If you don't truly know what the word predestination means or why it's so controversial,

don't be embarrassed. Today, on Insight for Living, Chuck Swindall will break it down for us with

refreshing honesty and biblical clarity.

He tackles this challenging doctrine head on, addressing tough questions that keep people

up at night.

Questions like, does God really choose some and reject others?

Are we just puppets in his plan?

In this message, Chuck helps us navigate Romans chapter 9 to give us a meaningful grasp of this profound truth that has shaped Christian theology for centuries.

When we worship together, our time is not completed until we have heard from him.

We speak to him in prayers and in song.

We hear from him through His Word.

And that section we're looking at is out of Romans chapter 9.

Romans 9, which addresses a very deep subject that will call for our most

concentrated attention. All sorts of heresy has risen from this truth as individuals

have taken it and abused it or misused it.

We don't want to do either one.

Let's pay attention to a few verses from the reading of the scriptures in Romans 9,

what we're calling straight talk about predestination.

I'm telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying. My conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit that I have great sorrow and unceasing

grief in my heart.

For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ,

for the sake of my brethren, my kinsman according to the flesh, who are Israelites.

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