WEBVTT 00:00:00.939 --> 00:00:03.700 Hello, this is Father Paul, and I'm glad we're 00:00:03.700 --> 00:00:05.740 taking this journey together to read the Bible 00:00:05.740 --> 00:00:09.140 in a year. Today's reading is from the Epistle 00:00:09.140 --> 00:00:11.839 of St. Paul to the Romans, chapters 6 through 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:15.880 10. Chapter 6 What shall we say then? Shall we 00:00:15.880 --> 00:00:18.859 continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly 00:00:18.859 --> 00:00:22.440 not. How shall we who died to sin live any longer 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.300 in it? Or do you not know that as many of us 00:00:25.300 --> 00:00:28.559 as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized 00:00:28.559 --> 00:00:31.780 into his death? Therefore we were buried with 00:00:31.780 --> 00:00:34.960 him through baptism into death, that just as 00:00:34.960 --> 00:00:37.520 Christ was raised from the dead by the glory 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:41.219 of the Father, even so we also should walk in 00:00:41.219 --> 00:00:44.340 newness of life. For if we have been united together 00:00:44.340 --> 00:00:47.679 in the likeness of his death, certainly we also 00:00:47.679 --> 00:00:49.719 shall be in the likeness of his resurrection, 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:52.880 knowing this, that our old man was crucified 00:00:52.880 --> 00:00:55.640 with him, that the body of sin might be done 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:58.039 away with, that we should no longer be slaves 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:01.759 of sin. For he who has died has been freed from 00:01:01.759 --> 00:01:05.439 sin. Now if we died with Christ, we believe that 00:01:05.439 --> 00:01:08.480 we shall also live with him, knowing that Christ, 00:01:08.620 --> 00:01:11.099 having been raised from the dead, dies no more. 00:01:11.540 --> 00:01:14.680 Death no longer has dominion over him. For the 00:01:14.680 --> 00:01:17.840 death that he died, he died to sin once for all. 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:20.500 But the life that he lives, he lives to God. 00:01:21.000 --> 00:01:24.180 Likewise, you also reckon yourselves to be dead 00:01:24.180 --> 00:01:27.780 indeed to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus 00:01:27.780 --> 00:01:31.340 our Lord. Therefore do not let sin reign in your 00:01:31.340 --> 00:01:34.260 mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts, 00:01:34.260 --> 00:01:36.480 and do not present your members as instruments 00:01:36.480 --> 00:01:39.540 of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves 00:01:39.540 --> 00:01:43.120 to God as being alive from the dead, and your 00:01:43.120 --> 00:01:45.879 members as instruments of righteousness to God. 00:01:46.079 --> 00:01:49.019 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for 00:01:49.019 --> 00:01:52.239 you are not under law but under grace. What then? 00:01:52.400 --> 00:01:55.319 Shall we sin because we are not under law but 00:01:55.319 --> 00:01:59.000 under grace? Certainly not. do you not know that 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:01.400 to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey 00:02:01.400 --> 00:02:04.719 you are that one's slaves whom you obey whether 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.939 of sin leading to death or of obedience leading 00:02:07.939 --> 00:02:11.020 to righteousness but god be thanked that though 00:02:11.020 --> 00:02:14.180 you were slaves of sin yet you obeyed from the 00:02:14.180 --> 00:02:16.819 heart that form of doctrine to which you were 00:02:16.819 --> 00:02:19.960 delivered and having been set free from sin you 00:02:19.960 --> 00:02:22.819 became slaves of righteousness i speak in human 00:02:22.819 --> 00:02:25.759 terms because of the weakness of your flesh For 00:02:25.759 --> 00:02:27.960 just as you presented your members as slaves 00:02:27.960 --> 00:02:30.840 of uncleanness and of lawlessness leading to 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.479 more lawlessness, so now present your members 00:02:33.479 --> 00:02:36.740 as slaves of righteousness for holiness. For 00:02:36.740 --> 00:02:39.280 when you were slaves of sin, you were free in 00:02:39.280 --> 00:02:42.039 regard to righteousness. What fruit did you have 00:02:42.039 --> 00:02:44.340 then in the things of which you are now ashamed? 