turn to hymn number 70, 173.
Start there right on the first, sing.
Start there right on the third,
the opportunity that we have.
Sing praises unto you tonight, Lord,
to gather together free of service,
and fill us with your spirit as we sing,
and fill pastor as he preaches from your word.
In Jesus' name I pray, amen.
For our next song, if you would,
turn in your hymnals to hymn number 300,
Footprints of Jesus.
Number 310, go ahead and start there right on the first.
Ouch, it hurts.
This week is the first of the chapter,
so keep that in the inside.
Our service times are listed there.
Sunday morning at 10.30, Sunday evening at four.
Wednesday Bible study at seven o'clock.
Soul winning times listed there below.
Any salvations this evening?
It'll be late if you get people's.
Do have that, our year to date statistics.
Coming events, January 31st we're having
a soul winning marathon in Lawton, Oklahoma
from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.
And then there'll be dinner afterwards for the soul winners.
Then the next day, February 1st, will be
our next men's preaching night.
And there is a sign up sheet in the back there.
So if you'd like to participate, please do sign up for that.
And then we'll have a potluck that evening
and fellowship game night.
Then February 13th is going to be the sweetheart's banquet.
And I'm saying 6 p.m. now.
Who would have an issue making it at 6 p.m. on a Friday?
Okay, all right, so 6 p.m. that'll be good then.
And we'll go ahead and lock it in at 6 p.m.
There is a sign up sheet in the back
with more information there.
Then March 7th, we have our Tulsa, Oklahoma,
soul winning marathon.
And that is gonna be scheduled for 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. as well.
On the right, we have our online visitor card
for visitors here at church.
Also, it's a great thing to use out soul winning.
It's on the back of your invites.
That just signs people up for our email list
and gets them subscribed to our YouTube.
Then our online giving is there if you'd like to do that.
Below we have our prayer list, a update.
Thank the Lord.
Brother Anthony's father is doing way better.
What a great answer to prayer that is
because he was comatose last week
and now he's walking and talking.
So praise God for that answered prayer.
I guess he just had some sort of medical incident
and Anthony and his brothers literally drove
and just found him having this medical episode
on the side of the road.
So thank God that he led them to him
and that he's doing a lot better now.
Just keep him in prayer for his recovery.
Of course, he went through a big ordeal.
So keep that in prayer.
My brother is scheduled to come home in a few weeks.
Keep him in prayer as well.
And I think that's the only updates that I see.
So let's go ahead and have a word of prayer
as a church family this evening.
Lord, we thank you so much for Anchor Baptist Church,
for the opportunity to serve you.
For Oklahoma City here, such a great place
to preach the gospel.
So very receptive, Lord.
I pray that you just continue to open up the doors
of opportunity for our church to do great works for you,
to get many people saved,
to minister to the people here in Oklahoma.
And Lord, I also pray that you bless
all of our church members,
that you be with those that are out sick
during this illness season of part of the year, Lord.
I also pray that you just bless our upcoming events,
that you'd help them to be very fruitful, Lord,
that you just help our church
to continue to have great unity together.
And also I pray that you would just answer
the requests of our church members here
according to your will, Lord.
Just thank you very much for the answered prayer
of Anthony's Father's health.
And just thank you so much for that.
I pray that you would help him in his recovery,
help him to just fully recover as if nothing had happened.
I pray that you would bless their family financially as well
with all the medical expenses.
I also pray that you would bring my brother home safe
in a few weeks and I pray that you would bless
all of our church members here who have unsaved loved ones,
that those people would be receptive to the gospel.
Pray for the Hausberg family, for Brother Miles' health,
that you bless them and that you bless
Brother Theodore's mother as well,
that you please just heal her for cancer, Lord.
We have faith in you to do this.
We love you in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
All right, this time we'll go to our third song together.
All right, for our third song, if you would at this time,
take your white handouts and turn to Psalm chapter 150,
Psalm chapter 150 in the white handouts.
We'll go ahead and start there right on the Lord.
♪ Praise he the Lord ♪
♪ Praise God in his sanctuary ♪
♪ Praise him in the firmament of his power ♪
♪ Praise him for his mighty acts ♪
♪ Praise him according to his acts ♪
This evening, we're being passed to chapter number nine.
Evening, Romans nine, the Bible reads,
I say the truth in Christ, I lie not.
My conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost
that I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart,
for I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ
for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
who are Israelites to whom pertaineth the adoption
and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law
and the service of God and the promises,
whose are the fathers and of whom as concerning the flesh
Christ came, who is overall God blessed forever, amen.
Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect,
for they are not all Israel which are of Israel,
neither because they are the seed of Abraham
are they all children, but in Isaac shall thy seed be called.
That is, they which are the children of the flesh,
these are not the children of God,
but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
For this is the word of promise,
at this time will I come and Sarah shall have a son.
And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived
by one, even by our father Isaac,
for the children being not yet born,
neither having done any good or evil,
that the purpose of God according to election might stand,
not of works, but of him that calleth.
It was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger.
As it is written, Jacob have I loved,
but Esau have I hated.
What shall we say then, is there unrighteousness with God?
God forbid, for he sayeth to Moses,
I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
So then it is not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.
For the scripture sayeth unto Pharaoh,
even for this same purpose have I raised thee up,
that I might show my power in thee,
and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
Therefore, hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy,
and whom he will he hardeneth.
Thou wilt say then unto me, why dost he yet find fault,
or who hath resisted his will?
Nay, but O man, who art thou that repliest against God?
Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it,
why hast thou made me thus?
Hath not the potter power over the clay
of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor
and another unto dishonor?
What if God willing to show his wrath
and to make his power known endured with much long suffering
the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction,
and that he might make known the riches of his glory
on the vessels of mercy,
which he had afore prepared unto glory,
even us whom he hath called not of the Jews only
but also of the Gentiles.
As he saith also in Osea, I will call them my people,
which were not my people,
and her beloved which was not beloved,
and it shall come to pass,
that in the place where it was said unto them,
you're not my people,
there shall they be called the children of the living God.
Esaias also cried concerning Israel,
though the number of the children of Israel
be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.
For he will finish the work and cut it short
in righteousness, because a short work will the Lord make
upon the earth.
And as Esaias said before, except the Lord of Sabbath
had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma
and been like unto Gomorrah.
What shall we say then?
That the Gentiles which followed not after righteousness
have attained to righteousness,
even the righteousness which is of faith,
but Israel which followed after the law of righteousness
hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
Wherefore, because they sought it not by faith,
but as it were by the works of the law,
for they stumbled at that stumbling stone
as it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion
a stumbling stone and rock of a fence,
and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
Let's bow our heads for our prayer.
