Romans Chapter 1-SGMBC Bible Study

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Romans chapter 1.
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Romans chapter 1. First one.
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So, we'll start in Romans. So far, it's been good.
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And I've read it several times. Because every second I do the whole book while I'm studying on it.
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But it's been a lesson.
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But I said, obviously, it's written by Paul.
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On his third mystery trip. He was there in Corinth and in that ragged mess.
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And it dated around some say 57 AD and some say 60.
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So between 57 and 60 AD.
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So it doesn't matter, but it's interesting to see. You know,
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I can see what things are written and all that.
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So we'll go ahead and start in verse one.
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It says, Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle,
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separated unto the gospel of God.
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So he's a servant, and also a bondman, which means slave, and that it literally interprets into slave.
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So he's saying, I'm a slave, and that Jesus Christ, but obviously it's voluntary slavery.
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I'm glad that he doesn't put us into slavery. my goodness
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and that but he voluntarily hey and then i'm
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gonna i'm gonna yoke myself to be a servant and that to um say to jesus christ
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but so a man could choose to stay with his master and then after the service
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was said he loved him so this was a voluntary servant too let's go to exodus 21.
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Yeah, I love these, the scripture, it's beautiful, Exodus 21,
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verses 2 through 6, well, let's just go ahead and start.
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Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.
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If thou high in Hebrew servant, six years he shall serve, and in the seventh
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he shall go out free for nothing.
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If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself. If he were married,
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then his wife shall go out with him.
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If his master hath given him a wife, if she hath born him sons or daughters,
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the wife and her children shall be their masters, and he shall go out by himself.
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And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife,
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and my children, I will not go out free, then his master shall bring him unto the judges.
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He shall also bring him to the door, or unto the doorposts, And his master shall
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oar his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him forever.
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So they couldn't keep a Hebrew slave and one of their brethren for more than
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six years. And that seventh year, he'd go out free.
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But if he said, I love my master, you know, and God instructed the masters to be good to them.
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Remember, I'm your master. You be good as masters.
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So they could choose to stay a servant to them for the rest of their life.
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And this is what Paul was doing. He was choosing to be a servant.
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He said, I love my master.
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I want to stay with him. I'm going to choose to be his servant,
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slave, bond, him, however you want to say it.
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So that's good. And I love that. That's the way we ought to be. My goodness.
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And praise God. I know his command from our previous.
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Praise the Lord. And that, but we ought to think of ourselves that way.
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And that we're servants in that of God. It's good.
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My goodness. And that, but separated, called to be an apostle.
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Paul was completely given over to this call. Amen. We all know that.
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And forsook all he had before, all he had before to do God's work.
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And he was separated from this world and lived this life unto the gospel.
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I mean, Paul was dedicated to being a servant of God and a servant in the way
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that God wanted him to be, which was to be an apostle, praise God, unto the gospel.
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So that's just good.
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Do you think, and this is just a general question to think about for people
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to think about, you know, separated, where's the worst place to be separated too?
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I know we have to live in the world. Yeah. But so many times,
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and this has really got to take it, you know, right in the middle.
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You know, I watched the thing, I watched all the shows that I watched are of the world.
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Paul didn't do that. Paul was separated. Yep. And that's why Paul had power.
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Yeah. Paul, yeah.
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It was his life. Yeah, it was. I like to think that churches,
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you know, being a Christian and going to church, that's my life.
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But yet, I'm not like all of us. Yeah.
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Without the doubt. I listened to a message today that talked about that. Yeah.
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And, you know, I might, compared to the world, I might be, you know, a Christian.
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And I might go to church and I might do those things more than they do.
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Yeah. But I'm still not to the level where God wants me to be.
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Yeah, yeah, it is. Paul was two degrees separated.
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He was separated by being saved. So he was taken out of the world and separated from God.
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But he had further separation, separated into the work that God had him do.
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So even just, he was a degree of separation, even just from the lay member that,
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you know, went to church, you know, listened to Jesus, you know, or Jesus' writings.
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I don't know how, you know what I'm trying to say.
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Listening to the scriptures and listening to the preaching, you know what I mean?
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But separated another degree from that to being an apostle to where,
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I mean, literally his life was going around preaching the gospel to Gentiles
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that never heard it before.
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You know what I mean? Like quite literally being a disciple, you know what I mean?
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And making disciples of the nations. and so
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yeah Paul's just a separated man
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probably misunderstood at times you know what I mean from the separation you
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know what I mean but everybody that had him wanted them you know wanted them
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to come back if you notice you know what I mean and he desired to go back to him but so yeah yeah.
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Called yeah yep he knew he was called to the purpose of god and he took that not only literally,
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but gave himself full picture yeah i mean we we get the call right to be saying
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you know he He calls out again, but he also calls us to his purpose. Yep, sure.
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Yep. This was all for purpose. Yep, all right. And he didn't have anything he had. Yep. Yep. Yep.
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And I know what we're going on.
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He encouraged us to have a call to do the same thing, to give themselves fully to them.
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Yep. That's what my wife was saying. Yeah.
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Yeah. He was. Yeah. He was. Yeah. Yes.
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You read that first, the first thing that was in the mind, he said the servant, that he was old.
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Mm-hmm. He was old. Yeah. You just read that until that year,
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you know, when they were able to be free. Mm-hmm.
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All the street of Christ, look, he was owned by Christ. He was it.
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Yeah. I mean, that's how I look at it. I am his. Yeah. Yeah.
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That's how people look at it.
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We are home. Yeah. We are home. All of Christ.
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Right. Yeah. With the greatest Christ family. I mean, we are home.
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Yeah. We don't want to be free. No.
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Right? I mean, that's not home. Tony, you never want it to be shit free from it, so.
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As soon as you said, oh, they got me. Yeah.
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Well, even if you're not saved, I mean, we are owned by something.
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Before I got saved, I was owned by the devil.
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He was my father. Right.
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You know what I mean? He was my master. You can't serve two masters.
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You know, so even people that say that they're free or you know what I mean
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or they're not owned or they don't want to acknowledge that price you know what
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I mean they're still owned by somebody whether they like it or not why wouldn't
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you want to be owned by God,
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you know what I mean ain't that good the master they wanted to stay they loved
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the master because the tree don't do yeah correct they had everything they need
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they never can all they had to do was what the master bid them to do,
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they took care of the stuff of their house isn't that what he's got us to do
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he gives us everything we want he just says take care of the stuff of my house amen amen,
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Jesus turned their call in reference 1 Timothy 1 according to the glorious gospel
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of the blessed God which was committed to my trust yep,
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I mean he took it serious? Yes. He took it serious.
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I mean, he knew what was being committed unto him. I mean, the gospel.
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The gospel. You know what I mean? We don't take it serious enough. I mean, I don't.
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God will all help trust me to preach his word. Yeah. Right? I mean,
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that's what he's saying. That's what he's saying.
