Double Vision (Head Games: Pt 2)

The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans in chapter 11 says: I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not!! Follow along in the book of Romans, Chapter 11 and see what God has to say through Paul's letter as I'll attempt to explain on this episode of Hanescast. A part 2 episode to Head Games--Double Vision.

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Thank you for listening today on Han's Cast. This is a part two. But it's called Double Vision. It's not called Head Games. Playing some head games with listener, I guess. The reason I didn't titled it Head Games Part One and Devil Vision as part two of this is because the church can't see straight. And if you stick around a church that preaches that Israel has been replaced by the church, I advise you to leave that church because there's two separate entities. We have Israel, God's chosen people, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and the twelve tribes. Jacob, God wrestled with Jacob. Jacob wrestled with God. God let Jacob win. And then God says, Who are you? What's your name? That's what he said. What's your name? He says, Jacob, which is deceiver. And he says, you know, I'll give you a name. It's Israel. He and uh Israel contends with God and man. God let Israel Jacob win. And if you wrestle with God and he uh and you call upon him, he will give you salvation if you want to believe in his son Jesus. And so Jesus is the fulfillment of the law, and he also is the anointed of the Father, the sent one. And uh when we read about Israel, we oftentimes read about King David in the Psalms, and we also read about Jesus, uh, the suffering servant. And so in this episode, I'm gonna pick up on Romans chapter 11, and I'm gonna weigh in on that, and I'm just gonna pull up Romans chapter 11 right now, as uh uh if you can just be patient one second. I appreciate you guys listening, and uh again I went over Romans 10, and then I I was weighing into the first part of Romans 11 last time, and and on this double vision, the church is not seeing straight, and because of that, they don't understand the time we live, and the church, yeah, who I'm part of, right? Anyone who is a believer in Christ is part of the body of Christ, is is that's the church. We the church is not a building, we are the uh the Holy Spirit resides in every believer, and we are the temple of the Holy Spirit. The church is what is built on the confession of Jesus saving you. So if you are a believer and you get together with other believers, you come together as the body of Christ, living stones. The scripture tells us we are living stones built up together. And as uh the body of Christ comes together as believers, then Jesus dwells in in the midst. And so we have his spirit, Jesus is the word of God who became flesh, the veil of Moses has blinded the mind of the church, and there's a the veil of Satan has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, and so these things are written to Israel for the learning of the church, for our learning, that we do not fall prey to the same mistakes as they did. And so in chapter eleven of Romans, Paul Paul speaking, I talked about the interlocutor, and uh and he uses that in verse one. He says, I say then, has God cast away his people? And then he goes on to say, Certainly not, for I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. So Abraham was given a covenant promise that God told him to leave his family. They were, you know, from you know, they were pagans. And so Abraham left and by faith, and because he believed God by faith, it was credited to him as righteousness, and and so that's what the scriptures tell us that Abraham believed God and it was credited to him as righteousness. And so he's out of the tribe of Benjamin, and so Jacob, whose name was changed to Israel, was married to Rachel. He was given into marriage to Rachel by her father Shoot. Oh, I'm trying to think. Leah was Rachel's sister, who Laban gave to Jacob, but he he deceived Jacob, right? So Jay it was dark, Leah comes into the tent, you know, Jacob, you know, they they have they have sex. Jacob wakes up the next day, basically, and lo and behold, he's it's not Rachel, it's Leah. And and I of I well, I call her, you know, sad eyes, but because Rachel was beautiful, but it says uh I can't remember how it goes. I'm just going off the cuff here. Leah had uh her appearance, she her eyes were not beautiful like Rachel's, so that's where I get sad eyes. I guess I could have played the intro or play had it keyed up for sad eyes, that that song. I won't have to see you cry. And I wonder who sings that. I forget. But Paul saying, again, he says, has God cast away his people? This is New Testament, and then he says, Certainly not, for I am also an Israelite. So how can the church be replaced, or how can the church replace Israel when Paul is clearly stating, no, I'm also an Israelite of the seed of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin, who was Rachel's uh, you know, secondborn son from Jacob, because Rachel, Jacob had, you know, Leah, and then he had other wives or concubines, I should say con I think concubines, and he they he had children with them, but he loved Rachel, she couldn't have you know children, but then she finally gave birth to Joseph, who his brothers sold into to Egypt, and then