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JACK: God always knew that when that opportunity would come, by
His grace that I would say yes to Christ. He didn't bend my
arm. He didn't make me say yes, and oh, by the way, He didn't
bend your arm and make you say no. God is giving you the
ability, the gospel is presented and you choose. "Well, I'm into
choice." Well actually, so is God. Choose.
Use your choice to go to heaven. Abort your
opportunity. Bad choice. Wind up in hell.
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JACK: Well friends, listen up According to God's Word, God
knows all things and that should be a great comfort to you. In
Romans chapter 9, verses 22 to 29, we're going to learn exactly
that and frankly, you and I need that. We need to know the
comfort of God. There's so much uncertainty in our world, but
hallelujah. God is sovereign and it's a doctrine that is
something that shouldn't trouble the believer, but comfort the
believer. The Bible says that God knows all things and that He
wants you and I to know Him and quite frankly all will bow
before Him when we see Him as He is. But listen, saint or sinner,
believer or atheist, the Bible's very clear. Every knee is going
to bow before the sovereign God. So listen, friends, let's grab
our Bibles and let's get into this study, which I pray is a
great blessing to you. God knows all things. It should be a
comfort, so pick up your Word. Let's go through it together and
I encourage you to take notes. One of the greatest things that
you can do to grow in your spiritual development is to take
notes. Why? Because everything you hear in this program,
everything you hear from people, everything that you read, you
should judge it against the Word of God always. That's why we're
here at Real Life. So here we go. We're
diving into this message. God knows all things.
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JACK: What if God. I love that, those three words. What if God?
Because mostly it's, "well, if I were God," well, you're not. So
Paul is saying, "what if God," of course he makes his argument,
"wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured
with much long suffering the vessels of wrath prepared for
destruction." See, first of all, what is this saying? It's saying
two things. Number one, Paul is announcing to the believers,
"all right, listen, God's play is this." What if He wants to
show His wrath, two things, His wrath and to make known His
power. There's the wrath of God and there's the power of God.
Church, family, write this down if you must. Both are equally
part of God's nature. Both are equally pure. Both are equally
perfect. God's wrath and God's power, that being God's
direction, it says that, "He endures with much long
suffering, the vessels of wrath, prepared for destruction." God
knows all things. Remember before you and I were ever born,
God knew not only the day that you were born, He knew all about
your life for all eternity. You have always been somebody that
God has known in eternity. He didn't get to know you one day.
God knew you, and the great argument of Romans 9 is when the
gospel is presented to you, what will you do with it? Today we're
living in the 21st century. Today you're hearing the gospel.
Christ died on the cross for you because you couldn't pay your
own debt. Jesus paid the price for you and you run to Him and
say, "Lord, please forgive me. I see that you paid the debt for
me." "Well, I not only did that," He would say, "I rose
again from the dead to not only guarantee your sins are
forgiven, but I'm the one that will make sure that you are
forever saved. I justify you in my resurrection." It's all of
Christ. And you go, "yes, Lord, I'll accept that. Thank you for
forgiving me and I give you my life." And God would say
something like, "fantastic. That's exactly why I made you
and I want to use you now." Listen, God doesn't learn that
on the day that you accept Christ. I accepted Christ on
June 20th, 1977. I had no idea that on June 19th, it was my
last day to be a pagan worshiping godless- uh, well, I
mean they're all telling me what I- easy now. No, it's all true.
Everything you guys said is true and more. I didn't know that was
my last day to live my life for me. On the very next Monday
night, I would hear the gospel and learned about God that night
and I made a decision that night. Listen, God always knew
that when that opportunity would come by His grace that I would
say yes to Christ. He didn't bend my arm. He didn't make me
say yes, and oh by the way, he didn't bend your arm and make
you say no. God is giving you the ability. The gospel is
presented and you choose. "Well, I'm into choice," Well actually,
so is God. Choose. Do you want eternal life or do you want to
abort yourself and wind up in heaven or hell, I should say.
