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this morning we'll be looking at verses 6 through 13 but we will be overlapping with the verses that we've looked at last week the beginning of the chapter going to read though the section from verse 6 to verse
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13 but it is not as though the word of God has God has failed for they are not all Israel who are from are from Israel neither are they all children because they are Abraham's seed
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but through Isaac your seed will be named oh that is it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God but the children of the promise are regarded
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as seed for this is a Word of Promise at this time I will come and Sarah shall have a son and not only this but there
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was Rebecca also when she had conceived twins by one man Our Father Isaac for though the twin Twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad in
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order that God's purpose according to election might stand not because of works but because of him who calls it was said to her the older will
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serve the younger just that is as it is written Jacob I loved but Esau I hated let us pray father we do ask your guidance
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through this difficult section of scripture and that you would help us to understand both what is written and how it applies
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to ourselves to our lives and to our position in Christ we pray that you would open your word to us and give us light for we ask in Jesus name
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amen I want to begin by highlighting again the emotion with which Paul writes this section um I mentioned last week that the only other place that he exhibits
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this kind of emotion is in Galatians when at one point he is at Pains of childbirth that Christ performed in the galatian congregation once again and at
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another point in dealing with the judaizers who would have the Galatians be circumcised he almost cries out I wish they would mutilate themselves generally speaking Paul is a
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reserved writer and doesn't give in to a lot of emotion and yet here several times in these three chapters he he shows us his heart he says in the first
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two verses I am telling the truth in Christ I am not lying my conscient bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit there must be something
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there that is making Paul essentially take a vow an oath to confirm that what he is saying what he is feeling and what he's displaying
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is real sincere and deep he's calling Christ and the Holy Spirit to witness that I that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in
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my heart then in chapter 10 he says Brethren my heart's desire and my prayer to God for their is for them is for their salvation
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their salvation this Earnest desire that Paul has for the Salvation of Israel I would submit is not merely because of his standing as an Israelite
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not merely because of his identifying with his ethnic brothers and sisters his compan his countrymen according to the flesh but it actually goes deeper than
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that and yet this Earnest desire for the Salvation of those who are closest to us of our children our siblings or our
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parents often leads to very deep emotion grief and grief and sorrow but it can also lead to
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error it can lead to lowering the bar of the Gospel in order that our loved ones might be able to jump over it kind of an
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Evangelistic twit race for those of you who are familiar with that does Paul lower the bar even though he is deeply distressed
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over the unbelief of his countrymen does he lower the bar so that they might get in no he would say may it never
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be it's very understandable that we should desire the salvation of our children it's understandable that we should pray earnestly for the Salvation
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but can these emotions get out of hand can they get the better of
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us there are ways that we have modified the offense of the Gospel to make it less offensive to try to sugarcoat it I remember when I was in college the
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popular I don't know if it's still popular but the popular Evangelistic method of friendship evangelism was all the rage and all of the Christian books were talking about
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how you you need to befriend the unbeliever and and then you know by befriending them then you you get an opportunity to share the gospels always share the gospel a phrase that the
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apostles don't use but you're going to share the gospel um with your friend the problem with that is I think fairly obvious first of all it is a bait and
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switch is it not it's kind of like uh selling jaffra or Avon or something I mean do you really want to be my friend or do you want to become my friend so
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that I'll then buy your product well that that's bad enough the bait and switch but there's a deeper problem and that is once you've established that friendship why do you want to jeopardize it by bringing the gospel
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in you better all bring it in at the front right front right blow up the Friendship many of us when we became Believers in an older age I was a teenager but I had some good
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friends at the time to a one I lost them they were already friends I haven't made many
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since but that's kind of a comfortable position because I can't lose them talking with Angela in our hike yesterday about this idea of keeping the lines of communication open you've heard
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that you know you've heard that from parents for example whose children are not living according to the way they were raised and their lives are actually offensive to the Lord that you claim to
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serve but you don't say anything your child is going to marry an unbeliever you don't say anything why because you want to keep the lines of communication open but you're not saying
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anything across those lines nothing but a dial tone for those of you who remember who remember that what's the point of keeping the
