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Romans 9:1-5 · Providence Baptist Church - Sermons

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  Well, a very good morning to you all.
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  I'll ask that you take out your copy of God's Word and turn to Paul's letter to the Romans.
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  ! We're going to continue our study today, beginning in chapter 9.
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  And before I go further, I want to distract you for a moment from this in the hopes that you won't be distracted later.
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  And I don't even know if you can really see it anymore, but I look like I got punched in the face.
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  My nose is a bit bruised and swollen.
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  I did, in fact, get in a fight with a deer stand, and it won.
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  And I've noticed this morning that as the swelling has gone down, I think my nose is a little more crooked than it was before.
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  And I'm told that beautiful people have symmetrical faces.
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  I already wasn't a beautiful person, so I don't really care.
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  I think my nose is a little off to this side after the fact.
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  But that's what happened here.
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  And now we can focus on what's going on in Paul's letter to the Romans, beginning in chapter 9.
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  Before we read that together, the first five verses is what we're going to study today.
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  I just want to remind you of where we've been in the book of Romans.
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  Starting out with the theme, chapter 1, verse 17, Paul says,
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  For in it, being the gospel, the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith.
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  As it is written, the righteous shall live by faith.
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  And he's been building a case in the first eight chapters that righteousness comes to us.
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  A right standing with God comes to us by faith alone.
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  There is nothing we can do to earn God's favor.
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  It is given to us freely as a gift.
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  And he works through.
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  The believers here in Rome would have been both Gentile and Jewish believers.
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  And so he deals with them, saying that the Gentiles have no excuse for their sin against God.
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  And the Jews have no excuse for their sin against God.
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  And chapter 3, none is righteous, no, not one.
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  Every one alive has transgressed God's law and have sinned against Him.
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  For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
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  Chapter 3, verse 23.
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  Then he goes on to talk about how we've been set free from the demands of the law to live by the Spirit.
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  And we work through some of the logic of that.
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  And he talks then in chapter 8 about what life in the Spirit looks like and how it's a struggle because we still carry around the burden of our flesh.
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  Our old self, the sinful self, still corrupts us.
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  But we have the Spirit of God in us now.
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  And there's a conflict that happens as we endeavor to live the Christian life.
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  And beyond that, we suffer externally as well.
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  So both internally and externally, there's going to be suffering in this world for Christians.
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  Life doesn't get easy when you place your faith in Christ.
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  And he finishes chapter 8 with beautiful and precious words, beginning in verse 28.
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  And we know that for those who love God, all things work together for good.
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  For those who are called according to His purpose.
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  For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined.
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  To be conformed to the image of a Son in order that He might be the firstborn among many brothers.
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  And those whom He predestined, He also called.
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  And those whom He called, He also justified.
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  And those whom He justified, He also glorified.
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  God is sovereign over all things in our life from the beginning to the very end.
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  He's written it out.
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  And it will come to pass.
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  Verse 31.
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  What then shall we say to these things?
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  If God is for us, who can be against us?
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  He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?
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  Who shall bring any charge against God's elect?
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  It is God who justifies.
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  Who is to condemn?
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  Christ Jesus is the one who died.
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  More than that, who was raised.
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  Who is at the right hand of God.
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  Who indeed is interceding for us.
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  Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
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  Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
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  Lord, as it is written, for your sake we are being killed all the day long.
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  We are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.
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  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.
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  For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come,
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  nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation,
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  will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
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  Because He is sovereign over our salvation.
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  Because we are His.
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  Because He made us His.
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  And therefore, that cannot change.
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  What a thing to rejoice in.
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  And then we come to the beginning of chapter 9.
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  And as I said last week,
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  I at times wish that He had just skipped to the beginning of 12.
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  And just not talked about the next three chapters.
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  It seems random.
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  It seems like an insertion in His flow of logic.
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  However, it's not.
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  So let's read the first five verses.
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  I am speaking the truth in Christ.
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  I am not lying.
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  My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit
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  that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
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  For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ
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  for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen, according to the flesh.
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  They are Israelites.
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  And to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants,
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  the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
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  To them belong the patriarchs.
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  And from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ,
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  who is God over all, blessed forever.
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  Amen.
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  Join me in a word of prayer.
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  Father God, I thank you this morning that we can come to your word,
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  that you have given us spiritual eyes to see it and hear it and apply it.
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  But I pray, Father, that you will help us with that this morning.
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  That you will find us coming humbly to be spoken to by you.
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  We won't stand over the word judging you,
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  but we will put ourselves underneath it and we will learn.
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  And I pray that our learning will lead to different living this day.
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  And I pray this in Christ's name.
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  Amen.
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  So Paul suddenly turns to speak of the Jews.
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  And he does so because he's anticipating the questions.
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  He's built this case all throughout Romans so far.
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  Justification by faith alone.
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  And he hammers it home at the end of eight.
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  Our salvation is God's doing.
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  And because of that, we are secure in him.
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  We are saved for future glory.
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  That is joy for life.
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  We can endure anything because we're gods.
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  But then people will say,
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  Paul himself, a Jew, would say,
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  But what about Israel?
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  What about the Jews?
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  Aren't they God's special people?
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  And we see that many of them are not receiving Christ.
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  Many of them are hardened and turning away.
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  Many of them still are practicing the old Jewish rites.
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  What about them?
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  And he laments that.
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  Verses 1 through 3.
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  Paul is burdened by it.
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  He has great sorrow and unceasing anguish on behalf of the Israelites.
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  He says that he's speaking the truth in Christ.
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  He's not lying.
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  His conscience bears witness in the Holy Spirit that this is how he feels.
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  And he knows that he can't give away his salvation.