Father in heaven, we thank you for this day.
Our church, we thank you for the great works
that you call us to do.
And we ask that you allow us to fulfill those works,
and we love you in Jesus' name we pray.
- Man, well, we are entering a new section
of the book of Romans.
Romans 9 through 11 is this trilogy
that has a lot to do with the children of Israel.
And this is a chapter that's often abused
and twisted by Calvinists and by Zionists.
And I think a lot of people have really made
this chapter out to be much more difficult
and much more muddy than it really is.
I wanna try to do my best to clarify some things
in this chapter this evening.
But notice what it says in verse number one.
It says, "I say the truth in Christ.
"I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness
"in the Holy Ghost, that I have great heaviness
"and continual sorrow in my heart.
"For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ
"for my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh."
So Paul starts out here with a really kind of shocking
over the top statement that he could wish that he himself
were not even saved for his brethren, the Jews,
the children of Israel, that they would be saved.
And why is he saying this?
First of all, we know he's being sincere
because he's under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit.
He makes it very clear in verse one.
He's saying, "I'm not lying.
This is real here, how I really feel."
But we just got done with Romans chapter eight,
and Romans chapter eight is so positive,
and he's kind of extolling the greatness
of being a Christian, how God's always with us,
how we always have the victory,
how God causes all things to work together for good for us,
that love God, the ones that are called
according to his purpose.
And I think his mind is just thinking like,
"Man, my kinsmen, according to the flesh, the Jews,
they don't have this joy.
They don't have this comfort.
They don't have all these blessings."
And it's kind of breaking his heart,
the fact that they are not saved.
That is a real feeling that he's having here.
But also one thing I wanna draw from this is that
there's balance when it comes to the Christian life,
because you look at a guy like the apostle Paul
and you see what a great love here he has for people.
No one can look at him and say, "What a hateful person."
No, he's saying, "Hey, I'd be willing to be accursed
for Christ, from Christ, for my kinsmen,
my, or my brethren, my kinsmen, according to the flesh."
You know, that's a high level of love,
yet this is the same person who wrote Romans, chapter one.
Same author, right?
So, you know, hating wicked people does not make you
some overall hateful, wicked, evil person,
or something like that.
No, you should hate evil, wicked people.
You should hate reprobates.
But notice his love here is very strong as well.
And you know what?
We should hate with a perfect hatred the enemies of God,
but we also should have just an extreme amount of love
for the lost, love for the unsaved.
Notice he explains more on this in verse four.
Verse four says, who are Israelites,
to whom pertaineth the adoption and the glory
and the covenants and the giving of the law
and the service of God and the promises.
He's saying, look how much was designated for them.
Look how much was given unto them.
And he's just frustrated.
He's like, man, all of this, the service of God,
the giving of the law, the covenants, the promises,
all of this was supposed to be for you guys.
And he's just lamenting in the fact that they are not saved.
Go to Romans chapter three.
If you remember, Romans three explained
that the Jews had a huge advantage given to them.
And Romans nine explains that same thing.
Like look at all these things that were handed to them.
Romans three one says, what advantage then hath the Jew
or what profit is there of circumcision,
much every way chiefly because that unto them
were committed the oracles of God, right?
So the word of God, who did it come to?
It came to Abraham's descendants.
It came to the children of Israel,
came to the house of Israel.
Go to Matthew chapter 10 and even Jesus's ministry.
When he kicked off his ministry,
you know who he and his disciples went to first?
The Jews, right?
So these people are just without excuse
of the fact that they are unsaved today
because of look at what Matthew chapter 10 verse,
or I'm sorry, yeah, 10 verse five says,
notice these 12, Jesus sent forth and commanded them saying,
go not into the way of the Gentiles
and into any city of the Samaritans enter ye not,
but rather go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
And as he go preach saying,
the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Notice what a great advantage they had
that when Jesus and his disciples started preaching,
they got the exclusive privilege of these men of God
and of God himself going straight to them first.
He's saying, hey, don't go to the cities of the Samaritans.
Don't worry about that.
Go straight to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
That is a privilege, yet they squandered it, right?
Go to John chapter number one, John chapter number one.
And of course, God knows all things.
The Lord knew that in general,
the Jews would reject Jesus Christ.
So it kind of makes sense that he would go to them first
so he can get that out of the way.
The disciples, their hands could be clear
from their blood, if you will,
and move on to people that are actually receptive.
But notice John one, verse six, it says,
"There was a man sent from God whose name was John.
"The same came for a witness to bear witness of the light
"that all men through him might believe."
So it was always God's plan that all people
would be saved through the Lord Jesus Christ.
But it is true that Jesus and his disciples
went to the Jews first.
I don't have a problem with that.
Some people who take issue with our stance
on replacement theology,
kind of one of the things that they'll throw in our face
is Matthew 10, where it's like,
oh, don't go into the way of the Samaritans,
only go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
But it's like, okay, let's compare scripture with scripture.
What did they do?
Look at verse eight.
"He was not that light," that's John,
"but was sent to bear witness of that light."
That was the true light.
That's Jesus.
"Which lighteth every man that cometh into the world."
He was in the world, and the world was made by him,
and the world knew him not.
He came unto his own.
What's that?
That's the house of Israel.
And his own received him not.
But as many as received him,
to them gave he power to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name.
So here's the thing.
If Jesus came to the Jews first,
if his disciples went to the Jews first,
why aren't they saved then?
Because they didn't receive him.
Because they didn't accept him.
And so today, you know, even though the covenants,
the giving of the law, the service of God, the promises,
all of those things were committed unto them first.
Why don't they have it then?
Because they rejected Christ.
And you know what, when you reject Jesus Christ,
those promises are no longer effectual towards you,
because it says, but as many as received him,
to them gave he power to become the sons of God.
Look, even if you're of some special, you know,
blood descendancy, that doesn't mean anything
if you reject Christ.
Go to 1 Thessalonians chapter two,
not only now in 2026, not only do they not have the law,
the covenants, the service of God, the promises,
not only do they not have those things now,
now because of their rejection of the Lord Jesus Christ,
the Bible says that the wrath of God
is upon them as a people.
And so like they really mess this up
because of their own choice.
But 1 Thessalonians 2 verse 14 says,
"For ye brethren became followers of the churches of God,
which in Judea are in Christ Jesus.
For ye also have suffered like things
of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews,
who both killed the Lord Jesus."
So who are we talking about here?
The Jews, right?
That's what it's connecting to in verse 15,
who both killed the Lord Jesus.
So the Jews killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets.
Who's doing that?
The Jews have killed their own prophets
and have persecuted us.