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lines of communication open if you're not going to say anything and why don't you say anything because you got to keep the lines of communication open you you see the fallacy we're
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lowering the bar we earnestly desire that these people would walk with the Lord or become Believers but what we're doing is actually keeping them from the
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truth truth because we don't want to offend them or we don't want to lose their love because they mean more to us than the glory of our Lord Jesus
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Christ well here's Paul in a similar situation deeply grieved full of Sorrow because of the unbelief of his Brethren and yet he does not lower the
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bar of the Gospel so as to let in his Brethren according to the Flesh in chapter 10 again verse two he says for I bear them witness that they have a Zeal
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for God but not in accordance with knowledge for not knowing about God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own they did not subject
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themselves to the righteousness of God well the righteousness of God as he will go on to say is Jesus Christ he is the end of the law for all who believe you see Paul did not lower
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the bar just to somehow work it so that the Jews could get in they were out because of their unbelief and this wasn't the first time
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that this has happened and I think Paul steeped as he was in both the scriptures and the heritage of Israel saw himself standing in a place
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that another great man of Israel once stood Moses you remember the incident of the golden calf while Moses was up on Mount Si receiving the law the people people
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rebelled against Yahweh and they coerced Moses's brother Aaron to make a golden calf that they might worship Yahweh the God who brought them out of Egypt when
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Moses went down he was Furious but he wasn't as mad as God was and Israel's
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unbelief was a deep deep sorrow for Moses and yet when it came to God's judgment what did Moses do he said then Moses returned to
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the Lord and said alas this people has committed a great sin and have made a god of gold for themselves but now if
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thou W Wilt forgive their sins now listen to this and if not please blot me out from thy book which thou Hast written doesn't that not sound like what
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Paul says I would that I myself were a cursed and cut off from Christ for the Salvation of my countrymen according to
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the flesh that kind of deep emotion was not simply because he liked everyone in Israel I don't think Paul was that type
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of guy he strikes me as a bit prickly but because the promises of God to Israel were the foundation of the gospel and the Redemption of the
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world and if God's promises should fail in Israel then God's faithfulness would ultimately be false which means Paul's
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gospel would be Hollow and meaningless that has been the problem throughout the ages is it's the problem that we we read in Amos as we're looking
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at in Sunday school the prophets dealt with this same sorrow in dealing with the unbelief Amos also intercedes for the people and says God please stop
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these are your people God tells Moses I'm going to destroy these people and raise up another people from you well Moses has already been told the
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history of creation and the history of Abraham's family and the history of Israel and he knows full well that he's not from Judah but from
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Levi and therefore if God were to destroy all of the other Israelite tribes and raise up someone there would be no King the scepter would depart and there would be no righteous ruler and no
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Messiah and though that is the root of the sorrow of Moses and I would submit to you it's the root of the sorrow of Paul if the promises of God ultimately fail of Israel then God will be found
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ultimately Unfaithful and that's really the issue here not Israel itself not the end times not the dispensations not the Millennium
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but whether God is faithful and how is that faithfulness manifested in his word and so he says it's not as if the word of God has failed is it may it
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never be and he's now going to tell us what this is all about about now I mentioned last week that he he begins this back in chapter 3 and then stops moves on to
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other things because in chapter 3 his goal is to bring all mankind under the indictment of sin both Jew and Gentile and he does that very thoroughly but he
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starts that chapter out by asking what advantage then is there to the Jew I mean really if if they can un unbelieve and be cast out then what
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advantage was there and there he says great in every respect listen to what he starts with because he doesn't go on in chapter 3 he says first of all they were
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entrusted with the Oracles of God there you have the ultimate responsibility of God's people we have been entrusted with the
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word of word of God that is the manifestation of his will that is the revelation of his son and that is the greatest as I said
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responsibility that we can have well he picks it up here in chapter nine and he says of the Israelites to whom belong the adoption as sons and the glory and
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the covenants and the giving of the law and the temple service and the promises whose are the fathers and from whom is the Christ according to the
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flesh how can such advantage such great blessings fail of fruition how can a people who have been so incredibly blessed by God the god of
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universe unique among all the nations they receive the grace they receed the law they receed the Christ and yet they reject it he came unto his own and his own knew him not how can
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these things be well that's what Paul's going to teach us but it's a lesson that we've seen in life itself and that is
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great Advantage increases Advantage increases responsibility but does not guarantee success I mean history is replete with stories of the children of wealthy
