Therefore, They Could Not Believe | Lon Solomon

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Sermon Notes:
John 12:37 
But although He had done so many signs before them, they did not believe in Him, 

John 12:38 
that the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spoke:
“Lord, who has believed our report?And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

John 12:39-40
Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
“He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts,Lest they should see with their eyes,Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,So that I should heal them.”

John 12:41 
These things Isaiah said when he saw His glory and spoke of Him.

Isaiah 6:9 
And He said, “Go, and tell this people:
‘Keep on listening, but do not understand;And keep on looking, but do not gain knowledge.’

John 12:39 
Therefore they could not believe,

Matthew 13:10-11
And the disciples came and said to Him, “Why do You speak to them in parables?”
He answered and said to them, “Because it has been given to you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it has not been given. 

Matthew 13:14 And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled, which says:
‘Hearing you will hear and shall not understand,
And seeing you will see and not perceive;

Matthew 13:15b
Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.’

Luke 8:9-10
Then His disciples asked Him, saying, “What does this parable mean?”
And He said, “To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God, but to the rest it is given in parables, that
‘Seeing they may not see,And hearing they may not understand.’

Mark 4:11
And He said to them, “To you it has been given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God; but to those who are outside, all things come in parables, 

Mark 4:12
so that
‘Seeing they may see and not perceive,And hearing they may hear and not understand;Lest they should turn,And their sins be forgiven them.’ ”

John 12:32 
And I, if I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all peoples to Myself.” 

Romans 9:14-15
What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not! For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”

Romans 9:16-17
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” 

Romans 9:18-19
Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens. You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who has resisted His will?” 

Romans 9:20-21
But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, “Why have you made me like this?” Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?

Romans 9:22
What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 

Romans 9:23-24
and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?

Romans 9:30 
What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith; 

Romans 9:31-32 
but Israel, pursuing the law of righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were, by the works of the law.

Romans 9:16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. 

Romans 9:18
Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.

Acts 16:14b
The Lord opened her heart to heed the things spoken by Paul. 

Romans 11:5
Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 

Matthew 13:16-17
But blessed are your eyes for they see, and your ears for they hear; for assuredly, I say to you that many prophets and righteous men desired to see what you see, and did not see it, and to hear what you hear, and did not hear it.

IMAGE CREDIT:
Paul preaching in the Areopagus, 1729-31
Sir James Thornhill (1675/76 - 1734)
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