 Roshan, Dave, Aaron, Kiran. Good morning, Pastor. Good morning. Good morning, Thomas. Good morning. Good morning. Morning. Morning. All right. So let's get started. Let's take a moment to pray together. And we'll get started. I think the others will join us. Let's take a moment to pray. And then we will start. Aaron? Are you ready to pray? Sure. Sure, Pastor. Let me pray. Thank you, Lord, for this day, Lord. And thank you even the Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. And thank you. And as we learned you were today, Lord, reveal us the mighty things you've had for us today from your work. So Lord, Father, I pray in part for your wisdom so that, Lord, Father, we will understand you effectively and apply these in our daily lives. So Lord, we will come and you and submit yourself to the session into Your loving hand. Amen. Jesus is Nely. Amen. All right. So we covered Romans chapter 9 last week, till the end of Romans 9. And I know kind of the latter part, we went through it a little quickly, the last section. So I just wanted to see if anybody had any questions, any things that you would like to clear up from, or just revisit from Romans chapter 9, just to quickly review and then if there are any questions from Romans 9, we can discuss it and then move forward into Romans 10 and 11. Hopefully we'll cover both 10 and 11 today. In Romans 9, Paul turns his attention towards what is God doing with the Jewish people. He recognizes his own, or he expresses his own heart towards the Jewish people, Romans chapter 9, the first few verses. He recognizes what a privileged people they are, the Jewish people, that God has given them the covenants and all of that. But then, you know, what about all the promises he made to them, that they are the chosen people and through them the nations of the world would be blessed and you know, what about the promises God has made to the Jewish people if God is at the moment working through the church and doing all these wonderful things through the body of Christ. What about them, the Jewish people? So he says, look, the promises of God have not failed and will not fail. That's what he does. He mentions and then his first false states that God's promise to them continues to be fulfilled through the children of promise. In fact, that was actually what God was speaking to them, that when he said, you know, I will give you descendants, he was actually talking about the children of promise. That is those who, Jews and Gentiles who come to faith. So that's the first thing he points out. The second thing he points out, he brings our attention to is that the purposes of God will be fulfilled because God is sovereign and he speaks ahead of time and it will happen. And so we went about interpreting chapter nine, Romans nine, the rest of Romans nine, that is, was 10 onwards towards the end of chapter and we said, look, it has to be interpreted keeping in mind the sovereignty of God as well as the free will of man. So we intentionally put that together. We didn't isolate the free will of man and leave it aside, disregard it now. It has to be taken into account in the way we interpret scripture because the rest of scripture clearly bears evidence to the free will of man, the choice of man that God respects the choice, whether it's Adam or David or Solomon or anybody else that we see in the Bible, they made their own choices. They made their own decisions and they faced the consequences of it. And so while it is true that God's purpose, God is sovereign and his purposes will be fulfilled and somehow in a very interesting and very mysterious way, while the man is allowed to have his free will, God is still fulfilling his sovereign purpose through those decisions and choices. And the example he gave us, Paul mentions to us is about Jacob and Esau, about Pharaoh, about the potter and the clay, and then about the promises that God had given through the prophets, Hosea and Isaiah, about what he would do for the Gentiles. So before Gentiles and Israel. So he takes us through this journey actually through the Old Testament references and he brings about this point. And then finally, you know, he closes off and this is kind of what maybe kind of rushed through verses 32-33 saying that, you know, what has been the challenge? The challenge has been that Israel, that is the Jewish people, they are continuing or being insistent on attaining righteousness through the law. They're not willing to let go of that. They want to establish their own righteousness. And instead of receiving it by faith, they want to perceive it by the works of the law. And now God is not going to override that. That's their choice. That's what they're doing. So that's kind of how he ends Romans chapter nine. So are there any questions of Romans nine before we start reading chapter 10? Any questions on what we covered? I did mention that it is a challenging chapter because there has been different points of view presented out of this chapter, but we were very careful intentionally to blend both the Son of God and the will of man and look at it from that perspective. Any questions? All right. So it's not really a question, but, you know, when you explain, we understand the concept, like I understand, you know, what the text is saying, but I think my question is a little bit more practical in terms of, so, right, I find it difficult to express in words what I understand in my head, so I don't know. I think I