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people squandering that wealth and wasting their lives history is replete of people who have an excellent education and never use it for anyone's
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profit see we have all been given great advantages those of us who were born in a Christian home and I'm not among
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those but those who are born in a Christian home perhaps you don't understand the advantages that you have or maybe you do understand the advantages that you
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have but maybe you put too much faith in those advantages and like the Jews think that those advantages will inevitably lead to
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your salvation advantages do not lead directly to Salvation Israel is a a longstanding living proof of that principle great advantages bring great
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responsibility and also great judgment to whom much is given much is required but nothing is guaranteed but the will
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of God that's a hard lesson but what I want to try to say today is personally and pastorally a hard lesson
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our natural genetics the Providence of our birth May indeed bring great advantages we often think ourselves in this country especially especially in the last few Generations we think
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ourselves lacking that our our liberties are in danger that we're not getting what we deserve and much of the rest of world thinks we're a bunch of crying
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nines because we are there's never been a nation in this world's history that has been to Greater Advantage than the United
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States but as with all other peoples and the advantages they gained and had we have squandered them as well and so we have great advantages especially those of us who are in the
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church but you see our modern world is trying to take that away from us so that we don't recognize that we have those advantages for example there's a a whole branch of study within genetics that is
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now saying that there is a God Gene that there is a chromosome I'm not going to say this right Martha please forgive me but there there's a part of our DNA that some have and some
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don't and they use the example of how twins who are separated at Birth Le lead often times parallel lives because they have a similar
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genetic code and and if that code happens to have that God Gene then you are predisposed to believe in God but if it does it does then you're not you see we've we've made
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it scientific or of course there's the providential we would say providential reality of you being born in a Christian home or being born in a Muslim nation
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and so modern liberal science says you know it's not really anything that God does it's your culture it's the way you were brought up okay no those are the advantages that God has graciously given
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those who are born in a Christian home and the responsibilities placed upon the parents but also upon the children the
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parents to use those advantages advantages correctly the children not to despise them despise them or to misuse
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them or perhaps even worse to think that somehow those advantages guarantee your place in God's Book of Life they Life they don't and so we have a lot that's going
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on around on around us and we reject that and we we tend to circle the wagons in the church and in our families and not allow our our
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children to have any any exposure to the world because that might be of danger to them but there's a danger that we are actually committing and that is that we
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are we are programiz their salvation and don't even realize it we are just as capable of the Jews of creating for ourselves and for our
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children a righteousness that is not the righteousness of righteousness of God and I think that this is the message of what Paul is saying about the Israelites they have the word of
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God and they have the great advantages of their of their Heritage and yet they find themselves in unbelief the temptation to programiz our
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children's salvation children's salvation runs contrary to taking proper advantages advantage of the advantages that we've been given but not presume upon those
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advantages Paul speaks to Timothy about that greatest of Advantage he says in second Timothy chapter 3 from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you the wisdom that
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leads to Salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus but remember not all Israel is
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Israel that's a tough message because as we'll see Israel thought itself to be especially the children of God they had the adoption as Sons how could that fail
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well Paul of course is in this section he's going to talk about how those natural branches of the Olive Tree were cut off which is really just an echo of what Jesus says in ch in John where he
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says I am the vine and those branches that do not bear fruit will be cut off and thrown into the fire Paul actually gives hope for
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those branches being grafted back in which by God's grace is possible but many will be gathered up and cast into the fire in spite of all the advantages
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that God had given them their judgment will actually be greater because of those advantages
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here's where it gets tough I want to say something personal uh and something that at least for one of us you may not realize this but neither neither Mark nor I enjoy
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I enjoy conflict um neither of us are are settled in settled in it both of us lose sleep over it it it is unsettling because I I don't
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we we were not raised well I'll speak to myself I was raised in an in an environment of continual conflict and so I hate
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it and so I hate I'd like to keep the lines of communication open but there are times that that line if I am faithful as a steward I have to
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say something over that line that is hard to hear and may cause the person on the other side on the other end to hang up I may have already done
