VI.
Selection
9:1—11:36
A.
God's selection, our destiny
9:1—10:21
1.
Of God who calls
9:1-13
Rom. 9
:1
9:1
1I speak the truth in Christ, I do not lie, my
2conscience bearing witness with me in the Holy Spirit,
Rom. 9
:2
9:2
That I have great grief and unceasing pain in my heart.
Rom. 9
:3
9:3
For I could wish that I myself were a
1curse,
separated from Christ for my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
Rom. 9
:4
9:4
Who are Israelites, whose are the
1asonship and the
bglory and the
ccovenants and the
dgiving of the law and the
2eservice and the
fpromises;
Rom. 9
:5
9:5
Whose are the fathers, and out of whom, as regards what is according to flesh, is the Christ, who is
1aGod bover all,
cblessed forever. Amen.
Rom. 9
:6
9:6
But it is not as though the word of God has fallen away, for
1anot all who are out of Israel are Israel;
Rom. 9
:7
9:7
Neither is it that because they are the seed of
aAbraham, they are all children; but,
b"In Isaac shall your seed be called,''
Rom. 9
:8
9:8
That is,
it is not the children of the flesh
who are the
achildren of God, but the
bchildren of the promise are accounted as the seed.
Rom. 9
:9
9:9
For this is the word of promise,
a"At this time
next year I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.''
Rom. 9
:10
9:10
And not only
so, but
aRebecca also, having conceived by one, Isaac our father,
Rom. 9
:11
9:11
Though the children had not yet been born nor had done anything good or bad (that the
1purpose of God according to
aselection might remain, not of works but of Him who
bcalls),
Rom. 9
:12
9:12
It was said to her,
a"The greater shall
1serve the less'';
Rom. 9
:13
9:13
As it is written,
a"Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.''
2.
Of God's mercy
9:14-18
Rom. 9
:14
9:14
What then shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? Absolutely not!
Rom. 9
:15
9:15
For to Moses He says,
1a"I will have
2bmercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have
2ccompassion on whomever I will have compassion.''
Rom. 9
:16
9:16
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.
Rom. 9
:17
9:17
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh,
a"For this very thing I have raised you up, that I might show in you My power, and that My name might be proclaimed in all the earth.''
Rom. 9
:18
9:18
So then He has mercy on whom He wills, and He hardens whom He wills.
3.
Of God's sovereignty
9:19-29
Rom. 9
:19
9:19
You will say to me then, Why does He still find fault? For who withstands His will?
Rom. 9
:20
9:20
But rather,
aO man, who are you who answer back to God? Shall the thing molded say to him who molded it, Why did you make me thus?
Rom. 9
:21
9:21
Or does not the
apotter have authority over the clay to make out of the same lump one
1bvessel unto honor and another unto dishonor?
Rom. 9
:22
9:22
And what if God, wishing to demonstrate His
awrath and make His power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fitted for destruction,
Rom. 9
:23
9:23
In order that He might make known the
ariches of His glory upon
bvessels of
cmercy, which He had before prepared unto
1dglory,
Rom. 9
:24
9:24
Even us, whom He has also
acalled, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles?
Rom. 9
:25
9:25
As He also says in Hosea,
a"I will call those who were not My people My people, and her who was not beloved beloved;
Rom. 9
:26
9:26
And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them,
aYou are not My people, there shall they be called sons of the living God.''
Rom. 9
:27
9:27
And Isaiah cries concerning Israel,
a"Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea,
it is the remnant
that shall be saved;
Rom. 9
:28
9:28
For the Lord will execute
His word upon the earth, accomplishing
it and cutting
it short.''
Rom. 9
:29
9:29
And as Isaiah has previously said,
a"Unless the Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we would have become like
bSodom and been made like Gomorrah.''
4.
Through the righteousness which is out of faith
9:30—10:3
Rom. 9
:30
9:30
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have laid hold of righteousness, but a righteousness which is out of faith;
Rom. 9
:31
9:31
But aIsrael, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not attain to
that law.
Rom. 9
:32
9:32
Why? Because
they pursued it not
aout of faith, but as it were out of works. They stumbled at the
bstone of stumbling,
Rom. 9
:33
9:33
As it is written,
a"Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling, a rock of offense, and he who believes on Him shall not be put to shame.''
