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Reading and Meditating
I’ve said this a few times and I’ll probably say it a lot for the rest of my life but we really need to see all scripture as meditation literature.
I don’t mean a new age, read the Bible and let thoughts flow in about the ideas in scripture.
That might sound Biblical at first but I assure you it is not.
To meditate on scripture means reading it, thinking about what IT is saying and thinking about how it connects to the rest of scripture in pointing us to Christ.
Let’s read again this passage we’re looking at Romans 9:6-18
We have once again found ourselves starting with a question as we pickup where we left off last week on verse 14.
But how can we respond to those first 8 verses that we talked about last week?
Is God unjust?
That’s what our question is asking.
Let’s recap last week.
We looked at two stories the choice of God in his promised covenant being with Isaac over Ishmael, then even more pointedly Jacob over Esau.
It was God’s choice to bring Jacob into the covenant of salvation over his brother Esau.
It was not by merit, God picked them before they were even born.
This has brought the question then to Paul, probably more than once… If they didn’t do anything to deserve the reward or punishment then how can that possibly be fair?
How can that be righteous?
Our answer is first BY NO MEANS! me genoito!
But Pauls answer to this seems very strange!
Romans 9:15 “For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.””
Right here we’re tempted to say Paul… you did not answer the question, you just restated the issue we have a problem with and that caused us to question the judgement of God.
The problem is that we didn’t understand what Paul just said.
Paul is linking us to an entire narrative.
We need to be immersed in scripture to pick up on this quickly.
What’s the context of what Paul is talking about?
Quoting from Exo 33:19
Okay so God said that but we need a bigger picture, for that we have to go back to Exodus nineteen.
There we see the Israelites who have been 3 months out of captivity and have made it to the mountain.
The word goes around the people are told these things and all of the people agree to the words of God.
So God has instructions for cleansing and having the people presented before God at the base of the mountain but warnings not to go up the mountain.
Then we get chapter 20 and following.
and the rest of the 10 commandments are given, directly by God’s voice to the people.
The first time people hear it is straight from God’s lips.
The law goes on beyond the 10 commandments we just liked to talk about 10 but many chapters of law continues here directly from God to the people.
God’s initial plan is that Israel be a nation of priests, not a nation that had priests.
Law and promises of the land of Canaan.. then we get to chapter 24…
The people agree and there is a covenant now in blood.
Moses is called again up to the mountain and he leaves Aaron and Hur in charge.
Moses gets more instructions and tablets of what God has spoken.
Then we get a hyperlink to the story of Moses and Pharoah.
We need to follow this link to figure out what we’re talking about.
We need to meditate by setting our mind to the word and understanding what it says.
Please understand I am going to start jumping through this story in Exodus.
Hopefully you got to read this story for yourself but if you didn’t Go back through it later and get the whole story in your mind.
It takes place over the whole book.
I’ll point out passages but I don’t expect you to keep up completely.
We’re going to pickup the story of Moses at the end of chapter 2 while Moses is still in the desert.
Then in chapter 3 we see Moses encounter God at the burning bush where God commands Moses take off his sandals because he is on Holy ground.
Moses in reverence hid his face.
Moses balks a little, asks what God’s name is.
It’s Yaweh, God says I AM WHO I AM.
Moses gets a mission Exodus 3:15
Moses is still not on board God gives him three miracles to show so that the people will believe.
Rod to the serpent, hand in the coat leper spots, water from the Nile on the ground that turns to blood.
Moses still doesn’t want to do this and God gets angry at him and allows Aaron to speak for him, but Moses will perform the signs.
Moses get’s his father-in-law’s release to leave and packs up his family and returns to Egypt.
We pickup here in Exo 4:21-23
God tells us here before Moses has even made it to Egypt that God will be the one to harden Pharaoh’s heart.
Moses and Aaron go to Pharaoh, he doesn’t bat an eye but says Who is Yaweh, and why would I care what he says?
Then Pharaoh makes the work harder.
The people aren’t really happy with Moses over that.
God commands them to go before Pharaoh to bring the people out of the land.
Picking up Exo 7:2-6
It doesn’t say here who hardened Pharaoh’s heart.
But God already told us in chapter 4 the He would harden Pharaoh’s heart.
Why would God do that?
Doesn’t God want his people to be freed???
That answer is coming in our story.
Then the second plague hits with frogs, Pharaoh relents and says he will let Israelite go but Moses must stop the frog invasion.
This time we see it was Pharaoh hardens his own heart.
The third plague with Gnats comes and the Egyptian magicians can’t replicate this one.
The fourth plague of flies Pharaoh relents and says he will let the people go.
The fifth plague comes to only the Egyptian livestock.
The sixth plague is boils.
Then the seventh plague is hail.
The key here is purpose.
Show God’s Power, and Glorify the Name of God
Pharaoh pleads again to remove this plague.
A plague of Locusts is next
Then darkness is the next plague.
Then, we know the rest of this story.
Passover starts here with instructions about how to prepare for the Israelites.
The Israelites leave.... but
Then God instructs moses on parting the sea for the Israelites to get through but when the Egyptians pursued Moses’ hand went back out over the sea and it came in on the Egyptians killing them all.
God accomplished His will, for his purpose glorify his name.
We see in scripture God choosing life for some, and death for others.
God chose these things before these people entered the story themselves.
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