The Jews are persecuting Christians
and they please not God.
Who's that?
The Jews.
The Jews don't please God and are contrary to all men.
Now, doesn't this just match reality?
Like, don't we just see reality in our world today
matching the fact that in general throughout history,
you know who has not been liked,
you know who has been kicked out of countries,
hundreds of them, Jews, right?
Because they are contrary to all men,
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles
that they might be saved, to fill up their sins all the way,
for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
The Bible's very clear that the Jews,
the physical descendants of Abraham today,
are not blessed by God.
They have the wrath of God abiding on them.
That has nothing to do with their blood.
That has nothing to do with the length of their nose.
That has to do with the fact that they've rejected Jesus Christ.
OK?
And you know, when you reject Jesus Christ,
the wrath of God is upon you and will be upon you
until you either repent or it'll just be on you forever
if you die and go to hell.
That's your options.
Go back to Romans 9.
So the beginning of this is kind of just like this lamentation.
He's just saying, man, I wish these people would be saved.
I'm sad that they're not saved.
All of these things were committed unto them.
They could have had it all.
They could have had all these great things,
but they don't.
Verse 5, "Whose are the fathers?
And of whom, as concerning the flesh, Christ came."
Who is, overall, God blessed forever.
Amen.
So Christ came physically from the loins of Abraham.
The Bible records his genealogy very specifically.
Now, verse number 6 is the key verse of the entire chapter.
This verse is what Paul is trying
to prove throughout the rest of this chapter.
Verse 6, "Not as though the word of God have taken none effect,
for they are not all Israel, which are Israel."
He does not want you to get the idea that, hey,
so because the Jews are not safe today,
does that mean that God has broken his promises
in the Old Testament?
Does that mean that the Abrahamic covenant, you know,
God somehow broke that and it's no longer in effect today?
He's saying, has the word of God taken none effect?
No, the obvious answer is no.
All of God's promises have been fulfilled.
One of the reasons why is because there is two Israels.
There is a fraudulent Israel.
There is an Israel that claims to be God's chosen people,
and there is true spiritual Israel.
Let's look at that, Revelation chapter three,
Revelation chapter number three.
Today, a lot of Baptists look at a political entity,
a political nation, started in 1948 in the Middle East,
and they will say, that is Israel.
And believe it or not, when they're reading their Bible
and they get to prophecies about Israel,
they get to the Abrahamic covenant,
they actually apply that to the physical state,
to the political state of Israel today.
It is crazy, but notice this in Revelation three verse eight.
I know thy works.
Behold, I have set before thee an open door,
and no man can shut it, for thou hast a little strength
and hast kept my word and hast not denied my name.
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan,
which say they are Jews and are not,
but do lie.
Behold, I will make them to come and worship
before thy feet and to know that I have loved thee.
So notice there's a group of people in this world
that call themselves Jews and they meet in synagogues.
I wonder what this could be talking about.
This is talking about those who are members
of the false religion of Judaism.
Judaism today is the synagogue of Satan.
And Judaism is not a continuation
of the Old Testament religion of worshiping Jehovah.
Judaism is a brand new religion.
Judaism is based on the belief that there is a Messiah,
but it's not Jesus.
It is an antichrist religion.
That's why the Bible says it is the synagogue of Satan.
They say they are Jews, but they are not.
They lie.
Paul already explained to us, what is a true Jew?
I'll just read for you Romans chapter two,
verse 28, "For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly,
neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh.
But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly,
and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit,
and not in the letter, whose praise is not of men,
but of God."
So what is this describing?
A saved person.
Someone who is saved, you are the true spiritual Jew.
You are the real Israel.
Someone who claims to be of the Jewish religion,
and they get circumcised, and they meet in a synagogue.
Does that sound like someone whose praise is of God,
and not of man?
Or does that sound like someone where the wrath of God
is abiding on them, that we read in First Thessalonians?
Obviously, there's two different types here.
Go back to Romans 9, Romans chapter number 9.
True Israel is defined by faith, not by blood.
Not by, you know, your descendancy, if you will.
Look at verse number seven.
"Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham,
are they all children.
But in Isaac shall thy seed be called."
So notice, even if you are descendant from Abraham,
even if you do have that blood,
that does not make you of the children.
Verse eight, that is,
they which are the children of the flesh,
these are not the children of God,
but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
So notice, the Bible's just saying like,
the physical descendants of Abraham
are not the children of God.
And people today say, who are God's chosen people?
Who are the special chosen ones?
Who are the children of God?
Well, it's that political entity in Israel.
Well, it's the ones banging their head
against the wailing wall.
Well, it's the ones, you know,
with the little hat and the curly hair and all that.
No, no, no.
If you're a child of the flesh,
the Bible says you are not the child of God.
Now go back to John one, I know we were just there,
but the Bible defines very clearly
what it takes to become a child of God.
And look, we have to build our doctrine
off what the Bible says.
Not off of political books, not off of the news,
not off of old IFB tradition.
What does the Bible actually say
it takes to become a child of God?
Is it your blood?
No, it just says that they're not the children of God.
Look at John one 12, but as many as received him.
Here's the question for you old IFB,
who is the him there?
Jesus, right?
But as many as received him to them gave the power
to become the sons of God,
even to them that believe on his name.
You know what that means?
If you did not receive Jesus, you are not the child of God.
This is why Jesus said straightly to the Jews,
you are of your father, the devil.
Because for your father to be God, you must receive Jesus.
And if you reject that Jesus is the Messiah,
you've rejected Jesus.
You've rejected God, and you are not his son.
Now go to Genesis 17 and Romans 9.
Romans chapter 9 and Genesis chapter number 17.
So remember, what is Paul's driving point here
that he's trying to prove in this chapter
is that the promises of God,
they've not been made of none effect.
They've been fulfilled because they are not all Israel,
which are of Israel.
Now he gives some specific examples to prove that, okay?
Romans 9, look at verse number nine.
Here's the first example he brings up.
For this is the word of promise.
At this time, will I come?
And Sarah shall have a son.
So what's the first example he gives?
Of Abraham and of Sarah.
And of course they end up having Isaac
that was promised to them.
Now, before they had Isaac, they jumped the gun.
Sarah gave her husband to the handmaid
and they ended up having Ishmael.
Look at what it says in verse number 15 of Genesis 17.
You got your place there.
Genesis 17, verse 15.
Here's the promise, and God said unto Abraham,
"As for Sarai thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai,
but Sarah shall her name be.
And I will bless her and give thee a son also of her.
Yea, I will bless her and she shall be a mother of nations.
Kings of people shall be of her."
Then Abraham fell upon his face and laughed
and said in his heart, shall a child be born unto him
that is 100 years old and shall Sarah, that is 90 years old, bear?
