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This morning I'd like to talk about a subject that I don't think that we've taught on before.

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And I'm not going to give my text or my lesson till some way midway through our, usually

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I start out with our text and our lesson, but I'm going to give it somewhere midway through

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our lesson this morning. But it'll be on the lots or casting of lots. I don't know if you've ever

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given much thought about casting of lots, what you know, what is that? What are the lots or what

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were the lots that they would use and what were they used for? What was the different things or

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what were the lots used for? And then that's Old Testament. Could there possibly be any teaching

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in that for us? And then I believe that there's a key or a key scripture or many key scriptures,

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but one key scripture specifically that we'll read a little later, which would be our text,

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that really opens it up about these lots. Really, I think will cause us to really understand,

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have a great understanding of it. And when I say a certain key to understanding, it's kind of like,

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you know, we studied recently about Mount Transfiguration where Elijah and Moses and the Lord

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was Mount Transfiguration. And you look at that, what does all that mean and everything? And the

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key to understanding that is what the Lord said when Peter said, well, we'll build tabernacles for

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all three of them. And the key understanding this, the whole thing is what does it mean? Because we

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knew Moses represented the law, Elijah represented the prophets, and of course Jesus Christ represented

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Jesus Christ. But when Peter said, I'll build three tabernacles, we'll build three tabernacles,

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what did the Lord say? This is my son, hear ye him. And that's the key so we can say what was

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Elijah there for us, Moses there for. It wasn't to build tabernacles to hear them, it was my son.

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And of course that's what the prophets and law points to, but hear ye him. So I believe we have

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a key this morning that will do the same thing about these lots that will cause us to understand

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them a lot. It will tell us so much. And something else, it will tear us the

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error of most of religious world. And Chuck, this has to do with something that I know you think

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of often as we look at other people, something that you despise and we all should despise.

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But this will show forth how most of the world is in this error. And again, I think this will help

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us in this manner. So lot, I think it's used about a hundred times in the scripture, lot or lots.

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Hebrew word, we pronounce something like go, go, row. And it means the definitions of it of lot,

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lot, rough as in stone, pebble, a lot, small stones, a portion or destiny.

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All this is part of the definition, Hebrew definition and a portion or destiny as if determined by lot.

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So that's kind of the literal definition in the Hebrew. One thing that it's not, it's not a dice.

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I know we have that thought some people do. It's not a dice. But it's used to, as we look in scriptures,

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we'll read some of them, a few, not all of them. But it's used to make a decision, come to a conclusion.

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I'm not saying this is it, but sometimes we'll flip a coin, caught in the air, heads or tails.

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That's kind of used to kind of make a decision in a sense. So that's not too far off from lots,

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what it is. I believe these pebbles or stones, they could have been, and we don't know exactly,

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but it could have been a light one or dark one. And if we'd cast our lots in, the light one would

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mean something or if we cast a dark one in, then that would mean something. We would all have these

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stones and we would cast in to make a decision or a vote, so to speak. It could be a round rock or a

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flat rock, something to distinguish the two. It could be, and you could have a lot that would

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just represent you. This is my lot. Chuck, this is your lot and we cast it this way. It was kind

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of like a vote or which is a decision-making process as far as that goes. So we'll read some

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place in the scripture and again, I think it's very interesting and I saw some things that I had not

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seen before. And let's go back to the book of Joshua to begin with and as we go back and we'll

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read some, Joshua will read some in numbers about dividing up the inheritance for Israel

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and how the lots were used there as well. Joshua chapter 18, I'm sorry if I didn't mention that.

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Joshua was back there before judges.

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And Joshua chapter 18 and begin verse six.

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You shall therefore describe the land into seven portions and bring the description here to me

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that I may cast lots for you here before the Lord our God. But the Levites have no portion among you

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for the priesthood of the Lord is their inheritance and Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manassee

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have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan on the east which Moses the servant of the Lord

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gave them. And the men arose and went away and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land

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saying go and walk through the land and describe it and come again to me that I may hear cast lots

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for you before the Lord and Shiloh. And the men went and passed through the land and described it by

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cities into seven portions in a book and came again to Joshua the host of Shiloh and Joshua cast lots

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for them in Shiloh before the Lord and there Joshua divided the land into the children of Israel

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according to their divisions and we'll see this a lot. So here what we see is they go in to take

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this inheritance this land of promise that God had given them and so Joshua here says well said

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won't you go exploring maybe like Lewis and Clark and some of them go and bring back basically you

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make kind of maps and things and you bring those back and then we'll kind of, I will,

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Joshua was going to do the casting of lots here before the Lord so they would come back and I

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don't know exactly how it took place but they'd come back to supposed to be with the map and maybe

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each one that was represented had a lot of stone that represented them and whether you just threw

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it down or how I did it you know I don't, we don't know that but we know that it was going to be

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determined by law and again they would go in first explore it kind of make a map then come back give

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her lots of Joshua and the lots of cast before the Lord would determine their inheritance.