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  But that if he could, he's saying, honestly, I would.
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  If I could trade myself for the sake of the nation of Israel, I would do it.
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  He says, for I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers.
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  He means that.
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  That's a guttural thing he's saying to us.
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  I would consider myself accursed, separated forever from Christ for the sake of the Israelites.
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  To the Jewish readers of this letter, those hearing it, read to them.
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  This would have been striking to them, Paul's opinion.
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  Paul's desire for them to come to Christ.
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  Because Paul reflected the heart of Moses.
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  The Jewish believers would have known their Old Testament.
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  And in Exodus 32, 31, this is after the golden calf has been created and worshipped in the valley.
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  Moses is up meeting with God on Mount Sinai, receiving the Ten Commandments.
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  You'll remember he comes down off the mountain, is so angered that he breaks the tablets.
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  He then gets a group of men that go through the people, slaying people, setting that right.
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  He goes back up on the mountain to meet with God.
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  He goes back to God's presence.
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  And he pleads for the people.
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  In Exodus 32, 31, it says,
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  So Moses returned to the Lord and said,
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  Alas, this people has sinned a great sin.
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  They have made for themselves gods of gold.
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  But now, if you will forgive their sin.
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  But if not, please blot me out of your book that you have written.
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  He says the same thing.
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  You can blot me out of your book for the sake of your people.
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  It's also the heart of Christ.
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  Matthew 23, 37, Jesus says,
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  Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it.
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  How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings?
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  And you were not willing.
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  So Paul properly cares for Israel.
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  They were God's special people.
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  And he goes on to tell us how it is that they were.
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  We see in verses 4 and 5 that Israel was uniquely blessed with eight privileges.
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  Uniquely blessed with eight privileges.
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  These were all privileges ultimately designed to show them Christ.
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  Paul is heartbroken because according to the flesh, by all human understanding,
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  if any people should have understood who Jesus was, it should have been the Israelites.
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  They had a picture constantly being painted before them of their great need of a savior.
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  And he came and so many missed it.
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  So from purely human understanding, they should have all followed Christ.
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  And yet so few did.
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  And he's going to work that out in further degree in the coming chapters
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  as he talks about God's sovereignty over the salvation of all of his people,
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  including those of us who are not Jewish.
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  I don't think anybody in here is probably of Jewish descent.
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  That's okay if you are.
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  I'm actually happy if you are.
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  That's fantastic.
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  I'm not.
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  I'm a Gentile.
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  The other category of people that the gospel has been carried to.
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  And you have here even Paul who has been given a special mission to the Gentiles,
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  but yet has this great love and concern for the Israelites.
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  So let's look at these eight privileges together.
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  As Israelites, they have received, number one, the adoption.
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  As God's people.
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  Isaiah 46, verses 3 and 4.
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  It says,
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  Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel,
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  who have been born by me from before your birth,
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  carried from the womb.
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  Even to your old age I am he,
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  and to gray hairs I will carry you.
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  I have made and I will bear.
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  I will carry and will save.
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  There's lots of language in the Old Testament,
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  speaking of Israel being the children of God.
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  And yet they missed that in him was the adoption that came through Christ.
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  Romans chapter 8.
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  We see in verse 15,
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  For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear,
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  but you have received the spirit of adoption as sons,
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  by whom we cry, Abba, Father.
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  Verse 16,
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  The spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.
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  And they missed that.
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  Secondly, the glory.
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  I had so much fun studying this little phrase.
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  To Israel belongs the glory.
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  What Paul is referring to is the visible presence of God.
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  The glory.
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  The visible presence.
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  It's not in the Bible anywhere,
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  but later on Jewish scholars have called this Shekinah.
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  So if you ever hear that phrase,
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  Shekinah glory.
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  Shekinah means the glory.
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  It's that visible thing that the Israelites could see
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  that represented God's magnificence.
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  And the first mention of it is in Exodus 13,
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  when the Israelites are led out of Egypt.
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  They were led by a pillar of cloud during the day
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  and a pillar of fire by night.
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  These are the best explanations we get of what these things looked like.
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  I do not know if it was actually billowy,
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  cumulus kind of cloud.
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  I highly doubt it.
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  But that was the words that they had to say.
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  It looked like a pillar of cloud by day
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  and a pillar of fire by night.
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  But what we tend to forget
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  is that for 40 years,
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  the Israelites wandered in the wilderness
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  and it was with them all that time.
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  The Sinai Desert is a really, really phenomenal place.
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  One of the most difficult places to survive on Earth.
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  The mean temperature throughout the year
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  in the Sinai Desert during the day
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  is 150 degrees Fahrenheit.
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  You know that?
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  I had no idea.
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  150 degrees.
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  The mean temperature at night in the Sinai Desert
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  is 35 degrees Fahrenheit.
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  So on an average day in the Sinai Desert,
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  the temperature change is 115 degrees.
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  Can you believe that?
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  God led his people,
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  which is estimated to be 2.5 to 3 million people,
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  into a place that we would have to be
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  so equipped to survive.
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  There have been a number of expeditions,
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  successful ones and not.
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  The ones that survived were very well equipped
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  to survive exploring the Sinai Desert
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  and yet God protected with a cover during the day
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  that cloud that spread out over the people
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  and shaded them,
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  2.5 to 3 million people,
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  during the day
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  and by night was as fire
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  and it kept them warm.
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  Isn't that phenomenal?
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  When Moses erected the tent of meeting,
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  there would be a funnel
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  that would come down from the cloud
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  and would rest over the tent of meeting.
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  And God used that to show them
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  when it was time for them to pick up and move
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  and when he wanted them to encamp.
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  So when that lifted,
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  they would pack everything up
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  and the cloud would move
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  and they would go with it.
