Lesson 126
Romans Chapter Nine
The Faithfulness of God to
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The response Paul senses by the skeptic to what he has just taught is okay, I will concede that the Gentiles are a part of the called, vessels of mercy
but Paul what about the Jews?
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To make his point he once again goes back to the prophets, the Jewish Old
Testament Scriptures for documentation, related to this remnant.
Isa. 10:22-23; 1:9
Apart from God's
mercy and compassion, none would have survived the judgments, remember what God
said to Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have
compassion on whom I have compassion." [
God delivered them,
when Sennacharib came [Isa 37:33-38], they eventually returned to apostasy and
spiritual adultery, pursuing the idols of the peoples surrounding them and they
were taken captive by
Rem: Paul's point
here is that there will be a remnant only who are saved, even though they will
number in the millions, apart from God's mercy they would have been as Sodom
and Gomorrah, totally destroyed.
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The promises made to Israel to preserve a remnant, to save a remnant was
fulfilled in the captivities and exile of the people, the destruction of
Jerusalem and will also be fulfilled in the time of
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Paul comes back to this, that there will be a remnant of Jews saved in the
future. Will see this in
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God is faithful to His word, what He has said that He will do; and this
includes the discipline of His people;
Ezek.
Whether it is the Assyrian, Babylonian, the
fall of
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God will accomplish His word, His purposes and the remnant will survive.
** Remnant, Summary:
The Seed
Spiritual
By Faith Rom
; 9:6-8 Natural
Gen.
17:10, 19; 22:17,18 All
Believers
Rom Gal.
3:6-9; 29
Christ Gal 3:16 Heb.
2:16-17
1. In Elijah's time, when he thought that only
he was left to worship God, there were 7000 who had not bowed the knee to Baal
(1 Kg. 19:18).
2. In Isaiah's time,
3. During the captivities the existence of a
remnant appears is observed in the life of Jews like Esther, Mordecai, Ezekiel,
Jeremiah, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
4. At the end of the seventy years of
Babylonian captivity it was the remnant that returned under Ezra and Nehemiah.
5. At the advent of our Lord, John the Baptist,
Simeon, Anna, and those "who were looking for the redemption of
6. During the Church Age the remnant is
composed of believing Jews (
But an important aspect of the remnant is prophetic.
- During the great tribulation a remnant out
of all
** So far Paul has
presented God's dealing with
Next in 9:30-33 the
focus is
What shall we say
then?
For one who is
focused totally on the Sovereignty of God there is an apparent problem.
God your not fair!
- It was not the pattern of the Gentiles to pursue
Christ but idols; Acts
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righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith.
Then the means or
the how; by faith ek [gen] pistij
Only way to acquire
the righteousness of God, of Christ is by faith; that's been the focus since
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Now lets look at vs:31 and