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Webcasting around the world from the desert metropolis of Phoenix, Arizona. This is the dividing line. The Apostle Peter commanded Christians to be ready to give a defense for the hope that is within us.

Yet to give that answer with gentleness and reverence. Our host is dr. James White director of Alpha Omega ministries and an elder at the Phoenix reformed Baptist Church. This is a live program and we invite your participation.

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Western Culture, Moral Collapse, and the Profanation of Marriage

And good afternoon, welcome to the dividing line on a Friday. Yeah, I know. Where's the radio free Geneva stuff if I get to the radio free Geneva stuff a little bit later on I did mention this on Twitter.

Then we will fire it up for all of you Addicts who love to hear the radio free Geneva music. I think I think rich has it yep, he's got it got it queued up and ready to go, but And we probably will I don't know starting in about 20 minutes or so switch over to radio free Geneva, but I'm up here in Boulder, Colorado I'm speaking at Flatirons Baptist Church started speaking last evening had a real good time with the folks and I'm doing my New Testament Reliability presentation.

Yes, pretty much the same one as was posted on YouTube, except I have three sessions to work through it and that means I get to go much more slowly and Give all the background and give all my illustrations and tell all my stories.

And so it's it's actually rather rather enjoyable To do it in three sessions rather than one very very fast session, and I have a feeling that For a lot of folks. It's probably a little bit easier to follow a little bit easier to digest as well and so we'll Look forward to meeting with folks.

We had we had one fella Come by and and say that this was a drive-by he knew of our material knew of our Ministry and in fact was a supporter and just happened to be driving by and saw the sign at the church and They had put a sign out front announcing that I was going to be there and so voila he pulled in so That was that was really neat to get to meet folks last night and had a great time there at Flatirons Baptist Church but I'm also in Boulder, Colorado and Yesterday as you saw on the blog I Did a pretty incredible ride some beautiful beautiful scenery.

I'm gonna have another opportunity to do a pretty incredible ride tomorrow but I discovered while searching for radio stations up here that I don't know I Sort of need to say this quietly, but I think there might be some liberals in Boulder I'm not sure, but I I think there might be a few more than we have down and down in Arizona.

I'm sort of saying this very quietly you know, but There is a progressive radio station up here, and I I've heard let's just say I've heard some things you normally don't hear on non-progressive radio you know what I mean and In other words you know Sean Hannity and Michael Medved and Rush Limbaugh.

You know they're up here there. You know there's there's there's normal radios here, but there's Also, this other weird stuff so anyway I was hearing some things and of course we've we've all been enduring the Anthony Wiener scandal and his resignation.

But I have just been really really really troubled by the the speed at which our Culture and I'm not just talking about the United States. I'm talking about Western culture as a whole the speed at which our our culture is Not only disconnecting itself from its moral roots in the Christian worldview but is becoming ever more open in its detestation thereof its abandonment thereof and its Falling in love with anything that is is utterly opposed to godliness.

And I I think about what happened in this situation with Anthony Wiener and the nearly three weeks worth of Scandal talk and jokes and everything else that were going on and The inevitability of his resignation and the propriety thereof obviously.

But then I started thinking about and realized you know Very few people I think are seeing the reality of What's really going on in our in our nation? We Have been hearing recently about stories about parents Books being published seminars being done and and young children, and I'm gonna say this very clearly who are being abused by their parents by being raised in What is euphemistically called gender confusion.

Seeking to teach little boys and little girls that they're not really boys or girls. They're whatever they want to be. So much so that we now have ten-year-olds Who consider themselves? transsexuals To be a different sex than they are we we read just a few weeks ago about the Australian judge who?

Who gave the okay for transgender surgery for a ten-year-old and We look at this and I think most of us Don't really know what to even say. But the one word that we can't use we're not allowed to use is that this is evil.

But it is evil. It's not insane. It's not sick. It's evil it Is direct Rebellion against the Creator and of course, it's being committed by those who don't believe there is such a thing as the Creator in the first place.

It's evil. It's sin. It brings the wrath of God. It will receive the wrath of God in judgment and in some ways it is the wrath of God. Because you know, I was thinking this morning about Romans 1. I was thinking about that.