Choice. Use your choice to go to heaven, abort your opportunity,
bad choice, wind up in hell. God wants you to have life. He wants
you to have eternal life. This entire Bible is all about the
glory and the awesome glory that it is this way. His wrath is
even glorious. We don't think of this correctly often. It says
that His wrath to show His wrath, His wrath is pure. His
wrath is not God losing His temper. His wrath is just as
righteous and just as holy. The word wrath here is His divine
anger. The word means pure vengeance. It's wrath in His
holiness. It's remarkable. There's no sin, there's no fault
with God, and that's one of Paul's great arguments. The
Bible says in Isaiah 45, verse 9, "wo unto Him who strives with
his maker," it's unnatural. You want to fight with God, don't do
that. Surrender to God. Give up and let Him lead you. That word
strive, look at it close with me, the Hebrew word, it's
interesting you don't say it this way, but I'll say it the
way we say it. If it was an English word, rub, well, have
you ever been rubbed the wrong way? Well, when you strive with
your maker, can I put it this way? You're rubbing Him the
wrong way and that is you contend with Him, you argue with
Him, you complain, you find fault with Him, you quarrel with
Him, you disagree with Him, you oppose and you blame Him.That
comes from a heart and from a mind that is lost. "God is an
ogre. He's mean, He's rude, He's crude, He's not fair," and the
Bible says, "don't strive with your maker. It's not good for
you." Why does the Bible say that? Because the Bible wants
you to come to the one who loves you, the real one who loves you.
He loves you without condition. Think of that, everybody you
know in life loves you with conditions. See, "nope, not my
husband, not my wife, not my boyfriend, not my girlfriend." I
understand where you're coming from. Just know this. God loved
you without condition before you ever knew who He was and He
wants you to be with Him, but it's your choice. Romans chapter
2, verse 4. These are all things that we need to know about this
glorious wrath of almighty God. Romans 2 verse 4 starts by
saying, "Or do you despise," number one, watch. Watch this.
"Do you despise number one, the riches of His goodness," the
riches of His goodness? Do you despise the riches of His
goodness that He shows in your life? This last week I had an
opportunity to see a yacht with gold sprinkled wash basin, you
know? What do you- sink. This is made there and this part, and
this is made and it's all handmade. There's no other thing
like it in the world and it's all this, and I was with some
other fellow believers and we're walking around this thing. I got
to be honest with you, and I am speaking for the fellow
believers that were with me. As far as I know, this person
doesn't know Jesus that owns this boat, ship, boat yacht
thing, and I get it. This is that, and this is this and this
is here and this is that, and I'm thinking, in fact, I leaned
over to one of my friends and I said, "for some people this is
as close to heaven as they'll ever get." Think about that for
a moment. What shall it prophet, Jesus said, "what shall it
prophet you if you gain the entire world and lose your own
soul?" Bill Gates, what will it prophet you? If you gain the
entire world, you've already bought half of America. What
will it profit you if you lose your own soul? Do you understand
how poor Bill Gates is? Do you understand how poor Elon Musk is
without Jesus? You can have the biggest boat in the harbor, but
without Christ, you're sunk. But God gives us good things, does
He not? Look, we've all said this. We've looked at people who
are even wicked and their lives are prospering and we say,
"what's up? What's with that? I work way harder than they do.
Look what they have." God says, "calm down. I'm trying to get
them to the place of salvation with my goodness." This is the
awesome, incredible workings of God. He goes on there in Romans
chapter 2. The second thing is this, forbearance, God's
forbearance. Don't think if you're doing something wrong, if
you're doing something illegal, if you're doing something
vindictive and dangerous to other people, don't think you're
getting away with it. God is putting up with you. He wants
you to give His life, your life to Him. Thirdly, long suffering.
This is amazing. Long suffering. And then He says, "Not knowing
that the goodness of God leads you to repentance," verse 5, "in
accordance with your hardness of your impotent heart, you are
treasuring up for yourselves wrath in the day of wrath and
revelation of the righteous judgment of God." Wow. He wants
you in heaven. The problem is without Christ, the wrath that
you have been treasuring up is still sitting in your account.