You know, so they've got this incredible promise given to them
that these two very old individuals are going to have a child of their own
and he's laughing. Verse 18, "And Abraham said unto God,
O that Ishmael might live before these." Like, you know, just bless Ishmael.
Like, ah, you know, I don't know, could this even happen?
You know, just bless Ishmael. Verse 19, "And God said,
Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed, and thou shalt call his name
Isaac. And I will establish my covenant with him
for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him." So notice,
the birth of Isaac and Isaac being the seed of Abraham
is special because he's going to establish that covenant with
Isaac. And as for Ishmael, "I have heard thee. Behold,
I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him
exceedingly. Twelve princes shall he beget, and I
will make him a great nation. But my covenant will I establish
with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this
set time in the next year." Go to Galatians chapter 4.
So here we see God, he blesses both of these individuals,
Isaac and Ishmael. But he clearly has a preference
when it comes to who he's going to make his covenant with.
It's not left up to chance. God has ordained
that the seed of Abraham's loins and Sarah's, you know,
their real child here, would have the covenant. Galatians 4
explains more on this. Verse 22, "For it is written
that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid
and the other by a free woman. But he who was of the bondwoman
was born after the flesh, but he of the free woman
was by promise." Remember in Romans 9 how it said those that are
of the flesh are not the children of God. We're seeing the connection here.
Verse 24, "Which things are an allegory?" Now it's really nice when the Bible just
tells you verbatim this is a picture. This is an allegory. There's a lot of
those things in the Bible where there's a truth that's illustrating
a different truth, but here the Bible is telling you like, "Hey,
you know all of these things, it's not incidental, coincidental, accidental.
This is an allegory for something else." Notice for these are the two
covenants. The one from Mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage,
which is agar. What happened at Mount Sinai? The giving of the
law, which Romans nine explains that the Jews, that Israel did not
find righteousness because they were seeking it after the law,
right? They did not accept the Messiah's sacrifice. They wanted to be justified
by their works, by keeping the commandments,
by getting circumcised, by keeping the Sabbath, by doing all these things.
Okay, that is what Ishmael represents. Verse 25,
"For this agar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and," notice, "answereth
to Jerusalem, which now is and is in bondage
with her children." So that's earthly Israel. That's physical Israel.
Verse 26, "But Jerusalem, which is above, is free,
which is the mother of us all. For it is written, 'Rejoice,
thou barren, that bearest not. Break forth and cry,
thou that travailest not. For the desolate hath many more children than she which hath an husband.
Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of promise." So he just makes it really clear,
like we, brethren, right? Believers in Christ. Who do we identify with in this situation?
With Isaac, the child of promise, the one that the covenant was given to. Verse 29,
"But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him, that was born after the Spirit,
even so it is now." What did we see in 1st Thessalonians? Who's persecuting Christians?
The Jews. Just like how those that are of the flesh are persecuting those that are of the Spirit,
is what he's saying. Look at verse 30, "Nevertheless, what sayeth the scripture? Cast out
the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the
free woman." What happened to Ishmael? You know, Sarah kind of had a mama bear moment because
Ishmael was like making a joke and so she just cast them out into the wilderness, cast them out
into the desert. The Bible's saying, "Hey, that's a picture. Cast out the bondwoman and her son,
for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman." Hey,
being a physical descendant of Israel does not automatically make you saved, does not automatically
make you part of God's chosen nation, does not mean you're going to heaven. Verse 31, "So then,
brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free." Go back to Romans chapter number
nine, Romans chapter number nine. So remember, he's asking that question, you know, has the
word of God, you know, taken none effect? No, why? Because here's an example, Ishmael and Isaac,
how has God fulfilled his covenant? Well, Isaac represents us as believers. When we believe in
Christ, we become the children of God. Look what it says in verse number 10. Now he uses another
example to prove this. And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our
father, Isaac. I love how the Bible clarifies that there. I always kind of laugh when I read that
verse. It's like, Rebecca conceived by one, even by Isaac. Okay. It was by Isaac. It's like, thanks
for that, you know, specification there. And not only this, but when Rebecca also had conceived by
one, even by our father, Isaac, for the children being not yet born, neither having done any good
or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him
that calleth. It was said unto her, the elder shall serve the younger. Go to Numbers chapter 24.
So the first example, Ishmael and Isaac, how is that filled today? Well, when we believe in Jesus
Christ, we identify with Isaac. We are the children of Abraham by faith. Then we have another example
here of Jacob and Esau. And just like how Ishmael and Isaac through no doing of their own, you know,
God just chose that his seed would come through Isaac's side of things. Same thing with Jacob
and Esau says that the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil,
that the purpose of election, that the purpose of God according to election might stand.
What is this election that God chose through Jacob? Well, that the Lord Jesus Christ would descend
from Jacob. Numbers 24 verse 17 says this, "I shall see him, but not now. I shall behold him,
but not nigh. There shall come a star out of Jacob, and a scepter shall rise out of Israel."
And of course, Israel is another word for Jacob, right? "And shall smite the corners of Moab
and destroy all the children of Sheph." Right? So this lineage of Jacob or Israel,
how has it been fulfilled today? It hasn't been made of none effect. It was fulfilled today. How?
Through Jesus Christ. So, Isaac, us, faith in Jesus Christ, Jacob, Jesus, he descended from Jacob.
Go to Galatians 3. Galatians chapter number 3. Galatians chapter 3, look at verse 26. It says,
"For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus." Just makes it very plain.
"For as many of you have been baptized into Christ, have put on Christ, there is neither
Jew nor Greek. There is neither bond nor free. There is neither male nor female. For ye are all
one in Christ Jesus." So what makes you special or chosen or a child of God today? It's not by being
a Jew or a Gentile. It's not by being a male or a female. It's by believing in Christ. And it says
in verse 29, "And if ye be Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed and heirs according to the promise."
We are heirs according to that promise, that covenant that was given through Isaac. We are
heirs of that covenant. So has the word of God taken none effect just because most Jews rejected
Christ? No, because look at Isaac. That's fulfilled through us. Has the word of God, you know, taken
none effect? No, look at Jacob, fulfilled through Jesus Christ. Go back to Romans chapter nine,
Romans chapter number nine. So he just gave us two examples there just to prove, hey, God's word has
been fulfilled. God kept his promises. He did not break them because that is one of the things that
people will falsely accuse us of saying by us saying that, hey, the Jews rejected Christ.
And so today God's chosen people are made up of both Jews and Gentiles that believe in Jesus.