That phrase that Paul uses when he says for even their women abandon the natural use. The concept of lesbianism in Paul's mind is just so far removed from what is natural for the woman who is a mother who is a nurturer who who longs for that protection of a man and So there's a there's such a twistedness That Paul could said for even their women it's one thing for men because of their heightened sexuality.

But even their women in other words, there's just such a natural understanding of what things should be. That this this just strikes the Apostle as as even more amazing and now we're seeing Every type of behavior that goes beyond that.

And I was thinking especially about the fact that There is much discussion now. I know my friend Michael Brown discusses this fairly regularly on his talk show of People telling us look you're gonna be on the wrong side of history if you don't get with this massive moral change this massive shifting of The moral landscape you're gonna you're gonna be on the wrong side of history and People are gonna be looking back at you and they're gonna look at you the same way we look at people who opposed interracial marriage from 50 years ago and I know there are many people who feel very strongly about that very issue.

They you don't want to be behind the curve. You don't you don't want people looking back at you. But I'll be perfectly honest with you. I Think they're all it may not be this nation and it may not be this culture.

But God did not make us to profane marriage. In the way that marriage is being profaned today and no culture that embraces the profanation of marriage. Which will inevitably result in the destruction of marriage and what I mean by that is people.

Your marriage isn't being Impacted by if if two men are allowed to marry or two women are allowed to their baloney most certainly is and There is no question about the fact that once that happens. The next thing will be one man and three women three women and one man then beyond that the ladies are going to start marrying their chihuahuas and Because we no longer have a definition of what marriage is and and since we're changing in the base of Well, we have to have equal rights.

Everyone has to have the equal opportunity. Then well that means that little children can get married and You can marry your dogs and your cats. And because marriage no longer has any meaning. It's been destroyed.

It's been its foundations are washed away and No culture will survive this look at what is going on in the cultures that are embracing this kind of behavior right now. Are they not disappearing you might go?

I don't see them disappearing. Look at the birth rates. Remember anything below 2 .1 and your culture will be gone in a matter of generations and Every culture that's embracing this. It seems to be their death throes.

Now this happens just slowly enough that maybe it's difficult for us to see this but future generations will look back and future generations will ask themselves was there anyone who was willing to stand up for moral sanity and for the fact that God has spoken and has revealed his will and has told us how we are to live and I I Am sad that when the world thinks of who is speaking out about all they think about our cults like The people who picket at funerals and churches you see I think people have bought into the idea That if we speak of wrath and we speak of judgment that we're automatically have to become a fire and brimstone Preacher from someplace down in Georgia, but you know haven't we learned that we can speak of life.

And we can speak of that which brings death and that which brings that which destroys life. Can we not present to the people around us the fact that homosexuality destroys life that homosexual marriage destroys?

Can't even create life. It truly is an amazing thing to see what's going on. And I was especially prompted to hold off the radio free Geneva for a few more minutes because I Was thinking about the Anthony Weiner situation and his resignation and people going out.

He needed to do that. Why did he need to do that? I mean is it really because of the evil That he committed. I mean obviously I think for most people he had to resign because he was stupid. I Was just dumb.

But was it really immoral did anyone really go? Oh, how can you he's just married and how could you be doing this and No, most of it was that boy. Was that dumb? Not that it was immoral. Not it was evil.

But I suggested this morning on Twitter That what is being contemplated? by the New York legislature is Far more evil than anything Anthony Weiner did and Anthony Weiner was a leftist. Let's be honest with you a leftist nutcase, but What he did in comparison To what the New York legislature is currently considering to do from a biblical perspective Was not nearly as evil as what these people are gonna do think about that if you're not aware of it Great pressure has been put upon the House of Representatives in the New York legislature the New York State Legislature to adopt the profanation of marriage to redefine marriage So that it no longer is marriage, but as a perversion thereof.

That's the only way to put it and Great pressure has been put upon these people by Anthony Cuomo and by Mayor Bloomberg and They're they're caving. They're collapsing. They're giving in and it looks like it's gonna pass.

I submit to you that what Those people who are promoting it Cuomo Bloomberg these individuals what they're doing from a biblical perspective is significantly more evil than anything Anthony Weiner did significantly more evil it is Continuous it Is not just stupidity in doing something on Twitter or social media.

