1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,000 Welcome to the NECF Podcast, where we share our weekly sermons and faithfully interpret the Bible to encourage and direct you on your spiritual path. 2 00:00:09,000 --> 00:00:19,000 We are devoted pastors and special guests, devout to the depths of the Bible, exploring its profound lessons and useful applications for your daily life. 3 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:26,000 God's choice of faith, by which men are saved, is God's sovereignty. 4 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:39,000 Join us as we explore the timeless truth that have the power to change people's hearts and minds, promoting a closer relationship with God and a firm belief in His promises. 5 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:57,000 Thank you, the pastorates, for the time to teach and to be able to share with God's people God's word, the revelation of His word, and to open our eyes to seek God's truth. 6 00:00:57,000 --> 00:01:15,000 This evening will just be to be the final teaching right on the sovereignty of God actually to be the final conclusion so this is like the conclusion of the sovereignty of God that I've been teaching from catatismos right so this is like the conclusion of it. 7 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:37,000 I've been searched all the scriptures and understood what God wants, what the word of God is saying is important that we actually teach it in a balanced way, in a way that when we go, we are without questions right when we go we have clarity. 8 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:50,000 I would like to please tell some people here, right in our church that you would go out right you have lens, you know, to some extent some scriptures and interpretations and understanding. 9 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:55,000 However, when you go out you would meet people right. 10 00:01:55,000 --> 00:02:22,000 So that is why in this church we better make sure that we give you a balanced doctrine, right, so that either ways where you are confronted to explain the scriptures you can explain the scriptures with boldness with all certainty, and you will not be drawn away by any wind of doctrine. 11 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:44,000 So, this is the conclusion of the sovereignty of God, and I like, I like to start right. I like to first start by saying that by revising what we did the last time actually by revising what we did the last time. 12 00:02:44,000 --> 00:03:05,000 In the Romans, we established again in Romans Romans chapter one chapter two chapter three, how all men, right, how God desires all men to come to the knowledge of Christ right, and we brought about three teams from that Romans chapter one chapter two and chapter three, that are all 13 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:24,000 nations, right, all nations, especially referring to the Greeks, the Paparians the Jews, the Gentiles using different variations to explain people who are away from Israel, who are not Israel right as the use of Greek, Paparians, Gentiles right those people 14 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:42,000 right using those variations to explain those who are out of what I call the common words of Israel, right, and those were actually Israel right I mean Israel by birth, and explaining that all nations right, come to the knowledge of Christ true words, true 15 00:03:42,000 --> 00:04:03,000 words of faith so faith was another team that we identified, identified feet, and we identified righteousness, the righteousness of God, the righteousness of God, and we were able to see that in places where the righteousness of God is mentioned. 16 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:12,000 Right, they are almost the same scriptures, where faith is mentioned. 17 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:33,000 Right, so we will always find faith, right because men will receive that gift of righteousness, receive the gift of righteousness by faith. Right, so we, we can observe that consistently in the book of Romans, so we proceeded, right, to therefore establish 18 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:53,000 that all nations will come into Christ will come into righteousness of God through faith. Right, so we established that all nations will come into the righteousness of God, through faith, with no favoritism, and that day, I just mentioned favoritism, I didn't go to the scripture 19 00:04:53,000 --> 00:05:17,000 because I explained that very very well. Right, because I was just trying to paint some pictures, and all of that. So today, we'll go to, we'll go to the scriptures, right to explain to show that actually he was talking about salvation to all men, and that that was the 20 00:05:17,000 --> 00:05:35,000 context in which God was explaining or in which Paul was writing that God does not show favoritism. Right, so this is what we are going to check the scriptures now. 21 00:05:35,000 --> 00:05:41,000 Okay, so let's go to Romans one again, let's start from Romans one again. 22 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:50,000 Romans one. Again, and just go to Romans the first, first chapter. 23 00:05:50,000 --> 00:06:07,000 I'm just going to read from verse 16 and verse 17 as the first scriptures will read, verse 16 and verse 17. So, for I am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is the part of God for salvation to everyone who believes. 24 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:27,000 So first, and also to the degree for in it, the righteousness of God is reviewed from faith for faith, as it is written, the righteous shall live by faith, right, right, you're surely by fed action that's a reference to a book chapter two, this form. 25 00:06:27,000 --> 00:06:31,000 Right, it's actually referring to our chapter two. 26 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:38,000 That's for so if we even go to our book chapter two verse four. 27 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:46,000 If we make reference to that scripture. 28 00:06:46,000 --> 00:06:55,000 To be able to see me right, how about actually put it so look at how about putting. Let's look at chapter two. 29 00:06:55,000 --> 00:07:06,000 Right, so, behold, his soul is popped up, it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith, right. 30 00:07:06,000 --> 00:07:25,000 The righteous shall live by his face. So this is where he was quoted right from so we live Romans and go to about so talking about talking about a face that someone had right a face in a person, right, so he's talking about faith, actually in Christ. 31 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:29,000 Right, so we actually came to faith by the faith of Christ. 32 00:07:29,000 --> 00:07:46,000 Right, so we have to say that we came to faith by the faith of Christ so I will refer to his feet right means that someone is involved in that context. And here that is where he quoted, and we see that it is applied by Paul in the context of salvation saying that we will live by the 33 00:07:46,000 --> 00:08:03,000 faith of Christ right by the face that Christ had we will be part of those who will partake, just like some people used to mistakenly say, not mistakenly but we used to say to as well, that Abraham is a project, a father of faith right people say this thing like 34 00:08:03,000 --> 00:08:17,000 father of faith, and all of that now this scripture is actually revealing that Christ is actually the father of faith right, so Christ is faith, it is from his feet that we part two. 35 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:35,000 Right, and become believers and that's why you will see that scriptures will say that Christ is the auto and the finisher right the auto and the finisher of our faith which is the alpha and the omega of our faith right wonder perfect all things in all himself right so the 36 00:08:35,000 --> 00:08:49,000 the fullness of him will fit all in all so to for experience his feet the face of a person, and that is the face of price the faith Christ had, and we are partakers of that same thing. 37 00:08:49,000 --> 00:08:56,000 So good to see that all men must have this feet. This space that is found in Christ. All men must have it. 38 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:08,000 Romans chapter two verse 11. 39 00:09:08,000 --> 00:09:11,000 I think I'll just read from, from, this one. 40 00:09:11,000 --> 00:09:26,000 I will just read verse chapter two, therefore you have no excuse, oh man, every one of you who judges for passing judgment on another you condemn yourself because you the judge practice the very same thing. 41 00:09:26,000 --> 00:09:42,000 Do you suppose, oh man that you judge those who practice such things, and yes, do them yourselves, and you will escape in that you will escape the judgment of God, or you presume on the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience, 42 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:57,000 not knowing that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance. 43 00:09:57,000 --> 00:10:12,000 In fact, when God's righteous judgment will be reviewed, he will render to each one, according to his works to those who by patients in doing well sick for glory and honor and immortality. 44 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:25,000 He will give eternal life right, but for those who are self seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be right and furry. 45 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:30,000 Do you see that there is no salvation and distress for every human being. 46 00:10:30,000 --> 00:10:40,000 And the last paper says that, who does evil, and if you first, do you see, and also what the Greek. 47 00:10:40,000 --> 00:10:44,000 Does it sound like Romans chapter one, the 16. 48 00:10:44,000 --> 00:10:51,000 Yes, it does sound like romance of the one 16 salvation to the Joe. 49 00:10:51,000 --> 00:10:55,280 the first to the Jew and then to the Greek, right? 50 00:10:55,280 --> 00:10:57,540 Then we'll come to Romans chapter two verse, 51 00:10:59,280 --> 00:11:00,560 that's verse nine. 52 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:03,080 It says, there'll be tribulation and just for every woman 53 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:08,080 who does evil and the Jew first and also the Greek, right? 54 00:11:10,400 --> 00:11:13,120 For it's glory and honor and peace for everyone 55 00:11:13,120 --> 00:11:18,120 who does good and the Jew first also and also the Greek. 56 00:11:18,120 --> 00:11:23,120 The Greek, for God shows no partiality, right? 57 00:11:24,560 --> 00:11:27,440 So we would ask ourselves, 58 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:31,300 what is the context of God shows no partiality? 59 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:37,200 It is in the context that any man, right? 60 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:39,360 Who believes, right? 61 00:11:39,360 --> 00:11:42,760 So we know evil is disbelieving, right? 62 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:47,760 Evil is just believing and good is believing, right? 