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Introduction

This 31 of October 2017 marks 500 years of the Protestant Reformation.

This is an event that forever changed the course of humanity.

People were living, growing, maturing, and eventually dying without any assurance that they would go to heaven after death.

The Lord used Martin Luther to change the course of humanity forever!

Through the course of this month we have examined the following battle cries of the Protestant Reformation

Scripture alone is our authority / La Escritura es nuestra autoridad

Salvation because of grace alone / Somos salvos sólo por gracia

Salvation by faith alone / Somos salvos mediante la fe en Cristo

Christ Alone saves / Sólo Cristo salva

Today we will consider the last battle cry of the Protestant Reformation:

Glory be to God alone!

/ La gloria sea sólo para Dios

We will consider this marvelous truth by considering:

I.

The riches of God’s wisdom / Las riquezas de la sabiduría de Dios

Up to this point Paul has written 11 chapters of this letter to the Romans.

Paul has considered many marvelous truths that God revealed by his Holy Spirit.

Paul has also finished writing chapters 9-11 where the main question is: Why don’t the Jews believe in the jewish Messiah?

The New International Version (Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2011), .

He knows they are the people of the promise.

They are the chosen people of God according to the promise God gave to Abraham.

The Jewish Messiah - Jesus - came to his people and yet they did not receive him.

They rejected the Messiah and put him to death.

We must also realize throughout the centuries there have been very few people of Jewish blood that have come to faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Their hearts have been hardened to the Gospel.

However, in we learn that all of this is part of God’s plan.

In Paul declares that God has not rejected his chosen people.

God has not rejected his people.

All of this is part of God’s plan.

Surely the Jews have rejected their Messiah.

Because of this salvation his come to the gentiles.

We who were not part of the people of Israel are also given the free offer of the Gospel.

We are given the opportunity to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Through our belief in Jesus Christ we become part of the people of God such that the Jewish people will become jealous of the salvation we now enjoy in Jesus Christ.

Romans

In the beautiful, marvelous, awesome, incredible plan of God he will continue to save gentiles; and when the time of the Gentiles has been completed he will bring many Jews to the knowledge of the Gospel and will be saved.

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So, although we see many Jewish people not believing in the Gospel of Jesus Christ there will come a day when God will have saved all the gentiles that will believe and then we will see many Jews coming to faith in the Jewish Messiah.

They will believe in our Lord Jesus and both Jew and Gentile will be joined as the one people of God.

Paul sees the plan of God.

He sees the mercy of God in how he is bringing many gentiles to faith in the Lord Jesus.

We were not part of the people of God.

We were lost and without hope.

The Jews rejected their Messiah but God had a plan for the entire world through the death of his Son.

All those who believe in him shall be saved.

This is his promise.

There is no Jew and there is no gentile.

We will all be saved by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

In his own life, Paul sees the marvelous plan of God.

He took a fanatic Jew who was only interested in destroying the church of God.

He would go from town to town putting christians in prison and if it was possible put them to death.

But Paul, will forever be remembered as the apostle to the gentiles.

He brought the gospel of Jesus Christ to many places where gentiles lived and worked.

He preached the gospel to these people who were not the people of God and saw many come to salvation.

So Paul what God has done throughout the ages and cannot continue writing.

Paul must stop and praise God for his wonderful plan of salvation.

Romans 11.33

The first thing he does is recognize how deep and how rich is the wisdom and knowledge of God.

God’s knowledge is so profound.

We simply cannot know as much as God.

He knows everything.

He knows the past, the present, and the future.

God’s knowledge is exact.

He knows everything that there is to know.

Secondly Paul recognizes how God manifests his wisdom and knowledge in his judgements and paths.

Human plans can fail.

Many times we do not plan adequately for different situations.

However, God never fails.

His paths are sure.

God’s plan for the ages is 100% guaranteed.

II.

God is greater than any mortal / Dios es más grande que cualquier mortal

Paul goes on to quote to verses from the Old Testament.

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Paul declares that there is no human who could’ve given God counsel or advice.

Neither has any human been able to give to God so that God would be in his debt.

In other words, God is so great, so marvelous, so wise, so just, so self-sufficient, so grand, he is GOD!

We serve a great, great, great God.

We serve the creator of the universe.

We serve him who spoke and creation came into existence.

We serve a God who needs no air, no food, no water, he does not even need our worship.

God is all knowing.

He is all powerful.

None of us could’ve have come up with the plan of salvation.

We serve him who before all eternity determined to create a wonderful planet

Who could have though of God sending his son to be born of a virgen?

He was not born of a great princess of the ancient world.

Who could have though that this son would be born amongst the poor in a small insignificant village called Bethlehem?

He was not born in a palace nor amongst the rich.

Who could have though that this son would have chosen 12 fishermen?

He didn’t choose none of the great rabbi’s in Israel.

Who could have though that this son would die upon a cross, abandoned, suffering the rejection of men, suffering the tortures of crucifixion?

Who would have though that he would be buried and his body put in a tomb?

Who would have though that he would be raised on the third day by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Only God!

This is entirely of God’s doing.

This is the plan of redemption!

III.

All praise belongs to God / Toda la alabanza le pertence a Dios