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verses four and five in chapter
nine he says there are Israelites
and to them belong the adoption the glory, the covenants, the
giving of the law, the worship, and the promises To them belong
the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh,
is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen."
So on last week, we looked at the descriptions that Paul uses
of his kinsmen, according to the flesh, that they are Israelites,
and to them belong the adoption, the glory, and the covenants.
All of these, as we said, are important in our understanding
of Paul's coming teachings regarding the Jews and us as well. We looked
at the Noahic Covenant, the Abrahamic Covenant, and the Mosaic Covenant,
and I hope that we understand that it is all one covenant.
It is still the same covenant. This is the covenant that I made
with your fathers. God continually reminds them.
The covenant, one covenant, I'm now renewing it and taking you
into this new phase of it. You have to understand this.
And so he gave them the Ten Commandments and said, Now realize that you
are my people. I am holy, therefore you must
be holy. It is the same covenant made
with Abraham. The failure to realize this was the whole misunderstanding
of the children of Israel. And that was why they were rejecting
Christ. God did not, as the Jews believed,
lay aside the covenant with Abraham and bring in a new covenant of
works and of law. And the tragedy is that certain
people still believe that God did just that. It has only and
always been one covenant based on the promises of God and not
on the efforts of men. The law, given through Moses
some 430 years after God's promises to Abraham, cannot disannul those
promises. As Paul told us clearly in chapter
4, if the inheritance be of the law, it is no more of promise. God gave his covenant to Abraham
by promise. Whole point being, Paul is arguing
that the fundamental covenant repeated through Moses was in
no way doing away with the first one. It was just giving people
what they needed. They had forgotten who they were,
and they had forgotten whose they were, and they were going
into this new land, so the legal emphasis was brought in. Not
so that they could have a new covenant of law and save themselves
by the law, so that they might be reminded of who they were
in terms of the original promise which was made through Abraham.
So Paul says, in effect, that the addition of the law did not
do away with the promise. It just clarified and refocused
them so that they might understand it in a better way than they
did before. Same covenant repeated, but with
a fresh emphasis to meet fresh conditions and circumstances.
Which brings us to the last great covenant of the Old Testament,
and the one that undoubtedly was in the mind of Paul at this
point, that being the covenant made with David. It's in 2 Samuel
chapter 7, if you want to turn there, verses 8 through 17, and
we will read it in full because it is important. 2 Samuel chapter 7, starting with verse eight so god is here giving uh... instructions
to the prophet nathan as to what he is to say to david and he
starts with now therefore does use it you shall say to my servant
david thus says the lord of hosts I took you from the pasture,
from following the sheep, that you should be prince over my
people Israel. And I have been with you wherever
you went, and I have cut off all your enemies from before
you. And I will make for you a great name, like the name of
the great ones of the earth, And I will appoint a place for
my people Israel and will plant them so that they may dwell in
their own place and be disturbed no more. And violent men shall
afflict them no more as formerly from the time that I appointed
judges over my people Israel. And I will give you rest from
all your enemies. Moreover, the Lord declares to
you that the Lord will make you a house. When your days are fulfilled,
and you shall lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your
offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will
establish his kingdom. He shall build a house for my
name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.
I will be to him a father, and he shall be to me a son. When
he commits iniquity, I will discipline him with the rod of men, with
the stripes of the sons of men. But my steadfast love will not
depart from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away from
before you. And your house and your kingdom
shall be made sure forever before me. Your throne shall be established
forever." In accordance with all of these words and in accordance
with all this vision, Nathan spoke to David. So this is important. It tells us something that we
have not been told as clearly prior to this. that out of the
seat of abraham through the seat of david in particular the messiah
is to come the one who is going to be a king and who is going
to rule over all he's going to be this great ruler same covenant
but now with the emphasis placed on this aspect of the covenant
that's the whole secret of understanding this matter of the covenants
we see how the old testament history is involved without the
Old Testament there is no possible way to understand the New Testament
and in particular this section of Romans 9 through 11 or even
the gospel according to Luke so now if you'll turn with me
to Luke chapter 1 we're going to see the covenant restated Luke chapter 1, starting with
verse 30, and it's the angel Gabriel addressing Mary. And
the angel said to her, starting with verse 30, and the angel
said to her, do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favor
with God. And behold, you will conceive
in your womb, and bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus.
He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High.