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:47.659 For the end of those things is death. But now, 00:02:47.680 --> 00:02:50.280 having been set free from sin and having become 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.800 slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness 00:02:52.800 --> 00:02:56.020 and the end everlasting life. For the wages of 00:02:56.020 --> 00:02:58.580 sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal 00:02:58.580 --> 00:03:25.810 life in Christ Jesus our Lord. She will be called 00:03:25.810 --> 00:03:28.669 an adulteress, but if her husband dies, she is 00:03:28.669 --> 00:03:31.789 free from that law, so that she is no adulteress, 00:03:31.789 --> 00:03:34.349 though she has married another man. Therefore, 00:03:34.490 --> 00:03:36.969 my brethren, you also have become dead to the 00:03:36.969 --> 00:03:39.610 law through the body of Christ, that you may 00:03:39.610 --> 00:03:42.289 be married to another, to him who was raised 00:03:42.289 --> 00:03:44.889 from the dead, that we should bear fruit to God. 00:03:45.210 --> 00:03:48.110 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions 00:03:48.110 --> 00:03:51.150 which were aroused by the law were at work in 00:03:51.150 --> 00:03:54.439 our members to bear fruit to death. but now we 00:03:54.439 --> 00:03:56.740 have been delivered from the law having died 00:03:56.740 --> 00:03:59.740 to what we were held by so that we should serve 00:03:59.740 --> 00:04:02.580 in the newness of the spirit and not in the oldness 00:04:02.580 --> 00:04:05.419 of the letter what shall we say then is the law 00:04:05.419 --> 00:04:08.740 sin certainly not on the contrary i would not 00:04:08.740 --> 00:04:11.979 have known sin except through the law for i would 00:04:11.979 --> 00:04:14.319 not have known covetousness unless the law had 00:04:14.319 --> 00:04:17.959 said you shall not covet but sin taking opportunity 00:04:17.959 --> 00:04:20.779 by the commandment produced in me all manner 00:04:20.779 --> 00:04:24.019 of evil desire For apart from the law, sin was 00:04:24.019 --> 00:04:27.300 dead. I was alive once without the law, but when 00:04:27.300 --> 00:04:30.519 the commandment came, sin revived and I died. 00:04:30.800 --> 00:04:33.180 And the commandment, which was to bring life, 00:04:33.399 --> 00:04:37.060 I found to bring death. For sin, taking occasion 00:04:37.060 --> 00:04:40.100 by the commandment, deceived me, and by it killed 00:04:40.100 --> 00:04:43.259 me. Therefore the law is holy, and the commandment 00:04:43.259 --> 00:04:46.660 holy, and just and good. Has then what is good 00:04:46.660 --> 00:04:50.660 become death to me? Certainly not. But sin, that 00:04:50.660 --> 00:04:53.740 it might appear sin, was producing death in me 00:04:53.740 --> 00:04:56.839 through what is good, so that sin through the 00:04:56.839 --> 00:04:59.360 commandment might become exceedingly sinful. 00:04:59.680 --> 00:05:02.360 For we know that the law is spiritual, but I 00:05:02.360 --> 00:05:05.959 am carnal, sold under sin. For what I am doing 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:09.480 I do not understand. For what I will to do, that 00:05:09.480 --> 00:05:12.879 I do not practice. But what I hate, that I do. 00:05:13.240 --> 00:05:17.139 If then I do what I will not to do, I agree with 00:05:17.139 --> 00:05:20.389 the law. that it is good but now it is no longer 00:05:20.389 --> 00:05:24.110 i who do it but sin that dwells in me for i know 00:05:24.110 --> 00:05:27.769 that in me that is in my flesh nothing good dwells 00:05:27.769 --> 00:05:31.050 for to will is present with me but how to perform 00:05:31.050 --> 00:05:34.170 what is good i do not find for the good that 00:05:34.170 --> 00:05:37.329 i will to do i do not do but the evil i will 00:05:37.329 --> 00:05:40.970 not to do that i practice now if i do what i 00:05:40.970 --> 00:05:44.149 will not to do it is no longer i who do it but 00:05:44.149 --> 00:05:47.790 sin that dwells in me i find then a law that 00:05:47.790 --> 00:05:50.769 evil is present with me, the one who wills to 00:05:50.769 --> 00:05:53.569 do good. For I delight in the law of God according 00:05:53.569 --> 00:05:56.569 to the inward man, but I see another law in my 00:05:56.569 --> 00:05:59.509 members, warring against the law of my mind, 00:05:59.610 --> 00:06:02.209 and bringing me into captivity to the law of 00:06:02.209 --> 00:06:05.370 sin which is in my members. O wretched man that 00:06:05.370 --> 00:06:08.189 I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? 