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Romans 9-10

Romans 9-10. Laying the Background. 1. All people are sinners and so spiritually depraved by nature that all would perish eternally without divine help. Romans 8:7 Psalm 51:5. Laying the Background. 2. God wants all people to be saved. 1 Timothy 2:4 2 Peter 3:9. Laying the Background.

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Romans 9-10

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  1. Romans 9-10

  2. Laying the Background • 1. All people are sinners and so spiritually depraved by nature that all would perish eternally without divine help. • Romans 8:7 • Psalm 51:5

  3. Laying the Background • 2. God wants all people to be saved. • 1 Timothy 2:4 • 2 Peter 3:9

  4. Laying the Background • 3. God already has redeemed the entire world through the work of his Son, Jesus Christ. • 2 Corinthians 5:19 • 1 John 2:2 • John 3:16

  5. Laying the Background • 4. God calls or invites all people to faith with equal earnestness. • Ezekiel 33:11 • Romans 11:32

  6. Laying the Background • 5. God alone works faith in a person’s heart and keeps that saving faith alive. • 1 Corinthians 12:3 • Philippians 2:13

  7. Laying the Background • 6. The entire credit for a sinner’s conversion and final salvation belongs only to God. • Ephesians 2:8-9 • Romans 9:16 • Titus 3:4-5

  8. Laying the Background • 7. Rejection of Christ is unbelief and the resulting consequence of eternal damnation is the individual person’s responsibility. God can never be blamed for even one sinner being lost. • Romans 3:3-4 • Matthew 23:37 • Acts 7:51 • 2 Peter 2:1

  9. Laying the Background • 8. God uses the means of grace alone to bring people to faith. Baptism and hearing the Word convey forgiveness of sins to the heart. The Lord’s Supper also brings Christ’s forgiveness in order to strengthen faith. • Romans 10:17 • John 3:6

  10. Laying the Background • 9. The will of God revealed in his Word must always take precedence over human reason and logic, even when what the Word clearly says and what logic clearly teaches are at odds with each other. • 1 Corinthians 2:15-16 • Jeremiah 32:17 • Psalm 131:1-2a • Romans 11:33

  11. Keep in mind • Unfortunately, while trying to explain predestination, some have stumbled. Problems usually arise in this and similar areas of theology when people attempt to use human reason as a litmus test for the truths of God’s Word. Our sinful minds often try to force a union between God’s teachings and our own reason when it cannot be done …

  12. Keep in mind • In this respect we can learn a lesson from Dr. Martin Luther. He was a master at dealing with the Word. He never put God’s truth to any kind of human litmus test. Luther put reason in its proper perspective when he said: …

  13. Keep in mind • God has given men reason so that they can milk cows, bridle horses, and know that a hundred gulden are more than ten. Show your wisdom there; be a master and a good helper; use your knowledge. But here, when it comes to the question how we are to be saved, in heavenly matters and matters of faith, stop your reason, keep still, listen and say: …

  14. Keep in mind • Here I can no longer operate; this is different from the matters related above. Curb your reason, therefore, and say: I do not understand this; I will not figure or measure it but will keep still and listen, for it is beyond my measuring and is incomprehensible to reason. (Predestination: Chosen in Christ, John Molstad, Jr. p. 7-8)

  15. Keep in Mind • God is God and we are not • Predestination/Election is only talking about believers and for the comfort of believers !!!!!!! • If I don’t understand something, whose fault is that? God’s or mine? Mine! • Example: You and your children • Remember: We are to have a child-like faith • Predestination/Election definition: God determined in eternity to do what he then carried out in time, that is, bringing believers to faith and keeping them in the faith.

  16. Introduction • Paul returns to the issue he began speaking about in chapter 3:1-8: What about the Jews? If Paul was right, namely, that a Gentile could enjoy true circumcision of the heart, then what about the Jews who had outward circumcision but no faith? Had God failed? In chapter 3, Paul quickly put down Jewish arguments against his teaching and simply affirmed that God was faithful.

  17. Introduction • Now Paul concluded chapter 8 by saying that God elected us to come to faith and nothing can undermine that election. Nothing can separate us from God’s love. So again, what about the Jews? Weren’t they God’s chosen people? Is their lack of faith proof that they have experienced what Paul said was impossible and have been cut off from God’s grace? In the next three chapters, Paul will deal with this question, and in the process, he will unfold a marvelous plan of salvation that reaches Jews and Gentiles alike.