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We know that he was, you know, sent you know his whole
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main purpose was to go here you know like he
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was told that you know because he was that he was going to rome
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you know and i i keep thinking about the word calling too you
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know how you know we're all called into the same salvation
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you know we share that with jesus christ but not all of
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our colleagues are the same you know because we have pre you know
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some have different gifts you know some are preachers some are deacons
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some are teachers some are evangelists some are pastors you
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know and those things you know but you know each one of
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those though like you said and i like what you said there with you
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know he gives every one of us purpose and they all work together they
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don't step over top of each other they don't you know
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pull the covers out from under you or any of that you
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know they you know they there's but but you know
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it's just like but what's been said too though is that you know when we have
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these callings i don't think sometimes we we don't take them serious like we
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should sometimes like we should you know and we don't you know but you know
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paul knew for a fact 110 percent that what was his job it was to preach the
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gospel to the Gentile people.
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Yeah. I mean, God, I mean, Jesus plainly said it to him. Right.
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You know, you're going to go to the Gentiles. Yeah.
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You know, and some of the disciples even, and I keep thinking this too,
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because, you know, the separated under the gospel of God, you know,
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like I'm not saying that he didn't give the disciples kind of the same calling
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because he gave them a calling to his great commission, you know,
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giving them the power to heal all their sicknesses and all that.
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You know, but my thing is, though, is some of the Gentiles, this was an adjustment
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for the Gentiles in this time period, too. How many times did Paul have to withstand Peter?
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They really butted heads. Was it Barnabas that had to separate?
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They both had to separate because there was contention or something. Yeah.
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Basically, he was with Mark. Yeah. But then they came back around.
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Barnabas still, you know, when the Jews came around, he had to like the Jew. Bright.
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Sitting with the Gentile. Yeah. Peter did that too. Well, he talks about it.
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Yeah. All nations. Yeah.
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Hey, you're not walking right. I mean, this is Pete, who is another pillar.
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Even the Lord said, you're converted, strengthened the brethren, and all these things.
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All I had to call him out because he wasn't walking right. Right, yeah.
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So it just gives you a little bit of false care. Yeah.
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He walked it, man. Yeah. He expected everybody else to do, too.
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And then on top of it, look how many languages this man could speak.
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You know, like, you know, he, I believe, don't get me wrong,
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I know the Pharisees were extremely well educated, but at the same time,
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though, you know, I can't help but believe, you know, the character of Paul now.
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He probably used that teaching behind him for, you know, the furtherance of
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the gospel, too. I can't help but believe that because look how he was able
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to communicate with people that he called barbarians before he went into Rome.
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All right. Let's look at verses two through six.
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Tyler. It's the one verse. Yeah.
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That's just how deep it is. Yeah. That's good. Yeah.
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Romans is deep. Yeah. It's awesome. It says, which he had promised afore,
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so they're talking about the gospel of God, which he had promised afore by his
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prophets in the holy scriptures concerning his son,
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Jesus Christ our Lord which was made of
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the seed of David according to the flesh and declared
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to be the son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection
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from the dead by whom we have received grace and apostleship for obedience to
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the faith among all nations for his name among whom are ye also the call of Jesus Christ.
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Like we said Paul took this gospel very serious
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yes this guy i mean he's saying
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this gospel was promised by god through the
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prophets that came up before us you know
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all through this time this gospel was promised and now it's here and he's giving
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it to me i'm giving over to it now you know so he did basically he knew when
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he was handling the gospel that it was god's word and that the way we ought
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to handle god's word is no this was freed by God.
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Look at the difference here. What he's saying, he had to be ready to shout when he wrote this.
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I'm sure he remembered who he was before.
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Now he knew he had read the words of the prophets and knew what the prophecy said.
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He kicked against it until he got his call.
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He had to know that he had to memorize the law. He had to be able to spout law right like that.
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Yeah, that was Pete, but it's not now.
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Anytime we're doing something concerning Jesus we need to do it like Paul,
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prayerfully and carefully prayerfully and carefully is how we need to handle anything,
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concerning Jesus that is what he's saying so it's about Jesus is what he's saying
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preached about Jesus with power and holiness this power comes where's the power
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it comes from the resurrection,
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You know, the whole reason Paul or us could receive it, right?
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Grace and work is because the resurrection. It's because he resurrected from
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the dead, defeating death on the grave.
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Something you and I was not able to do. So it's saying this is where the power
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comes from. It comes from the resurrection. Right.
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The empty grave. And that is where power, the gospel resides.
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And that is in the empty grave. Amen. My goodness in that, praise the Lord. I'm thankful for that.
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In that, my goodness, in that, anybody got anything on verses 1 to 6?
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Anything else? The thing that just humors me a little is this is just a salutation. Yeah.
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Yeah. It's just a deep salutation. Yeah.
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Death was the last in the heart. Yeah. Yep. Yep.
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That's why the power of all enemies were a fool.
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And they weren't his enemies, they were ours. Right. I mean,
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no enemy can stand before Christ. Amen.
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You know what I mean? So he had to defeat them as we are. Right.
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So that we could have the freedom. Yes. That's why the resurrection is the power of the gospel. Amen.
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Rogan's 8.
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So, I mean, good stuff.
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7 and 8. To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints,
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grace to you, and peace from God our Father, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken
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of throughout the whole world.
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So, Paul is committing them, you know, in this side of the text,
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and he's commending them for taking the grace, right, that they received,
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you know, They could be called saints and allowed it to further grow their faith.
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So their faith had grown so much that it reads that basically the whole world
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was talking about it. You know, the faith that they had it wrong.
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You know what I mean? So we need to allow grace to work on our faith. You know what I mean?
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If having what we have, if we allow that, we'll be a light to the entire world. Yeah.
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We can do that. You know what I mean? this was just one group of people at the,
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at grown one church, you know? Yeah.
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And the whole world was talking about it.
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I know the world was smaller, but now, I mean, look at how many people are in
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the world and look at, you know what I mean?
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So, you know, if it starts with us, it can grow to where the,
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you know what I mean? It can grow.
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It can grow that way. You know what I mean? Amen. So grace is what makes our faith grow, obviously.
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So that was, I'm sorry, go ahead. You first. So to understand,
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just for me, I don't understand that these are Jewish Christians in the world, right?
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Is that? No, they're Greeks.
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Yeah, they're Christians. Are they Jewish? I don't know that they're Jewish.
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Some of them probably were because Jews were scattered.
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Yeah. Yeah, some of them probably were because the answer was Rome.
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Rome was basically what that is. The melting pot. It was America.
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Okay. So I'm just trying to understand. Yeah, they weren't all Jews.
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You can tell that there's Gentiles and Jews because of how he has to address Gentiles and Jews.
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And yeah, I was reading that there was a time period that the Christians were
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kicked out, the Greeks were kicked out of Rome.
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And then they were able to come back. So that's what I'm going to understand. Right?
