It starts from trouble by covering something that I think gets a little bit misunderstood. We covered it before. I want to cover it again. Why? Because again, the audio, the lighting, the video just wasn't, I feel like up to snuff. So that being the case, let me move this. We have HBO Max. And so I was just looking at something. They gave us a new, they updated it, they didn't really update it. They just made it to where you get more commercials, which I can't, I can't stand it anyway. So I'm bothered, I'm upset about that right now. But again, they did a good job because what did I do? Upgrade it to the, to the, to pay what, $5 or $10 more a month so that now I pay for or listen to ads. So they got me. It worked. So anyway, hope you all are doing well. I want to go ahead and jump into it. This particular part of Romans that Paul is speaking of tends to kind of get lumped in with something that those who are Calvinists believe relates to their point now. The point that they try to make it relate to is election, which I believe in election. And it does speak on some issues regarding election. But that's just not the point that, that Paul is making here. So because of that, I want to go ahead and cover what he's saying. And the reason why we're doing this is this kind of piggybacks off of a little bit of what we were saying yesterday we've said in the past. And so it's, it's appropriate to go ahead and deal with it now. And that is this issue, this distinction between the church and Israel. So that being the case, well, is, is Corrie alive? Yes. I believe so. I believe, I believe he's alive.  Both. I'm both. Oh, no. Yep. I'm alive and we're live. So let's go and jump into it. Anyway, let's go ahead and jump into nine. Now again, we talked about our hermeneutic before. We talked about how, how we read the Bible matters. How we read it can determine where we take it. How we read it can determine how we understand it. And so because of that, it's very important that we try to be as consistent as possible. And remember guys, and I don't, and I think people, there is for some people, a natural knee jerk response to just disagree, to just disagree. Because Corrie, I, I know some of the things, some of the conclusions that you've come to, and they're different than mine. And so the reason why I'm going to disagree, not because of what you're saying might be right or might be wrong. That's not the issue. The issue is because of, I don't like the conclusion that you come to. I come to a different conclusion. And if I know that this sort of hermeneutic that you employ brings a person to this conclusion, well, then I reject it. Even if the, even if the hermeneutic is sound, even if the hermeneutic is proper, I'm just going to, to reject it. Wait a minute, I'm looking for something. And I almost knocked the screen over. Hold on it. I always, I always do this, always. There it is. What I was looking for is actually in my pocket. I'm sorry. I want to tell you what I'm looking for. It's been a rough day. It's been a rough day. Taking care of my daughter, she was getting her ID and locked the keys in the car. It's one of those days. It's just one, and it's still not over with. Still not over with. I've got to leave out again. But hey, part of life, part of life. But anyway, so your hermeneutic matters. And again, I say this again, and I'll keep saying this. Look at the way that you read everything else. Look at the way that you read everything else. The way that you read everything else should be the same way that you read the Bible. But wait a minute, Corey. The Bible is far more important, far more superior, far more powerful than any other book. Correct. That's God's doing. The power behind what you're reading is God's doing the reading that you're employing. That's not God. That's you. God, God didn't infuse your reading, your ability with this knowing that he gives you the ability to understand and receive what it's saying. But how you read any other book and think about it, we can all read other books. We can read stories and come to the same conclusion. We know what happens in those stories. We read this one. Why? Because sometimes we have vested interests in what it says. And so we want to avoid that. And by the way, what you'll notice is what I'm sharing, what we're covering. Doesn't change an awful lot of what you believe. You may think it. You may think it does. But when you step back and look at it, it didn't really change a whole lot. And what we're going to see is that there is a bit of a difference with Israel in the church. And as always, we have to deal with this. Calvinists aren't Christians. Neither are Armenians. Here's my question. Why aren't Calvinist Christians? Now, there's a lot of Calvinists in the church. And I'm not one, but I agree with a lot of Calvinism. Why aren't they? We can't. I believe I'm going to take your word for it. Your name is revivalist for Christ. So question is, can you share with us why Calvinists, those that hold to Calvinism, aren't Christians? Be interesting, because they worship John Calvin. Hey, by show of hands, who worships John Calvin? OK, can I talk to you for a second, brother? This is just me and you. This is just me and you. You're going to have to have more mature arguments than that. You really are. You really are. First of all, let's say if you had an actual point to make, you're not going to make it that way. You're not going to make it that way. What do Calvinists believe? Matter of fact, forget what Calvinists believe. Let's talk about what you believe. Can't even start the Bible study, because you threw a bomb in the middle of the floor of a grenade, and so we're going to go ahead and jump on it so that no one else can get hurt. What does it take for a person to become a Christian? Revivalist for Christ? What does it take? What is required for a person to become a Christian? If a person has placed their faith in Christ, Christ pays it to them, to Christ, who is God, pays a debt that we couldn't pay. And they place their faith in them, in that, in him. They profess that Jesus is Lord. Are they saved? Surely you'd say yes. If you say no, then it would be because you're not a Christian.  So therefore, you would say yes. They are Christians. They are saved if they believe that. We don't know if they actually truly believe, but if they believe that, then they're safe, right? All right, cool, we're getting somewhere. Let's see what you're going to do is you're going to start going down a list. You know why you're going to start going down a list? Revivalist for Christ? Because I think now that you realize, uh-oh, I stepped in it. I stepped in, I threw a bomb out there, and I was just hoping no one would take it on, but we're going to take it on. We're going to take it on. So I just gave you what's required for salvation. Obviously realized that they need to be saved, that they're a sinner. Now, that being the case, if they place their faith in Christ, are they saved? Yes, they are. If you say no, then you're not a Christian because you don't understand what being Christian is. But you would say yes. Now, a Calvinist tries to figure out how they became a Christian. So too does an Armenian. So too does a provisionist. So too does someone who's dispensational. So too does someone who doesn't know what they are. Okay, and they just feel like that they were elected. They can be saved. Please don't say anything like that again. I'm helping you out. I'm helping you out. I'm trying to help you out, okay? All right, so now, that being the case, let's go ahead and jump into... No, wait a second. Let me see what you just said. It's coming up slowly on my end. Calvinists say Jesus didn't die for everybody but scripture says otherwise. Okay, fine, let's say they're wrong. And by the way, I agree with that. I agree with that. I think that they're wrong on that, but that doesn't make them not a Christian. So you're not saved by what you know or how much you know. You're saved by who you know. I want you, so what I just said, I want you to go back in the video, clip that part out, do a screen record, edit it, save it so you can hear what I just said and save that. You are not saved by what you know or how much you know. You are saved by who you know. Do you know Christ? Jesus says to them, I never knew you, depart from me. Do you know him? So copy that, save that, remember that. That's gold, that's good stuff. That is good stuff. So remember what I just told you on that part and then also remember this. I just had to go ahead and put the little intro in there again because I think it's awesome. All right, now let's go back to the channel. I mean, to the video or to the scriptures, got us all out of whack. Anyway, let's start in Romans, is this Romans nine? Romans nine, let's make sure. Yeah, Romans nine, there we go. Paul, now first of all, let's talk about what Paul has covered. Paul has talked about earlier, really the difference in being Jew or being a Gentile and is there really any difference? Because he says that we all are under sin, we all sin, we all mess up, we all are just rotten people, we all do bad stuff. And there is no real difference. So he says, what's the benefit of even being a Jew? He says, well, in this way, one specifically that they have been given the oracles of God. We're gonna deal with that in a little bit. They have been given the oracles of God. Why? Does anybody know why it's important that he makes that distinction, why he brings that out, that they have been given, the Jews have been given the oracles of God? Does anybody know? Because it's important to know that. Now he goes on also to talk about how we have given, we are now in right standing and we are made in right standing because of our faith. The first person to show us this example and trusting God was Abraham, right? Now he wasn't the first one specifically to believe because obviously Abel did. Hebrew says so. Obviously Noah did, Hebrew says so. And so we've got other folks, but we are out of this lineage coming through Abraham. And there's a reason why we're coming through Abraham. And so we have this faith that saves us. And so now we have been made right. And so we don't have to live a life of sin. And he says, should we keep on sinning that this grace of God has given us, that it may abound? Well, obviously not. God forbid that we should do that. But we still do struggle with sin though. That's what Paul talks about. The good that I wanna do, I don't do the bad I wanna stop doing, I continue to do.  