The following message is by pastor John Piper.

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Romans chapter 9 verses 22 to 29. What if God desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience

vessels of wrath prepared for destruction in order to make known the riches of his glory for the vessels

of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom he has called not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles.

As indeed he says in Jose those who are not my people I will call my people and her who was not beloved I will call beloved and in the very place where it was said to them you are not my people

There they will be called sons of the living God. And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel.

Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved.

For the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.

And as Isaiah predicted, if the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like

Sodom and become like Gomor.

Let's pray together.

That stands true of us, Lord. Let's pray together.

That stands true of us, Lord.

Had you not moved in power upon our individual lives

and our corporate life as a church, we too would have become a Sodom and

Gamara. That's how bad we are in ourselves.

And it makes us so happy

that because of mercy, you spoke

a word of call, you said,

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