  18. Introduction • We are now prepared for the way Paul presents election. He speaks to those who already understand that their sins have been forgiven and that through the Holy Spirit they have been made children of God. Any scriptural instruction on election begins on this premise. Molstad, p. 19-20

  19. Digging Deeper: Verses 13-14 • “Esau I hated. . . . Is God unjust?” The teaching that all people are completely set against God and have no inclination to seek him and find him plays heavily into what we learn in verses 10-14. The “total depravity” of every human being means that all deserve God’s judgment, and if God saves any one of us, he is good and gracious beyond what we could expect. Esau had every chance to come to faith and be saved, but he rejected God’s invitations and sold his birthright. This is normal human activity, deserving God’s anger and judgment. God, however, loved Jacob in Christ and called him to faith. Esau only received what he deserved. Jacob received what he did not deserve. In this context God is not unjust. He would be unjust if there were some good in Esau that he discounted, but there was none.

  20. Digging Deeper: Verse 22 • “The objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction”—The Bible never says that God prepared some people for destruction. That is what they are when they are born. They are objects of his wrath and prepared [lit. ripe] for destruction because their sinful nature does nothing but resist and rebel against God.

  21. Digging Deeper: Verse 23 • “The objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory”—God in his grace chose some people to come to faith. He prepared them for glory. They are objects of his mercy. The Bible does not reveal how these two statements can stand side by side. Man has the power to reject God, yet only by God’s grace does a person come to faith. Why doesn’t everyone reject God? Why doesn’t God bring everyone to faith? We don’t know. All we can do is talk about God’s gracious mercy on some and the wrath and destruction that others bring on themselves, as Paul does in this chapter.

  22. Better translation of 9:22-23 • Romans 9:22–23 22And what if God, desiring to display His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience objects of wrath ready for destruction? 23 And what if He did this to make known the riches of His glory on objects of mercy that He prepared beforehand for glory — (HCSB)

  23. Romans 9:1-29 • What were the advantages of being a Jew? • Verse 4-5: adoption as sons; divine glory; covenants; receiving of the law; temple worship; promises; patriarchs; human ancestry of Christ. Paul’s main point: God gave the Israelites everything to remain firm and faithful, keeping every promise, even promise of the Savior to be born from the Jewish race. • Paul anticipates objections. If his teaching about predestination and the certainty of never being removed from God’s love is true, then has not God failed in regard to the Jews? So many of them do not share in the faith of Abraham. What is Paul’s answer? • Verse 6: God has not failed. Not every physical descendant of Israel is among the elect.

  24. Romans 9:1-29 • What two illustrations does Paul offer to prove that people become Christians by God’s grace? • Verse 7-13: Abraham and Isaac. Jacob and Esau. • If we are saved by grace alone and not all people are saved, it would seem that God is unjust. He favors some but not others. What is Paul’s answer to that objection? • Verse 14-16: God is not unjust. Salvation depends on “God’s mercy.”

  25. Romans 9:1-29 • How much of our salvation depends on God? How much on us? (verse 16) • Everything depends on God. Nothing depends on our will or effort. • Why did God raise up Pharaoh? Could Pharaoh have come to faith and done God’s will? • Verse 17-18: God raised up Pharaoh to display his power through Pharaoh’s actions. Yes, Pharaoh could have come to faith, but he rejected God.

  26. Romans 9:1-29 • Why does God lead a person to faith? Why did he harden Pharaoh? • God leads a person to faith solely out of grace, not because of anything they have done. God hardened Pharaoh solely because Pharaoh rejected God first and repeatedly hardened his heart against God’s words. • If this is the way it is, someone might ask, then why does God blame us? Who can resist his will? Is this a legitimate question? • Verse 19-21: No! God is God and we are not. We all are completely sinful, rejecting and disobeying God. Therefore we have no right to question God’s motives or ways.

  27. Romans 9:1-29 • For what gracious purpose does God use those whom he ultimately hardens? Relate this to how God used Pharaoh. • Verse 22-23: God uses them in some way for the good of his elect. He did this with Pharaoh and with Israel. • What blessing did God graciously bestow on the elect Gentiles? • Verse 23-26: He brought them to faith and made them his people. • What did most of the Jews do with God’s blessings? What kept them all from doing this? • Verse 27-29: They rejected God, and unless God had preserved a remnant, they all would have been lost.

  28. Recap of Romans 9:1-29 • God gave the Israelites all they needed to remain faithful to him. And he did not fail. God’s elect among the Jews do come to faith. God even uses those who reject him to further his kingdom among his elect.