00:06:08.430 --> 00:06:12.290 I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So 00:06:12.290 --> 00:06:14.949 then with the mind I myself serve the law of 00:06:14.949 --> 00:06:20.899 God, but with the flesh, The law of sin. Chapter 00:06:20.899 --> 00:06:48.930 8 he condemned sin in the flesh that the righteous 00:06:48.930 --> 00:06:51.889 requirement of the law might be fulfilled in 00:06:51.889 --> 00:06:54.649 us who do not walk according to the flesh but 00:06:54.649 --> 00:06:57.589 according to the spirit for those who live according 00:06:57.589 --> 00:07:00.189 to the flesh set their minds on the things of 00:07:00.189 --> 00:07:02.529 the flesh but those who live according to the 00:07:02.529 --> 00:07:05.870 spirit the things of the spirit for to be carnally 00:07:05.870 --> 00:07:08.310 minded is death but to be spiritually minded 00:07:08.310 --> 00:07:11.310 is life and peace Because the carnal mind is 00:07:11.310 --> 00:07:14.389 enmity against God, for it is not subject to 00:07:14.389 --> 00:07:17.970 the law of God, nor indeed can be. So then, those 00:07:17.970 --> 00:07:20.949 who are in the flesh cannot please God. But you 00:07:20.949 --> 00:07:23.670 are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if indeed 00:07:23.670 --> 00:07:26.310 the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone 00:07:26.310 --> 00:07:28.709 does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not 00:07:28.709 --> 00:07:31.910 his. And if Christ is in you, the body is dead 00:07:31.910 --> 00:07:34.670 because of sin, but the Spirit is life because 00:07:34.670 --> 00:07:37.449 of righteousness. But if the Spirit of Him who 00:07:37.449 --> 00:07:40.060 raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He 00:07:40.060 --> 00:07:42.459 who raised Christ from the dead will also give 00:07:42.459 --> 00:07:44.720 life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit 00:07:44.720 --> 00:07:47.980 who dwells in you. Therefore, brethren, we are 00:07:47.980 --> 00:07:50.540 debtors, not to the flesh, to live according 00:07:50.540 --> 00:07:53.000 to the flesh. For if you live according to the 00:07:53.000 --> 00:07:55.740 flesh, you will die. But if by the Spirit you 00:07:55.740 --> 00:07:58.160 put to death the deeds of the body, you will 00:07:58.160 --> 00:08:00.939 live. For as many as are led by the Spirit of 00:08:00.939 --> 00:08:04.420 God, these are sons of God. For you did not receive 00:08:04.420 --> 00:08:07.029 the Spirit of bondage again to fear. but you 00:08:07.029 --> 00:08:09.689 receive the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry 00:08:09.689 --> 00:08:13.029 out, Abba, Father. The Spirit Himself bears witness 00:08:13.029 --> 00:08:15.329 with our spirit that we are children of God. 00:08:15.529 --> 00:08:18.709 And if children, then heirs, heirs of God and 00:08:18.709 --> 00:08:21.529 joint heirs with Christ. If indeed we suffer 00:08:21.529 --> 00:08:24.430 with Him, that we may also be glorified together. 00:08:24.910 --> 00:08:27.050 For I consider that the sufferings of this present 00:08:27.050 --> 00:08:29.670 time are not worthy to be compared with the glory 00:08:29.670 --> 00:08:32.470 which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest 00:08:32.470 --> 00:08:35.409 expectation of the creation eagerly waits for 00:08:35.409 --> 00:08:38.149 the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation 00:08:38.149 --> 00:08:41.370 was subjected to futility, not willingly, but 00:08:41.370 --> 00:08:44.730 because of him who subjected it in hope. Because 00:08:44.730 --> 00:08:47.330 the creation itself also will be delivered from 00:08:47.330 --> 00:08:49.889 the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty 00:08:49.889 --> 00:08:53.039 of the children of God. For we know that the 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:55.700 whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs 00:08:55.700 --> 00:08:59.340 together until now. Not only that, but we also 00:08:59.340 --> 00:09:02.159 who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even 00:09:02.159 --> 00:09:05.139 we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly 00:09:05.139 --> 00:09:07.799 waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:11.340 body. For we were saved in this hope, but hope 00:09:11.340 --> 00:09:14.539 that is seen is not hope. For why does one still 00:09:14.539 --> 00:09:17.340 hope for what he sees? But if we hope for what 00:09:17.340 --> 00:09:20.240 we do not see, we eagerly wait for it with perseverance. 