Listen, if you're not into Bible study, you need to skip the next few months.

You can go whatever you're going to do, come back later.

This is deep stuff, but I tell you what, jokingly of course,

if you stick this out and come to the end of Chapter 11, it's going to be remarkable

how you see the nature of God and what God has promised us he cannot fail you.

You need to know that.

God keeps his promises not because you're so sweet.

He keeps his promises completely irrelevant of you and me. He has sworn by himself to keep his promises. You and I like kids who may be

have grown up I'm making it up right now.

Imagine if all of us found out that we were related to the Rothschilds,

and you're all a bunch of bazillionaires all of a sudden.

We did nothing, we knew nothing, but we became benefits

or we received the benefits of.

God did all the work, he did all the lifting, he paid the price, he made an

agreement to keep it empowered forever with himself and then turns around and gifts all those who'll trust Christ

with all that he's gotten for us and it's all of God's grace and it's all of God's favorite it's absolutely

awesome and so Paul with his remarkable Jewish history him being a Hebrew of the Hebrews, he says of himself, that he was

circumcised on the eighth day of the tribe of Benjamin, he gives his pedigree and Paul announces that if you want to meet God on Jewish standards

pulses you're going to have to beat me because I'm at the front of the line.

Then he turns right around and announces and all of that means nothing.

That's why by the way today Paul is hated among the Jewish circles because Paul is the one who nobody has met the demands

and the the degree that Paul has the guy was a genius but he was also schooled by Gamaleo and was one of the greatest minds,

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