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I would definitely say it's a mixture. You know what I mean? There's Jews.
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Well, Well, what do you think about the Ophidians? I'm sure we're going to get into that.
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Yeah. I wonder if it was, why, or so. Yeah.
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Because Jews were scattered abroad at this point.
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Jews weren't just in Jerusalem. They were scattered everywhere. Yeah. Yeah.
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Yeah. What I was going to say is, that actually builds perfectly on what you
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were saying, because I was going to ask, like, okay, so is this already an established
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church already at this point?
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But then like yeah you kind of already answered it but it got me thinking too
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like what a responsibility that they had to be in like an area where they weren't
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already really liked if we're being honest you know especially you know especially
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if they're already scattered you know with all the persecution that they've
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i'm sure they didn't have a.
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Oh yeah i believe so yeah yeah yeah well peter's still a lot i mean yeah James
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and they're still on the journeys and everything like that.
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When it was the emperors, right? The Roman emperors. It's getting ready.
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It's right before Nero, I think. I was getting ready to say.
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It's right before Nero. The audience was right before. Yeah.
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And that's what I was thinking, too, because they were the ones that persecuted
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the church the most, you know, in my understanding. And the fire.
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Yeah. The fire is around 66, I think.
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Yeah. And then Jerusalem is sacked, you know, at 70. And I think it's like halfway
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through the 5th century, you know, 560-something, I think, is when Rome falls.
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So, yeah, this is right before it starts to get real bad.
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You know, 80-70 is when it gets real bad.
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Nero was horrible, too. I remember hearing something that supposedly,
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like, he, like, I can't remember exactly what he did, though,
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but he, like, tried to blame the Christians for, like.
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He started the fire and blamed the Christians for. blamed them,
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and then even blamed them for like, I mean, I think there were some other things
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that he even tried to say just to deface their name on purpose.
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Oh, yeah. He was horrible.
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Because they were a small group. A small group of Rome.
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So they were easily picked on. But I mean, it was sad it was coming anyways.
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You know what I mean? But, I mean... Some people even think that these Romans
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were probably there when Jesus was crucified.
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Yeah, this was his third missionary trip around that time.
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So whatever that correlates. Yeah, just interesting.
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All right. Verses 9 and 10.
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Let's see here. For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son,
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that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers,
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making requests if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey
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by the will of God to come to you.
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So Paul, he's always praying for this church, right?
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He's always, I mean, now, like you said, I don't think they had a building with,
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you know, Roman Baptist church outside, you know what I mean?
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But they were gathered together And they stuck together So that's what a church
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is Right, yeah It's awesome Yeah So.
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He's always praying for it And he longed to be with the Romans Embodied,
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But he just couldn't get the liberty To get there And when he goes to Rome It's
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not for the purpose That he wanted you know what I mean but,
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yeah yeah it's for him to stay before you know see he said you're going to Rome
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but it's not the one that you wanted so,
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first it shows that we can't just do whatever we want right I mean he was under
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what God wanted him he could have just left and went to Rome you know if he
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didn't just follow God but no God said no I've got this for you you know what
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I mean you stay here you know what I mean but you can't just do whatever we
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want, you know what I mean?
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But we have to serve him the way he wants.
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Also, when it comes to worship, and then we've got to worship the way that he
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wants us to, the spirit and the truth.
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So, yeah, but he wants to get to him and buy. So let's get to 11 and 15.
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For I long to see you that I may impart unto you some spiritual gift.
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To the end you may be established.
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That is, that I may be comforted together with you by the mutual faith that you and me.
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Now, I would not have you, good brethren, that oftentimes I purpose to come
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to you, but I was led to that I might have some fruit among you also,
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even as among the Gentiles.
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I am this, I mean, there's Gentiles there because other Gentiles,
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you know what I mean? I have a debt for both to Greeks and to the barbarians,
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both to the wise and to the unwise.
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So much as it's in me, I am ready to preach the gospel to you that are grown also.
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So he wants to go there to add to their walk to God. Yeah, amen.
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He said, I can impart unto you some spiritual gift. That's his desire.
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He wants to have fruit among them. He wants to be a part of their walk.
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He wants to add to them. You know what I mean?
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So I just saw it when I was reading it.
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I want to always add to somebody and never take away. Yeah.
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I just want to add to people and not take away from them. That's good.
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Amen. You know what I mean? My goodness. And then unless God says,
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hey, you need to rebuke this part of them because it needs to be take away.
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But then what are you doing? You're just adding to them that way. Right?
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Adding room for God to grow them. But Paul wanted to add to them,
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not take away from them. So, isn't that just amazing? But he's a debtor.
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Paul states that he's a debtor both to Greeks and barbarians, wise and unwise.
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I'm glad he was impartial with the gospel.
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He'll preach to anybody. Everybody. And then praise God.
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So the gospel, obviously, we all know is one size fits all.
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Paul didn't pick and choose who he preached to. He preached to all men, women, children.
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You know what I mean? He just preached. That's all it was.
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He just preached that's true yeah,
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14 is a big statement too though because a debtor is somebody that owes something
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you sign a loan you're listed as the debtor if you borrow the money so I guess
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what I'm trying to say is he's basically saying I owe myself both to the anybody.
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You can see his determination with that well look at where how he's probably thinking,
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if it was preached to me,
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I'd kill God's people yeah if it was preached to me I owe it to everybody to
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preach it to the house you know what I mean.
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Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. He wrote it.
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You know that's how you, you know how you do it. I mean, he wrote it.
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I mean, it was divinely inspired by the spirit. He was writing it in the spirit.
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Though you know, he probably had to restart because there's tear smudges on his ink.
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It's a fire smudges, you already said. I just can't be honest with you.
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How he always, even later, you know, he's writing the letters to the other churches. Yeah.
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He's saying, I never fail to mention you in my prayers. Yeah.
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I mean, how many times have you prayed for our sister churches? No.
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When it comes to my army or something. Something going on.
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Can you imagine how long this man prayed?
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I'm sure it is. I'm just going to fall in the chair. No, I believe you totally missed him.
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Call him like that. Lord, be it to people up front.
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That's just an opinion. But for a man to say that, and you don't sit back at
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him, really. You just know that it did.
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That's how it ought to be. I mean, that's being what pops. Lifting one another.
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And he could do that remotely. I'm sorry, but he could, you know what I mean?
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I mean, what was better? Him actually being there, you know what I mean?
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Or him being able to always pray for him, you know what I mean? It was the same.
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It would have been the, you know what I mean? So we can be brethren with people
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even across the world, across the city, across the state, you know what I mean?
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And still be just as much a part of their ministry, you know, remotely.
