LOVING LIKE JESUS
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INTRODUCTION
INTRODUCTION
As we approach Romans chapters 9–11 we will be learning about the place of the Jews in world history. The church faces this bewildering problem because the Jews were God’s chosen people with a unique and special place in God’s purposes. However, when God sent His Son into the world, the Jews rejected Him. How can this tragic and terrible paradox be explained? Why would God’s people choose to reject and crucify God’s very own Son? This is the problem that Paul begins to deal with in these chapters.
Chapters 9–11 have to do with the place of the Jews in world history. The church faces this bewildering problem because the Jews were God’s chosen people with a unique and special place in God’s purposes. However, when God sent His Son into the world, the Jews rejected Him. How can this tragic and terrible paradox be explained? Why would God’s people choose to reject and crucify God’s very own Son? This is the problem that Paul begins to deal with in these chapters.
First, the Jews were the special chosen people of God. Paul never questioned this. The Jews had a very special place in God’s plan for the salvation of man down through human history. (See notes also Deeper Study # 1—; Deeper Study # 1—.)
Second, the real chosen people, the real Israel, always lay in a righteous remnant, not in the whole nation (see , esp. 27f).
Leadership Ministries Worldwide. (1996). Romans (p. 173). Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide.
Just earlier Paul declared an unequivocal guaranteed security with God through Christ Jesus. He is saying I’m secured… His confidence is in CHRIST!
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Just as it is written, “For Your sake we are being put to death all day long; We were considered as sheep to be slaughtered.” But in all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:35
Who will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
Romans 8:
Now that we have established this truth, then let us come down to reality.
Paul’s Best Friend: Sorrow
Paul’s Best Friend: Sorrow
I am telling the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience testifies with me in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and unceasing grief in my heart.
Romans 9:
Paul is at home with tribulation, sorrow and grief, he is used to them by now. Remember , Paul’s tribulation resume we read last week?
Five times I received from the Jews thirty-nine lashes. Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked, a night and a day I have spent in the deep. I have been on frequent journeys, in dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my countrymen, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers on the sea, dangers among false brethren; I have been in labor and hardship, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure. Apart from such external things, there is the daily pressure on me of concern for all the churches. Who is weak without my being weak? Who is led into sin without my intense concern? If I have to boast, I will boast of what pertains to my weakness. The God and Father of the Lord Jesus, He who is blessed forever, knows that I am not lying.
What is the source of Paul’s sorrow?
What is the source of Paul’s sorrow?
He makes it clear that Israel’s failure to accept his doctrine of salvation by God in Christ was a cause of unceasing sorrow to him.
So what’s another sorrow for him. This is a different sorrow, it’s not about a mistake or sin or a result of his action but instead it is a result of his fellow Jewish brothers’ and sisters’ action.
Morris, L. (1988). The Epistle to the Romans (p. 345). Grand Rapids, MI; Leicester, England: W.B. Eerdmans; Inter-Varsity Press.
He is grieved that his fellow Jews, God’s chosen people through His promises to Abraham, have not widely accepted Jesus as their Messiah.
The cause of his unceasing sorrow in Chapter 9 is Israel’s failure to accept his doctrine of salvation by God in Christ.
He is grieved that his fellow Jews, God’s chosen people through His promises to Abraham, have not widely accepted Jesus as their Messiah.
Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
His sorrow lead him to express his willingness to be curse or cut off from Christ if only that could save them. He was willing to loose his salvation if it only meant their salvation. THAT IS CRAZY!
Paul’s Sorrow is a reflection of a true Christian.
Paul’s Sorrow is a reflection of a true Christian.
“Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
In the women’s Bible Study, we are going through the Beatitudes, found in .
The beatitude is a painting of what a true Christian looks like.
One characteristic of a true Christian is understanding that there are consequences for obeying Christ! YES there is. Far from what we have been used to that blessing come from obeying Christ.
Since we are surrounded by evil and evil is the enemy of God, we get attacked for obeying God. His canons of persecution are aimed at God’s faithful follower.
Paul is a living testament of - the willingness to undergo persecution for the salvation of other, in our text his fellow Jews.
The depth of Paul’s sorrow.
The depth of Paul’s sorrow.
I am so concerned about my people, who are members of my own race. I am ready to be cursed, if that would help them. I am even willing to be separated from Christ.
