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Text: Romans 9:6-13
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BRIDGING SENTENCES
Textual Idea: God’s choice in salvation is through Jesus not through heritage or works.
Main Idea: Only God’s Promise Produces God’s People!
Interrogative: What does this mean?
Transition: There are two illustrations Paul uses to prove the point that salvation comes from one place alone - the promise of God = Jesus.
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God’s Promise Produces God’s People - Your Heritage Will Not (vs.
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Explanation - Everyone wants to know about their heritage.
Where they came from is very important to people.
Organizations like “23 and Me” and “Ancestery.com”
have exploded over the past several years because they answer a lot of questions and help people to understand where they came from.
It’s really cool information to have, but there is one but there is one thing knowing and understanding our heritage cannot give us - eternal life.
Why would Paul make this statement?
Because of what he said in verses 1-5.
Do you remember?
Just look at verses 2-3 to remember Paul’s dilemma...
Paul’s heart was broken for his “kinsmen according to the flesh (not the Spirit).
In other words - He is heartbroken that those who have an ethnic connection to Paul (Jews), but do not have a spiritual connection (through Christ).
And so he wants to make sure the church at Rome understands his point that while he is grieved for the damnation of his unregenerate or fleshly Jewish heritage, God’s word has not failed in that...
“not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel.”
What does this mean?
It means simply this.
Just because the Jewish nation was God’s chosen people, does not mean every member of the nation were born again believers in Christ and thus saved.
There is a national Israel and a SPIRITUAL Israel.
Paul is grieved for the lostness of the national Israel because they have not embraced the Messiah and thus become part of the SPIRITUAL Israel!
Paul goes on to clarify this point in verse 7...
How is this a clarification?
Because of the the quote from Genesis.
Why is the quote from Genesis important?
Because, Abraham had two sons.
Actually, he had six sons, but in this part of the story there were two sons.
One son came to be through a plan contrived by Sarah his wife to expedite God’s promise for them to have a son.
Sarah had her maidservant and Abraham to have sex so a son would be born.
This son was Ishmael...
The promise was that Sarah would have a son, not Sarah Handmaid.
Why is the quote from Genesis important?
Because, Abraham had two sons.
Actually, he had eight sons in total, but in this part of the story there were two sons.
One son came to be through a plan contrived by Sarah his wife to expedite God’s promise for them to have a son.
Sarah had her maidservant and Abraham to have sex so a son would be born.
This son was Ishmael...
Ishmael was not the promised son that would be the line of Israel and ultimately God’s precursor of redemption.
Isaac, the son of Abraham and Sarah is the promised son!
“Through Isaac shall your OFFSPRING be named.”
Offspring is singular and so we can make the conclusion that it is through Sarah’s promised son would come the Promised Son of God!
This son, not born of Sarah, but of Mary!
Friends, Jesus is the big deal of the bible.
He is the promised son that will rescue God’s people from their sins.
Paul makes clear the distinction in verse 8-9.
And do you see the point Paul is making?
The true children of God from the Jewish perspective are not the ethnic Jews, but the spiritual Jews.
And the spiritual Jews come from the son of Promise, Isaac to the Son of God, Jesus.
And the promise from the Son of God is...
Salvation has nothing to do with your heritage.
I love our children and our grandchildren.
We get to spend a lot of time with Elliot and he is awesome!
I love him so much!
I tell him that he’s my best pal!
And then he responds back, “Your my best pal!” Wonderful!
In mid-august, Angie and I are going to visit our other three grand-children in Jacksonville, Florida!
I can’t wait to give them exceedingly long hugs!
But I want to teach you something about the new Heavens and the New Earth.
Did you know there are no children or grandchildren in heaven?! That’s right!
No children or grand children.
And that means when Elliot becomes a follower of Christ, lives his life here and then dies and goes to heaven, I won’t be his grandfather there.
I will not!
I will be his BROTHER in Christ.
He and I will be fellow children of God!
Argumentation - So many people think they have an “in” with God because their grandfather was a pastor, or their mom was a Sunday School teacher and a faithful church goer.
LISTEN UP! God does not take this into consideration when it’s your time to stand before him and he asks you, “Why should I let you into my heaven?”
There is only one acceptable answer to that question!
“It’s not who I’m related to, Jesus Christ said I could come.”
Application - Just like the Jews were not saved by being Jewish, you cannot be saved because your were raised in a Christian home!
Or you went to a christian school, or you had a christian friend.
You must have a personal relationship with the PROMISED SON OF GOD!
No relationship with Christ, no entrance into His eternal home!
PERIOD!
Review - God’s Promise Produces God’s People
Your Heritage Will Not
God’s Promise Produces God’s People - Your Work Cannot! (vs.
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Explanation - Okay, so just like one’s heritage provide eternal salvation, neither can what you do.
After Paul uses Abraham and Sarah as an example that heritage doesn’t save you, he uses another illustration from the Old Testament that makes the point what you do, doesn’t save you!
Take a look at verses 10-12...
Okay, there is a lot in these three verses so let’s try and understand what Paul is teaching here...
First notice the comparison between the first example and the second one.
In the first example there were two different women giving birth to two different sons.
In this example, there is one woman (Rebekah) giving birth to two sons.
Why is this significant?
The first is an example of God’s sovereignty in choice of one woman’s son over another.
The second example is of God’s sovereignty in choice of one twin over another.
In the first case, the first born son Ishmael was overlooked for the second, Isaac.
In this case the second twin, Jacob was chosen and the firstborn twin, Esau was overlooked.
Why point this out?
What is Paul teaching?
God gets to chose.
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