Now, Lord, I feel keenly aware of my need to organize this exposition of your word in a way that moves us forward.

Less precious things in Chapter 10 and 11 be neglected.

And so help me and help us to see your word in the way it would

most helpfully relate to the needs in this room across the whole spectrum of these three chapters.

Guide me, I pray, to leave out precious things that would be less helpful and to include those

that would be most helpful in building faith and strengthening hope and clarifying vision

and mobilizing mission and purifying hearts and preserving marriages and intensifying devotion

for Jesus and blessing churches and having a ripple effect for the culture in which we live.

Dozens of things you want to do through your word and only you know how it gets from text to the hearts in this room

and so I pray for your providence, your supernatural governance over my walk through this text with

these friends.

Above all, make us spiritually alert to the truth that is here, and grant that we would see

with the eyes of Christ and see Christ clearly, see your work for what it really is.

And as Paul says, beholding the glory of the Lord, be changed from one degree of glory to the next.

I ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.

This is the next paragraph.

Here's my plan.

I would like to get through chapter 10 tonight.

So I hope to spend about a half an hour on the remainder of this crucial section on the defense of God in his election.

And then I have four things to say about chapter 10.

And we won't walk through it with every verse, but we'll hit on those four things.

And I think you'll get the big picture if we do that.

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