But then he says, but just be clear though, just to be clear, all of us that are in Christ Jesus, there is nothing that will separate us. Nothing. And so now we make our way to chapter nine, but before we do, does anybody know why it's important to bring out the fact that these oracles of God were given to the Jews? Does anybody, the reason is, is because God has given them initially, initially, initially. And we're gonna see why that's important. Initially has given them the responsibility to spread the gospel. You go and bring it. Initially to spread the gospel, to preach Christ, to give the commands of the Lord. Initially they do, but then something happens. Something happens and doesn't really go right. So let's go ahead and jump to chapter nine and we'll cover this. By the way, we also are going to utilize the timelines as well. Let me go ahead and put them on the screen because it's gonna be very important that we see these. We're gonna utilize these to some degree, because I want to start using this particular tool, the New Testament timeline that I gave you. And if you look at it, where is Romans at? Well, one, in terms of the epistles, it was written 57 AD. And even more than that, if you look at the type of doctrinal points that it primarily brings out, it brings out a soteriological emphasis. Well, it's gonna talk about, since he is an apostle to the Gentiles, he speaks about and is speaking to the Jews, but he also brings in Gentiles. I mean, I'm sorry, I had it backwards. He's an apostle to the Gentiles, but he's gonna bring up an issue regarding the Jews. And so that brings us to Romans nine. So Romans nine, he says, I'm telling you the truth in Christ. Now this is after he's stated that nothing can separate us. This is after he's talked about our salvation being secure. He says, I'm not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit that I have a great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh who are Israelites. So who is he having this sorrow for? That part shouldn't be too difficult to understand. He's got this burden, this sorrow, this unease about who? About Israel, about Jews. Now some are gonna wanna say that this is some sort of spiritual Israel. This is not spiritual Israel. Spiritual Israel, first of all, news flash guys, news flash. There's no such thing as spiritual Israel. There's no such thing. There's no scripture that says that, okay? There's no scripture that says so. So, but if you think that he's speaking about Jews in the spirit, then what you're doing now is what we call allegorizing or spiritualizing text. You're looking for a deeper meaning when, first of all, in this case, the plain reading is clear. He says that I wish that I myself could be accursed for who, for my brethren. Well, could it be his Gentile brethren? It could until he says this, my kinsmen according to the flesh, okay? My kinsmen, muqadah sarkah, which is according to the flesh who are Israelites. So we know he's speaking of actual Jews, ethnic Jews. To whom belongs the adoption and the sons and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the temple services and promises whose are the fathers and from whom is Christ according to the flesh. So he's making it clear he's speaking about Israel. But now notice what he just said. Notice what he puts in the camp of the Jews. He says to whom refers to these Jews, Israelites belong the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants. So are you trying to say, Paul, that these covenants belong to the Jews? Well, yeah, that's what he's saying. That's what he's saying. Now, we covered this before and I don't wanna lose anyone here, but we talked about it before that when we looked at all of the covenants, be it the Abrahamic covenant, I mean, the Noaic covenant, even if you feel like there is a such thing, even if you feel like there's a such thing as the cat is in here, if you feel like there's a such thing as an Adamic covenant, that's fine. It's not a named covenant, that's fine. But then the Noaic covenant, the Abrahamic covenant, the old or mosaic covenant, the Davidic covenant, the new covenant, the covenant might not specifically be for this group over here or that group. It may be specifically surrounding or about Israel, but that doesn't mean that someone else doesn't also reap a benefit. That someone else doesn't get any blessing from that. Remember, specifically the Abrahamic covenant, he makes this covenant with Abraham and he says, in you, all the nations of the earth shall be blessed. So, yeah, the covenant is with Abraham and what he's gonna do with his people, but in that covenant also is a nice little nugget, as a matter of fact, that states that through this, all of the other nations and the people of the world shall be blessed, not just Jews, but in this case, Gentiles, okay? So, the covenants that were given to them, just because they were given to Israel does not mean that other nations or other people who are not Israel won't get blessed by it or with me. Very, very, very important, okay? So, let's go back to it. The covenants, the giving of the law, clearly that's for the Jews and the temple service, the promises, who's are the fathers, that being these Jewish men and from whom is Christ according to the flesh, who is overall God blessed for every man. But it is not as though the word of God has failed. Why is he bringing this up? It is not as though the word of God has failed. Why?  I can't see him, but I can hear him. But the Jews have been given the oracles and so they preached the gospel to who? As Jesus told them to do in Judea, in Sumeria, and now to the rest of the world. But now they're not receiving it. Why? Well, before we continue, before we continue, let's go back to where God brings us up. God says in Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 21, because Israel, even as early as Deuteronomy, has started to stray. And they're going after other guys, they're just disobedient. And so look what he says. He says, they have made me, this is God speaking, made me jealous with what is not God. These false gods, these idols, things they shouldn't go after. They have provoked me to anger with their idols. So I will make them jealous with those who are not a people.  Now, if we go to verse 16, look what they did to him. He says, they made him God, the Jews made God, jealous with strange gods. So they make God jealous. So what does God say he's gonna do? I'm gonna make them jealous. How so? Well, these very same people that you began preaching to, you guys are gonna start waning and they will be the dominant group, the influx of people coming in. They will be the believers. And eventually they will be the ones who will preach to you.  Now, the problem is, that's not gonna sit well with Jews. Proud as they can be. That's not going to sit well with the Jews. But what Paul makes a statement, and a lot of folks don't catch it, the meaning of it, when Paul says that we are ministers of the new covenant, if it's to be taken all of us, now, some take it as just Paul and the apostles, or certain apostles, or a lot take it that this statement, ministers of new covenant, is referring to Gentiles, who will then serve as ministers of the covenant to the Jews. We'll cover this issue of the new covenant in just a little bit, but let's go back to Romans nine. He says, but it is not as though the word of God has failed. So in other words, the word of God towards Israel has not failed. We'll get to that in a little bit, for they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel. Now, by the way, he brings this up. He's gonna bring into mind something that we read about and we forget about as we interpret this, but we shouldn't forget about what he's bringing up when we interpret it. Here's what I mean. Nor are they all children because they are Abraham's descendant, but through Isaac, your descendant shall will be named. That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children, but the children of the promise are regarded as the sentence. So his point is, was Isaac Abraham's only actual child? No, but in terms of how God sees it, he's not of Abraham. He's not of Israel. Even though, hey, listen, if we went and took a DNA test, it would come back with Abraham that Abraham, you are the father. This is your child. You are the Papi, but this is not what God's talking about.  So therefore, therefore he's speaking of, in this case, a physical lineage, guys. Don't miss this point. Verse eight, that is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise who are regarded as descendants. Now, the tendency would be for us to jump in and to say, yeah, he's talking about us because we are spiritual descendants. This is not what he's talking about. He's clearly, he's still talking about his kinsmen of the flesh who are Israel. Verse nine, for the word of promise, at this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son. And not only this, but there was Rebecca. Also when she had conceived twins by, you're not gonna do it. He's not gonna do it this time. The cat is not gonna do it this time. He came to sniff my water the last time he came licking on my water. It ain't gonna happen this time. I'm on to you. Can you please leave? Can you? Sorry. I didn't mean to push him that hard. Sorry, but sorry, cat. Sorry about that. Anyway, he shouldn't be in the way. Anyway, throwing me off. Anyway, so his focus is physical Israel. He says, for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything, now he's gonna get into a point that some people want to make this all about. And it's not about, although it brings up elements, it brings up the first thing that we ought to remember about God. Above all else, God is sovereign. That part we don't get around. Above all else, God is sovereign. So he says, for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God's purpose, according to his choice, and this is where Elk again, which is election, that's why some of your version might say, according to God's purpose, according to his election, same thing, would stand not because of works, but because of him who calls. It was said to her, the older will serve the younger, just as it is written, Jacob, I have love, but Esau, I have hated. So now, he's going to use this to speak about Israel. Does that mean, Corey, that we shouldn't say that God does not elect? No, we shouldn't say that, God does elect. God does choose. But the point, the purpose of what he has to say here is not really so much about election, although he's bringing up election, but he's doing it in regards to Israel, because what was his question? What was the statement that he had just raised in verse six? He says, but it's not as though the word of God has failed. So what God has determined to do is going to happen. It's going to happen. God's word does not fail. And if he has a plan for Israel, that plan will come to fruition. We cannot say that Israel is an afterthought or Israel have their chance or any of those things. It could not be that, you know what? Israel had all these years and they just sinned, disobeyed God. Well, we do too, because as long as Israel has been disobedient to God, the Gentiles have been too. It's not like the Gentiles would come back and say, yeah, you know, we've been devoted to God. No, no. And so just as God chose with Gentiles, we're going to find out that it's going to do the exact same thing with Jews. And so this nation will not be lost.  