His Nature - The Boss

May 3, 2020

Along  with the rest of the world, we continue to do a few things doing differently. This service is done in the form of a YouTube Playlist. Audio only podcasts are still available as per usual. The sermon is given by Pastor Chris.

Link To YouTube Sunday Service Play List

Link to YouTube Sermon Only

Link To Sermon Audio


Scriptures:

Psalm 13

How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?

How long will you hide your face from me?

How long must I wrestle with my thoughts

and every day have sorrow in my heart?

How long will my enemy triumph over me?

Look on me and answer, O LORD my God.

Give light to my eyes, or I will sleep in death;

 my enemy will say, “I have overcome him,”

and my foes will rejoice when I fall.

 But I trust in your unfailing love;

my heart rejoices in your salvation.

 I will sing to the LORD,

for he has been good to me. 

Romans 9:10-24

        Not only that, but Rebekah’s children had one and the same father, our father Isaac. Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

        What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses,

         “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,

         and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

      It does not, therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.” Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

     One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who resists his will?” But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’ ” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use?

     What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?