For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable.For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.For the gifts and the calling of God are not repented of.
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… your works. And guess what? You don't have enough. What's to keep God from doing that? It is the character of God himself. Romans 11, 29 says, for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. And just as we can depend upon the character of God to secure the unconditional promises made to us, we can depend that God is going to keep his unconditional promise to Abraham and his descendants. A promise that has great ramifications for the world in the years ahead, as we'll see in this series, Perfect Ending. God always keeps His promises, and we can be absolutely certain that God will redeem the world, just as He said. Well, it's been a pleasure to present this message on God's perfect ending today. And just before we turn things over to David, I'd like to spend a moment reinforcing your role in making Pathway to Victory a reality. From our earliest programs in 1996, we've been sustained by men and women who share my passion for the Bible and its power in our lives. …
… But concerning the election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are what? Exactly. So you're probably going to say, yeah, but are you promoting salvation through affiliation? No. I just told you. Blindness in part has happened until the fullness of the Gentiles. And then Israel will acknowledge its Messiah. And then all Israel will be saved. No one can enter the new Jerusalem unless his name is written in the Lamb's book of life. No one. It's obvious. Jeremiah 31. You know, I wrote it on a piece of paper and looked for an address to send it to the Ayatollahs. I didn't have a clue that nothing will be left from them, just the cardboard. But never mind. Look, watch this. Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the ordinances of the moon and the stars for a light by night, who disturbs the sea and its waves roar, the Lord of hosts is his name. …
… This is My covenant with them when I take away their sins. Verse 29, the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Israel, a nation used to proclaim the true God, to bring the Messiah, to intercede on behalf of other nations and bring them to the true God, to preserve and transmit Scripture, to show illustrations of divine grace and divine judgment, and to demonstrate God's faithfulness. How important is God's faithfulness to you? I would say it's the most important thing to me. I mean, I've put a lot of stock in God's faithfulness for my whole life. How do I know that God is going to be faithful to the promises that He made to me, or to you, or to the church? How do we know God is going to keep His promises? How do we know there can't be things that can interrupt that and change its course? Answer, look at Israel. Chosen to be a witness nation, they failed miserably at that. Chosen to put God's attributes on display, they miserably failed at that. …
… Will this happen? Verse 29 adds, the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. No one can argue the promise of the Bible that God is going to redeem Israel, that He is going to save them in the end. In the process, He will purge out two-thirds of that nation, and the one-third will then receive all the promises that He gave through Abraham, through David, and reiterated in the prophets, the promises that Jesus also reiterated, the apostles reiterated, and Paul wrote about in Romans 11. Why am I saying all of this in connection with the book of Revelation? Because as you turn to chapter 7, you're going to come to a passage where this salvation of Israel is launched in the future. Let me read it to you, starting in Revelation 7 and verse 1. After this I saw four angels standing at the four corners of the earth, holding back the four winds of the earth so that no wind would blow on the earth or on the sea or on any tree. …