This passage explores the theological concept of God's sovereignty in election and salvation, emphasizing humanity's limited understanding and the proper attitude of humility and reverence when questioning divine will.
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Well, as we continue our journey in Romans,
Romans,
we are right in the middle of chapter 9,
looking at verses 19- 29 today. So, if
you have your Bibles, please open them
there to Romans chapter 9 19
19
This passage is not unique in that it
contains another question that Paul [music]
[music]
asks, but it is unique in that
unlike the other instances in Romans
where Paul raises the questions
of his opponents, here he does not give
an answer.
Everywhere else the question is raised.
Paul answers the question. Often times
he answers the question then explains
his answer and then reiterates his
answer. Here the question is raised and
In fact, he answers the question with a question.
question.
And the question that he asks in return
Sometimes that is a very appropriate response
response
to certain kinds of questions.
Who do you think you are?
Join me in Romans chapter 9 beginning at
You will say to me then, why does he
For who can resist his will?
But who are you, oh man, or who do you
think you are, oh man, to answer back to
God? Will what is molded say to its
molder, "Why have you made me like
this?" Has the potter no right over the
clay to make out of the same lump one
vessel for honorable use and another for
dishonorable use? What if God, notice
that these are all questions? What if
God desiring to show his wrath and to
make known his power has endured with
much patience vessels of wrath prepared
for destruction in order to make known
the riches of his glory for vessels of
mercy which he has prepared beforehand
for glory even us whom he has called not
[music] from the Jews only but also from
the Gentiles.
as indeed he says in Hosea, those who
are not my people, I will call my
people. And her who has not believed uh
uh I'm sorry, her who was not beloved, I
will call beloved.
And [music] in the very place where it
was said to them, you are not my people,
there they will be called sons of the
living God.
And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel,
though the number of the sons of Israel
be as the sand of the sea, only a
remnant of them will be saved. For the
Lord will carry out his sentence upon
the earth fully and without delay. And
as Isaiah predicted, if the Lord of
hosts had not left us offspring, we
would have been like Sodom and become
Now, he has already answered the
question numerous times in Romans,
but here
he doesn't answer directly this question.
question.
A couple of things I'd like for us to
observe before we delve more deeply into
this passage. Listen to this observation
from Charles Hodgej in his commentary on Romans.
Romans.
There would be no room
either for this objection or for that
contained in the 14th verse if Paul had
merely said that God chooses those whom
he foresees would repent and believe or
that the ground of distinction was in
the different conduct of men. It is very
evident, therefore, that he taught no
such doctrine. How easy and obvious an
answer to the charge of injustice would
it have been to say God chooses one and
rejects another according to their
works. But teaching as he does the
sovereignty of God in the selection of
the subjects of his grace and of the
objects of his wrath, declaring as he
does so plainly that the destiny of men
is determined by his sovereign pleasure.
The objection, [music] how can he yet
find fault? Fault is plausible and natural.
Follow what Charles Hodgej is saying
here. There are people out there who
argue that the Apostle Paul teaches that
God elects people based on his fornowing
who will choose him. that he looks down
the corridor of time and determines who
is going to believe and who is not going
to believe and then elects people based
on that kind of fornowledge. If that's
what Paul was teaching, this question
and the question in verse 14 would never
and could never have been raised. But
the fact that these questions are being
raised of the Apostle Paul is evidence
of the fact that Paul teaches that God
is sovereign in election and it has
He has mercy on whom he will have mercy
doctrine of election and reprobation has
been clear here. Remember, reprobation
is the idea of God passing over some and
electing others. It is not as though God
has to make people sinful. Man is born
in sin.
Every human being on planet Earth born
with a sinful nature. Which by the way,
and we've said this before, and I'll
probably say it again, this is why the
virgin birth is not something that we
can give up on. Amen.
>> Because it is the virgin birth that
separates Christ from original sin. So
those out there who argue, well, it
doesn't really matter all of the
technical stuff as long as you just
believe in Jesus.
No. If you believe that Jesus was not
virgin born, then you believe that Jesus
had a sin nature. And if you believe
that Jesus had a sin nature, then you
must also believe that his death would
not be sufficient to cover the sins of
other sinners because he would have had
to pay for his own sin and therefore
The virgin birth matters.
doctrine matters.
And so man is born in sin. Man is shaped
in iniquity. And the doctrine of
reprobation is simply this.
