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Pastor David Mitchell
So here's all right so anyway we're we're in Romans chapter 11 and as you know we took a little divergence out through the book of Revelation. We finished that up the last Sunday I was here so now we're back finishing up Romans chapter 11.
May not finish it all in one day because there's quite a few verses left but we're making good progress through the chapter in chapter 11. A little bit of review here. Let's pray first. I want to get my mind off trip and into the word here.
Lord thank you so much for bringing us home safely and more importantly than that for protecting all of our family and our loved ones here our church family while we were away and Lord we ask you we never want to overlook or not be thankful for your protection and your hand upon us and Lord thank you for the many answered prayers we've even heard about just since we got back here and for protecting people watching over your sheep and so Lord now take us into your word and speak to our hearts by your holy spirit through the word and the spirit we ask it in Jesus name amen.
Let's review a little bit because since we took a little trip out through Revelation we need to kind of remember the context of Romans 11 right. Because where we're about to go is pretty magnificent. In fact Bill is so funny but he talked about some of it in his Sunday school lesson today there was a little part in it that had to do with how it is that we can live for the Lord you know the experiential part actually trying to be a good man or woman for God trying to do right trying to be obedient how does that work.
And an amazing thing has been talked about it right towards the end of his sermon I heard him say something I hadn't thought about in years I took logic in college but college has now become a long time ago for me so but it was interesting when he said it because I hadn't thought about it in years when he said that you have cause and then you have effect and he said but an effect can become a cause and that's logically true but I hadn't thought about but that's why they call God the first cause right.
Bill I mean if he's if there's a first cause that implies there can be a second cause right. So some of the effects that come from when something is caused to happen and stuff because that happens those can become a cause of something else.
I thought that was pretty clever and it made me think about that a lot for about a week after being preached about it and what's interesting is it ties in with what Bill said this morning what I'm going to say today in the next Sunday the Lord willing about how does it work that we know we're not saved by works right.
So why do we do any. And how does that work. And and if we're not living by the law and if the Ten Commandments were not even for us I mean most of us didn't grow up knowing that right. How many of you grew up thinking that the Ten Commandments are very much a part of the Christian life.
Raise your hand. All of us grew up being taught that it's on the school walls and I wish it still were. But the point is the law was for Israel it was for Israel. The scripture says it very clearly in many places.
And so we're not under that law we're under a higher law the law of Christ. And you touched on that today too and I think you said love God and love your neighbor others and all the other law is kept in that law and that's the law of Christ.
Right. So so how is it then. I mean how does obeying God even fit into this thing. And how does it work. And Ben's whole sermon was on that last week he can get analytical like his daddy does sometimes.
And so I enjoyed it because I could see the struggle he was going through with like you have you have what we call positional truth. Right. Like God that's the cause like God God saves us. He gives us a new nature.
Right. God gives us his own righteousness. And then Jesus turned around says be holy for I am holy. That's experiential. So you have positional which is stuff that what you do doesn't change it because God did it all and it's a reality.
It's an unchangeable reality when God once God does it your salvation is that way. But then he says be holy as I'm holy. That's you making a decision to either do that or not. Right. How does all that fit together.
So as we move on through Romans 11 and what's good what you're going to see not so much these first few verses. That's why I may not even get to this awesome part today. But that's okay. Let me come back next time maybe except for some of us that have to leave and go to Florida.
I guess is it about that time. Yeah it goes fast summer goes too fast. But what it's all leading to most of what you're going to see in 11. Now once we get through the last few verses or to them is they are the context for this amazing chapter 12.
Verse 1 that's going to start out the chapter the chapter 12 of Romans the whole chapter but I mean especially verse 1 which is talking about experiential life living for God. And the interesting thing about it.
And this is how we know there aren't really chapters in the real body in the original Bible men added that years later because verse 1 starts out with the idea therefore do this. Well you can't have. Therefore if you don't have stuff up above it that it's talking about right.
So even though it's a different chapter it really wasn't. It's all the same breath. It's all a letter and you can't understand it without the context. So the context for Romans 12 1 is found at the end of chapter 11 and that's where we are now.
So pay attention to that because when we get to 12 1 it's going to help you understand it. And 12 1 is one of the most magnificent verses in the Bible that has to do with us living right. And how we how we walk with God and how we walk with each other and how difficult that is living in spiritual warfare all the time.
And not even realize. Most Christians don't even realize don't even know what that is. The Satan can put a thought in your mind and see where you'll go with it. And not only will he see where you go with it he'll make you.
He can make you go with it and turn a he can make you turn a molehill into a mountain in a minute with problems with other people or even with the Lord or whatever. And you just think it's the other person.
And yet the scripture says we battle not against what flesh and blood that's the other person. We battle not against flesh and blood but against spiritual powers in heavenly places in high places principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places.
That's the battle. But most Christians are totally unaware of this battle. And I'm not even talking about demonic possession. I mean that takes it a step further. And that's real too. People don't believe that that just went away right.
Well they can't die. Where'd they go. The demons that were in the pigs that drowned when Jesus said the demons didn't drown. Just the pigs did. Now they're living in humans. Probably I don't think they tend to stay with pigs very long.
So there's that. But I'm not even talking about that. I'm talking about something more subtle and more pervasive than that. And that is just the work on the mind that Satan can do. I mean our flesh can be pretty bad in and of itself the old man right.
The old man can be can do anything bad that it could before your salvation. And that old man part of you isn't going to get saved till the rapture or till you die right. Whichever comes first. But when Satan comes in and works together with that old man part of which is your brain it can be devastating.
What can happen to other people. What you can do to yourself and to other people even as a Christian. So you got to be aware of spiritual warfare. And all of that comes into play when we talk about experiential Christian living right being a good man woman boy or girl.
Because we still have the old man Paul the greatest Christian that ever lived. Probably we'll find that out someday. He said oh wretched man that I am. You know I do the things I don't want to do. I don't do the things I want to do for the Lord who will set me free from the body of this death.
And he says thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord. That too. And so in time right now that's the only answer we have is we're still in this body. Satan can influence this brain. And so we have to be thankful that the Lord Jesus Christ is greater than him and he lives in us too.
And when we turn to him we win. We win the battle all. Right. We're going to win the war. We know that. Right. You can win the battles too if you understand spiritual warfare and most of the time with other human beings.
If it's a Christian good truthful communication and prayer will solve any issue and bring unity. The Bible says division grieves the Holy Spirit. So what does the Holy Spirit bring unity. Right. So all of that's part of spiritual warfare.
