE, HE GAVE TO
00:24:25.63\00:24:27.40
HER. AND THEN
YOU HAVE THAT PIOUS,
00:24:27.46\00:24:33.64
PROUD, SEEKING, PHARISEE WHO
SEARCHED OUT CHRIST AT NIGHTTIME
00:24:33.67\00:24:40.74
SO NO ONE ELSE WOULD
SEE. DID GOD RESPOND TO HIM?
00:24:40.78\00:24:44.31
ABSOLUTELY. GOD'S NO
RESPECTER OF PERSONS.
00:24:44.35\00:24:47.55
THEN YOU HAVE THE
SAMARITAN WHO WAS A LEPER.
00:24:47.58\00:24:53.19
HE WAS COMBINED WITH SOME OTHER
LEPERS AND THEY CAME TO JESUS
00:24:53.22\00:24:56.39
AND JESUS HEALED THEM ALL.
AND THE SAMARITAN CAME BACK.
00:24:56.42\00:25:00.86
IS GOD A
RESPECTER OF PERSONS? NO.
00:25:00.90\00:25:03.80
THE CANAANITE WOMAN -
REMEMBER THE CANAANITE WOMAN?
00:25:03.83\00:25:06.27
SHE CAME UP SAYING, 'MY DAUGHTER
HAS BEEN POSSESSED BY A DEMON.
00:25:06.30\00:25:11.17
PLEASE HEAL MY DAUGHTER.
JESUS RESPONDED IN A WAY TO MAKE
00:25:11.21\00:25:16.08
THE DISCIPLES SEE WHAT THEIR
ATTITUDES WERE LIKE, AND THEN HE
00:25:16.11\00:25:18.81
HEALED FREELY, SAYING, 'I'VE NOT
FOUND FAITH LIKE THIS, NO, NOT
00:25:18.85\00:25:21.52
IN ISRAEL.' IS GOD A
RESPECTER OF PERSONS? NO.
00:25:21.55\00:25:25.15
SO TWO THINGS WE WANT TO
REALIZE: GOD IS TRYING TO TELL
00:25:25.19\00:25:27.89
THE JEWISH PEOPLE, 'FIRST OF
ALL, YOU NEED MY RIGHTEOUSNESS'
00:25:27.92\00:25:30.63
- THIS IS WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE
IN ROMANS 10 THROUGH - 10 AND 11
00:25:30.66\00:25:32.83
- 'YOU NEED MY RIGHTEOUSNESS.
CHRIST IS THE END OF THE LAW
00:25:32.86\00:25:35.03
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.' AND,
DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IF
00:25:35.06\00:25:37.70
YOU ARE JEW OR GREEK?
YOU MAY BE PART OF THE
00:25:37.73\00:25:39.50
PEOPLE WHO'VE MESSED UP.
'YOU MAY BE PART OF THE PEOPLE
00:25:39.53\00:25:42.14
WHO HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE, WHO
HELPED ME BE CRUCIFIED, BUT I
00:25:42.17\00:25:46.94
WANT TO LET YOU KNOW,
I'M NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS.
00:25:46.98\00:25:50.11
ANYONE WHO CALLS TO ME WILL BE
SAVED.' IT'S GOOD NEWS FOR THE
00:25:50.15\00:25:54.25
JEWS, AND I BELIEVE GOOD NEWS
FOR THE JEWS IS GOOD NEWS FOR
00:25:54.28\00:25:57.95
YOU AND ME. >>AMEN.
00:25:57.99\00:26:00.96
>>SO, HAVE PEOPLE THOUGHT THAT
THERE ARE CERTAIN SUPERIOR RACES
00:26:00.99\00:26:12.77
FOR SALVATION
BEFORE? HAVE WE HAD THAT?
00:26:12.80\00:26:16.77
HAD IT IN THE
HISTORY OF OUR PLANET?
00:26:16.81\00:26:18.27
DID THEY HAVE IT IN BIBLE TIMES?
00:26:18.31\00:26:21.04
YES, YOU COULD SEE IT IN EVEN
- EVEN THE JEWISH DISCIPLES WERE
00:26:21.08\00:26:26.31
STRUGGLING WITH
IT, WERE THEY NOT?
00:26:26.35\00:26:28.22
THAT 'WE JEWS ARE OKAY AND
YOU GENTILES DON'T HAVE A CHANCE
00:26:28.25\00:26:33.92
UNLESS YOU GROVEL ON YOUR FEET
AND DO WHATEVER WE TELL YOU TO
00:26:33.96\00:26:37.09
DO AND YOU MIGHT HAVE A CHANCE
- MAYBE.' YOU SAY, 'CHUCK, THAT
00:26:37.13\00:26:41.53
WAS AN ATTITUDE.' YEAH, IT WAS.
00:26:41.56\00:26:44.47
AND YOU COULD SEE THIS ATTITUDE
IN A LOT OF DIFFERENT PEOPLE,
00:26:44.50\00:26:46.53
BUT THAT'S NOT THE
MIND SET OF CHRIST.
00:26:46.57\00:26:49.57
BUT IN THE EARLY CHURCH
THINGS HAD BEEN SWITCHED.
00:26:49.60\00:26:52.77
SO NOW, INSTEAD OF THE JEWS
LOOKING DOWN THEIR NOSES AT THE
00:26:52.81\00:26:55.34
GENTILES, THE GENTILES WERE
LOOKING DOWN THEIR NOSES AT THE
00:26:55.38\00:26:57.61
JEWS. AND,
AGAIN, JESUS IS MAKING
00:26:57.65\00:27:00.45
CRYSTAL CLEAR IN INSPIRATION IN
ROMANS CHAPTER 10 AND 11, 'I'M
00:27:00.48\00:27:04.02
NOT A RESPECTER OF
PERSONS.' LET'S GO ON.
00:27:04.05\00:27:07.12
LET'S LOOK AT VERSE 11 - CHAPTER
11 AND VERSE 11, "I SAY THEN,
00:27:07.16\00:27:16.63
HAVE THEY STUMBLED
THAT THEY SHOULD FALL?
00:27:16.67\00:27:20.27
GOD FORBID: BUT RATHER THROUGH
THEIR FALL SALVATION IS COME
00:27:20.30\00:27:24.04
UNTO THE GENTILES, FOR
TO PROVOKE THEM TO JEALOUSY.
00:27:24.07\00:27:27.54
NOW IF THE FALL OF THEM BE
THE RICHES OF THE WORLD, AND THE
00:27:27.58\00:27:31.28
DIMINISHING OF THEM THE RICHES
OF THE GENTILES; HOW MUCH MORE
00:27:31.31\00:27:34.22
THEIR FULLNESS? FOR I
SPEAK TO YOU GENTILES,
00:27:34.25\00:27:37.72
INASMUCH AS I AM THE APOSTLE
OF THE GENTILES, I MAGNIFY MINE
00:27:37.75\00:27:40.56
OFFICE: IF BY ANY MEANS I MAY
PROVOKE TO EMULATION FROM THEM
00:27:40.59\00:27:44.63
WHICH ARE MY FLESH," -
THAT IS THE JEWS - "AND MIGHT
00:27:44.66\00:27:47.36
SAVE SOME OF THEM. FOR
IF THE CASTING AWAY OF THEM
00:27:47.40\00:27:51.03
BE THE RECONCILING OF THE WORLD,
WHAT SHALL THE RECEIVING OF THEM
00:27:51.07\00:27:55.84
BE, BUT LIFE FROM THE DEAD?"
IF GOD COULD DO SUCH GREAT
00:27:55.87\00:28:07.22
THINGS FOR OUR SALVATION,
WITHOUT THE COOPERATION OF THE
00:28:07.25\00:28:12.69
JEWS, HOW MUCH MORE
HE COULD HAVE DONE WITH
00:28:12.72\00:28:16.42
THEIR COOPERATION.
IF GOD - THINK ABOUT
00:28:16.46\00:28:21.46
IT - IT'S AMAZING. GOD
IS - WAS GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN
00:28:21.50\00:28:26.03
THAT THE JEWS WOULD REJECT
HIM? YOU'RE NOT SURE, OKAY.
00:28:26.07\00:28:30.84
LET'S JUST GO
THROUGH A FEW THINGS.
00:28:30.87\00:28:32.44
I WANT TO MAKE
THIS CRYSTAL CLEAR.
00:28:32.47\00:28:33.88
GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN HAD NOTHING
TO DO WITH THE JEWS REJECTING
00:28:33.91\00:28:36.61
HIM, THEN, SOMEHOW, 'IF THE JEWS
REJECT ME - I'LL PLAN THE JEWS
00:28:36.64\00:28:39.81
ARE GOING TO REJECT ME - WHEN
THE JEWS REJECT ME, GOOD, THE
00:28:39.85\00:28:41.58
GENTILES GOT THEIR CHANCE.' DID
GOD ONLY HAVE ENOUGH SPACE AND
00:28:41.62\00:28:44.69
SAID, 'OKAY, ONCE YOU'RE DONE
I'LL PULL IN THE NEXT GROUP'?