And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father
David, and he will reign over the house of Jacob forever. And
of his kingdom there will be no end." So that's a repetition
of the covenant given to David. The promise is safe. Here's the
one who's to carry this out. and there will be no end to his
kingdom also in the first chapter of blue we have the statement
by zacharias that most people only read at christmas time uh... zacharias who by the way has
been unable to speak you remember that for some months because
of his doubt but now the child with who we know is john the
baptist has been born and his tongue is loosed and so zacharias
begins to speak And what does he say? So chapter one in verse
68, starting with verse 68. We saw the covenant with David,
we saw Gabriel restating that covenant to Mary, and now Zacharias
begins to speak, starting with verse 68. He says, blessed be the Lord
God of Israel, for he has visited and redeemed his people and has
raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant
David, as he spoke by the mouth of his holy prophets from of
old, that we should be saved from our enemies and from the
hand of all who hate us, to show the mercy promised to our fathers,
and to remember his holy covenant, the oath that he swore to our
father Abraham, to grant us that we, being delivered from the
hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear in holiness
and righteousness before him all of our days. And you, child,
will be called the prophet of the Most High, for you will go
before the Lord to prepare his ways, to give knowledge of salvation
to his people in the forgiveness of their sins, because of the
tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from
on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the
shadow of death to guide our feet into the way of peace."
So Zechariah says in effect, he says, what God has been promising
for centuries has come. The covenant that God made is
now being brought to pass. Here is the one promised all
the way back to the Garden of Eden. that seat of the woman
that would bruise the serpent's head has arrived. We have to
see the importance of the covenants because they are for us just
as much as they were for Adam or for Noah or for Abraham or
Moses or David. Paul is referring to these covenants
made in times past to their forefathers. But now what he's referring to
is we have been brought into those covenants. That is what
happens when we become Christians. We are brought into this. And the same God who carried
out his ancient covenants is still the same God, and he has
pledged himself to their fulfillment. His character guarantees it.
His sovereignty guarantees it. This one covenant, reiterated
and renewed and clarified going all the way back to the garden,
is our covenant. much more on that as we continue
these three chapters as you are if you're reading ahead you know
that there's a whole lot of this coming uh... to them belong the covenants
that's what he says to them belong the covenants to these israelis
belong the covenants to us also belong the covenants so the next
privilege to them belong the giving of the law That word translated
giving is found only here in all of the New Testament. This
is the only time that you find it used. It is important. Paul
does not say that they possessed the law or that they were the
custodians of the law. He says they were given the law. So as we already saw, the actual
law itself came under the covenant as it was repeated and reemphasized
through Moses. But what Paul is concerned to
show us here is the way in which the law was given to them. Why? Because that was one of the occasions
on which, in effect, God came near to these people with an
audible voice. What Paul is trying to tell them
is that they do not realize their privileges. They have been elevated
to this position. God has actually spoken to them
with a voice that could be heard. It is described in Exodus 19,
but a summary is found in Deuteronomy chapter four. If you want to
turn there, this is a summary of God actually speaking to these
people. Deuteronomy chapter four, starting
with verse 32. And this is Moses speaking to
the people. He says, For ask now of the days that are past,
which were before you, since the day that God created man
on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether
such a great thing as this has ever happened or was ever heard
of. Did any people ever hear the voice of a God speaking out
of the midst of the fire as you have heard and still live? Or
has any God ever attempted to go and take a nation for himself
from the midst of another nation by trials, by signs, by wonders,
and by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and
by great deeds of terror, all of which the Lord your God did
for you in Egypt before your eyes? To you it was shown that
you might know that the Lord is God. There is no other besides
Him. Out of heaven He let you hear
His voice, that He might discipline you. And on earth He let you
see His great fire, and you heard His words out of the midst of
the fire." So it is the way in which the law was given that
Paul is referencing here. Receiving the law is a wonderful
thing. It is a part of the covenant. But remember the way in which
he gave it. he says that any people ever
hear the voice of a god speaking out of the midst of the fire
as you have heard and still live this has never happened before
this is the only people to ever exist to whom god has spoken
with an audible voice that more she says yes and he did it when
he gave them the law This is Paul's goal in all of these statements,
to show that these people are absolutely unique in every respect. The common denominator is that
God has made himself known to them and has pledged himself
to them in a way that he has never done with any other nation.