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  And when it rested down,
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  that's where they would stop.
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  For 40 years,
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  God's glory dwelt with the people in this way.
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  That's one of the great miracles of the Bible.
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  Ask somebody to list off the miracles of the Bible.
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  Most people would totally miss that.
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  But for 40 years,
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  God cared for his people with his glory.
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  Sometime after they go into the promised land,
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  there's not a mention of it any longer.
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  But we do know
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  that God's glory dwelt in the Holy of Holies
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  when the tabernacle existed
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  and then when the temple was built.
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  Actually dwelt physically.
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  The priest, the high priest,
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  would go in there
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  and actually see this glory.
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  The cloud.
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  Not exactly sure what it looked like,
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  but would actually go
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  and see the physical glory of God.
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  And then we see in Ezekiel chapter 11
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  as a punishment to the people of Israel.
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  It finally leaves.
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  It's carried.
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  Ezekiel sees in a vision
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  the cherubim,
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  carry it to the Mount of Olives,
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  which interestingly is where Jesus also ascended,
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  carry it to the Mount of Olives,
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  and then the glory leaves.
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  It goes back to heaven.
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  Isn't that awesome?
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  When do we see it again?
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  When does it come back?
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  I hope your mind's running right now.
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  When does the glory of God,
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  the physical picture of who he is,
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  come back to his people?
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  The birth of Jesus Christ.
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  At the birth of Jesus Christ.
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  The shepherds sitting in the field,
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  and they were surrounded by glory,
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  not language.
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  That's when it comes back
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  and then manifests in Jesus himself.
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  2 Corinthians 4, 6 says,
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  For God who said,
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  Let light shine out of darkness,
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  has shone in our hearts
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  to give the light of the knowledge
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  of the glory of God
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  in the face of Jesus Christ.
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  Isn't that phenomenal?
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  So the Israelites,
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  those who Paul is lamenting over here,
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  had this picture
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  that finally was realized in Christ.
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  He came and he walked amongst them.
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  And then he ascended
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  from the Mount of Olives.
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  And guess what?
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  He's coming back.
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  1 Thessalonians 4, 17 says,
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  Then we who are alive,
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  who are left,
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  will be caught up together
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  with them in the clouds
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  to meet the Lord in the air.
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  And so we will always be with the Lord.
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  And this would be read or rendered
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  with them in the cloud.
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  The Greek term used here
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  is the same Greek term used
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  in the Septuagint,
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  which the Septuagint
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  is the Greek translation
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  of the Hebrew Old Testament.
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  It's the same word used
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  of the glory.
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  The cloud,
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  the fire that led
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  the Israelites,
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  that covered them,
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  it's the same word used.
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  So,
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  for Thessalonians,
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  Paul's not saying
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  that we're going to be
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  all sopping wet
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  because we're going to be
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  in the clouds,
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  right?
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  But we're going to be
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  enveloped by God.
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  I don't know what it's going to look like,
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  but by the glory
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  of the Lord.
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  That's phenomenal.
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  And they had this picture.
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  And those who were alive
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  in this day
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  knew this.
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  They had a history
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  told to them
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  of how God had dealt with them.
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  And they missed the fact
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  that it was
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  the Christ.
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  Number three,
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  they had the covenants.
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  God made many promises
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  to the people of Israel
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  throughout the Old Testament.
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  The three major ones
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  are the Abrahamic covenant,
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  the Mosaic,
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  and the Davidic.
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  Right?
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  So to Abraham,
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  he gave the covenant of blessing,
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  which is found in Genesis 12,
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  2 and 3.
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  To Moses,
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  the covenant of the law,
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  Exodus chapters 19 through 21.
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  To David,
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  the covenant
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  of an eternal kingdom,
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  2 Samuel 7,
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  8 through 16.
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  These were the promises
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  given to the people.
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  Acts 3, 25 and 26
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  is when Peter's preaching
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  on the day of Pentecost.
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  And he says,
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  You are the sons of the prophets
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  and of the covenant
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  that God made with your fathers,
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  saying to Abraham,
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  And in your offspring
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  shall all the families
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  of the earth be blessed.
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  God,
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  having raised up his servant,
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  sent him to you first
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  to bless you
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  by turning every one of you
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  from your wickedness.
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  The covenants
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  were given
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  as a picture
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  of what was to be fulfilled
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  in Christ.
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  Chapter 9,
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  verse 6.
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  Drawing beyond
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  where we are today,
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  but Paul says,
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  It is not as though
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  the word of God
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  has failed,
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  for not all who are
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  descended from Israel
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  belong to Israel.
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  The covenant promises
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  of God
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  have extended beyond
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  just the nation of Israel
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  as they understood it
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  to the true Israel,
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  the church.
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  We get to get into
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  all of that
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  in a greater degree later.
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  But the covenants
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  were meant
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  to show us
• 20:40
  that these promises
• 20:41
  that God made
• 20:42
  would not fail,
• 20:43
  but they just
• 20:44
  looked different
• 20:45
  than the Israelites thought.
• 20:47
  the fulfillment
• 20:48
  of them
• 20:48
  was not
• 20:49
  what they
• 20:50
  expected.
• 20:53
  Number four,
• 20:55
  the giving of the law,
• 20:56
  which was
• 20:56
  God's standard
• 20:57
  of righteousness.
• 20:58
  This came
• 20:59
  to the Israelites
• 21:00
  and told them,
• 21:01
  this is how you must live
• 21:02
  to be found right
• 21:03
  in me,
• 21:05
  and was meant
• 21:05
  to teach them
• 21:06
  that there was no way
• 21:08
  they could possibly
• 21:09
  fulfill the law.