And it's going on all the time not just in churches in life in business and family in governments and nations. You read the book of Revelation. I mean we were going through it quite a bit but we didn't cover it verse by verse.
Did we. But there's a passage in the book of Revelation it says at the very end right before Armageddon that Satan and his demons cause spirits to go into the minds of the leaders of the nations and cause them to hate one another and want to kill one another.
And the great final war happens because demons made them think it was their thought. It made them think it's a good idea to go to war with everybody else instead. The demons look like frogs. What does that mean.
Well we don't know. We know this John was in heaven looking at stuff way out in the future that he didn't have words for couldn't describe it with vocabulary. Because he had no vocabulary. Like if he needed to describe a helicopter firing missiles he just had to say it looked like a locust with hair on it and fire coming out its mouth.
That's a helicopter. Probably. And so that's how he describes what's going to happen. And he's very accurate. And so the demons are going to put these thoughts in the leader's mind making them think it's their own thought.
They believe in free will. Right. They have no free will. It's all influenced. And then they will come at war with one another. It'll create the last war. And Jesus will end it with fire from his mouth destroy the armies of the world in one blow.
And then we'll be ushered into the thousand year millennial kingdom. That'll be very much like the garden of eden again. So that's where we're headed. But um so spiritual warfare goes right up to the end is my point.
Well let's look at this. Let's review just a little bit. Romans 11 17. If some of the branches were broken off who's that the jews. The gentiles. The branches that are broken off that's some of the jews.
Now notice it says some of not all of them. My mentor was a jew who got saved a jewish believer dr erwin freeman. Y 'all heard about him. He's in heaven now. So it doesn't mean no jews are saved. But some of the jews were broken off.
And now being a wild olive tree who's that the jews and the gentiles. The wild olive tree that's the gentiles. We were grafted into the tree. Now why you got to be grafted into the tree. Because the root is jesus christ.
And that's where all the nutrition and life comes from. And without it you're dead. You're nothing. You're just dirt. We you know we have a lot of dirt in us. We're made out of dirt. The fact that you can live and breathe and animate is a miracle.
The fact that a tree has life in it when its roots are in dirt is a miracle. None of that can happen. Yet mother nature can't make any of that happen without god's influence. In fact it's in my sermon.
But we won't get to it today. Probably. So it's all animated by the life and presence of jesus christ who made all things but of him all things consist and the greek word means he holds it together and makes it be real.
Listen most of everything that you see that you think is just normal would be nothing but a facade. It wouldn't even exist without the breath of god's life in it and energy. Without god who is everywhere and in in everything.
And and i'm not. You know i don't believe in pantheism but but the bible says that god is everywhere. He's omnipresent. And jesus christ holds everything together. That means the atoms and even down to smaller particles than that.
But we haven't even named yet. He holds it all together. And without his continual touch it is gone on. Which means you're gone now. There is nothing that can bring you next to god quicker than thinking about that.
So that's part of this message here too. And and so really what you're going to see is all of this is going to build up towards why romans chapter 12 verse 1 happens. And what makes it happen. And a big part of it is you understanding the awesomeness of god and fearing him because of it.
And that will cause us to live right and not much more will. Because your flesh my stress flesh is way stronger than it ought to be. But it is. And so it's only by being thankful and loving god and his love for us and fearing god that we do anything right.
And yet that's god's plan for the new testament church. It is not a plan of keeping a list of things to do and don't do. And yet most churches do that. That is not the plan. The plan is by the love of god the love for god and the fear of god.
We live for god. You'll see that i think so that's my overview for the verses. We're about to come to towards the end of romans chapter 11. But here's where it all started out. It started out about god revealing to us that he broke off some of the jews out of the tree and he plugged us in.
And it's not. We're not even natural blank branches. But when he grafted us in god made us come alive. We were born again and we're just as saved as the jew. But the jew didn't believe that could happen.
And a lot of what paul talking about in his epistles he's convincing the jew yeah god will save all men not just jews. Now he doesn't mean every individual man does. He means all kinds of men besides just jews.
And if you know that context it helps you understand the little greek word pas which translated all doesn't always mean every individual fact. Usually it doesn't. It does sometimes though but usually it means some from every people group anyway it's all through here.
So you'll see it. So now he's broken off some of the jews and grafted in some gentiles. And now we partake of the root and the fatness of the olive tree. Who does that. Picture a person who who would he be.
Who is the root of jesse jesus christ the lord who created everything. So we're now connected to him. Don't you think that helps you be a better man or woman a boy or girl to just understand like you were.
You're different than you were before you got saved or i should say justified i should say regenerated. You are different than you were before you were regenerated. Now you're connected to the tree and the root and the food and the nutrients all the spiritual strength and everything you need to be perfect in this life.
And by that i don't mean sinless but i mean mature all that you were meant to be right there in that verse. And that's something. But we got another verse all right. Let's see how much did that verse take.
Oh wow time to get started here in it both not against the branches. God's now talking to the gentiles. And he's telling him not to boast against the jews. But if thou bears not but but if thou boast remember this you don't bear the root.
The root is what gives you life. And it's jewish because jesus was a jew. So the gentile american church as powerful as she has been not so much now but as powerful as she has been. She should never have bragged and said well you know we're better than the jews ever were because the roots of jew the tree is jewish.
Now let's just think about this for a minute because what comes next and this is still review. But if you remember what came next was a warning from paul the great apostle inspired by the holy spirit that said i need to remind the gentile church of something that if i would break off jews from this tree because of their unbelief i will break off gentiles from this tree because their unbelief.
And i believe it was a message to the american church predominantly. But look at this in january of 2020. Now this is over a year ago in january it marked the 47th anniversary of roe versus wade legalized abortion in the united states of america.
And since that time 61 million 628 584 babies lives were ended because of america the leaders we elected and what we allowed and never stopped it and it's still ongoing. In fact now it's fired up bigger than it ever has been with biden in there now i won't say ever uh obama did more damage so far.
But with biden in there it now progresses. And so you think about that close to 62 million each unique unrepeatable persons who were snuffed out and never got to be that doctor never got to be the nobel prize winning physicist.
No never got to be the general of our military or the president of the united states because they were killed in the womb by america. Right. Instead of welcoming these babies they were snuffed out through the violence of abortion.
So think about that for a minute. What nation today do you think represents the largest contingent of church-going gentile christians. Would you think that would be america. I think it is so. We're offering children to the the god the false god that they offered their children to by fire.