might have to just improve my vocabulary or I don't know if it's just that or something else. So how do you, how did you approach or how did you learn? Sorry. Express this, like this, this, this whole truth about God's sovereignty and man's responsibility. Is that yes, yes. Like what I understand in my head, you know, sometimes I find it a little challenging to express in words what I understand. Yeah, maybe, yeah, I understand. I think one is to think through this, you know, like, I mean, what I do a lot is like when I'm studying, I'm actually meditating, thinking through on, you know, as I'm studying scripture, so I'm pondering, thinking through my own mind, you know, what is what is being said. And as I look up the meaning or the Greek or I might read it a few different versions, I'm mentally thinking through and maybe mentally also like painting pictures to try and understand what the scriptures are saying. So in some way, there's an understanding that is evolving within me in my own thinking, my own thought process about, you know, what the scriptures conveying. The second thing, of course, which is very important for all of us is to use illustrations. And I mean, I know I did not use any illustrations when explaining Romans nine, but, you know, a simple, a common illustration that I would use would be that of the landlord and the tenant, you know, so let's say I signed a lease with the landlord to rent his apartment. So, so I move in. Now, the apartment belongs to the landlord. But I've signed a lease. But now I become responsible for what happens inside the apartment. I can no longer blame the landlord. He is the owner. What happens inside the apartment is, is, is what I, is what I'm responsible for. So if I don't keep it clean, if I, you know, if I keep it messy, don't do the dishes, don't do the laundry, I can't blame the landlord. I can't say what kind of a landlord this is, this apartment is so dirty. No, who's living there? Who signed it? Who's there now? It's me. I am responsible for what happens here. Now, at any points, I mean, generally, if the landlord wishes to come into the apartment for whatever reason, now, let's, let's, let's, let's put it like this, right? Generally, the landlord will not just randomly walk into the apartment, even though it is his. He will walk in by invitation. That means the person who's taken the lease, if, if I want to invite the landlord for lunch, then I say, like, you know, would you like to come over for lunch or spend some time here? Yeah, he comes in by invitation, even though the apartment is his, because he's given it to me on lease, he's not just going to walk in any time. He's the owner, he won't walk in. Why? Because he's given it to me on lease and he somehow respects that. It is his place. He owns every piece, every brick in the building in this apartment, in this apartment, he's paid for it, but he just won't walk in through the front door unless he's invited. There are only certain situations where he's legally allowed to walk in. Maybe, you know, there's some sort of a criminal investigation or a police investigation, then of course the landlord and the police will just, they have the right to walk into the apartment uninvited. But other than that, he, even though the apartment belongs to him, he won't walk in. Now, if I find a problem in the apartment, maybe there's, you know, there's a plumbing that's broken and leaking or something, then I invite, I talk to the landlord, say, landlord, you know, here's the problem. This is not working. Also, can you come and fix it? And he will, you know, he'll send the right people to fix it. But that's happening based on invitation. So that's, I think to a fair degree, a good illustration, how God and us, how we engage on what happens here on earth. So God is the owner. He owns everything, but he's put us in charge of the earth in some sense. If you want to use the language, you can say he's given us a lease on the earth. He is going to come and take over, you know, the end of the book of Revelation. He's going to come in and he's going to establish new heavens, new earth. You know, it's like, OK, lease is over, guys. I'm coming back, you know. But till that time, the sparrow, this analogy, I think, explains to us how God works with us. He would come in by invitation. He's not going to just override what happens here, you know, archvices. And yet, he, unlike the landlord and the tenant, God is actually working out a certain purpose for humankind, which is which we don't find in this analogy. So this analogy is this illustration is somewhat limited in that sense. It illustrates certain things of the dynamical relationship, but it does not bring out the carrying out of purpose. So somehow that the landlord is actually carrying out his purpose in that the landlord is God. God is carrying out his purpose on the earth. In spite of what the choice is, you know, the tenant makes and God is still for even the tenant may keep the apartment messy and all of that, God is still carrying out his overall purpose. So, you know, if we kind of think maybe in terms of some sort of an illustration like that, it kind of helps us and to understand as well as to communicate this whole aspect of God being sovereign and, you know, what man is doing. So thank you, Pastor. So, any other questions? Anybody has anything else? Okay, so let's go to chapter 10 and chapter. And then, of course, we come to chapter 11. So like