00:28:44.72\00:28:47.69
IS THAT THE WAY GOD WORKS?
00:28:47.72\00:28:49.02
NO, HE'S NOT A
RESPECTER OF PERSONS.
00:28:49.06\00:28:50.76
SO LET'S JUST PLAY
WITH THIS JUST A LITTLE BIT.
00:28:50.79\00:28:53.86
ISAIAH CHAPTER 19 - A LITTLE BIT
OF A BIBLE STUDY THIS MORNING -
00:28:53.90\00:28:57.63
ISAIAH CHAPTER 19 - AND WE WILL
LOOK AT VERSE 24 - BEAUTIFUL
00:28:57.67\00:29:03.07
PASSAGE HERE, IN
THE BOOK OF ISAIAH.
00:29:03.10\00:29:04.84
IN FACT, MOST OF THE THINGS THAT
WE'LL SHARE JUST IN THE NEXT FEW
00:29:04.87\00:29:09.44
MINUTES ARE FROM
THE BOOK OF ISAIAH.
00:29:09.48\00:29:11.05
ISAIAH CHAPTER 19 AND VERSE 24,
"IN THAT DAY SHALL ISRAEL BE THE
00:29:11.08\00:29:27.23
THIRD WITH EGYPT AND WITH
ASSYRIA, EVEN A BLESSING IN THE
00:29:27.23\00:29:33.54
MIDST OF THE LAND:" - IT SAYS IN
VERSE 25, THIS: "WHOM THE LORD
00:29:33.57\00:29:36.74
OF HOSTS SHALL BLESS, SAYING,
BLESSED BE EGYPT" - BLESSED BE
00:29:36.77\00:29:41.24
EGYPT - "MY PEOPLE, AND ASSYRIA
THE WORK OF MY HANDS, AND ISRAEL
00:29:41.28\00:29:48.62
MINE INHERITANCE."
WOW, SO EGYPT, THE DESTROYER
00:29:48.65\00:29:54.72
OF THE FIRSTBORN
BABY BOYS, 'MY PEOPLE'?
00:29:54.76\00:29:59.26
ASSYRIA, THE CRUEL TASKMASTER,
THE KILLER OF SO MANY, THE
00:29:59.29\00:30:04.07
DESTROYER OF PALESTINE AT A
CERTAIN STAGE IN THEIR HISTORY,
00:30:04.10\00:30:07.54
'THE WORK OF MY
HANDS'? WHAT'S GOD THINKING?
00:30:07.57\00:30:10.84
I'LL TELL YOU WHAT HE'S
THINKING, NOT WHAT YOU'RE
00:30:10.87\00:30:12.24
THINKING. AMEN?
HIS THOUGHTS ARE HIGHER
00:30:12.27\00:30:15.94
THAN YOUR THOUGHTS. WHEN
GOD LOOKS AT PEOPLE, HE IS
00:30:15.98\00:30:20.58
WANTING - HE HAD
NO RESPECT FOR PEOPLE.
00:30:20.62\00:30:23.32
LET ME REPHRASE THAT; HE
IS NOT A RESPECTER OF PERSONS'
00:30:23.35\00:30:26.12
POSITION. IS THAT FAIR?
00:30:26.15\00:30:30.29
HE'S LOOKING AND SAYING, 'YOU
KNOW, I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE
00:30:30.33\00:30:32.29
ASSYRIAN, I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE
EGYPTIAN, I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE
00:30:32.33\00:30:34.36
A JEW. IF YOU CALL UPON
ME, YOU'RE GOING TO BE SAVED.
00:30:34.40\00:30:38.07
AND THAT PICTURE COMES OUT HERE.
BUT GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN IS THAT
00:30:38.10\00:30:41.04
ISRAEL BE A BLESSING IN
THE MIDST OF THE LAND - THAT,
00:30:41.07\00:30:43.57
THROUGH ISRAEL, OTHER
PEOPLE WILL BE DRAWN TO A
00:30:43.61\00:30:45.94
CLOSER KNOWLEDGE OF
GOD. THAT'S WHAT GOD WANTED.
00:30:45.97\00:30:48.51
ISAIAH CHAPTER 60 AND VERSE 1
- ISAIAH CHAPTER 60, VERSE 1 -
00:30:48.54\00:30:56.05
GOD'S PLAN IS THAT ISRAEL WILL
BE A BLESSING IN THE LAND AND
00:30:56.08\00:30:58.55
PULL IN EGYPT AND ASSYRIA.
00:30:58.59\00:31:00.79
I KIND OF LIKE THIS IDEA,
BECAUSE HERE YOU HAVE ISRAEL
00:31:00.82\00:31:04.83
BEING PERSECUTED BY EGYPTIANS
AND ASSYRIANS AND, IN THE MIDST
00:31:04.86\00:31:08.40
OF THEIR PERSECUTION, GOD'S PLAN
IS THAT THEY WOULD BE A WITNESS
00:31:08.43\00:31:11.63
AND THAT THESE
PEOPLE WOULD BE CONVERTED.
00:31:11.67\00:31:14.20
CHAPTER 60, VERSE 1, "ARISE,
SHINE; FOR THY LIGHT IS COME,
00:31:14.24\00:31:20.38
AND THE GLORY OF THE
LORD IS RISEN UPON THEE."
00:31:20.41\00:31:24.88
- ARISE AND SHINE
FOR THY LIGHT HAS COME.
00:31:24.91\00:31:28.18
MAKE SURE - SO IT WAS
THIS TALKING ABOUT ARISING AND
00:31:28.22\00:31:30.72
SHINING TO YOUR
FAMILY. I'M SURE THAT'S A GOOD
00:31:30.75\00:31:34.12
APPLICATION, AMEN? AMEN.
00:31:34.16\00:31:35.89
WE BETTER RISES AND
SHINE TO OUR FAMILY.
00:31:35.92\00:31:37.39
BUT WAS IT GOING
BEYOND THAT? ABSOLUTELY.
00:31:37.43\00:31:41.26
'FOR THY LIGHT HAS COME' - WELL,
THE ONLY REASON WE HAVE LIGHT IS
00:31:41.30\00:31:43.90
BECAUSE THE GLORY OF THE
LORD'S RISEN UPON US, AMEN?
00:31:43.93\00:31:46.40
THAT'S THE LIGHT THAT'S SHINING.
00:31:46.43\00:31:47.90
VERSE 2 SAYS, "FOR, BEHOLD,
THE DARKNESS SHALL COVER" - YOUR
00:31:47.94\00:31:50.71
NEIGHBORHOOD - "THE EARTH,"
- ALL THE EARTH - "AND GROSS
00:31:50.74\00:31:55.41
DARKNESS THE PEOPLE: BUT THE
LORD SHALL ARISE UPON THEE, AND
00:31:55.44\00:31:58.81
HIS GLORY SHALL
BE SEEN UPON THEE."
00:31:58.85\00:32:00.92
WHO IS ISAIAH
SPEAKING TO IN THIS PROPHECY?
00:32:00.95\00:32:04.52
JEWS. HE'S SPEAKING TO JEWS.
00:32:04.55\00:32:10.03
AND NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS IN VERSE
3, "AND THE GENTILES SHALL COME
00:32:10.06\00:32:13.53
TO THY LIGHT, AND KINGS TO
THE BRIGHTNESS OF THY RISING."
00:32:13.56\00:32:18.23
GOD'S PLAN IS THAT HIS PEOPLE
WOULD BE A LIGHT TO THE WORLD
00:32:18.27\00:32:22.70
AND THE WORLD WOULD BE CONVERTED
THROUGH THE LIVES OF HIS
00:32:22.74\00:32:25.34
PEOPLE - THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
NO, NO, NO, GOD WASN'T WANTING
00:32:25.37\00:32:28.68
THE JEWS TO REJECT HIM SO
THE GENTILES HAD A CHANCE.
00:32:28.71\00:32:31.28
THAT WAS NOT GOD'S PLAN.
GOD'S PLAN IS THAT THE JEWS
00:32:31.31\00:32:34.35
WOULD ACCEPT HIM SO THE GENTILES
WOULD HAVE HE FULLNESS OF LIGHT.
00:32:34.38\00:32:37.85
THAT'S WHAT HE'S WANTING.
ISAIAH CHAPTER 66 - WE WON'T
00:32:37.89\00:32:43.69
STAY IN ISAIAH FOREVER, BUT JUST
A LITTLE BIT LONGER - CHAPTER 66
00:32:43.73\00:32:51.80
AND VERSE 19 -
CAN I GO TO VERSE 18?