And yet it was these very same people who, in spite of all of
this, rejected and crucified their own Messiah. That's why
we are warned, let he who thinks he stands take heed lest he fall. Their next privilege was the
worship. Some of the translations say
service to God. The term worship speaks here
to religious service. A service that is rendered unto
God. Hebrews chapter 9 if you want
to turn there verses one through four Hebrews chapter nine starting
with verse one now even the first covenant had regulations for
worship, and an earthly place of holiness. For a tent was prepared,
the first section in which were the lampstand and the table and
the bread of the presence, it is called the holy place. Behind
the second curtain was a second section called the most holy
place. Having the golden altar of incense and the Ark of the
Covenant covered on all sides with gold, in which was a golden
urn holding the manna, and Aaron's staff that budded, and the tablets
of the covenant." Now, Paul, or whoever you believe wrote
the letter to the Hebrews, a lot of debate about that, is giving
us a summary of what he has called the regulations for worship. Meaning that one of the peculiar
and special privileges of these people was that God himself taught
them how to worship him and how to enter his presence. again
this had not happened with any other nation all the other nations
of the world were seeking for god but had no idea how to find
him and being gods from all from their own imaginations you wonder
where all the religions of the world come from a did people
in looking for god and inventing one because they can't find the
real one okay even to the point of building a temple to the unknown
god you remember the story in the book of acts and paul addresses
those people the stoics or whatever uh... they build a temple to
him but they did not know how to approach him they had never
been given any instruction trying to worship but god but doing
so in ignorance as paul tells them but the case of israel was
entirely different they were not left in ignorance God himself
had taught them how this service was to be done. That is what
Paul is emphasizing here. There's a great account given
regarding this in the Old Testament. God called Moses up to the mountain
and gave him the specific, detailed instructions as to how he was
to be served and worshipped. The building of the tabernacle,
the measurements, the specifications of the different items, how it
was to be furnished, uh... the colors the type of wood all
of that list in Leviticus I mean it's really really detailed God
had provided instructions for all of it that how he was to
be worshipped how there was to be a great high priest and various
priests under him how the Levites were to perform certain other
tasks how this building was to be moved how it was to be carried
everything that was necessary is there Nothing left to chance. Nothing left to their own invention
or imagination. Now, again, there's a summary
of all of it given to us again in the book of Hebrews, chapter
8. If you want to turn there, verses 1 through 5. Now the point in what we are
saying is this, we have such a high priest, one who is seated
at the right hand of the throne of the majesty in heaven, a minister
in the holy places, in the true tent that the Lord set up, not
man. That line is important. The true
tent which the Lord set up, not man. For every high priest is
appointed to offer gifts and sacrifices, Thus it is necessary
for this priest also to have something to offer." He's referring
to Christ there of course. Now if he were on earth he would
not be a priest at all since there are priests who offer gifts
according to the law. They serve a copy and shadow
of the heavenly things. For when Moses was about to erect
the tent he was instructed by God saying see that you make
everything according to the pattern that was shown you on the mountain
now everything involved in the making of the tabernacle everything
involved later on in the band the building of the temple was
not something that came out of moses' imagination instead of
stand around and say why don't we do this i think we should
do that yet when a lot of debate about it it was just like this
is the way you do it everything was told to him in detail This
is what Paul is reminding us, that all of this was true of
the children of Israel. They had all the information.