I mean, will be saved? No, every Jew will not be saved. So let's keep going. What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God. Is there? May it never be. For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion on. So then it does not depend on man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. Now, is that a truth, a universal truth that we can apply not just to Israel, but also to Gentiles? Absolutely, absolutely. This is a universal point. And so he says it's not dependent on us and our will, but on God upon his will. He'll have mercy on whomever he wants to have mercy on. Whomever he didn't want to have mercy on, he will not. For the scripture says to Pharaoh, for this very purpose I've raised you up to demonstrate my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth. So then he has mercy on whom he desires and he hardens whom he desires. There's a reason why Paul brings this up. Matter of fact, let me ask you guys a question. Paul's bringing up this issue of having mercy on whomever he wants to and hardening whomever he wants to, okay? But what does that have to do with Israel, Corey? What does that have to do with Israel? Well, we're gonna see that he's gonna have mercy on Israel, but he's also gonna harden Israel. While at the same time having mercy on people who he didn't need to have mercy on, which are the Gentiles. And so if he has mercy on them, he's gonna have mercy on Israel at some point in time. But this hardening part, he also is going to, there's going to be a hardening that Paul is going to bring up in just a little bit. So there's a reason for that and we'll see if that's the case in just a little bit. For who, I'm sorry, verse 19. Who will say to me then, why does he still find fault? For who resists his will? On the contrary, who are you? Oh man, who answers back to God? Who are you? Just like Joe, to come to God and ask you, why would you do such a thing, God? Why do you do it this way? How can I, I can't resist your will. He's, but who are you to answer back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, why did you make me like this? Or does the potter have a right over the clay to make from the same lump, one vessel for animal use and another for common use? What if God, although willing to demonstrate his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience, vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? What does that mean? What is he getting at? How, you're saying what if God, although willing to demonstrate his wrath, so God, what if God who wants to demonstrate his wrath makes his power known and make his power known? What if that same God endured with much patience, those very same vessels prepared for destruction?  But explain that, Paul, not understanding that. Paul will get there. And he did so to make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory. So, and let me just say this at a time.   No, that's not how that works.  But what God is going to do is you're going to see him show his mercy on those folks, actually, let me put it this way, how do I put this way to kind of keep in touch with this? The people who he's going to have mercy on, they also can't say that they have a right to boast about it. We know that, but what God is going to do, two things. He's going to show his wrath and he's going to show his love, his mercy. We've talked about it before, that these two things is justice, him being a just God and being a loving God show up in the same way that, excuse me, those, if justice is going to be showed and carried out, it's going to be carried out on all of us, and it should be. But he also wants to show mercy and love on a son and he can do so. So he can in turn also take and prepare vessels to be glorified with him. He can take and prepare vessels, as he says, that were prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom he also called, but not among Jews only, but also for among Gentiles. So he's going to call not just Jews, but also Gentiles, are with me. So there will be people who have been chosen who will be in every different ethnic category, be they Jew or Gentiles, all the other nations. And so all the people will be able to say, amen, praise God, but nobody who is not in heaven, no one in hell will be able to say, you made me this way.  And so we see how God is going to pass by you and now it's God's turn to show his glory. It's God's turn to show who he is. It's God's turn to have mercy on whomever he wills. That was his point. God gets to have mercy on whomever he wants to have mercy on, not on you. If God doesn't want you, that's not on him. So if God does want you, that's still not on you.  So now let's continue. He says, even us whom he called, but not among Jews only, but also from among the Gentiles. As he says it in Hosea, this is it, listen guys. As he says in Hosea, I will call those who were not my people, my people, and her who was not my beloved, beloved. Why are you bringing this up, Paul? I thought we were talking about you having this issue with Israel and about them you wish that you would be a curse for their sake. So why are you bringing this up? It's like Paul just starts just throwing some stuff in there. Well, the stuff that he's throwing in there is just not, just because he wants to store it. He's not just, you know what? Let me just pick this passage and that passage. Let me confuse him, no. Remember what we were reading, Deuteronomy 32. In Deuteronomy 32, he says that I will make you Jews jealous and how am I gonna do so? Well, look what he's saying right here. I'm gonna call a people who are not my people to be my people and those who are not beloved I'm gonna call them beloved. Who is he speaking of? Gentiles. So what is he doing? So think about this for a second, guys. I want you all to picture this. I've got these Jews over here who I've done all these wonderful things to. I've shown up and shown out in their view that all these mighty wonders and what do they do? Turn their back on me.  So what does he say? You have made me jealous because you went after these other guys. So what will I do?  Now keep in mind though, guys, when he said this he still has his intentions on bringing Israel back. He still has his intention on bringing Israel back. How was he gonna bring Israel back? Us? What is it? What is it gonna be the tool that he uses to bring Israel back or to make them jealous? Us? That's why he says, I will call those people who are not my people and those who are not beloved, beloved. And that will do what? Cause jealousy in the ranks of Israel. Now he didn't say how long it's gonna take but it's a process. It's a process but look what he says. Let's continue. And it shall be in the place where it was said to them you are not my people. There they shall be called sons of the living God. Speaking about us, Isaiah cries out concerning though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sands of the sea it is the remnant that will be saved. Stop for a second, hold the presses, turn all the machines off. Look what he just said. He said it is the remnant that will be saved. It is a remnant, a portion that will be saved. That will be saved. Question, a remnant of who? A remnant of Jews, a remnant of Israel. Or with me. Spider monkey, no it's not the 144,000 it's gonna be more than that. There gonna be 144,000 during the tribulation that we're gonna see of these Jews. It's gonna be more than that. But I'll give me a second and I'll try to flesh this out. So he says that there will be a remnant that will be saved. How? That's gonna be interesting. For the Lord will execute his word on the earth thoroughly and quickly. I like that he'll execute his word on the earth thoroughly and quickly. And just as Isaiah foretold, unless the Lord of Sabbath had left to us a posterity we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah. I mean, and resemble Gomorrah. What does he mean? Whether it's nothing or nobody left of Sodom and Gomorrah, right? But he is going to leave a posterity. In other words, descendants. So he's saying that we're not gonna be like them. There will be a remnant, some descendants of this group of Israel with God forever. And so that's his point. Again, he says, is it as though that God's word, go back to verse, oh yeah, we're in verse 29. Let's go back to verse, I don't make sure I stay in verse 29. Let's go back to verse six. How did he broach this? He says, but it is not as though the word of God has failed. So remember what he's saying? It's not as though the word of God has failed. It has not failed. Uh-oh. What is it? Oh, I'm sorry. 929. I'm sorry. I pushed the wrong thing. So just as Isaiah foretold, unless the Lord of Sabbath had left us a posterity that is descendants, we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah and resemble Gomorrah. What then, or what shall we say then? That, look what he says. Shall we say that the Gentiles who didn't even pursue righteousness, that they attained it? I mean, we were pursuing it. Us Jews, I'm now playing the part of the Jews. Us Jews pursued righteousness. The Gentiles didn't. Yeah, I know we kept messing up, but at least we messed up while we're pursuing. They weren't even pursuing. So are you telling, are you mean to tell me God? God, that us Jews who pursued righteousness, we won't get it, but the Gentiles who didn't, they will. Look what he says. Even the righteousness which is by faith, but Israel pursuing a law of righteousness did not arrive at that law. So the issue was Israel was trying to gain it by the law, by doing stuff. The Gentiles, of course they were told how to do this, got it by faith. Now, the Gentiles aren't the only ones that arrived at it by faith. Obviously the Jews, there are many Jews who beat into the punch, who were saved by faith before the Gentiles, but by and large, Jews want to do things in a religious fashion. They want to do stuff. Verse 32, why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. Who's the stumbling stone? That's Jesus. So the Jews stumbled over the very thing that was going to save them. Just as it is written, behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, a rock of offense. By the way, where is this written at? This is written in Isaiah, Isaiah 28. Isaiah is given this prophecy about this savior that's going to come. This Messiah that's going to come, they won't get it. Remember that guys, they won't get it. When will the Jews, by and large, understand and receive Isaiah's prophecy correctly? They will in the future.  