00:32:51.83\00:32:58.67
OKAY - I CAN GO WHEREVER
I WANT, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
00:32:58.71\00:33:01.98
LET'S JUST GO TO VERSE 18, "FOR
I KNOW THEIR WORKS AND THEIR
00:33:02.01\00:33:05.85
THOUGHTS: IT SHALL COME, THAT
I WILL GATHER ALL NATIONS AND
00:33:05.88\00:33:09.68
TONGUES; AND THEY SHALL
COME, AND SEE MY GLORY."
00:33:09.72\00:33:12.49
HE'S TALKING ABOUT
COMING TO GOD'S PEOPLE.
00:33:12.52\00:33:15.09
THEY'RE GOING TO
COME TO JERUSALEM.
00:33:15.12\00:33:16.22
THEY'RE GOING
TO SEE GOD'S GLORY.
00:33:16.26\00:33:17.16
I'M GOING TO "GATHER
ALL NATIONS AND TONGUES.
00:33:17.19\00:33:18.33
THEY'RE GOING TO COME SEE
MY GLORY AND I WILL SET A SIGN
00:33:18.36\00:33:20.10
AMONG THEM, AND I WILL SEND
THOSE THAT ESCAPE OF THEM UNTO
00:33:20.13\00:33:24.77
THE NATIONS, TO TARSHISH, PUL,
AND LUD, THAT DRAW THE BOW, TO
00:33:24.80\00:33:27.17
TUBAL, AND JAVAN, TO THE ISLES
AFAR OFF, THAT HAVE NOT HEARD MY
00:33:27.20\00:33:31.11
FAME, NEITHER HAVE SEEN MY
GLORY; AND THEY SHALL DECLARE MY
00:33:31.14\00:33:33.81
GLORY AMONG THE GENTILES."
GOD'S PLAN IS THAT GENTILES
00:33:33.84\00:33:36.81
WOULD COME TO JERUSALEM,
SEE THE GLORY, GO BACK OUT AS
00:33:36.85\00:33:39.11
MISSIONARIES TO OTHER
GENTILES AND TELL THE STORY.
00:33:39.15\00:33:42.25
GOD IS NOT SAYING, 'I'M LIMITING
ALL MY WORK TO ONE GROUP OF
00:33:42.28\00:33:48.29
PEOPLE. DO I
HAVE A SPECIAL GROUP
00:33:48.32\00:33:50.96
OF PEOPLE TO WORK
THROUGH? YES.' HE ALWAYS HAS, BY
00:33:50.99\00:33:54.60
THE WAY, AND HE DOES TODAY.
BUT HE'S NOT LIMITED TO THEM.
00:33:54.63\00:33:59.00
DON'T GET EXCITED AND
START THINKING 'I'M PART OF THE
00:33:59.03\00:34:00.67
SPECIAL GROUP AND
GOD NEEDS ME.' UH UH.
00:34:00.70\00:34:03.71
HE LOVES YOU. HE WOULD
LOVE TO USE YOU BECAUSE
00:34:03.74\00:34:05.57
YOU HAVE SPECIAL LIGHT, BUT
DON'T THINK THAT HE NEEDS YOU.
00:34:05.61\00:34:09.64
GOD HAS MANY - YET HE DOES -
IT'S THAT HARD - I'M SORRY, I'VE
00:34:09.68\00:34:12.68
GOT TO BE CAREFUL WHAT I'M
SAYING BECAUSE HE NEEDS YOU, BUT
00:34:12.71\00:34:14.62
- YEAH, I'M DIGGING A
HOLE. I'LL STOP. (LAUGHTER)
00:34:14.65\00:34:19.99
"AND THEY SHALL BRING
ALL YOUR BRETHREN FOR AN
00:34:20.02\00:34:21.89
OFFERING UNTO THE LORD OUT OF
ALL NATIONS UPON HORSES, AND IN
00:34:21.92\00:34:24.63
CHARIOTS, AND IN LITTERS,
AND UPON MULES, AND UPON SWIFT
00:34:24.66\00:34:26.49
BEASTS, TO MY
HOLY MOUNTAIN" - WHERE?
00:34:26.53\00:34:29.60
- "JERUSALEM, SAITH THE LORD, AS
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BRING AN
00:34:29.63\00:34:33.13
OFFERING IN A CLEAN VESSEL
INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD."
00:34:33.17\00:34:35.44
IT'S AMAZING, TO ME, THAT GOD
WAS HOPING THE JERUSALEM WOULD
00:34:35.47\00:34:38.87
BE THE CENTER OF A KINGDOM
THAT WOULD BE BIGGER THAN JUST
00:34:38.91\00:34:40.91
JERUSALEM; BIGGER
THAN JUST - JUST ISRAEL.
00:34:40.94\00:34:44.88
HE WANTED JERUSALEM TO BE THE
CENTER OF A KINGDOM, I BELIEVE,
00:34:44.91\00:34:46.75
THAT WOULD
ENCOMPASS THE ENTIRE WORLD.
00:34:46.78\00:34:49.05
ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 8, VERSE 22
- ZECHARIAH 8 AND - SO IF YOU'RE
00:34:49.08\00:34:56.06
TRYING TO FIND ZECHARIAH IN A
HURRY, YOU GO TO MATTHEW AND GO
00:34:56.09\00:34:58.33
BACK TWO BOOKS AND
IT SHOULD BE THERE.
00:34:58.36\00:35:00.33
THAT'S HOW I DO IT ALMOST EVERY
TIME - ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 8 AND
00:35:00.36\00:35:03.37
VERSE 22, "YEA, MANY PEOPLE
AND STRONG NATIONS SHALL COME TO
00:35:03.40\00:35:10.97
SEEK THE LORD OF HOSTS" - WHERE?
- "IN JERUSALEM," - THAT WAS
00:35:11.01\00:35:16.78
ZECHARIAH 8, VERSE 22 - "MANY
PEOPLE AND STRONG NATIONS WILL
00:35:16.81\00:35:20.65
COME TO SEEK THE
LORD OF HOSTS" - WHERE?
00:35:20.68\00:35:23.85
- "IN JERUSALEM."
GOD'S PLAN WAS NOT THAT THE
00:35:23.89\00:35:27.82
JEWS WOULD REJECT JESUS, GOD'S
PLAN IS THAT THEY WOULD ACCEPT
00:35:27.86\00:35:31.06
HIM - OBEY HIM, AND WHEN JESUS
CAME, THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO
00:35:31.09\00:35:36.06
PRESENT THE TRUTH ABOUT
JESUS TO THE ENTIRE WORLD.
00:35:36.10\00:35:42.04
SO PAUL SAYS IF THEIR REJECTION
ENDED UP BEING OKAY, HOW MUCH
00:35:42.07\00:35:47.41
BETTER IF THEY'D
ACTUALLY COOPERATED WITH ME?
00:35:47.44\00:35:49.84
- SORRY, THAT'S THE CHUCK
PARAPHRASE OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN
00:35:49.88\00:35:53.31
READING IN ROMANS CHAPTER 11.
00:35:53.35\00:35:58.05
DID WHAT WE SEE HAPPEN - IN
ISAIAH - THE DESCRIPTION WE JUST
00:35:58.09\00:36:01.49
READ IN ISAIAH,
HAS THAT EVER HAPPENED?
00:36:01.52\00:36:04.53
NO, NOT WITH
LITERAL ISRAEL IT HAS NOT.
00:36:04.56\00:36:09.16
GOD IS LOOKING FOR HIS
PEOPLE TO DO THAT NOW, THOUGH.
00:36:09.20\00:36:12.90
I BELIEVE THAT GOD IS GOING TO
FULFILL THESE PROMISES THROUGH
00:36:12.93\00:36:15.04
SPIRITUAL ISRAEL.
THAT'S ANOTHER WHOLE
00:36:15.07\00:36:17.54
STUDY FOR ANOTHER
TIME. THEY WEREN'T FULFILLED.
00:36:17.57\00:36:20.41
I BELIEVE THAT'S WHAT
GOD WANTED TO HAPPEN, THOUGH.
00:36:20.44\00:36:22.91
GOD HAS A DESIRE - HAS ALWAYS
DESIRED THAT HIS PEOPLE - THE
00:36:22.94\00:36:26.25
JEWS - I'M USING THAT TERM IN
CONTEXT WITH WHAT I'M READING -
00:36:26.28\00:36:30.82
WOULD BE FAITHFUL TO HIM.
WHEN THEY CHOSE NOT TO, HE SAID,
00:36:30.85\00:36:34.22
'I WILL CHOOSE ANOTHER PEOPLE
THAT WERE NOT A PEOPLE AND
00:36:34.26\00:36:37.13
THEY WILL BECOME
MY PEOPLE. >>AMEN.
