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0:00So, in Romans 9 and 10 and 11,
0:04Paul is focusing entirely on
0:08his burden to see his Jewish family, the
0:13Jewish people, saved [music]
0:14in Christ.
0:16And
0:18you could say that
0:20some of the themes that are emerging for
0:23us is [music] that God gave a certain
0:27kind of priority, emphasis, focus,
0:30[music] and election to the Jewish
0:33people that did not result in their
0:36salvation, but it was actually to put a
0:39root in the ground that all the nations
0:42of the earth would be grafted into and
0:45saved [music] by when Jesus came.
0:48And then his concern becomes, "Okay, now
0:52that the Gentiles are grafted into the
0:55root of Judaism and are living by faith
0:58in Christ, how do they become the people
1:01that help the Jews find faith?"
1:04So, Paul's whole discourse in Romans 9
1:07creates a dilemma that he solves in
1:09[music] Romans 10. And the dilemma is
1:11he's telling them that salvation is
1:13through Jesus.
1:14And so, he addresses the elephant in the
1:17room. Don't say in your heart that Jesus
1:19is so high up in heaven that you can't
1:21interact with him or that he's so far in
1:23the grave that you can't relate to him
1:26because Jesus is still here through the
1:28rhema, the preached word of his people.
1:31And that's the whole gist of his [music]
1:33teaching
1:34in Romans
1:3610. And he's saying he [clears throat]
1:38finishes by saying that
1:40God was sought by a people who did not
1:42know him and that he was going to
1:44provoke the Jews to anger through the
1:47Gentiles. So, Romans 11 picks up on this
1:50theme.
1:52He says in in the last verse of Romans
1:5510, he says, "But as for Israel, he
1:57says, 'All the day long I have stretched
1:59out my hands to a disobedient and
2:02obstinate people.'"
2:05Romans 11, verse 1.
2:07"I say then, God has not rejected his
2:10people, has he?
2:13May it never be.
2:16For I, too,
2:18am an Israelite,
2:20a descendant of Abraham,
2:22of the tribe of Benjamin.
2:25God has not rejected his people
2:28whom he foreknew.
2:31Or do you not know what the scripture
2:33says in the passage about Elijah?
2:37How he pleads with God against Israel?
2:40'Lord, they have killed your prophets.
2:43They have torn down your altars, and I
2:46alone am left, and they are seeking my
2:50life.'
2:52But what is the divine response to him?
2:56'I have kept for myself 7,000 men who
3:01have not bowed the knee to Baal.'
3:05In the same way then, there has also
3:08come to be at the present time
3:10a remnant according to God's gracious
3:14choice.
3:16So there is a natural choice, there is a
3:19natural election, and there is a
3:22gracious choice, there is a gracious
3:24salvific election.
3:27And Paul is saying here
3:29that God has not rejected his people
3:31because there's a remnant.
3:34As long as there are Jews anywhere who
3:38are walking in faith,
3:41then God's continuity of covenant with
3:45even the Jewish people stands.
3:48And he's saying that he, Paul, feels
3:50much like Elijah felt when said, "Lord,
3:53I alone am left, and now they seek my
3:56life." But Paul says that he's reminding
3:58himself that he, Paul, is an Israelite.
4:02He's of the tribe of Benjamin. And so,
4:04all the promises of God are squeezed
4:07down to those who will walk in faith,
4:11the remnant. This is the principle that
4:14was true of Job
4:17when the Lord is challenged by Satan.
4:20When Satan implies that all the earth is
4:23under his dominion, the Lord says, "Have
4:25you considered my servant Job? There is
4:28no one like him in all the earth."
4:30God's plan marches on so long as there's
4:34a remnant, even if it's one man named
4:37Job or if it's 7,000 who have not bowed
4:40the knee to Baal. Paul is saying that
4:42all the promises made to Israel are
4:45still faithful, and God has not
4:47abandoned them so long as there is a
4:49remnant. And this is according to God's
4:51gracious choice.
4:53But that choice, that gracious election,
4:58may be
5:00accepted by a small fraction, but it is
5:03[clears throat] extended to all. And all
5:06those who are not accepting it can still
5:09receive it, and that's what we're going
5:10to see in the coming verses.
5:13But if it is by grace, it is no longer
5:16on the basis of works. Otherwise, grace
5:18is no longer grace.
5:20So, let me say it like this.
