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real faith and remember it's all about Jesus. Well howdy we are in a great book of the Bible called Romans.

If you're new, it's in the New Testament.

And we're in Romans chapter 11, and up until this point,

Paul, who is the author of the book,

has been telling us,

how do you enter into a relationship with God?

And over and over and over, he's told us,

we turn from sin and we trust in Jesus Christ.

The question then is, well, what if someone does believe in Jesus and or their family for many generations does believe in the God of the Bible, has a relationship with them and lives under God's blessing and God's provision and

God's investment and involvement in their life.

What can sometimes happen is that people start to take God for granted,

that they're no longer appreciative of his presence,

his provision in their life.

And his case study in all of Romans chapter 11

is the Jewish people who had lived under God's blessing

for so many generations that they grew a little bored

with God's goodness.

They had a sense of entitlement toward God's provision.

And the reason that this is so incredibly important

is because there's something in us that always has that same proclivity or gravity that we need to fight against.

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