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All right, if you got a Bible go to Romans chapter nine

We're studying the book of Romans for a very long time

This is gonna be a great sermon. You're gonna enjoy this

This is gonna be four or five of the greatest hours of your life

So if you've got a Bible go to Romans chapter nine and we're looking at our relationship with God

And how does it start and when does it start and who is the one who starts it?

I'll start with the story so this was a big week for us. It was

33 years ago this week that I took my now wife grace on our very first date 33 years ago

So how did we enter into relationship? Well, thank you for asking so the way it worked was this

I knew about grace before she knew about me. I like grace before she liked me

I had a heart that was open toward grace before her heart was open toward me. So what did I do?

I

architected circumstances

So that I could predestine her that was what I was doing

I wanted her to respond to my love by loving me and her respond to my pursuit by pursuing me

So I said everything up so that I could enter into this hopeful loving relationship with grace

We were 17 years of age in high school at the time

So first date was very very nervous and

picked her up and took her out to red robin because I'm fancy and we were 17

So I was like all the fries you want to eat around me. So we had red robin and

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