God passes over some and elects others
for salvation. And our question ought
how dare God save some and not others. >> [snorts]
>> [snorts]
how could God
Why would God save [music] any of us?
But the reason we don't ask that
question is because we think too much of
ourselves. And that's right where Paul
goes. Who do you think you are? And the
answer is we think we're the center of
the universe.
Listen to this from James Montgomery
Boyce. He puts an even finer point on
the matter.
But now the wicked resourcefulness of
the human heart comes in. For if a
person cannot deny God's sovereignty
over human affairs and human destinies,
or even God's right to save some and
pass over others, as God does, the
person will at last try to deny his or
her own responsibility in the matter.
I if I can't get at this angle and
attack the sovereignty of God, if I
cannot attack God's right to pass over
some and to save others and I have to
acknowledge God's sovereignty, then the
next way for me to alleviate this
pressure that is upon me because I don't
want to acknowledge the sovereignty of
God. The next way for me to alleviate
that pressure is to question
God's justice and to question my own
responsibility or accountability for my sin.
And there in [music] lies this question
that Paul faces and that you and I will
face as we talk to people about the
doctrines of grace.
If you talk to people about the doctrine
of God's sovereign electing grace, this
[music] question is going to arise.
But here's the pressure that you feel
when the question arises. The question,
the pressure that you feel is to defend God.
If you can't say amen, you ought to say
ouch. Because people are basically
saying that God's a big meanie and he's
not fair. And we feel like we have to
defend God. So we go round and round and
round trying to defend God so that God
doesn't look to them as a big meaning.
Whereas Paul looks him square in the
face and says, "Who do you think you are?"
Oh, but I could never do that. Why?
Why?
Well, I could never do that because the
person wouldn't be satisfied
with that response.
And the Lord knows I live for the
Oh, I could never say that because if I
said that then the person might harden
their heart and God might not be able to
save them.
Let me see if I get this straight.
If you are pressing the point of God's
sovereign election and salvation and
somebody gets offended by you pressing
the point of God's sovereign election
and salvation, then you're afraid that
somehow God won't be able to sovereignly
Paul's response is important and he is
not merely trying to [music] be
offensive. Let's examine his response
more carefully.
His response is all about contrast. The
first contrast, you are man and not God.
News flash. Look with me if you will
there in verse 19. You will say to me
then, who can resist his will?
But who are you, oh man, to answer back
to God? Now, in the Greek, this is even
more poignant because in the Greek,
there is a definite article here. And
so, basically, he's saying, "Who are
you, man?" to answer back to not just
God, but the God.
You are a man. He is the God. There is
but one God and he's not you.
Who are you to answer back to God? Don't
move past that too quickly.
Because here's part of our problem with
sovereignty of God and election. Part of
our problem with the sovereignty of God
and election is that we think too much
of ourselves. I would say we think too
much of mankind, but that's really not
the case.
I don't think too much of mankind. I
I think more of myself than I do of
anyone else.
And it's really not a problem for me
that God has not explained himself to
you. It's a problem that he hasn't
explained himself to me.
The problem is I think too much of me
and I think God owes it to me to explain
himself at every step. And even beyond
that, I think God owes it to me to
explain to my satisfaction at every step
what it is that he does. And even beyond
that, I think God owes it to me to
explain to my satisfaction everything
that he does. AND IF I DON'T LIKE IT,
it's incumbent upon him to fix it so
That's what I think of me. And more
correctly, that's how little I think of God.
That's what you think of you.
And that's how little you think of God.
You know, our problem with the doctrine
of election is not that Romans 9 is unclear.
Our problem with the doctrine of election
election
is not that Romans 9 is somehow
confusing or cloudy.
The problem is it's not what you would do.
That's our problem. And that is why Paul
goes to the heart of the issue in asking
in essence, who do you think you are?
You are a man. He is the God of the
universe. There is a distance between
you that is unfathomable. He is
independent and unmade.
You are created.
God is immutable
and you are everchanging.
God is eternal and you are temporal.
God is omnipotent and you are frail and weak.
weak.
God is omnipresent.
You are finite.
God is holy and you are sinful and you
dare question God. Who do you think you are?
The psalmist writes in Psalm 115:3,
"Our God is in the heavens. He does all
Again, Psalm 135:6,
"Whatever the Lord pleases, he does in
heaven and on earth, in the seas and all
the deeps."
So again, who do you think you are? You
you don't you don't even like this. Some
of you are uncomfortable cuz I keep
asking you that question
because you just think that that's just
not the way
that someone ought to respond.
