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Election Christ's Honor and Our Blessing (2 Thessalonians 213–17) John MacArthur GTYtv · THE BELIEVER'S CHURCH | Let’s Build Our Faith Together

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  Speaker 1: Today on Grace To You. He preached the gospel so
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  Speaker 1: that those who were chosen could hear it and believe it. Prompted, obviously,
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  Speaker 1: by the Holy Spirit under the preaching of the gospel,
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  Speaker 1: they would believe because they were the chosen. We have
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  Speaker 1: all spiritual blessings. What in the world makes us so
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  Speaker 1: embarrassed about the gospel? For I determined to know nothing
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  Speaker 1: among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Second Thessalonians,
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  Speaker 1: chapter 2, and I'll begin reading at verse 13. But
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  Speaker 1: we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren,
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  Speaker 1: beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and
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  Speaker 1: faith in the truth. It was for this He called
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  Speaker 1: you through our gospel that you may gain the glory
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  Speaker 1: of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brethren, stand firm
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  Speaker 1: and hold to the traditions which you were taught, whether
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  Speaker 1: by word of mouth or by letter from us. Now
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  Speaker 1: may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father
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  Speaker 1: who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and
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  Speaker 1: good hope by grace comfort and strengthen your hearts in
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  Speaker 1: every good work and word. No doctrine is more loved
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  Speaker 1: and more resented at the same time than the doctrine
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  Speaker 1: of eternal election, divine sovereign choice, predestination. In fact, there
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  Speaker 1: are those who suggest that this doctrine is actually devilish.
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  Speaker 1: Rationally and emotionally, it seems unfair and destructive of free
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  Speaker 1: will and human autonomy and choice. But ultimately, according to Scripture,
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  Speaker 1: it's not our reason, nor our sentiment, nor our feelings,
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  Speaker 1: nor our desires that determine what is true. God has
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  Speaker 1: already determined that. And it is further unacceptable to make
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  Speaker 1: God in our image, to design Him to fit our
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  Speaker 1: own ideas of what He should be, what He should do,
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  Speaker 1: and what He should not do, making your own perhaps
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  Speaker 1: more comfortable, more rational, more human God, twisting your own
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  Speaker 1: instincts about God is essentially an assault on Him, and
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  Speaker 1: it misrepresents Him. And such misrepresentation of God, simply stated,
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  Speaker 1: corrupts our understanding, therefore corrupts our worship, corrupts our service,
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  Speaker 1: and can be not just ignorant, but even blasphemous. And
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  Speaker 1: since human reason fell with the rest of our faculties
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  Speaker 1: in Adam's sin, it is flawed. While it still functions
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  Speaker 1: with a measure of residual effectiveness and a sense of
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  Speaker 1: justice and morality, it is part of human flesh and
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  Speaker 1: must ultimately submit to divine truth in the unfallen, uncorrupted revelation.
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  Speaker 1: that God has given us of Himself. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to try to make a case for this doctrine of
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  Speaker 1: sovereign election predestination by reason, because that would be to
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  Speaker 1: fall into the trap that I've just described. I just
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  Speaker 1: want you to hear what Scripture says. Scripture is unambiguous
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  Speaker 1: about this, and maybe even more importantly, it is unembarrassed
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  Speaker 1: about it. Scripture is pure and clear and relentless and
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  Speaker 1: repetitive that God saves by His own purpose and His
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  Speaker 1: own power and His own will for His own plan.
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  Speaker 1: So listen to some Scriptures, and then we'll look at some,
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  Speaker 1: and then we'll make commentary on some others. Hear Matthew 11, 27,
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  Speaker 1: the words of our Lord. No one knows the Father
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  Speaker 1: except the Son, and anyone to whom the Son wills
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  Speaker 1: to reveal Him. In other words, no one knows the
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  Speaker 1: Father unless the Son chooses to reveal Him to that person.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to Matthew 22, 14, for many are called, but
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  Speaker 1: few are chosen. In Acts 13.48 we read, when the
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  Speaker 1: Gentiles heard that, they began rejoicing and glorifying the Word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, and listen to this, and as many
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  Speaker 1: as had been appointed to eternal life believed. That is
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  Speaker 1: an unambiguous statement. As many as had been appointed to
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  Speaker 1: eternal life believed. Now I had you listen to those.