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that but it was totally unintentional our efforts will not guarantee our children's salvation we all know that we we understand that our
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Salvation we're not we're not baptizing our children because we do not believe that there is any magic in baptism that will somehow guarantee the salvation of our infants we know that they must come
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to the day of decision on their own and so we know that our efforts will not guarantee our children's salvation but I would say that our Zeal may even hinder
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them you've all heard the phrase Covenant children when I was in seminary I went to a Reformed Presbyterian Seminary as a Baptist
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and I was the at the time the only Baptist there I was the token Baptist and they were very kind to me but they would say that Baptists deny
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their children the blessings of the Covenant because they do not baptize them into the Covenant Community now I think that is a very
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false and dangerous practice and we do not accept the concept of Covenant children through baptism as a replacement of
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circumcision but do we substitute something else instead of baptism I want to I want you to help or follow Paul's logic here as he's going through the family of Abraham because
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what he's saying here his Jewish audience would largely have agreed with him he's not saying anything controversial yet except when he says not all Israel is Israel but even that
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was not very controversial as I'm going to show you in a moment among the rabbis but it all starts with Abraham okay and and that's where it starts with the Jews and so they're like
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amen Paul preach it okay Abraham and Sarah right right and it was the purpose of God to give a promised son and the Jews were all adamant that it had that
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Ishmael had no part in the blessings of God God to Israel that it was through Isaac okay preach it preach it amen but he throws in this this phrase
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the purpose of God according to election and he begins to divide the children of Abraham according to God's election the
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first one the first division again the Jews would agree with this and yeah Ishmael was the child of a concubine of a maid servant not of the matriarch
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Sarah and so clearly the first separation we're all good with it all goes with Isaac because he's the true born son Paul says no that's not the point because he was no more a son of
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Abraham than Ishmael was and if you read that narrative in Genesis God knows that too and He blesses Ishmael Abraham knew it and he
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cries out to the Lord oh that Ishmael might live for you and God says Nope and yet he did not abandon Ishmael because Ishmael was just as much a son
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of Abraham as Isaac was then he goes to the second division the second manifestation of election and this one this one again has been
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perverted both by Jews and Christians these are both legitimate sons of their father Isaac their twins in the womb
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and so there there's nothing by which we can say there there's the reason that God made a distinction between or the other one or the other in fact Paul makes it clear while there they had yet
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done nothing either good or bad he said the older will serve the younger that Esau would be the servant of Jacob that the Covenant would go
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through the lineage of Jacob and not through Esau we tend to think of Esau as some bastard child we we go to the passage where it says Esau Esau wanted you know he sold his
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Birthright for a bowl of pottage we see that he was unable to repent though he SED with tears the blessing from his father Isaac and and so we get down on
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Esau and we think that yeah he's kind of comparable to Ishmael no no he was not only the absolute same son of Isaac and of Rebecca he was the oldest he was the
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first out of the womb and then when we look at the life of Jacob there wasn't a whole lot to commend him was there his name means deceiver and he manifested
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his name throughout his life but it was the purpose of God through election that is at the heart of this and that is the heart of what Paul is getting at here in
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this chapter this idea that somehow your children are in because you're in or something you can do to programiz their
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righteousness will guarantee their salvation is no different than Judaism in the time of Paul after that time a rabbi by the name
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of Rabbi Levi says this he says in the future Abraham will sit at the entrance of gehenna and will not allow any uncircumcised person of Israel to
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descend into it it's like their St Peter okay the Jews have their own St Peter only it's St Abraham okay and he say sit at their pearly gates and he checks you
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out and if well the man anyhow and if you're circumcised you you do not descend into gehenna you do not descend into the abyss in other words you're saved but see the Jews also knew that
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not all Israel was Israel because the history is replete with those who perished in the wilderness those who did not receive the blessings of God because of their unbelief because of their
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Rebellion but those who sinned greatly what does he do to them well this is what Abraham does and this is what the imagination of false teaching also does
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he removes the foreskin from babies who died before they were circumcised and he places upon the unbelieving or rep or rebellious Jew and he sends them to
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gehenna what's this idea well the idea the fundamental idea is if you're circumcised you cannot go into the abyss that there's some physical trait that marks you out as God's people infallibly
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and indelibly that has transferred of course into presbyterianism into circumcisions replacement according to their theology