63 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:49,000 Who does good? 64 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,840 It's not talking about an action of charity, 65 00:11:53,840 --> 00:11:55,880 we're talking about faith 66 00:11:55,880 --> 00:11:57,960 because that is the context of chapter one, 67 00:11:57,960 --> 00:11:59,120 chapter three, chapter three, 68 00:11:59,120 --> 00:12:03,120 we have seen that clearly that is requiring faith. 69 00:12:03,120 --> 00:12:05,680 So we will see that he's saying that to the Jew first 70 00:12:05,680 --> 00:12:06,520 and to the Greek. 71 00:12:06,520 --> 00:12:09,200 So therefore we can come to a conclusion to say 72 00:12:09,200 --> 00:12:14,200 that salvation is to all men and whosoever believe, right? 73 00:12:18,560 --> 00:12:21,320 Whosoever believes in glory and honor and peace 74 00:12:21,320 --> 00:12:24,260 for everyone who does good, who believes. 75 00:12:25,160 --> 00:12:27,960 But whosoever does evil, right? 76 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:29,340 There will be tribulation and distress 77 00:12:29,340 --> 00:12:31,000 for everyone who does evil. 78 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:33,960 It's about salvation talking about salvation. 79 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:36,960 So when you say God is not a respecter of persons, right? 80 00:12:36,960 --> 00:12:40,080 In this context, right? 81 00:12:40,080 --> 00:12:42,080 In this context, we will be in this context, 82 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:44,680 romance is about salvation 83 00:12:44,680 --> 00:12:48,720 that God does not in any way, right? 84 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:53,720 Use ethnicity, nationalism or background of anybody, right? 85 00:12:57,640 --> 00:13:00,000 To judge them into salvation, 86 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:04,120 but God judges us into salvation by faith. 87 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:06,640 So God does not use ethnicity, nationalism 88 00:13:06,640 --> 00:13:10,760 or anyone's background to judge them into salvation, 89 00:13:10,760 --> 00:13:12,360 which is to bring them into salvation, right? 90 00:13:12,360 --> 00:13:14,880 I use that word to bring them into salvation, 91 00:13:14,880 --> 00:13:19,000 but he uses the faith of everyone 92 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:21,240 to bring them into salvation. 93 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:24,320 So when you use that word in the context of romance, 94 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:26,120 God shows no partiality. 95 00:13:26,120 --> 00:13:31,120 He's simply saying that all men who have faith will be saved 96 00:13:31,420 --> 00:13:34,040 and all men who do not have faith, 97 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:35,800 that is nothing we can do about them 98 00:13:35,800 --> 00:13:38,520 because they'll be separated from God. 99 00:13:38,520 --> 00:13:42,840 This is God's sovereignty, God's choice of faith. 100 00:13:42,840 --> 00:13:45,880 Now we explained this in Catechismos, right? 101 00:13:45,880 --> 00:13:47,520 We explained this in Catechismos. 102 00:13:47,520 --> 00:13:52,520 God's choice of faith as a means by which men will be saved 103 00:13:52,800 --> 00:13:56,480 is God's sovereignty, right? 104 00:13:56,480 --> 00:13:58,120 And that is what we see here, 105 00:13:58,120 --> 00:14:01,120 that God shows no partiality, that's what, you know, 106 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:04,400 as sovereign God, Bible says God is a righteous judge, right? 107 00:14:04,400 --> 00:14:07,000 When we call God a righteous judge, right? 108 00:14:07,000 --> 00:14:08,880 This is what it means, okay? 109 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:12,360 When we refer to God as a righteous judge, 110 00:14:12,360 --> 00:14:13,920 like this is what it means, 111 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:18,920 that all men can come into salvation by faith, right? 112 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:22,240 Though it's open, all men can come through that. 113 00:14:22,240 --> 00:14:27,240 So having explained this, we will now proceed to Romans 11. 114 00:14:29,360 --> 00:14:33,840 Because Romans 11 is where I said that I saw certain things 115 00:14:33,840 --> 00:14:35,840 that we needed to clarify. 116 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,160 And we began to clarify that on Sunday. 117 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:45,560 Romans 11, just go to, we'll go straight to this 11, 118 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:49,760 11, 11, right, we'll start on Romans 11. 119 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,560 So 11, 11, that sounds interesting. 120 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:57,400 Yes, so it says, so I asked, 121 00:14:57,400 --> 00:14:59,920 so we are there, Romans 11, 11, right? 122 00:14:59,920 --> 00:15:03,080 So I asked, did they stumble 123 00:15:03,080 --> 00:15:05,720 in order that they might fall? 124 00:15:05,720 --> 00:15:06,800 So by no means. 125 00:15:07,920 --> 00:15:12,280 Rather, through trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles 126 00:15:12,280 --> 00:15:14,320 as to make Israel jealous. 127 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:15,840 And we explained this, 128 00:15:15,840 --> 00:15:20,520 that Israel is not intentionally fallen, right? 129 00:15:20,520 --> 00:15:23,120 God did not say Israel would disbelieve, 130 00:15:23,120 --> 00:15:25,200 so that the Gentiles would believe. 131 00:15:25,200 --> 00:15:27,600 Then after they believed, you will come into salvation 132 00:15:27,600 --> 00:15:28,880 by the faith of the Gentiles. 133 00:15:28,880 --> 00:15:29,880 No, that's not it. 134 00:15:29,880 --> 00:15:32,240 We already established every man will come by his, 135 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,200 you know, by the faith that he has in Christ. 136 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,800 So they're saying that Paul is using this pattern of right, 137 00:15:37,800 --> 00:15:39,520 saying by no means, 138 00:15:39,520 --> 00:15:42,440 which is similar to like God forbid, kind of. 139 00:15:42,440 --> 00:15:47,280 Right, it's a rather, through their trespass, right, 140 00:15:47,280 --> 00:15:49,840 through the salvation, through their trespass, 141 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:53,200 has come to the Gentiles as to make, 142 00:15:53,200 --> 00:15:54,720 salvation has come to the Gentiles 143 00:15:54,720 --> 00:15:56,000 as to make Israel jealous. 144 00:15:56,000 --> 00:15:57,400 And one of my thoughts, right, 145 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,120 these are my thoughts, which I probably would check 146 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:03,920 as we move on, is that the persecution 147 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,000 that comes to the church, right, 148 00:16:06,000 --> 00:16:08,720 the persecution that comes to the church, right, 149 00:16:08,720 --> 00:16:12,640 is one of the two by which the message reaches the Gentiles, 150 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:16,840 actually, the persecution that comes to the church, right? 151 00:16:16,840 --> 00:16:18,360 So because the Gentiles, 152 00:16:18,360 --> 00:16:20,880 so the Jews oppose the message 153 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:23,600 and they persecuted the church, right? 154 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:26,680 So the persecution of the church, by that, 155 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:30,520 we saw that when Philip left, right, 156 00:16:30,520 --> 00:16:33,480 don't forget the 12 apostles were always in Jerusalem, 157 00:16:33,480 --> 00:16:37,880 what people like Philip and those other disciples, right, 158 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:40,840 they left, they traveled to many other places. 159 00:16:40,840 --> 00:16:45,040 Now they didn't go there to start a new life. 160 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:46,720 They didn't go there to relax. 161 00:16:46,720 --> 00:16:49,160 They didn't go there to look for greener pastures. 162 00:16:49,160 --> 00:16:50,680 They didn't go there, you know, 163 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,880 to look for things that were not in Jerusalem, 164 00:16:53,880 --> 00:16:58,040 but they went there preaching the gospel, okay? 165 00:16:58,040 --> 00:17:00,160 That is what you will observe, right, 166 00:17:00,160 --> 00:17:03,400 that the disciples that were scattered abroad, right, 167 00:17:03,400 --> 00:17:06,240 they went abroad preaching the gospel. 168 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:08,520 So by, we can say that by the persecution 169 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,040 that comes from the Jews to the church, right, 170 00:17:11,040 --> 00:17:15,600 we see that many people that were actually not Israel 171 00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,040 were able to hear this message. 172 00:17:18,040 --> 00:17:20,440 So what we're trying to explain is that 173 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,880 the good part of this persecution or this unbelieving, 174 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,160 right, of the Jews is that these Gentiles have believed. 175 00:17:27,160 --> 00:17:31,160 Now, verse two now says, 176 00:17:31,160 --> 00:17:33,960 now if their trespass means riches for the world 177 00:17:33,960 --> 00:17:36,280 and if their failure means riches for the Gentiles, 178 00:17:36,280 --> 00:17:38,520 how much more with their full inclusion? 179 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,800 And I said that this full inclusion is not correct 180 00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:45,960 because these people included their own interpretation. 181 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:48,200 So today, that's one of the major things 182 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:50,520 we are going to do. 183 00:17:50,520 --> 00:17:52,480 We are going to see how Paul used the word. 184 00:17:52,480 --> 00:17:55,560 Please, KJV will use the word fullness, 185 00:17:55,560 --> 00:17:57,200 which is correct, right? 186 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,520 Fullness is the correct word there. 187 00:17:59,520 --> 00:18:03,200 So we're gonna see if the word full inclusion 188 00:18:03,200 --> 00:18:05,520 or the inclusion of Israel, right, 189 00:18:05,520 --> 00:18:06,960 you know, does it mean full inclusion? 190 00:18:06,960 --> 00:18:09,760 Does it mean all of them, you know, will be saved, right? 191 00:18:09,760 --> 00:18:11,160 So that's what we're gonna check. 192 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,640 So we are gonna check the use of this fullness. 193 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,000 The first thing to note is that the word fullness 194 00:18:18,000 --> 00:18:23,000 there is pleroma, P-L-E-R-O-M-A, right? 