5:22If it is by grace in accepting who Jesus
5:26is and walking in relationship with him,
5:28then it's no longer whether you're
5:30circumcised or keep the Levitical law.
5:33That's what he's saying. The works that
5:34he's talking about here do not preclude
5:38the works of grace that God does through
5:41the Holy Spirit. By the grace of God, I
5:43am what I am, and his grace toward me
5:45did not prove vain, for I worked harder
5:47than them all, but it was not I, but the
5:49grace of God that was in me. There are
5:51works of grace, and there are works of
5:54the law, works of the flesh, works of
5:56do-goodism. And Paul is saying that
5:59those works of circumcision and
6:02ceremonial law-keeping, they don't
6:04accomplish anything.
6:06But grace is what matters.
6:08What then? What Israel
6:11is seeking,
6:13it has not obtained.
6:16But those who were chosen obtained it.
6:20And the rest were hardened.
6:23Just as it is written, God gave them a
6:25spirit of stupor,
6:27eyes to see and ears to hear down to
6:30this very day.
6:32Now, does that mean that God is
6:34responsible for making them hard in
6:37their hearts? That God caused them to
6:39sin? That would contradict scripture.
6:42The Apostle James writes,
6:44God is tempted by no one, and he will
6:47cause no one to be tempted. God does not
6:51give us a spirit of stupor in the sense
6:54that he makes us have that bad reaction.
6:57Instead, he gives us an opportunity.
7:01He He gives the whole Garden of Eden to
7:04Adam and Eve, and their own proclivity
7:07toward transgression leads them into it.
7:11But he doesn't give them the spirit of
7:13stupor in the sense that they didn't
7:14have it without him.
7:16It's just that he gave them an
7:17opportunity to to come into life, and
7:20they chose darkness rather than light
7:22because their deeds were evil.
7:24And that's the verdict, that's the
7:26separation. So, in a sense, God gave
7:28them a spirit of stupor,
7:30but not by giving them sin, because God
7:33does not cause anyone to be tempted. He
7:35does not make anyone sin. The Bible's
7:37unequivocal about that.
7:39These are
7:40causative verbs that can be confusing
7:44that make it sound like God is more
7:45active than sometimes he is. The Hebrews
7:49the Hebrew language says things like
7:51that in the days of Pharaoh the Hebrew
7:54midwives caused the babies to live. But
7:57they didn't actually cause them to live.
7:59They just refused to obey the command to
8:01kill them. And yet in Hebrew it sounds
8:04like they caused them to live.
8:07And in the same way God, when he gives
8:09us over to the fruit of our own
8:11fantasies, when he turns us over to be
8:14filled with our own ways, it can sound
8:17like he's the one acting and doing the
8:19aggression, when in fact he's just
8:21letting us go where we determine to go.
8:25And David says, "Let their table become
8:29a snare and a trap and a stumbling block
8:33and a retribution to them. Let their
8:35eyes be darkened to see not and bend
8:39their backs forever."
8:42So this is again
8:44an insight into how this stupor
8:47and this snare happens. What does David
8:50say causes them to be snared? Let their
8:53table become their snare.
8:56This is the idea that
8:59religious people are trapped in the
9:02pride of their provision.
9:05Because they know that God prepared a
9:08table before them in the presence of
9:09their enemies, they don't hunger and
9:12thirst for righteousness anymore. And
9:14the gifts of God, when seen wrongly, can
9:18become a trap and a snare. Let their
9:21table become a snare.
9:23So God didn't cause the sin. He put a
9:25table in front of them. But the way they
9:27looked at the table, God's gifts became
9:30a substitute for God himself.
9:33God's past grace became a substitute for
9:36walking in grace today.
9:38And this is the transgression.
9:41I say then, they did not stumble so as
9:44to fall, did they? May it never be.
9:48Paul is asking, did they reject God so
9:51as to be hopelessly damned? No.
9:55They did not stumble so as to fall out
9:58of the calling that is still hanging
10:00over their life.
10:02That calling is still there and they can
10:03still walk in it today.
10:07They did not stumble so as to fall, did
10:09they? May it never be.
10:12But by their transgression, salvation
10:15has come to the Gentiles to make them
10:18jealous.
10:20So, God's purpose for the Jewish people
10:22is still there.
10:25Their transgression didn't remove his
10:27calling.
10:29It still stands.
10:31And yet, because they rejected God's
10:35grace,
10:37God used even that
10:40to accomplish an opportunity of
10:42salvation to the Gentiles.