we said, Romans 9, 10, 11 are these three chapters where Paul is explaining one theme, which is what is God doing with the church and with Israel at this time? And now it's been broken into three chapters, but actually it's, you know, it's one part of the essay, part of this letter where Paul is focusing on this. And as you can see in Paul's writing that, you know, he quotes a lot from the Old Testament. In chapter nine itself, he's referenced the Old Testament several times in trying to explain to us what God is doing. Right? So let's get into chapter 10. He's going to continue here in chapter 10 quoting a lot from the Old Testament and then applying it to the church, applying it to what God is doing at this time. Let's continue. Let's read Romans chapter 10. And we will read verse one to five. Romans 10 verses one to five, please. Anybody could read it for us. Five to ten, Pastor. All right, please. For Moses wrote about the righteousness. One to five. Sorry. Romans 10, one to five. One to five. President, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they may be saved, for I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge, for they've been ignorant of God's righteousness and seeking to establish their own righteousness have not submitted to the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law of righteousness to everyone who believes. For Moses writes about the righteousness which is of the law, the man who does those things shall live by them. So Romans 10, once again, just like how chapter nine began and Paul didn't necessarily, Paul didn't write it in chapter and verse that was done much later in the 1800s. But what Paul here, he has said a lot of things and then he goes back to what he said at the beginning of chapter nine, which is rather than my, he's expressing his heart, you know. It's just, you know what I really wanted my heart is for the Jewish people to be saved. That means for them to come to know Jesus Christ. Now remember Paul himself was once a Jewish, a staunch Jew and he's come to faith in Christ, a very powerful encounter. And so for him to say, I want Israel to be saved. That's verse one. My heart's desire and prayer to God is for Israel to be saved. For that nation, people, Jewish people to be saved. You know, it's a big thing. You know, that means it is talking about the significance of his transformation, his conversion. He's come to Christ and now this once staunch Jew is deciding the same thing for the rest of the Jewish people. And then he recognizes or he states the problem. He says, you know, verse two, they have a zeal for God. They are people who are very zealous for God, very deeply spiritual people. But the problem is they don't have the right knowledge. They don't have the knowledge. They don't know the truth. They should blind it to the truth. The eyes have not been opened to this. And so what are they doing? Verse three, because they're ignorant. They're ignorant of how one can receive God's righteousness. They're going about trying to establish their own righteousness. That is what she has mentioned earlier through the law. So that's the problem. They haven't received a revelation and understanding of how you can receive God's righteousness through Jesus Christ. But instead they are trying to establish their own righteousness by keeping the law. And verse four, he says, you know, but Christ is the end of the law for righteousness. So here's the truth that the Apostle Paul is so convinced about and he bears brings it about in his writings. In Romans, we see especially in Galatians, that Christ is the end of the law. That means all of the law was given for one reason, to bring us to Christ. And all of the law is speaking and pointing to one person, Christ. And all of the law is fulfilled and met, satisfied in one person. That's Christ. So Christ is the end of the law. So the law points to him. The law is fulfilled in him and the law is satisfied by him, fully satisfied by him. Christ is the end of the law. And it is through him that righteousness is possible for everyone. And he says, unlike verse five, unlike what Moses said, that if you want righteousness by the law, you've got to live by the law. And that's very difficult, you know, because you're going to end up breaking at least one of the many laws. And if you break one law, you broke the whole law. So that option is actually not available. The option of getting righteousness through the law. So the only thing that we can do is receive God's righteousness through Christ. But the Jews are unwilling, Israel is unwilling to see that. They're not willing to receive that knowledge. And so they're just going about to establish their own righteousness. So that's the problem. And then very interestingly, he continues now in verse six to talk about the righteousness that comes from faith. That means how does those or how actually it's people, right? The people who receive righteousness by faith, how do they live? How do they live? And we see here in, we will read verses six through 13. So Romans chapter 10, let's read, please, verses six through 13. Somebody could read that for us, please. Romans five, six to 13. But the righteousness of faith speaks in this way. To not say in your heart, who will ascend into heaven? That is to bring Christ down from above. Or who will descend into the obsessed? That is to bring Christ up from the dead. But what does it say? The word is near you in your