Sometimes when we talk about this we talk about the a lapped the elect is a phrase that would be used to describe those who are chosen as compared to the non alack. One person put it this way quote try to explain the election and you may lose your mind trying to explain it away and you may lose your soul and quot So what was the basis for the choice of God Some would say it s irresistable grace this would be the Calvinistic view the Reformed view irresistable grace they would say God s Irresistible Grace has been extended You have no choice in the matter you actually can t resist it and they would even believe some in something called limit to the tone and meaning that Christ so only died for the Elector of the chosen ones so if you re not one of the elect actually Christ did not die for you at all let me just say at the outset I disagree with these views. I believe that Jesus Christ died for the center of all of the world Jesus put it best when he said For God so loved the world He g
Sermon and listeners hear how you mark 50 years as pastor of Grace Community Church take us back to when you 1st fell in love with the Bible how old were you and and what was happening in your life at the time you know I think it was when I was in college I had always believed the Bible always acknowledged the truth of the Word of God never questioned the Bible in any way I always knew it was the Word of God but it was when I went away to college and I remember my 1st year in college I took Greek took 5 units of Greek Well 5 days a week as a freshman as a freshman while so I was so immersed in the Word of God in the original language and I began to see the nuances of understanding the text from the vantage point of the Greek language not you re a sports guy you re a football player No yeah I was an athlete but I that had to come alongside with my intense Greek I actually ended up my college days with a minor in Greek at 24 units and the reason was I just I was going past just an Engli
College and opportunity and the exciting hope that we have been Jesus Christ now here s Dr John Jackson Well hello pastor Pastor audience thank you again for joining us I appreciate your heart for what God is doing in the region and so many times we hear things that we didn t know anything about and so today I have that privilege I get to meet with and connect with the pastor of Mt all of Lutheran church they re located in Folsom the Web site is Mt all the Folsom Mt all of Folsom dot com Now all of Folsom dot com And so we are with Pastor Ryan hope gravy and Ryan we want to welcome you to studio Hey thanks for having me John Ricks I m excited to be here and to spend some time with you that s great well hey listen I feel like I ve had a success already because as near as I can tell I got through your last name and didn t mess it up and that is that right that s truth right there yeah I got it I m a call you Ryan from here on out it sounds like it s a protein All right so Ryan one of th
Telling the Christians you know some of us I m sure we re fighting ocular as I do want to get perspective on is why in the west just when I think you persecute it it s Ok for the parts of the what we don t we don t see that sure you know we got to address that by the way Bonhoeffer did participate in a plot to kill it off Hitler with a bomb the plot failed and that s why Bonhoeffer was killed he was put in jail and then hung by the Nazis because he did attempt to kill Hitler. So anyway which we say about that what I would say is that the reason we don t have any record in the bible of the Christians fighting back against their persecutors. As near as I can tell is because we don t have any case of them suffering criminal violence except in the case of persecution all the suffering that is recorded in the Bible of course it doesn t record every experience of every Christian but what is recorded for example in the book of Acts or in the Epistles is that Christians were persecuted for th
Ass and wood and every household has an elevated stage like structure in the front side of the House and this elevated stage is used as storage space of farm produce such as cattle feed and I m assuming that where they don t get I don t know rodents or whatever eat yes Steve I ve actually had the privilege of traveling to places like this and be in mud huts or straw huts with mud floors and it s wonderful to see the impact of God s Word in people that live in in a really very rural way 97 percent of the core crews are are farmers and living in rural areas and Laxman Kazakh are who is our translator in this language gave us this testimony he said as I studied the scripts I felt as though Jesus was speaking to me there is a great need in my people many are on reached with the Gospel Please pray for them that they will receive God s Word with open hearts great so if you d like to pray for the Korku people as we begin this language translation and these home groups we would encourage you