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God’s Sovereign Choice
I am speaking the truth in Christ — I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit —
I am speaking the truth in Christ — I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit —
Paul’s Anguish Over Israel
I speak the truth in Christ — I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit —
I speak the truth in Christ — I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit —
that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
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,
They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.
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.
To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel,
God’s Sovereign Choice
It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
and not all are children of Abraham because they are his offspring, but “Through Isaac shall your offspring be named.”
This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.
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.
For this is what the promise said: “About this time next year I will return, and Sarah shall have a son.”
And not only so, but also when Rebekah had conceived children by one man, our forefather Isaac,
Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac.
though they were not yet born and had done nothing either good or bad — in order that God’s purpose of election might continue, not because of works but because of him who calls —
Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad — in order that God’s purpose in election might stand:
she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
As it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means!
What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all!
For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I might show my power in you, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
So then he has mercy on whomever he wills, and he hardens whomever he wills.
Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
You will say to me then, “Why does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?”
One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?”
But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its molder, “Why have you made me like this?”
Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonorable use?
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?
What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
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?
in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory —
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 —
even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles?
As indeed he says in Hosea,
“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”
“Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”
“And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
there they will be called ‘sons of the living God.’”
Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.
“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
only the remnant will be saved.
for the Lord will carry out his sentence upon the earth fully and without delay.”
And as Isaiah predicted,
“If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
we would have been like Sodom
and become like Gomorrah.”
“If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring,
we would have been like Sodom
and become like Gomorrah.”
Israel’s Unbelief
What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
Israel’s Unbelief
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal.
Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone,
Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone.
as it is written,
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”
“Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense;
and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”