10:44When did Paul start preaching the gospel
10:46to the Gentiles?
10:49When the Jews rejected his message.
10:52So, in this we see that their rejection,
10:55the Jewish people rejecting the gospel,
10:58was actually an opportunity of grace for
11:00the Gentiles.
11:02And even that,
11:04the maturity of a Gentile church, is
11:07going to provoke the Jews to come back
11:10to what they rejected. So, God is
11:12saying, the calling on the Jewish people
11:14stands.
11:16But when they reject, I'm going to go
11:18build something that's going to be so
11:19powerful they can't reject it anymore.
11:23So, his whole point is, I'm sticking
11:25with you. I'm going to keep reaching
11:27out.
11:28And it's up to you whether you're going
11:29to accept it or not, but I still have a
11:31plan and a purpose for you.
11:36>> [clears throat]
11:38>> I say then, they did not stumble so as
11:41to fall, did they?
11:43May it never be.
11:45But by their transgression, salvation
11:47has come to the Gentiles
11:50to make them, the Jewish people, jealous
11:54by what the Gentiles become through
11:56grace,
11:58apart from the law.
12:00Now, if their transgression is riches
12:02for the world,
12:04and their failure is riches for the
12:07Gentiles,
12:09how much more
12:10will their fulfillment be?
12:13So, the calling is still on them.
12:16The calling is still there. They can
12:18still become what God has envisioned
12:22from Abraham to this present day.
12:25And when they become that,
12:27their
12:28acceptance of Jesus, their repentance,
12:31their life in the spirit and grace, is
12:34going to be more
12:36for the world and the Gentiles than all
12:38of their rejection ever could have been.
12:41How much more will their fulfillment be?
12:44But I am speaking to you who are
12:46Gentiles.
12:48In as much then as I am
12:51an apostle of Gentiles,
12:53I magnify my ministry.
12:57Why?
12:58If somehow
13:00I might move to jealousy my fellow
13:04countrymen and save some of them.
13:09So, Paul's saying, "God called me to be
13:12an apostle to the Gentiles, and I'm
13:14going to make this garden so fruitful
13:17that the fruitless will look over the
13:18wall,
13:19and even if some say, 'I want to be part
13:21of that,'
13:23then I prove that I'm not just an
13:24apostle to the Gentiles, but I am a
13:27witness to the Jews of what salvation is
13:30supposed to be.
13:33For if their rejection is the
13:35reconciliation of the world, what will
13:37their acceptance be but life from the
13:40dead?
13:43So in this, he repeats what he said two
13:45verses earlier,
13:47that their grafting back in will mean
13:49more for the Gentiles than their
13:52severance.
13:53And here he says, "If their rejection
13:56brought reconciliation for the world,
13:59what will their acceptance be but life
14:02from the dead?" What does that mean? It
14:04means that it will be life for from the
14:06dead for the Jews who repent and accept
14:09Jesus as Messiah.
14:11But it also means something else.
14:14It means that when they start coming
14:17en masse,
14:19that's going to be life from the dead
14:22for the Gentile church. That will mark
14:25the end-time revival, revitalization
14:30of the church at large.
14:32Because their severance was grace for
14:35the Gentiles, and their reintegration
14:38will also be life from the dead for the
14:40Gentiles.
14:41They're going to bring something to the
14:43church
14:44that's going to help bring it back to
14:45life.
14:46They're going to bring a simplicity and
14:48coherence to the understanding of God
14:51that we have lost in the Gentile church.
14:53They're going to bring a sense of
14:54community and being a people that we
14:57have lost in the Gentile church.
15:00They're going to bring a value and a
15:02history and an ethic of suffering that
15:05we have lost in the Gentile church.
15:07They're going to bring an exuberance and
15:09dynamism of Davidic praise and worship
15:13that we have lost in the Gentile church.
15:15They're going to bring a tradition of
15:18wisdom as life and wholeness that
15:21replaces the fragmentary analytical
15:24wisdom of the Greeks
15:26that the church has supplanted. They're
15:28going to bring a lot of things that are
15:31essential
15:32that have been
15:34processed out of the church in its
15:37over-processed Gentile iteration. It's
15:40going to be life from the dead.
15:42If the first piece of dough is holy, the
15:46lump is also. And if the root is holy,
15:49the branches are too.