So, is this important or is this irrelevant? A lot of people get
to that section where all of these details are and they're
like, well, let's just skim over that and move on. What could
be more important for every one of us than to know how to approach
God? how to enter his presence and
how to take our position petitions and our prayers to him there
is nothing higher than that if we do not know these things if
we do not know how we are supposed to worship god first came here
alex the whole session session on the regulated principal okay
we do not know those things then we end up doing things like dropping
easter eggs from a helicopter to celebrate the resurrection
that's local too so much stuff out there, people having circuses
in the middle of church and doing baptisms on water slides it's nauseating quite frankly
it's nauseating god gave specific instructions
to these people so it is not surprising that in this list
of privileges he puts the worship point being made here is that
god has had direct dealings with this people group and that he
has given them all the necessary knowledge and information to
enable them to know his mind to know his will and to understand
his way and his great plan and purpose of salvation. They had
all of this knowledge. How important is this? So much
so, that when the children of Israel tried to deviate from
it, they were given a very terrible lesson. Four men, you remember
the story I suppose, four men. Korah, I remember Korah, and
Dathan, and On, and Abiram, four very important princes in israel
met together one day and they had this little conference in
the topic was why should this matter of going into the presence
of god be confined to moses and aaron why does the who are they
we're as good as they are we have as much right to do these
things as they have so they agreed about this and persuaded the
people that they were right and what was what followed was known
as the rebellion of korah so what happened remember what happened
they were punished the earth opened and they were swallowed
up and they disappeared ever to be seen again terrible thing
it was indeed but what they had done was also a terrible thing
and that is why god punished them accordingly point is this
It is God who decided and who has revealed how he is to be
worshipped, not man. And they should have stuck with
God's way instead of turning to their own ideas. This is as
important today as it was then. There is only one way into the
holiest of all, the holy of holies, and that is by the blood of Jesus
Christ. There is no other way. You and
I have been taken into Israel And God has taught us the only
way that he can be worshipped. The worship and the service of
God is something that is still determined by God himself. And
if we alter it, or try to add to it, or ignore it, or neglect
it, it is at our own peril. The rebellion of Korah, the punishment
that followed, should be a permanent reminder to us of that. That
is what is meant here by the worship. And so we move on to the next
privilege, the promises. What does Paul mean by this and
what is the difference between the promises and the covenants?
It is the difference between a general announcement and the
details of that announcement. In the covenants, as we have
seen, God's great plan and purpose of salvation were revealed. That
through Abraham and his seed, all the nations of the earth
would be blessed. It is in this way that God will do His great
work of salvation. That is the essence of the covenant.
So what are the promises? They are a reference to the particular
blessings which are the result of God's plan of salvation. Promises
are a reference to the blessings and the glories of the age of
the Messiah. It is the detailed blessings
which will be given to everyone who belongs to Christ and to
His reign. That reign has already begun,
as it were, in His people, the Church. That reign has already
begun in us. The Kingdom of God has already
come, in that sense, in the hearts of all believers. It has come
to the Church, even though it has yet to come in a visible,
external form. But the Kingdom of God has already
come, and so some of these promises are already fulfilled. Others
are yet to be fulfilled. That is the meaning of the term
promises. In the Old Testament, you see accounts of them by the
multitude. It is there that we find the
promises and the prophecies of what is true of us today and
of what is yet to come. There are prophecies concerning
the glory of the age of the Messiah. Genesis 49.10 is one. Jacob, now an old man on his
deathbed, calls his family together and gives them his blessing.
This is what he says of Judah. He says, The scepter shall not
depart from Judah, nor the ruler's staff from between his feet,
until tribute comes to him, and to him shall be the obedience
of the peoples. There are many, many more, as
you're well aware. One stands out as most remarkable, coming
from a hireling prophet named Balaam. Remember Balaam? Numbers
24 and 17, Balaam didn't want to give the right message, but
he had to do so. He could not help himself, okay?
He was trying his best to get out of saying this. But he says,
I see him, but not now. I behold him, but not near. A star shall come out of Jacob,
and a scepter shall rise out of Israel. It shall crush the
forehead of Moab, and break down all the sons of Sheth. Book of
Psalms contains many of these. The Song of Solomon, all the
major and minor prophets, all of them have these promises,
all of them have this. They tell us in different ways
of the blessings that are going to come under the reign of the
Messiah. The lame man will leap, the blind
will see, the deaf will hear. It is all there, all through
the Old Testament. Isaiah especially, chapters 35,
53, 55, 60, 61, 62. All of those are all promises
of the blessings of the age of the Messiah. So all of this is
what Paul is referring to as the promises. It is to the Jews
that these promises were given. They were having a hard time.