he had Rachel died while giving birth to Benjamin. So, you know, Paul, whose name was Saul, changed to Paul, says, I'm a of the tribe of Benjamin, and Saul, King Saul, was also a Benjamite, but God has not cast away his people, verse two, whom he foreknew, and then he goes on to say in verse two, or do you not know what the scripture says of Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars, and I alone and am left, and they seek my life. So he's talking, you know, that's what Elijah said, like, you know, I'm I am alone, am left. But God he he wasn't alone. God said, I have reserved seven thousand in Israel that have not bowed the knee to Baal. And so Jezebel and Ha Jezebel had the prophets killed. The scriptures tell us how Obadiah hid you know fifty of the prophets because Obadiah Elijah showed up on the scene. I think this is in oh, I don't know, I want to say first or second kings, and you know, Ahab and Jezebel, you know, Ahab called Elijah a like troubler of Israel. And so Elijah said that, and he pleaded with God against Israel. Well, yeah, Israel has always been usurped. I guess that's where I was wanting to go with that. He says, Lord, they have killed your prophets, verse three. And that's what g Jesus said to the Pharisees, the religious leaders, you always kill the prophets. And of course, they also hated Jesus, this you know, who is God, and and and veiled in flesh. And so he says, They tore down your altars. Elijah said, Paul referencing Elijah, he says, I alone am left, and they seek my life. Yeah, so you see how Israel, the leadership, the the the you know, it's basically like synagogue of Satan, beachhead there in Israel's leadership, and they have the false prophets like Elijah killed four hundred prophets of Baal, and he slaughtered them, yeah. Because they were they were false prophets, and that was the penalty for being a prop false prophet is death. And then Elijah said, Paul referencing in verse four, but what does the divine response say to him? Question from Paul, like the interlocutor. He says, I have reserved for myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal. I just mentioned that, forgetting that verse was right there. I don't I don't study ahead, I just read and we go on. And that's why sometimes I get sidetracked, and sometimes I don't even make sense to myself sometimes trying to think these things through. Verse 5, chapter 11 of Romans says, even so then, at this present time, there is a remnant according to the election of grace. Yes, see, it's the election of grace, God's unmerited favor, and that's that we live in the age of grace, that if we believe, then we are saved, believe upon the Lord Jesus and you shall be saved. Again, the church doesn't really like that. That's too easy. The church likes to be in control of their congregation, of their flock, of their members. They, you know, oh, in order, you know, you gotta be a member here, you gotta you gotta be water baptized. You have to, if you want to take communion, you have to be saved, water baptized. Well, I definitely believe you should be understand that that you should be saved. Otherwise, you know, when you take communion, it's just you're remembering his, you know, his sacrifice until he returns, his death, his body broken for us, and his blood poured out for us. And so when we come together as believers, we commune together as one with the body of Christ. And so, yeah, I agree with that, but there's so many stipulations that the church oftentimes puts on believers, and it's and it causes division. It's by grace we are saved through faith. It's not of ourselves, it's the gift of God, lest anyone should boast, Paul says in Ephesians 2, 8, and 9. And but in this text in verse 6, he says, according to the election of grace, there's a me a remnant. And if by grace then it is no longer of works, verse 6. Otherwise, grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace. Otherwise, work is no longer work. So what then, verse seven? Israel has not obtained what it seeks, but the elect have attained it, and the rest were blinded, just that is as it is written. Yes, so the remnant received because of faith, and the rest were blinded because they didn't have faith, they didn't believe. Verse 8, just as it is written, God has given them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, ears that they should not hear, to this very day. So, okay, so to this very day. So now is he is that the church then? If the if the church has replaced Israel, no, it's not. He's talking about Israel here. David even said, and the reason David says this in verse nine, he says, let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a recompense to them. Because Saul was trying to kill David. Saul and his men were trying were going after David and his and David's mighty men. But Jonathan, who was Saul's son, he and David were very close friends. And Jonathan didn't want Saul, you know, his dad, to kill David, but David, you know, asking the Lord and telling the Lord, let their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a recompense to them. He's and then David goes on, Paul quoting what David said, let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see, and bow down their backs always. And so Israel's rejection is not is not final. And then verse 11 it says, I say then, I had Paul's saying in verse 11 of chapter 