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, whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
Romans
Two things need to be noted throughout this section.
Two things need to be noted throughout this section.
First, the Jews were the special chosen people of God. Paul never questioned this. The Jews had a very special place in God’s plan for the salvation of man down through human history. (See notes also Deeper Study # 1—; Deeper Study # 1—.)
Second, the real chosen people, the real Israel, always lay in a righteous remnant, not in the whole nation (see , esp. 27f).
For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
Romans 9:
I am so concerned about my people, who are members of my own race. I am ready to be cursed, if that would help them. I am even willing to be separated from Christ.
Romans 9:
What does this tell us of Paul?
What does this tell us of Paul?
He has the heart of Christ. He was willing to suffer for their sake.
In the center of Paul’s heart is Evangelism—Witnessing—Compassion—Great Commission
Evangelism—Witnessing—Compassion—Great Commission
At some point the Jews called Paul a false prophet and a liar. Why? He was now proclaiming God’s love and salvation for all men instead of just for the Jews. Man no longer had to become a proselyte of Jewish religion in order to know God (see ).
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, abounding in riches for all who call on Him; for “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
To the traditional Jew, Paul was a heretic. He was a man who was to be utterly distrusted. They hated and despised him and wanted to kill him and do away with his message (see notes—; . See ; .)
The Jews called Paul a false prophet and a liar. Why? He was now proclaiming God’s love and salvation for all men instead of just for the Jews. Man no longer had to become a proselyte of Jewish religion in order to know God (see ). To the traditional Jew, Paul was a heretic. He was a man who was to be utterly distrusted. They hated and despised him and wanted to kill him and do away with his message (see notes—; . See ; .)
When the seven days were almost over, the Jews from Asia, upon seeing him in the temple, began to stir up all the crowd and laid hands on him, crying out, “Men of Israel, come to our aid! This is the man who preaches to all men everywhere against our people and the Law and this place; and besides he has even brought Greeks into the temple and has defiled this holy place.” For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in the city with him, and they supposed that Paul had brought him into the temple. Then all the city was provoked, and the people rushed together, and taking hold of Paul they dragged him out of the temple, and immediately the doors were shut.
when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now.
12 and we toil, working with our own hands; when we are reviled, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure; 13 when we are slandered, we try to conciliate; we have become as the scum of the world, the dregs of all things, even until now. 14 I do not write these things to shame you, but to admonish you as my beloved children.
Despite the rejection and ill treatment from the Jews, Paul still loved his kinsmen, and he sensed a deep urgency for them to grasp the truth. Their salvation was of such concern that he swore his concern by three things: Christ, his conscience, and the Holy Spirit. Paul was forcibly saying, “I am not lying …
b. Despite the rejection and ill treatment from the Jews, Paul still loved his kinsmen, and he sensed a deep urgency for them to grasp the truth. Their salvation was of such concern that he swore his concern by three things: Christ, his conscience, and the Holy Spirit. Paul was forcibly saying, “I am not lying …
Leadership Ministries Worldwide. (1996). Romans (p. 173). Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide.
What kind of suffering was he willing to go through?
Ready to be cursed if that will be the only way to convinced them to believer in Christ.
This was a demonstration of his solidarity with his brethren by wishing to share in their punishment or even take the punishment for them. He longs for the salvation of his fellow Jews.
Paul has the same heart as Moses too. Read a record of Moses’ prayer in :
But now, if you will only forgive their sin—but if not, erase my name from the record you have written!”
Then Moses returned to the Lord, and said, “Alas, this people has committed a great sin, and they have made a god of gold for themselves. “But now, if You will, forgive their sin—and if not, please blot me out from Your book which You have written!” The Lord said to Moses, “Whoever has sinned against Me, I will blot him out of My book.
Moses was willing to lay down his life in the most painful manner, if it will only result to their repentance.
Paul echoes Moses’ prayer in , showing solidarity with his people by wishing to share in their punishment or take the punishment for them. He longs for the salvation of his fellow Jews.
Barry, J. D., Mangum, D., Brown, D. R., Heiser, M. S., Custis, M., Ritzema, E., … Bomar, D. (2012, 2016). Faithlife Study Bible (). Bellingham, WA: Lexham Press.
OBSERVATION - PARALLELISM TO CHRIST
OBSERVATION - PARALLELISM TO CHRIST
Fully given of himself for the BRETHREN.
