Difficult Passages part 1

SLIDE 1 “WEDNESDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDY”

Though would be interesting to try something different tonight

At time we come across that certain verse or passage and like we start asking the Lord questions like.......what do you mean by that?........or ....what does that even mean?......or....why did God do that?

SLIDE 2 “DIFFICULT PASSAGES IN THE BIBLE”

If your ready I’m ready, let’s dive in SLIDE 3

Romans 9:13 NASB95

13 Just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”

First you would want to see if there is a cross reference

Obviously this passage is because Paul has it quoted here

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Malachi 1:2–3 NASB95

2 “I have loved you,” says the Lord. But you say, “How have You loved us?” “Was not Esau Jacob’s brother?” declares the Lord. “Yet I have loved Jacob; 3 but I have hated Esau, and I have made his mountains a desolation and appointed his inheritance for the jackals of the wilderness.”

What would be the part in these passages that is giving us trouble?

So fist thing we would do is look up the Hebrew and Greek for hated

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HATED (HEBREW)

sane’ /saw nay - enemies, foes, against, detest, loathe

having a feeling of open hostility or dislike

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HATED (GREEK)

miseo / mis eh o - pursue with hatred, detest

love less, formally hate;

a semitic comparison referring to divine

choice of clans

did these definitions help you any or give any insight?

any interpretation coming in yet?

we should try for more context to help us

Lets look again at Romans 9....here Paul starts off the chapter with grief and sorrow for his former kinsman

Many had the law, promises of God, were in the temple service.......but he says “they are not all Israel who are descendants of Israel” “Nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants”

Let’s pick up here in Romans 9 and carry on and see what we glean from the chapter and context of it

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Romans 9:8–9 NASB95

8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants. 9 For this is the word of promise: “At this time I will come, and Sarah shall have a son.”

DISCUSSION

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Romans 9:10–11 NASB95

10 And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac; 11 for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls,

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Romans 9:12–14 NASB95

12 it was said to her, “The older will serve the younger.” 13 Just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” 14 What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!

DISCUSSION

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Romans 9:15–16 NASB95

15 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” 16 So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.

DISCUSSION

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Romans 9:17–18 NASB95

17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.” 18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.

DISCUSSION

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Romans 9:19–20 NASB95

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?

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Romans 9:21–22 NASB95

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? 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?

DISCUSSION

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Romans 9:23–24 NASB95

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.

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Romans 9:25–26 NASB95

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.”

SLIDE 16 “GOD BLESS / HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK”