Word of God does not fail - Pt. II (Revised)
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Picking up and moving on
Picking up and moving on
Proclamation of God
Proclamation of God
What does the word proclamation mean?
What would be an example of something you have proclaimed?
Do we as Christians have a proclamation we do often?
If God is making a proclamation, it is something we should lean in and take note of.
God’s first proclamation (v.13)
13 In the words of the Scriptures, “I loved Jacob, but I rejected Esau.”
Other versions say “hated” but does hate mean hate as we think of hate? Or does it mean rejected, or loved less, or note the chosen one?
God’s second proclamation (v.15)
15 For God said to Moses, “I will show mercy to anyone I choose, and I will show compassion to anyone I choose.”
You can see in this verse some important facts
God chooses
God shows mercy and compassion.
God’s third proclamation (v.17)
17 For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”
Hum, who did God raise up and why (v.17)?
Paul’s proclamations to take note of too (v.14, 16, 18)
You may take a few minutes and see what the proclamations are.
Someone read (v.14) what is the proclamation?
Someone read (v.16) what is the proclamation?
Someone read (v.18) what is the proclamation?
Backing up some to (v.13) some may wonder how can a loving, gracious, merciful God choose to love one and hate another?
How, because God is sovereign. We should think, why did God love Jacob, and that He loves us who were sinners and connivers just like Jacob.
Esau was carnally minded (Gen25:30); so did God choose correctly? Yes.
30 And Esau said to Jacob, “Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary.” Therefore his name was called Edom.
Look again at (v.15) if you wonder when God said this. it goes back to when Moses returned with the tablets and found the people dancing around the golden calf. Moses prayed and God answered
19 Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”
We cannot run, earn, work, buy, or win our salvation, the mercy and grace of God. It is because of the sovereign pardon of God on our behalf that we have it and don’t end up like Pharoah and his people.
God allowed Pharoah to rise up in power, just so God could show His strength and power in His judgment against Pharoah and thereby glorify Himself. This also shows to Israel the grace, mercy and compassion of the sovereign God.
Did God choose right now? He chose you and you answered the call. He does not force us, he invites us. God did not harden a great gentle loving heart in Pharoah, but allowed an already hardened heart to be used for His purpose and glory.
Has God’s word called you? Has God’s word pierced your heart? Has God’s word proven true? Has God’s word fallen short? So, what are you doing today with God’s word that does not fail?
Do you love your family?
Do you love your family?
What would you be willing to do for your family?
Are there any limitations on what you would do for your family?
Take a minute and refresh yourself, read (Rom9:1-5)
Have there been people in your life that do something for you that was extraordinary?
Paul was willing to demonstrate his love for his family, Israel
1 I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.
3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons, and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises,
5 whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
Paul started with “the truth” I am speaking the truth to you and my conscience testifies with the Holy Spirit.
Then speaks of his feelings
Then of his willingness to be accursed, separated from Christ.
Paul was willing to give it up if it could save his brethren.
Last week and this week we are looking at the word of God does not fail. Let me press on now
6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
And we will be expanding on that as our starting verse today.
Does God have a right?
Does God have a right?
Well you know what it is too long of a passage so we will break it down.
19 You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” 20 On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it?
21 Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use?
What is the point of this section?
Can we resist the will of God?
Who is Paul addressing (v.19)?
In (vv.20-21) you can see the lesser to the greater, who are they?
The Lower gives to the greater. Like Abraham gave to Melchizedek
Paul’s argument picture here
Paul gives an argument and the answer, even before it could be asked (v.19)
Think of it like this, Paul is anticipating someone asking if God chooses how can man go against God. (Argument)
You find the response, the answer (v.20) how can the molder tell the molder, the clay tell the potter (v.21)
God is the Creator and has say. and His say was to give man choice. God chooses man accepts the choice or not. God’s desire is for all men to come to repentance and be saved isn’t it?
Another question: Does a potter have power over the clay?
God has the same right as the Creator of all things over His creation. So, if God declares man to have eternal responsibility before Him, then so be it.
Doesn’t God have the right?
Doesn’t God have the right?
What if questions normally look to the future on to the past. Paul is looking at the present in asking and making the defence for his argument.
22 What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction?
23 And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory,
24 even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.
What kind of vessels did God make (v.22)?
What did God do, and how (v.23)?
Who is Paul saying is “us” (v.24)?
Pharaoh heart picture inserted here
Let me give you an illustration
God allowed Pharoah to have his own way allowed him to have a hardened heart so that God’s wrath can be made known as well as God’s glory.
Today He still let’s us be responsible for our choices, and be blessed and be a vessel of mercy, or be a vessel of wrath.
God makes His power known, by His choice, not just to the Jews, but the the Gentiles too (v.24). He is a fair, merciful and compassionate God and has chosen to reveal His glory through Jesus Christ and the gospel message available to all. To the Jew and the Greek. the same way. Through Jesus Christ and the blood of Jesus Christ.
Morris said “The Jews were inclined to think that God could not make them anything but vessels of honor. Paul rejects this view and points out that God does what He wills.”
