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Introduction
Attention - A guy had his picture taken.
He was very upset with the photographer and very upset with the picture.
He rushed back in to the photographer and said, “Look at this picture of me!
This picture does not do me justice!”
The photographer looked at him and said, “Mister, with a face like yours, you don’t need justice, you need mercy!”
That’s exactly the situation we are in.
We don’t need justice, but we need a whole lot of mercy.
Tony Evans, Tony Evans’ Book of Illustrations: Stories, Quotes, and Anecdotes from More than 30 Years of Preaching and Public Speaking (Chicago, IL: Moody Publishers, 2009), 211.
Need - We all need mercy - more than we realize!
“Justice is getting what you deserve.
Mercy is not getting what you deserve.”
Paul quotes another Old Testament prophet to prove his theological point in Romans 9:27-29...
Isaiah prophesied that the southern kingdom of Judah would be conquered and scattered—temporarily rejected by God—because of her unbelief.
Paul’s point is that the scattering Isaiah described was only a preview of Israel’s rejection of the Messiah and her subsequent destruction and scattering.
Textual Idea: Paul quotes Isaiah to show that if it were not for the mercy of God, God’s people, the Jews would have no chance of survival whatsoever.
And this is a truth you and I, as followers of Jesus must come to terms with.
The Jews did not deserve salvation
The gentiles did not deserve salvation
You nor I deserve salvation.
Main Idea: God’s Salvation of His People is by His Mercy Alone!
Interrogative: Okay, what do we need to know about this “merciful salvation?”
Transition: Three powerful realities regarding God’s Merciful Salvation!
And the first is...
God’s Merciful Salvation is For a Few (vs.
27)
Explanation:
The last time we talked, I mentioned to you that in God’s economy there are two people groups.
The Gentiles and the Jews.
Well, allow me to amend and clarify that statement.
There are actually three people groups.
The Jews, the Gentiles, and the CHURCH (which is made up of Jews and Gentiles).
Verses 24-30 are revealing the beautiful reality that God’s people, the church, are comprised of Jews and Gentiles alike.
Verses 24-26, the quote from Hosea was about the Gentiles being brought into the category of God’s people.
From the Jewish perspective, this was a challenging thought considering they believed salvation was only for them.
In verse 27, this verse, Paul gives another challenging statement for the Jews.
What is the statement Paul gives? Salvation is not only available for the pagan Gentiles, but not all Jews will be saved as well!
Wow!
But remember...
The Jews did not deserve salvation
The gentiles did not deserve salvation
You nor I deserve salvation.
The Jews especially had to come to grips with this.
Salvation for everyone, even the Jews has always been about faith in the Messiah, Jesus Christ.
Salvation has never been about following the Law
So this verse is actually a fulfilment of God’s promise to the Jews that they would be saved, even if only a remnant.
Let’s review Romans 9:20...
By the way, this was prophesied by Isaiah, not Paul.
Paul is quoting Isaiah to prove his point that it only a remnant will be saved.
Perhaps this is why Isaiah “cries out concerning Israel?”
Perhaps Isaiah was heartbroken and in disbelief that God’s amazing offer of salvation to his people would be rebuffed by the vast majority of them and only a few would have ears to hear and be saved?
Yet, the fact that any Jew was saved was and is an act of God’s mercy.
The Jewish nation over and over again deserved God’s justice.
Just read the Old Testament and you’ll discover how longsuffering and patient God is with the people that He has chosen.
He chose them and told them exactly what they were to do and not to do.
And time after time they would promise to do what He wanted them to do and then immediately do the opposite.
Every-time they failed God had every right to crush them and send them to eternal Hell-prision.
But instead we often see mercy instead of justice.
“Justice is getting what you deserve.
Mercy is not getting what you deserve.”
Illustration:
Elliot and mercy...
Argumentation:
If you are of the mind that God should save all the Jews and if he doesn’t, He is unjust, then you do not understand the doctrine of God’s mercy.
God is under no obligation to save anyone.
However, because he is merciful, He has a remnant of those who will be saved from eternal condemnation and spend eternity with Him!
Application:
Are you saved from God’s eternal wrath?
Remember, you don’t deserve that.
Don’t live a life a penance, live a life of Joy.
You can’t nor should you pay back God for His Merciful Salvation.
But living a life of joyful gratitude seems like a reasonable way to live for God!
Transition (Div. 1 to Div. 2):
God’s Salvation of His People is by His Mercy Alone!
God’s Merciful Salvation is For a Few
2. God’s Merciful Salvation is From His Wrath (vs.
28)
I realize that I’ll get lumped with the dudes who wear the A frame placard on their chests that says, judgment day is coming, but, it is!
We are one day closer to the Lord pouring His wrath on the earth.
I guess I’ll stand with Isaiah and Paul when they say,
Explanation:
What does Isaiah mean?
Why did Paul quote this?
God’s mercy is wonderful and I am so grateful to be a recipient.
I know what I deserve and I received mercy instead.
Wow!
Isaiah prophesied that God will “carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.”
In other words, God’s judgment (aka his sentence) will happen and when it does happen it will take place in a complete sense and quickly.
Until then, God is exercising His unbelievable mercy on the unjust!
Another rendering of this verse says,
In other words, when God says enough, it will be enough.
One day in the future, God will say “enough” and cut things short.
He will usher in the terrible day of His wrath.
And while the study of the end times is good, necessary, and even helpful - the main point that Paul is making here is that the Jews in particular will be saved from God’s wrath without a doubt.
However, it will only be a remnant of the Jews that move into the category of the redeemed people of God.
Paul wants the Jews to understand clearly that they will face the wrath of God because of their rejection of the Messiah.
God’s wrath is nothing to be toyed with.
“God’s wrath is His righteousness reacting against unrighteousness.”
- J.I. Packer
The wrath of God is, according to John Stott, “His steady, unrelenting, unremitting, uncompromising antagonism to evil in all its forms and manifestations.”
- John Stott
We dare not minimize God’s wrath...
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