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Messages by Desiring God

God Saves Whom He Wills

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

Christianity, Messages, Sermons, Religion & Spirituality/christianity, Preaching, Desiring God, 163859, Religion & Spirituality, John Piper

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2014

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

As we come to realize how big God is, and how horrifying our sin is, we will come to understand election as a grace so impossibly great that we could not imagine it on our own.

Transcript

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The following resource is from desiring God.org. So here's the summary of where we've been so far.

0:17.0

God's Word has not fallen even though 93 says most Jews are cursed and cut off from Christ. And the

0:28.8

reason it hasn't fallen is because from the beginning the promise was based on God's free election of

0:35.7

children of promise not children of flesh and then he gave two old testament

0:41.4

illustrations Isaac not Ishmael Jacob And then he gave two Old Testament illustrations, Isaac,

0:42.9

not Ishmael, Jacob, not Esau.

0:45.5

That's been the argument so far.

0:47.6

And now comes verses 14 to 18.

0:50.9

And he asked this faithful question.

0:57.0

Is there then injustice or unrighteousness on God's part?

1:02.0

And his answer is no. righteousness on God's part?

1:03.0

And his answer is no.

1:05.1

It's almost the same as after verse three,

1:10.1

he said, is there then a falling, a failing of the word of God?

1:16.6

And his answer is no.

1:17.6

And now yes, all right, I'll give you my answer

1:21.2

with my heavy explanation of unconditional election of some Israelites not others

1:27.8

as the beneficiaries of the promise, does that mean God is unrighteous?

1:35.0

Now how he argues for the righteousness of God here is very involved and not easy to grasp at first glance.

1:46.7

So let's see what verses 15 to 18 say

1:50.4

by way of argument.

1:55.4

Four.

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