So look what he says. And he who believes in him will not be disappointed. So look what he says in verse one of chapter 10. He says, brethren, my heart's desire and my prayer to God for them is for salvation. For who? For Israel, his desire and his prayer for them, the them is Israel for their salvation. He could not be speaking of Gentiles because Gentiles are gaining salvation. It's the Jews that are now turning their back. Isn't that funny? In just less than 20 years, 20, 30 years after Christ's death and the Jews bring the gospel, remember on the day of Pentecost, that was Jewish. The 12 apostles, Jewish. The people that came, the multitude, Jewish. And then just a few years after that, they began turning away, they began turning away. All day long, I've stretched out my hands to a disobedient nation. That's what God has said. So, for I will testify about them that they have a zeal for God but not in accordance with knowledge. For not knowing about God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own, they decided to establish their own righteousness. They did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God for Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. So, by the way, the end of the law is Christ. When Jesus said, I didn't come to destroy the law, but to fulfill it, there it is. This word, to end it, the Greek word telos, which is to complete, to finish it, to end it, that's what Christ did. Christ is the end, the completion of the law. How is that, Cory? Make this part plain, what we've covered this before. The end of the law, the law requires that there be atonement for your sin. That's what puts you in right standing. The only way to put you in right standing is that there be propitiation made and then you place your faith in the propitiation. The propitiation is made for all, I believe, but all won't put their faith in it. The propitiation was made for Israel. Israel just did not put their faith in it. And so, Christ, who is that propitiation, he was also the scapegoat. He's also the high priest that mediates. They just didn't put their faith in it. Some did, many did not. And so, he's the end of the law. And then he says, verse five, for Moses writes that the man who practices righteousness, which is based on the law, shall live by that righteousness. In other words, if you want to be saved, you want to be right through the law, fine, fine. If you want to be right during the law, I mean with the law, fine, stay that way. Stay that way. But guess what? You're gonna have a hard time keeping it. You're gonna have a hard time keeping it, which you can. So, they want to live by that, but the righteousness based on faith speaks as follows. Do not say in your heart, who will ascend into heaven? That is bring Christ down, or who will descend into the abyss? That is to bring Christ up from the dead. But what does it say?   And believe in your heart that God raised from the dead, you will be saved. Why is that important for the Jews? Because the Jews know something. They know that there is but one Lord. And to confess that Jesus is that Lord, that's a big step for them. That's a major statement for them.  For with the heart, one believes resulting in righteousness and with the mouth, he confesses. Resulting in salvation. Look what he says, for whoever believes in him will not be disappointed. For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding and riches for all who call on him. For whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Be that Jew or Gentile. The problem is the Jews aren't doing it. Look what he says though. Look what he says though. Now this passage, and it's right to use this passage. It is right to use this passage as kind of a rallying call for evangelism. It really is. But I want you all to see who this passage is intended for. Paul is talking about Gentiles evangelizing the Jews. Paul is talking about getting the Jews who originally had this, getting them to hear it. Look what he says. How then will they call on him whom they have not believed? This is speaking about Israel, guys, the Jews. How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? And how will they hear without a preacher? How will they preach unless they are sent just as it is written? How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of good tidings? However, they did not all heed the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report. This word report is a word I co-ace, which is report, okay? Remember this word right here that's highlighted on the right? It's the Greek word I co-ace, which is a report, a hearing, okay? So faith comes from I co-ace, hearing, not hearing. That's not it. Faith doesn't come from this. You hear it over and over again. If that were the case, hearing it over, let's just drill it just up. No, that's not where faith comes from. Faith comes from the report. Understanding what happens. Now, how many times does that take? Depends on the person. But ultimately it's gonna be, as Paul said earlier, the will of God. He's the one that's gonna do the work in the heart. Not cause you keep hearing it. You know what it makes sense after a while. It makes sense. How do we know this is not the verb hearing? This is the noun, because again, let's just go and put it on the screen. Faith comes, now the faith out of or comes from I co-ace. That is a noun. Matter of fact, if you don't believe me, look underneath my face, my picture. It says that this is a noun, a feminine, singular. Oh, okay. I'm sorry. I thought I saw the cat. He's over asleep that quick. But it's a noun. So faith comes from the noun hearing, not the verb hearing. So from this hearing, whose report shall we believe? That's the word that's quoted here from Isaiah. And so it says faith comes from the report and the report by the word of Christ. That's what this is saying. Now, again, can you apply this to our evangelistic efforts here? Sure. The same still holds true, but look at the topic that Paul is covering. He's talking about these Jews hearing this report. Okay. And again, again, if we go and look and says, whose report, where's this come from? This comes from Isaiah again. Romans, the book of Romans, and the book of Isaiah are tied together. So let me put this on the screen. If we look on here, we look on the screen. Isaiah is prophesying during the Southern Kingdom. They are getting ready guys. They're on their way to be put out of the land. Captivity is taking place. You're gonna see, now you got this splinter kingdom, the Northern Kingdom and the Southern Kingdom. The Northern Kingdom we call Israel. The Southern Kingdom is Judah. They're both the same in terms of their nationality. Okay. By the way, this is my whole point that I was trying to make with mankind, leading a government, two generations or two kings after God has chosen David, then here comes Solomon and then everything falls apart. Same thing would happen if Christians were leading the world. Same thing would happen. I wouldn't care if we had a Christian president, if England had a Christian prime minister, if Trudeau and Canada was replaced by a Christian. If the Ayatollah all of a sudden in Iran became a Christian. Same thing. Gonna fall apart. You know why? Cause it's a man up there. That's why. And just so you ladies don't get out of pocket. If it was a Christian lady leading, same thing. Probably sooner. I'm kidding. Anyway, get back to the court. But Isaiah and Romans are tied together. I said before that there are certain books that you need to know as you're reading other books. For example, if you're going to read the book of Hebrews, you better be familiar with the book of Leviticus. Do the round of me as well. Because some of the same language and really the whole point, the audience in Hebrews are Jews. Jews who have placed their faith in Christ as Messiah and they are falling back on what they know of the law, which is why you have to understand Leviticus. Cause the book of Hebrews bring this up. Same thing here. Paul keeps bringing up a lot of quotes. I mean, a lot of quotes from Isaiah. So almost like Paul is there. I don't, Paul is the second coming up of Isaiah. He just keeps bringing up Isaiah for good reason, for very good reason. Remember what Isaiah brings up? Isaiah brings up a lot of prophecy about Jesus. A lot of prophecy about Jesus is crucifixion, his death, all of that stuff. Okay. He brings up all of that. And so for that reason, it is important to understand Isaiah. The Jews will not accept it, which is why they're going to look back in time. And they'll say he was bruised for our iniquity. They'll use the past tense. Are you with me? So let's go back into it again. Verse 18, but I say, now this is how you know that he's speaking about Israel. But I say, surely they have never heard. Have they? Surely they have never heard. Have they ever heard? Have the Jews ever heard? Yes, they have. Look what he says. Indeed they have. Indeed who has? He's not speaking about Gentiles. Heard of what? This report that he just brings up. Surely these Jews have heard the report. So he says, their voice has gone out into all the earth and their words to the ends of the world. But I say, surely Israel did not know. Did they? First Moses says, I will make you jealous by that which is not a nation.  