• 21:10
  That's where
• 21:11
  the sacrificial system
• 21:12
  came in,
• 21:13
  all as a shadow
• 21:14
  of what was to come
• 21:15
  in Jesus Christ,
• 21:17
  the spotless land,
• 21:18
  the perfect sacrifice
• 21:19
  for sins.
• 21:22
  Galatians 3,
• 21:23
  10-14,
• 21:24
  it says,
• 21:24
  For all who rely
• 21:24
  on works of the law
• 21:25
  are under a curse.
• 21:26
  For it is written,
• 21:27
  Cursed be everyone
• 21:28
  who does not abide
• 21:29
  by all things
• 21:30
  written in the book
• 21:30
  of the law
• 21:31
  and do them.
• 21:32
  Now it is evident
• 21:33
  that no one justified
• 21:34
  before God
• 21:34
  by the law,
• 21:35
  for the righteous
• 21:36
  shall live
• 21:36
  by faith.
• 21:38
  But the law
• 21:38
  is not of faith,
• 21:39
  rather the one
• 21:40
  who does them
• 21:40
  shall live by faith.
• 21:42
  Christ redeemed us
• 21:43
  from the curse of the law
• 21:43
  by becoming a curse
• 21:44
  for us.
• 21:45
  For it is written,
• 21:46
  Cursed is everyone
• 21:47
  who hanged on a tree,
• 21:48
  so that in Christ Jesus
• 21:50
  the blessing of Abraham
• 21:51
  might come to the Gentiles
• 21:52
  so that we might receive
• 21:54
  the promised spirit
• 21:55
  through faith.
• 21:57
  The law was meant
• 21:59
  to point
• 21:59
  to the coming
• 22:02
  of Christ.
• 22:04
  Now in the West here,
• 22:05
  we think,
• 22:06
  in our logic,
• 22:08
  we think very linearly.
• 22:10
  So,
• 22:11
  A plus B
• 22:12
  equals C.
• 22:15
  It's a very linear logic.
• 22:16
  If this is true,
• 22:18
  then this must be true.
• 22:19
  That's how we think.
• 22:22
  Eastern logic
• 22:23
  does not work
• 22:23
  in that way.
• 22:25
  Eastern logic
• 22:26
  says,
• 22:28
  not this,
• 22:29
  or this,
• 22:30
  or this,
• 22:31
  or this,
• 22:33
  but this.
• 22:34
  Eastern logic
• 22:35
  tells you
• 22:35
  all the things
• 22:36
  that can't be
• 22:37
  so that it can show you
• 22:38
  what can be.
• 22:39
  That's what the Old Testament
• 22:42
  does for us.
• 22:43
  Gives us all these pictures
• 22:45
  of what can't be
• 22:47
  so that we see
• 22:48
  when the can be
• 22:50
  arrives
• 22:51
  in
• 22:52
  Jesus Christ.
• 22:54
  That's what the law
• 22:55
  was meant to do.
• 22:58
  Which leads us to the next one.
• 23:00
  The worship.
• 23:01
  Some translations
• 23:02
  might render that
• 23:04
  or the temple service.
• 23:05
  What Paul's referring to here
• 23:08
  is the sacrificial system.
• 23:11
  That was given
• 23:12
  to the Israelites
• 23:13
  to again show them
• 23:15
  that when they
• 23:16
  transgressed the law,
• 23:17
  blood was required
• 23:18
  and there were
• 23:19
  so many
• 23:21
  different sacrifices
• 23:23
  that had to take place.
• 23:24
  There's actually
• 23:24
  five different types
• 23:26
  of offering.
• 23:27
  For the sake of time,
• 23:28
  I won't get into them,
• 23:29
  but these things
• 23:30
  happened continually.
• 23:32
  Those of you
• 23:33
  who have been here a while
• 23:33
  probably are tired
• 23:34
  of hearing me say this,
• 23:36
  but the temple
• 23:36
  was an incredibly
• 23:37
  busy place
• 23:38
  and you have to understand
• 23:39
  what was going on there.
• 23:41
  Constant sacrifice
• 23:42
  happening
• 23:43
  day in and day out.
• 23:45
  There's a whole tribe,
• 23:47
  the Levites,
• 23:48
  their job
• 23:49
  was to carry out
• 23:50
  this process.
• 23:50
  They didn't do
• 23:51
  any other work.
• 23:52
  They didn't have time.
• 23:53
  All they did
• 23:53
  was make sacrifice
• 23:55
  for Israel
• 23:55
  day in and day out.
• 23:57
  The blood flowed
• 23:58
  constantly.
• 24:01
  A special day
• 24:02
  of the year
• 24:03
  was the day
• 24:04
  of atonement.
• 24:05
  The day when
• 24:06
  the high priest
• 24:07
  went into the
• 24:07
  holy of holies
• 24:08
  and made a special
• 24:09
  sacrifice.
• 24:11
  Many of these
• 24:12
  sacrifices
• 24:13
  were meant to
• 24:14
  cover unintentional
• 24:15
  sins.
• 24:16
  Sins that
• 24:16
  the Jewish people
• 24:17
  didn't even know
• 24:18
  they had committed.
• 24:19
  Unknown
• 24:20
  sins.
• 24:22
  It was a
• 24:23
  phenomenal system.
• 24:25
  You would have to be
• 24:25
  highly trained
• 24:26
  to be a priest
• 24:27
  because the processes
• 24:28
  that you had to go
• 24:29
  through to carry out
• 24:30
  the sacrifices
• 24:31
  properly were
• 24:33
  amazing.
• 24:35
  Ephesians 5.2
• 24:36
  says,
• 24:37
  Christ loved us
• 24:38
  and gave himself
• 24:39
  up for us
• 24:39
  a fragrant
• 24:40
  offering and
• 24:41
  sacrifice to God.
