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Last Session: God’s Sovereignty, Our salvation
Divine Perspective - Unbreakable Chain of Salvation
Foreknew
It is ok to have disagreement about this word (i’m calvinist)
To be foreloved, God has chosen to set His love on a people for His great name
Predestined - Has a set destination and a course (be like Jesus)
Called - Internal effectual calling / draws us to beauty - grants faith, will to believe
Justified - Declared right through Jesus’ sacrifice
Glorified - (Now and Not Yet) Marching towards eternity
Morals - Killing Sin
Character - Fruit of the Spirit (love, joy, peace)
Physically - We will be restored
Nothing can separate us from God’s love
Not my sin
Not my guilt
Not my suffering
Not death
He will not fail, He is dedicated to His plan for His own glory.
But Paul… what about Israel?
True: Nation of Israel, benefited from God’s covenant
Adoption - God would be a Father, they His children
Glory - Visible, cloud of God’s presence “Shekinah”
Covenant/Promises - They would be blessed, provided for, giving an inheritance
Law - God;s direction for worship, identity, society
Temple - Sacrificial system to atone for sin
Patriarchs - A observable history of God’s mercy/grace
True: Many of God’s covenant people have been cut off
They have rejected Jesus - signs, miracles, testimony
They stand condemned - judgement, condemnation
HAS GOD FAILED?
Are His plans frustrated?
Has He changed His mind?
This is important…you just said we have similar promises in Christ.
We are adopted
We see the glory and beauty of God
We have an eternal inheritance
We have the Spirit guiding our lives
Jesus was our sacrificial lamb
Will God change His mind, will this succeed?
Paul: Listen, God has not failed
There is an Ethnic Israel and a True (Spiritual) Israel.
Who is the true Israel?
Not all of those physically descended “belong”
Not all children of Abraham are “named”
The children of “promise are counted”
True Israel consists of children of promise.
What is special about this promise?
The example of Abraham Gen 18:10
Abraham had been waiting on God to give him an heir to the covenant promise.
He decides to “help” God out
I will get an heir, I will fulfill the covenant
Sarah gives him Hagar
Hagar gives birth to Ishmael
Years pass and God comes to visit Abraham
God: Next year, Sarah will have a son
Abraham, “Oh that Ishmael might live before You” Gen 17:18
Look, I helped…use my efforts, let’s do this my way
God: My covenant will be filled by my provision
Your situation seems hopeless (old age)
But my grace (Isaac’s birth) will glorify my name
Let what the God of the Universe accomplished here be known
Is this not a picture of Salvation?
You cannot work, earn, merit, deserve it...
It is by God’s plan, from God’s provision, to God’s praise
All of those “in Christ” are children of promise
True Israel consists of children of purpose.
What is special about this purpose?
The example of Jacob and Esau Gen 25:23
God sets His love on Jacob, but Esau He “loves less”
Not based on different parents
Not based on age
Not based on what they would do later in life
SO, God’s purpose of election might continue
God is not responding to their future actions
God is not responding to their potential
God is choosing, calling Jacob for His own purpose
Again, is this not salvation?
The Divine Chain (foreknew, predestined, called, justified, glorified)
Not based on God’s need or our potential
We have done nothing to merit/deserve His grace
God has set His love on everyone who is “in Christ” for His own glory
Paul will now begin to answer two perceived objections...
Is God Just?
Is God Fair?
Paul is exalting the sovereignty of God, but he does not nullify the responsibility of man.
Is God Just in extending grace to some and wrath to others?
We are all like Pharaoh (used to display God’s judgement)
Who is this God that I should listen to him
I am Pharoah, I can do whatever I desire
It was the same in lie in the garden
You will not surely die…your eyes will be opened, you will be like God
They saw the fruit looked good, and it was to be desired to make one wise
Who is this God that I should listen...
It is the same in Romans
Again, we see “Who is this God… I do not know Him, and I do not need Him”
What does Paul mean by hardening?
Jonathon Edwards:
When God is here spoken of as hardening some of the children of men, it is not to be understood that God by any positive efficiency (active effort) hardens any man's heart.
There is no positive act in God, as though he put forth any power to harden the heart.
To suppose any such thing would be to make God the immediate author of sin.
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