So do y'all see how what Paul is bringing up in Romans 10 is about Israel hearing the gospel? Why does he need Israel to hear the gospel? Because they're not getting saved, which is what he brings up in Romans nine. Are you guys with me? And here it is again. And Isaiah is very bold and says, I was found by those who did not seek me. I was found by those who did not seek me. I became manifest to those who did not ask for me. Are you with me guys? You follow me? But as for Israel, he says, all day long I have stretched my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people. I've been called disobedient. I've never been called obstinate because I wouldn't have understood what the obstinate. What kind of big words are you using teacher if you call me disobedient to a disobedient and obstinate people? Israel, now look what he says though. I say then God has not rejected his people. Has he? What was the answer guys? Put the question in reverse order. Has God rejected his people? The answer is no. Paul says initially in verse nine, man, I wish I could be a curse from my country in Israel. They're not coming to faith. But then 10 he says they need to hear the word. They just need to hear the report. Now who has heard our report that Isaiah initially brings up? He brings us here. So we need to get the word of them. We need to get the report to them. And eventually it's gonna happen. Now how is it gonna happen? Remember God is going to have mercy on whom he wants to have mercy on. So he has not forgotten about his people. That's how he starts off chapter 11. Has God forgotten about his people Israel? No, he has not. May it never be, Paul says. For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin. Now that is to let us know that even though Israel by and large is not accepting her Messiah savior, there still are Jews who are doing so. Paul principally, he's one of them. He's like, listen guys, some of us Jews are getting it. Not a lot of us. That's the problem. But some of us Jews, even today, we have what we call messianic Jews, those who have placed their faith in Christ. And so there's gonna be kind of a trickling, a drip, a drip of Jews, say that fast, a drip of Jews each year all the time. There's always gonna be some Jews who are placing their faith in Christ. Well, you know what? This makes sense. And usually if you find someone who is open to listening, a Jew, and someone can explain to them how all we're talking about guys is the fulfillment of these Jewish prophecies of the Jewish scriptures. That's all we're saying. It's a fulfillment. And they begin to see the Jewishness of Christ and what has happened and how the atonement that they know of and they're familiar with that it was brought out and made better by Christ as the High Priest, as the sacrificial offering and the scapegoat. And they see all this Jewish imagery in Christ and what do they do? They place their faith in him. And that's gonna happen even more so later on. So let's continue. Verse two, God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or do you not know what the scripture says in this passage about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel. Lord, look what he says. Remember when Elijah was upset and bothered and kind of just frustrated? Yes, Alf, I'm gonna take some questions in just a little bit. I'm gonna take some questions in just a little bit. Lord, they have killed your prophets. They have torn down your altars and I alone am left with what we do, right? Don't we do that? Ain't nobody saved like me, Lord. I'm not the only one going to church. Well, I'm not the only one going to church. But all these other folks in church, they ain't serious. Don't nobody love me like I love you, Lord. It's just me. And that's how we do sometimes. So that's what Elijah was doing.  But what is the divine response to him? I have kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bailed the need about. In other words, shut up, Elijah. You ain't the only one out here.  Get up before I do something to you. I have kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bailed the need and bail. In the same way then, look what he says, in the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's grace's choice. There's that word, there's that word, that word election, eclegame. That's that word election by God's gracious election or choice. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise, grace is no longer grace.  Now, it means something after you get saved, but doing stuff to get saved and to show how great you are to puff your chest out. No, no, no, no. That righteousness takes you nowhere. That's why Jesus says, unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will in no way see the kingdom of heaven. You will no way be saved if your righteousness is like theirs. Theirs were based off of their ethnicity and what they do, how they look. Verse seven, what then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained. Well, we get that part, but those who were chosen obtained it and the rest were hardened. Wait a second, wait a, hold up. So some folks chose, I mean, some folks obtained it, but now these were the ones that were chosen. Notice he says, but those who were chosen, they obtained it. So the ones who obtained it, they were chosen and the rest were hardened. Now, this hardened is heiress, past tense, and it's passive, which means they did not.  That is, there's no scripture for that. There's no scripture for that, but they were hardened. Who was hardened? Israel, some were chosen, but the rest, and might I add, the overwhelming majority were hardened. God gave them, look what he says, verse eight, God gave them a spirit of stupor. He gave them eyes and ears not to hear, eyes not to see and ears not to hear, down to this very day.  Let their eyes be darkened to see not and bend their back forever.  No, he's not. I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall. In other words, their stumble wasn't made complete. Their stumbling wasn't just a, that's the end of Israel. No, he says, I say they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be. But by their, look what it says, guys. This is where you, all right, guys, let me drink my coffee. This is where you begin to get happy. This is where you start wiggling your toes.  Are you wiggling them now? Wiggle your little toes and smile. This should make you do it even more so because this is how we got blessed. Look what he says, may it never be. But by their transgression, salvation has come to the ussuses, us Gentiles. Salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous. Who's a them? Make Israel jealous. So salvation has come to us to make them jealous. That's just what he said in Deuteronomy 32, starting in 16 to 21. Salvation's come to us to make them jealous. This is how we become ministers of the new covenant, keepin' in mind this, and then doin' what he said in chapter 10 to give them the gospel. Now, he says, now if their transgression is riches for the world, if them felling is a good thing for us, and their failure is riches for the world, how much more will their fulfillment be? Even more so, huh? But I am speaking to you, who are Gentiles? Talkin' to you Gentiles. Talkin' to you Gentile sheepesses. I'm speaking to you Gentiles. In as much thin as I am an apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry. If somehow I might move to jealousy, my fellow countrymen, and save some of them. So I wanna, listen, what I'm doin' in you guys is gonna help move my fellow countrymen to salvation. For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? If the first piece of the dough is holy, the lump is also. And if the root is holy, the branches are too. Now this is where people start missing it. This is where folks start just really missin' it. We're gonna talk about these branches. But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, Gentiles, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them, and became partakers with them of the rich root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant towards the branches. By the way, this is not the new covenant. Stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it, stop it. This is not being grafted into the new covenant. You know how I know? Cause he doesn't bring up the new covenant. When he means to bring up the new covenant, he'll bring up the new covenant. You were just grafted into salvation. You were chosen for this, okay? How you got in wasn't on you and wasn't about a covenant that God made with you. It's the fact that he decided to bring you in. He chose you, okay? Now, he says, so now do not be arrogant toward the branches. Remember what Jesus said, I brought this up earlier.   We have replaced Israel. The church is the new Israel. You might be guilty of this. No, you're no. And I'm gonna show you that also, how we know that the church is not the new Israel. God still has a plan for Israel.  God can have a plan for DW and still have a plan for Joan. Can have to be the same plan. Now, the culmination of all of your salvation is gonna be still faith in Christ. But let me ask you guys a question. Carol is 37 years old. In her 37 year life, she's gone different directions that brought her to where she is now. Okay? No Carol, no Carol. I'm trying to help you out Carol. Carol is 37 years old. Cameron is 64. Cameron is 64. In his old age, he came to Christ. Who knows? Maybe the hard way. Joan may have, she was brought up in church. C.G. may have been a Muslim before. Jeff, Jeff was a arms dealer. He got shot in the throat and so now he's a Christian. My point is, we all end up at the doorstep of Christ and place our faith in him. The collection of Jews, how they got there is different than how Gentiles got there. They have a history. Matter of fact, they have a vivid history, a written history of all their failures. But the whole thing is still them placing their faith in Christ. They must still do the exact same thing that we do. We must still do the exact same thing that they did. Place our faith in Christ. Okay? There's only one way. There's only one entrance, one door and no Lovialias. It's not Peter. Peter's not the key. It is Jesus. Which by the way, why someone still listens to that guy? I don't know. But, so do not be arrogant towards the branches. But if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you. You will then say branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in. Quite right. They were broken off for their unbelief. Now, this right here, this word, epistia, this does not mean that they used to believe and they stopped believing. This just means they didn't believe. Well, wait a second Corey. How could they have been branches in the first place? Well, again, God had determined he's gonna do this with the nation of Israel.  You never believed. And Israel has been a disobedient, unbelieving nation for the first part, for the most part anyway. Okay? But you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear. For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. This is not you being broken off. You have no right for salvation except what God gives you. So they didn't believe.  Okay? Now, behold then, the kindness and severity of God to those who fail severity, but to you God's kindness. If you continue in his kindness, now wait a minute Corey, you mean you have to continue? Yes, you have to continue. You have to continue in his kindness in order to stay saved. But guess what? You will continue in his kindness. Wait a minute Corey, it seems like you're preaching that a person loses salvation. No, I'm not. No, I'm not. But it says if you continue, yeah, if you continue. Because if you don't continue, then that means you weren't saved to begin with.  But what do we know about Christians? We won't cover this again because we've covered this a lot before, but Christians will continue. You absolutely will continue. But we'll leave that alone for right now.  