• 24:43
  Hebrews 7.27-28
• 24:45
  Writer of Hebrews
• 24:48
  says,
• 24:48
  He has no need
• 24:49
  like those high
• 24:50
  priests to offer
• 24:51
  sacrifices daily,
• 24:53
  first for his own
• 24:54
  sins and then for
• 24:54
  those of the people,
• 24:55
  since he did this
• 24:56
  once for all
• 24:58
  when he offered
• 24:58
  up himself.
• 25:00
  For the law
• 25:00
  appoints men
• 25:01
  in their weakness
• 25:02
  as high priests,
• 25:02
  but the word
• 25:03
  of the oath,
• 25:04
  that's speaking
• 25:05
  of Psalm 110.4,
• 25:06
  which came later
• 25:07
  than the law,
• 25:08
  appoints a son
• 25:09
  who has been
• 25:10
  made perfect
• 25:11
  forever.
• 25:13
  That whole system
• 25:14
  was meant
• 25:16
  to show them
• 25:17
  that they needed
• 25:18
  a perfect
• 25:19
  sacrifice,
• 25:20
  which
• 25:21
  was Christ.
• 25:23
  The spotless
• 25:24
  lamb.
• 25:25
  He's seated
• 25:26
  at the right hand
• 25:26
  of the Father.
• 25:28
  He has done
• 25:28
  his work.
• 25:30
  The significance
• 25:30
  of Jesus'
• 25:31
  works,
• 25:31
  it is
• 25:32
  finished.
• 25:34
  That's what
• 25:35
  he's talking
• 25:35
  about.
• 25:36
  There's no longer
• 25:37
  that sacrifice
• 25:38
  needed.
• 25:39
  The temple
• 25:39
  curtain was
• 25:40
  torn in two,
• 25:42
  allowing access
• 25:43
  to the presence
• 25:44
  of God.
• 25:46
  With me?
• 25:47
  It's amazing.
• 25:49
  And the Jews
• 25:50
  missed it,
• 25:50
  in large part.
• 25:52
  They missed
• 25:52
  what was happening,
• 25:55
  why the temple
• 25:56
  service was given
• 25:57
  to them.
• 26:00
  Number six.
• 26:02
  Sixth privilege.
• 26:04
  The promises.
• 26:05
  Now,
• 26:05
  I don't know
• 26:06
  all the promises
• 26:07
  that Paul's
• 26:08
  referring to here,
• 26:09
  but I do know
• 26:10
  he's at least
• 26:11
  referring to
• 26:12
  the promises
• 26:13
  of the coming
• 26:14
  king,
• 26:15
  the eternally
• 26:15
  perfect king.
• 26:17
  Turn with me
• 26:18
  real quick
• 26:18
  to Acts
• 26:18
  chapter 13.
• 26:20
  There's a little
• 26:21
  text heavy for you
• 26:22
  not to look at it
• 26:23
  with me.
• 26:37
  This is Paul
• 26:38
  preaching in
• 26:39
  Antioch,
• 26:40
  Acts 13,
• 26:41
  beginning in
• 26:41
  verse 32.
• 26:42
  And we bring
• 26:48
  you the good
• 26:49
  news that what
• 26:50
  God promised
• 26:51
  to the fathers,
• 26:52
  this he has
• 26:53
  fulfilled to us,
• 26:54
  their children,
• 26:55
  by raising Jesus.
• 26:56
  As also it is
• 26:57
  written in the
• 26:58
  second psalm,
• 26:59
  you are my son,
• 27:00
  today I have
• 27:01
  begotten you.
• 27:02
  And as for the
• 27:03
  fact that he
• 27:03
  raised him from
• 27:04
  the dead,
• 27:04
  no more to
• 27:05
  return to
• 27:05
  corruption,
• 27:06
  he has spoken
• 27:06
  in this way,
• 27:07
  I will give you
• 27:08
  the holy and
• 27:09
  sure blessings
• 27:09
  of David.
• 27:10
  Therefore he
• 27:11
  says also in
• 27:12
  another psalm,
• 27:13
  you will not
• 27:13
  let your
• 27:14
  holy one
• 27:14
  see corruption.
• 27:16
  For David,
• 27:16
  after he had
• 27:17
  served the
• 27:17
  purpose of
• 27:17
  God in
• 27:18
  his own
• 27:18
  generation,
• 27:19
  fell asleep
• 27:19
  and was
• 27:20
  laid with
• 27:20
  his fathers
• 27:21
  and saw
• 27:21
  corruption.
• 27:22
  But he
• 27:22
  whom God
• 27:23
  raised up
• 27:23
  did not
• 27:24
  see corruption,
• 27:25
  speaking of
• 27:25
  Christ.
• 27:26
  Let it be
• 27:26
  known to
• 27:27
  you,
• 27:27
  therefore,
• 27:27
  brothers,
• 27:28
  that through
• 27:29
  this man
• 27:30
  forgiveness
• 27:30
  of sins
• 27:30
  is proclaimed
• 27:31
  to you,
• 27:31
  and by
• 27:32
  him everyone
• 27:32
  who believes
• 27:33
  is freed
• 27:33
  from everything
• 27:34
  from which
• 27:34
  you could
• 27:35
  not be
• 27:35
  freed by
• 27:36
  the law
• 27:36
  of Moses.
• 27:38
  Beware
• 27:38
  therefore,
• 27:39
  lest what
• 27:39
  is said
• 27:39
  in the
• 27:39
  prophets
• 27:40
  should
• 27:40
  come
• 27:40
  about.
