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Thanks for listening and being a part of real faith and remember it's all about Jesus. The music is so dramatic. I feel like I should

It feels a little anticlimactic. It's like here I am and here's my Bible

My name is Pastor Mark. I don't have a smoke. I feel like I should come in like on a zip line or something

Like a thing but I don't. That's all I'm 50. I just I walked up. That's all I did so

Good to have you with us live or online and what I like to do what we like to do is go through books of the Bible

So we're in the book of Romans amazing incredible book. We're in chapter 9 find your place there

And if you're new, we're so glad to have you this is gonna be one of the greatest four or five hours of your life

That's how we do the sermons here at the Trinity Church and if you're laughing

It's because you're a visitor the people that are part of the church. They know that's a prophecy right there

That's what's gonna happen. So and what we're talking about in Romans 9 and 10 is what can be a kind of a big complicated

Controversial issue and that is do we choose God first or does God choose us first in any relationship?

Both people need to agree they want a relationship

But in our relationship with God does God choose us first or do we choose him first in the big category?

Is something called breedestination and if you're from GCU

You've argued about this for the last two years with all of your fellow classmates. This is all you've talked about now

That being said it does have some real importance because it explains how we are to tell our story and the difference between a Christian and a non-Christian on how we tell our

Life story for non-Christian it really is a biography and

Obography is here's what I did here's what I overcame here's what I learned, you know

Here's here's what I did to sort of pull myself up by my bootstraps for a Christian the way we tell the story of our life is a

Testimony and that is that this is what God said this is what God did this is how God sustained me

This is what God taught me the difference between a biography and a testimony is really who's the hero of the story who gets all the credit or to use a word from the Bible the glory and

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