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Todays thoughts 11/23/2022

Acts 15:14

Simon has declared how God at the first visited the Gentiles to take out of them a people for His name.

Acts 15:9

and made no distinction between us and them, purifying their hearts by faith.

Acts 15:11

But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they.

God visits

Takes people to himself

For his name

Purifies their heart

Holy

Pure

Love

Righteous 

He’s not saving the world

He’s saving a people to be like Himself 

Sin is not ok it is to be eradicated by grace

Not all are chosen

If you want unrighteousness you are not saved

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Romans 9:21-23

Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory. 

God makes 

One for honor

One for dishonor

In long suffering:

Enduring vessels of wrath PREPARED for destruction 

Making known mercy and glory PREPARED for glory. 

If you want unrighteousness you are not saved

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The more we try to save the world telling them sin is understood by God the more they feel complacent and don’t see need for saving. People by nature desire to sin and don’t want to give it up. 

God wants a pure, holy, loving of righteousness people to mirror himself.

There is only a remnant. Few are chosen. 

To save people, the Gospel is you are a sinner and grace of God is only cure. Repent of self. Only the chosen will hear and want the cure. 

If you want unrighteousness you are not saved