• 27:41
  Look,
• 27:41
  you scoffers,
• 27:42
  be astounded
• 27:43
  and perish,
• 27:44
  for I am
• 27:44
  doing a work
• 27:45
  in your days,
• 27:45
  a work that
• 27:46
  you will not
• 27:46
  believe even
• 27:47
  if one
• 27:48
  tells it
• 27:48
  to you.
• 27:50
  So,
• 27:51
  the promises
• 27:51
  to bring
• 27:53
  about an
• 27:53
  eternally
• 27:54
  perfect king
• 27:55
  were also
• 27:57
  given to
• 27:59
  the Israelites.
• 28:02
  The
• 28:02
  privilege of
• 28:03
  the patriarchs,
• 28:04
  number seven.
• 28:05
  In Exodus
• 28:05
  3, 6,
• 28:06
  when Moses
• 28:07
  first encounters
• 28:08
  God,
• 28:09
  God introduces
• 28:10
  himself as
• 28:10
  the God
• 28:11
  of Abraham,
• 28:12
  the God
• 28:12
  of Isaac,
• 28:13
  and the
• 28:13
  God of
• 28:13
  Jacob.
• 28:15
  That's
• 28:15
  quoted by
• 28:16
  Peter in
• 28:17
  Acts 3
• 28:17
  and by
• 28:18
  Stephen in
• 28:18
  Acts 7.
• 28:19
  They're
• 28:19
  phenomenal
• 28:20
  sermons.
• 28:21
  It's the
• 28:22
  only time
• 28:23
  that God
• 28:23
  connects
• 28:24
  himself by
• 28:25
  name to
• 28:26
  any man,
• 28:27
  the God
• 28:27
  of Abraham,
• 28:28
  the God
• 28:28
  of Isaac,
• 28:29
  and the
• 28:29
  God of
• 28:29
  Jacob,
• 28:29
  to
• 28:29
  distinguish
• 28:30
  who he
• 28:31
  is.
• 28:32
  He has
• 28:33
  never said
• 28:33
  the God
• 28:34
  of Nathan.
• 28:35
  Is he my
• 28:35
  God?
• 28:36
  Absolutely,
• 28:36
  he is.
• 28:37
  But that's
• 28:38
  not the
• 28:38
  title that
• 28:38
  he's given
• 28:39
  himself.
• 28:40
  He's the
• 28:40
  God of
• 28:41
  Abraham,
• 28:41
  and Isaac,
• 28:42
  and Jacob.
• 28:43
  And he
• 28:43
  speaks of
• 28:44
  them in
• 28:44
  Hebrews 11,
• 28:46
  verse 16,
• 28:46
  he says,
• 28:47
  but as it
• 28:47
  is,
• 28:48
  they desire a
• 28:49
  better country,
• 28:49
  that is a
• 28:50
  heavenly one.
• 28:51
  Therefore,
• 28:51
  God is not
• 28:52
  ashamed to be
• 28:52
  called their
• 28:53
  God,
• 28:54
  for he's
• 28:55
  prepared for
• 28:55
  them a
• 28:56
  city.
• 28:58
  They had
• 28:59
  the patriarchs.
• 29:00
  they had
• 29:01
  those who
• 29:02
  have
• 29:02
  believed
• 29:02
  by faith
• 29:03
  in God
• 29:05
  for their
• 29:05
  salvation
• 29:06
  as an
• 29:07
  example to
• 29:08
  them,
• 29:08
  and they
• 29:09
  missed it.
• 29:12
  And finally,
• 29:13
  and most
• 29:14
  importantly,
• 29:16
  they had
• 29:17
  the privilege
• 29:18
  of being
• 29:20
  the people
• 29:20
  from whom
• 29:21
  Jesus
• 29:22
  came.
• 29:25
  Jesus
• 29:25
  Christ,
• 29:26
  not a
• 29:27
  white man,
• 29:28
  not a
• 29:29
  black man,
• 29:30
  a Jew.
• 29:33
  He was
• 29:33
  Middle
• 29:34
  Eastern
• 29:34
  in descent.
• 29:36
  He was
• 29:37
  an
• 29:37
  Israelite.
• 29:40
  Verse 5,
• 29:42
  he is
• 29:42
  called
• 29:43
  the
• 29:44
  Christ.
• 29:45
  We believe
• 29:46
  that Paul
• 29:47
  was carried
• 29:47
  along by
• 29:48
  the Spirit,
• 29:48
  that the
• 29:49
  Word of
• 29:49
  God is
• 29:49
  the Word
• 29:50
  of God.
• 29:50
  Paul
• 29:51
  penned it.
• 29:52
  God
• 29:52
  gave it
• 29:53
  to him
• 29:53
  to speak.
• 29:54
  It's
• 29:54
  significant
• 29:55
  that he
• 29:55
  uses
• 29:56
  this term.
• 29:58
  Christ.
• 29:59
  It's the
• 29:59
  Greek for
• 30:00
  the Hebrew
• 30:00
  word
• 30:01
  Messiah.
• 30:02
  It means
• 30:02
  Savior or
• 30:03
  Liberator.
• 30:05
  We have
• 30:06
  picked up
• 30:07
  that language
• 30:07
  for Jesus,
• 30:09
  Yeshua.
• 30:10
  That's what
• 30:10
  he was
• 30:10
  known as
• 30:11
  in his
• 30:11
  day.
• 30:13
  But we
• 30:14
  have called
• 30:14
  him the
• 30:15
  Christ because
• 30:16
  we know
• 30:17
  who he
• 30:18
  is.
• 30:20
  He is our
• 30:20
  Savior.
• 30:21
  He is our
• 30:22
  Liberator.
• 30:24
  And he is
• 30:25
  God.