We're offering our children the same god when we abort them. And we're seeing this happen before our very eyes. There was a great great revival 2624 years ago maybe the greatest revival that ever happened.
I hear people all the time tell me brother david we just need revival in america. And i always just shudder when i hear it because i never disagree i never agreed that i think it's going to happen because i don't because i think we're in the apostasy stage.
But people say it all the time. But there was a great revival. There have been great revivals even in america. But in second kings 23 1 through 7 it says that the bible was read in the ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the lord.
So they stood up and they just simply read the bible all day to the people. It doesn't say anything about recited poems or clever sayings or little stories. They just read verse by verse through the word of god.
It's all they did. And if you go read about that in second kings 23 you will see that towards the end of that day revival broke out among those people and instruments were brought out and played in mute loud music and dancing and praising god just because they heard the word of god read in a boring fashion.
And i shouldn't say boring. Meet this person in heaven. So you said my reading was boring. It probably was not boring. But i'll tell you one thing i know the material was good because it was the bible.
And it caused one of the biggest revivals that never happened in the history of the world just by reading the bible. Now here's what josiah did. The one who read this scripture. He made a covenant to live by the bible.
And it changed the whole nation of israel because of this. For for for quite some time. He then destroyed the vessels that had been made to worship baal and he burned them. So he destroyed false religion in his country.
He got rid of it. He then killed the idolatrous priest who were teaching people about false gods and to offer their children by fire. He killed them. Now i'm not advocating we should do this in america.
We have laws that don't allow us to kill them. But you know we ought to we ought to strike them down with our words. Shouldn't we. We we should let them know. We don't agree with you. You're false and we shouldn't do it in a nice way.
We should rebuke them. Third he broke down the houses of the sodomites and i want to expand on that this morning. But most of us know what that is. Do we do that today. Or do we embrace that sin today in this country.
You tell me all the children in school are taught that it's just normal as normal as the sun coming up in the morning. He continued to destroy these false gods. He destroyed the altars of the false gods.
He stamped out jeroboam's altar and stamped it to powder and crushed all this false god stuff. He slew all the priests in the high places. And then he did the most important thing of all he renewed the passover because to the jew the passover was a picture of the perfect lamb of god and him dying in their place.
And they had stopped doing that picture and they were commanded to never stop doing it. So this was an amazing revival. But what does america need. You know short of revival like this. America's lost.
And i don't think we're going to see revival like this. I don't think it's god's will. We will see by what happens. But i think we're in the apostasy stage in the world now which is good news. It just means jesus coming sooner because the apostle paul said that the antichrist cannot be revealed until there's a great apostasy first.
And jesus can't come back until the antichrist is revealed. So it's all good news. We're winding this thing down getting the place where like paul said a wretched man that i am who will save me from the body of this death.
That's what happens at the rapture. We're getting closer to that. So what about drunkenness in america. 95 000 deaths in the united states each year and 261 people die every day from alcoholism in the united states of america.
It costs the country 249 billion dollars a year. And we just keep selling it. Oh well we had prohibition that didn't go. Well so we just make it free. We won't make all the other drugs free too. That's what they're talking about doing now in the halls in washington dc.
And then the state government said perfect sense to people who are deluded. Right. Bible says god will bring a strong delusion that they would believe a lie. I'm going to try this for try this for a lie.
You wear a mask that the holes in it are 500 microns big to stop a one micron virus from getting into the next person. How about that. For a lie. Masks are entirely useless. You say well why do doctors wear them when they're doing surgery to stop bacteria.
Not viruses and other gross stuff. Big molecules but not viruses. The whole thing is a hoax. That's a rabbit trail. I hope you liked it. And on my whole vacation the only place i had to wear one was on the airplane and in the airport the gestapo.
Like you can't go anywhere if you don't put their freaking mask on. It's just control. It does nothing. My wife came home with a terrible cold and she wore the mask the whole way home. How'd she catch it.
If it works i don't get it you know. But it's like delusion to believe a lie. That's not the only lie. The vaccine that they're giving everybody is not a vaccine. It's actually genetic. Uh what's the word bill.
It's it's altering. It's genetic engineering. That's what i'm trying to come up with. It's never been done before except in the lab to humans. And i took the thing just so i couldn't get on the ship without it.
And i've always been for vaccines. But i know this one's different. I took it for five days. I was way sicker than when i had covid. And now since i got back both my hips are hurting. I've never had hip trouble.
Like the joints screwed up all right. And i from my waist down i'm aching every morning when i wake up. You're supposed to be refreshed when you wake up. So you know i'm hoping that passes away. I'll let you know.
Oh every once in a while it just gives away. Not really so all of it's about government control before long. If you don't have the vaccine you won't be allowed in a grocery store or you can't go to hospital.
Now if you need medical help you will wear the mask. And before long you will have had the vaccine. You won't go in there. You'll never get on an airplane or a ship or a train. Right. I mean it's total control.
And before long they're just gonna stick it on a chip in your forehead in your right hand. And you won't do that one because the bible says you won't. If you're born again you won't do it. You'll say you've taken it too far.
I'm not doing it. At that point you will be in the hills. You won't be living at your house because they'll be coming for you. You will be in a cave somewhere in the hills off grid. And if you're not you'll be killed.
You'll have your head taken from your body because that's how it's done in the book of revelation. You'll be decapitated. And for being a christian. Right. So there we have it. You know what the good news is if you obey god he says he'll hide you.
And he won't save you from the tribulation. But he will save you through it like he did noah through the flood. And then you'll see the lord with your own eyes. And you'll be right up into that quadrant where park meadows will be.
And we'll all see each other together in the sky with no bad flesh in the bad sense of it. Our bodies won't even pull against us anymore. Isn't that cool. Everything will be like it should be for a human at that point.
So that's where we're headed. So it's all good news. 10 874 fatalities in motor vehicles every year are caused by drunk drivers 29. Almost 30 of all traffic fatalities are caused by drinking alcohol. You say well show me.
The bible says christian can't drink. Show me a place in the bible where it says you ought to drink. It'd be best if you drink alcohol. Okay. Because listen somebody going to need help in your neighborhood.
Are they going to come to you if you're just like them. Or are they going to come to you if you're different than they are. I will promise like there's something to be said for holiness. And i'm not saying it's a sin to take a little drink alcohol.
Bible doesn't say that it is jesus made wine and it was real wine. But if you want to be a leader for god if you if you want to be different and be a light why do you need to drink. You know why do you do it.