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Right. you know by lifting them
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up in prayer sure no wonder he said i i never failed to make mention of you
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in my prayers you know to me because he knew how important it was to pray for
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his people if he couldn't be
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there i'm at least gonna pray for him my goodness i i can't help but that,
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tim's right i hate that so i gotta say in mc36 i went to church you know for
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years and years before that, before I got saved, but I hope,
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like I've never thought about that before, that I hope to somebody to tell them about Jesus,
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you know, I just, I have it stuck in my head that people don't want to hear it.
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Yep, same. And I cannot get them that hurdle.
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But I've never thought about it that I owe it to people, you know,
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but someone did that for me.
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Yeah. I pray prayer about that. All sorts of things.
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It just, you know, it'll come up if I go to talk to somebody, it'll come up.
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They don't want that, you know, regardless of if they want to hear it or not.
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Yeah. So my job, you know, it's helpful.
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That is hard. Yeah.
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Same. I feel a little conviction with this myself. I'm not going to lie.
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How many times does one person hurt your feelings a little bit and then immediately
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your attitude is just we shut down them as a whole.
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We owe it to – It was the least – Yeah, it's the least we could do for God. It really is.
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I take that mentality a lot, probably a little too much sometimes.
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I'll go wherever God says go. I will, and I'm open to that. But it's like at
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the same time, you know, it's like we get it in our head sometimes too much
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that, well, maybe two people don't like me.
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But, yeah, I don't know. I don't know if I'm making sense. We try to pick and choose.
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We just try to pick and choose too much, I guess is what I'm trying to say.
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You know, and we try to pick and choose. Like even people I've came in contact
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with, I'm like, man, they, God, they don't want to hear me.
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They don't want to hear anything I want to say. You know, we get it in our head.
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Having to preach a message sometimes and then in the back of our head Satan's
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here like they don't want to hear it and we know that's not true well whether
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they want to hear it or not it's still going to go out,
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they can't deny it once the gospel's heard you can't unhear it you know what I mean,
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this is our love letter yeah it's good he starts it out by the grace of God.
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He's not taking that grace.
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He knows it's better to cross. He knows it's better to cross. To protect yourself.
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A living sacrifice. That's the reason he said that. A living sacrifice.
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That should be a sacrifice. You gotta live it.
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He's not saying I look at me you know no it's by the grace of God yeah that
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I can that I'm called that I can preach the word yeah that's what it's saying,
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yeah yeah.
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Status, finances, education, he didn't care about that. You know what I mean?
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He just cared about their souls.
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My goodness. Ain't that good? You know, I mean, there's some,
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you know, that, well, the people that were Jewish, you know what I mean? A lot of them.
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I mean, look at what you said about Peter, you know.
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When the Jews came, you know, among them, he, you know, forsook the Gentiles
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and just hung out with the Jews. You know, Paul's like, hey,
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Jews would have kept it to themselves. Yeah.
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They most certainly would. It builds up on you. He said, throw into all the world.
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Yep. Make disciples of all nations. But he had to teach them. Yeah.
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Amen. Paul, he called them to. Yeah.
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Paul didn't hold everything. Yeah. Yeah, man, preach. Well, that's funny.
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Well you know Paul says he wants to preach to them with as much as in me is he wants to give it all.
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Paul wants to hold nothing back and give them all God has given him so like
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you said or like we said if it was preached to me I owe it to somebody else to preach to them yes,
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I owe it to everybody because I was killing people, you know what I mean?
00:35:00.408 --> 00:35:03.188
If he would save me, you know what I mean?
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How would I not owe it to somebody else to preach the gospel to them?
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So we need, I got right down here to take away. We need to ask ourselves if
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this is the same desire we have.
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We gotta be like Paul, man. Why?
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Because Paul was like Jesus. Amen. Yeah, amen.
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Verse 16 and 17.
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For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for
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it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that
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believeth to the Jew first and also to the Jew to the very end is the righteousness
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of God revealed from faith to faith as it is written the just shall live by
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faith so a gospel is God's power to save sinners isn't it right?
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That's how Paul defines it It's the power, it's God's power to save sinners is what the gospel is.
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So it's preached it. And when the gospel is preached in that power, people can get saved.
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I mean, the gospel was preached to me in the gospel power.
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I mean, it just was. It's war all preached to the Jews out of promise.
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It was to them first, you know, because they were God's chosen people.
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But then it was extended to all nations.
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Amen. Thank God for that because I'm a Gentile. And that was,
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you know, thank God that he said go to all nations, make disciples of all nations. Yeah.
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Amen. So, but out of promise and that it was preached to them first, now send it to all.
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Praise God. Yeah. Amen. The gospel reveals God's righteousness.
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Ain't that good?
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It was revealed from those who have faith, right?
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So to those who will have faith, is what he's saying.
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You've got to be of the faith first. So it's revealed from those who have faith, who have had faith.
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They preach the gospel to those who will have faith.
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Okay so it will then
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that that faith and that
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that they have and it's the same gospel that
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is preached from faith to faith it will increase
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in the even more faith and that as it's preached and that praise god so the
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gospel is more powerful than we'll ever be able to know and that's basically
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what i'm getting away with this i mean the gospel is just so powerful that we
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can't grasp it then with our minds. I mean, we just can't.
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It's a faithful thing that the gospel is. But when it's preached and that in
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the power that God intends it to be preached. Yeah.
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Things happen. I mean, people that have faith, they have more faith.
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People that don't have faith, they put their faith in God. You know what I mean?
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And then the gospel preached to them again.
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And it just keeps adding faith. We need to allow the gospel,
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the power of the gospel to keep adding to our faith.
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Because faith, we started out with a measure of it, but he doesn't want it to
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stay that measure. The gospel increases and grows and works out and expands
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our faith after we get saved.
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The gospel is not just for sinners. The gospel is for those of faith. Right.
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Faith comes right here. But we're God. Amen.
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Well, that's good. Amen. Don't just preach.
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Just when you know the soul of the mind comes in.
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Yeah it's it's life to a father yep yep yep well that's the salutation now we're
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getting into uh the meat and bones here yeah so my goodness boy that's good,
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but man just to have a practical power
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in the hall that man all right so
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anybody got anything and before we get into verse 18 I said start to switch
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gears here so for the wrath of God this is well this is the rest of chapter
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we're just gonna read it all unless you want to read it then 18 to 32.
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For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness. Amen.
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We hold the truth in others. Yep. Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them.
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For God that's shoot and unto them, for the invisible things of him from the
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creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that
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are made, even as eternal power of God can, but there without excuse.
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Amen. because that when they knew God
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they glorified him not asking yet neither would thank him but became vain within
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their imaginations and their foolish heart was dark professing themselves to
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be wise they became fools and changed the glory of the incorruptible God,
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into an image made like to corruptible man the birds and four foot beasts and
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the creeping things Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the
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lust of their own hearts,
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through dishonoring their own bodies between themselves.
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We changed the truth of God into the lie of worship and serve the creature more
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than the creator, who is blessed forever.
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Amen. For this cause, God gave them up into vile affections.
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Even the women, they changed in natural use, and that which is against nature.