00:36:37.16\00:36:39.19
>>AND HE HAS DONE THAT, AND IT'S
A SPIRITUAL CONNECTION NOW, AM I
00:36:39.23\00:36:42.46
RIGHT? IT'S NOT BASED
UPON GENETICS, IT'S A SPIRITUAL
00:36:42.50\00:36:44.37
CONNECTION. OKAY,
LET'S CONTINUE IN OUR STUDY.
00:36:44.40\00:36:51.71
ROMANS CHAPTER 10 AND, I
BELIEVE, THIS NEXT - ROMANS 11 -
00:36:51.74\00:36:57.75
THIS NEXT SECTION, STARTING WITH
VERSE 16, IS PROBABLY THE CRUX
00:36:57.78\00:37:02.18
OF THE MESSAGE FOR THIS LESSON -
ROMANS CHAPTER 11 AND VERSE 16,
00:37:02.22\00:37:11.43
"FOR IF THE FIRSTFRUIT BE HOLY,
THE LUMP IS ALSO HOLY; AND IF
00:37:11.46\00:37:14.23
THE ROOT BE HOLY,
SO ARE THE BRANCHES.
00:37:14.30\00:37:16.63
AND IF SOME OF THE BRANCHES
BE BROKEN OFF, AND THOU, BEING A
00:37:16.67\00:37:20.24
WILD OLIVE TREE, WERT GRAFTED
IN AMONG THEM, AND WITH THEM
00:37:20.27\00:37:23.94
PARTAKEST OF THE ROOT AND
FATNESS OF THE OLIVE TREE; BOAST
00:37:23.97\00:37:26.57
NOT AGAINST THE BRANCHES.
BUT IF THOU BOAST, THOU BEAREST
00:37:26.61\00:37:29.81
NOT THE ROOT, BUT THE ROOT THEE.
THOU WILT SAY THEN, THE BRANCHES
00:37:29.84\00:37:33.15
WERE BROKE OFF, THAT
I MIGHT BE GRAFTED IN.
00:37:33.18\00:37:35.48
WELL; BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF
THEY WERE BROKEN OFF, AND THOU
00:37:35.52\00:37:38.72
STANDEST BY FAITH. BE
NOT HIGH MINDED, BUT FEAR:
00:37:38.75\00:37:43.22
FOR IF GOD
SPARED NOT THE NATURAL
00:37:43.26\00:37:44.96
BRANCHES, TAKE HEED
LEST HE ALSO SPARE NOT THEE.
00:37:44.99\00:37:48.00
BEHOLD THEREFORE THE GOODNESS
AND SEVERITY OF GOD:" - I'M IN
00:37:48.03\00:37:51.07
VERSE 22 - ON THEM WHICH
FELL, SEVERITY; BUT TOWARD THEE,
00:37:51.10\00:37:55.20
GOODNESS, IF THOU CONTINUE
IN HIS GOODNESS: OTHERWISE THOU
00:37:55.24\00:37:58.37
ALSO SHALT BE CUT OFF.
00:37:58.41\00:38:00.81
AND THEY ALSO, IF THEY ABIDE
NOT STILL IN UNBELIEF, SHALL BE
00:38:00.84\00:38:03.14
GRAFTED IN: FOR GOD IS
ABLE TO GRAFT THEM IN AGAIN.
00:38:03.18\00:38:07.12
FOR IF THOU WERT CUT OUT OF
THE OLIVE TREE WHICH IS WILD BY
00:38:07.15\00:38:11.62
NATURE, AND WERT GRAFTED
CONTRARY TO NATURE INTO A GOOD
00:38:11.65\00:38:15.06
OLIVE TREE: HOW MUCH MORE SHALL
THESE, WHICH BE THE NATURAL
00:38:15.09\00:38:19.23
BRANCHES, BE GRAFTED
INTO THEIR OWN OLIVE TREE?"
00:38:19.26\00:38:22.90
THERE IT IS.
THERE'S YOUR ILLUSTRATION
00:38:22.93\00:38:24.27
OF THE OLIVE TREE.
HOW DOES GOD DESCRIBE THE
00:38:24.30\00:38:29.74
JEWS IN THIS
ILLUSTRATION? WHAT IS THE -
00:38:29.77\00:38:32.94
WHAT'S THE
METAPHOR? >>NATURAL BRANCHES.
00:38:32.97\00:38:37.18
>>NATURAL BRANCHES OF
OLIVE TREE - THANK YOU.
00:38:37.21\00:38:39.91
DOES HE CALL
THEM THE OLIVE TREE?
00:38:39.95\00:38:42.85
CAREFULLY NOTE, I
DON'T SEE IT THERE.
00:38:42.88\00:38:45.72
WHO ARE THE GENTILES?
HOW ARE THEY DESCRIBED?
00:38:45.75\00:38:49.99
>>GRAFTED IN.
>>THEY'RE WILD OLIVE
00:38:50.03\00:38:52.03
TREE BRANCHES, RIGHT? AND
THEY'RE GRAFTED - NOW, HOW
00:38:52.06\00:38:55.96
MANY OPTIONS DO YOU
HAVE IN THIS PASSAGE?
00:38:56.00\00:38:58.10
HELP ME OUT, WE'VE
LISTED - YES, HELP ME OUT.
00:38:58.13\00:39:03.04
>>TWO OPTIONS. >>TWO
OPTIONS - DID YOU SAY TWO?
00:39:03.07\00:39:06.81
>>YES, THE ORIGINAL
ONE AND THE GRAFTED ONE.
00:39:06.84\00:39:09.48
>>SO YOU HAVE THE GRAFTED
AND YOU HAVE THE ORIGINAL.
00:39:09.51\00:39:12.51
WHAT IF I SAY THERE'S
EVEN MORE? ANY MORE OPTIONS
00:39:12.55\00:39:16.25
IN THIS PASSAGE?
>>YEAH, GRAFTED FROM THE WILD
00:39:16.28\00:39:21.36
TO THE NATURAL - GRAFTED.
>>SO I HAVE THE WILD TO THE
00:39:21.39\00:39:24.43
NATURAL GRAFTED -
>>AND THE REVERSE.
00:39:24.46\00:39:26.86
>>AND THE REVERSE. I
HAVE THE NATURAL BROKEN OFF.
00:39:26.90\00:39:31.87
DO YOU HAVE ANY NATURAL IN THIS
PASSAGE THAT ACTUALLY STAYED IN?
00:39:31.90\00:39:38.87
CHECK IT OUT. ARE YOU READY?
00:39:38.91\00:39:40.54
11 VERSE 17, "AND IF SOME OF THE
BRANCHES BE BROKEN OFF," - WHAT
00:39:40.58\00:39:50.05
WOULD THAT
INSINUATE? >>SOME WEREN'T.
00:39:50.09\00:39:52.09
>>SOME WERE NOT. SO I
HAVE SOME BRANCHES WERE
00:39:52.12\00:39:54.49
BROKEN OFF AND SOME STAYED.
SO I HAVE NATURAL - EITHER
00:39:54.52\00:39:57.26
IN, OR BROKEN OFF, RIGHT?
THEN I HAVE THE WILD OLIVE
00:39:57.29\00:40:01.26
THAT WAS GRAFTED
IN - SO I HAVE THREE.
00:40:01.30\00:40:03.87
IS THERE ANY MORE
OPTIONS? THERE IS ONE MORE.
00:40:03.90\00:40:06.97
>>BROKEN OFF ONES. >>SORRY?
00:40:07.00\00:40:09.24
>>GRAFT BACK IN
A BROKEN OFF ONE.
00:40:09.27\00:40:10.67
>>THAT'S RIGHT, THE ONES THAT
WERE BROKEN OFF COULD BE GRAFTED
00:40:10.71\00:40:13.44
BACK IN. SO THAT'S THE - AND
WE COULD GO TOO FAR WITH THIS.
00:40:13.48\00:40:17.21
I STARTED THINKING ABOUT THIS AS
I WAS OUT FOR A WALK THIS WEEK -
00:40:17.25\00:40:18.75
'OH, WE CAN DO THIS, AND THIS,
AND THIS' - WELL, BE CAREFUL YOU
00:40:18.78\00:40:21.42
DON'T ADD TO THE SCRIPTURE
WHAT'S NOT IN IT, AMEN?
00:40:21.45\00:40:23.99
I WAS ABOUT TO DO IT. SO
I KNOW THERE'S AT LEAST FOUR
00:40:24.02\00:40:26.52
OPTIONS BECAUSE I READ
THEM - I SEE THEM HERE.