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baptism what this Rabbi says however is not all that different than what Paul has written in Chapter 2 of Romans where he says that if if you disbelieve if you rebel against God you Jew you circumcised one is not your unbelief un
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circumcision to circumcision to you isn't it as if your foreskin has been put been put back because the foreskin of your heart has not been removed he says and if the
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Gentile who is uncircumcised In the Flesh yet obeys the law of God will it not be as circumcision to them and he goes on to say because what matters is not the cutting of the
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flesh but the circumcision that is made without hands so what matters is not the physical descent that our children have from us
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any more than it was the physical Descent of the Israelites from Abraham even less so perhaps because we have been grafted in we can't even claim
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natural physical descent from Abraham Paul says in Galatians 5 for in Christ neither circumcision nor un uncircumcision means anything but faith
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Faith working through love there it is we know theologically that our children must come to Faith in Jesus
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Christ and that there's nothing that we can do to do it for them but I will say to you that there are things we can do to make it harder
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for them and this is not something I haven't said before and I hope it's something that I don't have to say
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again but it was pointed out to me recently that Baptists do the same thing as Presbyterians and that is we substitute something for circumcision we substitute something in our in our family and the way we're
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raising our raising our children in order to in in in our minds predispose them to Faith and I'm saying that it might stand in the
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way there is no magic in the music there is no magic in the prayer in the reading of the
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word or even the sermon if there is no understanding in the
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recipient we've said this before but to expose those who cannot handle even milk to meet is to endanger choking
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them to expose children who are not of the age of understanding to the preaching of the word you are in danger of inoculating
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them and bringing about the contempt that comes from familiarity you would not want to do that and I do not want to see you do
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but Ezra was right when he had the Levites read the law to men and women and all could hear with understanding because there is no magic
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it and there is no guarantee that simply hearing it will bring about the Regeneration of heart that we so earnestly desire but we can create a false righteousness no less than the Jews did
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and in that false righteousness we can inoculate and Harden our children's heart to the gospel that we so desire them to them to accept because they've heard it so many
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times it becomes simply background noise now maybe I'm talking as an as an oldster I don't feel old but I know that
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I am old enough to be many of your Granda old enough to be some of your great-grandfather and I was not raised the way families raise their
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children today and I rejoice in the way fathers and mothers take part in their children's lives which was not something that I that I experienced in my experience children to
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be seen and not heard and preferably not seen But I do know from scripture I believe
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and from experience that you can indeed breed contempt of the Gospel in your children which is the last thing you
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want to want to do and so I would say again as pastorally as I can don't don't think that there is any magic in anything we do up here if it is
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not met with understanding if it is not met with comprehension and I mean the comprehension of the words being said then it is of no salvific value there is
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not some foreign power that invades your child's heart without any understanding of what's going on when the when the people of uh the day of Pentecost said
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what must we do Peter said repent and believe when Paul says in Romans 7 I once was alive apart from the law and
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then the law came in sin came to life and I died that indicates a time at life when he became aware of the commandment and of his
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being on the wrong side of it we call it maybe the age of accountability but it does exist and and you may think that is of
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no harm and there is that teaching now that you can begin exposing your child to to Mozart and whatever bethoven while they're still in the womb and and you know if you read to them from Plato and
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AR you know huh what what are you that that is not biblical when when we we're born we grow as Jesus did grow in knowledge we're not
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born with it and it doesn't come by osmosis it doesn't come by simply being in the in the presence of the people of God so take prayerful consideration of
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what Paul is saying here about the advantages that Israel had and think and thank God for the advantages that your children have with believing parents
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they are great in every respect most of all you have the word of God but be sober and understand that that Advantage did not guarantee the
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salvation of Israel and in fact their own treatment of those advantages when they set up for themselves a righteousness that was not the righteousness of God hindered them when
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the righteousness of God came into their life and they responded with unbelief and that is not what you want for your for your children so be
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careful it should be that our heart's desire and prayer to God is that our children be saved but God's glory was more important to Paul than even the salvation of
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Israel and Jesus said that if we love any father mother sister brother children if we love any more than him we are not worthy to be his disciples so on the one hand we have to
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accept the harsh reality that not all Israel is Israel is Israel we have to accept the harsh possibility that in spite of all the advantages and our best efforts and the
