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TITLE: Is God
Unrighteous?
TEXT: Romans 9:1-33
PROPOSITION: God has the right to select or reject whom He wills.
QUESTION: Who?
KEY WORD: Examples
SCRIPTURE READING: Romans 9:1-6
INTRODUCTION:
- Verse 6 – They are not all Israel that are of Israel
- Difference in physical and spiritual
- God is not checking DNA, but spirit (heart)
- I am not Israel (DNA) but I am part of spiritual Israel
(Galatians 6:16)
9-Point Description of Israel – 9:4-5
Israelites are:
- Adopted as a special people
- Glory – God was with them is special ways
- Covenant – God made with Abraham
- Law – to give them direction
- Service – They worshipped God for many years
- Promises of the covenant with Abraham
- Heritage – fathers, ancestry
- Christ came from them
- Blessed by God
But they were rejected – because of their
unbelief
God’s Right of Selection – 9:6-29
- Proven by Isaac – 9:6-9
- Proven by Jacob – 9:10-13
- Proven by Pharaoh – 9:14-18
- Proven by potter and clay – 9:19-24
- Proven by Scriptures – 9:25-29
Faith, the basis of selection – 9:30-33
- Gentiles did seek by faith – 9:30
- Israel did not seek by faith – 9:31
- To some faith becomes a stumbling block – 9:32-33
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