15:52But if some of the branches were broken
15:54off
15:55and you, being a wild olive
15:58were grafted in among them
16:00>> [clears throat]
16:01>> and became partaker with them of the
16:05rich root of the olive tree
16:09do not be arrogant
16:11toward the branches.
16:13But if you are arrogant, remember
16:16that it is not you who supports the
16:18root, but the root supports you.
16:22So Paul is saying to the Gentiles you
16:26don't have salvation except through
16:30the covenant of promise that comes
16:33through Abraham and the remnant.
16:36And yeah, branches were broken off of
16:39that salvation. And when they were
16:41broken off, the gospel came to the
16:43Gentiles. Praise God. But don't be
16:45arrogant.
16:47You don't support the root, the root
16:49undergirds and supports you.
16:52Your whole faith in Jesus taps back into
16:56the soil of Abraham and Moses and all of
17:00those, David and the rest, who have
17:02walked by faith
17:04until now. So don't be arrogant, he's
17:07saying. Now, I want you to listen. Is
17:10Paul giving us a Calvinistic
17:13determinism in this? No. He's placing
17:16the responsibility squarely on the
17:18individual because the root is
17:21predestined, but the branch is not.
17:24And if you stay in the root, you're
17:26predestined with it. But if you sever
17:28yourself through arrogance, you're going
17:30to be lost.
17:31But even if you are lost, you can be
17:33grafted back in because the root is
17:36predestined. And the predestined promise
17:39of God attaches to the promise of those
17:42who are born of the spirit. That's the
17:44key. Here we go.
17:48Do not be arrogant toward the branches,
17:50but if you are arrogant, remember that
17:52it is not you who supports the root, but
17:54the root supports you. You will say
17:56then, branches were broken off so that I
17:59might be grafted in.
18:02Quite right. They were broken off
18:06for [snorts] their unbelief.
18:12They weren't broken off because in the
18:13secret councils of heaven, like Mingley,
18:16Joseph Mingley, God went, "Heaven,
18:19hell."
18:20No.
18:21They were broken off for their unbelief.
18:25But you stand
18:28by your faith.
18:30He doesn't say you stand by God's
18:33choice.
18:35That's partially true, but God's choice
18:37is his predestination of the root,
18:41which is Christ.
18:42The root of Jesse. Amen.
18:45But you stand by your faith. Do not be
18:49conceited,
18:51but fear.
18:53Did Paul just tell us to be cautious?
18:57Did he just tell us to be
18:59fearful? Mhm.
19:01Mhm. Because unlike blinded evangelical
19:05Christians, he doesn't think faith is a
19:08static thing.
19:10He thinks it's an ongoing relationship
19:12of trust with God through the spirit.
19:15So, he's telling them, "Don't be
19:16arrogant, but fear.
19:19Don't be conceited. Conceited assumes
19:22that your place in the tree
19:24is secured, that you don't have to keep
19:27your faith, that you don't have to bear
19:29fruit, that no branches can be cut off."
19:32Isn't this what Jesus said in John 15?
19:36That every branch that does not bear
19:38fruit is cut off.
19:41But the branches that do bear fruit,
19:42they're pruned. Everybody gets cut.
19:45Everybody suffers the blade,
19:48but some suffer to make them more
19:50fruitful. Others suffer because they've
19:52lost faith and they're no longer bearing
19:54fruit at all.
19:56It's only by faith that we can please
19:59God. This is the victory that overcomes
20:01the world, our faith.
20:04Without faith, it's impossible to please
20:05God.
20:06Which is to say, without faith, it's
20:08impossible to bear fruit.
20:10So, he's saying, "Don't be conceited.
20:12Don't act like you can't be cut off.
20:15Do not be conceited, but fear. For if
20:18God did not spare the natural branches,
20:21he will not spare you, either."
20:27Behold then the kindness and the
20:29severity of God.
20:32To those who fell, severity.
20:34But to you,
20:36God's kindness,
20:38if you continue in his kindness.
20:42Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
20:49You will be cut off if you don't
20:51continue in what God gave you.
20:54This is not eternal security.
20:57This is caution. This is the fear of the
21:00Lord.
21:03And they also,
21:04if they do not continue in their
21:06unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is
21:11able to graft them in again.
21:14So, this is not based on whether God's
21:17licking his finger and putting it in the
21:18wind and deciding whether you're fodder
21:20for hell or
21:21a vessel for heaven. That's not what
21:23this is at all.