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wisdom that God we ask God to give us in raising our raising our children that they might not all accept Jesus Christ as their lord
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but to God be the glory in all things to God be the glory in the salvation of our children to God be the glory in the Judgment of the unbeliever even if that unbeliever happens to be our child or our brother
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or our or our father because God's glory is more important than my life and any other life that I value God's glory is what Paul sought
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and it is what we should seek so he says let God be found true though every man a liar Paul's overarching concern though
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let me let me get back to the text his overarching concern is has the word of God failed God says that I send my word out from me and it will not return to me
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void without accomplishing the purpose for which he was set he has sent his word and given his were to the Israelites and yet they have largely not believed and if you read
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through the prophets all the way back to Moses you realize they very rarely did believe didn't they very rarely did they accept the word of God and Obey it even
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when they said they would all that God has said we will obey they almost immediately proceeded to disobey God and so has the word of God failed
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well Paul says may it never be I think it's very interesting in Romans as I've said before Paul is presenting his gospel to a church that he did not have anything to do with but
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a church that I think he wants to be a part of that they might help him further his ministry to the western part of the Roman Empire we know that Paul quotes from the
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Old Testament copiously in his letters but I just realized in in reading and studying this that half of all of those quotations are in the Book of Romans and half of all of the quotations
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in the book of 910 and 910 and 11 so God's word is the focus here all the way through and he's going to bring God's word to bear on this
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issue Paul is convinced that God's word is forever settled in heaven and will not fall of its or fail of its purpose on Earth that word gives us believing
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parents great hope for the Salvation of our children Paul says that the children of even one believing parent Are Holy not holy in the sense of already saved
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but holy in the sense as providentially set apart the fact that you were born in the family of Believers is God's grace God's advantage to you and God's
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responsibility as responsibility as well and so we have great hope and no reason to despair of the Salvation of our children and yet also no reason to
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presume upon it either that's the line that we walk the tight rope that we walk because our because our trust cannot
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trust cannot be in the physical Heritage that either we have or that our children have the Israelites put their trust in their father Abraham we have Abraham for our
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father what can go wrong a lot we cannot put our trust in even in
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God's Providence Paul was a member of that family of Israel that blessed family of great advantage and yet he was a persecutor of persecutor of God's people
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going around breathing out threats and murder dragging Christians to prison and supervising their supervising their stoning and yet God had mercy on
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him many of the ones we read about in the New Testament were gentiles who were separated from God and without hope in the world and yet God brought them in through Jesus
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through Jesus Christ many of us received Jesus in a Christian Home great Home great advantages made to
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Advantage some of us were saved out of a pagan environment where there was no Christian teaching there was no gospel but only God's grace and so we don't
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trust in our family we don't trust in our parents and we don't trust in our parenting We Trust in his wisdom his goodness and his power displayed fully
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in Jesus in Jesus Christ job said it though he slay me yet will I praise him well we could say it a little bit little bit differently though he slay my loved
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one though I do not get the answer to my Earnest prayer yet will I praise him for he alone is good and wise and knows
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all things right but we can trust all things to him even the destiny of our
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children Paul writes to Timothy nevertheless this Firm Foundation of God stands having this
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seal the Lord knows those who are his let us
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pray father we ask that you would Grant wisdom to each one of us in the knowledge of your will and in the encouragement of your
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salvation in the lives of others who as yet do not believe that we would be found to work with you and your Holy Spirit
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and never even inadvertently against you we pray that we would take heed as Paul admonishes
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Paul admonishes us to the history of Israel as much to their failures as through their through their successes that in spite of great advantages they did not recognize the
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day of their visitation we pray that those among our families who do not yet believe that in that day when you open
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their eyes to their sin you would at the same time open their eyes to their savior that they might know Jesus Christ and they might know you which is eternal
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life we ask these things for their good but also for your glory in Jesus Christ in whose name we pray amen
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pray amen amen please please rise for the benediction from Philippians chapter 4 Paul writes be anxious for
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nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your request be made known to God and the peace of God which surpasses all
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comprehension shall guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus amen