11, I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Well, certainly not, but through their fall to provoke them, the Israelites, to provoke them to jealousy. Salvation has come to the Gentiles. And so, because of their blindness, in part, salvation has come to the Gentiles. We must remember, those of us who try to explain the word of God and teach the word of God, that we have to be careful how we have to let the word of God speak, and we have to learn what the word of God says and figure it out. And so their their fall, their blindness was is so that the rest of the world could be saved because Israel, their God, Yahweh, he's the one true God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. And so, and he he sent his son two thousand years ago to die on a cross for our sins, and whoever believes shall not perish, but have eternal life. It's it's it's the doctrine of grace, it's the it's the election of grace, right? So now by grace, whoever believed, he chooses. He he he takes you and he seals you with his Holy Spirit. And then verse 12, now if their fall, speaking of Israel, is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentile, Gentiles, how much more their fullness? Right? So they fell because of their riches for the world. It's kind of like they have the one true God, he is their provider, but no, they didn't, you know, they complained in the wilderness. They complained just like the church does, just like I do. We oftentimes complain forgetting who our provider is, and next thing you know, we are chasing after the things of this world. First John 2 and 15, John says, Do not love the world, nor the things thereof. And so we shouldn't love the world, but we oftentimes get caught up for in the riches of this world. And so, you know, Paul says there again in verse 12, now if their fall speaking of Israel is riches for the world, and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness? It's kind of like, okay, so they are they can't see, but there is a remnant that can see and believe, but if their fall means riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness be? Because Israel, the word tells us, will be saved during the tribulation, they will call upon the Lord, they will enter a time of Jacob's trouble, and then in verse thirteen, for I speak to you, Gentiles, Paul saying, inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, so Paul is an apostle to the Gentiles. Yeah, because Paul, every time he tried to speak to his fellow men, the Israelites, they would they would beat him, stone him, and everything else. He says, I magnify my ministry, if by any means I may provoke jealousy to those who are my flesh and save some of them. Yes, so he he's apostle to the Gentiles. He wants to magnify the fact that he's an apostle to the Gentiles with the word of God. He says, If I'll do this, if I by any means may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, that's uh the his brethren, the Israelites, he says, to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. And then verse 15, for if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? Yes, so if them being cast away, set aside, so to speak, their fall, although it's that's not final, God will graft them back in. But Paul is saying, if they are, if branches are broken off and their fall is for for the Gentiles to be reconciled, well, what what what about when they are accepted again? What about when they accept Jesus during the tribulation? It doesn't point that out right now in these verses, but he says, What will their acceptance be but life from the dead? Question. And then he says in verse 16, for if the first fruit is holy, the whole lump also is holy, and if the root is holy, so are the branches, and if some Some of the branches were broken off, and you being a wild olive tree are grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. So, my understanding of that, okay, so the lump is holy, the whole loaf basically is holy. Like if but if there are branches that have been broken off, that doesn't mean that God has cast all of Israel aside. No, he hasn't. He's just break off the branches of those who who handed him over to Pilate, who wanted him crucified, who hated him because of their you know worried about their ex, you know, acceptance and and and their profile with Rome and Caesar, and they just you know they would, you know, they they hated Paul, they hated Jesus, and Jesus even says, Don't be surprised if you're persecuted. Remember, they hated me first, and so they hated Jesus, and when we stand up and do the right thing, then we too are oftentimes ridiculed and hated on. Why? Because we have the truth, and then and it's because people love this world and it's conflicting with their lifestyle. That doesn't mean we just point out every little thing that people do wrong. No. We are told that we are to let our light shine before men that they may see our good works, and then when they see our good works, then it points them to Jesus. And and how what kind of works? I'm not talking about you know picking up a loaf of bread for the guy down the street, although that may be okay too. But how about the works of forgiveness and love? Let love ha and let patience, let patience have its perfect work, right? And so patience, love, forgiveness, those are some hardcore things that are not easy to do. To to love someone