The Painful Paradox
Notes
Transcript
Introduction
Introduction
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. 6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;
Paul’s Greatest Sorrow (1-3)
Paul’s Greatest Sorrow (1-3)
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,
History’s Greatest Tragedy (4-5)
History’s Greatest Tragedy (4-5)
Israelites
Adoption as Sons
22 “Then you shall say to Pharaoh, ‘Thus says the Lord, “Israel is My son, My firstborn.
Glory
10 It happened that when the priests came from the holy place, the cloud filled the house of the Lord, 11 so that the priests could not stand to minister because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the house of the Lord.
Covenants
Abrahamic Covenant
Gen 15
Mosaic Covenant
Exodus, Leviticus, Deuteronomy
Davidic Covenant
16 “Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.” ’ ”
New Covenant
31 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, 32 not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them,” declares the Lord. 33 “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. 34 “They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’ for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them,” declares the Lord, “for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more.”
Giving of the Law
How to live before God in blessing
Service
How to be made right before God and find forgiveness
Promises
32 “And we preach to you the good news of the promise made to the fathers, 33 that God has fulfilled this promise to our children in that He raised up Jesus, as it is also written in the second Psalm, ‘You are My Son; today i have begotten You.’ 34 “As for the fact that He raised Him up from the dead, no longer to return to decay, He has spoken in this way: ‘I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.’
Fathers
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob
The Christ
Through Joseph - Matthew 1:1-17
Through Mary - Luke 3:23-38
God’s Greatest Mystery (6a)
God’s Greatest Mystery (6a)
6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel;