Israels Unbelief is part of Gods Plan
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While the major theme of chapters 9-11 is God’s dealing with His elect nation, the underlying theme, especially in chapter 9, is Gods sovereignty in doing so.
We as christians must except the fact that God is sovereign.
He created and rules over all things and therefore can doing anything He wants.
He is not bound by earthly rules or what we think He should do.
If God wants to do something He can do it.
Often times though this causes a problem for us as humans because we want to understand everything that God does and sometimes we just don’t.
We can’t explain why He lets good people die and bad ones live.
Why bad things happen to good or innocent people.
Would we do things the same way probably not but we only have a limited scope of time and space so we would probably not make good choices.
It makes us seem weak or dumb to say “we don’t know why this happened”
This is where we have to lean on our faith.
To trust God and allow Him to work things for His glory and in His time.
Not All Who are Born of The Blood are Born of the Promise (6-8)
Not All Who are Born of The Blood are Born of the Promise (6-8)
Through out time even as far back as the children of Jacob and Esau their have been Jews not believe in God.
Even in the land of Gods promise to them, few Jews acknowledge their true Messiah.
They live where the prophets lived and walk where Jesus walked, but they do not truly believe the prophets and far worse, they reject the truth of the sacrifice of Messiahs own life made for sin.
They have taken the institutes of faith that God gave them long ago and have perverted it into a system so hard to understand they dont even follow it themselves.
They thing that just because they are Jewish that this allows them a free path to Heaven no matter what.
Because the Judaism of Pauls day was so deeply steeped in the legalistic works of righteousness of rabbinical traditions.
And because Gods plan to offer salvation on equal terms to Gentiles was a mystery not fully revealed in the Old Testament.
Paul devotes chapters 9-11 of Romans to clarifying the place of Israel in the present church age.
He keeps coming back to the fact that they as a people group have not been replaced by Gentiles but that they have been fulfilled by Christ.
Just as those who dont believe in God those who say they do but dont bare out that in their actions are also not children of the promise.
We see this a lot in the world today.
people who say they follow Christ but they dont live the life to goes along with that claim.
Not all who call on the name of the Lord are saved.
It is the divine power of the Holy Spirit that draws people and pulls them in.
Examples of Gods Sovereignty (9-13)
Examples of Gods Sovereignty (9-13)
Here in verse 9-13 we see two examples of Gods sovereign grace.
Sarah
She was the true wife of Abraham and she was to bear him the promised son.
No matter how much Abraham begged God, He was never going to allow His chosen son to be Ismael.
If God would have allowed this then it would showed His subjectiveness to man and not the other way around.
Even though God blessed Ismael he was not part of Gods plan.
This shows that God is even gracious enough to bless the things that we mess up on.
Rebekah
Rebekah was told that her oldest son would serve he younger son.
While this really did not happen with Jacob and Esau but it did happen with their descendants.
The Edomites were often in slaved or in debuted to the Israelites
God knows all things before they happen His plan was for Jacob to become the head of the great nation, not Esau, why we dont know its just how He wanted it.
To except that Gods sovereign will is going to happen weather we want it to or not is to expect that we may never the reasons why things happen.
We may never understand the motive as to why things work out the way they do.
We just have to trust God and know that His ways are better than ours.