Romans 9:10-29
Romans 9:10
Not only that, but Rebekah's children had one and the same father, our father Isaac.
9:11
Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in
order that God's purpose in election might stand:
9:12
not by works but by him who calls—she was told, "The older will
serve the younger."
The question Paul is answering has to do with
Paul’s point through Romans 1:1-10 is that
because
The “promise” included the blessing of Abraham but also the purpose for
Abraham.
God choose Isaac and God choose Jacob to be the line that would produce the
natural race of
God did not choose:
a) Ishmael
b) Keturah’s sons
c) Esau
Since God choose
The choosing of
9:13
Just as it is written: "Jacob I
loved, but Esau I hated."
Jacob was choosen.
Esau was not choosen.
”Hatred” means “not choosen” as the
promise nation. Because Esau was
blessed, given a land, sent prophets and cared for by God. God loved Esau but not like he “loved”
When Jesus tells believers to “hate”
their own families he means for them to love God more. (Luke 14:26)
This verse is from Malachi 1:1-5 and the whole point of the verse is to
distinguish rebellious
God said, “Jacob I loved.”
God’s answer is to remind them that He has a reason for creating the nation of
Esau (
Read Deut.
7:6-11
KEY: Purpose and Salvation are two different things.
The discussion of Chapter 9 is not how do we get saved, but
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What then shall we say? Is God unjust?
Not at all!
Some one might read this and understand God to be
unjust because he chooses some and others he does not.
If he does choose some and reject others before they have a chance to do
anything then God is unjust.
Some would describe God as “unjust” but then say it is not “unjust” because it
is God.
Wrong is wrong every time. Right is what
is right at all times in all places for all people.
But, some would say, this doesn’t apply to God.
Paul does not say this.
In fact he is going to reject the accusation that God is unjust.
This may have been Satan’s original claim.
Satan means “accuser”. “Diablos” (devil) means “slander”.
9:15
For he says to Moses,
"I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
and I will have compassion on whom I have
compassion."
Why does Paul go here?
To respond to 9:14 – “Is God unjust?”
When did God say this?
Exodus 33:19 after the golden calf of Exodus 32 and Moses conversation of
33:12-18
God has just spared a nation that deserved to be destroyed.
God says he will have mercy on the nation of
Other nations fall and never recover.
9:16
It does not, therefore, depend on man's desire or effort, but on God's mercy.
POINT:
9:17
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh: "I raised you up for this very purpose,
that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in
all the earth."
Now Paul goes from
”raised you up” means “to rise out,
to rise up.” It is used to refer to calling
upon the actors onto the stage.”
Pharaoh was not only raised up, but also spared through the first few plagues
as he hardened his heart.
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Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants
to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
When
When nations rebel he will punish to destroy.
But notice – They both had a response.
9:19
One of you will say to me: "Then why
does God still blame us? For who resists his will?"
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But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? "Shall what is formed say to
him who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?' "
First of all, just like Job, you are not even
qualified to question God.
9:21
Does not the potter have the right to
make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for
common use?
2 Timothy 2:20-21
9:22
What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with
great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?
“Prepared” means to make ready, to prepare. The
Prefect tense emphasizes the state of condition.
How where they prepare?
It clearly does not say “God prepared” them, but they were prepared through a
process into a condition of judgment.
But How? They did it by hardening
their hearts.
Romans
1:18-26
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What if he did this
to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he
prepared in advance for glory—
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even us, whom he also
called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
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As he says in Hosea:
"I will call them 'my people' who are not my people;
and I will call her 'my loved one' who is
not my loved one,"
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and,
"It will happen that in the very place where it was said
to them,
'You are not my people,'
they will be called 'sons of the living God.' "
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Isaiah cries out
concerning
"Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by
the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.
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For the Lord will
carry out
his sentence on earth with speed and
finality."
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It is just as Isaiah said previously:
"Unless the Lord Almighty
had left us descendants,
we would have become like
we would have been like