mouth and in your heart. That is the word of faith, which we preach. That if you confuse with your mouth, the Lord reaches and believe in your heart. That God has raised him from the dead. You will be saved for with the heart one believers into righteousness. And with the mouth confession is made into salvation. For the scripture says, whoever believes on him will not be put to sin. For there is no distinction between Jews and Greek. For the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon him. For whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Man, thank you. Thank you. Okay. So we're six, Romans 10, we're six. Paul is saying, but the righteousness that is of faith speaks in this way. So he just says, you know, that's the righteousness of the law, which none of us can receive. But those of us who do receive the righteousness of faith, the righteousness which comes through faith in Christ, we speak like this. We speak like this. And it's very interesting why at this point is he going into talking about, you know, something that has to do with speaking. Says the righteousness, which is a faith speaks in this way. And why is he transitioning into something like this at this point? And secondly, it's very interesting that from here in verse six on this point, after he says the righteousness of faith speaks like this from that point. And to lend a verse out to the middle of verse eight, he actually goes and quotes quoting Moses from Deuteronomy chapter 13 verses 11 to 14. So keep your hand in Romans 10. Let's just jump over to Deuteronomy chapter 13 and just read that verses 11 to 14. So here Paul is saying those who receive righteousness by faith, they speak like this. And then he goes back and he quotes from Moses. Let's read that Deuteronomy 30 verses 11 to 14 place. Somebody could read that Deuteronomy 30 11 to 14. Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach. It is not up in heaven. So that you have to ask who will ascend into heaven to get it and claim it to us. So we may obey it. Nor is it beyond the sea. So that you have to ask who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us. So we may obey it. No, the word is very near you. It is in your mouth and is in your heart. So you may obey it. Thank you. So Deuteronomy 30 11 to 14. Moses spoke to the people of Israel. He said this commandment. That's verse 11 Deuteronomy 30 11. This commandment, this law, all the words of the book of this law, everything that I've spoken to you. This commandment. It's not too mysterious. It's not too difficult to understand. And neither is it far away from you. But this word verse 12, it's not so up in heaven that you, you know, you can't get access to it and say, oh, who's going to go up there and bring it to me? It's verse 13. It's not way out there in the sea, the far distant oceans that who's going to cross the seas and get it for me? No, verse 14. The word is near you. It's in your mouth and in your heart that you may do it. So Moses says this commandment is very close to you. It's in your heart. It's in your mouth for you to do it. Now Paul, Romans going back to Romans 10 verse six says the righteousness of faith speaks like this. And then he quotes, like we said, he quotes from the drama 30 11 to 14. But instead of saying the commandment, he says the word of faith which we preach. So he says the word is near you. Moses said the commandment is near you. Paul is using that same text, but he's replacing commandment with something else. He's saying in Romans 10 verse six, you know, he says, do not say cool ascended to heaven to bring Christ. So he's really replacing or let me put it like this. He's really replacing commandment with Christ because he has just stated the end of the law is Christ. The end of the commandment is Christ. So he's replacing that commandment or the law with Christ, the word or the message of Christ, the word of faith. So he says, verse six, don't say into your heart who's going to bring Christ down from above. Or don't say, you know, who's going to descend into the abyss or go down to the depths of the sea to bring Christ out from the dead as he's dead. He's still dead. But verse eight, Romans 10. What does it say in scripture? What does all scripture say? The word is near you. It's in your mouth and in your heart. And now Paul explains what I'm referring to Romans 10 verse eight is you saying that is the word of faith which we preach. So what is he trying to do here? Several things. One, really the way that God wants us to live has not changed. In the Old Testament, from 1311 to 14, he said, you've got to keep my word in your heart and in your mouth in order to do it. Coming to the New Testament, keep my word in your heart and in your mouth. But what has changed is the word that we keep. In the Old, it was the commandment of the law. In the New, it's the message of Christ, the word of faith which we preach. Keep that word, the word of Christ, the word of faith, the teaching of Jesus and who Jesus is and what he has done and what he has made available. So the commandment has been replaced with Christ. The law has been replaced with Christ and keep his word, his message in your heart and in your mouth. But in the Old or the New, we live the same way. His word is in our heart and in our mouth. So what Paul is saying is, look, we're living the same way, but Christ has replaced the commandment. Moses said, this commandment which I command you will be in your