00:40:26.55\00:40:29.39
SO, NOTE THIS: THE BRANCHES
THAT ARE STILL ATTACHED, IS IT
00:40:29.42\00:40:33.40
BECAUSE OF BELIEF
OR UNBELIEF? >>BELIEF.
00:40:33.43\00:40:36.33
>>BELIEF. THE ONES
THAT WERE BROKEN OFF -
00:40:36.36\00:40:39.00
BECAUSE OF BELIEF OR
UNBELIEF? >>UNBELIEF.
00:40:39.03\00:40:41.00
>>UNBELIEF. THE
WILD ONES THAT WERE
00:40:41.04\00:40:42.77
GRAFTED IN - BELIEF OR UNBELIEF?
00:40:42.80\00:40:44.61
>>BELIEF. >>BELIEF.
00:40:44.64\00:40:45.77
THE ONES THAT WERE BROKEN
OFF AND THEN GRAFTED BACK IN -
00:40:45.81\00:40:49.01
BELIEF OR UNBELIEF? >>BELIEF.
00:40:49.04\00:40:50.95
>>WOW. >>UNBELIEF
FOLLOWED BY BELIEF.
00:40:50.98\00:40:52.98
>>SO YOU'VE GOT THE
BELIEF SECTION AND THE UNBELIEF
00:40:53.01\00:40:54.85
SECTION. I'M ALWAYS GLAD THERE'S
00:40:54.88\00:40:55.98
MORE BELIEF THAN UNBELIEF.
NOT THAT THAT - (INAUDIBLE)
00:40:56.02\00:41:02.19
- YES, ABSOLUTELY. I
WAS HOPING YOU WOULD ASK.
00:41:02.22\00:41:07.30
I'M GOING TO
HAVE YOU HELP ME OUT.
00:41:07.30\00:41:09.23
THE NATURAL BRANCHES THAT STAYED
ATTACHED, WHO ARE SOME EXAMPLES
00:41:09.26\00:41:13.57
FROM THE BIBLE OF THE NATURAL
BRANCHES THAT STAYED ATTACHED?
00:41:13.60\00:41:16.77
>>PETER. >>I'M NOT
GOING TO SAY PAUL -
00:41:16.81\00:41:19.21
>>OKAY, THE EARLY
CHURCH - THE JEWISH -
00:41:19.24\00:41:21.68
>>I HEARD SOMEONE SAY
PETER - AND YOU'RE GOING THAT
00:41:21.71\00:41:23.51
DIRECTION. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE?
00:41:23.55\00:41:25.95
JAMES. >>JOHN.
00:41:25.98\00:41:27.28
>>JOHN. >>THOMAS.
00:41:27.32\00:41:28.45
>>THOMAS - WE CAN GO
ON FOR AWHILE, RIGHT?
00:41:28.48\00:41:30.85
SO, WOULD YOU SAY THE EARLY
CHRISTIAN CHURCH - THE ONES THAT
00:41:30.89\00:41:33.72
WERE JEWISH DISCIPLES OF JESUS
AND JEWISH FOLLOWERS OF JESUS -
00:41:33.76\00:41:39.03
WOULD YOU SAY THAT THEY WERE
THE BELIEVERS WHO STAYED IN?
00:41:39.06\00:41:41.90
>>YES. >>THAT'S WHAT WE CAN
00:41:41.93\00:41:42.80
SEE AT THIS POINT.
SO WHO ARE THE NATURAL
00:41:42.83\00:41:44.90
BRANCHES THAT WERE
BROKEN OFF? >>THE PHARISEES.
00:41:44.93\00:41:49.74
>>YES. >>JUDAS.
00:41:49.77\00:41:50.87
>>JUDAS, OKAY,
I COULD SAY JUDAS.
00:41:50.91\00:41:53.14
I'M EVEN PICKING ON
SPECIFIC NAMES, IF I CAN.
00:41:53.17\00:41:55.91
CAIAPHAS - COULD WE
SAY CAIAPHAS WAS ONE?
00:41:55.94\00:42:02.95
I HEARD PAUL - I'M GOING TO COME
BACK - YOU CAN CHALLENGE WHETHER
00:42:02.98\00:42:07.66
CAIAPHAS WAS REALLY,
TRULY IN THERE TO START WITH.
00:42:07.69\00:42:09.96
OKAY, I AGREE. I
DIGRESS ON THAT ONE.
00:42:09.99\00:42:12.89
BUT HE WAS PART OF THE OFFICIAL
GROUP, BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE BELIEF
00:42:12.93\00:42:17.43
SO WE COULD SAY HE WAS
GONE. THE RICH YOUNG RULER.
00:42:17.47\00:42:23.51
WAS HE EVER IN THE
NATURAL TREE? WAS HE BROKEN OFF?
00:42:23.54\00:42:28.38
YES, BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF.
SO NOW THE NEXT ONE - THE
00:42:28.41\00:42:33.95
GRAFTED IN WILD OLIVE
BRANCHES. NOW THIS IS EASY.
00:42:33.98\00:42:38.82
>>JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA. >>LUKE.
00:42:38.85\00:42:40.96
>>LUKE -
ABSOLUTELY. >>NICODEMUS.
00:42:40.99\00:42:44.13
>>NICODEMUS - I'M GOING TO CALL
HIM AS ONE WHO KIND OF STAYED
00:42:44.16\00:42:47.66
IN, IF THAT'S OKAY.
I'M GOING TO CALL JOHN THE
00:42:47.66\00:42:50.40
BAPTIST IN, AS WELL,
BECAUSE THEY WERE ALL JEWISH
00:42:50.43\00:42:52.13
PEOPLE, WERE THEY NOT? IS
THERE ANY GENTILE CONVERTS
00:42:52.17\00:42:55.77
THAT WE READ ABOUT
IN THE BOOK OF ACTS?
00:42:55.80\00:42:58.84
>>CORNELIUS. >>CORNELIUS.
00:42:58.87\00:43:02.18
I'M SORRY, I'M BAD
HEARING. THE PHILIPPIAN JAILER.
00:43:02.21\00:43:05.78
TIMOTHY, KIND OF - YES?
SORRY, SO THESE ARE SOME ONES.
00:43:05.81\00:43:11.92
WE HAVE PEOPLE IN EACH ONE.
AND WHAT'S THE LAST CATEGORY?
00:43:11.95\00:43:14.46
THE NATURAL BRANCH
BROKEN OFF AND GRAFTED BACK IN.
00:43:14.49\00:43:18.63
>>PAUL. >>PAUL.
00:43:18.66\00:43:23.63
WOW, AND I'M SURE
THAT THERE'S SOME MORE.
00:43:23.67\00:43:28.70
THESE GROUPS OF PEOPLE, WHAT
IS IT THAT MAKES THEM CONNECTED?
00:43:28.74\00:43:37.58
BELIEF. DID YOU SEE THAT?
THE ONES THAT WERE BROKEN OFF
00:43:37.61\00:43:42.05
ARE BROKEN OFF FOR
WHAT REASON? UNBELIEF.
00:43:42.08\00:43:45.35
BUT IT SAYS - NOTICE, IN VERSE
24 - ACTUALLY, VERSE 23 - "AND
00:43:45.39\00:43:50.46
THEY ALSO, IF THEY ABIDE NOT
STILL IN UNBELIEF," - IN OTHER
00:43:50.49\00:43:55.06
WORDS, IF THEY START TO BELIEVE
- THEY "SHALL BE GRAFTED IN: FOR
00:43:55.10\00:43:57.93
GOD IS ABLE TO
GRAFT THEM IN AGAIN."
00:43:57.97\00:44:00.70
>>AMEN. >>BEAUTIFUL.
00:44:00.74\00:44:02.67
ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL. I
BELIEVE THAT WE STRUGGLE WITH
00:44:02.70\00:44:08.31
SOMETHING AND I DON'T KNOW IF
IT'S A FOCUS THAT MAYBE YOU HAVE
00:44:08.34\00:44:11.68
HAD, BUT GOD HAS SOME NATURAL
BRANCHES IN OUR WORLD TODAY THAT
00:44:11.71\00:44:16.02
WERE BROKEN OFF AND HE'S WANTING
TO HAVE THEM GRAFTED BACK IN.
00:44:16.05\00:44:20.96
NOW, MOST OF YOU, I'M LOOKING
OUT HERE - DON'T TAKE OFFENSE,
00:44:20.99\00:44:22.92
BUT YOU'RE A BUNCH OF
WILD OLIVE TREE BRANCHES.
00:44:22.96\00:44:24.96
(LAUGHTER) AM I
RIGHT? I KNOW I AM.
00:44:24.99\00:44:28.70
AND, BY GOD'S GRACE,
WE'VE BEEN GRAFTED IN, AMEN.
