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Romans 9:30-10:4
 
The Second Rebuttal To The Charge That God’s Word Has Failed
 
 
        89.5 verses to refute .5 verse.
That is the vital stats of Romans 9-11.
The widespread conversion of Gentiles into the church, and the stubborn rejection of the Jews brought many to question the fidelity of God to His O.T. promises.
Were not the Jewish people “God’s chosen people?
Did God drop the ball”?
The charge that God’s word has failed in Romans 9:6a is the pivot point in chapters 9-11.
Thus, all the verses from 9:6b- to the end of chapter 11 form a lengthy rebuttal to this accusation of infidelity.
The vindication of God is built on three foundational considerations:
        1.
“For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel”
                (9:6b-29) The issue of election
        2.
“However they did not all heed the Good News (9:30-10:21)
                The issue of Jewish unbelief
        3.
“God’s Master Plan for Jewish Salvation (11:1-36)
        The second rebuttal examines Israel’s unbelief.
This section, dominated by chapter 10, stresses human responsibility (vs.
11).
For the Scripture says, "Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame."
(Vs.
21) But of Israel he says, "All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people."
Lining up chapter 9 with its stress on God’s sovereignty and election, and chapter 10 with its accent on responsibility, substantiates the fact that both truths are to be believed.
Coming to peace with this seeming contradiction is not an easy matter though.
Disagreements generating “more heat than light” usually are a race to see how many proof texts can be listed for each position; the person with the most verses is declared the winner.
It is as if your verse cancels out my verse; and the person left with the last unchallenged verse has bested his opponent.
An impenetrable mystery remains,  though God’s decisions can be honored.
“There is sufficient clearness to enlighten the elect, and sufficient obscurity to humble them.
There is sufficient obscurity to blind the reprobate, and sufficient clearness to condemn them, and make them inexcusable” Augustine  quoted by Blaise Pascal in Pensees, 8.578 (Old Testament Theology, Waltke, Bruce, Zondervan, 2007, page 173).
Dr.
D.A. Carson reminds us that both truth- God’s sovereignty~/human freedom are affirmed in the Scriptures;                    (1) God is absolutely sovereign, but it does not function in a way that curtails or minimizes, or mitigates human responsibility (Gen.
50:19-20).
(2).
Humans are morally responsible-they significantly choose, rebel, obey, believe, defy, and humans are culpable, but this never functions so as to make God absolutely contingent.
(For this reason, foreknowledge about a future sinner’s predisposition to the Gospel cannot be the basis for election- for it makes God incidental to the miracle of salvation.
Even the hard line advocates of “free will” realize that foreknowedge is the same as foreordination.
So your open theists maintain human freedom by saying that God does not know the future- its open to Him.
That is a theological move with an awful price.
Romans 8:29 says He foreknew me, was committed to me with desire and love.
/Therefore/, (3) because numbers one and two are Biblically established, Scripture follows through and supports the same act as under God’s control~/freely done by an agent.
When I come to the mystery of the middle, I must stand in awe, and recognize that “my actions (believing, rejecting) are causally determined “but free, because I act without constraint (Erickson, Milliard, Christian Theology, Baker Book House, 1987, page 213).
This is illustrated in John 6:36-40 But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe.
37 All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.
38For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
39And this is the will of him who sent me, that I should lose nothing of all that he has given me, but raise it up on the last day.
40For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day”.
Harry Ironside, the preacher on the street tells this humorous story, “Have you ever heard the story of the man who was wonderfully saved and arose in a class meeting to testify to his new found joy?
His heart was filled with Christ, and his lips spoke of Him and of Him only, as his Redeemer and Lord.
The class leader was a legalist, and said when the other had finished, “Our brother has told us what the Lord did for him, but has forgotten to tell us what he did in order to be saved.
God does His part when we do ours.
Brother, did you not do your part before God saved you?”
The man was on this feet in a moment and exclaimed, “I surely did do my part.
I ran away from God as fast as my sins could carry me.
That was my part.
And God chased me till He caught me.
That was His part.
Yes, you and I have all done our part, and a dreadfully sad part it was.
We did all the sinning, and He must do all the saving.
God’s Word has not failed; for the problem is not God’s faithlessness, but Israel’s stubborn unbelief.
The second rebuttal analyzes the history of Jewish unbelief (9:30-10:21).
A quick look at the whole chapter will help us as we start this longer section.
*10:5-13*- Using a passage from Dt. 30:12f Paul reminds the listening Jew that the message of the truth is close to your heart and lips.
Christ has already come to us in the incarnation, and has already come back from the grave in his victorious resurrection.
Believe and Confess.
*10:14**-18*- Israel could not hide behind the excuse of not having heard the Gospel.
“Indeed they have, But I ask, have they not heard?
Indeed they have, for Psalms 19 says,    "Their voice has gone out to all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world."
The wonders of creation speak continuously of God’s power and majesty, and the apostle applies this to the light of truth radiating out toward the known world in missionary evangelization.
*10:19-21*- In the Gentile mission described in the book of the Acts the Jews were angry and jealous of God’s work among “people who were not a people”.
They clearly understood that blessings were flowing away from them to pagan idolaters.
In spite of the nearness and proximity of the gospel, the Jewish response was one of unbelief- vs. 16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel.
For Isaiah says, "Lord, who has believed what he has heard from us?"
The fact of Jewish unbelief continues to this day.
The “why” of their unbelief is analyzed in the section 9:30-10:4.
The text (ASV of 1901) reads as follows “What shall we say then?
That the Gentiles, who followed not after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith: 31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
32 Wherefore?
Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by works.
They stumbled at the stone of stumbling; 33 even as it is written, Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence: And he that believeth on him shall not be put to shame. 1 Brethren, my heart's desire and my supplication to God is for them, that they may be saved.
2 For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For being ignorant of God's righteousness, and seeking to establish their own, they did not subject themselves to the righteousness of God.  4 For Christ is the end of the law unto righteousness to every one that believeth.
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            (The text –The Message) How can we sum this up?
All those people who didn't seem interested in what God was doing actually embraced what God was doing as he straightened out their lives.
And Israel, who seemed so interested in reading and talking about what God was doing, missed it.
How could they miss it?
Because instead of trusting God, they took over.
They were absorbed in what they themselves were doing.
They were so absorbed in their "God projects" that they didn't notice God right in front of them, like a huge rock in the middle of the road.
And so they stumbled into him and went sprawling.
Isaiah (again!) gives us the metaphor for pulling this together: \\ \\    Careful!
I've put a huge stone on the road to Mount Zion, \\       a stone you can't get around.
\\    But the stone is me!
If you're looking for me, \\       you'll find me on the way, not in the way.
1-3Believe me, friends, all I want for Israel is what's best for Israel: salvation, nothing less.
I want it with all my heart and pray to God for it all the time.
I readily admit that the Jews are impressively energetic regarding God—but they are doing everything exactly backward.
They don't seem to realize that this comprehensive setting-things-right that is salvation is God's business, and a most flourishing business it is.
Right across the street they set up their own salvation shops and noisily hawk their wares.
After all these years of refusing to really deal with God on his terms, insisting instead on making their own deals, they have nothing to show for it.
4The earlier revelation was intended simply to get us ready for the Messiah, who then puts everything right for those who trust him to do it.
Three reasons are given for Israel’s unbelief, followed by a bombshell summation.
Vs.32a-
*Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works.
*The law’s intent was to prove our sinfulness in an objective sense.
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