3. Concluding Applications 1. The object of faith is God, so know him, Dan 11:32 2. The origin of faith is the Bible, so hear him
4. Concluding Applications 1. The object of faith is God, so know him, Dan 11:32 2. The origin of faith is the Bible, so hear him 3. The object of faith is the will of God, so submit to him
5. Concluding Applications 1. The object of faith is God, so know him, Dan 11:32 2. The origin of faith is the Bible, so hear him 3. The object of faith is the will of God, so submit to him 4. The operation of faith is the work of God, so obey him
9. Point 1. The Old Testament stories are designed to give you pictures that illustrate New Testament truth.
10. Definition: Grace is God doing for you that which he does not have to do, and that which should produce rejoicing in you because he did it anyway.
11. Point 2. The lost have been hardened by what they were doing to gain God’s favor, and that has shut them out from seeing God’s grace.
12. Point 3. If a person rejects grace, then he or she will be hardened by going his opposing way.
13. Why God Blinded Israel 1. They had a far heart 2. They had a false fear
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15. Why God RepaidIsraelwith Unbelief 1.) God used her own table of fellowship to repay Israel by snaring her, because she crucified her Messiah 2.) Job 34:30 That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
16. Point 5. God has only chased us because he wanted to make his ex-wife jealous.
17. Point 6. Our God is so big he can give you a free will, and then take control of your decisions, because his providence has eyes and reacts to your actions.
18. Point 7. When Israel finally gets saved, a new kind of life will occur.
19. Point 8. It is the presentation of your firstfruits that sanctifies the rest of the harvest.
20. Point 9. It is what you give first that sanctifies the rest of the harvest, and insures your success in future years.
21. Point 10. If you give God the firstfruits then you are saying, I want everything that follows to come out of where I start.
22. Point 11. What is holding you up and sustaining you today is God's original promises to Abraham's seed.
23. Point 12. All the fruit you will ever produce, you will produce right here in this life.
24. Point 13. Jews are now being re-separated from the Gentile nations and assembled in Israel so they can start seeking God again.
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26. Point 14. Our sins are taken away at a crisis (getting saved) that results in a process (sanctification, but in the future the Jews sins will be taken away in a process (the Tribulation) that results in a crisis (their salvation).
27. Point 15. When you live a disobedient life, you delay the blessing but you do not cancel the promise.
28. Corollary: It is obedience that makes blessings happen when they are supposed to happen so you don't lose precious time waiting for them to happen.
29. Point 16. Your best chance for what you want is to stay in the way of obedience.
30. Point 17. Bible doctrine isn't designed just for categories in your brain, or divisions in your systematic theology; it is designed to ignite a new seriousness for God!