00:44:28.73\00:44:31.47
>>AMEN. >>BUT
PAUL IS WANTING US TO
00:44:31.50\00:44:35.84
REMEMBER - AND HE'S WANTING THE
ROMANS TO REMEMBER - 'I'VE GOT
00:44:35.87\00:44:38.71
SOME NATURAL
BRANCHES, DON'T FORGET 'EM.
00:44:38.74\00:44:42.44
DON'T FORGET 'EM.' I THINK WE
NEED TO REMEMBER THAT WE DON'T
00:44:42.48\00:44:45.08
FORGET THEM. >>AMEN.
00:44:45.11\00:44:47.15
>>SOMETIMES IN OUR MINISTRY,
WE DON'T REALLY EMPHASIZE THAT
00:44:47.18\00:44:49.75
AREA, DO WE? OF
ACTUALLY FOCUSING ON THE
00:44:49.78\00:44:51.95
NATURAL BRANCHES
- THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
00:44:51.99\00:44:56.19
BUT IS GOD - IS CHRIST
THE SAVIOR OF THE JEWS?
00:44:56.22\00:44:58.76
>>YES. >>IF THEY WISH.
00:44:58.79\00:45:02.26
>>THE WORLD.
>>YES MA'AM, OF COURSE.
00:45:02.30\00:45:04.50
HE'S THE SAVIOR OF THE
WORLD. ALL WHO CALL UPON
00:45:04.53\00:45:06.63
HIM WILL BE SAVED. YOU
KNOW, SOMETHING TO NOTE
00:45:06.67\00:45:12.81
HERE: WHAT DOES A
CONNECTED BRANCH PRODUCE?
00:45:12.84\00:45:16.34
OKAY, SO YOU HAVE AN OLIVE TREE.
YOU HAVE CONNECTED OLIVE TREE
00:45:16.38\00:45:19.08
BRANCH - IT'S GRAFTED IN -
WHAT'S PRODUCED ON THAT BRANCH?
00:45:19.11\00:45:22.72
>>FRUIT. >>FRUIT.
00:45:22.75\00:45:24.99
I'LL SAY OLIVES -
OLIVE IS A FRUIT, RIGHT?
00:45:25.02\00:45:28.02
THE PURPOSE OF
CONNECTION IS FRUIT.
00:45:28.06\00:45:33.40
HASN'T CHANGED, HAS IT?
THE PURPOSE OF CONNECTION - GOD
00:45:33.43\00:45:36.50
IS GOING TO
BRING FRUIT OUT OF IT.
00:45:36.53\00:45:38.00
ANOTHER QUESTION: DID YOU NOTICE
THIS IS NOT 'ONCE PART OF THE
00:45:38.03\00:45:41.14
TREE, ALWAYS PART
OF THE TREE'? RIGHT?
00:45:41.17\00:45:46.17
THERE'S NO 'ONCE SAVED,
ALWAYS SAVED' GOING ON HERE.
00:45:46.21\00:45:48.48
A VERY CLEAR PICTURE.
11, VERSE 19 - THERE'S SOME
00:45:48.51\00:45:55.68
THINKING HERE THAT, I BELIEVE,
WAS BEING ADDRESSED BY PAUL,
00:45:55.72\00:46:00.66
"THOU WILT SAY THEN,"
- IS PAUL SAYING THIS?
00:46:00.69\00:46:05.73
HELP ME OUT. LET'S
LOOK AT VERSE 19: "THOU
00:46:05.76\00:46:08.20
WILT SAY THEN," -
WHO'S SAYING THIS, PAUL?
00:46:08.23\00:46:10.80
>>NO. >>NO. WELL,
PAUL'S WRITING THIS,
00:46:10.83\00:46:13.74
BUT WHO IS HE TALKING TO
THAT'S DOING THE 'SAYING'?
00:46:13.77\00:46:16.74
THOU - WHOEVER THE THOU IS
- "THOU WILT SAY THEN, 'THE
00:46:16.77\00:46:20.88
BRANCHES WERE BROKEN OFF, THAT I
MIGHT BE GRAFTED IN.'" AND PAUL
00:46:20.91\00:46:25.81
SAYS - HE SAID, "WELL; BECAUSE
OF UNBELIEF THEY WERE BROKEN
00:46:25.85\00:46:30.09
OFF," - DO YOU SEE
HOW THEY CORRECTED THAT?
00:46:30.12\00:46:33.76
THE MIND SET EVEN THEN - AND
SOME WOULD SAY 'THE JEWS WERE
00:46:33.79\00:46:37.36
BROKEN OFF, TAKEN
OUT OF THE TREE, SO
00:46:37.39\00:46:39.06
THAT SPACE WAS MADE FOR ME.'
UH UH, NO, HE SAID THEY WERE
00:46:39.09\00:46:44.57
BROKEN OFF BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF.
GOD'S GOT SPACE AT HIS TREE
00:46:44.60\00:46:48.07
FOR EVERY SINGLE
PERSON ON THIS PLANET, AMEN?
00:46:48.10\00:46:51.24
THERE IS SPACE ON THE TREE
FOR EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US.
00:46:51.27\00:46:55.61
I LIKE THAT. I THINK IT'S
IMPORTANT FOR US TO REALIZE.
00:46:55.64\00:47:00.52
LET'S CONTINUE TO VERSE 25, "FOR
I WOULD NOT, BRETHREN, THAT YE
00:47:00.55\00:47:09.19
SHOULD BE IGNORANT OF THIS
MYSTERY, LEST YE SHOULD BE WISE
00:47:09.22\00:47:13.29
IN YOUR OWN CONCEITS; THAT
BLINDNESS IN PART IS HAPPENED TO
00:47:13.33\00:47:17.97
ISRAEL," - PLEASE NOTE THIS IS
DESCRIPTIVE, NOT PRESCRIPTIVE -
00:47:18.00\00:47:25.54
"...THAT BLINDNESS IN PART
IS HAPPENED TO ISRAEL," - IT'S
00:47:25.57\00:47:28.91
DESCRIPTIVE, NOT PRESCRIPTIVE
- "UNTIL THE FULLNESS OF THE
00:47:28.94\00:47:34.55
GENTILES BE COME IN."
00:47:34.58\00:47:36.08
WHAT AM I - WHY DO I
EVEN USE THOSE TERMS?
00:47:36.12\00:47:38.45
GOD'S DESCRIBING A REALITY
NOT PRESCRIBING IT WOULD HAPPEN.
00:47:38.49\00:47:43.56
NOT SAYING, 'I'M DETERMINED
THAT BLINDNESS HAPPENS SO THE
00:47:43.59\00:47:46.19
GENTILES COME IN.' HE SAID, 'NO,
I'M JUST TELLING YOU, BLINDNESS
00:47:46.23\00:47:49.93
HAS HAPPENED AND THE GENTILES
HAVE COME IN.' SOME PEOPLE LOOK
00:47:49.96\00:47:53.70
AT IT THIS WAY, THAT BLINDNESS,
OR HARDNESS TOOK PLACE BECAUSE
00:47:53.74\00:47:57.47
THE JEWS WERE JEALOUS
WHEN THE GENTILES CAME IN.
00:47:57.51\00:48:01.48
AND I CAN SEE THAT - THAT'S A
PICTURE - BUT GOD WASN'T SAYING,
00:48:01.51\00:48:05.15
'I'M GOING TO MAKE YOU BLIND
SO THE GENTILES COULD COME IN.'
00:48:05.18\00:48:07.72
PEOPLE HAVE SAID THAT, BUT
THAT'S NOT THE PICTURE THAT
00:48:07.75\00:48:09.85
WE'RE GETTING HERE
IN ROMANS CHAPTER 11.
00:48:09.88\00:48:12.95
THEN IT GOES ON - THAT
BLINDNESS, IN PART, HAS HAPPENED
00:48:12.99\00:48:16.76
TO ISRAEL UNTIL THE FULLNESS
OF THE GENTILES BE COME IN.
00:48:16.79\00:48:21.06
AND THEN I LOVE THIS NEXT
PHRASE: "AND SO ALL ISRAEL SHALL
00:48:21.10\00:48:28.77
BE SAVED."
NOTICE IT'S CONNECTION.
00:48:28.80\00:48:33.54
THERE'S NO VERSES IN THE
ORIGINAL WRITING OF THE BIBLE.
00:48:33.58\00:48:36.44
PLEASE NOTICE THE FLOW OF
THOUGHT, "...UNTIL THE FULLNESS
00:48:36.48\00:48:43.49
OF THE GENTILES BE COME
IN. AND SO ALL ISRAEL SHALL BE
00:48:43.52\00:48:46.92
SAVED:" - WHEN THE FULLNESS
OF THE GENTILES COME IN, THEN
00:48:46.96\00:48:52.09
ISRAEL BECOMES COMPLETE. WHY?