21:25This is God saying, "I've given you
21:27every chance. I've given you a root.
21:30I've given you a predestined people.
21:32I've given you a predestined family.
21:35I've given you the predestined Jesus,
21:37the predestined body of Christ, and that
21:40body of Christ is eternally secure.
21:44But, your membership in it is not.
21:47Nope.
21:48You are either a branch that continues
21:50in faith, pleases God, and bears fruit,
21:54or you're going to be cut off.
21:57Therefore, do not be conceited,
21:59complacent, apathetic,
22:02arrogant, but fear.
22:05Have a fear of God,
22:07so that the knife will just cut off what
22:09is dead on you instead of cutting you
22:11off from the body of Christ.
22:14And then he says, "They also,
22:16if they don't continue in their
22:17unbelief,
22:20they will be grafted in again."
22:24They're out because they don't have
22:25faith, and as soon as they have faith,
22:27they're back in.
22:28Does that sound like God's willy-nilly
22:30choice, or does that sound like it's up
22:33to us whether we're going to respond to
22:35the word with faith?
22:38They will be grafted in again, for God
22:40is able to graft them in again.
22:43For, if you were cut off from what is by
22:47nature a wild olive tree,
22:51and were grafted contrary to nature into
22:54a cultivated olive tree,
22:57how much more will these, who were the
22:59natural branches, be grafted into their
23:01own olive tree.
23:03I want to draw to your attention that he
23:05calls Israel
23:07the natural branches.
23:09They had a natural
23:11predestination, a natural election.
23:15And he's saying, "Listen, you guys were
23:18part of a tree that was condemned to
23:20hell.
23:22The Gentile tree is predestined to hell,
23:25and it still is.
23:27But God took his knife
23:29and cut us off of the tree of the nation
23:32and family
23:34that was leading us to hell, and he
23:35grafted us in to the tree and nation and
23:38family
23:39and promise made to Abraham that is
23:42predestined in Christ.
23:44So, stay part of the right tree."
23:48And he says, "These branches that were
23:49cut off, they're natural branches.
23:51They're going to have an easier time
23:53being grafted in than you would than you
23:54did as Gentiles. So, don't don't get
23:56arrogant.
24:00For I do not want you, brethren, to be
24:02uninformed of this mystery
24:06so that you will not be wise in your own
24:08estimation.
24:10That a partial hardening
24:13has happened to Israel
24:15until the fullness of the Gentiles has
24:18come in.
24:21Now, that is a phrase that is very
24:24specific,
24:25and it takes us all the way back
24:29to Luke 21:24.
24:33Do you remember what Jesus said in Luke?
24:35He said that Jerusalem,
24:38remember the the city he wept over
24:40because they didn't know what would make
24:42for their peace? Faith is what would
24:44make for their peace.
24:46Walking in his spirit, accepting him as
24:48Messiah would have made for their peace,
24:51but Jerusalem of peace, city of peace,
24:53didn't know what would make for for
24:55peace.
24:56They couldn't say, "Blessed is he who
24:57comes in the name of the Lord. That's
24:59what would have made for their peace.
25:01Amen. So, Jesus wept over him and he
25:03said Jerusalem was going to be trampled
25:05under foot by the Gentiles. That means
25:07they're going to be conquered and ruled
25:09by Gentiles.
25:10And Jesus uses a phrase that now Paul is
25:13using. Jesus says, "Until the time of
25:16the fullness of the Gentiles has come."
25:20What this means is that
25:22Jerusalem is going to reject Jesus.
25:25They're going to crucify Jesus. They're
25:27going to lose their temple.
25:29And the Gentiles are going to conquer
25:30them. It's all tied together.
25:33Okay? And they're going to be trampled
25:35under foot by the Gentiles.
25:37And for that whole time, for 1,800
25:40years, God's focus is going to be on the
25:43Gentiles.
25:45And like Paul, there's going to be a
25:46remnant of salvation from the Jews the
25:48whole time.
25:50But God's focus is going to be bringing
25:52the Gentile nations through the process
25:54that he brought the Jews through by the
25:56law and the prophets and the kings,
25:58right? So, that's what's been happening.
26:00We, the Gentile nations, have been ruled
26:02by a rod of iron for about 1,800 years.
26:06But then there's going to come this
26:08moment where God's focus is not going to
26:12be on reaching the heathen in the
26:16unchurched lands. His focus is going to
26:19be on the Jews.