• 30:25
  God.
• 30:26
  Chapter
• 30:27
  9,
• 30:27
  verse 5,
• 30:28
  who is
• 30:29
  God over
• 30:30
  all,
• 30:31
  blessed
• 30:31
  forever.
• 30:33
  Amen.
• 30:33
  Paul never
• 30:34
  misses an
• 30:34
  opportunity to
• 30:36
  establish Jesus
• 30:37
  Christ's
• 30:38
  deity.
• 30:39
  Read any
• 30:40
  of his
• 30:40
  writing.
• 30:40
  Anytime he
• 30:41
  gets a
• 30:41
  chance, he
• 30:42
  slips in
• 30:42
  there,
• 30:43
  help us to
• 30:43
  understand that
• 30:45
  the man who
• 30:45
  came and
• 30:46
  dwelt amongst
• 30:47
  people was
• 30:48
  God himself.
• 30:49
  and he
• 30:52
  was one of
• 30:53
  them.
• 30:56
  And they
• 30:57
  missed it.
• 31:01
  So what
• 31:02
  does all this
• 31:02
  mean for us?
• 31:04
  Paul's lament
• 31:05
  as he has
• 31:05
  this anguish
• 31:07
  continually in
• 31:08
  him for the
• 31:09
  Jewish people
• 31:10
  because in all
• 31:12
  respects, all
• 31:12
  human logic,
• 31:13
  they should have
• 31:14
  gotten it.
• 31:14
  Before anybody
• 31:14
  else, they
• 31:15
  should have
• 31:15
  gotten it.
• 31:16
  What does
• 31:17
  that mean for
• 31:18
  us?
• 31:18
  What's the
• 31:18
  point?
• 31:19
  What's the
• 31:19
  value?
• 31:20
  What can we
• 31:20
  wring out of
• 31:21
  it for us
• 31:21
  today?
• 31:23
  Three things.
• 31:26
  Firstly, we
• 31:27
  should share
• 31:28
  in Paul's
• 31:29
  lament for
• 31:30
  the Jewish
• 31:30
  people.
• 31:32
  God has
• 31:33
  not turned
• 31:34
  his back
• 31:35
  on the
• 31:36
  Jews.
• 31:37
  Again, we'll
• 31:38
  talk about that
• 31:39
  more in the
• 31:40
  coming chapters.
• 31:41
  God has
• 31:42
  not turned
• 31:42
  his back
• 31:43
  on the
• 31:43
  Jews.
• 31:45
  There has
• 31:45
  been much
• 31:46
  anti-Semitism
• 31:47
  that has risen
• 31:49
  out of
• 31:49
  Christianity.
• 31:51
  Kind of
• 31:52
  seems easy
• 31:52
  to hate
• 31:53
  the Jews,
• 31:53
  right?
• 31:54
  They rejected
• 31:55
  our Savior.
• 31:57
  They
• 31:57
  crucified him.
• 32:00
  It's their
• 32:00
  fault, right?
• 32:03
  It's not.
• 32:04
  It's by God's
• 32:05
  foreordained plan
• 32:06
  that that
• 32:07
  happened.
• 32:07
  And he has
• 32:08
  not quit
• 32:09
  on them.
• 32:11
  And neither
• 32:11
  should we.
• 32:11
  we should
• 32:14
  be actively
• 32:15
  carrying the
• 32:16
  gospel to
• 32:17
  the Jews.
• 32:17
  In fact,
• 32:18
  later on,
• 32:19
  I believe in
• 32:20
  chapter 11,
• 32:21
  Paul says
• 32:21
  that many
• 32:22
  Jews are
• 32:22
  going to
• 32:22
  come to
• 32:22
  salvation
• 32:23
  because of
• 32:23
  their jealousy
• 32:24
  of us.
• 32:26
  They're going
• 32:26
  to recognize
• 32:27
  that we have
• 32:27
  a true
• 32:28
  relationship
• 32:29
  with the
• 32:29
  God they
• 32:30
  think they're
• 32:30
  worshiping
• 32:31
  by all their
• 32:32
  old Jewish
• 32:32
  rite and
• 32:33
  passage,
• 32:34
  and see
• 32:35
  that we
• 32:36
  have the
• 32:38
  true
• 32:38
  relationship
• 32:38
  through
• 32:39
  Jesus
• 32:40
  Christ.
• 32:41
  We should
• 32:42
  actively
• 32:42
  seek the
• 32:44
  Jew and
• 32:45
  their
• 32:45
  salvation.
• 32:47
  Secondly,
• 32:48
  we should
• 32:49
  lament for
• 32:49
  all peoples.
• 32:52
  Do you
• 32:52
  have the
• 32:53
  same heart
• 32:54
  of Paul
• 32:54
  for the
• 32:55
  people around
• 32:56
  you?
• 32:57
  Could you
• 32:58
  honestly say,
• 32:59
  were it
• 33:00
  possible,
• 33:01
  which of
• 33:01
  course is
• 33:01
  not,
• 33:02
  that we
• 33:02
  could ask
• 33:03
  God to
• 33:03
  cut us
• 33:04
  off.
• 33:05
  He would
• 33:05
  never do
• 33:06
  that.
• 33:06
  But if it
• 33:07
  were possible,
• 33:08
  would you
• 33:08
  offer
• 33:10
  yourself
• 33:11
  up for
• 33:12
  the sake
• 33:12
  of others?
• 33:15
  I don't
• 33:16
  watch a lot
• 33:16
  of reality
• 33:17
  television,
• 33:17
  but Sam's
• 33:18
  kind of got
• 33:18
  me hooked
• 33:19
  on Master
• 33:19
  Chef.