00:48:52.13\00:48:55.93
BECAUSE THIS PHRASE - "ALL
ISRAEL SHALL BE SAVED" - IS NOT
00:48:55.96\00:48:58.97
SPEAKING OF GENEALOGY AND
GENETICS AND BLOODLINES, IT'S
00:48:59.00\00:49:03.57
SPEAKING OF SPIRITUAL ISRAEL.
'AND SO ALL SPIRITUAL ISRAEL
00:49:03.61\00:49:10.25
SHALL BE SAVED.' WHEN THE
FULLNESS OF THE GENTILES COME
00:49:10.28\00:49:14.18
IN - SEE, GOD HAS HIS JEWS
- SPIRITUAL JEWS - EVERYWHERE.
00:49:14.22\00:49:20.66
YOU COULD LOOK RIGHT NEXT TO
YOU RIGHT NOW AND YOU COULD SEE
00:49:20.69\00:49:22.22
SOMEONE. THERE ARE SOME
SPIRITUAL JEWS SITTING ALL
00:49:22.26\00:49:24.76
AROUND US RIGHT NOW. AM I
MAKING THIS UP? I SURE HOPE NOT.
00:49:24.79\00:49:29.03
ROMANS CHAPTER 2 - ROMANS
CHAPTER 2 - AND THERE'S QUITE A
00:49:29.06\00:49:32.77
FEW PLACES WE'LL GO AND -
WITHOUT - ROMANS CHAPTER 2,
00:49:32.80\00:49:38.94
VERSE 28 - ROMANS 2:28 - OUR
BIBLES READ, "FOR HE IS NOT A
00:49:38.97\00:49:44.81
JEW, WHICH IS ONE OUTWARDLY;
NEITHER IS THAT CIRCUMCISION,
00:49:44.85\00:49:47.68
WHICH IS OUTWARD IN THE FLESH:
BUT HE IS A JEW, WHICH IS ONE" -
00:49:47.72\00:49:50.99
WHAT? >>INWARDLY.
00:49:51.02\00:49:52.19
>>"INWARDLY; AND CIRCUMCISION
IS THAT OF THE HEART, IN THE
00:49:52.22\00:49:55.56
SPIRIT, AND NOT IN THE LETTER;
WHOSE PRAISE IS NOT OF MEN, BUT
00:49:55.59\00:49:57.79
OF GOD." SO GOD IS
LOOKING FOR JEWS WHO
00:49:57.83\00:50:00.36
HAVE RECEIVED THE
CIRCUMCISION OF HEART.
00:50:00.40\00:50:01.86
HE IS NOT LOOKING FOR OUTWARD
JEWS, HE IS LOOKING FOR WHAT
00:50:01.90\00:50:03.70
KIND OF JEWS? JEWS THAT
ARE WHERE? JEWS ON THE INSIDE.
00:50:03.73\00:50:08.34
ROMANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 11
- ROMANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 11 -
00:50:08.37\00:50:13.17
SPEAKING OF ABRAHAM, IT SAYS,
"AND HE RECEIVED THE SIGN OF
00:50:13.21\00:50:14.98
CIRCUMCISION, A SEAL OF THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE FAITH WHICH
00:50:15.01\00:50:18.25
HE HAD YET BEING UNCIRCUMCISED:
THAT HE MIGHT BE THE FATHER OF
00:50:18.28\00:50:24.85
ALL THEM THAT BELIEVE, THOUGH
THEY BE NOT CIRCUMCISED;" - AND
00:50:24.89\00:50:30.09
I MIGHT ADD OR [CIRCUMCISED]
- "THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS MIGHT BE
00:50:30.13\00:50:33.23
IMPUTED UNTO THEM ALSO:" JESUS
- EXCUSE ME - ABRAHAM IS THE
00:50:33.26\00:50:39.80
FATHER OF ALL. IF
ABRAHAM IS THE FATHER OF
00:50:39.83\00:50:46.21
BOTH THE UNCIRCUMCISED AND
CIRCUMCISED, THAT MEANS, TODAY,
00:50:46.24\00:50:50.48
YOUR FATHER,
SPIRITUALLY, IS ABRAHAM. IT IS.
00:50:50.51\00:50:55.88
YOU AND I HAVE THE SAME
SPIRITUAL BLOODLINES AS DID
00:50:55.92\00:51:00.76
ISAAC. THAT'S
AMAZING. THAT'S THE PICTURE
00:51:00.79\00:51:06.26
THAT'S BEING GIVEN
HERE. LET'S NOT STOP.
00:51:06.29\00:51:08.43
ROMANS CHAPTER 10 - ROMANS
CHAPTER 10, VERSE 12 - "FOR
00:51:08.46\00:51:23.65
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
THE JEW AND THE GREEK: FOR THE
00:51:23.68\00:51:26.58
SAME LORD OVER ALL IS RICH
UNTO ALL THAT CALL UPON HIM."
00:51:26.61\00:51:30.15
THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN THE JEW AND THE GREEK?
00:51:30.19\00:51:32.95
DOES IT SAY 'NO DIFFERENCE?'
YEAH, SPIRITUALLY SPEAKING, YES.
00:51:32.99\00:51:39.33
I THINK IT'S A
KEY FOR US TO REALIZE.
00:51:39.36\00:51:40.96
AND I'M GOING TO FINISH UP WITH
GALATIANS - GALATIANS CHAPTER 3
00:51:40.96\00:51:45.83
- WHO WROTE THE
BOOK OF GALATIANS?
00:51:45.87\00:51:49.20
IT'S A TRICK
QUESTION. WELL, YES, PAUL DID.
00:51:49.24\00:51:55.44
WHO INSPIRED THE
BOOK OF GALATIANS?
00:51:55.48\00:51:59.05
HOLY SPIRIT. WHO
INSPIRED THE BOOK OF ROMANS?
00:51:59.08\00:52:01.88
OKAY, SO YOU WON'T MIND IF WE
SHARE THESE TWO BOOKS TOGETHER?
00:52:01.92\00:52:04.82
LET'S LOOK AT IT. "FOR
YE ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF
00:52:04.85\00:52:07.62
GOD BY FAITH IN CHRIST
JESUS." WE HAVE BECOME CHILDREN
00:52:07.66\00:52:13.09
- ALL OF US - OF WHO? >>GOD.
00:52:13.13\00:52:15.10
>>GOD, BY CHRIST JESUS.
"FOR AS MANY AS HAVE BEEN
00:52:15.13\00:52:17.47
BAPTIZED INTO
CHRIST HAVE PUT ON CHRIST.
00:52:17.50\00:52:19.37
THERE IS NEITHER JEW NOR GREEK,
THERE IS NEITHER BOND NOR FREE,
00:52:19.40\00:52:21.30
THERE IS NEITHER MALE NOR
FEMALE, FOR YE ARE ALL ONE IN
00:52:21.34\00:52:23.67
CHRIST JESUS," - SPIRITUALLY
SPEAKING, ALL OF US ARE IN THE
00:52:23.71\00:52:27.38
SAME PLANE WHEN IT
COMES TO SALVATION, AMEN?
00:52:27.41\00:52:30.98
>>THAT'S RIGHT.
>>"AND IF YE BE CHRIST'S THEN
00:52:31.01\00:52:32.48
ARE YE ABRAHAM'S SEED AND
HEIRS ACCORDING TO THE PROMISE."
00:52:32.51\00:52:39.82
AND SO, ALL
ISRAEL WILL BE SAVED.
00:52:39.85\00:52:46.06
HOW DOES GOD KNOW HIS PEOPLE?
WELL, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT, IT'S
00:52:46.09\00:52:50.00
NOT BY THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
THERE'S - IT'S PRETTY BAD - SO
00:52:50.03\00:52:56.77
HE GIVES THEM HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
IT'S NOT BY THEIR POSITION.
00:52:56.81\00:53:02.84
YOU KNOW, LET'S FACE IT, IN
TODAY'S SOCIETY YOU KIND OF WORK
00:53:02.88\00:53:05.28
YOURSELF UP THE LADDER.
YOU GET IN THE RIGHT CIRCLE -
00:53:05.31\00:53:07.58
IT'S ALL WHO YOU KNOW,
RIGHT? BUT POSITION DOESN'T PLAY
00:53:07.62\00:53:12.19
MUCH IN THE EYES OF
GOD. HE'S NOT A RESPECTER OF
00:53:12.22\00:53:15.56
PERSONS IN THAT
SENSE. YOU KNOW HOW HE
00:53:15.59\00:53:21.33
KNOWS WHO ARE HIS? BY
THOSE WHO ARE CONNECTED.
00:53:21.36\00:53:24.77
BUT HOW ARE YOU CONNECTED?
>>BY BECOMING GRAFTED IN.
