For He says to Moses: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
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And the Lord said in response, I will cause all my goodness to pass in front of you, and I will proclaim my name, the Lord, in your presence. I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. But he said, You cannot see my face, for no one may see me and live. And then the Lord said, There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock, and when my glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft in the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by. And then I will remove my hand, and you will see my back, but my face must not be seen. I love once when we begin even just to get an inkling of this wonder of God who is transcendent. it points to triviality at any point in our experience, not least of all in our worship. You see, because if your notion and my notion of God is that he is simply somehow an extension of myself—he is, as in the book Places in the Heart, Sheila's God—she says—sheila, one of the characters in the book, says, I have my own little God. I call it Sheila. And my religion is called Sheelahism. …
… quoting Moses, I will have mercy on whom I have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. That's the end of human boasting. It's over. It's the death of self idolatry. Finally, number four, Moses drives the stake through the heart of self idolatry by teaching justification by faith alone apart from works of the law. Justification by faith alone apart from works of the law. In In Romans 4, Paul builds his entire argument on Moses, namely Genesis 15-16. Abraham believed God and it was counted to him as righteousness. You have to be righteous friends, you know this. You feel it. If you don't have a stitch of training in Christianity, you know your conscience says, if I'm ever to stand before the living God, I've got to have a righteousness. You can try to establish your own righteousness, it's called self-righteous, or you can embrace Jesus whose righteousness counts for years. Here's Romans 10, 3 and 4. Being ignorant of the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own. …
… he willed and then he chose like Romans 9 15 I will have mercy on whom I have mercy I will have compassion on whom I have compassion. So then it depends not on human willing or running, but on God who has mercy. So he could have just said that, namely predestination, choice, will. Bottom line, will of God. And he doesn't stop. He doesn't stop. He goes another level down, down to purpose or good pleasure. This is just almost unfathomable to me that he would talk this way. He would invite us in to the mind of the eternal God before there's any universe at all, and God is thinking, planning, willing, with a good pleasure. It's mind-boggling. So I predestine, I choose, I will, I have a good pleasure. What's the point? What's he trying to say? Why is he doing this? his point is that it is free it comes from nowhere but God your choice comes from nowhere but God before you existed and deeper than choice deeper than will all the way down to whatever this is called God's good pleasure Thank you. …