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  Speaker 1: But you might want to look at a few Scriptures
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  Speaker 1: as well, Romans chapter 11 and verse 4. But what
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  Speaker 1: is the divine response to Him? I have kept for
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  Speaker 1: Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee
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  Speaker 1: to Baal. That is the Word of the Lord back
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  Speaker 1: in 1 Kings. The Lord has chosen 7,000 men who
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  Speaker 1: have not bowed the knee to Baal. Verse 5, in
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  Speaker 1: the same way then, there has also come to be
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  Speaker 1: at the present time a remnant, that is, a remnant
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  Speaker 1: of believers according to God's gracious choice. If there is
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  Speaker 1: a believing remnant, and there is, it is because God
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  Speaker 1: graciously chose them. And He did it by grace, and
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  Speaker 1: if it is by grace, verse 6 says, it is
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  Speaker 1: no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is
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  Speaker 1: no longer grace. What then? What Israel is seeking it
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  Speaker 1: has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it
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  Speaker 1: and the rest were hardened. Blunt, straightforward. Those who were
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  Speaker 1: chosen obtained salvation, the rest In Ephesians, chapter 1, I
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  Speaker 1: want you to look at verse 3, and we'll read
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  Speaker 1: down a little into this chapter. Blessed be the God
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  Speaker 1: and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed
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  Speaker 1: us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Then verse 4, just as He chose us in Him
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  Speaker 1: before the foundation of the world. that we would be
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  Speaker 1: holy and blameless before Him. In love, He predestinated us
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  Speaker 1: to adoption as sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according
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  Speaker 1: to the kind intention of His will. God is blessed
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  Speaker 1: because He is the source of all blessings in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: They came to us because He chose us before the
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  Speaker 1: foundation of the world, and in that choice that we
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  Speaker 1: would be holy and blameless before Him. That choice was
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  Speaker 1: made out of love, and in love He predestined us
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  Speaker 1: to be adopted as His own sons, and all of
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  Speaker 1: it according to the kind intention of His will, so that,
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  Speaker 1: verse 6, it would be to the praise of the
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  Speaker 1: glory of His grace which He freely bestowed on us.
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  Speaker 1: What's this all about? The Trinity exists eternally. They're existing
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  Speaker 1: and they're alone. There is no universe. There is no creation,
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  Speaker 1: there's just the triune God. Why all this? What is
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  Speaker 1: this all about? Why this redemptive plan? Why creation? Let's
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  Speaker 1: go a little bit deeper. Turn to Titus chapter 1,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm going to take you into the grand plan
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  Speaker 1: of God. which, by the way, is not about you
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  Speaker 1: and me, far more transcendent than that. Paul understood it,
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  Speaker 1: and at the beginning of the letter he writes to Titus,
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  Speaker 1: he says, Paul, a slave of God and an apostle
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. He was both a slave of God
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  Speaker 1: in the largest, most defining sense, but in that sense
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  Speaker 1: of his direct ministry. He was a messenger of the
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  Speaker 1: gospel of Jesus Christ. And he preached that gospel, and
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  Speaker 1: he says why he did it in verse 1, for
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  Speaker 1: the faith of those chosen of God. He preached the
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  Speaker 1: gospel so that those who were chosen could hear it
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  Speaker 1: and believe it, prompted obviously by the Holy Spirit under
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  Speaker 1: the preaching of the gospel. They would believe because they
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  Speaker 1: were the chosen. So he saw his apostolic ministry as
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  Speaker 1: preaching Jesus Christ in the fullness of His gospel so
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  Speaker 1: that the chosen could hear, and under the prompting of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit, believe. And they cannot believe without the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: They cannot believe without the gospel. So the apostle says,
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  Speaker 1: preaching the gospel so that the elect can hear it
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  Speaker 1: and believe. And then beyond that, once the elect hear
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  Speaker 1: it and believe, then His ministry was to bring the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of the truth, divine revelation, which is according to godliness.
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  Speaker 1: So He moves from salvation in the initial sense to sanctification.