00:53:24.80\00:53:29.60
>>BY GRAFTING - AND
HOW ARE WE GRAFTED IN - BY?
00:53:29.64\00:53:32.04
>>FAITH. >>FAITH -
BELIEF. YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:53:32.07\00:53:35.61
PAUL EVEN GOES A LITTLE BIT
FURTHER TO SAY, 'I'VE GIVEN TO
00:53:35.64\00:53:38.28
ALL MEN A MEASURE OF FAITH.' SO
GOD'S GIVEN ALL MEN A MEASURE OF
00:53:38.31\00:53:42.82
FAITH - HE'S GIVEN
THEM THEIR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:53:42.85\00:53:44.55
HE'S THE ONE WHO'S NOT A
RESPECTER OF PERSONS - AND I
00:53:44.59\00:53:46.89
LIKE THIS FINAL PART - HE
MAKES US A MEMBER OF HIS FAMILY.
00:53:46.92\00:53:53.83
HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW WHAT?
YOU'RE ALL BUT CHILDREN OF
00:53:53.86\00:53:56.06
GOD - AND CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM.
WE'RE ALL SPIRITUAL ISRAELITES,
00:53:56.10\00:54:00.60
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, WE
ARE ALL THE CHILDREN OF GOD.
00:54:00.64\00:54:03.44
BUT THAT'S THE PICTURE.
WHAT HE'S WILLING TO DO FOR THE
00:54:03.47\00:54:06.04
JEWS, HE'S
WILLING TO DO FOR YOU.
00:54:06.07\00:54:09.81
THIS IS A HEART CRY THAT THE
JEWS WOULD REALIZE THAT GOD WAS
00:54:09.84\00:54:12.18
STILL CALLING OUT TO THEM AND
GOD'S STILL CALLING OUT TO YOU
00:54:12.21\00:54:15.32
AND I TODAY. WHAT HE
DID FOR THEM - WHAT HE
00:54:15.35\00:54:17.52
DOES FOR THE
GENTILES, HE DOES FOR US.
00:54:17.55\00:54:19.99
SO TODAY, SITTING HERE, MINDS
PROBABLY IN MULTIPLE DIFFERENT
00:54:20.02\00:54:24.69
DIRECTIONS, WONDERING WHAT'S
NEXT IN LIFE - THE ANSWER,
00:54:24.73\00:54:27.66
WHAT'S NEXT IN THE SERVICE -
LOOKING AT ALL THE DETAILS THAT
00:54:27.66\00:54:31.13
WE HAVE, I WANT TO JUST REMIND
US, TODAY, THAT ROMANS 10 AND 11
00:54:31.17\00:54:36.24
SAYS GOD WANTS
TO SAVE US. >>AMEN.
00:54:36.27\00:54:40.68
>>GOD WANTS TO GIVE US HIS
RIGHTEOUSNESS SO THAT ALL ISRAEL
00:54:40.71\00:54:45.58
SHALL BE SAVED. (MUSIC)
00:54:45.61\00:54:57.96
>>WHAT CAN BE MORE
IRRESISTIBLE THAN A KITTEN?
00:54:57.99\00:55:00.60
THESE GUYS MIGHT LOOK CUTE NOW,
BUT SOME OF THEIR ANCESTORS HAVE
00:55:00.63\00:55:03.50
GROWN INTO MAN EATERS.
(BIG CATS ROARING) WE'RE HERE
00:55:03.53\00:55:10.14
IN A LION PARK IN SOUTH AFRICA,
NOW, WHERE WE CAN VIEW THESE
00:55:10.17\00:55:12.64
CREATURES IN RELATIVE SAFETY.
BUT THERE'S A REASON THEY'RE
00:55:12.67\00:55:15.64
KNOWN AS THE KING OF BEASTS.
SO WHAT IS IT THAT PEOPLE FIND
00:55:15.68\00:55:19.35
SO ENCHANTING AND
FRIGHTENING ABOUT LIONS?
00:55:19.38\00:55:22.02
IS IT THEIR SPEED? THEIR CLAWS?
00:55:22.05\00:55:24.35
THEIR SHARP TEETH?
OR ALL OF THE ABOVE?
00:55:24.39\00:55:26.99
IT MIGHT ALSO BE SOME OF THE
STORIES ABOUT MAN-EATING LIONS,
00:55:27.02\00:55:30.06
LIKE IN 1898 RIGHT HERE IN
AFRICA, THEY WERE BUILDING A
00:55:30.09\00:55:33.93
BRIDGE OVER THE SABO RIVER
IN KENYA AND TWO BROTHER LIONS
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TERRORIZED THE CONSTRUCTION
PROCESS, EATING 135 WORKERS.
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DID YOU KNOW LIONS ARE MENTIONED
IN THE BIBLE OVER 100 TIMES AND
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YOU CAN FIND THEM ALL THE
WAY FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION.
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IT'S USUALLY IN REFERENCE TO
THEIR FEROCITY AND HOW DANGEROUS
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THEY ARE. OF
COURSE, SAMSON KILLED A
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LION WITH HIS BARE
HANDS. DAVID KILLED A LION.
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THERE ARE
MAN-EATING LIONS IN THE BIBLE.
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THE WAY THAT THEY PUNISHED
CRIMINALS WAS BY THROWING THEM
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IN THE LIONS DEN - AND EARLY
CHRISTIANS WERE EVEN FED TO
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LIONS. BUT,
AMAZINGLY, AS THE BIBLE
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MENTIONS, NOT ALL
LIONS ARE TO BE FEARED.
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THERE HAVE BEEN A FEW
FRIENDLY LIONS IN HISTORY.
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FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE 1950S
A COUPLE, GEORGE AND MARGARET
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WESTBEAU, WHO LIVED UP AT A
RANCH NEAR SEATTLE, WASHINGTON,
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ADOPTED AN ABANDONED LION
CUB. THEY NAMED IT LITTLE TYKE
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BECAUSE THEY FELT SORRY FOR
IT. BUT THEY DISCOVERED, AS THEY
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TRIED TO FEED HER, SHE
REFUSED TO EAT ANY MEAT AT ALL.
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THEY WERE CONCERNED, THINKING
THERE WAS NO HOPE FOR THIS
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LITTLE LIONESS TO SURVIVE - AND
EVERYBODY TOLD THEM THE SAME,
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BECAUSE WE KNOW, IN THE
WILD, LIONS SURVIVE ON ALMOST AN
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ENTIRELY MEAT DIET.
THEN SOMEONE SHOWED THE
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WESTBEAUS THAT VERSE IN
THE BIBLE THAT TALKS ABOUT,
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IN HEAVEN, THE ANIMALS
ARE VEGETARIANS AND THE LION
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WILL EAT STRAW LIKE THE
OX. THAT ENCOURAGED THEM AND SO
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THEY BEGAN TO FEED LITTLE
TYKE A PURELY VEGETARIAN DIET.
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NOT ONLY DID SHE SURVIVE,
SHE THRIVED, GROWING INTO A LION
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THAT WAS OVER 352
POUNDS AND OVER TEN FEET LONG.
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IN FACT, ZOOLOGISTS THAT
EXAMINED LITTLE TYKE, WHEN SHE
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WAS FULL GROWN, SAID THEY
HAD NEVER SEEN SUCH A PERFECT
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SPECIMEN OF A LIONESS IN
THEIR LIFE - A PURE VEGETARIAN.
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YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HEAR
INCREDIBLE STORIES ABOUT THAT OF
00:57:21.10\00:57:23.10
LITTLE TYKE, IT REMINDS US THAT
GOD'S ORIGINAL PLAN WAS TO MAKE
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A WORLD OF TOTAL PEACE.
IT DESCRIBES IT HERE IN THE
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BIBLE IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 11,
VERSE 6, "THE WOLF ALSO SHALL
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DWELL WITH THE LAMB, THE LEOPARD
SHALL LIED DOWN WITH THE YOUNG
00:57:34.15\00:57:37.39
GOAT, THE CALF AND THE YOUNG
LION AND THE FATLING TOGETHER;
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AND A LITTLE
CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM."
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NOTHING IS GOING TO HURT AND
DESTROY IN THE NEW HEAVENS AND
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THE NEW EARTH THAT
GOD IS GOING TO CREATE.
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WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO LIVE IN
A KINGDOM WHERE THERE'S PERFECT
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PEACE - WHERE THERE'S NO
MORE DEATH OR KILLING OR PAIN?
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GOD SAYS THAT HE
WANTS YOU IN THAT KINGDOM.
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THE LAMB OF GOD MADE IT POSSIBLE
FOR YOU TO HAVE AN ENCOUNTER
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WITH THE LION OF
THE TRIBE OF JUDAH.
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WOULDN'T YOU LIKE
TO MEET HIM TODAY?
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(MUSIC)
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