Well, then they'll come around, the Zionists will say, oh, so you're saying that God broke
his promise to Abraham. Oh, you're saying that God broke his promise to Isaac, that God broke
his promise to Jacob. And we're saying, no, God fulfilled his promise through us, through us
believing in him. God fulfilled his promise through Christ coming. Verse number 13, notice what it
says, as it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated. Now what Calvinists love to do
is they love to take these last couple verses and completely take them out of context and teach all
sorts of weird heresy. Calvinists like to teach this doctrine of predestination that before you're
even born, God just preemptively chose for no reason whatsoever other than his own will that,
you know what, this, this kid is going to heaven and this kid's going to burn in hell and he just
creates souls just to burn them in hell and they have no choice because they're not elect. Oh,
they're just not elect so they have no chance and you know what, Jesus didn't die for all their
sins. They will teach that Jesus did not die for the sins of all the world just for the elect
and they love this right here where it talks about Jacob have I loved but Esau have I hated. Now,
first of all, we need to understand that the word hatred in the Bible is not always talking about
this visceral emotional loathing of something. We have to be honest with the scripture. We have
to compare scripture with scripture. Go to Malachi 1 and I just want to read several verses to you.
You can just stay in Malachi. Let me just read several verses to you. Genesis 29 verse 30,
"And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with
him yet seven other years. And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb,
but Rachel was barren." So Jacob here, he loves Rachel more than Leah. And then God says, "Oh,
I could see that Leah is hated." Why? Because sometimes hatred means to, and what love means
too, is to prefer one thing above another, to choose one thing above another, right? It's like,
hey, when you get married, you're choosing your wife, and you know, in a way you're hating all
other women. Doesn't mean that you're sitting here and you're being like Nick Fuentes, okay?
It doesn't mean you have this visceral, emotional loathing towards women. Doesn't mean you're an
incel or something like that. But you know what? You've chosen your wife and you're just hating
everyone else. You're just not choosing anyone else. You're preferring her above everyone else.
Luke 14 26 says, "If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother and wife and children
and brethren and sisters, yea in his own life also he cannot be my disciple." So is that saying
you have to literally, emotionally, viscerally loathe your wife? Well that would be a contradiction
in the Bible because the Bible says husbands love your wives, right? So in this context what does
it mean to hate mother, father, wife, brethren, all these things? It means hey, you should always
choose God above any human being. You should always stand with the Lord above any person.
And if it came between sticking with the Bible, serving God, and being at odds with your wife
or your mother or your father or your children, well in that way you need to love God and hate
those people, meaning you're preferring God, you're choosing God. Here's another example,
Luke 16, 13, "No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other,
or else he will hold to the one and despise the other, ye cannot serve God and mammon."
This does not mean that you have to hate your bank account. This does not mean that when you
get paid, you have to rip up your check, burn it in the fire, because you cannot serve God,
and you have to love one or hate the other. What does it mean? It just means you're preferring
spiritual things over the things of this world. You love God, you hate this world. You're going to
despise this world. You're not going to choose this world. You're not going to choose chasing
after money. You're not going to choose after chasing after pleasure. You're going to choose
serving God because you can't serve two masters. First of all, let's just be honest. We actually,
in the new IFB, we'll talk about all the hate verses, but let's talk about all the hate verses.
Not all the hate verses are talking about this deep loathing. There could be haters of God,
meaning that they do viscerally despise and hate, or there could be people that choose something
else over God and they're hating God in that moment. For example, Ahab is saved. The Bible
talks about how he slept with his fathers, yet when he's rebuked, it's saying, "Hey, shouldest thou
help the ungodly and love those that hate the Lord?" That's in reference to Ahab. You got to
realize that. Go read the chapter. That is in reference to Ahab, a saved person. That is a
person preferring something else over God. Hatred does not always mean loathing. Now, where do I
have you go? Malachi chapter 1. I said, "Esau have I loved," or I'm sorry, "Jacob have I loved, Esau
have I hated." Malachi 1 verse 1, "The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by Malachi. I have
loved you, saith the Lord, yet ye say, 'Wherein hast thou loved us?' Was not Esau Jacob's brother,
saith the Lord, yet I loved Jacob and I hated Esau and laid his mountains and his heritage waste
for the dragons of the wilderness." What are we talking about? We're talking about the descendants
here of Jacob and Esau. God preferred Jacob. God blessed his seed. Jesus Christ came out of
the loins of Jacob. Esau, he was cursed that he laid his mountains and his heritage waste
for the dragons of the wilderness. Talking about a whole group of people, a whole nation.
Verse 4, "Whereas Edom," see that's the nation there, "Edom," not Esau, "Edom." "Whereas Edom sayeth,
we are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places. Thus saith the Lord of hosts,
they shall build, but I will throw down, and they shall call them the border of wickedness
and the people against the Lord," sorry, "against whom the Lord hath indignation forever."
This is not saying, in Romans 9 where it says, you know, "Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated,"
this is not saying that before Jacob and Esau were even born, when they were in the womb,
God just had this emotional hatred towards Esau, like Esau was some sort of reprobate.
That is false doctrine. That is weird Calvinist heresy. That does not line up with the character
of God. All this is saying, when it says, "Jacob have I loved, Esau have I hated," hey, God has
chosen, just like he chose Isaac to make his covenant with Isaac and not through Ishmael,
he chose Jacob that his covenant is going to be with him. The descendancy of the Lord Jesus
Christ is going to be from him and not through Esau. When you actually look in the book of
Genesis, there is no indication that God despises or loathes the person Esau. He blesses him. He
makes him great. He gives him riches. He ends up bringing forth a lot too. Jacob comes and
reconciles with him. They have like this great tender moment where they reconcile together.
Nowhere in Genesis do you get this idea that Esau is some sort of reprobate,
hater of God. Because here's the thing, God does loathe viscerally on an emotional level,
reprobates. He does hate people in that way. But I'm just saying, I don't believe that this is one
of those examples where God just has this deep loathing of Esau. It's just saying that, hey,
he preferred one above the other. He preferred his covenant to go through Jacob, not through Esau.
Now, go back to Romans chapter 9. And remember, what is the context of those verses that we read
in Romans chapter 9? He's answering this question, "Hath the word of God taken none effect?" Hey,
have the promises made to our fathers been broken by God because of the fact that we look at all
these Jews today, all these physical descendants of Israel, and they don't believe in God? Has God
broken His promise? Well, no, because look at Isaac, and that's fulfilled through us. Well, no,
because look at Jacob, and that was fulfilled through Christ. That's the actual context of
these verses. And people get into weird false doctrine because they're not reading it in the
context of that question that Paul is answering. All right, look at verse number 14. Then with
that thought in mind, he brings to the next question, "What shall we say then? Is there
unrighteousness with God? God forbid." Right, so some people would hear this and be like,
"Well, you know, God chose Jacob and not Esau. You know, does that make God unrighteous? Does
that make him unfair? Does that make him mean?" Well, the answer obviously is no. He says, "God
forbid." Stay there. I'll read for you Deuteronomy 32 verse 4. "He is the rock. His work is perfect.