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Likewise, also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman,
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burned in their lives one toward another.
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Amen. Men with men, working that which is unseen,
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and receiving themselves that link of pen and which was weak and even as they
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did not like to retain god in their knowledge god gave them,
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over to the reprobate minds to do those things which are not from being being
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filled with all unrighteousness fornication and wickedness and deliciousness and,
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full of enemies, murder, and obey, deceit, malignant, and whiskers,
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backbiting, haters of God, despite the proud boasts, who veners of evil things,
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disobedient, and harris.
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Without understanding, covenant breaks, without natural affection,
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and imputable and unmerciful, who, knowing the judgment of God,
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they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same,
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but have pleasure in them that they do that.
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Alright, so he's talking about the Gentiles now.
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So alright, so let's go back here.
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Those who held a truth in unrighteousness. So the Gentiles, they had the ability
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to know it, but they refused it, right? They did.
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He goes in, creation itself testifies of the majesty of God who created in the creation.
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So let's go to Luke 19 39 40.
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What was the Luke 19? Yeah 39 40.
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And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him,
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Master your youth, thy disciples.
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He answered and said unto them, I tell you that if these should hold their peace,
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the snow would immediately cry.
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So not only is creation crying out, you know what I mean? The majesty of God, which I believe.
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But just looking at it, you know, I mean, it just shows you right there that
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you know, I mean, just look, it points to a creator, right?
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So even nature itself, even if they just looked at nature, you know,
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they would have to acknowledge that there is a God.
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Right. But so it tells them that they're without excuse because they knew God from the beginning.
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So I'll tell you what, man, I was reading this and God just blew my mind. I love him so much.
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But let's go to Genesis chapter 11.
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So basically all nations were together at one point. We know that.
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Spoke the same language all.
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This is 11, 1-9. It says, And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech.
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And it came to pass as they journeyed from the east that they found a grain in the land of Shinar.
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And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick and burn them freely.
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And they had brick for stone and slime had they for mortar.
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And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven.
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And let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole world.
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And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.
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And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language.
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And this they begin to do. And now nothing will be a restraint from them,
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which they have imagined to do. go to, let us go down and there confound the
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language that they may not understand one another's speech.
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So the Lord scattered them abroad from this upon the face of all the earth and
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they left off into the city.
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Therefore is the name of it called Babel because the Lord did there confound
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the language of all the earth and from this did the Lord scatter them abroad
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upon the face of all the earth.
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So before Babel, they were all one people basically, you know what I mean?
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All one people one language and so we got to remember these were all descended
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from Noah they were all descended from Noah after the flood and so we can't.
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You know in good understanding say that Noah didn't tell anybody you know what
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I mean about how he found grace in the eyes of the Lord right?
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So they had all heard how that people were evil, but Grandpa Noah found grace
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in God's eyes and was spared, right?
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So they all had the ability to know this. At one point, they all knew this, okay?
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This would have been passed down, that there was one God, and sinning against
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him would bring about death.
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You know? So...
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Basically, you know, they're trying, you know, with this, they're trying to
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get to God another way than what he set up, right?
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So they build a city and a tower. Every time they began to have vain imaginations
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and dark hearts and build a tower trying to reach heaven.
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Probably to see if what, you know, I just had a thought, you know,
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to probably see if this was true or not.
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So they didn't have faith, you know what I mean? They didn't just take,
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you know, what Noah had passed down, you know what I mean?
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There's one God he came to me, told me to build an ark because all the world
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is evil he destroyed everybody sin equals death,
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no one would have been telling me this is it Shem, Ham, and Japheth? is that his son?
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They would have been telling everybody no, Canaan Shem, Ham,
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and Canaan I think it is Japheth oh yes, Japheth was Ham's son but Canaan is
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the one that was cursed so.
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Probably see if it's true you know what I mean that's just kind of
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what I'm you know what God was showing me you
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know what I mean so God confounds their speech and sends them
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all over the world okay so those who spoke the same language they would still
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be able to communicate they still would have been able to communicate one with
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another you know this group of people spoke this language they could still talk
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about God there's people in gear they could still talk about God together there's
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people in gear they could and still talk about God together, right?
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So all nations, you know what I mean, all over the world were able,
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they were without excuse because they had the knowledge, you know what I mean, of the flood,
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of how God doesn't, he doesn't spare evil, right? You know what I mean?
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But they went and served other gods instead. They chose that, you know what I mean?
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So where there was no faith, there was room for the devil, right?
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Am I right? Where there was no faith, there was room for the dead.
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So they had invading imaginations is what Paul said and what this scripture said.
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So the devil and his angels could show up in whatever form they wanted,
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birds, four-footed beasts, creeping things, and to see their already darkened hearts to worship them.
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So they start worshiping these other things.
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Well like remember back you know the message about
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the pharaoh you know i mean they saw the
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nile right from frogs come out of the nile next thing you know you know what
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i mean the flowers the nile starts to flood you know and make our land fertile
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what is that and it gives the devil an opportunity huh you know they keep noticing
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these frogs you know what i mean and it brings So no,
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so I'm the frog God,
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you know what I mean? I bring this to you.
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I mean, oh my goodness, there's somebody though. You know what I mean?
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Let's, let's work. I mean, people are stupid, you know what I mean?
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And they also don't have, you know, these stories, you know what I mean?
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Or these backstories of the gods, you know what I mean?
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Not everybody has, you know, the ability to write a novel like that,
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you know what I mean? So there had to be something there. So,
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but they, they choose, you know what I mean?
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They had the ability, they knew, they would have known that there was one God and he destroys evil.
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And if you find grace in his eyes, you know what I mean? But they chose to go another way.
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They didn't want to have faith in him. So they chose to go another way.
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They started, you know, taking the image of God, making it into four foot of beasts.
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You know what I mean? that fowls and birds and beasts and creeping things and
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worshiping that so it's our choice to serve God you know they but the Gentiles
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they worship the creature over the Creator.
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If we choose to serve other gods over Jesus, he'll let us.
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You know what I mean? Even now, you know what I mean? I mean,
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people aren't going out there worshiping Baal.
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You know, there's some probably, you know what I mean? But, I mean,
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we can choose to go another way.
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You know what I mean? We can choose, you know what I mean, to have any God before us that we want.
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He doesn't force himself upon us, is what Paul is saying here.
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So that's why you're not without excuse, is because they had the ability. You know what I mean?
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This was passed down. It would have been passed down to them before everybody
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was scattered abroad. So it's not like the Jews were better.
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You know what I mean? He just had that. He had a people.
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You know what I mean? He chose a people. You know what I mean? So, but.
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Yeah, right. He chose a. Yeah, because they were going to believe. Yeah.
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Because apparently, and Paul refers to the prophets before him,
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it was still the word of God delivered by the prophets.
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Yeah. Mm-hmm.
