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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.
Just earlier Paul declared an unequivocal guaranteed security with God through Christ Jesus.
He is saying I’m secured… His confidence is in CHRIST!
Now that we have established this truth, then let us come down to reality.
Paul’s Best Friend: Sorrow
Paul is at home with tribulation, sorrow and grief, he is used to them by now.
Remember 2 Cor.
11:24-31, Paul’s tribulation resume we read last week?
What is the source of Paul’s sorrow?
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.
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.
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.
In the women’s Bible Study, we are going through the Beatitudes, found in Mark 5.
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 Mark 5:10 - the willingness to undergo persecution for the salvation of other, in our text his fellow Jews.
The depth of Paul’s sorrow.
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
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 Ro. 10:12–13).
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—Ac.
21:27–30; 24:1–9.
See Ac. 22:22; 1 Co. 4:13.)
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 …
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 Exod 32:32:
Moses was willing to lay down his life in the most painful manner, if it will only result to their repentance.
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 2 Timothy 4:6
Compare to Christ in Luke 22:20
Pouring out of a drink offering is a metaphor for the blood Jesus spilled on the cross.
Jesus spoke to this directly in Luke 22:20 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 (John 19:34).
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 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.
God’s Sovereign Plan
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.
But Paul’s reaction to rejection of Christ among his fellow Jews was different, why?
What does Paul know about them?
What are some important points we need to know about Israel?
(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—Jn.
4:22; Deeper Study # 1—Ro.
4:1–25.)
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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 (Ge.
32:28; 34:7; Jn. 1:47).
b.
Israel was the nation of people raised up by God to be His witness to the world (see Jn. 4:22).
c.
Israel bore up the name of God in the world.
d.
Israel was given the oracles of God, that is, the Word of God, the revelation of God to the world.
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Israel was a greatly privileged people in spiritual things.
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Israel was given the glorious privilege of being God’s witnesses upon the earth.
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