Romans 9
33;
33 As it is written: “See, I(Father) lay in Zion a Stone that causes people
to stumble and a Rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in Him
(Jesus) will
never be put to shame.” (6)
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26 and,
“In the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’” (8)
27 Isaiah cries out
concerning Israel: “Though the
number of the Israelites(symbol of the world) be like the sand by the
sea, only
the remnant will be saved. (End of the world, the coming of
Jesus the second time. Among believers, still
chosen to be saved.)
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17 For
Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I(Jesus)
raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display My Power in you and that My Name
might be proclaimed in all the earth.” (8)
18 Therefore God has Mercy on whom
He wants to have mercy, and He hardens whom He wants to harden.
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8 In
other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children,
but it is the children of the Promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring.
(8)
9 For this was how
the promise was stated: “At the
appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
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Israel’s Unbelief
30 What
then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have
obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; (3)
31 but the people of
Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained
their goal.
32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by
faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the Stumbling Stone.
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21 Does not the Potter have the Right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for
special purposes and some for common use? (3)
22 What if God, although
choosing to show His
Wrath
and make His Power known, bore with Great Patience
the objects of His Wrath—prepared
for destruction?
23 What if He did this to make the
Riches of His Glory known to the objects of His Mercy, whom He Prepared in Advance
for Glory—
24 even us, whom He
also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
25 As He says in
Hosea: “I will call them
‘My people’ who are not My people; and I will call her ‘My Loved
one’ who is not My loved one,”
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12 not by works but by Him who
calls—she was told, “The
older will serve the younger.”
(3)
13 Just as it is
written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
14 What then shall we
say? Is God unjust? Not at all!
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.”
16 It does not, therefore, depend
on human desire or effort, but on
God’s mercy.
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3 For
I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of
my people, those of my own race,
(3)
4 the people of Israel.
Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the
receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.
5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and
from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all,
forever praised! Amen.
God’s Sovereign
Choice
6 It is not as though God’s word
had failed. For not all who
are descended from Israel are Israel.
7 Nor because they
are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be
reckoned.”
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28 For the Lord will carry out His Sentence on earth with
Speed and Finality.” (1)
29 It is just as Isaiah
said previously: “Unless the Lord
Almighty had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like
Gomorrah.”
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19 One
of you will say to me:
“Then why does
God still blame us? For who is able to resist His will?” (1)
20 But who are you, a human being,
to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the One who formed it, ‘Why
did you make me like this?’”
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Paul’s Anguish Over
Israel
9 I speak the truth in Christ—I
am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit— (1)
2 I have great sorrow
and unceasing anguish in my heart.
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