• 33:22
  And there
• 33:22
  were some
• 33:24
  characters,
• 33:24
  and one
• 33:24
  of them
• 33:25
  had won
• 33:25
  a challenge
• 33:26
  thing,
• 33:27
  and they
• 33:28
  asked him
• 33:29
  if he had
• 33:29
  the opportunity
• 33:30
  to save
• 33:30
  somebody from
• 33:31
  going into
• 33:32
  this elimination
• 33:32
  challenge deal,
• 33:33
  who he
• 33:34
  would save.
• 33:36
  Who would
• 33:37
  you save,
• 33:37
  Frank?
• 33:37
  Who would
• 33:38
  it be?
• 33:38
  And he
• 33:38
  picked
• 33:39
  some
• 33:40
  guy,
• 33:41
  Josh,
• 33:41
  I think,
• 33:41
  got him
• 33:42
  Josh.
• 33:42
  I'd pick
• 33:43
  Josh,
• 33:43
  great cook,
• 33:44
  I'd pick
• 33:44
  him.
• 33:46
  Awesome.
• 33:46
  Yay,
• 33:47
  Frank,
• 33:47
  man,
• 33:47
  you're so
• 33:47
  sacrificial,
• 33:48
  good for
• 33:48
  you.
• 33:49
  And they
• 33:49
  said,
• 33:49
  okay,
• 33:49
  well,
• 33:50
  guess what,
• 33:50
  you do
• 33:50
  actually have
• 33:51
  the option
• 33:51
  to save
• 33:52
  somebody.
• 33:52
  Who are
• 33:52
  you going
• 33:52
  to save?
• 33:53
  He saved
• 33:54
  himself.
• 33:56
  That's not
• 33:57
  what Paul's
• 33:57
  doing,
• 33:57
  right?
• 33:58
  He's speaking
• 33:59
  the truth in
• 33:59
  Christ.
• 34:00
  He's not
• 34:00
  lying,
• 34:00
  his conscience
• 34:01
  bears witness.
• 34:02
  He would
• 34:03
  actually give
• 34:05
  himself up.
• 34:05
  Do we have
• 34:06
  that kind
• 34:07
  of heart
• 34:08
  for people?
• 34:09
  Do we just
• 34:09
  give lip
• 34:10
  service?
• 34:10
  Yeah,
• 34:10
  I love
• 34:10
  people.
• 34:11
  Or do we
• 34:12
  actually have
• 34:12
  anguish in
• 34:14
  our hearts for
• 34:15
  the people
• 34:15
  around us
• 34:16
  that they
• 34:17
  might come
• 34:17
  to Christ?
• 34:19
  The evidences
• 34:20
  are all around.
• 34:21
  Now,
• 34:21
  Gentile people
• 34:22
  don't have all
• 34:22
  these privileges.
• 34:24
  It's not been
• 34:25
  a history that's
• 34:25
  been given to
• 34:26
  them.
• 34:26
  but the
• 34:28
  evidences are
• 34:28
  all around
• 34:30
  them and we
• 34:30
  ought to
• 34:31
  lament for
• 34:33
  them as
• 34:33
  well.
• 34:36
  Thirdly,
• 34:37
  we as
• 34:40
  humans should
• 34:42
  make no
• 34:42
  excuse for
• 34:45
  seeing that
• 34:45
  Jesus is
• 34:46
  the Christ.
• 34:47
  He is the
• 34:48
  one that has
• 34:48
  been sent for
• 34:49
  the remission
• 34:49
  of sin.
• 34:50
  The one in
• 34:51
  whom we
• 34:52
  must believe
• 34:53
  to be saved.
• 34:55
  You notice
• 34:55
  the article in
• 34:56
  verse 5?
• 34:58
  That he is
• 34:58
  the Christ?
• 35:00
  Not a
• 35:01
  Christ,
• 35:03
  not a way,
• 35:04
  one of the
• 35:04
  many ways,
• 35:05
  the path of
• 35:06
  goodness.
• 35:07
  He is the
• 35:09
  Christ.
• 35:11
  The only
• 35:12
  way,
• 35:13
  if you don't
• 35:14
  know him
• 35:15
  today,
• 35:16
  if you don't
• 35:16
  have saving
• 35:17
  faith,
• 35:18
  that he is
• 35:19
  the Christ.
• 35:21
  That all of
• 35:22
  these things
• 35:23
  we've been
• 35:23
  talking about,
• 35:24
  all this
• 35:24
  religious activity
• 35:25
  was meant
• 35:27
  to show us
• 35:27
  that we
• 35:27
  needed him,
• 35:29
  you have
• 35:29
  no excuse.
• 35:31
  You're
• 35:31
  sitting in
• 35:32
  this room
• 35:32
  right now,
• 35:33
  none
• 35:33
  whatsoever.
• 35:35
  You will
• 35:35
  be judged
• 35:36
  one day.
• 35:37
  If you're
• 35:37
  found in
• 35:37
  Christ,
• 35:39
  it will
• 35:39
  be said of
• 35:39
  you,
• 35:40
  well done
• 35:40
  my good
• 35:40
  and faithful
• 35:40
  servant,
• 35:41
  you'll enter
• 35:42
  into eternal
• 35:42
  joy and
• 35:43
  blessing with
• 35:44
  God.
• 35:46
  If you
• 35:47
  don't,
• 35:48
  eternal
• 35:48
  damnation,
• 35:50
  hell and
• 35:50
  misery,
• 35:51
  separation from
• 35:52
  God is
• 35:53
  what awaits
• 35:53
  you.
• 35:54
  So you
• 35:55
  have no
• 35:56
  excuse.
• 35:58
  Join me in
• 35:59
  prayer.