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  Speaker 1: My ministry is to preach so that those who are
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  Speaker 1: chosen can hear and believe, and then now that those
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  Speaker 1: who are chosen hear and believe, my responsibility is to
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  Speaker 1: bring to the chosen and the redeemed the truth that
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  Speaker 1: makes them godly. And then the third dimension of His
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  Speaker 1: apostolic ministry was to provide for them, verse 2, the
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  Speaker 1: hope of eternal life. So his goal was to preach
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  Speaker 1: things that related to salvation, the gospel and salvation, that
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  Speaker 1: related to sanctification, the revelation of God that leads to holiness,
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  Speaker 1: and then as well to preach about glorification, to preach
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  Speaker 1: about our eternal hope. So he was really caught up
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  Speaker 1: in all the dimensions of salvation. That was his ministry.
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  Speaker 1: But what I want you to see is in verse 2,
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  Speaker 1: that this ministry of saving, sanctifying, and glorifying people was
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  Speaker 1: something God, verse 2, who cannot lie, promised. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't know what your translation says, but the Greek says,
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  Speaker 1: before time began. This is something God promised before time began.
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  Speaker 1: God promised that He would save and sanctify and glorify
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  Speaker 1: people before there were any people, before there was anything
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  Speaker 1: but God. So the question comes then, to whom did
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  Speaker 1: He promise it? There's only God, the eternal God. So
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  Speaker 1: to whom does God make this promise of a redeemed humanity?
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  Speaker 1: The answer is very direct. If you look back one
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  Speaker 1: book to 2 Timothy chapter 1 verse 9, Paul says
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  Speaker 1: it was God, the power of God at the end
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  Speaker 1: of verse 8. The power of God, the gospel and
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  Speaker 1: the power of God, it was God who by that
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  Speaker 1: gospel and in His power saved us. and called us
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  Speaker 1: with a holy calling, not according to our works, but
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  Speaker 1: according to His own purpose and grace, which was granted
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  Speaker 1: us in Christ Jesus. And here's the exact same Greek
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  Speaker 1: phrase as Titus 1, 2, from before time began. So
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  Speaker 1: Titus says God made a promise before time began. Here
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  Speaker 1: we go back to the same phrase, before time began.
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  Speaker 1: And we find out that God made a promise to
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  Speaker 1: His Son, Christ Jesus. The promise was made then from
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  Speaker 1: the Father to the Son, that the Father would give
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  Speaker 1: to the Son a redeemed humanity of people who would
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  Speaker 1: be saved and sanctified and glorified. Perhaps the best way
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  Speaker 1: to understand this, and it's faithful to biblical terminology, is
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  Speaker 1: that the Father out of love for the Son, sought
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  Speaker 1: to give the Son a gift to express that love. Look,
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  Speaker 1: you can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.
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  Speaker 1: And the infinite, incomprehensible love of the Father for the
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  Speaker 1: Son brought the Father to the point where He wanted
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  Speaker 1: to give to the Son an expression of His love.
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  Speaker 1: And that expression was going to be a bride for
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  Speaker 1: His Son, a bride for His Son, a bride made
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  Speaker 1: up of a whole redeemed humanity that didn't even exist
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  Speaker 1: in a universe that didn't even exist. But from that
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  Speaker 1: very moment of the promise, God determined that He would create,
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  Speaker 1: He determined who He would create, and He determined who
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  Speaker 1: He would choose to be a part of that bride.
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  Speaker 1: And He wrote their names down in the Lamb's Book
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  Speaker 1: of Life before the foundation. of the world, the Father
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  Speaker 1: choosing a bride for His Son. That's what redemptive history
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  Speaker 1: is about. It's not so much about us. It's not
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  Speaker 1: so much that God loves us as that God loves
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  Speaker 1: the Son and places us in the Son of His
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  Speaker 1: love so that we can lavish on the Son our
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  Speaker 1: worship as an extension of God's love to Him. So
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  Speaker 1: every believer, everyone who's come to salvation is a gift
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  Speaker 1: from the Father to the Son as an expression of love.