And what's your motive. Why do you do it. Is it selfish or is it something god wants you to do. I'm just asking the question i i am not a legalist. How many of you know that i don't care what you drink.
I don't care what music you listen to or how you dress. As long as you ask the holy spirit will you do this with me. And he says yes. Then you're cool with me and with him. So anyway do you want to be a part of this these statistics.
Like you have a drink but you don't ever get drunk. So you're just saying well i'm okay with the other brothers and sisters that drink with me. I just have a different way i look at it. But it happened to have been a sin that i had in my life that god totally removed the day he saved me.
He said don't drink another beer ever even or any alcoholic drink the day saved me and i cheated. One time about two weeks later when my best friend graduated from medical school he taught me because he's the one i used to drink with taught me to drink in one more beer.
And i had another friend that had just gotten saved that did it too. We drove from houston back towards central texas together and we looked at each. We weren't saying a word. I said kevin you ever going to do that again.
Nope i said me. Neither i never have another one. But i mean i'm not bragging. I'm just saying god removed that from me. That was my weakness. You all have different ones stuff he removed and then there's other stuff he doesn't remove.
He wants you to fight with it. He wants you to fight it fleshly sins from your youth that you still do. But you know it shouldn't be a habit. So you have to fight it. That's a good thing. Because you can't fight it on your own.
You have to draw in and be spirit-filled. And that's what god wants you to do. And that's why he said he put this treasure in earthen vessels so that he would get all the glory. So you'll fight the fight.
It's good for you to learn how to fight that fight. It's good to learn to win the battles and stop doing that stuff though. Get where you do it less and less. And finally you just don't have a hunger for whatever that thing is again that's called holiness.
It's a it's a listen holy doesn't. In the context of you of christians i'm not talking about god's holiness but christian's holiness. It does not mean sinlessness. It means you are different than the world.
That's what it means. So you're not going to reach perfection but you can reach differentness where all your neighbors and everybody around you knows you're kind of weird. And if they know that then when they need something life-changing or death comes into their family or divorce or whatever horrible things happen in their family they will come to you because they know you're weird and you have power with god and you're different.
And they'll come to you. Otherwise they're not going to come to you. That's a good sermon on alcohol. And what about rape in america 98 213 back in 2019 and the laws are very weak on punishment for these things.
What about this one. My little box almost got in the way of that one. What about that sin in america. Well here's what's interesting about it. Right here in 2001 53 of people that responded said that they believe that this lifestyle was morally wrong.
53 more than half the people in america thought it was morally wrong. In 2020 the number had fallen to 32. So 70 of americans don't even think it's wrong. What do you think about that. Well you knew that you you can sit you know the good news to me is the news media.
And in hollywood won't you make you think every other person you pass on the street is like that. But only 4 .5 of all americans are like that. But don't you think they make you think like they're everywhere.
Well kind of looking around the restaurants in different places it kind of seems like they are. But what do you think about a nation that has now accepted this as a normal lifestyle and teaches it in all the schools.
Do you think god has ever come after nations that do that. Where's greece now. Where's rome now. What about the decline in church attendance. We talked about that a few months ago. Murder in america. 20 000 murders a year now.
That's a lot. And it's not guns that do the killing. It's humans. All right. So now we're back in the scripture verse 18. Most not against the branches. Don't don't boast against the jews. If you're a gentile all right.
Now let's say then the branches were broken off. That i could be grafted in. Well god said that. So that's true. Isn't it. Well because of unbelief they were broken off. So god did not break any of his elect jews off.
And the scripture even said that if you remember in our study a few months back he said i'm not talking about the ones i foreknew. You remember that i'm just talking about jews as a nation. Some of them got broken off but none of the ones i foreknew were broken off.
Isn't that something. Well that's true. The gentile church too because he is going to break off the gentile american church but not those that he foreknew. It's just as a whole the church is going to cease to be the light of the world.
And there's a moment when it happens. And it's in scripture. And it's right at the beginning of the blowing of the seventh trumpet in the book of revelation. Well because of unbelief they were broken off.
And now stand by faith. You gentiles that are saying you stand by faith. But he said don't be boasting about the fact that you're standing by faith. But fear. Now a lot of what we're going to talk about is the fear of god.
What that actually means coming up in these 30 scriptures it means to be in awe of god basically to understand that nothing lives nothing's real nothing has reality in the physicality of anything. You see if god just moves his hand off of it for one second it just gone it ceases to exist.
It disappears including you. If he moves it for one second it doesn't even exist. That's the fear of god. Isn't it nice that he also promises not to remove his hand. Be not high-minded but fear god. For if god spared not the natural branches take heed lest he also spare thee.
Not. I never saw that as prophetic until the last few months of my life as i talked through this with you and learned from it with you. And it is very prophetic because it's exactly what's going to to the church in the tribulation period.
Oh yes the church is there. But she will come to a place at the beginning of the blowing of the seventh trump where she will be removed by god and this is part of his grace. He will remove the responsibility of witnessing from you.
And he will tell you to go hide. You're done. Your job is done. Go hide. Because if you continue to witness you'll be killed. That's amazing. I never saw that until like the last five six months of my life.
And i've studied these things for 40 years now. But god said he'll reveal more and more to us as the days come as we see things happening. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of god. We we live in a world today where the american church all it wants to look at is the goodness of god.
God is good. God loves everyone. God will save everyone. But the bible says to look at the goodness and the severity of god. God is just god is wrathful against sin. God will not have any sin in heaven.
God will not have any tares in heaven. He won't have any goats in heaven. He doesn't love the tares. He doesn't love the goats like he loves us. He loves them as a creation like a tree that he created.
That's not the same as loving a child. Is it. The world hates it. When i say this across the country and i say it all the time god doesn't love everybody. Boy they that gets their attention i say look you don't have to agree with me.
Just go study. My job is not to teach you anything. My job gets you to learn something. And i've got thousands of people writing emails saying man i never saw that thank you. Because their preacher doesn't preach it anymore because it's not popular today.
We just want to talk about the goodness of god. What about the severity of god. Doesn't the bible say i believe in the book of james save some with fear. Is that where that is. You got phones. You can look it up.
I'm trying to use an old man's memory. So maybe i got it. But i know it says in the scripture save some with fear. So let's talk about the goodness and severity of god on them which fell. They saw god's severity.
