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In Romans 9, Paul grapples with the difficult issue of Israel's unbelief. Despite being God's chosen people, many Israelites have not accepted Christ. Paul explains this paradox through the lens of God's sovereignty and the principle of justification by faith, not by ancestry or works. Themes. Sovereignty of God.
4. (Romans 9:17-18) The example of Pharaoh. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens. a.
Paul insists that God will keep all His promises to Israel, but that not everyone physically born an Israelite will be saved from God's wrath (Romans 9:4–7). To show that God can give His mercy to whomever He likes, Paul gives three examples from Israel's history in Scripture.
In chapters nine through eleven, Paul explains that God has not rejected His people. Paul first expresses his own concern for his fellow Israelites ( 1-2 ). If it would do any good, Paul would gladly be condemned in order to save his brethren who had been the recipients of so many blessings ( 3-5 ).
24 cze 2004 · In chapter 4 Paul taught that Abraham himself was saved by faith and not by works, and that the kind of faith required for salvation today is precisely the same kind as that exercised by Abraham. But herein lies Paul’s problem.
Chapter 9. The apostle, having plainly asserted and largely proved that justification and salvation are to be had by faith only, and not by the works of the law, by Christ and not by Moses, comes in this and the following chapters to anticipate an objection which might be made against this.
David Guzik commentary on Romans 9, where Paul explains how God has not failed His children of promise, Israel, although they have missed the Messiah.
