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Messages by Desiring God

My Heart's Desire: That They Might Be Saved

Messages by Desiring God

Desiring God

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

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 1986

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

It is fitting for those who believe in the sovereignty of God to feel a deep sorrow and for the lost and a deep longing for their conversion.

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0:00.0

Paul wrote Romans 9 to 11 to answer this question.

0:07.0

If Israel is God's people chosen from all the nations of the world.

0:18.1

And if they have been given the Sunship and the glory and the believing, by and large, having rejected their Messiah, and therefore cut off from Christ,

0:37.0

has not the Word of God fallen. That's a burning question for the Apostle Paul and he answers it unequivocally in verse 6 of chapter 9.

1:01.0

It is not as though the word of God has fallen.

1:05.0

And then he begins his explanation.

1:10.0

How can it be that most Israelites are unbelieving and cut off from Christ?

1:14.0

God's chosen people and His word of promise not be fallen?

1:18.0

Verse 6, second half.

1:21.0

For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel.

1:29.8

In other words, God's word stands and his purpose is undefeated because it never was his decree that every individual Israelite would be

1:46.7

saved.

1:50.1

There has been ever since the beginning of the choice of Abraham a choice of God within Israel.

2:00.8

Isaac not Ishmael versus six through nine.

2:07.0

Jacob, not Eastaw, versus 10 through 13. Not all Israel is Israel. Because there is a purpose according to election.

2:24.2

Verse 11.

2:26.7

Though they were not yet born and had done nothing good or bad in order that God's, here it is, purpose of election might continue, not because

2:38.9

of works, but because of his call, she was told the elder shall serve the younger, as it is written,

2:49.0

Jacob I loved, but he saw I hated. Not all Israel is Israel because there is a purpose of election

3:02.1

within Israel.

3:05.0

Jacob, not Esau, Isaac, not Ishmael.

3:11.0

Why?

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