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Numbers chapter 26 and we'll read a few here in Numbers, Numbers chapter 26

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and verse starting in verse 55, Numbers 26 and 55

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and again what one thing we're looking for what is that what's the teaching in it for us today

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we'll see that Lord willing a little later Numbers 25, 26 and 55, notwithstanding the land shall be

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divided by lot this is as they was going into the land of promise notwithstanding the land shall be

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divided by lot according to the name to the tribe to the fathers they shall inherit according to the

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lot shall the possession there all be divided between many and few and these are they who are

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numbered of the Levites at the families of Gershon and the family of Gershonites and

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Coeth the family of Coahites and Marie the family of the Marieites actually I didn't

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need to go quite that far but anyway so again the land was going to be divided by lot their

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inheritance is going to be divided by lot and this doesn't show us exactly what Joshua did but I

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believe is the same all their inheritance I think they would go in and they'd explore the land

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which was also occupied by as they described them giants and so forth but they would go in and

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plot out maps and now bring it back and then lots will be cast and that was that would determine

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their inheritance. Numbers 33 and lots were used for other things and we'll get to maybe touch

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on a couple of those as well. Numbers 33 and 52 then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of

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the land from before you and destroy all their stone idols and destroy all their metal damages

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and demolished all their high places. You remember that that's one thing they were to do

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so they wouldn't take the gods of these other nations destroy all those may have been valuable

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gold silver and so forth may have been valuable but he said destroy all of them 53 and you shall

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just possess the inhabitants of the land and dwell their dwell their in for I've given you the land

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to possess and you shall divide the land by lot for inheritance among your families and to the more

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you shall give more inheritance and to the fewer you shall give the less inheritance and every man's

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inheritance shall be in the place where on his lot falleth according to the tribes of your fathers

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you shall inherit. So I do kind of picture and this is my opinion okay I don't give my opinion

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that often or maybe I give it too much but I like to tell you when I give my opinion.

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What I view is they go and as they would go and of course they took this land little by little

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they didn't just march in take it all once because they were all too small so they would go in and

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as we saw in Joshua go explore this bring me back a map and it says the lots were cast and

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here says wherever they fall I kind of think maybe he did just kind of throw the stones out there

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and this is this was their inheritance again that's my opinion but that's what I picture

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here. Number 34 and 13 and Moses commanded the children of Israel saying this is the land

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which ye shall inherit by lot which the Lord commanded to give unto you the nine tribes

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and to the half tribe for the tribe of the children of Reuben according to the house of your

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fathers and the tribe of the children of Gad according to the house of their fathers have

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received their inheritance and half of the tribe of Manassee have received their inheritance. The

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two tribes and the half tribe shall receive their inheritance on the side of the Jordan near Jericho

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eastward towards the sun rising. So again we see the of course the the the nine half tribes and the

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two and half tribes but still we see it was determined by lot by casting of lots and

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so I guess we could ask the questions well it was all by chance I guess that would come to our mind

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this casting of the lots and it tells us in Leviticus now we'll go there but you remember the

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scapegoat and they would have two goats and they would offer the priest would offer this and

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everything for himself before he offered for the sins of the people and they'd have two goats

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and they would cast a lot which one was a scapegoat that was released which one was

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sacrificed to the Lord just cast lots so do we say was a luck of the draw

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would that come to mind it would it would by many let's go to Acts chapter one I think we have time

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Acts chapter one another place that lots were used but certainly don't forget about the inheritance

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the lot was used to determine the inheritance of God's chosen people Acts one and

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well let's let's go let's go to our 15 we haven't read this for a long time Acts one and 15

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and in those days Peter stood up in the midst of the disciples and said the number of names

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together was about 120 men and brethren the scripture must needs have been fulfilled which

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the Holy Spirit by the mouth of David spoke before concerning Judas who was guided then that took

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Jesus for he was numbered with us and had obtained a part in this ministry now this man purchased

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a field with the reward of iniquity and falling headlong he burst a thunder in the midst and

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always bows gust out and it was known into all the dwellers at Jerusalem in so much that the

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field is called in the proper tongue a kildema that is to say the field of blood for it is written

