Transcript Faith Works: A Difficult Doctrine Romans 9:1-33 BIG IDEA: I can ______ trust God even when I don’t understand Him ____________

Faith Works:
A Difficult Doctrine
Romans 9:1-33
BIG IDEA:
I can ______
trust God even
when I don’t
understand Him
____________
I speak the truth in Christ – I am not
lying, my conscience confirms it in the
Holy Spirit – I have great sorrow and
unceasing anguish in my heart. For I
could wish that I myself were cursed and
cut off from Christ for the sake of my
brothers, those of my own race, the
people of Israel.
v. 1-4a
Predestination involves God’s
interaction with _______
Israel
1. Israelites
2. Adoption as sons
3. The glory
4. The covenants
5. The giving of the
law
6. The temple service
7. The promises
8. The patriarchs
9. The human
ancestry of Christ
What then shall we say? That
the Gentiles, who did not
pursue righteousness, have
obtained it, a righteousness
that is by faith; but Israel, who
pursued a law of righteousness,
has not attained it. Why not?
Because they pursued it not by
faith, but as if it were by works.
They stumbled over the “stumbling
stone.” As it is written: “See, I lay in
Zion a stone that causes men to
stumble and a rock that makes
them fall, and the one who trusts in
him will never be put to shame.”
v. 30 -33
BIG IDEA:
I can trust God even
when I don’t
understand Him
Predestination
centers around
sovereign
God’s ___________
_______
choice
It is not as though God’s
Word had failed. For not all
who are descended from
Israel are Israel.
v. 6
“It is through Isaac that your
offspring will be reckoned.”
v. 7
Not only that, but Rebekah’s children
had one and the same father, our father
Isaac. Yet before the twins were born or
had done anything good or bad – in
order that God’s purpose in election
might stand:
not by works but by him who calls – she
was told,
“The older will serve the younger.”
v. 10-12
Just as it is written:
“Jacob I loved,
but Esau I hated.”
v. 13
I can trust God even
when I don’t
understand Him
Predestination
demonstrates God’s
mercy
_______
What then shall we say? Is God unjust?
Not at all! For he says to Moses, “I will
have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I
will have compassion on whom I have
compassion.” It does not depend on
man’s desire or effort,
but on God’s mercy.
v. 14-16
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh:
“I raised you up for this very
purpose, that I might display my
power in you and that my name
might be proclaimed in all the
earth.”
v. 17
Therefore God has mercy on
whom he wants to have mercy,
and he hardens whom he wants
to harden.
v. 18
He trusted God
even when
he didn’t
understand Him
But who are you, O man, to talk
back to God? “Shall what is
formed say to him who formed
it, ‘Why did you make me like
this?’”
v. 20
What if God, choosing to show
his wrath and make his power
known, bore with great patience
the objects of his wrath –
prepared for destruction?
v. 22
What if he did this to make the
riches of his glory known to the
objects of his mercy, whom he
prepared in advance for glory…
v. 23
…even us, whom He also
called, not only from the
Jews but also
from the Gentiles…
v. 24
I can trust God even
when I don’t
understand Him
“If God had painted a stripe down the
back of the elect, I’d spend my days
walking up and down the streets of
London lifting up shirttails. But because
He said “Whosoever wills may come,” I
preach the gospel to everyone, and I rely
on Him to lead those to faith who are
His.’”
Charles Spurgeon
“…the one who trusts in him
will never
be put to shame.”
v. 33