But it is a settled rejection of God's truth. It is a settled. I am going to do this. I am I am going to I know That what I'm doing stands against God's truth. But I am settled in my rejection of God's truth and I am going to force this on other people that is more evil Will bring significantly more judgment from God than some guy with a picture phone in his office and so our nation our culture has become so Morally bankrupt so without guidance so without common sense That we can applaud that a guy resigns from the government.

Which he should have done because I mean you do stuff like that and somebody gets hold of that. They can blackmail you and have you do things for them that you know could could threaten our security and everything else.

No kidding. But he didn't resign because what he did was evil. He did he resigned because we did was stupid and We can't take a look. We cannot even openly say today That what is being considered in a legislative action is evil.

But as Christians we have no choice but to identify these things as Evil they separate from God. I Was I was there's some guy on Twitter. Let me see if I can bring that back up again. See what it had something to do with pizza or something.

I don't remember the guy's name, but he's he's quite a there it is. Tragic pizza tragic underscore pizza. Clearly one of those types of people. Let me see what he what he says here. I'm a part-time preacher a full-time curmudgeon.

Unapologetic liberal Christian and a blabbermouth seriously. I tweet a lot and often cuss you've been warned named John Harrison and when I Tweeted something about the judgment of God in regards to profanation of marriage.

That's the profaning of marriage in case you're wondering what that term is. Oh, did he come back at me and I look at these people and They can't even recognize What evil is they are so perverted in their heresies.

They can't even recognize what evil is. Well, what do we do about it? Well Just simply running around screaming the word evil isn't going to accomplish anything. But we have to be so careful my friends.

We slip into this easy social way of thinking and instead of Recognizing something as evil and responding to it as evil something that is against God's truth against God's law. Something that is destructive of human personality and human reality and human life.

Instead of being like the psalmist in Psalm 119 who who weeps tears because of the breaking of God's law. We think of these things in so more so much more of a mundane way. So much more of a mundane way we should be cut to the quick when we see God's law being spat upon and Rejected by those in authority because when God puts evil men and women in authority over a nation that is part of God's judgment upon that nation and What then is the role of?

The Christian people when in a nation that knows God's truth and rejects it. Are we to begin to adopt their ways of thinking their ways of speaking? We're supposed to become like this liberal Christian and just go with the flow.

No. What we are to do is we are to be a prophetic voice. The prophets most often we're not Proclaiming what future events were going to be. The prophets most often were proclaiming the future coming of God's judgment upon a people for their rejection of God's truth and we must become a Faithful holy prophetic people so that when God's judgment comes We won't be carried along by the flow of just trying to hold together the rags of our possessions.

So in love with the world that we can't say anything. We need to be those who say we told you so and here's the solution repent believe turn. This culture will not last. It will not last with all of our technology and all of our gadgets.

It will not last it cannot last because we no longer care about the future. We can't no longer care about human life. We no longer have any belief in a transcendent meaning. We just simply have our lives.

We don't care about having children. We don't care about the future and laying a foundation for future generations or any of those things. So this culture will not last. But when whatever takes its place comes along Lord willing it'll be because people have seen what the truth is and they have seen The value of human life and they will reject this secular humanism and this hatred of God if God by his grace will call them to do so that's that's the key and so I really I Don't know the more I see this and the more I I I hear the Detestation that people have for God's truth the more I feel we need to be warned and be ready to speak out about it.

We have opportunities every day to address people about this, but will we count the cost to say it? Because that cost is going to become higher and higher and higher. So Some thoughts at the beginning of the program today about what's going on around us and with that I did promise Let's go ahead and start radio free, Geneva.

Radio Free Geneva: Predestination, Choice, and the Meaning of Romans 9

Mighty fortress is our God. A Bulwark never.

I don't like Calvinist because they've chosen to follow John Calvin instead of Jesus Christ. I have a problem with them. They're following men instead of the Word of God.

Amid the flood of mortal ills prevail. Still our ancient foe Doth seek to work us woe. His craft and power are great and done with cruel hell.

Well first of all James I'm very ignorant of the Reformers. I think I probably know more about Calvinism than most of the people who call themselves Calvinist.

Did we in our own strength confide, our striving would be losing, but God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever were not the right man on our side, the man of God's own choosing.