You know why. Because they went to hell. The jews that didn't get saved that didn't come to christ went to hell. And toward you the gentiles who were born again because god showed you the light predominantly through the apostle paul in the early days that's the goodness of god.
But there's a condition there. Look at that word if i just don't like this one. But but it does not teach. It does not remove the idea of eternal security. One bit not if you take it in context because what this is all moving toward is roman chapter 12 verse 1.
We're talking about how to live right. It's not talking about the cause and the regeneration. Is talking about the effects of it living right. And that's why the if is there if you continue in his goodness.
Well listen the only thing you can do when you're born again is continuing his goodness. Do you really think that you as a born again child of god where he's sealed the holy spirit. Now the seal of god can't be broken.
You can't remove the holy spirit from a human body once god puts it in there. Did you know that. So how are you going to move away from god when he's all around you. Because he's on the present now he lives in you.
How are you going to remove yourself. So if you continue you're going to continue if you're born again. But a lot of these sermons are written to churchfuls of people including in paul's day that had three kinds of people save sheep lost sheep and goats.
And i'll promise you a lost sheep sitting out even in this little room if you're going to get saved someday. But you're running from god right now. And you hear me say if you continue you're going well i'm not continuing right now i might go to hell.
And that is a good thing for you to feel now. If you're lost sheep ain't going to hell. But you need to feel like you are. If you're in a state of lostness and that should be part of the sermon. It's not all just goodness of god.
God will send you to hell. If you don't receive jesus as your personal lord and savior all he has to ask if the great white throne judgment what'd you do with my son jesus. You say nothing. You're going to hell.
If you say well i received him because all of a sudden in my heart i found a love for him and loved him my whole life. But i sure did live bad. You're going to heaven. You might lose a few rewards because you live bad.
But you'll be in heaven because you're not saved by whether you live right or wrong. You're saved by what you do with jesus. And you know what you do with jesus what you want to do with everyone does.
And praise me to god that as you're born again experience your regeneration. The very first thing as far as i understand it the holy spirit did when while you were yet in your sins he quickened you was he get changed your want to where you wanted jesus for the first time in your life.
So you just did what you wanted to do. You received him. It's that simple. It's that simple. That's the true gospel toward the goodness. If you continue well listen. If you don't continue guess what that means.
You were a false professor. You just went to church because to dress up you want to do. Trade your business card not in this church but a big church. Trade your business card with other people. Get people to buy your insurance or your cars or whatever you sell.
And that's why you were there and you never were born again. Therefore you cannot continue in god's goodness because you're basically bad. Right. That's the message for that person. He's a christian and otherwise that kind of person will be cut off too.
Listen this chapter already previously months ago it takes months for me to go through a chapter. But months ago i showed you where god said yeah but not my not those who i foreknew i didn't cut them off.
So if you're foreknown you're predestined and the holy spirit has awakened you and you love jesus because god made you want to love him. You're not going to be cut off. But people sitting around you might be probably not in this little bitty church but we don't know but god knows.
In fact if you're saved you know right. And if you've known each other very long you kind of know about your brother and sister too. I kind of know raymond bland the same. Now some of you haven't known raymond very long.
And you think probably he's not by just looking at it right. He's big and tough and mean looking. And i know sharon's saved. Right. I could go through the room because i've known nearly all of you longer than anybody else has known most of you.
And you can know that with time. Right. And and with that oneness that you have because of the holy spirit you sense it. You can even sense it with brand new christians. Everyone knows that like i'll go like 3 000 people in that room as i walked through that room and all they did was market to christians by the way.
And every business represented in there besides trade all the other businesses were owned by born-again believers too. And you can just walk through and sense people saved all around. You can feel it the room the power of the spirit among that many people pretty powerful.
In fact when you leave it's kind of a drain because it's gone. It's really interesting. But here we here we have the lord just telling the plain truth. And paul doesn't hold back. I say then chapter 11 verse 1 to just go back in time a little bit of probably months ago i say then has god cast away his people god forbid.
Now he just got through saying right here he did cut them off. You see this seems like a contradiction. But there's not because look what he says god forbid. For i also am an israelite of the seed of abraham triad of benjamin.
God has not cast away his people that he foreknew. He only cast away the false professors out of the jewish group. Does that do you see that listen the bible doesn't miss a thing. It's just people that don't read the bible miss a lot.
And then they'll tell you there's contradictions. No such thing god the perfect god can't contradict himself. So america you stand warned right. The gentile church is going to be cut off as the messenger of the world of the gospel.
And it's going to happen at the beginning of the blowing of the seventh trump doesn't mean they're raptured at that point she just has to go into hiding. She's no longer the light. She's no longer the voice of god.
Because god as you've seen in recent studies god raises up three more powerful witnesses than the church. Because the church has gotten so weak by that time. The main work that god's doing on the church by that time is to cause her to take all of her toys away.
So she has to actually walk with god so that when he does come back she'll be pure and ready. That ain't happening in the state we're in right now where we still got our stuff. Right. So he's gonna take some stuff away.
If you obey him he will hide you. So you can still be alive when he comes back. But when we meet him when he comes back we will be pure. And the bible puts that in the active voice which means we will have purified ourselves.
Which is what chapter 12 verse 1 is going to talk about that we're coming up to here. I don't know i'm excited about this stuff. It just all sort of fits together. Almost like a perfect person wrote this book verse 23.
And they also if they abide not still in unbelief guess what. They can be grafted back in the only reason they were cut off if they were unbelievers. If they believe they can be grafted back in for god is able to graft them in again.
That's the jews. For i would not brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery. Now paul talks about several mysteries which means there were things he revealed to the whole world that no other prophet had ever revealed in all of human history.
Some of them had looked into these things as a glass darkly couldn't understand him. God gave paul the clear revelation of some of these truths. One of them is the mystery of the indwelling of the holy spirit into the church.
I don't want you to be ignorant of this mystery lest you should be wise in your own conceits. That blindness in part has happened to israel until the fullness of the gentiles come in. That thing is that verse is misused in every book you'll ever read every book that commentates on that.
I believe they missed it because i don't think they understood the end times. Well and as we get closer into the end times we understand it better than some of the great writers. And i'm not saying these people were godly genius people but this little phrase how many times have you said including this preacher say that raymond and sharon you've heard me say it probably that the blindness in part is having israel until the fullness of gentile comes in.
And that means when that last gentile is saved the church age is over we get raptured. I've taught that it's wrong. But lord didn't reveal that to me until like three months ago. It doesn't mean that here's what it's talking about.