You just think that maybe it's not
pastoral. Maybe it's not godly to get in
someone's face and say, "Who do you
The only way that that's not godly is if
it's not something that God himself
would condone
or if it's not something that God
himself would do.
Go to Job 38 with me for a moment, please.
Job's had some difficulties, shall we
say, in his life.
He and his friends are trying to figure
things out theologically.
Job comes to a place where he forgets himself,
himself,
questions God.
And in Job 38, not only in Job 38, but
in Job 38, God begins to respond.
Let's listen to how this loving God
responds to being challenged and
questioned by finite man.
Then the Lord answered Job out of the
whirlwind and said, "Who is this that
darkens counsel by words without
knowledge? Dress for action like a man.
I will question you and you make it
known to me. Where were you when I laid
the foundation of the earth? Tell me if
you have understanding."
Who determined its measurements? Surely
you know. Or who stretched the line upon
it? On what were its bases sunk? Or who
laid its cornerstone when the morning
stars sang together and all the sons of
God shouted for joy? Or who shut in the
sea with doors when it burst out from
the womb? When it made clouds its
garment, and fit darkness its swaddling
band, and prescribed limits for it, and
set bars and doors, and said, "Thus far
shall you come, and no further, and here
shall your proud waves be stayed?" Have
you commanded the morning since your
days began, and caused the dawn to know
its place, that it might take hold of
the skirts of the earth, and the wicked
be shaken out of it?
It is changed like clay under the sea,
[music] and its features stand out like
a garment. From the wicked, their light
is withheld, and their uplifted arm is broken.
broken.
Have you entered into the springs of the
sea and walked in the recesses of the
deep? Have the gates of death been
revealed to you?
Or have you seen the gates of deep
darkness? Have you comprehended the
expanse of the earth? Declare if you
And he [music] continues and continues
and continues and continues. And in
essence, he looks Job in the face and
I'm God." I answered to no one.
And if this answer bothers you,
hear me when I say, "You think too much
of yourself."
If this answer bothers you, hear me when
I say you do not reverence and worship
the God of the universe the way you
ought to. If this answer does not
suffice for you, be afraid. Be very afraid
afraid
because you dare [music] challenge the
God of the universe and he will not
share his glory with another. And he
will not have
his decrees challenged by those who
borrow the very breath that they use to
That's his first response. Secondly, you
are creature
not creator.
You are creature not creator. Look as he
continues in Romans nine.
Will what is molded say to the molder?
Why have you made me like this? Will
what is molded say to the molder? Why
have you made me like this?
God created you. You did not create God.
God is not a figment of your imagination.
imagination.
God is the one who created the world and
he's the one who created you.
So, first of all, he's God and you're
not. Secondly, he created you and not
the other way around. Think about this
before you go questioning God. Think
about this before you lay charge against
God because something doesn't agree with
you or doesn't sit right with you. God
created you.
That means first that you exist for
God's purposes.
You exist for God's purposes.
You do not exist at your own pleasure.
You do not exist for your own purposes.
Nor do you get to determine the purpose
for which you exist. God has determined
the purpose for which you exist. And the
shorthand answer is the purpose for
which you exist is the glory of God.
however he chooses to glorify himself in
Therefore, you owe God worship and obedience.
obedience.
You owe God worship and obedience.
Nothing else makes sense
from the perspective of the creature
toward the creator. But is this not the
problem that Paul identifies in Romans
chapter 1? Look with me at Romans
For the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men who by their
unrighteousness suppress the truth. For
what can be known about God is plain to
them because God has shown it to them.
For his invisible attributes, namely his
eternal power and divine nature, have
been clearly perceived ever since the
creation of the world in the things that
have been made. So they are without
excuse. For although they knew God, they
did not honor him as God or give thanks
to him. But they became feudal in their
thinking, and their foolish hearts were
darkened. Claiming to be wise, they
became fools and exchanged the glory of
the immortal God for images resembling
mortal man and birds and animals and
creeping things. They worshiped the
creature rather than the creator. But
note his statement. Claiming to be wise,
I don't like the sovereignty of God. My
wisdom as a finite created being is not
satisfied with the way that God has
decided to save some and not save
others. Therefore, in my finite created
state, I will come before God Almighty
because I deem myself to be wise and I
will demand that he answer to me. You fool.
thinking yourself to be wise. You have
become the epitome of a fool.