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When you said that the reason God doesn't retain the knowledge of God, it didn't basically,
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give over to God and went through all the way, that doesn't happen. Yeah.
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But as soon as the word came up, what happened? It was a penalty.
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Right? I mean, which was brought by the property. It's still worth it out.
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So man's not had an excuse, you know, even before, you know,
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even before the law was actually set, a man didn't have an excuse there because God was known.
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That's what he said, the invisible things. Yep. A man knew of God. Yeah, right.
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He just chose not to follow or to retain his knowledge. Yep.
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Which is why God's okay. Yeah. When I feel like that kind of covers big picture
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too, you know, like, like what you've covered is basically the overall big picture,
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like from an individual picture too.
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I mean, I feel like the same thing's happening today too, you know,
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because God's revealing himself through the gospel.
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You know, he does give man an opportunity. I believe that he does give every
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man an opportunity to get saved, you know?
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And so therefore, you know, when people, you know, hear the gospel and they
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voluntarily reject that, they're serving the creature more than the creature,
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the creature more than the creator. They're doing the same exact thing today
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from a smaller picture, but overall big picture.
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What I'm trying to say, though, is both parties, or if you want to even separate
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them, I feel like I have no excuse. Because my thing is this.
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People reject the gospel all the time, but that's because of their own voluntary
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denial of what Jesus is trying to reveal to them. That, look, I died for you.
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You need to be saved. And the only way out of sin is through me.
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You know, people are doing the same exact thing literally from a today perspective too.
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And they're without excuse, but they make excuses, you know,
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to do that, you know, Paul could have written this letter and I mean,
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he, he starts from the beginning, you know.
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We, we have to know what the author is.
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You know I mean it just how you brought out the metal on that you know it just
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all knew it you know it was good to know it,
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he's basically describing how the Gentiles became the Gentiles is what he's
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doing you know what I mean you know trying to you know because he's writing to a,
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you know a melting pot you know what I mean Rome, Rome was a melting pot. You know what I mean?
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He's describing how.
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They became the Gentiles. You know what I mean? And how even though they became
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the Gentiles, they were without excuse.
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Basically, what I'm getting at is it all could have been, they all could have been Israel.
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God didn't just choose Israel because he hated Gentiles. You know what I mean?
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Why else would he make a way for Gentiles to be brought in? I mean, you know, strangers.
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You know, sojourners. You know what I mean? Rahab was a Gentile.
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Rahab was able to be brought in. You know what I mean? He didn't hate them.
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But they chose not to go his way, so then therefore, he had to choose a people.
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But it could have been everybody. You know what I mean?
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He wanted them to be everybody. right and it's
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a pride issue it's clearly a pride issue it's the same thing you
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know we're too prideful to submit to God then
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you know it is you know and that's what and people it's the same thing with
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them too they were too prideful to submit they knew better you know but you
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know again and I keep going to it today thing too you know I'm tying them both
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together it's like you know they knew God too but it's like people know that
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there's a God you know they just choose to self deny it you know yeah.
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I think that's perfect. I mean, I'll see the book.
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That's an example. You don't lose people, but you separate in the same thing.
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We talked about it a little bit. One, you know, what serves God. The next one.
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So then, you know... They're building up the thing that should have been just left out.
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I think that's been going on from creation it just has when they,
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disobeyed God like you said they gave the devil that leeway now he,
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from that time on he is trying to corrupt man,
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pull him away from God just like
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he says professing themselves to be wise but they became false how
00:56:24.868 --> 00:56:28.128
do we become foolish you know denial you know
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denying god you know we're in there how
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do we make this heart there is no god yeah and then how do we make the way of
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god a lie you know god can't lie so it isn't him it's we're lying by not believing
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the truth yeah yeah he set it up that way because then he goes into the jews
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you know what i mean that like how they you know what I mean,
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so that's why I'm teaching it that way.
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It's just because Paul loves you. Oh, no, no, we're 100% on board with you.
00:56:54.908 --> 00:56:56.848
Yeah, yeah. That's good.
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I mean, Paul started out where I'm set for it. Yeah, right.
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And then you see a lot of the brown child separation. Right.
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I mean, that's perfect. Yeah, that's awesome. I never really thought of it that
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way too, the Tower of Babel, though. I really love how you brought out the fact that, like.
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They might have been speaking different languages, but they all still originated by knowing God.
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God never told them they couldn't come back to him. I don't recall.
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Well, when everybody was together, no, no. I mean, they were confounded.
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They didn't have to talk to each other. You know what I mean?
00:57:30.864 --> 00:57:36.524
But he spread them abroad because when they were together, they were going and
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trying to get to God a different way than what he set up. Yeah.
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That's really good. Basically, rich craft. That's awesome. Yeah.
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That's what rich craft is.
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Know what I mean? Trying to, you know, do something that God,
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you know, trying to go around God's law and use something else, you know what I mean?
00:57:55.024 --> 00:57:58.384
So that's basically, you know, they're trying to get up there and let's see if this is real or not.
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You know what I mean? All the while God's down there among them,
00:58:01.304 --> 00:58:02.664
they don't even recognize him.
00:58:03.164 --> 00:58:07.464
You know what I mean? So, you know, it's just, yeah, it's a,
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I mean, they had the ability. That's, that's what he's saying.
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You know what I mean? they had the ability you know
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what i mean if they would have just believed grandpa noah you know right you
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know i mean then it would have been fine you know what i mean they all spoke
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the same language they all heard the same count they all you know what i mean
00:58:25.884 --> 00:58:30.864
knew you know what i mean somewhere along the line the faith just wasn't there
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anymore i mean even when he chose abraham.
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Abraham was serving other gods before god came to him you know what i mean but
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when god showed up people he's got you know what I mean so I mean it just yeah
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I mean just just to show how yeah,
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you know when Moses went up because he wasn't a rapper for a few days yeah what did he do,
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reverted back to the spoil that God gave them to come out and they threw it
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in a fire and what came out? Okay.
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I mean, right? I mean, it's a four-footed beast. They came out.
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Did they make a four-footed beast? No. That's what came out.
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Don't say that they did it. That's what came out.
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Where there's no faith, devil has an opportunity. Right.
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I don't want anybody else to say that's all that. Not to get off track.
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That is what came out. Yeah. I was thinking that before you said it.
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Because they were turning from top. Yeah.
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They took the gifts that God gave him, and they threw them in there because of the Bible.
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All throughout the Bible. Yes. We do it as a people.
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I mean, you know, but do we waste his gifts?
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Well, certainly. Sure. Well, if we're not feeling the spirit or something,
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I mean, do we still worship?
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I mean, well, we can't, but I mean, like, are we still godly-minded,
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or Or do we just revert back to watching TV or, you know,
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playing a video game, you know, on your phone or, you know what I mean,
01:00:23.037 --> 01:00:25.137
or flipping through Facebook.
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You know what I mean? We do the exact same thing. Yes.