195 00:18:25,520 --> 00:18:29,280 The word fullness means pleroma. 196 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:35,960 And interestingly, in the epistle, 197 00:18:35,960 --> 00:18:36,880 Romans is the first, 198 00:18:36,880 --> 00:18:39,320 so we see that it's first used in Romans. 199 00:18:39,320 --> 00:18:41,320 So it's the word pleroma. 200 00:18:41,320 --> 00:18:43,440 I'm gonna check scriptures that is in here. 201 00:18:43,440 --> 00:18:47,160 It is also used in Romans 11, 25, 202 00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:52,040 which is the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, right? 203 00:18:52,040 --> 00:18:54,920 The fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 204 00:18:54,920 --> 00:18:57,080 So verse 11 and 25. 205 00:18:57,080 --> 00:18:59,520 Now, we need to, I'm not gonna check any of that. 206 00:18:59,520 --> 00:19:02,040 I'm not gonna check the gospels for this. 207 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:04,680 I'm gonna check how Paul in his letters 208 00:19:04,680 --> 00:19:06,040 used the word fullness. 209 00:19:06,040 --> 00:19:10,120 So I'm sticking to the autos usage of the word fullness, 210 00:19:10,120 --> 00:19:12,000 right, to establish this truth. 211 00:19:12,000 --> 00:19:15,400 I'm sticking to the autos usage of the word fullness 212 00:19:15,400 --> 00:19:16,240 to establish this truth. 213 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:18,360 So I'm gonna check the epistles. 214 00:19:18,360 --> 00:19:22,080 So the first scriptures are that Romans 11, 12. 215 00:19:22,080 --> 00:19:24,640 We have Romans 11, 25. 216 00:19:25,520 --> 00:19:27,200 Romans 11, 25. 217 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:29,900 Now the next scripture is Romans 13, 10. 218 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:32,200 Romans 13, 10. 219 00:19:32,200 --> 00:19:36,880 Let's go there and check what's Romans 13, 10. 220 00:19:36,880 --> 00:19:40,880 How the word pleroma was used in Romans 13, 10 by Paul 221 00:19:40,880 --> 00:19:42,440 in the same scripture, right? 222 00:19:42,440 --> 00:19:43,280 In the same book. 223 00:19:43,280 --> 00:19:46,480 So from verse, Romans 13, 10. 224 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:49,740 Say love does no wrong to enable. 225 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:56,000 Therefore, love is fulfilling the law, right? 226 00:19:56,880 --> 00:20:00,200 It's fulfilling the law. 227 00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:03,500 Love is fulfilling the law. 228 00:20:03,500 --> 00:20:04,880 So what does this mean? 229 00:20:04,880 --> 00:20:09,280 Now, what we'll see is that in the New Testament 230 00:20:09,280 --> 00:20:12,880 interpretation of this word, right? 231 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:15,400 When you check the New Testament interpretation 232 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:17,300 of this word, pleroma, 233 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:19,920 I think I should give that first. 234 00:20:19,920 --> 00:20:20,840 Because when I give that, 235 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:24,240 it helps the context of what I'm teaching, right? 236 00:20:24,240 --> 00:20:25,720 It helps the context of what I'm teaching. 237 00:20:25,720 --> 00:20:30,720 So pleroma would mean not inclusion, right? 238 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:32,520 You have to first put that down. 239 00:20:32,520 --> 00:20:37,520 That not inclusion, not to include something in something. 240 00:20:37,760 --> 00:20:41,160 But the body of believers that are filled, right? 241 00:20:41,160 --> 00:20:44,840 So in this, in your blue letter Bible, 242 00:20:44,840 --> 00:20:47,160 tell you that it is in the New Testament, 243 00:20:47,160 --> 00:20:52,160 the body of believers as that which is filled with. 244 00:20:53,240 --> 00:20:55,680 Right, so the body of believer, which is filled with. 245 00:20:55,680 --> 00:20:58,240 So it's talking about a group of people 246 00:20:58,240 --> 00:21:01,160 that are filled up with something, right? 247 00:21:01,160 --> 00:21:04,200 That are filled with the abundance of something. 248 00:21:04,200 --> 00:21:07,740 That carries the wholeness of something. 249 00:21:07,740 --> 00:21:11,160 Rather than saying that it is a whole people 250 00:21:11,160 --> 00:21:14,120 joining something, it actually, 251 00:21:14,120 --> 00:21:18,680 individuals being filled, being whole, right? 252 00:21:18,680 --> 00:21:20,240 Being whole, right? 253 00:21:20,240 --> 00:21:24,580 Being a full part, carrying a full part of something. 254 00:21:24,580 --> 00:21:25,880 Right, so that is what it is. 255 00:21:25,880 --> 00:21:30,080 So it is like being filled with a presence, 256 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,440 an agency, right? 257 00:21:31,440 --> 00:21:33,440 To become an agent of something, right? 258 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:35,220 Because you are full with it. 259 00:21:35,220 --> 00:21:36,760 You are agent of something. 260 00:21:36,760 --> 00:21:39,000 The presence of something, right? 261 00:21:39,000 --> 00:21:41,220 The riches of God and of Christ, right? 262 00:21:41,220 --> 00:21:42,840 So see that the riches of God and of Christ. 263 00:21:42,840 --> 00:21:44,200 Now let's look at the law 264 00:21:44,200 --> 00:21:48,160 and apply being filled with something, right? 265 00:21:48,160 --> 00:21:49,000 Being filled with something. 266 00:21:49,000 --> 00:21:52,720 So we will see love does not wrong enable. 267 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:57,720 Therefore, love is the fulfilling of the law, right? 268 00:21:57,720 --> 00:22:06,720 What we can see is that in law, 269 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:10,480 law actually, or rather, 270 00:22:10,480 --> 00:22:13,600 the law is actually filled with love, right? 271 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:15,000 So what we can see in the law, 272 00:22:15,000 --> 00:22:18,240 law actually fulfills the law. 273 00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:19,200 The way to put it is, 274 00:22:19,200 --> 00:22:21,580 all that is found in the law is love. 275 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:23,740 Can we say that? 276 00:22:23,740 --> 00:22:26,220 All the abundance of the law is love. 277 00:22:26,220 --> 00:22:27,600 All the fullness of the law. 278 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,120 So that is to say, law is the fulfilling. 279 00:22:30,120 --> 00:22:32,520 We can say law is the fullness of the law, 280 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:35,680 the rumor of the law, right? 281 00:22:35,680 --> 00:22:38,600 Love is the fullness of the law, 282 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:40,600 which is the play rumor. 283 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:43,360 We cannot say love is included in the law. 284 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:48,280 Did you see how inclusion cannot work there, right? 285 00:22:48,280 --> 00:22:50,420 So I tried to use from my own kind of translation 286 00:22:50,420 --> 00:22:53,360 that says full inclusion, right? 287 00:22:53,360 --> 00:22:56,800 So we cannot say love is full inclusion of the law, right? 288 00:22:56,800 --> 00:22:59,680 Or rather, we can say love, right, 289 00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:01,120 is the fullness of the law, right? 290 00:23:01,120 --> 00:23:03,760 So whatever is found in the law, right, it's love. 291 00:23:07,400 --> 00:23:09,000 It's not just included in the law, 292 00:23:09,000 --> 00:23:11,160 it's the fullness of it, right? 293 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:15,940 So we also go to another scripture, Romans 15, 29. 294 00:23:15,940 --> 00:23:19,320 Romans 15, Romans 15, 29. 295 00:23:20,320 --> 00:23:22,800 I know that when I come with you, 296 00:23:22,800 --> 00:23:27,800 I will come in the fullness of the blessings of Christ, 297 00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:29,880 of the blessing of Christ, sorry. 298 00:23:29,880 --> 00:23:32,520 So I know that when I come to you, 299 00:23:32,520 --> 00:23:35,640 I will come in the fullness, right, 300 00:23:35,640 --> 00:23:36,880 of the blessing of Christ. 301 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:39,360 So it means that in Paul's coming, 302 00:23:39,360 --> 00:23:43,080 is coming being filled, right, 303 00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:47,700 being filled in the fullness of the blessing of Christ, right? 304 00:23:47,700 --> 00:23:49,960 So in Paul's coming, verse 28, 305 00:23:49,960 --> 00:23:51,920 when therefore I have completed these 306 00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:55,000 and I have delivered them to what has been collected, 307 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:57,840 I leave for Spain by way of you, understand? 308 00:23:57,840 --> 00:24:00,120 And I say, I know that when I come to you, 309 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:02,760 I will, excuse me, I will come in the fullness 310 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:03,600 of the blessing of Christ. 311 00:24:03,600 --> 00:24:06,520 So Paul is saying that I will come in the fullness, 312 00:24:06,520 --> 00:24:08,960 I will be a blessed, a full blessing to you 313 00:24:08,960 --> 00:24:11,080 because I'm filled with the blessing of Christ. 314 00:24:11,080 --> 00:24:13,800 I just, and a figure of speech expressing 315 00:24:13,800 --> 00:24:16,900 that is coming to bless them because it's full, right? 316 00:24:16,900 --> 00:24:19,680 It's full of the fullness of Christ, right? 317 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:21,400 It's coming in the fullness of Christ. 318 00:24:21,400 --> 00:24:24,480 It's not talking about Paul being included, right? 319 00:24:24,480 --> 00:24:26,480 We cannot say come in the inclusion 320 00:24:26,480 --> 00:24:28,000 of the blessing of Christ. 321 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:29,000 It's already full, right? 322 00:24:29,000 --> 00:24:30,440 It's fullness of Christ, right? 323 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:32,760 It's not a full inclusion, it's fullness. 324 00:24:32,760 --> 00:24:34,520 It's a thing that has taken, right? 325 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:37,720 So we find that there, that is not talking about 326 00:24:37,720 --> 00:24:40,080 being added or something, 327 00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:42,040 but talking about actually a reality. 328 00:24:43,600 --> 00:24:47,040 Right, talking about a reality of Paul 329 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,240 coming to you in the fullness of the blessing of Christ. 330 00:24:49,240 --> 00:24:52,920 1 Corinthians 10, 28, 1 Corinthians, 331 00:24:52,920 --> 00:24:54,880 we want to establish that it is not talking about 332 00:24:54,880 --> 00:24:59,680 some people being included in a particular thing, 333 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:03,460 but talking about them being filled in abundance, 334 00:25:03,460 --> 00:25:05,960 actually them being filled in abundance 335 00:25:05,960 --> 00:25:07,600 of the blessings of Christ. 