God is the creator of the universe.
Bow down before him. Worship him. That
is what he deserves. That is what you
owe to him. Obey him because he made
you. You exist for his purposes.
Worship God.
Obey God.
Don't question God. If you do have
questions for God, they had better be
questions that are designed for you to
be better equipped to worship God the
way he deserves to be worshiped.
Questions like, "What would you have me
to do, God?
How would you have me to worship you, oh God?
How may I know you better, God?" Those
are our questions,
not here I am, God, explain yourself to
me so that I can determine whether or
not you are worthy of my worship and obedience.
obedience.
That's the wrong answer.
Salvation is a gift,
not a reward.
It's a gift, not a reward.
You question God because you think he
owes you your salvation. Salvation is a gift.
gift.
You did not earn it. If Paul has said
anything up to this point in the book of
Romans, he has said that again and again
You are fallen. You are broken. You are
sinful. You are alienated from God.
And God has saved you. God has adopted
you. God has called you his own. God has
wrapped his saving and loving arms
around you. And he has pulled you to
himself and you have the audacity
It's the height of ingratitude. Listen
Listen
to the attitude of Nebuchadnezzar
in Daniel chapter 4. What just one of
just next to Romans chapter 9. If you
just want to bathe
in in election and predestination, just
read Daniel chapter 4 and the salvation
God calls his shot long before he takes
it. Here's what I'm going to do to you
and then here's what's going to happen
afterwards. Here's how long it's going
Verses 34 and 35. At the end of the
days, what a statement. Which days? The
days that God through Daniel told
Nebuchadnezzar he was going to
experience seven years. He going to live
as a wild beast. And he did. At the end
of the days, I Nebuchadnezzar lifted my
eyes to heaven and my reason returned to
me. Notice what he My reason returned to
me. You think you're so smart? I'll take
your mind from you. Do you know who I am?
I'll take your reason, which is finite
to begin with, for seven years.
Then I give you your thinking back and
My reason returned to me and I blessed
the most high and praised and honored
him who lives forever. For his dominion
is an everlasting dominion. His kingdom
endures from generation to generation.
All the inhabitants of the earth are
accounted as nothing. And he does
according to his will among the host of
heavens and among the inhabitants of the
earth. And none can say his hand or say
I'm not saying that it's wrong to ask questions,
questions,
but what kind of question are you
asking? And what is your motivation? Thirdly,
Thirdly,
you're the clay
and not the potter.
Paul points out that you're the clay and
not the potter.
he says, "Has the potter no right over
the clay to make out of the same lump
one vessel for honorable use and another
for dishonorable use?"
This is not just a great illustration,
but this would have been a familiar illustration.
illustration.
Isaiah 29 15- 16. Ah, you who hide,
excuse me, you who hide deep from the
Lord, your counsel, whose deeds are in
the dark, and who say, "Who sees us? Who
knows us?"
You turn things upside down. Shall the
potter be regarded as the clay? That the
thing made should say to its maker, "He
did not make me." or the thing formed.
Say to him who formed it, he has no understanding.
Again, Isaiah 64:8, "But now, oh Lord,
you our father, we are the clay and you
are our potter. We are all the work of
your hands." And again in Jeremiah 18:3-6.
18:3-6.
So I went down to the potter's house,
and there he was working at his wheel,
and the vessel he was making of clay was
spoiled in the potter's hand. And he
reworked it into another vessel, as it
seemed good to the potter to do. Then
the word of the Lord came to me, "Oh
house of Israel, [music] can I not do
with you as this potter has done?"
declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay
in the potter's hand, so are you in my
God is the potter
and we are the clay. This goes beyond
just God has created you.
you.
This is God can continue to shape and
mold you like the potter can continue to
shape and mold the clay. Our attitude
toward God is not God made me and then
he gave me my life so that I could do
with it as I please. No, the idea here
is that God not only made you, he is
You not only exist because of God, you
You not only came into being
because of God. You continue being
because of God.
This is the God whom we serve. He is the
potter and we are the clay.
He draws these distinctions.
Here's what we take from it.
Your knowledge is limited to what God
has revealed.
Your knowledge is limited to what God
Know that. [music]
Be aware of that. That that helps keeps
us in our place.
Do you know and understand everything
that God has done? No, you don't.
Your knowledge is limited to what God
has revealed. And even you can even put
a finer point than that. Your knowledge
is limited to your ability to comprehend
what God has revealed. Amen. You don't
even understand all of God's revelation.