Ladies and gentlemen James White is a hyper Calvinist. Now whatever we do in Baptist life. We don't need to be teaming up with hyper Calvinist. You ask who that may be Christ Jesus. I Said the other day in class that I don't understand the difference between hyper Calvinism and Calvinism.

It seems to me that Calvin was a hyper Calvinist. Right. I don't think there is typically any difference between Calvinism and hyper Calvinism.

Lord swallow his name. Read my book from age to age the same. And he must win the battle.

And now from our underground bunker hidden deep beneath Liberty University where no one would think to look. Save from those moderate Calvinists, Dave Hunt fans and those who have read and re-read George Bryson's book We are Radio Free Geneva.

Broadcasting the truth about God's freedom to say his own eternal glory.

And well it seems we've been interrupted once again, and we're trying to get okay. Hey there he is.

Yeah, well, you know I had a 4G signal and Then I stopped having a 4G signal it just it just turned off these little hotspots are nice for getting your email and stuff like that but But what's what's what's scary right now is?

I'm on the hotel wireless, and I've got the 4G back so if all of a sudden I disappear. We'll know what to do hmm go back to 4G for a while. We got 26 minutes out of it. This is one of the reasons. I'm not into the cloud stuff quite yet.

We really don't have this stuff perfected yet, so anyway Welcome back to Radio Free Geneva. We are about 27 minutes and 50 seconds into our study of Ron Armstrong's sermon on predestination the I should we call it the former sermon on predestination because it has sort of disappeared.

It has just it's no longer on the web, but that's okay and we have another sermon for Radio Free Geneva to get to once we get back and There's actually probably no end of Materials if you wanted to look for them for Radio Free Geneva now I'm gonna do something here, and you tell me if it's if it's gonna make it absolutely impossible because this is a live program.

And I'm sitting in a hotel room in Boulder, Colorado and I Know what the sounds gonna sound like when I play it normally. But it's getting really warm in here believe it or not and I've had the air off so that you could hear me real well I'm gonna turn it back on as long as you can still hear me and understand me.

Then then we'll I'll be more comfortable for a while. But if it's really bad, well, I'll just have to sweat so here we go leans over and he turns the air back on and If I'm still understandable, and you're gonna be able to hear Ron.

Then then we should be okay, so hopefully that will that will work, okay? Let's let's go back to I backed up about 10 seconds or so and let's let's take a listen to what this is. This was the important part of the sermon pastor Armstrong was talking about the evil that men do and we were challenging.

What he was saying about that.

What the Bible teaches is that you have a choice. Look at your notes there. Fill these in quickly. Number one. Why does this matter. Because your prayers matter in the Old and New Testament. God was? Influenced by the prayers of his people.

The next one there. That's all he says about it, and I'm like.

Okay influenced by the prayers of his people what does that mean. Is he promoting an idea that your prayers change God. That God doesn't know what you're gonna pray. That you can convince God to be better.

I'm not really sure what the application is. I'm not sure he knows the application is but I would like to know once again is Ron Armstrong an open theist. Does he believe that there is a reason For everything it happens.

Now notice something if you're list if you've listened to all of it up to here. What you're gonna discover here is He's gonna really be at high speed here for while he's gonna throw some stuff and all of a sudden He just transitions into an altar call, and I'm gonna listen to all the altar call.

It's not unusual. That's unusual. I normally don't play that but again as we're getting into it listen for any call to repentance. Any Warning to flee from the wrath to come. Any discussion of the nature of sin.

Keep those things in mind as we listen because your choices matter and Number three because God has offered you the opportunity to choose your future.

What you know decipher choose your future. Is that sort of like one of those those pop-up books where you have the different kinds of I? Remember my kids used to love the Animorphs books back in the day and.

Some of them had alternate endings. You know go to page such and so is that so we're talking about it.

You get a choice. Don't stand back and tell people. Oh, man. Why does it matter. All this stuff is already pre-decided? We call that nihilism. We call it fatalism.

Nihilism is not the same thing as fatalism and Reform perspective is neither on any meaningful basis. Nihilism no meaning the whole thing that our whole point is that there is meaning in everything that God does including our lives and the reality of the choices that we make.

Very very surface level perspective from pastor Armstrong here call it determinism.

And what it is is a cop-out. It's a it's a way of avoiding any responsibility for the decisions that we make you get a choice.