heart and in your mouth so that you can do it. Paul comes around and says, the end of the commandment, the end of the law is Christ. And Christ isn't so far away or deep down, but he's right near you. And what is that? It's the word of faith. It's the message of Christ. Christ is and what he has done and that message, that word, keep it in your heart, keep it in your mouth. And then he explains to us in verses 9 and 10, something that is not explained to us in Teutoromy 13 as to how this whole thing works, like the dynamics of it, like the inner details of the working of keeping that word in our heart and in our mouth. Or when I say word, it's the message of Christ or the word of faith which we preach, which Paul mentions here in Romans 10 verse 8. This word of faith, this message that produces faith. And what is the message about Christ? So how does that work? What is the dynamics of this whole thing? He's explaining to us in verse 9 and 10, which is not explained to us in Romans, in Teutoromy 30. In Teutoromy 30, God simply told him, hey, keep my word in your heart, in your mouth, and so that you may do it. But Paul is taking it a little further. And he's saying, verse 9, if you confess with your mouth, who? The Lord Jesus. So Christ has replaced the commandment. So you confess with your mouth, not the commandment, but you confess Christ, the Lord Jesus. And believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead. You will be saved. Oh, so he's saying, you know that principle there in the Old Testament that God gave to his people. We are living by the same principle here in the New Testament. Just that Christ has replaced commandment. And if we believe in this Jesus, who is his message? And we confess that with him, with our mouth, who he is and what he has done and his message. We will experience salvation or stand for with our heart. One believes unto righteousness. So why does God want us to keep his word in our heart? Because we believe with our heart. That means you believe that word. You believe who Christ is, what he has done, his message. You believe with your heart. And when you believe in your heart, it puts you in a place of righteousness. It puts you in a place of right standing with God. You are in a position where you are, you're rightly positioned before God. You're in a right standing with God. You're in a place of righteousness. So with heart, man believes resulting in righteousness. That's where I stand. And with the mouth, confession is made. Resulting in or unto salvation or resulting in salvation. That means the experience of who Christ is or what he has done. And what his message says, the message of Christ. To experience salvation takes place in our lives. Those of us who receive righteousness by faith, we speak like this. So, you know, we can, there's a lot that we can emphasize from these verses. We can emphasize the way we are supposed to speak. Those of us who receive righteousness by faith. This is how we are supposed to speak. That is, we believe in our heart and we speak with our mouth. Who Jesus is, what he has done, what he has provided for us. That is the message of Christ. The word of faith, which we preach. That was everything that Paul was saying. Everything we have been preaching to you about Christ. That is what we have to speak. And we do not speak as though Christ was so far away in heaven. Or as though he's still dead beneath. So he says, don't speak like that. You are a person who's received righteousness by faith. So you don't say, oh, who's going to bring Christ from heaven? Or who's going to bring him down from the, up from the dead? No, don't speak like that. But instead, his message, the word of faith, is right there with you. It's in your heart and it's in your mouth. In your heart you believe that message about Christ. And it puts you in a right standing with God. And you say with your mouth, experience salvation. That means who Christ is, the Savior, the deliverer. Now, the other thing we can say is, the other extension of extrapolating or extending this truth is, it's not just about saying it once. Because if you go back to Deuteronomy 30, God didn't just say, say my law once in your lifetime. That wasn't the intent of what God said in Deuteronomy 30. He said, it's a way of life. This commandment will be in your heart and in your mouth that you may do it. That means you may live by it. It's a way of life. Keeping his word in our heart and in our mouth is our way of life. So confessing, believing and confessing who Christ is to us is our way of life. It's not that I do it once. So usually we use these scriptures. If you've never been saved, I want you to say this with me. Okay, you're saved. God bless you. Wonderful. And we leave it at that. But the original intent of what Paul is presenting here, which he quoted from Deuteronomy 30, was not given as a one-off thing. It was given as a lifestyle. So Romans 10, 8 through 10 is a lifestyle. It's a way of life. That means we continually believe in our heart and confess with our mouth who Jesus Christ is. What he has accomplished for us through his death, burial, resurrection and ascension. What that means for us. It's a way of life. This is how those who have received righteousness by faith speak. They always speak the word of faith. They always speak the message of who Jesus is, what he has done, how through his death, burial, resurrection and ascension, they are believing that all the