who is hard to love or to forgive someone that's hard to forgive. And that just that's sometimes people say, I I I can't forgive. Well, we can forgive by just giving it to God. Say, God, I I I give them over to you. You know what they did to me, and I I surrender them over to you. If you can do that, then God will take care of it from there. And we don't have to be a uh, you know, just a doormat for people to stand on. We we forgive them by giving them over to God and allowing Him to take over because we can't do it of ourselves. No, we can't, because it's just it's just impossible without the Holy Spirit revealing those things to us so that we are not held in bondage by unforgiveness. And so the unforgiv the forgiveness frees us from that and from them having you know a hand of you know, a stronghold in our lives. And so in verse 17, he says, and if some of the branches were broken off, and you being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them, and and with them became a partaker of the n of the root and fatness of the olive tree, do not boast against the branches. So, yeah, we're wild olive trees, uh, as believers, grafted in to the to the to the vine. And and so he says, you don't he says, but if you do boast, remember that you don't support the root, but the root supports you. So we have so many people who are anti-Semitic against Israel that and they blame Israel for everything, not realizing that the leadership of Israel is sideways, and they and the enemy has thwarted you know their decision making and things like that. Although God is in total control, people just don't really know, so they just blame Israel, and that's what the enemy does that is good. He he when he breeds anti-Semitism into believers, into the church with false teachers, false prophets, people are reading books about you know how replacement theology, supersessionism, like I talked about, where now you know they say, oh, well, Israel God's done away with them because of they they had G or because they crucified Jesus. Well, they didn't crucify him. Uh actually Rome did, but the religious leaders had him handed over, and so they did reject him, and that's why their branches were broke off because uh yeah, because they were in unbelief. And that's why he says, you know, you verse 19, you will say then, branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. Verse 20, well said, because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. So we stand by faith because he is able to make us stand. He says, Do not be haughty, but fear. Yeah, fear the wisdom of the Lord. The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. No, but the fear of man is a snare, and so we have people who fear man uh man or men who write books. We think they're so smart, you know, like whether it's Calvin or old John Piper and people like that who are anti-Semitic. They yeah, it's anti-Semitism and it breeds anti-Semitism when they don't understand the scriptures. These scriptures, if I can unpack them, come on now. If I can unpack these, then other people should be able to unpack these fairly easy, but what happens is they're wise in their own opinion. And so God will make them fools because they think they're so wise. Well, I don't think I'm so wise, I need all the help I can get. I I just trip over my own words sometimes, but I'm trying to show you how the scriptures read. He says in verse 22, therefore consider the goodness and severity of God on those who fell. Well, who's those who fell? Israel. Severity, but toward you goodness. Yeah, so because they fell, we get God's goodness and grace and mercy because of that. So are we gonna like hate on Israel when we are being blessed by God because of their fall? He says, Toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness, otherwise you will be cut off. Yeah, like the Gentiles, until the fullness of the Gentiles come in, we have to be careful because he can, you know, he can stop his grace and mercy towards the Gentiles, even, just like he did with Israel. He he gave it, he, he, well, he still saves anyone who calls upon him, but we must understand that it's because we are grafted in, we are supported by Israel, Israel is the light to the nations, and they are the prophetic light to the nations. If we want to know what's going on in eschatology, the times of the end, look and see what's happening in Jerusalem. Look at Israel, and most importantly, look what's going on at the Temple Mount. We have Gaza gonna be rebuilt. We have Donald Trump as the chairman for life. We he can militarize, demilitarize. We have Jared Kushner, who's living in a place or has lived in a place, whether it be in New York or DC, with an address 666. Check it out, look it up. God's goodness to the Gentiles because of the uh the fall of Israel because of their unbelief, but they were broken off branches in order for us to be grafted in. Verse 24, for if you were cut out of the olive tree, which is wild by nature, and were grafted in contrary to the nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are who are natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? So if like if we are wild by nature and we are grafted in to the olive tree that supports us, is God not able to graft in Israel into their own olive tree, into the lump? Is he not able to do that? Well, heck yeah, he is. He can do whatever he wants. Paul's