God does not prepare them for wrath. But the vessels do a good enough job of that all on their own. Just like God gave Pharoah over to the intentions of His heart.
Paul uses a Godly illustrations
Paul uses a Godly illustrations
Who loves a good illustration? Paul speaks to them in a way, manner with illustration they would know as Jews.
25 As He says also in Hosea, “I will call those who were not My people, ‘My people,’ And her who was not beloved, ‘beloved.’ ”
26 “And it shall be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘you are not My people,’ There they shall be called sons of the living God.”
Why do you think God uses these illustrations for them?
Who does He use (v.25-26)?
God uses the prophet Hosea (comes from Hos2:23 and 1:10)
What does God call those who were not My people (v.26)?
Sons of the living God!
How did you become sons of the Living God?
Staying with illustrations Paul gives another one they would know.
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the sons of Israel be like the sand of the sea, it is the remnant that will be saved;
28 for the Lord will execute His word on the earth, thoroughly and quickly.”
29 And just as Isaiah foretold, “Unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left to us a posterity, We would have become like Sodom, and would have resembled Gomorrah.”
Anything stick out to you in this? Any words we need to define?
Are there any keys words that you notice?
Maybe Sabaoth: The name Sabaoth comes from the Hebrew word for “that which goes forth” and for “armies” or “hosts.” The name Yahweh Sabaoth declares God's reign over heaven and earth and over all armies, earthly and spiritual (Bible study tools)
How about remnant, do you know what that means?
Is there a remnant today?
What about the word posterity, do you know what that means?
(n):all future generations of people (oxford dictionary)
What is that is the reason Isaiah cries out (vv.27-28)?
Because there will only be a remnant
Because the Lord will execute His word on the earth.
If there was no posterity what would have they been like (v.29)?
Isaiah cries for there will only be a remnant, and Israel is not getting it. If they repent and return they could spare themselves from going into captivity.
In case you are wondering the Isaiah passage comes from (Isa10:22-23)
At words like Isaiah, Israel when taking into captivity would have felt they would be wiped out. Isaiah is telling them there will be a remnant.
Where Sodom and Gomorrah were totally destroyed. But because of God’s mercy, there would be a remnant.
F.F. Bruce said: “The merciful promise is clear: But if only a remnant will survive, at least a remnant will survive, and constitute the hope of restoration.”
Paul is basically saying that Israel, his brethren are in the condition they are in because they would not come by faith to Jesus Christ.
Human perspective
Human perspective
Our human perspective does not always line up with God’s perspective. Paul is helping them understand.
30 What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith; 31 but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.
Who is the we (v.30)?
The Jews
Who is the who that Paul is discussing (v.30)?
The Gentiles
How did they attain righteousness (v.30)?
By faith
Who did not get righteousness and why (v.31)?
The Jews by the law
Gentiles found it without looking, working for it. They found it by faith.
The Jews were working for it but did not find it because it was by works not faith.
God seems to have cast off, given over the Jews for they did not come by faith. Is there a way for them to come?
Yes, the same way we do, by faith, not works.
That is what Paul is trying to help them to understand. His countrymen, the ones he is willing to be considered accursed if they would come to Christ.
Paul’s emphasis
Paul’s emphasis
Emphasis (N) special importance, value, or prominence given to something. stress laid on a word or words to indicate special meaning or particular importance. Or lastly: vigor or intensity of expression.
Have you ever emphasized anything? Why did you do it?
Do you think there are places in there is emphasis placed? Can you name one?
Now the final scripture for today
32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33 just as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, And he who believes in Him will not be disappointed.”
What is the why (v.32)?
What was the results (v.32)?
Zion is a word for Jerusalem and the Jews, what/who is the stone of stumbling and rock of offence (v.33)?
What is the promise to those who believe (v.33)?
Paul does not bring the emphasis on God’s perspective but on man’s (Israel’s) responsibility.
Paul has already emphasized that faith is the only way to be saved, not by works of the law (which that is what the Jews believed). Salvation only comes through the blood of the risen Savior.
This is a stumbling block to Israel; consider this, and it’s not on your outline (So please turn to 1Cor1:22-25, please)
22 For indeed Jews ask for signs and Greeks search for wisdom; 23 but we preach Christ crucified, to Jews a stumbling block and to Gentiles foolishness,
24 but to those who are the called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. 25 Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.
After turning to (1Cor22-25) what do you notice in this passage, what sticks out to you?
What did the Jews ask for? Do we as Christians ask for the same thing? If not, why?
Stumbling block, foolishness (vv.23-24); but both called how (v.24)?
Why does this overcome, overpower a stumbling block and foolishness (v.25)?
OK, now back to our last two verses. Paul is emphasizing to Israel, his brethren that he would give up his very salvation for, that their very present condition is on them. Human responsibility not on the sovereignty of God and His will/choice. His desire is for all men to come to repentance and be saved (ref: 2Pt3:9).
We, just like the Jews have a personal responsibility to respond to a Sovereign God who gives us everything we need for life and godliness (ref: 2Pt1:3); it is our choice what we are going to do with it.
See, God’s word does not fail, man does when he refuses the free gift.
(Prayer)