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The Sovereignty of God, Part 5 --- Romans 9:18-24 June 23, 2019 The Sovereignty of God, Part 5 --- Romans 9:18-24 June 23, 2019 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. 19You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” 20On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? 22What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? 23And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, 24even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles. Introduction John Calvin was a brilliant, highly intelligent man. But he was convinced that the Holy Spirit working through the faithful study and teaching of the Word of God could accomplish far more than all his brilliance. At one point in his life, Calvin was forced out of Geneva because of civil unrest against him and his leadership. He had been teaching through the book of Romans verse by verse before he left. A few years after he was forced to leave, he was asked to return to Geneva. The Sunday after his arrival, he returned to the church where he had been pastor. He ascended the pulpit and told the church body to open their Bibles to the very verse where he had left off in his study of Romans years before. This is how he continued his preaching of the next passage. When we first began our study of this great book, I mentioned to you the fundamental connection between what a person believes and how he lives his life. Action is based on belief. What you believe and hold to be true determines what you do. Doctrine determines conduct. False doctrine will usher in distorted living. When you reject truth, one of the first things that goes is morality. Conversely, Biblical doctrine will put you on the path of right thinking and right living. Calvin understood that principle. That is why he was so eager to point people to the Word of God and its consistent reading and study. I can do no better than to strongly encourage you in your daily communing with the amazing, eternal God of this universe through prayer and a diligent study of His Word. As we begin this morning, I want to remind you of where we have been in Romans. Man's Total Depravity and the Wrath of God Section 1—Romans 1:1-3:20 After his greetings to the Romans, Paul started right in with the first elements of the Gospel; specifically, sin and judgment. Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Paul, for all time, provided a perfect example of how to begin to present the Gospel. You have to get people lost before you can get them saved. You must inform them of their sin and the danger of eternal damnation before you can present Christ as savior. The Cross of Christ and Salvation Section 2—Romans 3:21-5:21 Having established man's accountability to God and God's judgment of guilty man, Paul led right into the solution: Justification by grace through faith in the work of Christ on the cross. Romans 3:21-25 But now apart from the Law the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all those who believe; for there is no distinction; 23for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24being justified as a gift by His grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus; 25whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation in His blood through faith. Sanctification Section 3—Romans 6:1-8:39 Once we are saved, how do we respond to the residual sin nature, the old man? We find that, although we are born again, we still have these residual sinful tendencies. How are we to understand this battle within believers against sin? This brought us to the subject of holy living. We do not strive to live holy in order to be saved. We desire to strive to live as Christ lived because we are saved. We are being conformed to the image of Christ. Romans 6:1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin so that grace may increase? The answer to that is No, we do not make allowance for sin in our lives. We always call sin for what it is. In this new life, it does not mean that we never sin as believers. We strive to put to death the deeds of the flesh by the Holy Spirit, but in truth we fail at times. Paul declared clearly in chapter 7 that he even struggled with the residual sin that is left in a believer. In chapter 8, Paul began with a vital truth which all believers must keep in mind as they war against sin in their lives. Romans 8:1 reads, “Therefore there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.” We can grow weary, discouraged, disillusioned, and disappointed in our fight against the flesh. One thing that enables us to get back up and continue in sanctification is to understand that God continually forgives and cleanses us of our sin. He does not condemn us but we stand in grace. At the end of chapter 8, there is a list of amazing promises concerning the security of the believer. Romans 8:38-39 For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, 39nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. The Question of the Jews Section 4—Romans 9:1-11:36 It is easy to track Paul's line of thought as you get into chapter 9. His thoughts go from God's promises of security to the believer, to God's promises to the Jews. Our natural questions are, “What about God's promises to the Jews? Has He forsaken them?” Paul answers those questions in chapters 9--11. In fact, he will write in . Romans 11:1-5 I say then, God has not rejected His people, has He? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel? 3“Lord, THEY HAVE KILLED YOUR PROPHETS, THEY HAVE TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND I ALONE AM LEFT, AND THEY ARE SEEKING MY LIFE.” 4But what is the divine response to him? “I HAVE KEPT for Myself SEVEN THOUSAND MEN WHO HAVE NOT BOWED THE KNEE TO BAAL.” 5In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God’s gracious choice. It is the subject of God's gracious choice that we have been studying for the last few Sundays in Romans 9. Paul has been expounding on the doctrine of election that impacts how God has dealt with the nation of Israel and how God deals with all of mankind concerning salvation. Regarding the nation of Israel, Paul said that the promises of God did not apply to every single Jew, but to only those whom God has chosen. For example, God chose Jacob, but not Esau, as the avenue through which His promises will be fulfilled. Romans 9:10-13 And not only this, but there was Rebekah also, when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac; 11for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad, so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls, 12it was said to her, “THE OLDER WILL SERVE THE YOUNGER.” 13Just as it is written, “JACOB I LOVED, BUT ESAU I HATED.” On the subject of the salvation of mankind, God also made choices as seen in Romans 9:15-16, 18. “For He says to Moses, ‘I WILL HAVE MERCY ON WHOM I HAVE MERCY, AND I WILL HAVE COMPASSION ON WHOM I HAVE COMPASSION.’ 16So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy. .18So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires. What is the end result of God's election? We will begin to unpack the answer today and over the next few Sundays. There is a tempering effect on us when we think about this eternal, all-knowing, and all-powerful God. Man is put in his place in this vast, incomprehensible universe. The existence of man is not all about man, but all about the Person of Jesus Christ.
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