This speaks of a time when the jews will be grafted back in. And if you think about it the real witnesses in the last part of the tribulation period are 144 000 jewish virgin believers who've never been married never been part of the corrupt moral practices of the world that predominated in america and hollywood as far as how it got preached to the world about how to live in hollywood in the music industry never part of that.
And these 144 000 jewish believers witness to the whole world. Secondly you got an angel that goes around the world witnessing. And thirdly got two probably both jewish people that will stand and do some street preaching for three and a half years in jerusalem.
So they're most. They're most all jews. So now you see the jews are grafted back in as the light and the witness of the gospel in the end times. And the gentiles are cut off. And as the light and the witness the fullness of the gentiles is not the salvation of the last gentile but rather it is the casting down of the false church the whore as the king james calls her the false church with the false gospel and the false spirit.
And the false jesus the one they say loves everybody. Well that's not the jesus of the bible. He loves his sheep. If you don't believe that watch how he speaks to the pharisees who were goats. He looked at them in the eye and he said where i go you cannot come because i'm from above.
And you're from below. I'm of my father in heaven. You're from your father the devil. Where i go you can't go. That's the real jesus. The false jesus of the false modern church is he god loves everybody.
Don't worry about it. Listen this is all coming down. It's all right in line with what god said. It would be my whole life of preaching and studying. I've just seen so much of it happen. Revelation 10 7.
But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel this is when when when he shall begin to sound at the beginning of the sounding of the seventh trumpet the last trump. The mystery of god will be finished.
If you go read all of the epistles of paul you'll find a word formula. It's called the mystery of god. And everywhere you see it it's either talking about or alluding to the indwelling of the holy spirit in the church and the church corporately being indwelt by god.
And here it's saying that mystery is finished. Now if you look up the word finished it means completed. Its job is done. It doesn't mean it disappears. It doesn't mean it's raptured away. It means the job is done as he declared all of his servants all through the old testament.
There's hints at this. I'm sure the lord says it's not like the first time i've told you this. So that's where we see the effect of the church being a salt light of the world goes away. And we're instructed to hide at that point.
And there will be jewish witnesses from that point on. So i just was amazed to see all this in roman chapter 11. I never saw it as a prophetic part like in time stuff. But it's right here. And then verse 26 says.
And so at that point all israel will be saved. A lot of people have struggled with that before. I think it means that when the jesus christ does appear it never says jesus comes in secret. Like the false rapture theory never says anywhere in the bible he comes in secret.
Like that fact jesus warned there will be false teachers in the end times that teach that i'll come in secret. And he's appeared in the desert. He's appeared in the secret room. He said believe them not.
Because when i come i will come as a lightning from the east to the west. And every eye will see me. Does that sound like a secret rapture. Does that sound like the second coming. So the rapture is part of the second coming.
But it happens after it not before it. And that's something because it has to happen after the resurrection which that doesn't happen before jesus comes. Does it anyway. It all fits together. You study it quit reading funky books about it.
Just read the bible and the chronology of jesus daniel and paul. And so all israel will be saved. Because when jesus appears as lightning from the east to the west every jewish name will bow and they'll say so he is the messiah.
We heard he was. We didn't believe it. But i believe it now. You know why. Because that'll be the moment the holy spirit calls them. That will be the moment that the holy spirit regenerates their heart and changes their want to and for the first time in their miserable life all of a sudden they want the true messiah.
And now their whole life has changed and they're not miserable. They're filled with joy. And every jew that's still alive. I believe at the second coming 100 will be saved. That's what paul meant as he saw that as a prophet all israel shall be saved as it's written.
There shall come out of zion the deliverer. Doesn't that sound like the second coming. And now he's quoting the prophet and shall turn away ungodliness from all of jacob. That happens in a moment of time at the second covenant.
For this is my covenant to them when i shall take away their sins. Who the jews. So the jews are going to be grafted back in all of them that are still alive. And concerning the gospel they were enemies for the gentiles sake.
So that the gentiles could that part of god's plan could take place and the church would predominantly be gentile for almost 2 000 years. But touching the election. Oh do you believe in election. Oh there it is in the bible my goodness must be something real.
Why don't we look into it. But as touching the election the jews are beloved for the father's sakes. I want you to be careful here and read slowly. Don't read fast. Notice that's not capitalized into english.
And notice that doesn't say for the father apostrophe s sake. So that's not god. This is not for god's sake that this happens. It's father's little f with the apostrophe after the s. That's one reason you have to learn grammar in school kids.
So you can understand the bible. That's the main reason you need it. Why you talk grammar every year. I don't know it's overdone. But you do need to know it. Because that tells me that's not god that tells me that that's abraham isaac and jacob because god promised to them that their children would reign on the throne didn't he.
And god won't break a promise. And so it's touching election predestination for ordination. And everything god had predetermined. The jews are going to be plugged back in. And jesus is a jew and he's going to reign for a thousand years from jerusalem.
Hallelujah. Is this fun preaching. Or what. For the gifts and the calling of god without repentance. When we put that in plain english whatever god gives you he cannot change his mind about repent me to change the mind.
Whatever god calls you he cannot uncall you. He won't change his mind if god ever called you and change your want to and made you have a desire for jesus that was not natural that was god. And he won't change his mind about it.
That's why you cannot lose your salvation. All you ignorant people in these places that teach you can i don't mean stupid. You're very smart. You probably ought to argue me. But you're ignorant because you don't understand.
You're not educated on doctrine. Just one verse. And i can give you 500. I could give you a thousand if you give me enough time. That teach. You cannot lose your salvation if you ever regenerate it. But here's just one god won't change his mind if he gives you a gift.
Would you agree with me that ephesians 2 8 9 says you're saved. And it's a gift not saved by works. But it's a gift. He even calls it a what free gift. If he gave you the gift he can't change his mind about it.
And you can't get the gift unless you're called. That's the effectual calling. He won't change his mind about who he called. So you can't lose your salvation. I like that thrown in there. And you know what i really think.
You go back to luke. Jesus is talking. You have to ask who's he's talking to in the context to get the true meaning of this. I believe jesus said this for the sake of all those jews who will be standing on the face of the earth right before the second coming in a state of pure unbelief.
Did you know that almost every jew in jerusalem right now is agnostic. They're not atheists. But they just don't. They just like they don't know what god is. The main reason they're agnostic is because hitler killed eight million of them.
And the jew had to make two choices. One of two choices in their own thinking. They said either god exists and he wouldn't do anything. Or god doesn't exist and he can't do anything. And they picked the second one.