It's rising. Every day that you and I live without Jesus, that
account is getting filled up and it's not a good thing. We talk
about His glory. This is a very, very often overlooked verse.
Look at Isaiah 63 verse 10, Isaiah 63, verse 10. Do you know
what you want to know why there's the belief in
Christianity from Genesis to Revelation about the Trinity?
People will say, "well, I don't believe in the Trinity because I
can't find the word trinity in the Bible." Well, you can't find
the word Bible in the Bible either. There's a lot of words
that God is or there is that reality, and it's not mentioned
by word. Here's one of those things where when you read the
entirety of the scripture, you find out in this case a very
terrifying yet glorious description of God's wrath
regarding the children, Israel and the wilderness. It says,
"but they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit," God, the Holy
Spirit. There's God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy
Spirit. If there's two sides to a coin, think of this. There's
three sides to God, one God, and He turned Himself against them
as an enemy and He fought against them. Can you imagine
God, the Holy Spirit fighting against you? I can't. I don't
ever want to know, but they are those who strive with their
maker, and you don't want to do that. Why? Why? Because listen
to this next passage it says, "God's heart reaching out in His
great sovereignty." He wants you to experience salvation and
forgiveness and that wrath never come upon you. You see, somebody
had to take that wrath and that was Jesus, so why would you dig
your heels in and say no to that wonderful offer? Listen, in
Ephesians 2, begin in verse 5. It says, "Even when we were dead
and trespasses made us alive together with Christ by grace,
you have been saved and raised us up together and made us sit
together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus." Let me explain
this for a second, everybody. This is the 21st century. This
was written 2000 years ago, but the doctrines of God have never
changed because they are one with His person. They're
eternal. This is an eternal truth. We're reading it. It's in
a Bible. It was written down 2000 years ago, but this is the
forever nature of God, so watch this. Let me exaggerate it.
"Even when we were dead in trespasses, we were condemned
sinners." God knew this in all eternity before you and I were
ever born. Here's Him going to work, "made us alive together
with Christ." How does that work? By grace, by gift, you
have been saved, "and raised us up together," that is in newness
of life, "and made us sit together in the heavenly places
in Christ Jesus." It means that those of you who raised your
hands a moment ago, according to this scripture, you have your
name written down in an address book, so to speak, in heaven and
listen, heaven is waiting for you to arrive. Heaven is waiting
for you to arrive. "Well, I'm just now learning about this." I
know, the cool part is God has always known this. That's
exciting. Verse 7 says, "That," oh, this is fun. Verse 7, listen
to this, "That in the ages to come, He might show the
exceeding riches of His grace and His kindness toward us in
Christ Jesus." Verse 7, how about this? Verse 7 lived out
looks like this. When Adam and Eve sinned, God could have just,
okay, that's it. Adam and Eve, excuse me, come over here. Here,
stand right about here. He could have pressed the button and the
ground would've opened up and they're gone, and then He
would've walked over and just formed a new atom, a second one.
Could He not have done it? Why didn't He do it? I would've done
it. Too much baggage. I would've just, you'd hear if I were God,
it would be just, (slurping noise) just sucking drain sound
and Adam and Eve just going down the hole and I just reshaped
somebody else and start it over. Did you know that this verse 7
is a verse that guarantees the fact that God is a redemptive
God to the extreme meaning what? Meaning this, that what God has
created, listen, He's going to redeem and He redeems all things
that He has created. For example, watch how deep this
goes from Genesis to Revelation. Do you remember God telling
Moses, or excuse me, Noah, "I'm going to destroy the earth, get
in that boat and I'll let you know when you can get out. I'm
going to destroy the earth." Listen, did He destroy the
earth? Yes and no. Yes, He did, but how did He destroy it is the
other part to the question and the answer.He destroyed it by
how? Water, He flooded. He washed the entire earth. He
washed it and started over, but He started over with that which
was redeemed, right? Think about it. The earth was scrubbed. What
does Peter tell us? He's not going to use water next time,
He's going to use fire. This earth is going to get scrubbed
by fire next time. He's going to destroy it, but it's still going
to be the redeemed earth. Isn't that amazing? The moon, Jupiter,
Mars, it's all going to be redeemed. He's not going to make
a new Jupiter. He's going to scrub the one that is, the
universe. When it says that He's going to destroy all things,
He's going to destroy the surface of all things that are
corrupt. He's going to take what is lost and redeem it. Why?