For all his ways are judgment. A God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he."
Hey, any decision that God makes, it's the right decision. It's the just decision. He has good
judgment. He has perfect judgment. All his ways are judgment. Verse 15, "For he saith to Moses,
'I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have
compassion.' So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that
showeth mercy." See, Ishmael could not have just willed himself or worked himself to be under that
covenant. Even if he just like lived the most righteous life, just a dedicated servant of God,
just did everything right, he cannot just will himself to be in that covenant. Why? Because that
was just God's decision to make it through Isaac, okay? Esau, if he, even if he did a lot of bad
things, but even if he was just super righteous, and you know what, he just did everything right,
he was super on fire for God, you know, he can't just will that Jesus Christ is going to come from
his loins. God made the decision that it was going to be through Jacob, right? So it's not of him
that wills, it's not of him that runs, but of God that showeth mercy. And of course, verse 15,
notice, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will
have compassion." Some people twist this to say like, so see, there's some people that God just
doesn't show any compassion on, or doesn't show any mercy on. That's not true, because we obviously
know that there's a baseline level of mercy and compassion that God has showed to every man.
It's called the gospel, folks, and it's a lot of mercy, and it's a lot of compassion. Go to Acts
chapter 10 and keep your place there, Acts chapter number 10. It's not like, oh, you got saved because
God just on a whim just decided to show you mercy, and just decided to show you compassion. No, again,
what is that doing? Completely taking this out of context. What is the context? We're talking about
the covenants that were given. We're talking about the covenant to Abraham and to Isaac and to Jacob.
We're talking about the descendancy of the Lord Jesus Christ. That's what's in view here. But you
know what? God has showed compassion that's available to every man because it says in Acts
chapter 10 verse 43, to him, Jesus, give all the prophets witness that through his name,
whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. Hey, that's a great mercy,
and that is a great compassion that has always been available to whoever. And it's not something
that started in the New Testament because to Jesus gave all the prophets witness. So from
Genesis all the way to Malachi, hey, all of the Old Testament prophets were preaching about the
Messiah. They were preaching about the Savior. They're preaching about how it's faith in him
to be saved. And you know what the Bible says? Whosoever believeth in him shall receive remission
of sins. I don't know about you, that sounds like a lot of mercy. That sounds like a lot of
compassion. Now, of course, we know, we already read Romans chapter one, reprobates exist. And
it's like, you know, how many times does someone have to hear the gospel or how many times does
someone have to reject the truth before they become a reprobate? You know, I think that it
could potentially be different for different people, you know, and I believe that as we'll
get into later in this chapter, God could even use people that do reject him for his glory,
for his honor, and you know what, sometimes maybe he wants to be really compassionate and give people
lots and lots and lots and lots of chances. Maybe other times he has different plans in mind.
Go back to Romans 9 and we'll read about that. In verse number 17 says, "For the scripture saith
unto Pharaoh, even for the same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee,
and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth." You know, you ever ask yourself like,
why didn't God just immediately smoke Pharaoh? You know, we already knew he hardened his heart.
The Bible keeps saying that Pharaoh hardens his heart, hardens his heart, hardens his heart. Well,
you know what? By what God did, by unleashing those plagues on the Egyptians, by splitting the
Red Sea, by allowing Pharaoh and his armies to follow after the children of Israel, and Moses
to just stretch forth his hand and bring those walls of water crashing down and killing God's
enemy. You know what that did? That caused the name of God to go out through all the earth. It caused
God to be glorified. So hey, he has mercy on whom he will have mercy. He has compassion on whom he
will have compassion. Sometimes he'll even let wicked people rise. Sometimes he'll let wicked
people live. Sometimes people will reject him and harden their heart over and over and over. But God
just waits until he really brings the hammer down on them and then his glory is shown by his judgment.
Therefore, hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy and whom he will he harden it. Like I said,
all those plagues, what does it do? It shows the power and might of God. How about Nebuchadnezzar
losing his mind, having his nails grow out super long, you know, his hair growing long, he's looking
like some sort of wild animal. What happened by God bringing Nebuchadnezzar low? Eventually,
the name of God was glorified. Even Nebuchadnezzar himself was giving praise and honor and glory to
God. And look, that is the same for every single reprobate that exists in this world is that they
will eventually give praise and honor to God. Go back to Romans chapter number nine. And so it's
like some people get really disheartened by the evil reprobates of our world. We'll see people
that go to Jeffrey Epstein's island and they exist and they thrive and they have money and
they have prosperity. We see the angry hordes of sodomites marching down the streets of America,
loud and proud, singing songs like we're coming for your children like they did a few years ago
in San Francisco and sometimes it's just like man why doesn't God just rain you know cloud up on
these people and just rain fire on them and just kill them. It's like well because you know what
the way he judges is going to bring himself the most honor and glory and you know what every
single sodomite that exists in this world is just a walking billboard of the wrath of God.