Think about it. They picked the second one. God doesn't exist or he just can't do anything. So they're agnostic. And you think how miserable a life like that is. I mean we have some hindsight. We can think about that.
They don't even know. But i mean they may not know. They're miserable as they probably do every day of their life. Every lost person in the world has a state of misery that they're in because they don't know the life and the light that keeps them animated.
They don't even know him. And they think they're doing it all. And so they worry about everything. And that's the state they're in in one moment. And the next moment they see their messiah in the sky and they fall on their knees and they're born again.
I believe this talks about that to the jew. And this is jesus prophesying. I believe luke 21 25 there should be signs in the sun and in the moon and in the stars. You want to know why. Because they're going to be nuclear winter.
You're not going to see the sun or the moon and the stars about midway a little more than midway through the tribulation period when everyone unleashes their nukes on each other and that's poor armageddon.
Nothing will grow. I just get. So it's so humorous to me the way a liberal democrat thinks. I don't say democrat but a liberal democrat. You know they think okay let's destroy the petroleum industry because it's killing the earth.
And they have no proof for that. Uh climate change. Global warming didn't happen. So they changed it to climate change. Right. Because it's not like it's cooler. How many of you testify right now. I wish i could turn the camera around.
It is cooler in texas in august right now than it's ever been in your lifetime. Right. July cool more rain in the end of july beginning of august ever in your lifetime. So now it's climate change. Right.
Let me get off my thought here. I'm not careful but i mean i find such humor. So they're going to destroy the petroleum in industry and they're saying we're just going to make it where you. Just everything's going to be pure ethanol by 2025.
First of all that ain't happening. Secondly if it did the price of corn would go so high you couldn't eat tortillas anymore. That's making gasoline out of corn right now what do you think will happen once they do destroy.
And i think they will eventually they'll destroy the petroleum industry. No more oil much being brought up except maybe just enough for fighter jets because they're going to fly that on a battery bill all right.
And so they destroy the industry. And then god destroys everything with these nukes. And you have what i call it nuclear winter and nothing will grow including corn. Then what are you going to operate your army tanks with.
You're not. And that's why the book revelation says they're fighting with bows and arrows and swords. That's what john saw. A lot of stuff's going to be gone. And then they're and they're the ones that are going to cause it by destroying the petroleum industry.
My soul. They're just like it's a strong delusion that they would believe a lot. Many lives are being believed. And i've seen this accelerate in 2019 and 20 and 21 fashion i've ever seen in my life. It's like a curve looks like this.
You have a gradual apostasy like here's the baseline. Just gradual apostasy a little worse a little worse. Hollywood music industry a little worse. Or universities even seminaries and bible colleges a little worse a little worse.
And now the curve is going like this just in the last three years. So we're getting there fast and accelerating. But look what jesus said signs in the sun and in the moon and the stars upon the earth.
Distress of nations. These liberal nations including ours now have promised that they can cure everything. They'll cure code biden said when i get elected i'll get rid of covid after we have our winter of darkness so that i can get elected.
Then after that we'll have you cure covid. I'm gonna cure poverty. I'm gonna cure uh the climate. I can fix the economy which only god understands that let's not study that every day of my life. It is so complex.
Only no man understands economics. You understand the basics because they're in the bible. But you can't understand how it all works. But oh a liberal knows how to fix it. We just print more money. We print more money.
You can buy more stuff. The economy just grows and grows and grows until it doesn't right. That's how they fix that. And then they get to decide who lives. Okay we're gonna abort babies and we will decide if they live or die.
So everything they do is stuff only god can do. So the liberal democrat thinks he's god which tells me he don't believe in god because he thinks he's god now. That's my opinion. That didn't come from the bible.
So take it or leave it. That's what i think of them. Every time i talk to one i'm sitting here thinking like you're a total unbeliever. You're totally miserable. And you're trying to convince me to live like you.
And it ain't gonna happen. So look what happens. They promise all the people that they will supply everything they need. What does that make the government god right. And then what happens. Perplexity.
All these leaders are going. Wow. That didn't happen like i thought it would when i printed all that money. All of a sudden the money was worthless and they had to have a wheelbarrow full of money to buy a loaf of bread.
I didn't see that coming. Although you didn't read history. It's happened many times before. Oh i didn't see what happened if we actually created a german laboratory and it got out on purpose accidentally.
Didn't understand. It destroyed my country too. Meaning china and the rest of the world. They don't care about that. They need to cut out some of their people. Don't they in their mind. They like population control got taken care of at the same time they destroyed america's economy.
Pretty neat trick. You don't think that's an act of war. If i'm president it is. That's why no one's gonna vote for me. Right. I don't want to be present anyway. I want you to elect me as dictator. Give me 10 years me and about five of you could fix it better than anybody in washington.
And we're not smart. It's just we're wise because we got the bible. I'm not being prideful or boastful. I'm a little cocky right now and i need to lower that a little bit. But i'm telling you the truth i don't really want to be dictator.
But you see my point these guys are ruining everything and they're not turning back. But they're going to be perplexed when all this comes down and they can't fix it. And you know what's going to happen then when the people realize they're lying it's already kind of happening under biden.
If you notice his popularity numbers have gone way down. They're going to be burning things in the street like we saw a little bit of. They're going to be rioting in the street when the government can't give them everything they need.
And the governments are going to be perplexed. Jesus said so two thousand years ago and the sea and the waves roaring. That is a word formula for masses of people. But it talks about the oceans. That's people groups.
So people all over the world are going to be roaring and in the streets burning everything because the governments are perplexed and cannot give them what they lied about and said they'd give them. They won't be able to give it to them anymore.
It's going to be chaos. And that happens to be you know one of the four horsemen that the book of revelation talks about is anarchy. There it is jesus told talked about it. Men's hearts will be failing them because of fear.
You tell me that's not happening now. Listen. I'm going to tell you i'm going to exhort you. Okay. It's my job. I'm going to rebuke you a little bit admonish you a little bit and exhort you right now.
Stop listening to stuff on both sides. I'm going to tell you what the right has gotten crazier than the left. Half the stuff you listen to that they say is true about this vaccine is a total lie that they just make it's totally not true.
It's not scientific. I was all i did was study science from about the fifth grade all the way through my second year in college i thought i was going to be a doctor. I've studied botany i've studied zoology i've studied chemistry and i've studied inorganic chemistry.