In fact, you prove that to yourself.
Anyone who has read and reread any
portion of the Bible has already proven
this to himself. [music] You read the
Bible and then you come back and you
read it again and what happens? You see
things that you didn't see the first time.
time.
And guess what will happen next year if
you read it again? You'll see things
that you didn't see this time. And
what's that going to remind you of? You
do not have complete knowledge even of
Your knowledge is limited to what God
has revealed to to your ability to
comprehend what God has revealed which
is finite number one and secondly
dependent upon the illumination of the
Holy Spirit.
It is THE SPIRIT OF GOD THAT BRINGS
GOD'S truth to your mind.
That is why lost people can read this
same Bible and miss God altogether.
It is THE GRACE OF GOD that allows you
to understand. So before you g up your
loins and stand before God and shake
your finger in his face because you
don't understand him, remember you don't
and knowledge is limited.
Listen to this. Arthur Pink in the
sovereignty of God
that this branch of the subject of God's
sovereignty is profoundly mysterious. We
freely allow. Yet that is no reason why
we should reject it. The trouble is that
nowadays there are so many who receive
the testimony of God only so far as they
can satisfactorily account for all the
reasons and grounds of his conduct.
which means they will accept nothing but
that which can be measured in the petty
I'm only
going to allow of God
that which I and my finite mind can
comprehend. And if God dares go beyond
my finite mind,
he must answer [music] to me.
Here's what Paul does.
He makes this point and then he he
illustrates this point.
First of all, if you go back to Romans
chapter 9:es 3-5, what you see is
[music] Paul gives us a brief salvation
For I could wish that I myself were
accursed and cut off from Christ for the
sake of my brothers, my kinsmen,
according to the flesh. Look at verse
four. They are Israelites, and to them
belong the adoption, the glory, the
covenants, the giving of the law, the
worship, and the promises. To them
belong the patriarchs, and from their
race according to the flesh is the
Christ, who is God overall, blessed
forever. Amen. Paul just gave a brief
synopsis of salvation history. Don't
don't don't miss that. Okay, that is
just a brief synopsis of the history of
Israel, of salvation history.
It's great that they have salvation
history. Now Paul goes on in Romans
chapter 9 to explain what should have
been caught through salvation history
and that is God's sovereignty and
election. First in verses 10 through13
he goes through the patriarchs.
Now that would be found in Genesis. So
the story of Jacob and Esau is in
Genesis. So he uses the patriarchs
in Genesis in order to explain the
doctrine of election. You should have
understood the doctrine of election
because you know Genesis. Well then in
verses 17- 18 he points to Pharaoh whom
we find where in Exodus. So he says you
should have known the doctrine of
election and salvation and sovereignty
of God in salvation through not only
Genesis but also through Exodus. Now in
Romans 9:24-27,
he points to the words of Hosea and to
the words of Isaiah. So now he says not
Paul's making an argument
for the doctrine of election and predestination.
predestination.
And first he says salvation history of
Israel ought to demonstrate that to you.
Then he says Genesis
and the patriarchs
ought to have proven that for you. Then
he says Exodus
and Pharaoh and the crossing of the Red
Sea should have demonstrated that for
you. And then he says also the clear
teaching of the prophets should have
demonstrated that for you.
In other words,
Paul doesn't answer the question.
He merely points to the fact that the
Here's the beauty, and this is why it's
doubly sad for us. Paul says, "You
should have known because you read your
Old Testament."
These people didn't have a New
Testament. Now you and I come in, we
have the Old Testament and the New
Testament, and we still can't figure
this thing out because we think too much
You see, it's been said that, you know,
in the Old Testament is like a dark room
filled with furniture.
In the New Testament, the furniture
doesn't move. The lights just come on. Amen.
Amen.
And Paul is saying to the people who had
nothing but the dark room and all the
furniture, you should have been able to
figure this out.
And yet you and I who have all the
lights on are still trying to figure out
Not because we don't see the sofa,
but because we'd like for it to be
And so he goes to these Old Testament passages.
passages.
This statement here in Hosea, those who
were not my people, I will call my
people. And her who was not beloved, I
will call beloved. Isn't that great?
Paul says
you you should have understood and not
been surprised that God brought in Gentiles.
Very place where it was said to them,
"You are not my people, there they will
be called sons of the living God."
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel.