Like you see a sodomite it's so gross it's so unnatural it's so disgusting that people are
just like I never want to turn out like that but you read the bible it's like how do you become
a faggot is it by you got the gay gene is it your environment no it's by hating God and so every
sodomite is a walking warning say hey don't reject God don't hate God he might just make you a filthy
faggot that's scary and you know it's like why does God allow these people to exist maybe to
scare people from going down that dark satanic road notice what it says in verse number 19
thou wilt say then unto me why doth he yet find fault for who hath resisted his will you know it's
kind of like asking well if God allows these wicked people to exist well then how can we
judge these wicked people I mean God's allowing them to exist he knows that the wickedness exists
so can we really even judge those wicked people I like his answer in verse 20 nay but oh man that
who art thou that repliest against God shall the thing formed say to him that formed it why hast
thou made me thus he's explaining hey your question is stupid your question is flawed oh who's
resisted his will how is God going to find fault with these people he goes hold on a second you
don't get to go around sitting and judging God and we live in a culture in a society that opens
this and instead of letting it judge them wants to judge the words wants to judge the preaching of
God's word wants to judge God's character it's like who are you to reply against God don't you
understand that God is judging you right now buddy you're you know who can the thing form say
to it that formed it why hast thou made me thus you know imagine making something at work but you
know you're a carpenter you build something you know you don't expect that thing to answer back
and ask you questions as you're building it you know you make the software program your software
program doesn't you know respond to you saying like why are you putting in this feature why
don't you do another one like that doesn't work right the person creating is in charge it's like
god has created us god has given us his word and it doesn't matter whether you like his character
it doesn't matter if you like the features of this world it doesn't matter if you like you know who
you are god made you and you're not to reply against him right this this is a satanic ideology
this is what transgenderism is it's replying against god you know why did you make me a man
i want to be a woman why did you make me a woman i want to be a man it's like why are you answering
why are you replying against god you have a stupid mentality i'll read for you psalm 119 verse 128
says therefore i esteem all thy precepts concerning all things to be right and i hate every false way
that needs to be your default attitude what did god people just got saved and they said all right
i'm going to start reading the bible here's the attitude that i'm going to take everything in here
is right everything god says is right you know what any other idea i'm going to hate that idea
you know what people who are unsaved do and people who are wicked do is that they're god
in their own mind they make a god after their own image and they come to the bible judging god
judging the bible rather than letting it judge them you know i just heard a wicked example of
this from this loser nick fuentes who he was talking about you know he doesn't really like
the stories in the old testament where god told them to just go wipe out the amalekites and god
you know told him to go wipe out the jebusites and the canaanites and you know man woman boy and
girl he goes yeah you know that's never sat well with me and i even went to constantine i went to
all the church fathers and they never really had a good a good explanation for it and so you know
i'm just more of like a gospel kind of guy but yeah you know i don't really like that he goes
he even said this he goes that might even be blasphemous but you know i just don't really
like that and it's like you are being this person in romans 9 the thing formed replying to the one
that formed you you know what no maybe you're just an idiot maybe you just have the wrong idea hey
maybe the god of the universe knows more than you imagine that what kind of an idiot do you have to
be to go to god's word and see something and think i know better than god you are a fool
and nick fuentes is a fool he is unsaved he's on his way to hell and he just blasphemes god in his
show and laughs about it no no no if god says wipe out all the amalekites it's because they
need to be wiped out and you read leviticus and it's like hey don't lie with a beast hey don't lie
with your own family members hey don't lie with the same gender it's like yeah these people doing
this kind of stuff need to be wiped off the face of the planet and you know what faggots and witches
and warlocks and all you know beastophiles should all be wiped off the face of the planet
that's not my opinion no i just esteem all of god's precepts to be right and i hate every false way
and i'm not going to be an idiot that comes to the bible and judges it it's like this is why
europe has been on a bobsled to hell is because europeans have gotten away from their tradition
of the king james bible and they've gotten this new enlightened humanistic age where we just judge
everything in the bible think you're better we're seeing this even in oklahoma i'm sure maybe you've
heard about the news in broken bow how there's this uh mosque that's trying to be built in broken
bow and all these citizens of broken bow are going to their city council and they're demanding that
it does not get built and they're doing a great job and it's funny i posted on x a couple months
ago like the the reaction we should have to islam in america is that one of the things
that we should do is try to petition local governments to not build give building permits
to mosques and enforce the noise ordinances against their stupid you know calls to prayer
but you go to the comment section and you know what you constantly see all these white women
just saying like no muslims are nice you guys are just so hateful you guys are just so judgmental
you guys just judge things you don't understand it's like no no no shut up you're an idiot
the bible says if any man preach any other gospel then we that which we have preached unto you
let him be accursed hey islam is wicked as hell we should get it out of our state
not have this idea of just like oh muslims are so nice they're so wonderful you know god wasn't
right about what he said about other false gospels you know they're just a wonderful asset to our
community no no no islam is a curse islam is a curse and don't be this moron by the way that
every time someone says something bad about islam you're like well what about the jews the jews are
bad too it's like hey buddy you know i don't want to step in elk crap and i also don't want to step
in deer crap it's like it's just both crap okay i don't want islam i don't want judaism they're
both evil they're both wicked there's parts of town in oklahoma city where it's just like here's
an afghan market and here's like this muslim place i'm just like this place right here sucks
like this area of oklahoma city is like a curse who allowed this why would we allow islam into
our country this was a christian country but people today just are wise in their own sight
they're prudent in their own mind prudent in their own sight wise in their own mind
you know it's crazy go back to verse number 21 verse number 21 it says in verse number 21
of romans 9 hath not the potter power over the clay of the same lump to make one vessel unto honor
and another unto dishonor what if god willing to show his wrath and to make his power known
endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction right so examples like
pharaoh examples like nebuchadnezzar god is enduring with them which much long suffering
why to show his wrath to make his power known even sodom and gamora you could argue that god
was willing to be very long suffering with them because you know abraham's trying to talk god
down what if there's 50 righteous what if there's you know 10 righteous and god saying hey i'll spare
it for that that sounds pretty merciful that sounds pretty long suffering but you know what
he endured with much long suffering and then he showed his wrath then he showed his power it's
like why did god even let allow sodom to get so bad why did god even allow these horrible things
to happen the cries of sodom i mean sodomites harming children abusing people committing crimes
why would god ever do something like that maybe so that he could burn them all alive to show the
world how much he hates those people and to show the world that god's not to be messed with and
that he's not to be mocked that he's to be feared maybe that's why he let them go on so long verse
number 23 says and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which
he had a four prepared unto glory so every single person including us we all deserve hell right so
if god shows us mercy what does that do it just magnifies the riches of his glory anytime he shows
mercy to us go to john chapter number three john chapter number three now of course what i want to
teach very clearly that this is not this chapter is not teaching that god picks and chooses who is
saved and who is damned because that is the whole thing people will come to calvinists will come to
this chapter they'll take verse six out of the equation and just run with these verses out of
context let's get some bible here the most famous verse john 3 16 for god so loved the world that
he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have
everlasting life so yes god does show mercy on whom he'll show mercy he does show compassion on whom
he will show compassion sometimes he does he does deal very long suffering with the vessels of wrath
fitted to destruction to show his anger his wrath but you know what there's a measure of grace that