So evidently he's now suggesting that We don't believe that you're responsible for your choices. You notice there's no citations From reformed folks at this point because of course he really couldn't find any from they say they knows they're talking about.

Because we believe that God holds men accountable for acting upon the desires of their hearts. We believe that. And You might say well if God's decree included that then he can't hold me responsible. Then you take up your argument with what God did to the Assyrians in Isaiah 10.

You take your argument to Acts 4 about Pilate and Herod and the Jews and the Romans. You take your argument to the brothers of Joseph. Take your argument to the scriptures. But don't call yourself a biblical Christian.

Just I just believe the Bible if you won't deal with those texts. You get a choice where you want to spend eternity. You get a choice of what kind of life you want to live here. You get a choice of whether or not you're going to be a person of love joy peace patience kindness or whether you're going to Be a person of evil anger and bitterness.

You get a choice.

So if you're a person of love It's simply because you chose not because God's grace changed you is that right? And if you're a person of bitterness, it's only because You rejected God's grace. I mean don't get me wrong.

I I have said similar words not in a rejection of God's sovereignty. But our choices are real choices, but they are real choices under God's sovereignty not in contradiction to God's sovereignty. And I've said to many people look My experience in life.

I find people who choose to be happy and to look forward to the future and to serve God and I find people who choose to be unhappy and I Tell people you know what? It's a whole lot better to choose to be happy and to choose look forward to the future and to choose to trust God.

But none of this has anything to do with whether God has sovereignly ordained all it takes place in time.

You get a choice of what's going to happen not everything in your future. But an awful lot of your choices it are going to impact your future. In fact simple things like whether or not you're willing to work hard.

Most of you've already learned by the HR. You've learned that working hard pays a dividend and it's sleeping in doesn't pay very well at all. The Lord's you figured that stuff out. You're not eight years old.

You figured out that you know. It'd probably be better to when you go in and apply for a job. Might be better to have that high school diploma than not have that high school diploma. You figured that stuff out.

You figured out that you know. Maybe going and getting some training at a vocational school or going and finishing your degree or or whatever you Vocation you want. You figured out that those things would probably be a healthy.

You figured out that your choices have an impact on What happens tomorrow, but don't fool yourself. It's the choices you make today that deter determine what happens tomorrow. You've already figured out the causal connection the proximate cause between what you choose.

Ah.

Now now we have something about Causes proximal and remote causes and that the first thing is primary and secondary causes. I wonder why he can see that in human life. But will not allow reformed theologians to apply that in regards to God's sovereignty and man's responsibility.

Very interesting. And what occurs out here, and I believe the Bible supports that idea. I believe the Bible supports that idea. That's why it says for God so loved the world, but whosoever what? Believeth in him.

Catch that.

Even he recognizes the limitation of that text and Still doesn't seem to understand that the whosoever part is simply saying that anyone who believes doesn't answer the question of who will believe. It doesn't answer the question of capacity to believe for belief or the biblical teaching that saving faith is a gift of God or any?

Of those things, but that's what you deal with so often with those who are opposed reformed theology.

Should not perish but have everlasting life. That God isn't tying a rope to you and saying come here come here come here While he has tied you to the back wall.

Which of course we saw in our previous Examinations has absolutely nothing to do with the gracious and sovereign God calling dead sinners to spiritual life.

No, that's a perverted idea of predestination.

Predestination it is perverted. Yeah.

Yes, there are things that are part of God's plan and God has the power. We find that in prophecy that God has to catch.

That there are things That are part of God's plan. But not everything is part of God's plan, that's why I really even if he's not a an open theist I Just really honestly can't see how he can avoid. I certainly don't see how he could mount a defense against open theism.

That's for sure. Power to work out certain events. But what happens tomorrow? God has allowed a lot of that to be influenced by you so Iran you you know now you're talking about earning your way to God.

Billy Graham phrased it this way. We are just beggars telling other beggars where to get bread. We might not want to grow too prideful of that. All right, we are just people pointing the way to Christ.

We didn't earn it. We didn't deserve it. All we deserved was separation from God, but it is grace and his love. Invited us into relationship with him. Bow your heads for just a minute and just see that I.

Didn't. I mean I. Remember listening to this while I was writing and it was like he's he's rolling along. He's going along and all sudden bow your heads. Boom. I Mean I did. I did not even see it coming.