They were living a hard life. but God did not leave them to
themselves. He not only made the covenant,
he not only gave them the instructions as to how he was to be worshipped
and how they were to live, he also gave them these great promises. However badly things might be
going, they were always able to look forward to the age of
the Messiah. It was the promises that sustained
the people throughout the centuries. but they alone had them all other
nations were outside the camp as it were. Ephesians chapter
2 if you want to turn there starting with verse 11 so only the Israelites had these
promises all other nations were outside the camp pages chapter
two and verse eleven uh... paul reminds the gentiles who
have now become christians that before they didn't have this
he says therefore remember at one time that at one time you
gentiles in the flesh called the uncircumcision by what is
called the circumcision which is made in the flesh by hands
remember that you were at that time separated from christ alienated
from the commonwealth of israel and strangers to the covenants
of promise having no hope and without god in the world so that
was every everybody that was in the israelite was a jew or
was a gentile, sorry everybody that wasn't an israelite was
a gentile had no hope had no promise had
no covenant had nothing paganism that's what we had gentiles that's
everybody all the gentiles were pagan paganism is hopeless there
is no hope just as hopeless today as it was then the unbeliever
the non-christian has no hope they have already been judged
because of their unbelief as john tells us in chapter three
of his gospel No hope at all. No promise at all. He listens
to the promises of men because he does not have the promises
of God and is constantly being disappointed. That's how politicians
get where they are. They make promises. How many
of you have ever seen one of them promises fulfilled? And
yet we still keep listening to them, okay? Children of God do have these
promises. The children of Israel had these
amazing promises of a golden age, an age that was to come. What a special people they were.
Small in number, small in country, surrounded by all of these larger
nations on every side, but they had the promises. And whatever
might happen to them, these promises upheld them. They saw dynasties
rise and fall, and they were not surprised at all about it.
They knew that ultimately the promises of God would be fulfilled
to them. God had given them and God had
confirmed them by his own oath. These are the promises. So the last thing that Paul tells
us about their privileges is that they also had the patriarchs.
Worship, the promises, and to them belong the patriarchs. Now,
why specify that the patriarchs belonged to them? It is not merely
that these patriarchs were great men. They were, of course, and
great men are always to be honored. But it is more than that. This
is the difference between the spiritual and the natural. The
patriarchs were men that had unique experiences of God, and
that is why he is interested in them here. God had dealt with
these men in a very intimate manner. He had not done that
with everyone. He had not even done that with
everybody in the nation of Israel. These men were the exceptions.
Abraham was called the friend of God. God came near to him
and spoke to him intimately, as he did with Isaac and with
Jacob. God spoke personally and intimately with these patriarchs. This is part and parcel with
everything that Paul has been saying in all of these other
privileges. He has emphasized over and over that God has dealt
exceptionally and personally with these people. That's the
theme through the whole of the Bible. And it is emphasized in
the stories of all of these men. Jacob in his struggle at Peniel,
and Joseph, and Moses, and David, all the patriarchs. the outstanding
men in the story of this nation. This is a privilege, says Paul,
that the Jews should have realized. It was through these patriarchs
that God was speaking most distinctly about what he was going to do
when he sent his Messiah. That is why he singles them out.
God had made this covenant in particular to these men. even
a man like i think we all know how i think was uh... in there
do well okay but even a man like i think comes in because the
covenant was repeated to him and i think you've got in this
intimate way because he was in this line of abraham and i think
in jacob we see that all the way through we keep seeing this
phrase uh... constant repetition of the phrase
For God says, I am the God of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob.
What does he mean by that? It is not simply that he is the
God of these three individuals. It means that he is the God that
dealt directly and intimately with these men. That is the emphasis. And these men are picked out
as those to whom God had revealed particularly clearly the revelation
of his glorious promise concerning the coming of the Messiah, the
very thing that these Jews were too blind to see. They couldn't
see it even when it happened. These were men who had had unusual
experiences with God. They were also men of great faith,
men who were sensitive to the truth, men who were sensitive
to the will of God. And their descendants should
have been the same, but they are not. They're blind. They have turned a deaf ear.
Paul says, all day long, I have stretched forth my hand to a
disobedient and gainsaying people. That is what Israel had become.
Abraham was not like that. Neither were Isaac or Jacob or
Joseph or Moses or David. None of them were like that.
So Paul tells them, you have forgotten your fathers. You have forgotten your patriarchs.
Paul says to the Jews, these men that you claim to honor,
so they always brought up these men, that they were the offspring
of these men, that they were, you know, the same as these men.
He says, these men that you claim to honor, you don't even understand
them. And so Paul is going step by
step, climbing higher as he goes, and he comes to the climax. And he says, and from their race,
according to the flesh is the Christ of all the privileges
enjoyed by the Jews. This was the greatest, the most
wonderful of all that the Messiah, the savior of the world came
out of them. The Messiah was a Jew. These
are his people. And it is, it is out of them
that he came. the root of Jesse, the seed of
Abraham, the line of Judah, the son of David, all of those names
that were given to Jesus Christ. There is nothing higher than
this. The Savior of the world came
out of this nation. This is the highest of all privileges.
