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The God We Worship: Adoring the One Who Pursues, Redeems, and Changes His People is unavailable, but you can change that!

This is not a book about you. It’s not about any person who’s going to pick it up. No, these addresses fix on a much more glorious, worthy, and fascinating topic: the God, the Creator, the Redeemer as revealed in the Bible. The study of God is like a brilliant diamond—we should keep holding it up to the light to see new details of its beauty. Before the awe of such a God, what room is there to...

using here. And then, in order to justify God, Paul refers back to Exodus 33, where God says, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion” (Rom. 9:15). God himself claims exactly the sovereignty that Paul has been asserting on his behalf. Is this doctrine of the sovereign mercy of God something that Paul is making up, or is it something that God has revealed all through the history of his people? “Well,” Paul says, “just look at your Bible, which,
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