just pointing out that we should be able to understand these things. That's why people that twist the tr the scriptures, Satan uses that because he doesn't want, he wants people to think that God is done. He wants to use this for all nations to come against Israel, which all nations will, but unfortunately, the church should be pointing these things out and and and pointing out the anti-Semitic remarks by a lot of these teachers, pastors, and books that are read by these teachers and pastors because they don't they're too lazy to do the work and study the word of God. It's almost like, yeah, John Piper is so smart that I'm just gonna listen to him. Well, why you're gonna take his word over the word of God? I think that's crazy. These who are natural branches, they are, you know, he says, they'll be they are how much more will they be able to be grafted into their own olive tree? And then verse 25 for I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery. See, that's why so many people don't understand it, because it's a mystery. And Jesus rev is reveal, he will reveal. But if you don't believe, you won't understand the mystery. He says again, verse 25 for I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion. That blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles have come in. So they are blind until the fullness of the Gentiles come in, until God saves the rest of the nations, those who believe, and he says in verse 26, and so all Israel will be saved, right? So the fullness of the Gentiles come in, and then during the tribulation, because those who are in Christ will be raptured, and that's another thing. Most people that don't believe that Israel's God's chosen people, they think the church is, they don't believe in the rapture. They think that God needs the church and the tribulation so he can help people come to Jesus. Well, I here's a little FYI. He doesn't need me, and he doesn't need you, and he doesn't need the church. God is fully self-sufficient. He offers himself as a the sacrificial lamb that was slain from the foundation of the world, and that we who believe in him are in Christ, new creatures. We are in him, we are delivered from the wrath to come, and we are in we are in Christ. Israel is in unbelief because of the veil of Moses, they have a spirit of stupor, they are blind to Jesus, but when Jesus is preached to them by the Gentiles, they become jealous by the word of God that we preach because we have their Jesus, we have their God. It's Jesus Christ veiled in human flesh, and they can't seem, and the church is blind to him as well, because the God of this age has blinded the minds of the unbelieving. So, verse 26, and so all Israel will be saved as it is written. Now, this quote is in he's talking about Israel in the book, you know, in the end times, the time the time during wrath, the time of Jacob's trouble, he says, the deliverer will come out of Zion, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob. Verse 27. Remember, Jacob is Israel, for this is my covenant with them when I will take away their sins. Yeah, his covenant, they are his covenant people, right? So the church so often gets tied up with this, like, oh, covenant, you know, a covenant God, and he's yeah, but they're like attributing to that to like the church, which he gives us a promise, the promise is the Holy Spirit when we believe. They focus on covenant, but they oftentimes don't attribute any of it to to Israel, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, my thought is he told the same thing to Abraham, the father of many nations, and also he says, uh, your descendants will be as like the stars of the sky and the sands of the seashore. He told that to Isaac as well, and he told it to Jacob. And so we have those three, we have witnesses. They all witness the word of God, and they we have the word of God, and where two or three gather together, together with the word of God, and rightly divide the word of truth, God is in the midst of that, and so there's no private interpretation. I just can't get by myself, and I have to check myself too with the word of God to make sure, and back scripture with scripture, proper hermeneutics to make sure that what I am saying is correct because I'm held accountable. And so we have the word of God telling us that he says in 27, this is his this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins. Concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. Yeah, who's the fathers? Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Yeah, God promised them that what he would do, he would save his people from their sins. That's what Jesus came to do to save his people, but they rejected him, right? And he was cut off 483 years determined, Messiah cut off, Daniel 9, awaiting the final seven years of that 490 years determined for Israel, those 70 weeks, right? And we are at that last week, we are the time of Jacob's trouble that is going to be coming on the whole earth, and it's the rat or it's the wrath of God that's going to be poured out. And so we must understand that the wrath of God is coming on this earth, and we must understand also that the Antichrist will be in rev is described in Revelation 6 on a white horse, and he goes out, you know, and he it's a false peace. It's false peace, false security. But that's all you have to do is tell people, yeah, this