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- Hello, welcome back to Coffee with a Calvinist.
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- This is a daily conversation about scripture, culture and media from a Reformed perspective.
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- Get your Bible and coffee ready and prepare to engage today's topic.
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- Here's your host, Pastor Keith Foskey.
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- Welcome back to Coffee with a Calvinist.
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- I'm Keith Foskey and I am a Calvinist.
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- As most of our listeners know, along with being the host of this program, I am also the pastor of Sovereign Grace Family Church of Jacksonville, Florida.
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- On today's program, I'm going to feature a portion of a recent sermon from SGFC.
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- If this portion of the sermon is of interest to you and you decide you'd like to hear the full message or others like it, please go to our website and you will find a library of over 1,000 sermons on a variety of topics.
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- These include messages from me, our other elders and from special guests who have visited our church over the years.
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- Now, without further delay, here is a clip from a recent message.
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- I hope you enjoy.
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- And verse 22 is very important as well.
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- Verse 22 ends the chapter.
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- I would say it doesn't end the idea though because as we begin chapter 9 next week, we're going to see that this continues.
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- But verse 22 ends with a very interesting passage that I think is important for many modern concerns that people have, particularly in regard to people who are concerned about things like climate change.
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- Now, time does not allow me to go into the arguments for and against climate change, but you understand what the concern of the climate change alarmists is.
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- It's that the world is going to experience such a radical change due to man's influence in the production of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and that that massive change is going to create temperature variations that are going to make it impossible for man to survive.
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- And this started back even in the 60s and 70s where the argument was at that point the world was going to get super cold and we were no longer going to be able to grow food and things like that.
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- There was a fear of a coming ice age, another ice age.
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- Well, then back in the late 70s and the 80s, it became a fear of global warming.
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- Now it's not going to get too cold, now it's going to get too hot.
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- Plants won't be able to survive the massive heat and people are going to die.
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- And I don't know if you remember a few years ago, there was a movie came out, the former president, former vice president of the United States created a movie called An Inconvenient Truth, which said basically by, I think it was like 2020, crops are going to be failing, the world was going to be in a massive cataclysm and all these things were going to happen.
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- Well, we've passed the date of no return, we're still here.
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- And the earth still gets cold in the winter and it still gets hot in the summer.
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- It still gets dark at nighttime and it's still light in the daytime.
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- And that's the promise of this text.
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- That's going to continue.
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- Now does that mean we're not going to have some pretty harsh winters? I mean, Texas wasn't really prepared for what happened this year, right? They had a pretty massive winter and things happened differently than years before.
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- But is that climate change or is that just a variation in the overall temperature of the world? What am I trying to say? Well, let me make it simple.
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- Please do not live in fear that the seasonal cycles will cease.
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- Please don't live in fear of that.
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- Now does that mean we shouldn't be clean and try to clean our environment and things like that? That's not the issue.
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- The issue is we are forced into those mindsets by people who are so afraid that the world's going to stop working like the world's created work and that God doesn't have a plan.
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- We don't live with a sense of what if all the time.
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- We live in the sense of the sovereignty of God over all things.
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- And he declared right here in this verse that there are certain cycles that are never going to cease.
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- The cycle of cold and heat, the cycle of day and night, the cycle of springtime and harvest.
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- Basically the seasons are not going to cease.
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- So we don't have to live in fear of that.
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- Enjoy your SUVs.
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- I hope you enjoyed that short sermon clip from Sovereign Grace Family Church.
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- Again, if you're interested in hearing more or you would like more information about SGFC, please go to our website at sgfcjax.org.
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- That's Sovereign Grace Family Church of Jacksonville.
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- And if you're in the Jacksonville area, please come visit us on an upcoming Lord's Day.
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- Thank you for listening today to Coffee with a Calvinist.
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- I'm Keith Foskey and I have been your Calvinist.
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- May God bless you.
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