  29. Digging Deeper: Verse 21 • “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”Paul has been telling us that God’s Word has not failed regarding the Jews, because God’s elect, whom he has chosen from all eternity, have been brought to faith. God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy. Many, however, like Pharaoh, have resisted God. They stubbornly chose to reject God, and so God used them for another purpose, namely, to show his power through them to others who would come to believe in him. • But did God want the Jews not to believe? Or did he keep the gospel from them in order to make them objects of wrath, whom he would use as he used Pharaoh? No, the Jews themselves rejected the gospel and lost Christ’s righteousness.

  30. Romans 9:30-10 • Fill in the blanks: • The Gentiles were not looking for righteousness; in fact, they were quite content to remain in their sins. Yet God in mercy gave them Christ’s righteousness, which they received by faith. • The Jews tried hard to become righteous. But they fell short because they tried to become righteous through their own works.

  31. Romans 9:30-10 • Who is the stumbling stone that caused the Jews to fall? Why is he called a stumbling stone? • Verse 33: Jesus is the stumbling stone. He is called that because sinful human beings, wanting to save themselves, always stumble over the teaching of salvation by faith alone by grace alone.

  32. Romans 9:30-10 • Why is the phrase “submitting to God’s/Christ’s righteousness” a good definition of faith? • Verse 3: To submit to God/Christ is to “put ourselves under” his righteousness and find hope there instead of standing proud in our own righteousness. • In what sense is Christ “the end of the law”? • Verse 4: He kept the law in our place. The law still is a curb, mirror, and guide in our lives.

  33. Romans 9:30-10 • How do each of the following phrases describe how easy God’s plan of salvation is? • “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ ” • No one had to go into heaven to bring Christ down so he could win our salvation. • “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’ ” • No one had to raise Christ from the dead.

  34. Romans 9:30-10 • “the word [of faith] is near you” • Salvation comes through a “word,” the gospel message. • “confess with your mouth” • We simply confess what we have been led to believe. • “believe in your heart” • We simply believe the truth that God has forgiven us in Christ.

  35. Romans 9:30-10 • “anyone who trusts in him” • We simply put our trust in Christ. • “richly blesses all who call on him” • We simply call on Christ for mercy. • All of these statements lead us away from our having to do something for our salvation and reinforce in us the fact that Christ has done it all for us.

  36. Romans 9:30-10 • Paul writes, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news!” What point does Paul make by quoting this passage from Isaiah chapter 52? • Verse 15: Salvation comes simply by faith. But faith implies a message, something to believe in. Did the Jewish people have access to the good news? Yes! Isaiah speaks about people in his day preaching the good news among the people of Israel.

  37. Romans 9:30-10 • The Israelites did hear the message. How do the following four passages quoted by Paul show that God was absolutely serious about saving every last member of his chosen nation?

  38. Romans 9:30-10 • “Their voice has gone out into all the earth.” • There was no place under heaven where the message of the gospel was not heard. • “I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.” • Many nations (the nations of the Gentiles) had no understanding of God’s law and promises. But by implication, the Jews, who were God’s chosen people, did understand God’s law and promises, even if they did not take them to heart.

  39. Romans 9:30-10 • “I was found by those who did not seek me . . . [or] ask for me.” • God went out to the Gentiles to bring to faith his elect. • “All day long I have held out my hands.” • In spite of how the Jews rejected him, God continued to offer them the good news.

  40. Romans 9:30-10 • What good news can Gentiles take away from this section? What good news can Jewish people take away from this section? • God has opened the kingdom of heaven to Gentiles, which includes us. And he has not given up on the Jews but continues to hold out his hands to them, wanting them to come to faith.

  41. Recap of Romans 9:30-10 • Salvation through Christ Jesus is a free gift from God. Those who try to find salvation by their own works lose out on it. • God graciously called the Gentiles to faith. And he was not unjust toward the Jews, many of whom had fallen away. He did everything he could to give them the hope of eternal life through faith in Christ.

  42. Purpose of Doctrine of Election • It is evident from Paul’s presentation that the purpose of election is to give believers in Christ assurance for time and eternity. Molstad, p. 50

  43. Unbreakable Chain of Romans 8 • Note the golden chain extending from God’s eternal purpose and foreknowledge and predestination through time in which we are called and justified to eternity, our glorification above.

  44. Unbreakable Chain of Romans 8 • That golden chain was forged in the fires of God’s everlasting love, eternal and unchanging as God himself, and on the anvil of Calvary, erected in eternity by God’s decree of redemption, on which the Lamb slain from eternity (Rev 12:8), having been delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God (Acts 2:23) was made unto us wisdom and righteousness, and sanctification and redemption (1 Cor 1:30).

  45. Unbreakable Chain of Romans 8 • That chain – and every link thereof is unbreakable – that chain guarantees to us who believe our past election and our future glorification. – Abiding Word, p. 524.

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