And i'll promise you that that that vaccine does not have a chip in it it does not have stuff in it. That's to kill you. The people that made it meant it for good. Now did they want to make a trillion dollars.
Yeah. So 95 of the stuff they're saying bad about the vaccines is a lie from hell. And it's coming from people on the right. The people on the left are lying saying that you've got to have it. Not everybody in this room needs a vaccine right.
And you got to make the decision for the government to make the decision it's going to be very wrong. But they're going to do it. It's prophecy. So start looking for your cave so to speak all right. So so if you if you keep listening to everything that people on both sides are saying your heart is going to be failing with fear and you'll be totally paranoid and and you you won't be able to exist that way.
God didn't make us. So what does god say we're supposed to do. Think on things that are what love good. Think on things that are lovely. Think on things that are of true of good report. Think on things that had virtue.
Right. Think on these things. Well you can't think on those things. If you're reading what people on both sides are lying about and causing us to have fear because each side hates the other right. So this side if it's republicans they're they're trying to make everything the democrats are doing look even worse like they're giving you a vaccine.
It's poison. Probably not my mother 92 she took it. She's spunkier than she's ever been her whole life. You say well where's she going to be in 20 years. Well i know where she's going to be 92. Come on.
But but i mean i took it. Charlotte took it. I feel kind of cruddy after taking it. But that could also be because i lifted the sheepdog when i took him into the doctor could be because i lifted five huge you know suitcases on the trip three or four times and you know so but i've read it might give you joint trouble.
So now in my mind it's doing that. Right. It's probably not true. I have a very good doctor in dallas dr mcwhirter who actually read the patent on the moderna virus and said david it's basically very good now.
He didn't like the johnson johnson one too much because it's bioengineering and he said the only reason i don't like it is not because it's not brilliant and not because it couldn't help millions of people.
Because it's not been tested long enough with humans. Which is true. Right. So now it's being tested. I'm one of the test monkeys. So i'll let you know how that goes. But i'm just saying focus on scripture.
Focus on conversation with one another. Stop listening to all this worldly. Listen. I don't care if it's republican they're just as worldly as the democrats. Most of them not believers. Some of the best ones are jewish.
They're not even believers. They're brilliant. But they're not believers. They're not giving you scripture. They're giving you stuff to fear. Now look what it says verse 26 jesus said this is how it will be in the end days.
Men's hearts will be failing them because of fear. Don't be that person. Now listen to this. And their hearts will be failing them because they're looking after the things which are coming upon the earth.
There's so much bad stuff happening and you're trying to take care of stuff. It's hard to function and do the stuff you're supposed to do anyway when you also don't have any water. How many days did we go without water.
Charlotte. Not too long ago. Seven days. See i would have said 20. And some of you guys went without electricity. Right. Even that little bit of tribulation really messed up our routines. Well imagine what it's going to be like when you have meteors coming out hitting the ocean and killing a third of all the people in the world.
Or when you have the army from china it says it starts. Yeah it starts moving for some reason. And it kills a third of every human in the world that one army. And this is before armageddon. How do you think.
That's going to affect your ability to function and get the normal stuff you're used to doing done. So your heart's going to fail you because you're looking after the things that are broken in your society in your economy in your country.
For the powers of heaven shall be shaken. Jesus said stuff's going to fall out of that sky and hit the earth. It's come close already. You ever read stuff about that how the scientific communities had a couple of scares recently because of meteors.
They did not even see him coming. And they were within a few billion miles of here which is way too close or whatever. Now look at this. Then shall they see the son of man coming in the cloud with power and great glory.
First of all it says they see him. Doesn't say it's invisible. Like all these books say about this pre-trib rapture. It's not like that. He doesn't come secretly comes in power and glory in every eye will see him.
And that's when they'll see him. And look what the exhortation is. And when these things begin to come to pass how many of you think you see some of these things already beginning. Raise your hand. I'm gonna see.
I know you don't can't predict the date of the second coming. I'm not saying that. But can you see buds on the tree. And does that mean summer is nigh. Well look what he says when these things begin to come to past.
Then look up and lift up your heads for your redemption. Draweth nigh. Now what's amazing about that. You have to study quite a bit of bible to get this. But redemption does not always mean getting saved.
It means literally set free about paying a price. Jesus gave his life gave his body gave his blood to set us free from the slave market of sin and death. Did he not. That's redemption. But there are some usages in context.
You don't tell by that. It's the same greek word but you can only tell by the context. But there are some time a couple of times not many in the new testament where redemption specifically means the body part of you the part of you that fights against god right now the part of you that can cause you to sin if you let it control you right now your brain your body parts your liver your heart those that can pull against god that part of you will be saved on this day.
And that's what jesus is talking about when you see these things begin to come to look up because the redemption of your body the whole the rapture. So what he's talking about the rapture is drawing near.
That is the good news in the midst of all that we've studied in the last three months that seem like bad news. And you know why it feels that way to us. Because it disrupts our normal life. And we don't like that.
We're a little bit you admit this to me this morning i admitted it to myself. I'm a little bit like lot's wife. I don't really want to lose my air conditioning. I don't want to lose my brick home. There's a lot of stuff i don't that i like a lot.
That's in that god put in my life. And i love what otis said about that. He said predominantly lost people made all this stuff and god put it on the shelf for his people. So god wanted us to enjoy these things and have them for comfort of life.
But god is telling us towards the end of time those are going to be have to be taken away because it's god's will those will be taken away and we don't like it. So there has to be great good news to go in conjunction with that.
And there's your good news at the bottom right there. He's like you're going. You probably are in the generation that does not have to die physically. Could there be better news to a carnal man or woman than that.
Like i don't want to die. Do you. There can't be better news than that to a human being since adam and eve fell. And we're probably in that generation if we're not the baby you're holding right there is.
Isn't that something. And these kids are. And i think we are too. So that's the good news all right. Well let's stand and have prayer together. And as we move on through we'll be we back into that little section towards the end of chapter 11.
It's going to nail down about eight points that shows us very clearly what the mechanisms are that god can use in our life to cause us to want to be a better man woman boy or girl and to live right. And that's it's not really separate from your salvation.
It just doesn't cause the salvation. It is an effect of it. You can do it because you are saved. And it's going to show us how god makes that work. Hopefully next time. Let's pray lord. Thank you so much for your word.
We ask you to go with us into our time of fellowship now bless the meal. We're about to have together help us to contemplate the things we've discussed together today and we ask it in jesus name amen.
You are dismissed.