And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, if they don't keep their unbelief, they will be grafted in. So what is he gonna do? He's gonna bring in people into this olive tree, into this root that he has that brings us to salvation and the only way it's done is through faith. How do we get the faith? Well, he already told us how we got the faith. Not of our will, but of his will. For God is able to graft them in again. If you were cut off from what is by nature, a wild olive tree, and were grafted, contracted the nature into a cultivative olive tree, how much more will these who are natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? For I do, now here's the point I wanna get to. For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mystery, so that you will not be wise in your own estimation. That's you Gentiles. That a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of Gentiles has come. That part is important guys. This partial hardening has come to who? To the Jews, not spiritual Jews, not spiritual Israel, to actual physical, ethnic Israel. Has come to them until the Gentiles, or until the fullness, the completion of the Gentiles has come. Until the fullness of the Gentiles have come in. And this word is ACE-ELTHING, which is to come in. So when all the Jews have come, or the fullness of the Gentiles have come in, then he's gonna deal with who? The Jews. So all Israel will be saved. Look what he says, just as it is written, all of Israel will be saved. Not all of those who are Jewish, all of those who call themselves, all of Israel will be saved. I'll come back to that again, Jacob. I'll mark that to come back again to it. All of Israel will be saved just as it's written. And by the way, where is this passage that he's quoting from? Where did he get this? Where did he get this from? Isaiah. Paul loves some Isaiah. The deliverer will come from Zion. He will remove ungodliness from Jacob. He will remove ungodliness from Jacob. What's he talking about? Break this, break here, break here.   And who's the real Jew, the one that has faith? Well, dawg, come on, if I look at this branch, none of these branches actually have faith. So cut you folks off and the ones that have faith will be on there. Matter of fact, this is a faith branch. This is a faith tree. Let me start giving some faith to these Gentiles and graft them in as well by their faith, the faith that I'm giving them. Are you with me? Continue. He will remove ungodliness from Jacob. That's what he's talking about about these branches being broken off. This is my covenant with them. Stop the presses one more time. This is my covenant with them. Who's the them? Who is the them? Israel. Which covenant, by the way, is he speaking of? Anybody have any idea of which covenant? He says this is my covenant with them. This is why, this is why, this is why I get in trouble. This is why people get mad at me. I'm sorry if you do. I'm sorry if you do. I didn't write it. I'm just reading it. This covenant, notice I think we have a covenant. No, this is the new covenant. How do I know? How do I know this is the new covenant? He says when I take away their sins. Let's go, he's quoting, let's go to Isaiah 27. Do I even have it up here? No, I don't. But let me type it in. Isaiah 27. Here it is. Therefore, through this Jacob's iniquity, I'm sorry, yeah. Therefore, through this Jacob's, that's Israel's iniquity, will be forgiven. And this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sins. When he makes all the altar stones like pulverized chalk stones, when ashram and incense altars will not stand for their fortified city is isolated. Let's make a, let's make a marinoite one. Yeah, I just want to make sure I'm reading the right one. Okay, let me back up some more. Let me back up some more. Here it is. Let me start in verse one. In that day, the Lord will punish Leviathan, the fleeing serpent with his fierce and great and mighty sword, even Leviathan, the twisted serpent, and he will kill the dragon who lives in the sea. In that day, a vineyard of wine sing, a vineyard of wine sing of it. I the Lord am its keeper. I water it every moment. So that no one will damage it. I guard it night and day. I have no wrath.  Let him make peace with me. Let him make peace with me. In those days to come, Jacob will take a root, will take root. Israel will blossom and sprout and they will flee and they will feel the whole world with fruit. Like the striking of him, like the listen that, like the striking of him who has struck them, has he struck them? Or like the slaughter of his slain, have they been slain? You contended with them by banishing them by driving them away with his fierce wind. He expelled them on the day of the East wind. Therefore, through this Jacob's iniquity will be forgiven and this will be the full price of the pardoning of his sins. So now remember this. He's speaking of Israel, Jacob, this scattering that's going to take place which he just talked about. Bring you back. And this pardoning of your sins. And so what he's speaking of guys is this new covenant. We'll probably cover the new covenant, what he said about the new covenant in just a little bit. So what we said in verse 28, he says from that standpoint or from the standpoint of the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But from the standpoint of God's choice, huh, from the standpoint of God's choice, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. What fathers? Abraham's, the Isaacs, the Jacob's of the world. Cause he just preached, he just spoke about Jacob or Israel. For just as you once were disobedient to God but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedient. So these also now have been disobedient that because of the mercy shown to you, they also may be shown mercy. Meaning this, since God has shown mercy to you, they're also, he's also gonna show mercy to Israel. For God has shut up all disobedience so that he may show mercy on all. Now, I'll go ahead and stop there. But the point is, as he's speaking Romans nine, 10 and 11, remember the whole theme of Romans is a salvific thing. Speaking about how we're saved by faith and so forth but he gets to nine, it's like, man, my people, these Jews, they're just messing up. And I wished, I wish it weren't so. I wish they were also being saved. But he says, God's not through with them. And since God's not through with them, he's showing what he's gonna do the same way that you have been shown or you've been chosen. He says that they will be chosen.  So when we look at it at this point, we see that there is no need guys to, matter of fact, let me do this, let me do this. But there is no need to think that there is a different group other than, I mean, that Israel and the church are the same. Now what I mean by that is because some folks might be confused. What do you mean that Israel and the church in the same? Well, anyone that places their faith in Christ is a part of the church. But just because you're part of the church doesn't make you Israel. Israel is different and distinct. Matter of fact, how do I know? Let's go to verse 31 of Jeremiah 31. He says, behold, days are coming, declares the Lord. When I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, that's what he's making the covenant with, the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in that day, I took them by the hand, I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt which my covenant they broke, although I was a husband to them, declares the Lord. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel. After those days declares the Lord, I will put my law within them and on their heart I will write it and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Now, is he going to do the same thing? Well, look at that, wait a second, hey man, God is good. Been subscribed for a year, first time catching live. I've got to start sending, if I had a schedule, I'd send it to you. We try to do it at five p.m. I don't know where you are, but five central every time. But anyway, I will put my law within them and on their heart and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Now, so what is he going to do? He's going to put his law, his spirit in their heart and they shall be his people. Now, he's not only going to do that with Israel, but this covenant is with them to do just that.  Yes, but not yet. With some, yes. And then this is where the jealousy part comes in. The jealousy part comes in where he also starts doing it with the Gentiles who are going to make them jealous. This is what we just read in Romans 9 and 11, how he's going to make them jealous, which was the prophecy that God gave in Deuteronomy 32. Look, he says, they will not teach again each man, his neighbor and each man, his brother saying, know the Lord, for they will all know me from the least of them to the greatest, declares the Lord, for I will forgive, when we read that Paul brought up that Isaiah brought up, for I will forgive their iniquity and their sin. I will remember no more, which is just what Paul quoted from Isaiah 29. Thus says the Lord, here's the important part, just says the Lord, who gives the sun for light, now look at this, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar the Lord of hosts, his name. And look what he says, this fixed order, the sun by day, the moon by night, the stars, the seas and the waves. Question, do we still have the sun, the moon, the stars, the waves, the sea? Do we still have those? Do we still have that? We still do. So look what he says. He says, if this fixed order departs from me, from before me, declares the Lord, then the offspring of Israel also will cease. So if the sun, the moon, the stars, all those things, if they depart, so too will the sons of Israel. So too will the offsprings, they will cease. If all of that stuff ceases, then so too will Israel and their offsprings cease. It's important guys.  They will never cease to be a nation from the Lord forever. Israel will always be a nation before the Lord forever. However, Israel is in disobedience right now. Israel is in disobedience. What do you mean? I kind of see your point. Is this kind of like reverse psychology? Yeah. Israel is in disobedience right now. And they're supposed to be. Cause that's some other things that's gonna occur. I won't get into this. We'll come into this in a few weeks when we start talking about more of the end time stuff and the reason why Israel is in the position that it's in. Israel is just obstinate, as he says. They're disobedient and obstinate. Why? Israel is going to play its part in the end time. Israel is going to play her part. And then Israel is going to be crushed at that time. And then why is all that gonna happen? They're gonna look back.  Like maybe something broke down and you went back and read the manual or you're going through something. How many of y'all get in trouble? Some things happen and it makes you read the Bible even more so. That's what they're gonna do. What about, good question. What about those who have passed on?  