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LET'S COME TO TERMS WITH THE FAITH OF THE FIRST CENTURY DO YOU KNOW THE DERECH HASHEM [REQUIRES LITERACY IN HEBREW]? ARE YOU DEPRESSED [THIS IS IN ENGLISH]? IF YOU HAVE HIGH SPEED ACCESS, TAKE A MOMENT TO LISTEN TO THIS MP3 FILE BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO YOU THAT THEY ARE NOT TELLING YOU IF YOU DO NOT HAVE HIGH SPEED ACCESS, TAKE A MOMENT TO READ THE TRANSCRIPT OF THE ABOVE MP3 FILE, BECAUSE THERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT THE ORTHODOX JEWISH BIBLE OF VITAL IMPORTANCE TO YOU THAT THEY ARE NOT TELLING YOU Imagine a young virile man who marries a very fertile young woman and one day the young virile man decides, "I'm ready to start a family." Now you know what a sonogram is, you don't have to imagine it. But imagine that the young virile man is watching the baby on the sonogram in what seems like no time at all. Well now imagine this: that the G-d who created time and who was watching you on His sonogram BEFORE you were in your mother's womb (Jer 1:5)...imagine that such an omniscient G-d (Amos 3:2) made a similar decision regarding you (1K 1:2). Unlike G-d, vain, ambitious Absalom wanted to know David better so he could betray him and destroy him and do something BAD. Your Father is different. G-d works all things together for GOOD for those who love G-d who are called according to his purpose. And this Heavenly Father who sees in secret knows the thoughts and intents of our hearts. He knows what we need. He gives us spiritual parents. He gave me Dr. Onis Chapman and Pauline Chapman when I was a child. When my father Earl had a nervous breakdown in 1965, my mother eventually sold our house in Oakland City, Indiana, and brought him out to Beverly Hills, California, where I was working as a professional actor and a member of Screen Actors Guild. When my mother began looking for a good congregation, she naturally looked for one like the congregation she had attended with my grandfather on Reel Avenue in Vincennes, Indiana. When she found a preacher named Myron Taylor in the same fellowship of congregations that included my grandfather Nicholas Goble's congregational affiliation and also Dr. McGavran's congregational affiliation, it was just a simple phone call from Myron Taylor that linked me up, now a newly regenerated believer with a call to preach, to Dr. Donald McGavran's office. And, since as a young man in India Donald McGavran saw the social difficulty of planting congregations that included both the high caste and the untouchables, so Dr McGavran saw immediately the challenge of congregation planting for endogamous Chassidic Jews. So right there in Pasadena, California sat Dr. McGavran, ready in the plan of G-d to mentor me and edit my books. There was a purpose in G-d's election (see Ro 9:11). So to whom much is given, much is required. The doctrine of predestination is not a doctrine about arbitrary fatalism. It is a doctrine about the grace and mercy of G-d which silences all human boasting. Paul could not espouse a view of Pelagianism or Pharisaism and point disparagingly at the Rich Young Ruler and say proudly of himself, "Well the difference between me and the Rich Young Ruler is that I was smart enough to make a decision for Moshiach." No, knocked off his high horse and struck blind with a temporary judgment miracle, Paul was led from the Damascus Road to the Street called Straight to get straight with Hashem in teshuva. And who has resisted His Will? So we are under grace, prevenient grace, before any response of ours comes into play. We did not choose Him but He chose us. Every day we should ask His forgiveness for being such an unworthy servant in the face of this unspeakable grace called predestination. See on judaizing. SEE ON PHIL GOBLE THE ACTOR SEE ON DR. PHIL GOBLE'S WORK SEE ON DR. PHIL GOBLE TODAY PRAY THIS PRAYER AND THEN PRAY THIS PRAYER.
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