god has showed to every person it's called he gave his only begotten son and you know who that gift
was available to says for whosoever believe it in him should not perish but have everlasting life
go to john six john chapter number six well the calvinists will say no really the only way you
could be saved is if god draws you and they kind of define this god drawing you of like well you're
drawn by god if god kind of like puts the faith in your heart if god gives you saving faith that
means that he's drawn you and so that's him showing mercy on whom he'll show mercy that's
him showing compassion on whom he'll show compassion is by giving you the gift of faith that's what they
say the gift of god is is god just giving you the faith where do they get this from will they twist
john 644 no man can come unto me except the father which hath sent me draw him and i will raise him
up at the last day you know what i say to that verse amen to that verse amen to everything that
jesus said hey don't we esteem all of god's precepts to be right right we're not going to
sit here and judge god or think we have better ideas you know what jesus said is right but let's
actually define what it means for god to draw someone go to john chapter number 12 because the
calvinist will just make up a definition out of nowhere oh you're drawn because god just kind of
gave you mystical faith he kind of just forced you to believe he chose you no here's what it means
to be drawn john 12 verse 32 and i if i be lifted up from the earth will draw all men unto me
guess what the drawing is the drawing is the gospel of jesus christ and romans 10 explains how
it's gone out into all the world so you know what when jesus christ rose again from the dead
that gospel the death burial resurrection is constantly drawing all of humanity unto himself
so god has drawn every man that's why i said whosoever believeth in him should not perish but
have everlasting life it doesn't say only those that are elect only those that are special chosen
no it's whosoever who's drawn the whole world's drawn first timothy 4 go to first timothy chapter
number four they really don't like first timothy chapter four verse 10 these calvinists because
notice how powerful this verse is it says for therefore we both labor and suffer reproach
because we trust in the living god who is the savior of all men and here's what the calvinists
will say oh that just means all types of men that just means all kinds of men you know black men
white men rich men poor men hey he's the savior of all types of people oh really then why does it say
who is the savior of all men especially of those that believe you know what that means that he's
the savior of everyone especially those that believe meaning he is the savior of those that
do not believe right he's the savior of all men now is salvation effectual unto them if they reject
the savior no but does that mean that he wasn't there to save him right of course he was right
i mean if rescue parties are sent out to search you or maybe this is a better example sometimes
people will refuse medical care the emts will get called and you have the right to refuse medical
care it's like let's say you got in a motorcycle crash you got your bones broken you're conscious
the emts come up to you and they're trying to help you just like no i refuse medical care
it's just like oh man if only there was an emt to save this person if only there was a first
responder to help this person it's like there is there is a savior there is an emt there is a first
responder but guess what you have to actually accept that care right hey jesus is your savior
whether you believe or you don't believe but he's only going to save you if you believe that's how
it works folks go back to romans 9 roman's cap number 9 this calvinistic idea is just man-made
doctrine it's not from the bible it's false doctrine verse 23 of romans 9 says and that he
might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had a four prepared
unto glory even us whom he hath called not of the jews only but also of the gentiles say hey who are
the chosen who are god's children he says it's us not just the jews but also of the gentiles right
because hey there is a remnant and jews that believe they are safe they are the children of
god just like gentiles if they believe they're safe they're the children of god verse 25 as he
says also in osi that's hosea i will call them my people which were not my people and her beloved
which was not beloved and it shall come to pass that in the place where it was set under them
ye are not my people there shall they be called the children of the living god i'd like the
zionist to explain this hey there was a group of people in the old testament that were not the
children of god oh yeah who is the children of god again in the old testament oh the jews
nation of israel okay well those people that were the children of god it says that they're not the
children of god now and then there was a group in the old testament who were not a people who
were not the children of god and now they are the children of god how does that work if it's still
the jews they just have to rip this out of their bible i guess verse 27 isaias also cryeth concerning
israel though the number of the children of israel be as the sand of the sea a remnant shall be
saved now this is this reminds me of how when god gave his promise to abraham he talked about how his
seed would be like you know the sand or it'd be like the stars a lot right but even though there's
a lot notice what it says a remnant shall be saved so even though of abraham's loins
came a plethora of human beings only a small remnant of those people are actually saved verse
28 for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness because a short work with the
lord make upon the earth and as hezias said before except the lord of sabioth had left us a seed
we had been as sadoma and been made like unto gemora so jerusalem and israel is not as wicked
in sodom as sodom and gemora because you know sodom and gemora this verse is saying had no
remnant at least these people had a small remnant but if they had no remnant whatsoever what would
they be like sodom and gemora verse 30 what shall we say then like what is the conclusion of this
that the gentiles which followed not after righteousness have attained to righteousness
even the righteousness which is of faith what are the gentiles it's just the world the people of the
world right the non-jews if you will the people of this world regular people they were not seeking
after righteousness regular nations you know greece italy they were not getting circumcised
they were not trying to keep the sabbath they were not trying to keep all these laws they
were not seeking after righteousness yet they attained under righteousness how does that work
well it says even the righteousness which is a faith but israel now we're talking about physical
israel again which followed after the law of righteousness what does that mean they were
getting circumcised they were keeping the sabbath they were doing all these things it says that they
followed after the law of righteousness have not attained to the law of righteousness wherefore
because they sought it not by faith but as it were by the works of the law for they stumbled at
that stumbling stone hey why is it that the jews are unsaved is because they are trying to be
justified by works and today whether you're a jew or you're a gentile if you're seeking to be
justified by works you're not going to attain to righteousness as much as you strive for it as much
as you're going trying to be righteous trying to live a good life you will never attain to it if
you seek after it by the works of the law verse 33 as it is written behold i lay in zion a stumbling
stone and rock of offense and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed hey what is his
conclusion of this god's chosen people today who is it primarily it's primarily gentiles why because
they believed in jesus christ because they didn't stumble at that stumbling stone they didn't trip
on that rock of offense and so they attain unto righteousness why today are the jews the children
of wrath why today are the jews not saved is it because of their evil blood like adolf hitler
taught you know is it because of their genetics is it because of their long nose is it because
of their curly hair no no has nothing to do with any of those things it's because they stumbled
at that stumbling stone. It's because they sought after the works of the flesh to attain
righteousness. And so that kind of makes us think about like, hey, what is it that we could do for
these people? Because this whole chapter, he's just kind of lamenting the fact like, here's the
situation with Israel right now. It sucks. I wish I could even be a curse for Christ for these people.
But here's where things stand. And it's like, okay, well, what can we do for these people?
We can't make them believe. We can't make them accept the Messiah. You know, we can do we can
preach them the gospel. And that's exactly what Romans 10 transitions to. You can see Paul's
train of thought here. Hey, he's upset about this. He wants these people to be saved. But what can
we do about it? Well, we can at least go open our mouth boldly and make known the mystery of the
gospel to the Jew and to the Gentile to all nations. Let's pray Lord. Thank you for this
chapter. Lord, I pray that you just help us walk away understanding this chapter that we wouldn't
be fooled by weird Calvinist ideology or fake Zionism, false doctrine. Lord, help us just to
remember to always study the Bible and interpret the Bible in its context. And please just continue
to open your word to us in these coming weeks. We love you in Jesus name we pray amen. Hear
hymnals and turn to hymn number 220. Jesus is all the world to me. Hymn number 220. Go ahead and
start there right on the first. Jesus is all the world to me.