00:09:21.100 --> 00:09:23.480 Likewise, the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses, 00:09:23.720 --> 00:09:26.840 for we do not know what we should pray for as 00:09:26.840 --> 00:09:29.860 we ought, but the Spirit himself makes intercession 00:09:29.860 --> 00:09:32.460 for us with groanings which cannot be uttered. 00:09:32.720 --> 00:09:35.940 Now he who searches the hearts knows what the 00:09:35.940 --> 00:09:38.840 mind of the Spirit is, because he makes intercession 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:40.779 for the saints according to the will of God. 00:09:41.100 --> 00:09:43.519 And we know that all things work together for 00:09:43.519 --> 00:09:46.240 good to those who love God, to those who are 00:09:46.240 --> 00:09:48.909 the called according to his purpose. For whom 00:09:48.909 --> 00:09:51.970 he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed 00:09:51.970 --> 00:09:54.169 to the image of his Son, that he might be the 00:09:54.169 --> 00:09:57.070 firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom 00:09:57.070 --> 00:10:00.350 he predestined, these he also called. Whom he 00:10:00.350 --> 00:10:03.289 called, these he also justified. And whom he 00:10:03.289 --> 00:10:07.309 justified, these he also glorified. What then 00:10:07.309 --> 00:10:10.149 shall we say to these things? If God is for us, 00:10:10.210 --> 00:10:13.509 who can be against us? He who did not spare his 00:10:13.509 --> 00:10:16.740 own Son, but delivered him up for us all. How 00:10:16.740 --> 00:10:20.179 shall he, not with him, also freely give us all 00:10:20.179 --> 00:10:23.259 things? Who shall bring a charge against God's 00:10:23.259 --> 00:10:26.620 elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who 00:10:26.620 --> 00:10:29.740 condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore 00:10:29.740 --> 00:10:32.840 is also risen. Who is even at the right hand 00:10:32.840 --> 00:10:36.220 of God, who also makes intercession for us? Who 00:10:36.220 --> 00:10:38.919 shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall 00:10:38.919 --> 00:10:41.679 tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or 00:10:41.679 --> 00:10:44.850 famine? or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As 00:10:44.850 --> 00:10:47.350 it is written, for your sake we are killed all 00:10:47.350 --> 00:10:50.629 day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 00:10:50.970 --> 00:10:54.029 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors 00:10:54.029 --> 00:10:56.730 through him who loved us. For I am persuaded 00:10:56.730 --> 00:11:00.149 that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor 00:11:00.149 --> 00:11:02.750 principalities, nor powers, nor things present, 00:11:02.830 --> 00:11:05.610 nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor 00:11:05.610 --> 00:11:08.450 any other created thing, shall be able to separate 00:11:08.450 --> 00:11:11.649 us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus, 00:11:12.120 --> 00:11:18.360 our lord chapter nine i tell the truth in christ 00:11:18.360 --> 00:11:21.419 i am not lying my conscience also bearing me 00:11:21.419 --> 00:11:23.960 witness in the holy spirit that i have great 00:11:23.960 --> 00:11:27.200 sorrow and continual grief in my heart for i 00:11:27.200 --> 00:11:29.700 could wish that i myself were accursed from christ 00:11:29.700 --> 00:11:32.419 for my brethren my countrymen according to the 00:11:32.419 --> 00:11:35.639 flesh who are israelites to whom pertain the 00:11:35.639 --> 00:11:38.580 adoption the glory the covenant the giving of 00:11:38.580 --> 00:11:40.889 the law the service of God and the promises, 00:11:41.110 --> 00:11:44.210 of whom are the fathers, and from whom, according 00:11:44.210 --> 00:11:47.750 to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the 00:11:47.750 --> 00:11:51.370 eternally blessed God. Amen. But it is not that 00:11:51.370 --> 00:11:54.090 the word of God has taken no effect, for they 00:11:54.090 --> 00:11:57.230 are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are 00:11:57.230 --> 00:11:59.549 they all children because they are the seed of 00:11:59.549 --> 00:12:02.470 Abraham. But in Isaac your seed shall be called, 00:12:02.649 --> 00:12:05.309 that is, those who are the children of the flesh. 