Though the number of the sons of Israel
be as the sand of the sea, only a
remnant of them will be saved. By the
way, what is he going back to? his
argument earlier on in chapter nine. His
whole argument in chapter nine, people
are saying, "Has God forgotten Israel?"
Isaiah says there's only going to be a
remnant of national Israel who's going
to be saved. Where have you been?
Not everyone who is born of this stock
is going TO BE SAVED. GOD has made that
clear. God has also made it clear that
there's some outsiders who are going to
This is not a new teaching. This is not
a new message. This is the message of
redemptive history. It's not hidden. Therefore,
Therefore,
your best and only hope is to repent and
believe what God has revealed.
That's your best and only hope,
to repent and [clears throat] believe
Yeah. Yeah. But I don't understand this. Okay.
Are you trusting what you do understand?
Are you obeying what you do understand?
Have you done that?
Have you?
Or are you so caught up
with the finer technicalities
that that which is obvious and before
Are you so caught up
with the hows and where tosses of
election and predestination that your
ears have been doled to repent and believe?
believe?
Is that the case?
Are you so worried about whether or not
God has overstepped his bounds
that you are no longer fearful before
that you miss the neon sign that says
Do you realize who it is that you're
Do you realize that this one whom you
question is not only sustaining you, but
[music] that he's coming again to judge
the living and the dead, and that there
When he shows up with fire in his eyes
and a sword on his thigh,
And if you have not done business with
him by then, you will merely beg
for time that no longer exists for you
and for a chance that has passed for you
because you did not bow the knee when
the opportunity was yours. [music]
Instead, you questioned God because your
finite mind didn't like or understand
some minor aspect of how he chose to
[music] save his people. Who do you
Am I saying there's no place for
questions? No, it's not what I'm saying.
Look, Paul's not saying that either
either. He's answered question after
question after question. He has
explained the doctrine. But at this
point, he gets to the heart not of the
What I'm saying to you today,
cuz we've answered this again and again
and again. We've answered this. What I'm
saying to you today is, do you keep
asking questions because you can't
understand that you are a sinner in need
of a savior and that you desperately
need to bow the knee and repent? Or are
you asking questions because you wonder
whether or not this God who saved you is
Do you have a question?
Because you desire to worship God in the
fullness of his majesty and know him more.
Do you have a question?
because you think
Or do you have a question because you're arrogant?
Which one is it?
Are you one of those people who just
likes to sit up and ask theological
questions cuz you like the sound of your
Or are you a worshshiper of the one true
and living God who is in passionate
pursuit of the one whom you love and
whom you serve and you want to love him
more deeply and serve him
more passionately?
Which one is it?
Do you recognize that he is God and you
are man? Do you recognize that he's
creator [music] and you're creature? Do
you recognize that he is potter and you
Are your questions born out of that recognition?
recognition?
I don't know about you,
I don't want God coming to me like he
My desire is to always come before God
with a bowed head and a humble heart,
recognizing who he is and the reverence
and the honor that is due to him that is
owed to him. bowing before God and
recognizing that he killed his son
That changes what you ask God.
And it changes the way you ask God. [clears throat]
You come before God in humility saying,
"God, I don't understand how the
spotless, sinless lamb of God can be
crucified for my sin. I do not
comprehend how you can love me and save
me and redeem me and receive me as your
own. I do not understand how you can
forsake your only and eternally begotten
son merely so that you can call me your
son. I don't understand that. explain
[music] Or do you stand before God
whose hands, figuratively speaking, are
red with the blood of his own son, who
he has crushed and killed for you, and
dare ask him to explain why some are
saved and others are not.
How dare you?
Who do you think God is?
Do you not know that our God is a
Do you not know that your righteousness
Do you not know that it was his mercy
that woke you up this morning because
his justice would have demanded your
Not saying you can't ask questions.
Just don't forget your place in the process.
process.
And if you are here today and you have
never bowed the knee to this great God
and yet you think one day you will face
him on your own merit. I ask again, who
Yes, his son had to be crushed and
killed for others, but you have enough
merit in yourself to stand before him. No,
No,
run to Christ.
Run to him. Plead for mercy. Beg for
forgiveness. Turn from your sin. Stop
trusting yourself. Trust only in God.
and come with a heart that is all at the
same time terrified of the one to whom
you are running but recognizing that he
is your only hope. So you press on
Just come to him
not in arrogance
[music] but in humility.
Heat. Heat. [music]
Heat. Heat.
Heat. [music]
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