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Even having this great salvation. We do the exact same thing. Yes.
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It's just, and to be honest with you, it aggravates me.
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You know what I mean? That I'm that way. Yeah. I'm aggravated at myself.
01:00:39.777 --> 01:00:45.177
Paul, you know, the reason that Paul was able to say is, you see me,
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you do, because he was for Christ. That's what he meant.
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Don't give me a lot. Just because I baptize you, don't worship me.
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You do as I do because I do. Yeah.
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I don't know about it, man.
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Well studying it i had to yeah and i
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still fall short of it yeah so this is
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all this is really good very instructive i mean when they so when god gave them
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over to what they chose is what he's saying yes you know what i mean if you
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don't if you don't want to serve me that's fine i'll give you over to it and
01:01:25.893 --> 01:01:29.833
then what happened sin followed all these things that he made that you know,
01:01:30.473 --> 01:01:34.053
unseemly acts and abominations that are in his sight and abominations,
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abominable abomination.
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I mean, something that makes you sick. So they were committing these abominations
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and basically just sickness in the eyes of God.
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I mean, so, but he gets, they chose that. So he gave them over to them.
01:01:50.133 --> 01:01:54.613
You know what I mean? He didn't not choose them. They didn't choose. Right.
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So, and they had, they still had the ability to worship and serve God,
01:01:59.093 --> 01:02:02.213
but chose this world instead even though
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the knowledge of God's judgment was still in their minds
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I mean they knew I mean you
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think Noah didn't tell them the reason why God sent
01:02:11.493 --> 01:02:17.353
a flood I mean he told them he was a preacher of righteousness I mean he told
01:02:17.353 --> 01:02:22.313
them you know what I mean the world was full of sin and for some reason I found
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grace in the eyes of God and he saved me and he saved my wife and my children
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and their wives because I found grace in the eyes of God You know what I mean? So...
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They knew it. They had the ability, but then they chose it. So it's not like
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he just, that's what Paul is trying to tell.
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I didn't make, God didn't just choose the Jews.
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They chose not to be the Jews.
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You know what I mean? The Hebrew people. You know what I mean? So that's good.
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You know what I mean? And it just shows the loving nature of God.
01:02:58.273 --> 01:03:00.153
You know what I mean? That he wanted everybody.
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You know what I mean? You know? but because the man chose not to he spread them
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abroad and he had his people to worship him and most of the time they didn't you know what I mean,
01:03:12.713 --> 01:03:16.113
most of the time there was no difference between the Hebrew and the Gentile
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you know except for them having you know circumcision which we'll get into and you know what I mean,
01:03:23.693 --> 01:03:31.773
those that were of circumcision that was God showing his people right I mean
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the covenant is given with him that way and that's where that started but it shows how,
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serious covenants are because God did not go against the covenant he made a
01:03:43.513 --> 01:03:47.993
covenant with Abraham and he did not made a covenant with Noah made a covenant
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with Abraham made a covenant with Adam you know what I mean.
01:03:52.613 --> 01:03:57.613
He kept up with his covenant no matter what they did he kept up his covenant
01:03:57.613 --> 01:04:01.853
you know what I mean so I mean and there was even you know just like I mean
01:04:01.853 --> 01:04:05.913
just like we've already been talking about too there was people his own people,
01:04:06.553 --> 01:04:12.713
rejected him you know I mean too you know on top of it like a Jewish nationality like they.
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Yes and this book tops Paul was one of them you know I mean I don't think he
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was right there right you know I don't think he was a lot Yeah.
01:04:31.013 --> 01:04:34.973
And I think that this is like a topic that, not trying to take it down a whole
01:04:34.973 --> 01:04:38.593
nother rabbit hole, but like, I think this is a topic that needs to be discussed
01:04:38.593 --> 01:04:43.033
more among Christians because I think some people get the wrong idea of what
01:04:43.033 --> 01:04:44.533
it means to be a chosen people.
01:04:45.013 --> 01:04:48.633
Yeah. Like they take it more literal, like, oh, well, God chose Israel.
01:04:48.793 --> 01:04:54.033
Well, he did, you know, but you also got to take into account the New Testament
01:04:54.033 --> 01:04:58.473
on what all Israel is actually comprised of. It's not a nation.
01:04:58.693 --> 01:05:03.513
I'm not saying we don't pray for them, but it's a it's much more than just a
01:05:03.513 --> 01:05:06.433
literal nation we're part of that but anyway.
01:05:08.313 --> 01:05:13.973
Yes it's like giving your kids the Oreos and what they do, they eat the icing
01:05:13.973 --> 01:05:17.233
and they just leave you Oreos I still think he,
01:05:18.373 --> 01:05:21.633
honors his covenant because I mean bad
01:05:21.633 --> 01:05:25.193
things happen to the Jews but they still thrive you know
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what I mean but there's a grace covenant we're under
01:05:28.513 --> 01:05:31.673
grace you know what i mean he goes on you
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know call in the next chapter you know what i mean
01:05:34.393 --> 01:05:37.373
next week you know many describes it
01:05:37.373 --> 01:05:44.713
you know what i mean you know what i mean but get this on the other on the other
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one when he says i will cut you off right yeah it's not yep yep it's not,
01:05:56.293 --> 01:06:00.173
So the problem is you don't leave that much.
01:06:00.673 --> 01:06:03.153
But when you settle it, you get it.
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That's why you can trust. Yeah. Ha! Yeah.
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There's no variance. Right. Amen.
01:06:13.528 --> 01:06:17.928
And he says, I'll have mercy on people. Yeah. Yes. But if he says it,
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that's what he does. Yeah. Yes.
01:06:20.788 --> 01:06:22.808
That's why we can trust him. Yeah. Yeah.
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Well, you know, and people, you know, we're about to just absolutely destroy
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people that say that Israel is different than, or that, you know,
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Jews are completely separate.
01:06:34.488 --> 01:06:37.528
You know what I mean? Right. Paul says, you know, talking about inward Jews,
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which is a spiritual Jew. Yes.
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Yeah. Now, let me, let me say this.
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Do I believe that he could still protect the Jews?
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You know what I mean? Have their protection because they don't believe in Christ.
01:06:54.428 --> 01:06:57.008
You know what I mean? But through all the persecution, they rise,
01:06:57.228 --> 01:06:58.828
they seem to rise out of it. Yeah.
01:06:59.168 --> 01:07:02.908
But when it comes to the end of time, you know what I mean?
01:07:03.068 --> 01:07:07.348
And I mean, I'm not saying it is that way. I'm just saying I could see it, you know what I mean?
01:07:07.848 --> 01:07:10.768
Seeing is, you know, you can see things, you know what I mean?
01:07:10.888 --> 01:07:13.668
But that does not excuse them for not being saved.
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A lot of people think that Jews have a different salvation than what we are.
01:07:18.148 --> 01:07:21.508
You know what I mean? That they're going to heaven because they're Jews.
