All right, if you want to turn your Bibles to Romans Chapter 9, I'm going to do a message today called

Great Joy and Great Sorrow. Great Joy and Great Sorrow sorrow and I'll explain how I put those two together.

But it is interesting to me.

God gave me this message several weeks ago and it's Romans 9 the first few

verses and Pastor Jimmy preached out Romans 7 and 8 last week you know so he

preaches Romans 7 and 8 here I come in with Romans 9.

And so I want to show you about Paul, greatest apostle.

This is right after he talks about no condemnation. Romans 8's a great chapter by the way. No condemnation

and no separation. It starts with no condemnation for those in Christ. If you're saved, no condemnation and

ends with no separation. Nothing can separate you from the love of God. That's

pretty good. Whether you say a man out loud or not you ought to say a man in your heart.

No separation from God, nothing can separate you from the love of God.

Nothing. Not even you.

You're not even powerful enough. So because it was your salvation is not

dependent upon you, it's depending upon what Jesus did. So no condemnation, no

separation. But then he goes into Romans 9 and it's a little bit of a shock and it's three verses that many people have never even seen in their lives and they're shocking and I'll show them to you before I hit Romans 9 let me hit one verse that Paul wrote to

Phileen it's verse 7 he said we have great joy and consolation in your love I just wanted you notice great joy and consolation in your love. I just wanted you to notice great joy. I could

have given you lots of scriptures where Paul talked about great joy. So he was a man of

great joy, but we're going to also see the words great sorrow and we're going to put them together, okay? great that's how amazing he is.

Romans 9. 1. I tell the truth in Christ. I'm not lying.

My conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit that I have great

sorrow and continual grief, continual in my heart.

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