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  Speaker 1: And we are all unworthy. It's not about us. It's
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  Speaker 1: not that we were so lovable, because we were chosen
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  Speaker 1: before we even existed. The whole thing is to bring
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  Speaker 1: a bride into heaven, to put a glorious bridegroom on display.
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  Speaker 1: It's really a staggering way to understand redemption and salvation.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about us. We are simply those whom the
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  Speaker 1: Lord chose to give to His Son. He wrote our
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  Speaker 1: names down before anything existed, predetermined by love to give
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  Speaker 1: us as love gifts to the Son. He calls us,
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  Speaker 1: draws us, the Son receives us. guards us, holds us,
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  Speaker 1: keeps us, loses none, and raises us at the last
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  Speaker 1: day for eternal glory, so that we can all go
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  Speaker 1: to heaven as the glorious bride of Christ in the
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  Speaker 1: bridal city of the New Jerusalem described in the book
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  Speaker 1: of Revelation, and there as the bride of the Son
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  Speaker 1: of God We will serve Him and worship Him and
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  Speaker 1: adore Him and honor Him and love Him forever and
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  Speaker 1: ever and ever, and that is the Father's purpose in
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  Speaker 1: bringing us to glory. I don't know how you respond
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  Speaker 1: to that doctrine, but only ignorance would hate that. The
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  Speaker 1: benefits of this doctrine are so staggering as to be
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  Speaker 1: beyond words, but let me make an The doctrine of
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  Speaker 1: sovereign election is the most pride-crushing doctrine. It is pride-crushing
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  Speaker 1: because it's all of God. Listen to 1 Corinthians, chapter 1,
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  Speaker 1: verse 26. Consider your calling, calling to salvation by God.
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  Speaker 1: There were not many wise according to the flesh, not
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  Speaker 1: many mighty, not many noble. Why are there not many wise?
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  Speaker 1: Why are there not many noble? Why are not the
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  Speaker 1: elite and the powerful of the world believers? Because, verse 27,
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  Speaker 1: God has chosen the foolish of the world to shame
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  Speaker 1: the wise. God has chosen the weak of the world
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  Speaker 1: to shame the things which are strong, and the base
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  Speaker 1: of the world, and the despised. God has chosen the
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  Speaker 1: things that are not so that He may nullify the
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  Speaker 1: things that are. Why are we not the powerful and
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  Speaker 1: the elite? Because God chose the elite. foolish, the weak,
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  Speaker 1: the base, the despised, and the nothings. Why would He
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  Speaker 1: do that? So that no man may boast before God.
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  Speaker 1: Then in verse 30 He says this, By His doing,
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  Speaker 1: God's doing, you're in Christ Jesus. By His doing, you're
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  Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God,
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  Speaker 1: and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption, so that just as
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  Speaker 1: it is written, let him who boasts, boast in the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: It is the most pride-crushing of all doctrines. Secondly, it
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  Speaker 1: is the most God-exalting doctrine. It gives all the glory
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  Speaker 1: to God. It declares that choice, regeneration, calling, faith, repentance, reconciliation, adoption, sanctification,
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  Speaker 1: and glorification are all the work of God who, according
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  Speaker 1: to Psalm 110 3, made us willing in the day
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  Speaker 1: of His power so that we all say, not unto us,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord, not unto us. but to Thy name give glory.
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  Speaker 1: It is the most God-exalting doctrine, and so it fuels
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  Speaker 1: our worship, doesn't it? Thirdly, it is the most joy-producing doctrine.
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  Speaker 1: It brings the ultimate supreme joy. There's no hope of
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  Speaker 1: salvation apart from sovereign choice by God. Psalm 65 verse
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  Speaker 1: 4 says,' Blessed is the man whom You choose.' and
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  Speaker 1: cause to approach you that He may dwell in your courts.
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  Speaker 1: What joy that God has set His love on us
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  Speaker 1: from eternity past and guaranteed it into eternity future. I
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  Speaker 1: have loved you with an everlasting love. This transcends all
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  Speaker 1: the petty disappointments of life. without question the most pride-crushing, God-exalting,
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  Speaker 1: joy-producing doctrine. It is the most privilege-granting doctrine. It grants
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  Speaker 1: us incomprehensible blessings, Ephesians 1, 3, blessed with all spiritual
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  Speaker 1: blessings in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus, all spiritual blessings.