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:08.279 These are not the children of God, but the children 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:11.019 of the promise are counted as the seed. For this 00:12:11.019 --> 00:12:14.120 is the word of promise. At this time I will come, 00:12:14.220 --> 00:12:17.299 and Sarah shall have a son. And not only this, 00:12:17.440 --> 00:12:20.320 but when Rebekah also had conceived by one man, 00:12:20.440 --> 00:12:23.200 even by our father Isaac, for the children not 00:12:23.200 --> 00:12:26.500 yet being born, nor having done any good or evil, 00:12:26.639 --> 00:12:28.860 that the promise of God according to election 00:12:28.860 --> 00:12:32.220 might stand, not of works, but of him who calls. 00:12:32.399 --> 00:12:35.629 It was said to her, The older shall serve the 00:12:35.629 --> 00:12:38.490 younger. As it is written, Jacob I have loved, 00:12:38.570 --> 00:12:42.009 but Esau I have hated. What shall we say then? 00:12:42.149 --> 00:12:44.889 Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly 00:12:44.889 --> 00:12:47.649 not. For he says to Moses, I will have mercy 00:12:47.649 --> 00:12:50.190 on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have 00:12:50.190 --> 00:12:52.509 compassion on whomever I will have compassion. 00:12:52.889 --> 00:12:56.289 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him 00:12:56.289 --> 00:12:59.730 who runs, but of God who shows mercy. For the 00:12:59.730 --> 00:13:02.110 scripture says to the Pharaoh, For this very 00:13:02.110 --> 00:13:04.769 purpose I have raised you up, that I may show 00:13:04.769 --> 00:13:07.509 my power in you, and that my name may be declared 00:13:07.509 --> 00:13:10.629 in all the earth. Therefore he has mercy on whom 00:13:10.629 --> 00:13:13.950 he wills, and whom he wills he hardens. You will 00:13:13.950 --> 00:13:16.649 say to me then, Why does he still find fault? 00:13:16.830 --> 00:13:19.889 For who has resisted his will? But indeed, O 00:13:19.889 --> 00:13:23.389 man, who are you to reply against God? Will the 00:13:23.389 --> 00:13:26.029 thing formed say to him who formed it, Why have 00:13:26.029 --> 00:13:28.740 you made me like this? does not the potter have 00:13:28.740 --> 00:13:31.519 power over the clay from the same lump to make 00:13:31.519 --> 00:13:33.960 one vessel for honour and another for dishonour 00:13:33.960 --> 00:13:37.179 what if god wanting to show his wrath and to 00:13:37.179 --> 00:13:40.139 make his power known endured with much long -suffering 00:13:40.139 --> 00:13:42.700 the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction 00:13:42.700 --> 00:13:45.659 and that he might make known the riches of his 00:13:45.659 --> 00:13:48.679 glory on the vessels of mercy which he had prepared 00:13:48.679 --> 00:13:52.620 beforehand for glory even us whom he called not 00:13:52.620 --> 00:13:55.940 of the jews only but also of the gentiles As 00:13:55.940 --> 00:14:13.419 he says also in Hosea, Isaiah also cries out 00:14:13.419 --> 00:14:24.980 concerning Israel. Because the Lord will make 00:14:24.980 --> 00:14:28.039 a short work upon the earth. And as Isaiah said 00:14:28.039 --> 00:14:38.399 before, What shall we say then? The Gentiles 00:14:38.399 --> 00:14:40.860 who did not pursue righteousness have attained 00:14:40.860 --> 00:14:43.220 the righteousness, even the righteousness of 00:14:43.220 --> 00:14:45.960 faith, but Israel pursuing the law of righteousness 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:48.500 has not attained to the law of righteousness. 