He's not going to revive them to give them a pass. No, no. His promise isn't for specific Jews but just for the nation writ large. That's what his promise is for. And so when it happens, they'll be blessed. Now there are some Jews now who are, like I said, they're coming. There are some Jews that are coming to Christ. There are some Jews that are coming to Christ. But still, by and large, no. Now somebody might say, how do we know who actually is a Jew? Ultimately, in many cases, none of us don't because a lot of us, you know, whole lot of intermingling, whole lot of intermarrying. And so this Jew might find out he's not really a Jew. This Chinese guy over here might find out he's really a Jew. But God knows. But the Jews are the ones that are actually practicing it as well. And so that has something to do with it as well just because you say that you are. But oh, by the way, it didn't really matter. It's still gonna ultimately be the ones that he regenerates in their heart as well. Those who he chooses. Just like the elect in Israel, just like he says, the elect of the Gentiles as well. Are you with me? So I wanna go ahead and put a pause there because I don't wanna go too further because if I stay here, we'll be here for another hour or two. But I did wanna go ahead and give a few minutes to some questions regarding this. In the meantime, I want to say your guy, Ty, thank you for the super chat. And Jeff, thank you as well. Thank you. Kind words, kind words, kind words. Thank you. So if you have a few quick questions, which they can't be quick, huh? Let's go ahead and jump into a few of those. I would say this though, Laila. Jesus is fair, period point blank. I don't know if I would use that though. I think he's good. I think he's wonderful. I think he's awesome. I think he's amazing. I think he's loving. I think he's kind. I think he's merciful. I think he's gracious. But I think fair would be for him to save everybody. I think fair would be for him to heal and do for this person, like he does for others. I think that would be fair, but he's not fair. Nor does he need to be fair. I don't think he needs to be fair. Of course, if he really were fair, the fair thing to do, the right thing to do is to all of us. I have been, this might be a hard one. I don't know if this is hard. I hope you didn't, Alpha X, I hope you didn't give me a hard one. I have been wrestling with this thought, how can Jesus still be God and be made sin? Okay, here's how. The term made sin, let's look at what it means. Under the old covenant, this sheep, the scapegoat, they would confess all the sins on the head of a goat and send them away. Well, dogs on it, Duranda, you don't miss anymore, but it's okay though, it's okay. It's okay that you miss some. Let me, Duranda, let me make you feel better real, let me make you feel really, really good right now. If that didn't do it, I don't know, if you're not smiling right now, but listen, at least you're here now. At least you're here now, amen. But anyway, the law requires that the sin be on the head of people. And so you're not coming before God with this stain of sin. That's why Paul's sitting at Paul. John says in John 1, when he sees Jesus, look y'all, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the earth. In other words, we're gonna confess the sin on him, just like under the old covenant, under the atonement, the sins of the people who were confessed on the scapegoat. You didn't know that was coming, Stevie. But the same way is we became righteous. We took on his righteousness, not that we're righteous like him, nothing good about us. And so what happens is, it's this imputation that God is on. He's crediting righteousness, his righteousness to us, and our sin to him. Are you with me? That's what he's doing. And so he, at that moment, becoming sin is God looking at Christ on the cross, like he looks at us. And then because of our faith looks at us, like he should be looking at Christ. So it's not that he sees good old wonderful Corey, good old awesome Diana. Man, I think Catherine is amazing. She's so special. She's so sweet. That's not how he looks at us. What he does is he looks at the fact that payment was made and taken away and that's all they required. And so now you were in right standing.  No, not in that regard.  By the way, this is good right here, Diana. This is good right here. She says, how many of you start your day in prayer and worship? I encourage you to do that. Do not turn on your phone instead, pray and sing. You know how well that actually works? By the way, this is such good advice that I'm going to edit out this part so that you don't see that Diana put it up there and I'll take credit for it. That's good advice. Because if you do that, it starts your day off, right? How you start your day might be an indication of how you end your day. Start off on the good foot. Sharice, I'm not answering this question. I'm not answering this question because I'm going to do a video over this. I'm going to do a video over this, so. But I will give you a hint though. It's not as important as people make it out to believe. It's not as important as people make it out to believe. And listen, to go back to what Diana said, it's so easy you're laying in bed because how many of you might use your bed?  You might use your phone as a clock. What time is it? Ah, it's too early. It's five o'clock already. It's six o'clock already. Ah, and since you got any hint, might as well go ahead and just, well, let's see what's happening on YouTube. Let's see what's happening on Facebook. Let's see what's happening in the Google sphere. It's so easy to do it.  You're swiping up, down, left, right, and all. Which I, anyway, you're doing all this stuff. And the next thing you know, you forgot about God. You got up, I'm so tired. But start off with, as she said, this praise is sanctification synergistic or monogistic. I would say probably a little bit of both, which makes it, I guess, in some aspects is synergistic. Some aspects is, because ultimately, without the Holy Spirit, nothing happening. But if it's just, this is where he says this, he uses this term, by the way, the word synergist comes from soon, or soon, which is with, and air gate, which is work. So soon air gate, which is to work together. In our walk, we are working together. In my walk with Christ, we are working together. Now, who's doing most of the work? Who gets the credit? Who's the response? Him. It's almost like he's pushing you. I don't feel like it. Lord, listen, Lord, did you see what he did to me? But he's working through you. So, and he's getting glory through you. As a matter of fact, you don't mind him getting glory. You just don't.  No, I got Michael Jordan on my team. Let me shoot the shot. But get a ball to him. That makes all the sense. Give the ball to this guy. You see this guy right here?  Let's just, let's set a pick. Let's play defense. We'll shoot every now and then, but the game's on the line, get a ball to him.   But if we get to him, and so, but a lot of people, a lot of guys on the Bulls team, we're happy. Hey, we got Michael Jordan doing this. Let's go ahead and, cause we wanna win. Not so much with LeBron. I wish I would hear LeBron is the goat that way. I wish I would hear you guys talk about LeBron. Anyway, I just had to put it out there cause I know some of the young folk are LeBron fans. I'm having fun. One of my best buddies is a LeBron James fan. And he had to return the phone call yet. He hadn't returned the phone call yet. Yellow flop. He hadn't returned the phone. What kind of friend is that? Yeah, when LeBron won last year, you called me. Yeah, yeah, okay. Now what's happening? You don't wanna talk to me. I see what it is. I'ma call him now. As a matter of fact, I'ma call him now. Hey, buddy. When does LeBron play again? Anyway. Yeah.  If LeBron wants to win, he should do what Jordan did when he was down 0-3. That's it. Oh, wait, wait a minute. Cause this has never happened. Anyway, back to this, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. Thank you, Durin. I appreciate that. Can you help me with what Atonement means? Okay. And Raider for Life. You mean like the Oakland, Los Angeles, Oakland, Las Vegas Raiders? Okay. I can ride with you. I can ride with you. But what does Atonement mean? Atonement, Durinda, is, it's from the Hebrew word, Ka'far. And there are three aspects or elements to it. The first two bring about the last one. It is a covering, a canceling that brings about a reconciliation. All three are needed and the reconciliation is the goal. Okay. It's like this. Let's say, who will I use? Who will I use? I'm gonna use Spider Monkey this time. Spider Monkey stole my colts cup. So now I don't have my colts cup. I just have my prison cup. We used to be cool, Spider Monkey. So I say, I want us to be friends. Spider Monkey says, I want us to be friends again. So what a Spider Monkey do? Stroll up in my face with my colts cup. I want us to be friends too. I enjoyed being your friend. All the while drinking some sort of elderberry juice out of my colts cup. The fame in my colts cup with junk inside it. I say, wait a second.   You put some oat milk or soy milk in my colts cup. We got a problem. So what has to happen? Well, Spider Monkey needs to give me back the colts cup. You can't just keep the sin in my face. You cannot keep the sin in my face and then say, let's be friends. Something just beeped. I have no idea what that was. Oh, I see what it is. My computer's talking to me. You can't do that. So a couple of things have to happen. Yeah, elderberry is good. Elderberry is good. I'm pretty sure they're gonna have elderberry milk pretty soon. I'm pretty sure they're gonna have elderberry milk pretty soon, but you can't just keep on bringing the colts cup in my face and think, I'm cool with that. I mean, it's in my face.  