Total unselfishness
Total sacrifice
Fully considering other’s first.
Looks at his statement in
For I am already being poured out as a drink offering, and the time of my departure has come.
But even if I am being poured out as a drink offering upon the sacrifice and service of your faith, I rejoice and share my joy with you all.
Compare to Christ in
And in the same way He took the cup after they had eaten, saying, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.
Pouring out of a drink offering is a metaphor for the blood Jesus spilled on the cross. Jesus spoke to this directly in when He instituted the New Covenant. He picked up a cup of wine and said, “This cup which is poured out for you is the new covenant in My blood.” Jesus’ sacrifice fulfilled the need of a drink offering, His blood literally pouring out when the soldier pierced His side with a spear ().
Paul used the same metaphor, using the image of a drink offering to describe his own service. Just as Christ gave His life for our salvation in a sacrificial way, Paul also poured out his life that we know Christ.
PAUL IDENTIFIES HIS DESIRED RECIPIENTS
PAUL IDENTIFIES HIS DESIRED RECIPIENTS
Paul is the picture of a man who had an unbelievable willingness to be sacrificed for his people. His emotions were so extreme that he was willing to swap his salvation for their doom if it would lead to their salvation. Paul felt the deepest emotion, love, and concern for his people.
Paul is the picture of a man who had an unbelievable willingness to be sacrificed for his people. He could wish to be accursed (anathema), that is, separated, from Christ if it would save his people. He could be willing to swap his salvation for their doom if it would lead to their salvation. Paul felt the deepest emotion, love, and concern for his people.
God’s Sovereign Plan
God’s Sovereign Plan
Understanding the source of Paul’s sorrow.
Understanding the source of Paul’s sorrow.
Sometimes I think it will just be simpler to dust off your feet if the people you are trying to witness rejects Christ. After all it’s biblical.
“If the house is worthy, give it your blessing of peace. But if it is not worthy, take back your blessing of peace. “Whoever does not receive you, nor heed your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet. “Truly I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of judgment than for that city.
Matt 10:13-15
But Paul’s reaction to rejection of Christ among his fellow Jews was different, why?
What does Paul know about them?
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, whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to the flesh, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.
What are some important points we need to know about Israel?
What are some important points we need to know about Israel?
For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, 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,
(SHOW CHARTS OF GENEALOGY AND 12 TRIBES.)
First, the Jews were the special chosen people of God. Paul never questioned this. The Jews had a very special place in God’s plan for the salvation of man down through human history. (See notes also Deeper Study # 1—; Deeper Study # 1—.)
22 “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
Romans
a. The Jews were Israelites. Their very name, Israel, meant a prince with God or one who rules with God or one who contends with God.
And their name had been given to them from the very founding of their nation. It had come from Jacob, whose name had been changed by God to Israel. The name was later adopted by the descendants of Jacob (; ; ).
28 He said, “Your name shall no longer be Jacob, but Israel; for you have striven with God and with men and have prevailed.”
7 Now the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it; and the men were grieved, and they were very angry because he had done a disgraceful thing in Israel by lying with Jacob’s daughter, for such a thing ought not to be done.
47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to Him, and said of him, “Behold, an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no deceit!”
Gen 34:
b. Israel was the nation of people raised up by God to be His witness to the world (see ).
22 “You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, for salvation is from the Jews.
1. Israel was the nation of people raised up by God to be His witness to the world (see Deeper Study # 1—).
c. Israel bore up the name of God in the world.
1 God is honored in Judah; his name is great in Israel. 2 Jerusalem is where he lives; Mount Zion is his home.
“In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel. In Salem [Jerusalem] also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion” ().
d. Israel was given the oracles of God, that is, the Word of God, the revelation of God to the world.
1 Then what advantage has the Jew? Or what is the benefit of circumcision? 2 Great in every respect. First of all, that they were entrusted with the oracles of God.
HIS BRETHREN
“What advantage then hath the Jew?… chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God” ().
e. Israel was a greatly privileged people in spiritual things.
“[They] are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises; whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever” (. See notes— for a discussion of their great privileges.)
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.
d. Israel was given the glorious plan of salvation.
f. Israel was given the glorious privilege of being God’s witnesses upon the earth.