time and they're saying that that's how they live. And doing that, and it's believing in our heart and confessing with our mouth, puts us in this place of right standing with God and of receiving or experiencing who Christ is. Because he says that the heart man believes unto righteousness, where the mouth confession is made unto salvation. So both salvation and righteousness and experiencing salvation that is the saving, healing, delivering who Christ is to us, the Savior, experiencing that comes through this way of believing in our heart and confessing with our mouth. This message of Christ, who Christ is. So as a way of life, this is what we do and this is how we experience Christ as our Savior in every sense. The word salvation we need to point out is it's the word so and so or the word there simply means that that word salvation in the Greek is a comprehensive word. It includes forgiveness of sins as we understand it. Being healed from sickness, being delivered from bondage, being set free, being rescued from harm and danger, being granted experiencing victory over enemies, wholeness, all of that is in that word salvation because you'll find that sometimes that word, where it says, your faith has saved you. Your faith has healed you. Your faith has made you whole. So it's that same word that's translated saved, healed or whole. So experiencing that wholeness that comes through Christ or salvation that comes through Christ happens like this. You believe in your heart, you say with your mouth. And I just want to point out the word confession. It means the word confesses homologia. That means to say the same thing. That means hours we speak in agreement with who Christ is. This is what Jesus is. This is what he did for me on the cross through his death, burial, resurrection, ascension. So I am saying the same thing. I'm saying who Christ is. I'm not saying contrary to who he is, but I'm speaking in agreement with who he is and what he has done. That's confession with our heart. Man believes under righteousness and with the mouth confession. That means you're speaking in agreement with. You are saying who Christ is. And this is very important because Jesus did tell us in Matthew 10, verse 32, he said, If you confess me before man, I will confess you before my father. If we acknowledge and say who Christ is to us, then Jesus, look, I will declare the same thing that I am this to them. I am their savior, healer, deliverer, redeemer, so on. So Romans 10, 6 through 10 is an interesting passage because the Apostle Paul is taking this Old Testament text and applying it to those of us who believe in Christ. And it starts off with stems from this truth that Christ is the end of the law. This was a practice God gave for those under the law. The same practice is continuing, but the commandment is replaced with the person of Christ. The law is replaced with the person of Christ. And Paul gets into a little bit more details on the dynamic. What happens when we do this of believing in our heart and saying with our mouth the word that God has given to us. And in the light of this, he says, look, verse 11, 12, 13, this word of faith, this message of Christ, what he did through his death, burial, resurrection and ascension has to reach all people. It's not just for us because anyone can have access to this. Whoever, verse 11 for the scripture says, whoever believes, again, verse 13, whoever calls. And this is for everybody, verse 12, the Jew and the Greek, because God is rich to all who call on him. That means this message and this truth about this preaching about Christ or this word of faith concerning Christ has to go to all people. And it's accessible to Jew and Greek, anyone. And God will respond to all of them. Okay. Till verse 13, you all with me so far? I suppose. Okay. Any questions? Okay. So, yeah, I think let's read verses 14 to 21. And then we just go for a break. And after that, and then we will explain the rest of the rest of this chapter is more of our motivation to say, look, this message of Christ has to go out to everybody. Right. So let's just read verses 14 to 21. Romans 10, 14 to 21, somebody could read it for us. And then we'll go for a break and come back. Romans was 14 to 21. How can, sorry, how then can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in one of the whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? And how can they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news? But not all the Israelites accepted the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our message? Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message. And the message is heard through the word of Christ. But I ask, did they not hear? Of course they did. Their voice has gone out into all the earth. Their words to the end of the world. Again, I ask, did Isaiah not understand? First Moses says, I will make you envious by those who are not a nation. I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding. And Isaiah boldly says, I was found by those who did not seek me. I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me. But concerning Israel, he says, all day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people. Thank you. All right, so we will take our break. And then we'll come back and look at verses 14 to 21. What is Paul bringing out here in the light of what he has already shared with us? So let's take a break and we'll be back in about 10 minutes. Thank you.