You can't do that. You can't do that. So get rid of the cup, but don't get rid of the cup. Give me my cup. And so here's how the atonement works. I say, because I'm the offended party, I get to tell you how this works. So I say, I want you to give me my colts cup back. Plus, I want a second colts cup. And I want colts season tickets. Yep. I want two colts cup and a season tickets. It's like, wait a minute, hold up. Wait a minute. I just took your colts cup. So you cannot tell me what it's going to take for me to feel better, for me to forgive you. I tell you what I require for forgiveness. If you want forgiveness, you say, okay, fine. I set the terms, not you. Okay? It's just like us going to Jesus or to the Lord. So you know what? I appreciate what you did on the cross, but I'll tell you what, I'll give you 37 cents for my salvation. Wait a second, I'm not taking that. Why not? Because you don't tell me how much it's going to take for me to save you. You don't tell me how much it's going to take for me to forgive you. Same thing with a cup. So, Spider Monk says, you know what, fine. Here's your old colts cup back. Here is the new colts cup. And here are season tickets to the colts. What do I do? Forgive. We hug it up. Amen. Matter of fact, you want to go to the game? We're reconciled. In a week, two months, a year, five years down the road, you know what I could never say to Spider Monk? Hey, you remember when you took my cup? I'm still mad about that. Can I ever bring that up to Spider Monk again? Can I ever say, Spider Monk, you did that? Now, I know I remember that. Spider Monk remembers too. Cost a grip to get those colts tickets. And the colt cup itself was probably $1,000 just for the colts cup. Costs a lot of money. I could never say, I could never bring that up, but hey, this is what you did. Nope, that's not how that works. Why? Because Spider Monk is now in right standing. The debt was paid and I accepted it. So the way the atonement works is God sets the terms. There's a covering. There's a covering of the sin. So all the sin are on the scapegoat and so the sin are going away. There's a covering. The canceling of debt, which is that blood that pays the debt that God requires. Once that's done, especially by faith, there is now reconciliation. Now you are in right standing. You are what we call justified. Mean, funny way of putting it. You are declared right and treated as such.   Then I can never, ever, ever, amen monkey moves. There is no condemnation. That's what the atonement brings about. Now under the old covenant, the atonement was a yearly thing but now it's a one-time thing. The Jews wrestle with this in Hebrews but it's a one-time thing done once and for all this is the boldness, the confidence that we could have in approaching him. So that is what the atonement is. It's what it brings about. And unlike the old covenant, under the old way, it had to be done year after year after year after year. And if you got to do it year after year after year, it brings about a level of guilt. For example, if anyone has to, I don't know, go to kidney dialysis or they got to keep going to the doctor for some sort of treatment. They're grateful for the treatment and it keeps them alive. It helps them but they hate having to keep going all the time. You may have some pills you have to take every morning. The older you get, I hadn't gotten there yet but the older you get, the bigger your registry of pills becomes, you're grateful but you hate the fact that you got to keep taking pill after pill after like, ugh. Well, so Hebrews tells us that this guilt that's associated with that is also gone. Don't have to worry about this year after year. Once and for all. And that's how that works. Are you with me? So you never, because think about it, if the atonement now that the Bible says the Paul says that Christ was the end of it, that he completed, if it worked exactly the same way and you had to do it year after year after year, what was the purpose and reason for him doing it in the first place? The first place that was, you could lose being atoned for. Now, if Christ died and you can still lose your atonement, your right standing, well then that was a waste of time. It was a waste of blood and you have not been atoned for. And then it would make God be unjust because what would he do? He'll be bringing back the very thing. It would be like me saying to spider monkey, what about my cup? But you've been forgiven for that. And what, now let me make this complete even better and we'll leave on this. What if though I said to spider monkey, I want to participate in this atonement? So what am I gonna do? I'm going to give you the cup and I'm gonna give you the money to pay for my cold season ticket. I'm gonna do all that. I'll give it to you. You give it back to me and back. That's how this works. And so back in that way, God also provides the atonement to make us reconcile. Therein lies guys, the atonement and he will never, ever, ever hold it up against you. Why? Because he is literally the one that paid the debt. Amen.


Instagram made me do it. No, I need to think of a name for this little series. But I have been buying the products off of Instagram, the ads that, you know, we get all the time it seems, pitching us different random sewing related products. So this is a USB computer mini vacuum. Now the ad that I saw exclusively showed this being used on a sewing machine, not on a computer. So clearly they have realized that there is like a little sub market that they can sell these two. I love that there was different colors. Of course I chose pink. And there are instructions on the back. So we are going to set this puppy up and do some cleaning of my machine. Now full disclosure, I haven't cleaned my machine in more than a year. So it comes with this little guy and you can see there's like a, I don't know, one of these little things is broken or I don't know what that is. So there's that, but it's got these bristles and they're actually kind of like stiff. And then it's got these little holes in it as well that you can kind of see through those holes. Then we've got this thing. This is made from like a thin plastic. There's a little light, a fan obviously. And then this little thing is like rubbery.  This is very cheaply made. I'm afraid I'm going to break it. Two vacuuming cleaning attachments included, two switch levels at the side. I don't see any switch levels. Nope, no switch levels to turn on the LED light. No, my light is always going to be on. Press the high power button to increase suction power for vacuuming heavy air dirt and dust. No, I don't have a high power button. It's not on the court either. You guys, the internet is just a main place sometimes. Use the keyboard attachment rubber to vacuum the dust and other particles trapped underneath the keyboard keys by sliding the squeezable tube between the keys. That makes sense.  So this is how it goes on. Okay, that was pretty easy to handle.  And then you can use this guy too. If you want, he would slip over like that. Okay, that worked. No external power source plugs straight into any USB port. Okay. Yeah, but I still don't know where did the, oh, this thing moves. So that could be my high power low power. But where, where does the, where do the trappings go? Oh, okay. So I've got this thing with a little itty bitty net. So I imagine it just collects in here. And then this little net prevents it from going down into like the fan and stuff. Okay. If you say so. How does this go back on? Okay. All right, she's on. Let me plug her in. Okay. So I've got my little apple brick thingamajig. Plugging this guy in. So I think that there's only one, it's either on or off. It does feel like there's like a middle setting here, but it doesn't change it. Okay. Well, it's blowing wind. That feels good. Let me take you over to the machine.  All right. There we have it. I'm going to start with like the rubber guy. Okay. The rubber guy is okay. He's not great. Whoa. Here is, you know, some stuff left behind and there's obviously a ton in there. So let's get that. That works pretty good. I want to switch the attachment. So let me do that and we'll see if we can't get into some of these little itty-bitty parts. All right. So I switched it out to this thing. So I feel like with this, it's just getting the fuzzies on the brush, but it's not actually sucking it in to the things. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Yeah. So with the brush, it's just getting the stuff off or onto the brush, which is fine because that helps dig it out.  Like that's the whole point. I have brushes. I don't need, you know, air for a brush. All right. So now I'm going to try it with just this raw dog. All right. So that's okay. Here's the level of suction that we're dealing with, like hardly any at all. So if you're not getting right up on whatever it is that you're trying to get out of there, it's not going to budge. That's as good as I think I'm going to get. You want to see what we got? Well, that's both embarrassing, but also awesome. So this is what we got out of my sewing machine with the little vacuum. Look at that. Impressive. Impressive. And before you're asking me why is she not taking this plate off, that might make it easier, but I can't get it off. I think whenever they serviced it, they made it so tight and I don't have a small enough, a short enough, what's it called? Screwdriver. So I don't know how to get that out. I looked for maybe a penny. I genuinely cannot listen. Oh, I got it. Wow, you guys helped. Thank you. Okay, let me do the other one. Okay, one more. There we go. That is no joke. They wanted that to stay on. Okay, now let's see what we are exposed to.  This is way too much fun. Okay. I think that might be the point of this thing is to make it so much fun that you want to clean your machine. All right, so we already got this little bit. I'm going to leave him down here. All right, so that obviously got some stuff. You can see it here, but it's just not powerful. I mean, obviously it's better than nothing, but I have this little thing here, you know, that comes with your machine and I feel like I can get more done with this, you know, for those like deep, deep, deep down in the crevices kind of situation. I'm going to get more by just, you know, digging this thing down in there and letting it do its job. It does still feel oily, so that's good, but see that? Like I couldn't have gotten that with that machine. So maybe for like the surface level stuff, it's good, but when you're trying to get in here, like in, go in deep, look, that was from my holiday outfit. My holiday sweater I made. You know what I mean? Sometimes maybe you just need to get in here with the nitty gritty and, uh, and you know, do the hard work, do the manual labor. All right, there she is as clean as I'm going to be able to get her at home without, you know, super, super special tools. All right, you guys, not a total waste of money, but certainly not the most powerful tool that there is either. So I think I'll hold on to it. I'll keep trying to use it just superficially, you know, whenever I'm just trying to get like the top layer of gunk, but for your deep, deep, deep cleaning, you're definitely going to have to find something else. Let me know if you use something at home that works really, really well. I'd like to try that too, because this is oddly very satisfying to me to clean out the machine. So, um, so let me know what you use that really works. Otherwise, if you don't have anything, you saw how this little guy performed. I don't think it was very expensive. I'll have all that information in the description box for you, but, um, I don't know, at the very least, I don't know, maybe I can find some other, some other use for it, but that is going to do it for me today. Thanks for trying this out with me. Um, I'll see you all very soon. Bye.