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  Speaker 1: We should not We should not be disturbed at all
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  Speaker 1: if we don't have everything this world or this life
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  Speaker 1: has to offer. We have all spiritual blessings, and we
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  Speaker 1: have an inheritance undefiled, unfading, laid up for us in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: It is the most holiness-prompting doctrine. It compels us to
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  Speaker 1: live holy. It is a holy calling. It is a
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  Speaker 1: holy calling. Colossians 3, verse 12,' So as those who
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  Speaker 1: have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on
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  Speaker 1: a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience, bearing
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  Speaker 1: with one another, forgiving each other. Whoever has a complaint
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  Speaker 1: against anyone, just as the Lord forgave you, so also
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  Speaker 1: should you Beyond all these things, put on love, which
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  Speaker 1: is the perfect bond of unity. Let the peace of
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  Speaker 1: Christ rule in your heart. Let the Word of Christ
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  Speaker 1: dwell in you richly with all wisdom, teaching and admonishing
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  Speaker 1: one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing
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  Speaker 1: with thankfulness in your hearts to the Lord. And whatever
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  Speaker 1: you do in word or deed, do all in the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to
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  Speaker 1: God the Father, as those who are chosen of God,
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  Speaker 1: holy and beloved. Wives, submit to your husbands. Husbands, love
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  Speaker 1: your wives. Children, obey your parents. Fathers, do not exasperate
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  Speaker 1: your children. Slaves, obey your masters. Masters, grant your slaves
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  Speaker 1: justice and fairness. Devote yourselves to prayer. Why? Because it's
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  Speaker 1: a holy calling. It's a holy calling. Again, Spurgeon said,
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  Speaker 1: Nothing under the gracious influence of the Holy Spirit can
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  Speaker 1: make a Christian more holy than the thought that he
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  Speaker 1: is chosen. Shall I sin, says Spurgeon, after God has
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  Speaker 1: chosen me? Shall I transgress after such love? Shall I
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  Speaker 1: go astray after so much loving kindness and tender mercy? No,
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  Speaker 1: my God, since You have chosen me, I will love You.
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  Speaker 1: I will live for You. I will give myself to You.
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  Speaker 1: to you forever solemnly consent to do your service. And finally,
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  Speaker 1: it is the most strength-giving doctrine. It makes us be
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  Speaker 1: at peace with every situation. And that's sort of where
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  Speaker 1: Paul lands at the end of the second chapter of
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  Speaker 1: 2 Thessalonians. We should always give thanks to God, verse 13,
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  Speaker 1: for you, because God has chosen you. for salvation, sanctification, calling,
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  Speaker 1: verse 14, to gain the glory of our Lord Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Verse 15, he says,' So then, brethren, stand firm, hold
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  Speaker 1: to the traditions which you were taught, whether by word
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  Speaker 1: of mouth when the apostles were speaking or by letter
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  Speaker 1: from us when it was written down.' And now there's
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  Speaker 1: no more word of mouth, we have it in the
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  Speaker 1: Word of God. in Scripture. Stand firm, hold to the
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  Speaker 1: Word of God. From the doctrine of election, you receive
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  Speaker 1: the most magnanimous, wide, deep, high, all-encompassing motive for life.
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  Speaker 1: It should produce holiness and gratitude and endless joy and
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  Speaker 1: good hope and strength to know that God has chosen
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  Speaker 1: you for eternal glory. And the benediction in verses 16
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  Speaker 1: and 17, now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and
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  Speaker 1: God our Father who has loved us and given us
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  Speaker 1: eternal comfort and good hope by grace. Comfort and strengthen
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  Speaker 1: your hearts in every good work and word. Amen and amen.
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  Speaker 1: You've heard us say many times, grace to you is
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  Speaker 1: committed to unleashing God's truth one verse at a time.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord Jesus Christ is the head of this ministry,
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  Speaker 1: and we desire to labor and serve as unto him.
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  Speaker 1: Our role is not to supplant the local church's ministry,
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  Speaker 1: but to support it and you by providing resources for
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  Speaker 1: those seeking to know the truth of God's word. We
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