336 00:25:07,600 --> 00:25:09,560 So 1 Corinthians 10, 28, 337 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,400 1 Corinthians 10, 28 says, 338 00:25:13,400 --> 00:25:17,000 but if someone says to you, right? 339 00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:19,680 If someone says to you this has been offered in sacrifice, 340 00:25:19,680 --> 00:25:22,120 then do not eat for the sake of the one 341 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:25,200 who informed you and for the sake of conscience. 342 00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,560 Right, you really, I'm writing my right scripture. 343 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:33,320 The fullness of the son. 344 00:25:35,720 --> 00:25:38,960 I do not mean your conscience was for ease. 345 00:25:38,960 --> 00:25:40,200 Let me check several ones. 346 00:25:40,200 --> 00:25:43,200 So there are a few actually. 347 00:25:43,200 --> 00:25:45,600 There was some of the 28. 348 00:25:45,600 --> 00:25:47,600 But I'm gonna check which of the Corinthians scriptures 349 00:25:47,600 --> 00:25:50,480 brings these, but let's go to Galatians 4, 4. 350 00:25:50,480 --> 00:25:54,200 Let's go to Galatians 4, 4 while we talk about the scripture. 351 00:25:54,200 --> 00:25:56,200 Let's go to Galatians 4, 4. 352 00:25:57,440 --> 00:25:58,760 Yes, it's the 28. 353 00:25:58,760 --> 00:26:00,320 Is it 28, right? 354 00:26:00,320 --> 00:26:02,680 Probably I'm reading the wrong thing. 355 00:26:02,680 --> 00:26:03,880 No, read to the end. 356 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:08,360 You see, these translations, they will help us. 357 00:26:08,360 --> 00:26:09,960 Okay, I'm reading, sir. 358 00:26:09,960 --> 00:26:13,320 But if someone says this has been offered in sacrifice, 359 00:26:13,320 --> 00:26:15,160 then do not eat for the sake of the one 360 00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:17,480 who informed you and for the conscience sake. 361 00:26:17,480 --> 00:26:20,840 So they just put a dash here, in here. 362 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:24,320 That this is, but even when one says this is offered 363 00:26:24,320 --> 00:26:28,360 in sacrifice, not for the sake of that, 364 00:26:28,360 --> 00:26:29,640 which is sure for the conscience sake, 365 00:26:29,640 --> 00:26:32,000 but it adds to the lot, like there's the error. 366 00:26:32,000 --> 00:26:37,000 So 14 Psalms 24, right? 367 00:26:37,760 --> 00:26:39,480 That's Psalms 24, right? 368 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:42,080 Psalms 24, we can go there and just add that to it. 369 00:26:42,080 --> 00:26:42,920 Thank you, sir. 370 00:26:42,920 --> 00:26:47,520 No, maybe I should change my translation. 371 00:26:52,080 --> 00:26:54,000 Maybe I should change my scripture that I'm using 372 00:26:54,000 --> 00:26:56,040 because I actually know it sounds, 373 00:26:56,040 --> 00:26:57,720 but I think I was just looking for, 374 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,600 so some 74, just put some 74 across that, right? 375 00:27:02,600 --> 00:27:04,240 So it's talking about the edge of the Lord 376 00:27:04,240 --> 00:27:06,320 and the fullness thereof. 377 00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:11,320 And that's what it was quoting when it comes to eating, 378 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,360 responding to the fate of others, right? 379 00:27:14,360 --> 00:27:17,760 Actually responding to the fate to the conscience of others. 380 00:27:17,760 --> 00:27:19,320 The edge of the Lord and the fullness thereof. 381 00:27:19,320 --> 00:27:22,240 So it means that all, it is talking about all that 382 00:27:22,240 --> 00:27:23,080 is in the edge. 383 00:27:23,080 --> 00:27:24,960 It's not talking about an inclusion of something 384 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:25,800 in the edge. 385 00:27:25,800 --> 00:27:28,320 It's not trying to say the edge is included in the Lord 386 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:30,640 or the Lord is included in the edge, no. 387 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,600 It's talking about all that is found in the edge, right? 388 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:35,880 Still the same word, the rumor, the fullness, 389 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:38,720 the abundance of the edge is the Lord, right? 390 00:27:38,720 --> 00:27:43,400 So it's not giving, it's not giving an action word 391 00:27:43,400 --> 00:27:45,280 like inclusion, right? 392 00:27:45,280 --> 00:27:49,440 So we are seeing that from this kind of teaching. 393 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,680 So yes, thank you, first Corinthians 10, 28. 394 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:53,600 So we have Dalatians 4, 4. 395 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:55,560 Dalatians 4, 4. 396 00:27:55,560 --> 00:27:59,120 We need to check all the way except there is any way, right, 397 00:27:59,120 --> 00:28:02,120 that we use it in the first place. 398 00:28:02,120 --> 00:28:04,360 Dalatians 4, 4. 399 00:28:04,360 --> 00:28:07,680 When the fullness of time has come, right? 400 00:28:07,680 --> 00:28:10,240 When the fullness of time, I think this is the only one 401 00:28:10,240 --> 00:28:13,600 that's a little bit tries to deviate from the pattern 402 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:14,440 of having the fullness. 403 00:28:14,440 --> 00:28:16,560 It's just talking about the fullness of time, right? 404 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:18,920 It's just talking about, this is more or less talking 405 00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:20,680 about the completion, right? 406 00:28:20,680 --> 00:28:23,160 The completion or at a particular certain, 407 00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:25,560 at a certain point in time, right? 408 00:28:25,560 --> 00:28:27,560 It's talking about the completion, 409 00:28:27,560 --> 00:28:29,760 the kind of a fulfillment. 410 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,240 We can use the word the fulfillment of time, right? 411 00:28:33,240 --> 00:28:34,080 Fulfillment of time. 412 00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,680 So it means that when all things have been put in place. 413 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:38,760 So let's say what happens. 414 00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,920 When the fullness of time has come, 415 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,080 God sent forth his son, 416 00:28:43,080 --> 00:28:48,080 born of woman, born under the law, right? 417 00:28:48,960 --> 00:28:51,680 Born of woman, born under the law, right? 418 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,040 To redeem those who were under the law 419 00:28:54,040 --> 00:28:58,560 so that we might receive adoptions as son, right? 420 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:00,240 And because you are sons, 421 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:03,240 God has sent the spirit of the son into our hearts, 422 00:29:03,240 --> 00:29:04,600 crying out by father. 423 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,840 So you are no longer a slave, 424 00:29:06,840 --> 00:29:08,520 you are no longer a slave but a son. 425 00:29:08,520 --> 00:29:11,360 And if a son, then hers with time. 426 00:29:11,360 --> 00:29:13,960 So this one is again talking about an appointed time. 427 00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:18,680 An appointed time, where all things are fulfilled, right? 428 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:19,680 An appointed time. 429 00:29:19,680 --> 00:29:21,400 So this is the only one that, you know, 430 00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,040 it does not also mean the inclusion of time. 431 00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,480 Nevertheless, you can use inclusion of time here. 432 00:29:26,480 --> 00:29:28,800 But the fullness of time, the abundance of time, 433 00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:32,240 in keeping up with God's promise, right? 434 00:29:32,240 --> 00:29:33,720 It's talking about the fullness of time, 435 00:29:33,720 --> 00:29:37,320 the abundance, the, how can I put it? 436 00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:38,840 The appointments, right? 437 00:29:38,840 --> 00:29:42,080 Appointed time for which Christ should come, right? 438 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:43,720 Talking about the appointed time to which Christ. 439 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:46,200 So it's not really using the word here 440 00:29:46,200 --> 00:29:48,040 in the way we have been saying it, 441 00:29:48,040 --> 00:29:48,880 but at the same time, 442 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:50,240 it's not talking about the inclusion of time. 443 00:29:50,240 --> 00:29:52,240 So it's talking about the time where things 444 00:29:52,240 --> 00:29:54,920 have been put in place for Christ to come 445 00:29:54,920 --> 00:29:56,720 when everything is completed. 446 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:59,440 And everything is completed onto a time, right? 447 00:29:59,440 --> 00:30:01,120 So completeness of time, right? 448 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,120 So we see it here, fullness of time, 449 00:30:03,120 --> 00:30:04,080 completeness of time, 450 00:30:04,080 --> 00:30:05,640 where everything has been put in place. 451 00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,680 So this is just the only one that actually 452 00:30:08,680 --> 00:30:09,680 deviates a little bit, 453 00:30:09,680 --> 00:30:12,480 yet it does not mean inclusion in that context. 454 00:30:12,480 --> 00:30:16,720 So Ephesians 1.10, Ephesians 1.10. 455 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:19,880 We establish this truth and we'll proceed. 456 00:30:19,880 --> 00:30:21,160 Ephesians 1.10. 457 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:23,440 As a plan for the fullness of time, 458 00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:26,080 similar to Galatians 4.4, right? 459 00:30:26,080 --> 00:30:27,960 As a plan for the fullness of time 460 00:30:27,960 --> 00:30:31,320 to unite all things, right, in heaven and on time. 461 00:30:31,320 --> 00:30:34,040 So it's talking about completeness of time, 462 00:30:34,040 --> 00:30:36,760 actually, completeness is bringing everything together, 463 00:30:36,760 --> 00:30:40,320 right, bringing everything to arrive at something, right? 464 00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:42,920 Bringing everything to arrive at something. 465 00:30:42,920 --> 00:30:44,200 It's like the fullness of time, 466 00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:47,480 when everything is set and everything, 467 00:30:47,480 --> 00:30:50,680 the action of God comes into play, right? 