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in the book of Psalms let his habitation be desolate and let no man dwell therein and his

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bishopric let another take wherefore all these men who have accompanied with us all the time that

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the Lord Jesus went in and out among us beginning from the baptism of John so these are going to

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have to have the baptism of John at this point beginning with the baptism of John until the

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same day that he was taken up from us must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection

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and they appointed to Joseph called uh bar Sabbaths who was certain name justice and Matthias

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and they prayed and said thou Lord who knowest the hearts of all men show which of these two

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thou has chosen that he may take part in the ministry and apostleship from which Judas by

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transgressing fell that he might go to his own place and they gave forth their lots

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and the lot fell upon Matthias and he was numbered with the eleven apostles so one thing here and

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this gives us a clue that we're going to that says uh in verse 24 show which of these two thou has

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chosen and then they cast their lots and the lot fell on Matthias so did luck of the draw

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that Matthias was chosen said show us which of these two thou has chosen

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another place we see lots Jonah and I won't go there but you remember Jonah and and he uh uh

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was supposed to go to a certain place where it was the revealed that he would go to a certain place

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and he got on the ship going to Damascus and you remember they was out in there and the ship was

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the the sea was was very temptuous and the ship was about to sink and everything

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and Jonah was down asleep in the bottom there everybody else was trying to do everything

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they could to keep the ship afloat and they talked to Jonas of uh you know why you sleep down

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here and everything each one of them had already prayed to their gods Jonah wake up pray to your god

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and so then it came that it was uh they'd tried everything they could they'd cast out all the

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stuff they could to keep the ship afloat and everything so then it was decided that they would

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uh cast lots to see which one of these men was the cause of this

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so I don't know how many men was on the ship doesn't tell us that I don't believe

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you mean where they cast lots and the lots fell on Jonah was it possible those lots could

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have fell on anybody else no it wasn't possible was it was it chance boy just a coincidence

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that those lots fell on Jonah wasn't a coincidence wasn't by chance

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well how then these I could see where these men on that ship and boy there's a lot more in that

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Jonah and I didn't notice it until recently we think of Jonah and everything but those men

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after this they were I'll use the word converted and praised the god so there's a lot more going

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on than just Jonah but anyway so but these men probably were casting these lots or those from

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Matthias were giving our vote probably failed a certain amount of free will rather Chuck

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but was that the case did they have free will in this and I know I know the world certainly

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believes that we're free more agents going about our decisions and choices and so forth

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so now I want to read our text Psalms or Proverbs Proverbs chapter 16

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you may still have questions about well was it a black stone and a white stone or flat stone

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around stone you what kind of stone we might not answer that but this is the key to understanding

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all this about the lots we you know Israel's all their inheritance was determined by casting of

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lots and how it would fall in this these maps that they made and how it would fall on there

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and Matthias was chosen by a lot and Jonah the lots fell on Jonah this is going to explain all of that

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very short verse here Proverbs 16 and 33 the lot is cast into the lap

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but the whole disposing thereof is all the Lord that explains it all that's the key to

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understanding and that word disposing I don't I think we know what it means there but if we look

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at it in the uh Hebrew it means it's pronounced something like mishpold means verdict formal

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decree define law divine law so the lot is cast into the lap or cast on the maps wherever they're

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cast but the whole disposing thereof is all the Lord those men didn't choose Jonah when they cast

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lots there that was the Lord disposing of the lots those men didn't choose Matthias in fact they

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did say Lord show us which one you have chosen they had David they had that knowledge know which

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one you have chosen but they still cast their lots they still went through that process didn't change

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though we saw who the Lord had chosen lots by chance did not choose the inheritance for Israel

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Psalms 47 and 4 says he has chosen our inheritance for us so Joshua they came back they explored

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and they said he said explore this territory divide up into seventh then he come back and

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Joshua took the lots or their stones and cast it on there but the Lord is one determiner inheritance

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and where it would be it wasn't my chance uh i want to go to Acts chapter 13 Acts chapter 13

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and 17 this is talking about the inheritance

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Acts 13 17 the God of this people of Israel chose our fathers and exalted the people when they

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dwelt as sojourners in the land of Egypt and with a high arm brought him out of it and about the

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time of 40 years bore he their manners and the wilderness and when he had destroyed seven nations

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in the land of Canaan and divided their land to them by lot so we see here in verse 17 that these

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were chosen men chosen people chosen individuals and then we see also verse 17 that he destroyed

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all that happens in the land so he would give it to these chosen individuals chosen people

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and then we see there in verse 18 or 19 that he divided it by lot so a chosen people