01:07:22.008 --> 01:07:26.568
You know what I mean? That is absolutely false. No, when it comes to salvation,
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they still have to believe the same way.
01:07:28.968 --> 01:07:31.928
You know what I mean? They still have to get saved, you know what I mean?
01:07:31.948 --> 01:07:36.168
They have to be washed in the blood, you know what I mean? Is there some kind
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of protection to get? I don't know, maybe.
01:07:39.048 --> 01:07:42.208
That's God's business. If he does, great. You know what I mean?
01:07:43.668 --> 01:07:46.908
That's not my business. That's God's business.
01:07:47.168 --> 01:07:50.768
He said, I'll have mercy on whom I'll have mercy. You know what I mean?
01:07:50.928 --> 01:07:54.468
But when it comes to getting into heaven, they're not getting into heaven because
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their father was Abraham.
01:07:55.948 --> 01:08:00.388
They're getting into heaven because their father is God.
01:08:00.708 --> 01:08:03.508
You know what I mean? If they go to heaven, they're going to go the same way
01:08:03.508 --> 01:08:05.268
I go, through the blood of the Lamb.
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And a lot of people misconstrue that chapter a lot, too, where it says,
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I'll have mercy on whom I have mercy.
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The overall message, too, even Paul says it. He was burdened for his own people
01:08:15.968 --> 01:08:18.088
because, again, their rejection.
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His own Jews were rejecting Jesus Christ. So they had a big problem with the
01:08:24.328 --> 01:08:30.068
fact that the Gentiles are a part of this now.
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And that's why he goes on to say, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy.
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Because it is up to God, absolutely, I believe that, 100%. Yes.
01:08:37.848 --> 01:08:46.208
But it doesn't mean just specifically. Well, he said that to Moses because his own people.
01:08:46.968 --> 01:08:54.968
Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they were an exercise in faith with him.
01:08:55.228 --> 01:09:00.808
And Moses came out in between all of them. Yep. So don't destroy all of them.
01:09:01.208 --> 01:09:03.428
What will everyone else say? Yeah. Right. Yeah.
01:09:05.349 --> 01:09:08.769
You could keep on the, you're automatically, what's fair I've got to say, right.
01:09:09.789 --> 01:09:13.849
Yeah, I mean, but he said, he said, I was fair.
01:09:14.489 --> 01:09:19.569
Yeah. But I choose. Yeah. Yes. You know, it's up to think. Yeah.
01:09:20.169 --> 01:09:22.129
Yes. And that's the thing. Yeah.
01:09:22.749 --> 01:09:26.889
But if he said, you could fight. Yeah. You could fight.
01:09:27.469 --> 01:09:31.329
Yes. And I hope we get into it too. Like when it talks about being grafted into
01:09:31.329 --> 01:09:34.109
the olive tree, that's basically what that's all talking about is the rejection
01:09:34.109 --> 01:09:38.309
of, you know, Some that have rejected, some that get to be a part of that tree
01:09:38.309 --> 01:09:40.669
of life, all these different things in it, too.
01:09:41.269 --> 01:09:44.729
And I think some people kind of misinterpret that a little bit.
01:09:44.909 --> 01:09:48.989
Because it even says, from what I got out of it last time I did a study on it,
01:09:49.129 --> 01:09:52.009
was there's some, too. He addresses both sides.
01:09:52.689 --> 01:09:56.629
There's some that were Jew that did reject God, but he's also kind of talking
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about how they were the ones that had kind of fallen away because they were
01:10:01.609 --> 01:10:02.889
turned over as a reprobate mind.
01:10:02.889 --> 01:10:06.989
But then there were some that did believe that weren't cut off that can be a
01:10:06.989 --> 01:10:10.349
part of it still whether Jew or not and all those things.
01:10:12.649 --> 01:10:19.489
No that's fine it's good I'm just trying to get through a chapter each time,
01:10:20.269 --> 01:10:27.549
that's the only goal I have but if it doesn't work out that way then it don't but there's 16 chapters,
01:10:28.929 --> 01:10:32.769
but I mean we could be studying if the Lord comes back that's fine to me You
01:10:32.769 --> 01:10:35.249
know what I mean I'll just try to get through chapter one.
01:10:36.901 --> 01:10:40.541
Because I was excited. I was excited about chapter one. You know what I mean?
01:10:40.701 --> 01:10:44.721
I'm excited about it all. Chapter two is just as good. You know what I mean?
01:10:45.061 --> 01:10:51.101
That's all I've got planned out. Or not planned out, but you know, is through chapter two.
01:10:52.441 --> 01:10:58.461
He starts talking about the spirit. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yes. And then what it means
01:10:58.461 --> 01:10:59.901
to be saved. I'll throw that out there.
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The overall is, you know, he's explaining how they're Jews, how they're Gentiles.
01:11:06.901 --> 01:11:10.001
And then he talks about how now we're all together. You know what I mean?
01:11:10.261 --> 01:11:12.881
He's basically trying to bring, because being a mountain pot,
01:11:12.981 --> 01:11:18.361
he's like, look, understand each other, but understand that you're all one in Christ.
01:11:18.861 --> 01:11:21.981
You know what I mean? So. That's good. You know what I mean?
01:11:22.061 --> 01:11:23.201
So there's no contention.
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You know, he had the right to, was it the Galatians? Yeah. Corinthians.
01:11:28.081 --> 01:11:31.441
One of them. Probably. He said, I heard that there's contentions among you.
01:11:32.221 --> 01:11:35.601
Yeah. Yeah. He said, and I partly believe. You know what I mean?
01:11:35.601 --> 01:11:42.721
You can tell he's trying to bring them together we talked about today not to
01:11:42.721 --> 01:11:50.341
drag on but a little bit about the Galatians he said I marvel at how quickly.
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You've been removed from the gospel those foolish
01:11:54.821 --> 01:12:02.321
relations might bewitched you it just showed I don't even let things in yeah
01:12:02.321 --> 01:12:14.441
and this was the church he just says I said it longer actually what he talked about,
01:12:15.561 --> 01:12:24.221
I was collecting things those I'm not always talking about that but if you know
01:12:24.221 --> 01:12:28.361
by the word of God then it's no problem right?
01:12:28.921 --> 01:12:36.941
Man don't talk man's only taking his own direction but always pulls him away
01:12:36.941 --> 01:12:43.741
from God I mean the doctrine is super important because the doctrine is what we believe,
01:12:44.961 --> 01:12:52.801
if God didn't want to be the doctrine we can't be in the mind I mean the Bible isn't,
01:12:53.641 --> 01:12:58.501
if you want to believe this way go ahead it tells us plainly what it is it's
01:12:58.501 --> 01:13:03.621
not up for interpretation no private interpretation the spirit interprets it
01:13:03.621 --> 01:13:07.121
and gives it to you we're diverse,
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yeah it's good.