468 00:30:50,680 --> 00:30:53,160 To unite all things at an appointed time, 469 00:30:53,160 --> 00:30:56,720 just like I said, I said at appointed time. 470 00:30:56,720 --> 00:30:58,760 So we see two contexts where it is used. 471 00:30:58,760 --> 00:31:01,000 An appointed time where God does things 472 00:31:01,000 --> 00:31:03,680 and the fullness of which is our reality. 473 00:31:04,680 --> 00:31:07,200 Galatians 3.19, which was the one I think. 474 00:31:08,960 --> 00:31:10,240 Said, and to know the love of Christ 475 00:31:10,240 --> 00:31:11,360 that surpasses knowledge, 476 00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:15,240 that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. 477 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:17,080 So all the fullness of God, 478 00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,800 the reality of a believer that is found in God, 479 00:31:19,800 --> 00:31:22,680 the blessings of Christ as we see in Paul, 480 00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:24,960 explaining that it will come to them 481 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,640 in the fullness of the blessing of Christ, right? 482 00:31:27,640 --> 00:31:29,200 It's coming to them in the fullness 483 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,200 of the blessing of Christ. 484 00:31:30,200 --> 00:31:31,360 So it's similar here, 485 00:31:31,360 --> 00:31:34,080 to be filled with the fullness of God. 486 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:38,880 Ephesians 4.13, let's include that as well. 487 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,280 Ephesians 4.13. 488 00:31:41,800 --> 00:31:43,160 Ephesians 4.13. 489 00:31:44,440 --> 00:31:47,680 To the measure of the statue of the fullness of Christ, 490 00:31:47,680 --> 00:31:50,600 so that we may no longer be children tossed around 491 00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:53,960 to our flow by the waves carried about 492 00:31:53,960 --> 00:31:55,560 by every wind of doctrine. 493 00:31:55,560 --> 00:31:57,360 It's not talking about inclusion, really. 494 00:31:57,360 --> 00:31:59,040 It's talking about fullness, right? 495 00:31:59,040 --> 00:32:03,040 It's talking about the fullness of Christ, right? 496 00:32:03,040 --> 00:32:05,000 We grow up, it's talking about unity in faith, 497 00:32:05,000 --> 00:32:06,760 knowledge of the Son of God, 498 00:32:06,760 --> 00:32:09,240 to mature manhood, to measure, 499 00:32:10,400 --> 00:32:12,840 to the measure of the statue of the fullness of Christ. 500 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:14,680 So it's talking about coming to the reality 501 00:32:14,680 --> 00:32:17,680 of all that is ours in Christ, okay? 502 00:32:17,680 --> 00:32:21,200 It's talking about coming to the reality of all that is, 503 00:32:21,200 --> 00:32:24,200 because if you read that from verse 11, 504 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,280 it gave them apostles, prophets, evangelists, 505 00:32:26,280 --> 00:32:29,840 shepherds, teachers, to equip the saints 506 00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:31,920 for the work of the ministry, 507 00:32:31,920 --> 00:32:33,760 for the building up of the body, 508 00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:36,080 until we attain unity in faith, 509 00:32:36,080 --> 00:32:38,560 and of the knowledge of the Son of God, 510 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,800 to mature manhood, to the measure of the statue 511 00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,000 of the fullness of Christ. 512 00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:46,200 So you are coming into that true knowledge. 513 00:32:47,520 --> 00:32:48,520 You have the fullness of Christ, 514 00:32:48,520 --> 00:32:50,800 you are coming into the measure of the statue, 515 00:32:50,800 --> 00:32:52,800 true knowledge, that is why it says, 516 00:32:52,800 --> 00:32:55,760 the knowledge of the Son of God, right? 517 00:32:55,760 --> 00:32:57,840 So through the knowledge of the Son of God, 518 00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,440 we attain the measure and the structure 519 00:33:00,440 --> 00:33:02,160 of the fullness of Christ. 520 00:33:02,160 --> 00:33:07,160 We come to see it, and to make it a reality 521 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:09,440 in our lives, by knowledge. 522 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:11,520 So we see all that is also about knowledge, right? 523 00:33:11,520 --> 00:33:14,640 So we go to Colossians 1.19, 524 00:33:14,640 --> 00:33:16,720 which definitely will be similar to this. 525 00:33:16,720 --> 00:33:18,320 Colossians 1.19, 526 00:33:19,360 --> 00:33:21,200 and additionally put all the scriptures in it, 527 00:33:21,200 --> 00:33:22,560 just take time to do it. 528 00:33:22,560 --> 00:33:25,680 For in him, all the fullness of God 529 00:33:25,680 --> 00:33:27,880 was pleased to dwell. 530 00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,040 In him, all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell. 531 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:31,680 Talking about Christ, right? 532 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:33,320 All that is in Christ. 533 00:33:33,320 --> 00:33:36,320 From verse 15, is the image of the invisible God, 534 00:33:36,320 --> 00:33:38,840 the firstborn of the creation, for by him, 535 00:33:38,840 --> 00:33:40,920 all things were created in heaven and on earth, 536 00:33:40,920 --> 00:33:41,960 visible and invisible, 537 00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:44,920 thrones of dominions, or rulers, or authorities. 538 00:33:44,920 --> 00:33:47,120 All things were created through him, for him, 539 00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,720 and he is before all times, 540 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,200 and in all things hold together. 541 00:33:52,200 --> 00:33:54,440 And he is the head of the body, the church, 542 00:33:54,440 --> 00:33:57,680 he is the beginning and the firstborn from the dead. 543 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,280 And that in everything, he might be preeminent. 544 00:34:00,280 --> 00:34:02,760 For in him, all the fullness of God. 545 00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:05,320 So everything that pertains to God 546 00:34:05,320 --> 00:34:07,680 was pleased to dwell in Christ, 547 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:10,560 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, 548 00:34:10,560 --> 00:34:11,880 whether on earth or in heaven, 549 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:14,880 making peace by the blood of his cross. 550 00:34:14,880 --> 00:34:18,280 So everything that pertains to God was in Christ. 551 00:34:18,280 --> 00:34:19,120 That's God. 552 00:34:19,120 --> 00:34:21,120 That's why we say he's God. 553 00:34:21,120 --> 00:34:23,720 See, that's why we say Christ is God. 554 00:34:23,720 --> 00:34:27,280 Everything that is God is in him, right? 555 00:34:27,280 --> 00:34:28,120 So God. 556 00:34:28,120 --> 00:34:29,160 So that is what we see. 557 00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:31,440 You see that he's talking about him 558 00:34:31,440 --> 00:34:32,440 having the fullness of something. 559 00:34:32,440 --> 00:34:35,680 So Colossians 2.9, Colossians 2.9, 560 00:34:36,680 --> 00:34:38,520 for in him again, 561 00:34:38,520 --> 00:34:43,080 the whole fullness of the dead dwells bodily, right? 562 00:34:43,080 --> 00:34:46,720 In Christ, the whole fullness of God dwells bodily, 563 00:34:46,720 --> 00:34:49,160 and to have been filled in him 564 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,320 who is the head of all rule and authority. 565 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:55,680 So to bring everything together, right? 566 00:34:55,680 --> 00:34:58,680 We have seen that he's actually talking about 567 00:34:58,680 --> 00:35:01,760 the reality of a believer, 568 00:35:01,760 --> 00:35:04,440 which is the fullness of Christ that a believer has, 569 00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,760 the fullness of God, which is Christ, Jesus, right? 570 00:35:07,760 --> 00:35:08,600 In those two contexts. 571 00:35:08,600 --> 00:35:10,760 And the last one is talking about the completeness 572 00:35:10,760 --> 00:35:12,360 or the completeness of time. 573 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:14,880 Now, when we talk to Romans 11, 574 00:35:16,640 --> 00:35:18,680 so we will now understand now, again, 575 00:35:18,680 --> 00:35:20,240 to read Romans 11, 12. 576 00:35:20,240 --> 00:35:23,800 Now, if they are trespass means riches for the world, 577 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:27,040 and if they are failure means riches for the Gentiles, 578 00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,720 how much more will their fullness means? 579 00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:31,480 What does fullness means? 580 00:35:31,480 --> 00:35:35,000 Means that they come to the knowledge of Christ. 581 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:40,000 They are being filled with the fullness of Christ, right? 582 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:43,360 For a person, all the time scholars use the word fullness 583 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,760 in his epistle, he uses it in regards 584 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,000 to the fullness of Christ, right? 585 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:51,000 Apart from the one that he uses in the time, 586 00:35:51,000 --> 00:35:52,880 he uses it in regards to the fullness of time, 587 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,680 sorry, the fullness of Christ, the blessings of Christ. 588 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:57,600 So now let's look at it. 589 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,840 If they are trespass means riches to the world, 590 00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,440 and if they are failure means riches to the Gentiles, 591 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,120 they are trespass, which is they are missing the mark. 592 00:36:08,080 --> 00:36:09,880 Israel means, second, they are failure, 593 00:36:09,880 --> 00:36:14,120 means failure to believe, to attain righteousness. 594 00:36:14,120 --> 00:36:18,600 So the opposite of that will be attaining righteousness, 595 00:36:18,600 --> 00:36:23,040 right, and trespass, which is like missing the mark, 596 00:36:23,040 --> 00:36:27,640 will be getting the points, I mean, hitting the point, 597 00:36:27,640 --> 00:36:29,800 getting the mark, understanding what the law says, 598 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,160 for example, right? 599 00:36:31,160 --> 00:36:34,600 So trespass failures will definitely be matched up 600 00:36:34,600 --> 00:36:38,240 with their opposites, which will be to hit the mark 601 00:36:38,240 --> 00:36:42,320 through faith, right, and to be able to, I mean, 602 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:45,200 failure means they get a pass mark, which is true faith. 