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and the Lord prepared the land for them destroyed the people before yeah they may have to win the

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battle but it wasn't them it was of the Lord also and he divided it by lot not by chance it was by

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lot but it wasn't chance the Lord determines the disposing of the lots so what about us

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what about our inheritance is it based on our free will of choice our decisions our works

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go to Ephesians once again we'll see that cannot be it cannot be our choice our decisions or our

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works and I know it's our nature to want to claim that that we have something to do with a

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dear friend one time we was talking about this and I'm not sure exactly but talk about Christ

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and the way and everything and he said but you'd like to think we have something to do with it

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and that's our nature like to think we have something to do with something to boast to him

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so but do we Ephesians 1 and 11 talk about is our inheritance by chance or is it by free will

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Hebrew 111 and whom also we have obtained an inheritance Israel had an inheritance

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determined by lot on surface value they've determined by lot and whom also we have obtained an

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inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worked with all things at the

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council of his will so as Israel they would have those maps and they would cast the lots on there

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where it wasn't by chance God determines the results of the lots and in this for our inheritance

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predestinated

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our choices our decisions would not could not change God's what he has predestinated

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again Israel he says he has chosen our inheritance for us and it's the same for us

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and look while we're here verse 4 according as he has chosen us in him before the foundation

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of the world that we should be holding without blame before him in love certainly that shows it's

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not by chance it's not by our works or our decisions or our free will chosen before the foundation

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of the world chosen our lot chosen our inheritance had many more scriptures on this but we'll have

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to let some of those go but it's not by our works not by our decisions not by our choices no more

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than was Israel he's chosen their inheritance for them and yeah it was determined by lot but who

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determines the lot God no choice no no chance is what I'm wanting no chance but man's religion today

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believes that they're free more agents

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but Jonah's shipmates Jonah wasn't chosen by free will although they cast lots

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they cast their votes but it was God it couldn't have it could not have fallen anybody else

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Matthias those men it wasn't their voting the electing Matthias it was God and again they even

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said it show us who thou has chosen and lots fell Matthias who God had chosen although they did

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cast those lots Philippians 2 13 says that he works in us both to will and to do of his good

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pleasure so as those cast those lots for whoever and they fell on Jonah the Lord calls them to do

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do he worked in both to will and to do of his good pleasure and same with Matthias the Lord worked

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on them to both to will and to do of his good pleasure the outcome could not have been any

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different the Lord works in us both to to will and to do of his good pleasure he gives he works

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as to will he gives us that desire both to will and to do of his good pleasure and I know the world

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wants to claim free will out of that so we can boast in something that we have done but where does

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all the honor and glory go David you read this morning we preach Jesus Christ Jesus Christ and

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him crucified uh Isaiah says that he declared the end from beginning from ancient times things

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have not yet come to pass saying my counselor will stand and I'll do all my pleasure so

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so from the beginning from ancient times whether we're looking at the lots that was broken up for

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Israel or for Jonah or Matthias or for you and I and our inheritance all determined by God not

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free will not by chance.

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Pharaoh did not have free will the Lord told Moses go tell Pharaoh let my people go

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so was it Pharaoh's choice well I'll let him go or I won't let him go no he told Moses he said well

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Moses P.S. here before you go I'm I'm gonna harden his heart and he can't let him go

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through all those plagues and everything so our text says about the lots the disposal of

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is all of the Lord so if the disposal of the lots or of the Lord

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what about all the arrangements in your life

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we don't typically cast lots but who's in control who determines the events and arrangements

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in your life

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if a simple casting of a lot is guided by him how much more the events

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in your life

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the very hairs of your head are numbered

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not a spare of false in the air without the father it doesn't mean not a spare of false in the air

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that that only that he knows about not a spare of false in the air without the father

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real quick Isaiah 46 let me read real quickly here

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Isaiah 46

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and verse four so as we look at whether we're looking at Israel God's elect we're looking at

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his elect now in this day and age is it by chance is it by free will is it by choice

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look at verse four Isaiah 46 and four and even to your old age I am he

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he even to gray hairs I will carry you and this is what says I have made I will bear

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even I will carry and will deliver you so from the making carrying and delivering

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it's all of the Lord from the beginning to the ending all the way through your life is all of

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the Lord so is it free will of man the chuck I know the world wants to claim that till it has

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something both to but we see it's not the free will of man now they'd cast those lots but who

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determined it the Lord we may make a decision but who calls us to make that decision he works

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in both the will and to do of his good pleasure so all the honor and glory goes to

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the Lord and not to us may the Lord bless us speaking of his word we're dismissed