00:14:49.070 --> 00:14:52.370 Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but 00:14:52.370 --> 00:14:55.009 as it were by the works of the law. For they 00:14:55.009 --> 00:14:58.090 stumbled at that stumbling stone. As it is written, 00:14:58.429 --> 00:15:01.730 Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and rock 00:15:01.730 --> 00:15:04.690 of offense, and whoever believes on him will 00:15:04.690 --> 00:15:10.929 not be put to shame. Chapter 10 Brethren, my 00:15:10.929 --> 00:15:13.830 heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is 00:15:13.830 --> 00:15:16.250 that they may be saved, for I bear them witness 00:15:16.250 --> 00:15:19.269 that they have a zeal for God. but not according 00:15:19.269 --> 00:15:22.190 to knowledge. For they, being ignorant of God's 00:15:22.190 --> 00:15:24.309 righteousness and seeking to establish their 00:15:24.309 --> 00:15:26.570 own righteousness, have not submitted to the 00:15:26.570 --> 00:15:29.149 righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of 00:15:29.149 --> 00:15:31.509 the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. 00:15:31.710 --> 00:15:34.269 For Moses writes about the righteousness which 00:15:34.269 --> 00:15:37.149 is of the law, The man who does those things 00:15:37.149 --> 00:15:39.590 shall live by them. But the righteousness of 00:15:39.590 --> 00:15:42.389 faith speaks in this way, Do not say in your 00:15:42.389 --> 00:15:45.129 heart who will ascend into heaven, that is, to 00:15:45.129 --> 00:15:47.970 bring Christ down from above, or who will descend 00:15:47.970 --> 00:15:51.470 into the abyss, that is, to bring Christ up from 00:15:51.470 --> 00:15:54.570 the dead. But what does it say? The word is near 00:15:54.570 --> 00:15:57.730 you, in your mouth and in your heart. That is 00:15:57.730 --> 00:16:00.490 the word of faith which we preach, that if you 00:16:00.490 --> 00:16:03.309 confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe 00:16:03.309 --> 00:16:05.509 in your heart that God has raised him from the 00:16:05.509 --> 00:16:08.250 dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one 00:16:08.250 --> 00:16:10.669 believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth 00:16:10.669 --> 00:16:13.879 confession is made unto salvation. for the scripture 00:16:13.879 --> 00:16:16.799 says whoever believes on him will not be put 00:16:16.799 --> 00:16:19.200 to shame for there is no distinction between 00:16:19.200 --> 00:16:22.759 jew and greek for the same lord over all is rich 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:26.220 to all who call upon him for whoever calls on 00:16:26.220 --> 00:16:28.940 the name of the lord shall be saved how then 00:16:28.940 --> 00:16:31.460 shall they call on him in whom they have not 00:16:31.460 --> 00:16:34.419 believed and how shall they believe in him of 00:16:34.419 --> 00:16:37.220 whom they have not heard and how shall they hear 00:16:37.220 --> 00:16:39.860 without a preacher and how shall they preach 00:16:39.860 --> 00:16:42.809 unless they are sent As it is written, How beautiful 00:16:42.809 --> 00:16:45.210 are the feet of those who preach the gospel of 00:16:45.210 --> 00:16:47.929 peace, who bring glad tidings of good things. 00:16:48.190 --> 00:16:50.669 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For 00:16:50.669 --> 00:16:53.710 Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? 00:16:54.110 --> 00:16:57.049 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by 00:16:57.049 --> 00:16:59.809 the word of God. But I say, have they not heard? 00:17:00.029 --> 00:17:03.210 Yes, indeed. Their sound has gone out to all 00:17:03.210 --> 00:17:05.390 the earth, and their words to the ends of the 00:17:05.390 --> 00:17:08.829 world. But I say, did Israel not know? First 00:17:08.829 --> 00:17:11.880 Moses says, I will provoke you to jealousy by 00:17:11.880 --> 00:17:14.440 those who are not a nation. I will move you to 00:17:14.440 --> 00:17:17.240 anger by a foolish nation. But Isaiah is very 00:17:17.240 --> 00:17:20.259 bold and says, I was found by those who did not 00:17:20.259 --> 00:17:22.819 seek me. I was made manifest to those who did 00:17:22.819 --> 00:17:26.240 not ask for me. But to Israel he says, All day 00:17:26.240 --> 00:17:29.460 long I have stretched out my hands to a disobedient 00:17:29.460 --> 00:17:37.559 and contrary people. I hope you enjoyed today's 00:17:37.559 --> 00:17:39.750 reading as much as I did. And I look forward 00:17:39.750 --> 00:17:41.809 to seeing you again tomorrow to continue on our 00:17:41.809 --> 00:17:43.910 journey. God bless you and have a great day.