603 00:36:45,200 --> 00:36:48,480 So that fullness would mean that they are standing firm. 604 00:36:48,480 --> 00:36:53,480 How much more will their standing firm means, okay? 605 00:36:54,200 --> 00:36:57,760 So it means that how much more when they come to believe, 606 00:36:57,760 --> 00:37:01,080 how much more when they are filled with the fullness of God, 607 00:37:01,080 --> 00:37:04,880 how much more when Israel realizes that Christ is the Messiah, 608 00:37:04,880 --> 00:37:07,480 Jesus Christ is the Messiah, right? 609 00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:10,360 How much more when they are filled 610 00:37:10,360 --> 00:37:12,720 with all that pertains to God. 611 00:37:12,720 --> 00:37:15,920 That's what it's saying about fullness, right? 612 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:18,840 That is what it's saying about fullness. 613 00:37:18,840 --> 00:37:20,160 So it's not saying full inclusion, 614 00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:24,000 it doesn't mean they are fullness to be added to the faith. 615 00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:29,000 No, now when we go to 25, right, when we go to 25, 616 00:37:29,680 --> 00:37:31,640 we will now apply the same thing here. 617 00:37:32,800 --> 00:37:35,000 We'll apply the same thing in 25. 618 00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,160 Lest you be wise in your own sight, 619 00:37:37,160 --> 00:37:41,200 I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery, brothers. 620 00:37:41,200 --> 00:37:45,000 A partial hardening has come upon Israel 621 00:37:45,000 --> 00:37:48,960 until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 622 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:50,880 What is the fullness of the Gentiles? 623 00:37:50,880 --> 00:37:53,280 Does it mean that all the Gentiles in the world 624 00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:54,920 will believe? 625 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:56,600 All the Gentiles, Jews, Greek, 626 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:58,880 everybody who are not in the commonwealth of Israel 627 00:37:58,880 --> 00:37:59,700 will come to believe? 628 00:37:59,700 --> 00:38:02,240 No, it cannot mean that, right? 629 00:38:02,240 --> 00:38:03,080 It cannot mean that. 630 00:38:03,080 --> 00:38:06,360 So people say, oh, when there's a particular number 631 00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:08,080 of Gentiles that must come in, 632 00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:09,560 and it's a revelation, you will find, 633 00:38:09,560 --> 00:38:12,040 they will use revelation to explain that to you 634 00:38:12,040 --> 00:38:15,120 because they are misquoting and misinterpreting revelation. 635 00:38:15,120 --> 00:38:16,760 So there's a particular number of Gentiles, 636 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,840 when they come in, then Israel, 637 00:38:18,840 --> 00:38:21,160 God will now turn to Israel and he will begin to, 638 00:38:21,160 --> 00:38:23,360 there's no number, I don't know if people are playing 639 00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:25,680 with numbers, they just leave numbers alone, right? 640 00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:27,480 Leave numbers, let's focus on the script. 641 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,560 There's no fullness, because this fullness now, 642 00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:32,680 they are really using numbers to explain the fullness. 643 00:38:32,680 --> 00:38:34,300 The fullness of the Gentiles means 644 00:38:34,300 --> 00:38:36,820 when the Gentiles begin to believe, right? 645 00:38:36,820 --> 00:38:38,080 When the Gentiles are filled, 646 00:38:38,080 --> 00:38:41,120 the same thing is repeating in verse 11, 647 00:38:41,120 --> 00:38:44,360 that Israel will be jealous when he sees Gentiles come 648 00:38:44,360 --> 00:38:48,120 to enjoy the blessings of Christ, right? 649 00:38:48,120 --> 00:38:51,240 When Israel sees Gentiles coming to enjoy 650 00:38:51,240 --> 00:38:53,680 the blessings of Christ, right, he will feel jealous. 651 00:38:53,680 --> 00:38:55,200 So he uses the word pleruma, 652 00:38:55,200 --> 00:38:56,760 which is the same word he used there, 653 00:38:56,760 --> 00:39:01,600 until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in, right? 654 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,480 Has come in is actually, it's not like they are coming 655 00:39:05,480 --> 00:39:07,440 into Erbun or coming in, it's actually talking 656 00:39:07,440 --> 00:39:11,080 about their state and their condition, right? 657 00:39:11,080 --> 00:39:13,260 So it's talking about, so this is the way 658 00:39:13,260 --> 00:39:15,480 we can read it again, this is the way we can read it. 659 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,720 Partial hardening has come upon Israel 660 00:39:17,720 --> 00:39:21,600 in order that Gentiles might believe, right? 661 00:39:21,600 --> 00:39:23,280 Partial hardening has come upon Israel, 662 00:39:23,280 --> 00:39:27,040 some Israel disbelief in order, 663 00:39:27,040 --> 00:39:29,920 that word until there, right, is not like 664 00:39:29,920 --> 00:39:33,720 until we are waiting for all the Gentiles to come in. 665 00:39:33,720 --> 00:39:35,600 So when all the Gentiles come in, 666 00:39:35,600 --> 00:39:39,560 then Israel will now believe, no, that's not it. 667 00:39:39,560 --> 00:39:44,560 That until is not a time to say until the number is full, 668 00:39:44,560 --> 00:39:47,760 no, that until is saying that partial hardening 669 00:39:47,760 --> 00:39:52,760 has happened to Israel in order that Gentiles might believe 670 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:54,560 and that will be their condition, 671 00:39:54,560 --> 00:39:57,160 has come in is condition, it's not like there's a, 672 00:39:57,160 --> 00:40:01,120 it's not talking about coming into any Erbun or anything, 673 00:40:01,120 --> 00:40:02,880 it's actually talking about their state, 674 00:40:02,880 --> 00:40:04,760 their condition of being. 675 00:40:04,760 --> 00:40:08,720 So when Gentiles become blessings of Christ, 676 00:40:08,720 --> 00:40:11,400 which is the fullness of Christ, right, 677 00:40:11,400 --> 00:40:16,400 Israel will be jealous, verse 11 and 12. 678 00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:19,720 Through their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles 679 00:40:19,720 --> 00:40:22,160 as to make Israel jealous, right, to be passionate 680 00:40:22,160 --> 00:40:26,600 about what they have held onto, right, to examine it again. 681 00:40:26,600 --> 00:40:28,400 Now, if their trespass means reaches to the wall, 682 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,480 their failures also means reaches to the Gentiles, 683 00:40:31,480 --> 00:40:32,320 how much will their feelings, 684 00:40:32,320 --> 00:40:34,840 so here it's also talking about the fullness of the Gentiles 685 00:40:34,840 --> 00:40:37,160 and the Gentiles will be filled, right, 686 00:40:37,160 --> 00:40:38,800 with the blessings of Christ and the Holy Spirit. 687 00:40:38,800 --> 00:40:42,400 Now, do we all get that now, right? 688 00:40:42,400 --> 00:40:44,200 We get that, right, the fullness of the Gentiles, 689 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:46,720 talking about the fullness of the believer, 690 00:40:46,720 --> 00:40:49,760 the fullness of the believers, right, they are full. 691 00:40:49,760 --> 00:40:54,200 It's over, so in order that the Gentiles might believe, 692 00:40:54,200 --> 00:40:55,520 right, might come into a condition, 693 00:40:55,520 --> 00:40:58,440 and in this way, now this is the last one, verse 26, 694 00:40:58,440 --> 00:41:01,800 that's, you know, it's quite a little bit tasking to explore, 695 00:41:01,800 --> 00:41:06,800 but it says, in this way, all Israel will be saved, right, 696 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,960 in this way, all the, verse 26, all Israel will be saved. 697 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:13,000 Now, the word, in this way, all Israel will be saved. 698 00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:15,720 First, if we use the context, right, 699 00:41:15,720 --> 00:41:20,720 from Romans one, Romans two, Romans three, right, 700 00:41:21,480 --> 00:41:24,280 and continue in that pattern, 701 00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:26,680 the first thing we establish is that faith 702 00:41:26,680 --> 00:41:29,080 will make a man come into righteousness, 703 00:41:29,080 --> 00:41:30,600 and it is for all nations, 704 00:41:30,600 --> 00:41:33,480 and any man who comes into faith, right, 705 00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,360 who believes will be saved, right, 706 00:41:35,360 --> 00:41:37,360 salvation is to everybody. 707 00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,400 Now, if you now come here and say that all Israel 708 00:41:41,280 --> 00:41:43,520 will be saved, and you call that an election, 709 00:41:43,520 --> 00:41:46,040 or, you know, just a choice of God, 710 00:41:46,040 --> 00:41:49,000 you would have thrown away all of that. 711 00:41:49,000 --> 00:41:52,640 So you have missed the whole context of Romans, right, 712 00:41:52,640 --> 00:41:55,280 but if you observe, the use of all, right, 713 00:41:55,280 --> 00:41:57,200 the use of all actually talks about 714 00:41:57,200 --> 00:42:00,680 some of a particular type, actually. 715 00:42:00,680 --> 00:42:03,440 The context at which we are going to use all here 716 00:42:03,440 --> 00:42:06,080 is the sum of a particular type. 717 00:42:06,080 --> 00:42:08,640 So we can say that, in this way, 718 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:11,560 some of a particular type of Israel will be saved, 719 00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:14,280 and those are the people that have faith. 720 00:42:14,280 --> 00:42:15,120 I will explain it again, 721 00:42:15,120 --> 00:42:17,920 the word all there is past, P-A-S, right, 722 00:42:17,920 --> 00:42:20,080 is not used always for general, 723 00:42:20,080 --> 00:42:22,560 in fact, it can be used for individuals 724 00:42:22,560 --> 00:42:24,520 who come to believe, right. 725 00:42:24,520 --> 00:42:28,160 It can be, and when it's used collectively, okay, 726 00:42:28,160 --> 00:42:29,920 when it is used collectively, 727 00:42:29,920 --> 00:42:33,240 it is used for some of a particular type, right, 728 00:42:33,240 --> 00:42:36,920 collectively, some of a particular type, P-A-S, right, 729 00:42:36,920 --> 00:42:39,160 past, that's the Greek word, is just so. 730 00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:42,000 It means that in this way, 731 00:42:42,000 --> 00:42:46,080 all Israel of a particular type will be saved. 732 00:42:47,040 --> 00:42:48,880 Don't forget, if you go back to Romans 9, 733 00:42:48,880 --> 00:42:51,680 it says not all Israel are Israel. 