There was no transition there was nothing. Just wow, we are we are now into it. I'm gonna have to turn this up because I'm looking at the waveform and it gets real quiet here. But.

Here comes here comes the altar call. Weekend. They said they're gonna have water baptism. For those of you don't understand that water baptism is something that happens after you make the decision to follow Christ.

And I am one of those people. And and the truth the matter is I Am a Wesleyan Arminian. Yeah, I'm someone that believes God desires everyone to come into relationship with him. Now pastor on bomb and others on the staff their common Calvin.

They believe we get it ie Armenians choice.

If God chooses but based on what we choose it so we get along really really well. Because both of us have a passion. For people who come into relationship with Christ. Here's what I want to ask you. If you were to go and stand before God tonight, what would he say to you?

Would he say well done good and faithful servant. Or would he say I don't really know you. What would he say? The Bible says if we confess with our mouth and believe in our heart We can have relationship with him.

It wasn't decided 10 million years ago or 10 ,000 years ago. It wasn't decided by God all on his own. No.

Wasn't decided by God all on his own. No, you don't want to have a God who makes decisions by himself. I.

Mean that creation thing other than that. I mean he invited you into relationship with him.

Now notice he invites you into relationship with him. Not. He commands you to repent not act 17. God commands men everywhere to repent. He invites you into relationship. Now see that's a partial truth.

There's a glorious truth that we are invited into Relationship with God, but that that phrase has no meaning and in fact becomes a perversion. When it is removed from the reality that first as the foundation God commands repentance and faith.

The invitation to relationship is only for the repentance believing person. Once you make that the focus of your call, you're no longer preaching a biblical gospel. Your choice matters.

And when your choice matters It's really important to make the right one. What's your choice gonna be? Is your choice gonna be? Yeah, God, I want a relationship with you. Or is your choice going to be.

You know, I'm really too busy for that or I'm not gonna worry about that now. What's your choice gonna be. Don't worry about people who say you don't have a choice you do. But that makes that choice all the more important doesn't.

The last 2 ,000 years Men and women have been teaching and preaching and writing Trying to bring you that this understanding. That if we confess with our mouth and believe in our heart we would be saying We could have relationship with him, so if you stood before God tonight, what would he say?

The Bible teaches he'll either say well done. Good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of the Lord. Or I don't know you which is he going to say? With every head bowed no one looking around. I just want to ask you Are you here and you say Ron I I want to make a commitment him.

I'm not really sure that I've ever really made a commitment. I'm not sure what he would say, but I want to believe in my heart and confess with my mouth. But I'm gonna invite him to be the Lord of my life.

If you want to make that commitment today, don't look around just between you and God. Just slip your hand up and take it down. I'll pray with you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Thank you.

Thank you. I'm late. Well, you want to invite him in today.

Now think about this for just a moment while we're listening to this. Was that a gospel message? What what are these? What are these folks responding to I? Again. Faith repentance. They know anything about the cross.

And. What are they responding to? I Want to Want to.

Drink if you're gonna invite him in. You're gonna make commitment to it today. Why don't you stand right where you're at? You're gonna make a commitment. You raised your hand. Just stand right where you're at.

Come on, don't be shy. Now's the time. Just stand right where you're at. You raise your hand stand up with you. Thank you. Thank you. I appreciate your courage. Thank you. Don't run from it now.

If you're inviting him in, stay. What courage? I mean, aside from, oh, people are going to look at me. What are these people committing to? Do they understand anything about discipleship? Do they understand anything about repentance?

What does it... It's frustrating.

Here, let me make it easier. Let's all stand together. And now you don't know who's making a choice, so reach over and join hands with him. I'm just going to invite you to just silently pray along with me.

Dear Jesus... Okay, now listen. Come into my heart. Jesus, forgive me of my sin. Forgive me... There. There.

Forgive me of my sin. How or why or anything... But we got at least once, there was something about... I'm not sure how they could know what their sin is. There wasn't any discussion of that. But finally, there was something from the background there.

Forgive me of my past. Forgive me of my past. I want a relationship with you.

Jesus, your word says, if I confess with my mouth and believe in my heart, Lord, I can have a relationship with you.

I can have a relation... Not. I'll be saved from the wrath of God. I can have a relationship with you.