And yet it is the very thing that they have missed. Now all
of the things up to this point, all the privileges, up to this
point are only true because they lead to this one privilege. That
is the point and the purpose of all of these things. That
they were Israelites, that they had the adoption, the covenants,
the giving of the law, the worship, the promises, the patriarchs.
Why has all of this been true of them? So that they might be
the nation from whom the Messiah would come. That is why Abraham
was called to come out of Ur of the Chaldees. Come out and
leave your land, leave your people. That's why he was called out.
That is why God produced a nation out of him in order that out
of this nation might come our blessed Redeemer, the Messiah.
The seed of the woman in Genesis was also the seed of Abraham,
also the son of David. This is the whole point, says
Paul, in effect. This has been made abundantly
clear in the scriptures, but these people cannot see it. Galatians chapter 3 and verse
16, if you want to turn there. this is going to clarify a whole
lot of stuff when we get into chapter 11 about three years
from now. Galatians chapter 3 and verse
16 now the promises were made to
Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, and to offsprings,
referring to many, but referring to one and to your offspring
who is Christ. This is Paul's clarification.
The Jews had become so blind that they had not noticed the
difference between offspring and offsprings. They missed the
emphasis on the singular. To your offspring, one. The one. To Jesus Christ, one. They didn't get it. They thought
that the promises were to them as a nation. They thought the
promises were to everyone who could trace their lineage back
to Abraham. There are still those that believe
that the geographical nation of Israel has some special place
in God's eyes simply because of their location on a map. Millions,
billions of dollars sent to the most godless nation on the planet
right now. You should go read about it.
That's the most godless nation on the planet right now. Because
of their location on a map. They still miss the emphasis
on the singular. Jesus even said, God is able
from these stones to raise up children to who? Abraham. Right? Claim to be children of
Abraham. God can take these rocks and
make children of Abraham. Don't mean nothing. Okay? That was never what it was about. Okay? Abraham was never what
it was about. which will see more on next week
and maybe the week after is that's what's coming up okay it was
about Christ then and it is about Christ now look says Paul it
is perfectly clear in the scriptures it has now happened in actuality
it was out of you out of the Jews as a nation that Christ
came according to the flesh And so we finish with this. There's
a lot of disagreement and discussion, and Martin Lloyd-Jones spends
two chapters talking about all the disagreement and discussion
about this last little part of this statement right here. And it's often those who would
seek to mitigate the deity of Christ and those who do not believe
in the Trinity. and there are certain translations
that assist them in denying the trinity and the deity of christ
not going to delve into that at all okay specially not the
chapters because those that deny that christ is god are not worth
the time to argue with you just go ahead and accept that those
that did not the deity of christ are not worth your time to argue
with and because the ESV translates it appropriately and we have
no need to look further and so who is this Christ so they say
that this part is talks about Christ and then the second part
is just his like benediction or something it's not talking
about Christ being God but we know better okay we know what
it is who is this Christ that came from the Jews according
to the flesh It says, He is the one who is
God over all, blessed forever. Amen. Two natures in one person. A Jew according to the flesh.
God over all, blessed forever. Truly man, also truly God. There is something true of Him
according to the flesh. So Paul tells us what's true
of Him according to the flesh. came out of this people okay
and there is also something true of him according to the spirit
and so paul puts this year intentionally the supreme privilege that was
given to the nation of israel was that out of them according
to the flesh that is came the one who is god over all blessed
forever the messiah the Savior of the world, the Lord Jesus
Christ. Amen. Let's pray. Father God, I love you so much.
Lord, I thank you that you have not left us in ignorance, that
you have shown us that your plan goes all the way back to before
day one. and how you have worked out that
plan for some 6,000 years, and how we are involved in that plan.
Lord, I pray that you would help us to understand that it is all
of you and none of us. Lord, be with us as we commune
with you this morning. Help us to focus on you and what you have done
on our behalf. These things I ask in Crossmate.
To them belong; Pt2
Series Romans study
Continued discussion of the privileges given only to the Jewish people. Why would they cast them aside?
| Sermon ID | 55252332546874 |
| Duration | 45:19 |
| Date | |
| Category | Sunday School |
| Bible Text | Romans 9:4-5 |
| Language | English |
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