734 00:42:51,680 --> 00:42:53,960 Do you remember, right, Romans 9, 735 00:42:53,960 --> 00:42:56,440 not all that are from Israel are Israel, right? 736 00:42:56,440 --> 00:42:58,280 Israel is not by natural bed, right? 737 00:42:58,280 --> 00:43:01,200 He explains that, right, he was that. 738 00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:02,920 So it means that some have faiths, 739 00:43:02,920 --> 00:43:04,400 and some don't have faiths. 740 00:43:05,280 --> 00:43:06,120 Do we get it? 741 00:43:06,120 --> 00:43:08,440 So he's saying that in all of these, 742 00:43:08,440 --> 00:43:09,960 while the fullness of Gentiles comes, 743 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:13,560 and they have this condition of faith, right, 744 00:43:14,760 --> 00:43:17,040 some people in Israel will realize it, 745 00:43:17,040 --> 00:43:20,000 and they will come to believe, right, 746 00:43:20,000 --> 00:43:20,840 they will come to believe. 747 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:24,560 And that is the explanation of that speech, okay? 748 00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:27,000 You can study, you can check the word first, 749 00:43:27,000 --> 00:43:28,880 you can pay attention to it. 750 00:43:28,880 --> 00:43:31,720 So the word until, I've explained it, 751 00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:33,520 is that in order for, 752 00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:36,440 in order for something to take place, right, 753 00:43:36,440 --> 00:43:39,400 come in, as come in, again, I explain, 754 00:43:39,400 --> 00:43:41,920 it's talking about their condition of being, 755 00:43:41,920 --> 00:43:44,720 their state of being, fullness of Gentiles, 756 00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:46,880 their state of being believers, 757 00:43:46,880 --> 00:43:48,800 their state of being filled with the blessedness 758 00:43:48,800 --> 00:43:50,200 of the word, the fullness. 759 00:43:50,200 --> 00:43:52,440 And in this way, all Israel will be saved, 760 00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:54,080 as long as I have a vision, 761 00:43:54,080 --> 00:43:55,520 and as come to the knowledge of Christ, 762 00:43:55,520 --> 00:43:56,560 we say why? 763 00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:59,400 Because it says the deliverer will come from Zion, 764 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,000 and he will banish ungodliness from Jacob, 765 00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:05,840 and verse 27, this will be my covenant with them 766 00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,400 when I take away their sins. 767 00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:11,640 So we can say that all men now, confident, 768 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:12,880 because there's no other scriptures 769 00:44:12,880 --> 00:44:16,160 that actually make such a, 770 00:44:16,160 --> 00:44:21,160 what I say, explanation that can lead to wrong assumptions, 771 00:44:21,440 --> 00:44:23,640 or that can, if you don't read well, 772 00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,480 we would miss the mark, right? 773 00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:28,320 There's no scripture, this is the only scripture. 774 00:44:28,320 --> 00:44:29,240 So we can say that all Israel too 775 00:44:29,240 --> 00:44:31,520 will come to the knowledge of God, right? 776 00:44:31,520 --> 00:44:34,360 Using every context of Romans and verse 28. 777 00:44:34,360 --> 00:44:37,040 Verse 28, it says, as regards the gospel, 778 00:44:37,040 --> 00:44:38,960 enemies for your sake, right? 779 00:44:38,960 --> 00:44:41,160 The word they are is not there, right? 780 00:44:41,160 --> 00:44:43,480 As regards the gospel, enemies for your sake. 781 00:44:43,480 --> 00:44:47,320 For as regards election, they are beloved 782 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,560 for the sake of their forefathers, right? 783 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,280 As regards election, they are beloved 784 00:44:52,280 --> 00:44:53,480 for the sake of their forefathers. 785 00:44:53,480 --> 00:44:56,800 So, excuse me, basically saying that we, 786 00:44:56,800 --> 00:44:59,720 as regards the gospel, to us, 787 00:44:59,720 --> 00:45:03,920 if you see a Jew, is an opposition, right? 788 00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:06,000 Is an opposition, the word enemies, right? 789 00:45:06,000 --> 00:45:07,720 Say it opposes, right? 790 00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:10,040 It's opposing what you believe, right? 791 00:45:10,040 --> 00:45:11,960 If you see a Jew that has not believed to us, 792 00:45:11,960 --> 00:45:13,280 they are enemies, right? 793 00:45:13,280 --> 00:45:15,160 And quote really means opposition 794 00:45:15,160 --> 00:45:17,240 to what we believe to the faith, right? 795 00:45:17,240 --> 00:45:18,800 As regards the gospel. 796 00:45:18,800 --> 00:45:21,160 As regards election, yeah, right? 797 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:25,320 They are beloved for their forefathers' sake. 798 00:45:25,320 --> 00:45:29,080 So it's talking about the fact that their forefathers 799 00:45:29,080 --> 00:45:31,680 received the oracles of God, right? 800 00:45:31,680 --> 00:45:32,960 And as a result, they are beloved. 801 00:45:32,960 --> 00:45:35,080 Now, let's see what that means. 802 00:45:35,080 --> 00:45:37,480 Verse 29, it's very popular scripture 803 00:45:37,480 --> 00:45:39,880 that we use regularly, which is, 804 00:45:39,880 --> 00:45:44,880 for the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable, right? 805 00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:47,920 So we always use the scripture, 806 00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:51,400 for the gifts and calling of God are irrevocable. 807 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:54,560 You say, ah, that guy speak, let me say something. 808 00:45:54,560 --> 00:45:57,120 That believer, he gets angry quickly. 809 00:45:57,120 --> 00:45:58,920 Used to, you saw people, right? 810 00:45:58,920 --> 00:46:01,240 But he still speak in tongues and he sees vision. 811 00:46:01,240 --> 00:46:03,600 But the gift of God are irrevocable. 812 00:46:03,600 --> 00:46:06,960 We just use it and we mesmerize that scripture, right? 813 00:46:06,960 --> 00:46:09,000 Just deal with that scripture. 814 00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:10,280 It's better to always read the scripture. 815 00:46:10,280 --> 00:46:12,360 I always say, don't quote us. 816 00:46:12,360 --> 00:46:14,400 We've always said, I guess we're getting to that knowledge. 817 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:16,160 As scriptures are not for quoting 818 00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,720 and using anyhow, they are for explanation. 819 00:46:18,720 --> 00:46:21,480 So what does it mean that the gifts 820 00:46:21,480 --> 00:46:26,480 and calling of God, right, are irrevocable? 821 00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:27,760 What does it mean? 822 00:46:27,760 --> 00:46:29,200 That the gifts and calling, 823 00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:31,040 is it talking about spiritual gifts? 824 00:46:32,520 --> 00:46:33,360 Do you think it will be talking 825 00:46:33,360 --> 00:46:35,120 about spiritual gifts in this world? 826 00:46:36,160 --> 00:46:38,400 Haven't been reading from Romans. 827 00:46:38,400 --> 00:46:40,240 This is not Corinthians, you know? 828 00:46:40,240 --> 00:46:42,000 Haven't been reading from Romans 829 00:46:42,000 --> 00:46:44,840 and since salvation, salvation, salvation, salvation. 830 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:49,360 So therefore, we can come to say 831 00:46:50,280 --> 00:46:53,600 that the gift of God that is without repentance, 832 00:46:53,600 --> 00:46:57,240 it refers to God's promise of salvation, 833 00:46:57,240 --> 00:47:00,600 which he fulfill, right? 834 00:47:00,600 --> 00:47:04,520 So we gotta say that the gifts and calling of God 835 00:47:04,520 --> 00:47:09,520 that are irrevocable, it's God's promise of salvation 836 00:47:10,480 --> 00:47:15,480 to these people, right, that he fulfilled, right? 837 00:47:15,560 --> 00:47:18,480 He promised them salvation, right? 838 00:47:18,480 --> 00:47:19,520 And he fulfilled it. 839 00:47:22,760 --> 00:47:25,280 God's promise of salvation, right? 840 00:47:25,280 --> 00:47:29,440 True faith to these people and that he fulfilled. 841 00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,440 So, because this is the context of what is taken, 842 00:47:32,440 --> 00:47:34,000 let me see, as regards to God's Buddha, 843 00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:36,880 your enemies, they are your enemies, 844 00:47:36,880 --> 00:47:39,680 but as regards election, right? 845 00:47:39,680 --> 00:47:43,440 As regards election, which is the same word, eclogy, right? 846 00:47:43,440 --> 00:47:48,440 They are beloved for the sake of their forefathers, right? 847 00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:52,880 So he's trying to explain something here 848 00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:56,800 that when it comes to the issue of Israel, 849 00:47:56,800 --> 00:47:58,440 now, so listen to his explanation, 850 00:47:58,440 --> 00:47:59,600 let's listen carefully, right? 851 00:47:59,600 --> 00:48:02,600 When it comes to the issue of Israel, 852 00:48:02,600 --> 00:48:06,840 God has promised salvation through Israel, one. 853 00:48:06,840 --> 00:48:10,800 So the Messiah will come through Israel, that's one. 854 00:48:10,800 --> 00:48:14,920 In Israel, right, in Israel, they will call Israel, 855 00:48:14,920 --> 00:48:19,920 many people, right, many people, many people of faiths, 856 00:48:19,960 --> 00:48:22,760 many people have come to faith in Israel. 857 00:48:22,760 --> 00:48:26,080 So first, God promised salvation through Israel. 858 00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:27,600 Did he fulfill it, right? 859 00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:29,320 God's gifts and his calling, right? 860 00:48:29,320 --> 00:48:31,720 Did he fulfill it, that it will come to the, 861 00:48:31,720 --> 00:48:35,240 did you remember that even when Moses said, 862 00:48:35,240 --> 00:48:39,480 when God, as it's written in the books of the Lord, 863 00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:41,280 that let me clear this generation 864 00:48:41,280 --> 00:48:43,640 and start a new people with you, right? 865 00:48:43,640 --> 00:48:44,680 Moses said, no, right? 866 00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:47,920 Let's just people will say that you are not able 867 00:48:47,920 --> 00:48:51,440 to bring them to the land that you have promised them, right? 868 00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:52,880 So you are not able. 869 00:48:52,880 --> 00:48:56,560 Now, that's part is relating to the saying that 870 00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:01,160 God's promise of the Messiah from Israel was fulfilled 871 00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:05,000 despite all their disobedience, right? 