Sermon Tone Analysis

Romans Series #14

*Romans 9*

*Truths about the Potter*

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*READ chapter 9 *

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*Truth #1 - If you share the heart of Christ, your heart will hurt deeply for those who don't know Christ, because Christ has a Passion that ALL would come to Christ, while knowing that not all will and it grieves his heart.*

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God Loves, Chooses All*

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The topic of "choosing" and "election" causes SOME to paint a picture of a God that would have called some to Christ and they would have followed him kicking and screaming if necessary and though they breathed out insults and hatred, they would have made their way into heaven, simply because God chose them.

On the other hand someone would have been cast into hell even if the greatest desire of their heart was to follow Christ, simply because God didn't pick them.

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That is not a picture that I see of Christ.

I believe this picture and though it is an understanding that some have, is a not consistent with the picture that scripture paints of God, his purposes, his ways, and his salvation throughout scripture.

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The God I see in scripture would call ALL MEN to himself if they would simply respond to his call and come to him.

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We see the passion of Christ for all of Israel to come to him and yet knowing that they wouldn't respond as a nation and come to him with wholesale obedience.

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If we know Christ and know his heart, we will share this passion.

The greater our knowledge and experience of Christ, the deeper this passion.

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We see it in the heart's cry of Paul here in verse 2

V2 - "I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish"

 

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Paul didn't get this passion on his own.

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It was NOT part of his personality make up.

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