Israel—Israelites: the Jews were Israelites. Their very name, Israel, meant a prince with God or one who rules with God or one who contends with God. And their name had been given them from the very founding of their nation. It had come from Jacob, whose name had been changed by God to Israel. The name was later adopted by the descendants of Jacob (; ; ).
For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh,
“Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews” ().
HIS KINSMAN
10 “You are My witnesses,” declares the Lord, “And My servant whom I have chosen, So that you may know and believe Me And understand that I am He. Before Me there was no God formed, And there will be none after Me.
d. Israel was given the glorious privilege of being God’s witnesses upon the earth.
God chose the nation of Israel to be the people through whom Jesus Christ would be born—the Savior from sin and death ().
God first promised the Messiah after Adam and Eve’s fall into sin (Genesis chapter 3). God later confirmed that the Messiah would come from the line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob ().
WHO ARE THEY
Leadership Ministries Worldwide. (1996). Romans (p. 174). Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide.
What is a kinsman?
Jesus Christ is the ultimate reason why God chose Israel to be His special people. God did not need to have a chosen people, but He decided to do it that way. Jesus had to come from some nation of people, and God chose Israel.
“Ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me” ().
GAME CHANGER
However, God’s reason for choosing the nation of Israel was not solely for the purpose of producing the Messiah. God’s desire for Israel was that they would go and teach others about Him. Israel was to be a nation of priests, prophets, and missionaries to the world. God’s intent was for Israel to be a distinct people, a nation who pointed others towards God and His promised provision of a Redeemer, Messiah, and Savior. For the most part, Israel failed in this task. However, God’s ultimate purpose for Israel—that of bringing the Messiah into the world—was fulfilled perfectly in the Person of Jesus Christ.
Because they failed to fulfill God’s purpose, God took away this privilege. Let’s read a prophecy in
43 “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it. 44 “And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.” 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them.
43 “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it.
34 “When the harvest time approached, he sent his slaves to the vine-growers to receive his produce.
40 “Therefore when the owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those vine-growers?” 41 They said to Him, “He will bring those wretches to a wretched end, and will rent out the vineyard to other vine-growers who will pay him the proceeds at the proper seasons.” 42 Jesus said to them, “Did you never read in the Scriptures, ‘The stone which the builders rejected, This became the chief corner stone; This came about from the Lord, And it is marvelous in our eyes’? 43 “Therefore I say to you, the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people, producing the fruit of it. 44 “And he who falls on this stone will be broken to pieces; but on whomever it falls, it will scatter him like dust.” 45 When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard His parables, they understood that He was speaking about them.
Leadership Ministries Worldwide. (1996). Matthew: Chapters 16:13–28:20 (Vol. II, pp. 129–130). Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide.
Israelites
Lesson
Lesson
Looking at a bigger scope, God’s reason for choosing the nation of Israel was not solely for the purpose of producing the Messiah. God’s desire for Israel was that they would go and teach others about Him. Israel was to be a nation of priests, prophets, and missionaries to the world. God’s intent was for Israel to be a distinct people, a nation who pointed others towards God and His promised provision of a Redeemer, Messiah, and Savior. For the most part, Israel failed in this task. However, God’s ultimate purpose for Israel—that of bringing the Messiah into the world—was fulfilled perfectly in the Person of Jesus Christ.
Fathers
God’s people should be willing to suffer the ultimate pain for the salvation of souls.
Just like the Jews, to tell about the Messiah, The Gospel, is a privilege. You only have one lifetime to be an instrument of God. He died for you, He bought you with the blood of His Son with the hopes that you will proclaim and that your life will be a reflection of the Savior Jesus Christ.
2. Looking at a bigger scope, God’s reason for choosing the nation of Israel was not solely for the purpose of producing the Messiah. God’s desire for Israel was that they would go and teach others about Him. Israel was to be a nation of priests, prophets, and missionaries to the world. God’s intent was for Israel to be a distinct people, a nation who pointed others towards God and His promised provision of a Redeemer, Messiah, and Savior. For the most part, Israel failed in this task. However, God’s ultimate purpose for Israel—that of bringing the Messiah into the world—was fulfilled perfectly in the Person of Jesus Christ.
Leadership Ministries Worldwide. (1996). Romans (p. 174). Chattanooga, TN: Leadership Ministries Worldwide.
Do you have God’s heart in you? Does it reveal a deep evangelistic fervor for the lost? God’s people should be willing to suffer the ultimate pain for the salvation of souls.