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! Romans 9
!! Romans 9
*Tape #8128*
*Pastor Chuck Smith*
/ /
Now to Romans, chapter nine, as we continue our through the Bible study, going from Genesis to Revelation.
We’ve now come to Romans, chapter nine.
In which the next three chapters, Paul inserts this discussion concerning the sovereignty of God especially as it relates to the nation of Israel and to the Gentiles being brought in and being made a part of the family of God.
Now Paul considered himself a Pharisee of the Pharisees, a zealous Jew, zealous for the law, zealous for the people.
But because Paul had taken the gospel to the Gentiles and because Paul had declared the righteousness of God, in saving Gentiles, many of the Jews looked at Paul as a traitor.
And they looked upon him with suspicion because of his ministering to the Gentiles.
When he had come to Jerusalem and was in the temple area preparing for the Jewish holiday, he created a riot because there were some Jews from Asia who knew of his ministry to the Gentiles.
And so they stirred up all of the people.
They said this man speaks against the law of Moses.
And he is going to the Gentiles.
So it created a huge uproar.
Paul did believe that the gospel of God was not to the Jews only, but to the Gentiles.
That the Lord had opened the door of salvation to all men, Jew and Gentile alike, who would believe in Jesus Christ.
So because of his affiliation with Gentiles and taking the gospel to the Gentiles, the Jews were more or less accusing Paul of being a traitor and not really having a concern for the Jews.
So he opens the ninth chapter because he’s been talking about God saving the Gentiles and how it is righteousness through faith.
That it doesn’t matter concerning the law, it is the faith in Christ that God accounts for righteousness.
And so lest he misunderstood he said, /I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit,  2that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart.
3For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh,  /So Paul expresses his love for the Jews in terms that are so deep that we can not comprehend them.
He speaks about this continual heaviness and sorrow that he had for the Jews, his brothers according to the flesh.
And to the extent that he could wish himself accursed from Christ, if it could mean their salvation.
Now in the Old Testament we have the story of Moses interceding for the nation of Israel.
When they had committed that great sin when Moses was bringing the ten commandments down from the mountain.
And the people had made the golden calf and were dancing and worshipping the golden calf.
The anger of the Lord was kindled against the people.
Moses went to intercede.
And in his intercession he prayed, Lord, forgive, and if not, then blot my name out of Your book of remembrances.
I frankly confess I don’t understand that depth of love.
I do not have that depth of love.
I could not wish myself accursed from Christ in order that our nation be saved.
When I see the direction they’re going, I sometimes feel, well let them go to hell if they want to.
I don’t want to go to hell for them.
Now though this was not a possible thing, though it was sort of, almost well, it was just something that can’t be.
Jesus died for all sins.
Now Jesus loved like that.
He loved to the extent that He was willing to give His life.
Greater love has no man than this than to lay down his life for his friends.
Now here is Paul exemplifying that kind of self sacrificing love that I could wish myself accursed from Christ for my brethren’s sake.
/4//who /(he said) /are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, /That is, these are the people that God said you will be my sons and daughters and I will be your God.
They were known as the children of Israel.
God’s children.
God had adopted them.
God had adopted the family of Abraham.
God promised Abraham that through your descendants, the nations of the world will be blessed.
God had chosen Abraham to be the father of the Jewish people that they might bring the Messiah into the world.
And so they were adopted.
But not only adoption but /the glory, /  They were led by God out of Egypt.
And the presence of God, the glory, the Shekinah, was present with them in their wilderness journey.
It is interesting when you look at the camp of Israel, the Tabernacle was in the center of the camp.
And all of the tribes were camped around the Tabernacle.
All facing, the tents facing the Tabernacle in the center of the camp.
At night there would be this glowing fire above the Tabernacle, reminding the people of God's presence with them in the wilderness.
In the day there would be this cloud above the Tabernacle, the glory of God's presence with them.
And when they would come out of their tent, night or day, they would come out facing the Tabernacle, they would see the fire or the cloud.
They would be reminded that they were God's people.
The presence of God was with them.
There was always that continual consciousness every time they came out of their tents.
The glory of God's presence among the people.
/the covenants, the giving of the law, /And God gave to them the covenant when God established the law.
He said, now if you will keep the statutes and the commandments, the ordinances, then I will be your God and you will be My people.
God made this covenant.
You will be My people.
And so the glorious covenant that God had established with them.
And then the giving of the law, where God laid down for them the way in which God would have them to relate to God and relate to each other.
And the law of the Lord is perfect.
And God gave to them this perfect law.
/the service of God, and the promises;  /But not only that but He gave to them the services.
That is the way by which He could be approached.
He established for them their approaching God through the sacrifices.
Thus the service in the Tabernacle, the offering of the sacrifices.
The bringing of the incense and all of these services within the worship system whereby these people could come and be forgiven their sins and draw close to God.
And then the promises, oh, the wonderful promises that God made to these people.
What God would do for them!
Wonderful promises!
Promises of the future.
The things that God has prepared for His people.
Whose are the fathers.
The patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.
And /5of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God.
Amen.
/From this nation, the Messiah came.
Now, a literal translation of the Greek, would be, who is God, over all, blessed forever.
One of the strongest statements that we have concerning the deity of Jesus Christ in the New Testament.
The Messiah, who is God over all, blessed forever.
It’s interesting the way many translations try to water this down.
They try to make it, who is blessed of God, forever.
But literally who is God overall, blessed forever.
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/6//But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect.
/In other words, look at Israel today.
Look at the conditions, Paul is saying.
They were under the Roman rule.
Here they had all of the covenants and promises that God made.
But it wasn’t as though God's word didn’t have any effect.
/For they are not all Israel who are of Israel,  7nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; /They have not all been adopted into God's family.
All of the descendants of Abraham are not accounted in God's covenants and promises.
Abraham had another son, Ishmael, from which came the Arab people.
And the promises were not to them.
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