is gonna make you money, this is gonna make you happy, this is gonna make you wealthy, this is gonna make you whatever, the riches for the world, just like Israel, they're fall for the riches of the world. And so the the church is stumbling and falling over themselves because of the prosperity gospel and things like that. And so, 28, concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election, they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29, for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Like you can't put a stamp of like, nope, you're done, he's done with them. That no, but that's what the church, and that's what false teachers, and that's what these preachers that don't know the word of God and misalign the word tell people that the church has replaced Israel and it's wrong. There, but God's calling and gifts are irrevocable. Verse 30 for as you were once disobedience to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience. Okay, so we get mercy because of their disobedience. So is he ever is he going to be done with us too if I do something bad or you know, say, okay, I I don't believe anymore. Well, Paul told Timothy, even when we are faithless, he remains faithful because he cannot deny himself. Upon believing, we get the Holy Spirit. We can say and do what he we we can say and live however, but if we are saved, we are saved, we are sealed for the day of redemption, and he who began a good work, good work in us will complete it until the day of Christ Jesus. Verse 31, even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you, they also may obtain mercy. Right? So they are disobedient, the Gentiles get mercy. The Gentiles are disobedient, Israel gets mercy, right? They are grafted back in. You and then he says that though that through the mercy shown you, they also may obtain mercy. Verse 32, for God has committed them all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all. Yeah, everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. That's why we have this, we can do it today by his grace freely. Well, Israel was gonna do it during the tribulation period, during the time of Jacob's trouble, the wrath of God. So the church will not be in Jacob's trouble, the church will be delivered from the wrath to come. That's the rapture. Most of the church does not believe in the rapture, and they'll start talking about John Darby and then Tucker Carlson will have this guy on there that's singing, you know, I'm gonna sing about uh whatever. I'm gonna sing about Jesus, and then he'll mock the rapture. Okay, so he's a false, he's he's a he's a wolf in sheep's clothing. I can't remember it's John Ritz or whoever it is. You're gonna mock God and his people and then mock, you know, believers that believe in the rapture. I just give that to God because vengeance is his, he will repay. I'm not saying that guy's not saved, I'm just saying we know that scoffers come and they scoff. Anyway, verse 33, he says, Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and knowledge of God, how unsearchable are his judgments and his ways past finding out. Yeah, so his ways are way higher than our ways, and his uh knowledge is is unsearchable, and his judgments. We're not the judge, he's the judge. So we're gonna tell people how we know about you know Israel and how the church has replaced Israel. Come on, we need we need to wake up to these things, but people don't know these things because we we oftentimes read too many books about God rather than reading the word of God about God and allowing the Holy. Spirit show us and teach us and reveal to us what the Word of God says. Verse 34. For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has become his counselor? Well, a lot of Calvinists and a lot of people who have in so much intellect in their own eyes and think that they're so smart, that's who's counseling God. Verse 35, or who has first given to him and it shall be repaid to him. Have you given to God that he owes you something? No. We don't. He gives to us the Holy Spirit, and then we offer ourselves as living sacrifices, holy and acceptable unto him, that we may understand what his will is for our lives. And then verse 36, for of him and through him and to him are all things. Right? It's every good and perfect gift comes from him. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen. That's what the word of God tells us, and and we be uh wise to pay attention. And instead, the the the word of God often is like again, we have double vision. It's like we're in a stupor. It's not like it's not like we're totally blind to it, even though unbelievers are blinded by the God of this age. The church has double vision. It's like they don't know what to do with uh Israel, and they don't know what to do with the church, and they get everything mixed up. But uh anyway, I just want to point these things out. I'm not trying to diss on the church. Uh they need to know, we need to know, and uh so but we do need to know that Israel is Israel, the church is the church, and uh we need to speak up and speak out uh and be a blessing to Israel so that they will realize that we have their Jesus. Jesus says, I come for the lost sheep of Israel. I'm Matt Haynes, thank you for listening today on Hanes Cast. It's a part two, but it's double vision, it's part two to the head games, and thank you for listening.