That's the nature of our God. Some of you guys and gals are
into restoring things. Some of you restore, it's junk. I see
it, it's junk. "Here, you want it, you can take it, it's junk,"
and then they turn it around and they sell it for 500 bucks. How
do they do that? They restored it back to some of its glory.
God does that. He makes new. He takes what is dead and brings
back to life. He's absolutely awesome in all of this. That
verse goes on to say in that passage in verse 8, "for by
grace you have been saved through faith, not of
yourselves. It is the gift of God." How wonderful is that?
Also, this, His glory is all consuming, all consuming. Verse
23, "and that He might make known the riches of His glory on
the vessels of mercy which He had prepared beforehand for
glory." Notice the two differences, and where does that
place you? What do you want? God in all eternity knows. Yes, it's
true, and you you're going to say this today, say, "well, I
guess I have no choice in the matter. He already knows, so I
guess I could just be a vessel of destruction." Could be. Don't
you want to be a vessel of His mercy to display His mercy?
Somebody in this room, somebody watching right now, they're
going to say, "Nope, could care less." Wow. If you stay in that
condition, then you proved God, right all along. He knew from
eternity that when you were given the chance to get a whole
new life, you'd throw it back in His face versus the person right
now that is saying, "wait a minute, are you saying that I
can start my life over again?" Oh yeah.
JACK: Well, friends, listen as we wrap this up, so important.
The Bible talks about the coming day of judgment, and this is
very important. Everyone will stand before God in judgment.
Now, there's the unbelievers and there's the believers, and one
determines an eternal destination without God because
let's be honest, the unbeliever didn't want God in their life,
and so God will answer their one and only prayer, "okay. I won't
be in your life," and that's called hell, and that's called
separation from God, and that's what the Bible talks about
versus the believer, the one who trusts Christ, loves Christ,
knows Christ. This is the person that, and I trust you are, I am
one of those believers that came to the realization that sin has
separated me from God. Jesus died in the cross for us, and He
rose again from the dead. He did all the lifting, He did all the
work, friends, He did all the sacrifice, and you are called to
believe that. For the believer, we will stand before the
judgment seat of Christ, but it has nothing to do with an
eternal punishment or separation from God. Quite the opposite.
And listen, we will happily bow our knee and confess that Jesus
Christ is Lord. It's going to be awesome, but the believer will
do the same but too late. They will confess that Jesus Christ
is Lord and they'll believe it. It's just too late. Listen,
there's no salvation after your death. That's why the Bible
stresses that we must now today accept Christ and give our lives
to Him. Sin and all by the way, He changes you from the inside
out. You need to remember that. Don't get balled up in religion.
So what you want to do is bow the knee, don't wait any longer.
Bow the knee today and confess something like this. Lord Jesus
Christ, I believe in your Word. I believe that you died on the
cross for me and rose again from the dead, and I put my trust in
you. I repent of my sin and I call upon you as Lord and
Savior. Friend, listen, if you've just prayed that prayer,
first of all, welcome to the family of God. The Bible tells
us that all those who call upon the name of the Lord shall be
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welcome to the family of God. Until next time, God bless you.
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leadership that apply to every area of life. Through compelling
storytelling Dr. Leman shares seven powerful secrets that will
help you lead like the Good Shepherd does, including
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building trust, ensuring safety, providing direction,
implementing correction, leading with compassion. Personally
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