872 00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:07,480 So God promised that the Messiah will come to them 873 00:49:07,480 --> 00:49:10,400 and the Messiah came through Israel. 874 00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:12,360 So that's God's gifts and calling, that's one, 875 00:49:12,360 --> 00:49:14,720 that's one, one, so we pick that one. 876 00:49:14,720 --> 00:49:19,720 Now, the second thing is that as many as believed in that, 877 00:49:20,240 --> 00:49:22,680 okay, as many as believed in that, 878 00:49:22,680 --> 00:49:25,440 they received the promised salvation. 879 00:49:26,480 --> 00:49:29,560 So first, that the Messiah will come through Israel. 880 00:49:29,560 --> 00:49:34,560 Secondly, that as many as believed in that message of Christ, 881 00:49:35,520 --> 00:49:37,600 they received the salvation. 882 00:49:39,640 --> 00:49:42,440 Okay, they received the salvation. 883 00:49:47,960 --> 00:49:50,000 So God's gifts and calling, right? 884 00:49:50,000 --> 00:49:53,120 It's talking about our calling into salvation, right? 885 00:49:53,120 --> 00:49:55,120 Our coming into salvation, right? 886 00:49:55,120 --> 00:49:57,720 The gift of God is salvation. 887 00:49:57,720 --> 00:50:00,000 We receive it through faith, right? 888 00:50:00,000 --> 00:50:01,600 God did not withdraw it. 889 00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:06,200 And as part in Israel, the Messiah came through them. 890 00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:10,320 And secondly, in their lineage, many people believe. 891 00:50:10,320 --> 00:50:12,960 Okay, several people believe. 892 00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:17,160 We have Abraham, we have many, that's why you will see that 893 00:50:17,160 --> 00:50:20,160 even from verse 11, sorry, 894 00:50:20,160 --> 00:50:22,160 even from verse one of chapter 11, 895 00:50:22,160 --> 00:50:25,520 Paul already stated that there are many in Israel 896 00:50:25,520 --> 00:50:29,160 that would, if you check verse one, 897 00:50:29,160 --> 00:50:34,160 that is actually the opening of chapter 11, verse one. 898 00:50:34,160 --> 00:50:36,800 That is actually the opening of it, right? 899 00:50:36,800 --> 00:50:39,480 That's actually the opening of that chapter 11, verse one. 900 00:50:39,480 --> 00:50:43,800 Saying that I myself am in Israel and I believe, right? 901 00:50:43,800 --> 00:50:46,520 And when Elijah said, God has abandoned him 902 00:50:46,520 --> 00:50:47,640 and he's only one left, 903 00:50:47,640 --> 00:50:50,360 he said that I've kept 7,000, some remnant. 904 00:50:50,360 --> 00:50:54,080 So here he's also referring to as many, right? 905 00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:57,080 That I believe they have received it, right? 906 00:50:57,080 --> 00:50:59,600 So this is not something God withdrew. 907 00:50:59,600 --> 00:51:03,760 God did not operate, he did not hold back. 908 00:51:03,760 --> 00:51:07,160 He did not hold back the promise of salvation. 909 00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:09,720 God did not hold back the promise of salvation. 910 00:51:09,720 --> 00:51:12,760 God did not hold back bringing the Messiah from them. 911 00:51:12,760 --> 00:51:14,920 God did not hold back from them 912 00:51:14,920 --> 00:51:18,160 who believe the salvation of God. 913 00:51:18,160 --> 00:51:20,680 So let's read the verses that follow. 914 00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:24,400 The verses that follow tells you the answers to it. 915 00:51:24,400 --> 00:51:28,840 For just as you were once at a time disobedient to God, 916 00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:33,840 for now have received mercy because of their obedience, 917 00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:36,000 to day two have now been, 918 00:51:37,000 --> 00:51:38,720 so day two have now been disobedient 919 00:51:38,720 --> 00:51:42,240 in order that by the mercy shown to you, 920 00:51:42,240 --> 00:51:44,160 they may also receive mercy. 921 00:51:44,160 --> 00:51:46,520 So it's about salvation, right? 922 00:51:46,520 --> 00:51:48,440 For God has consigned all to disobedience 923 00:51:48,440 --> 00:51:50,680 that he may have mercy on all. 924 00:51:50,680 --> 00:51:53,880 All the debts of the riches and the wisdom 925 00:51:53,880 --> 00:51:57,760 and the knowledge of God are unsachable, are his judgments 926 00:51:57,760 --> 00:52:01,080 and are inscrutable in his ways. 927 00:52:01,080 --> 00:52:03,400 For who has known the mind of the Lord, 928 00:52:03,400 --> 00:52:05,480 or who has been his counselor, right? 929 00:52:05,480 --> 00:52:09,240 Or who has given a gift to him that he may be repaid. 930 00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:14,240 For from him and through him and to him are all things. 931 00:52:14,640 --> 00:52:17,920 To him be glory forever and ever. 932 00:52:17,920 --> 00:52:18,920 Amen. 933 00:52:18,920 --> 00:52:22,120 So we can see that he's also talking about salvation, 934 00:52:22,120 --> 00:52:24,960 nothing relating directly to the gifts, right? 935 00:52:24,960 --> 00:52:26,280 Nothing really pointed to it, 936 00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,320 it was pointing about God's mercy. 937 00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:30,720 And I said that when we say, when God says, 938 00:52:30,720 --> 00:52:31,760 when we read it in verse nine, 939 00:52:31,760 --> 00:52:34,920 that I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. 940 00:52:34,920 --> 00:52:38,280 But God have been mercy saying that anyone who has faith 941 00:52:38,280 --> 00:52:40,200 is the person I have mercy on. 942 00:52:40,200 --> 00:52:43,800 If you don't have faith, then you cannot reach my mercy, 943 00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:44,640 right? 944 00:52:44,640 --> 00:52:49,640 Indiscriminate, throwing out of, I mean, mercy 945 00:52:49,840 --> 00:52:52,440 and indiscriminate, randomly choosing people. 946 00:52:52,440 --> 00:52:55,560 But based on God's principle of faith, 947 00:52:55,560 --> 00:53:00,400 we have many people coming into the knowledge of Christ. 948 00:53:00,400 --> 00:53:05,400 So we can conclude and say with all those points, 949 00:53:05,400 --> 00:53:13,400 that our prayer for Israel is that they may be saved. 950 00:53:14,160 --> 00:53:17,520 Just like Paul read in Romans chapter 10. 951 00:53:17,520 --> 00:53:19,000 So when we pray for nations, 952 00:53:19,000 --> 00:53:22,480 it's the same way you will pray for any country in the world 953 00:53:22,480 --> 00:53:23,640 that they may be saved, 954 00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:25,800 is the same way you will pray for them, 955 00:53:25,800 --> 00:53:28,400 that they will come to the knowledge of Christ, right? 956 00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,600 If you want them to be saved, don't forget, 957 00:53:30,600 --> 00:53:35,280 we are commissioned to be saved. 958 00:53:35,280 --> 00:53:38,160 So preach the forgiveness of sins, right? 959 00:53:38,160 --> 00:53:39,960 To preach repentance and forgiveness of sins 960 00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:41,200 in the name of Christ. 961 00:53:41,200 --> 00:53:43,720 So if you want them to receive that, 962 00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:45,680 which is the gift of salvation, right? 963 00:53:45,680 --> 00:53:47,280 If you want them to receive that, 964 00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:49,280 your prayer will be that they will be saved, 965 00:53:49,280 --> 00:53:50,960 rather than any other prayer. 966 00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:54,160 So the same way I'll pray for somebody from Tanzania, 967 00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:56,520 I was going to come to Papua South Africa 968 00:53:56,520 --> 00:53:58,480 and pray for them that they will come 969 00:53:58,480 --> 00:54:00,440 to the knowledge of Christ. 970 00:54:00,440 --> 00:54:02,440 It's the same way you will pray for them. 971 00:54:02,440 --> 00:54:03,960 So there's nothing wrong in praying 972 00:54:03,960 --> 00:54:06,640 for nations of the world, right? 973 00:54:06,640 --> 00:54:09,680 Well, how do we pray for nations of the world, right? 974 00:54:09,680 --> 00:54:11,720 That they might come to the knowledge of Christ, 975 00:54:11,720 --> 00:54:14,680 that laborers and preachers might, you know, 976 00:54:14,680 --> 00:54:16,040 be part of those nations, 977 00:54:16,040 --> 00:54:19,640 explaining that law that they have received, right? 978 00:54:19,640 --> 00:54:22,600 To them, explaining the oracles to them, 979 00:54:22,600 --> 00:54:25,920 and showing that by this, 980 00:54:25,920 --> 00:54:28,600 having faith and seeing Christ in this, 981 00:54:28,600 --> 00:54:31,120 is how you come to the knowledge of Christ. 982 00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:34,440 Okay, so these are spiritual realities 983 00:54:34,440 --> 00:54:37,760 that we just explained and open our hearts to see 984 00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:41,280 that everything is actually about faith, 985 00:54:41,280 --> 00:54:42,960 receiving the salvation of Christ, 986 00:54:42,960 --> 00:54:45,440 and coming to the knowledge of God. 987 00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:46,360 Are we blessed? 988 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:49,640 So we are blessed. 989 00:54:49,640 --> 00:54:52,560 So I'll be watching us write our statements 990 00:54:52,560 --> 00:54:54,080 towards these nations, 991 00:54:54,080 --> 00:54:56,400 and when people post things, 992 00:54:56,400 --> 00:54:57,400 if you start posting things, 993 00:54:57,400 --> 00:54:59,280 and we start seeing you posting things like, 994 00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:01,040 pray for, I'll just message you, 995 00:55:01,040 --> 00:55:03,360 what kind of prayer do you mean, right? 996 00:55:03,360 --> 00:55:06,640 So that we can be sure of the kind of prayer you mean, right? 997 00:55:06,640 --> 00:55:09,400 Having this knowledge is very important 998 00:55:09,400 --> 00:55:13,920 because it's going to help us to lead other people our rights, 999 00:55:13,920 --> 00:55:15,800 to help us to lead other people our rights, 1000 00:55:15,800 --> 00:55:19,120 and we will not be misled when we are reading the scripture. 1001 00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:23,720 Thank you for listening to our sermon today. 1002 00:55:23,720 --> 00:55:26,360 We hope you were blessed by this teaching. 1003 00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:28,560 If you want to learn more about our church, 1004 00:55:28,560 --> 00:55:31,720 please visit our website or follow us on social media. 1005 00:55:31,720 --> 00:55:34,720 We would love to connect with you and hear your feedback. 1006 00:55:34,720 --> 00:55:37,320 Don't forget to subscribe to our podcast channel 1007 00:55:37,320 --> 00:55:39,600 and share it with your friends and family. 1008 00:55:39,600 --> 00:55:59,600 You never know who might need a word of encouragement.