26:22And that's when his Gentile focus is
26:24going to shift. And who are the Jews?
26:26Well, they're those who live by faith,
26:28whether Jew or Gentile ethnically, and
26:31they're the Jewish people as an ethnic
26:33family.
26:34Describes both.
26:36Amen.
26:37And so, when Jerusalem
26:40goes back into the hands of the Jews in
26:421967, that marks
26:45a closing of one era, one epoch. That
26:48marks the time of the closing of the
26:51Gentiles. God's not as focused on the
26:54unchurched heathen. Yes, by ones and
26:56twos and handfuls, they're going to keep
26:58coming like the Jews have been coming
27:00all along, but his focus is going to be
27:03be to bring revival to the church
27:07and to bring salvation to the Jewish
27:09people.
27:11Do you understand? So, Paul uses the
27:13same
27:14saying here. He says a partial hardening
27:16has happened to Israel until the
27:18fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
27:22And so, all Israel will be saved just as
27:25it is written.
27:26But remember, in chapter 9 verse 6, he
27:30says they are not all Israel who are of
27:33Israel, but only those who are walking
27:35by faith, who are children of the
27:37spirit, okay? So, when he says all
27:40Israel, that refers to
27:42the whole church of Gentiles who are
27:44saved and grafted into this new tree,
27:47and it refers to all the branches of
27:49ethnic Israel that are going to be
27:51grafted into this tree. It refers to the
27:53tree. It refers [clears throat]
27:55to Christ. It refers to the predestined
27:59body of Christ, the family covenantal
28:02family of God on the earth. If you're
28:04part of that, then you're part of the
28:07saved people.
28:10The deliverer will come from Zion. He
28:13will remove ungodliness from Jacob. This
28:16is my covenant with them when I take
28:18away their sins.
28:20From the standpoint of the gospel, they,
28:23the Jews, are enemies for your sake
28:26because when they rejected, you got the
28:28message. But from the standpoint of
28:30God's choice,
28:32they are beloved
28:34for the sake of the fathers.
28:36God had a purpose, a choice, an election
28:39on Israel, the natural election for the
28:42natural branches, and they're still
28:44special to God. He still has a purpose.
28:48What is God's purpose for Israel as a
28:50community, ethnic Israel?
28:53To restore
28:55the pieces of the root that the Gentile
28:57church has lost. To restore the
29:00foundational understandings that the
29:03Gentile church has lost. And in their
29:06return to bring about a revival.
29:13For the gifts and calling of God are
29:16irrevocable.
29:18Do you know what this word irrevocable
29:20means? It means it doesn't go it it
29:23doesn't get taken back. Revoke is the
29:25root of the word irrevocable.
29:28So if I give you this cup of tea and
29:30before you can take a sip I take it
29:32back. That means I revoked my gift.
29:37But Paul is saying the gifts and
29:39callings of God are irrevocable. God
29:42doesn't give and take back.
29:45He gives.
29:47And [music] you're gifted. Whether
29:49you're good or you're bad, you've got a
29:51gift.
29:52But what you do with it,
29:54>> [music]
29:54>> that's the question.
29:56And God's gift of purpose and calling
30:00to the family of Israel, he's not taking
30:02it back. It's theirs.
30:05The calling still stands. They have not
30:07stumbled so as to fall out of his
30:09purpose. They can still come back in and
30:13if even a remnant does that,
30:16his purpose stands.
30:19For just as you
30:21once were disobedient to God,
30:24>> [music]
30:24>> but now have been shown mercy because of
30:27their disobedience,
30:29so these also now have been disobedient
30:31that because of the mercy [music] shown
30:33to you, they also may now be shown
30:36mercy.
30:38So you're going to go through something
30:40and they're going to get the same mercy
30:42that you got.
30:44They're going to get a second chance.
30:46For God has shut up all in disobedience
30:50that he might show mercy to all.
30:55Oh,
30:56the depth
30:57of the riches
30:59both of the wisdom and the knowledge of
31:01God.
31:02How unsearchable are [music] his
31:04judgments
31:05and unfathomable are his ways.
31:10For who has known the mind of the Lord?
31:13Who became his counselor?
31:16Or who has first given to him
31:19that it might be [music] paid back to
31:20him again?
31:22For
31:24from him and through him and to him
31:28are all things.
31:30To him be glory
31:33forever.
31:34Amen.
31:38>> [music]

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