SLIDE 1 Here are the songs we sang this Sunday. This shows the song name, the artist who performed the song, and the cd that contains the song.
More Than Conquerors – Steven Curtis Chapman – Worship & Believe Made New – Lincoln Brewster – Oxygen Great Are You Lord – All Sons & Daughters – All Sons & Daughters What a Beautiful Name/Agnus Dei – Travis Cottrell – The Reason Great Things – Phil Wickham – Living Hope
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Does God choose us or do we choose God?
Romans: Living by Faith (part 10) Romans 9-11
SLIDE 4 Chapter 9: Paul’s heart (vv.1-5)
SLIDE 5 Chapter 9: Paul’s heart (vv.1-5)
1 I speak the truth in Christ—I am not
lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit— 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.
SLIDE 6 Chapter 9: Paul’s heart (vv.1-5)
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, 4 the people of Israel.
SLIDE 7 Chapter 9: Paul’s heart (vv.1-5)
Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs
the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises.
SLIDE 8 Chapter 9: Paul’s heart (vv.1-5)
5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from
them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen.
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Chapter 9: Four Questions
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- Has God’s Word failed? (vv.6-13)
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- Has God’s Word failed? (vv.6-13)
6 It is not as though God’s word had
- failed. For not all who are descended
from Israel are Israel.
SLIDE 12 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- Has God’s Word failed? (vv.6-13)
7 Nor because they are his descendants
are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your
- ffspring will be reckoned.”
SLIDE 13 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- Has God’s Word failed? (vv.6-13)
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.
SLIDE 14 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- Has God’s Word failed? (vv.6-13)
9 For this was how the promise was
stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
SLIDE 15 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- Has God’s Word failed? (vv.6-13)
10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children
were conceived at the same time by
SLIDE 16 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- Has God’s Word failed? (vv.6-13)
11 Yet, before the twins were born or
had done anything good or bad—in
- rder that God’s purpose in election
might stand:
SLIDE 17 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- Has God’s Word failed? (vv.6-13)
12 not by works but by him who calls—
she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” 13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
SLIDE 18 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- Has God’s Word failed? (vv.6-12)
11 Yet, before the twins were born or had
done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: 12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”
SLIDE 19 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- Is God unjust in exercising His
sovereign choice? (vv.14-18)
SLIDE 20 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- Is God unjust in exercising His
sovereign choice? (vv.14-18)
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.”
SLIDE 21 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- Is God unjust in exercising His
sovereign choice? (vv.14-18)
16 It does not, therefore, depend on
human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy.
SLIDE 22 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- Is God unjust in exercising His
sovereign choice? (vv.14-18)
17 For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I 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.”
SLIDE 23 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- Is God unjust in exercising His
sovereign choice? (vv.14-18)
18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he
wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.
SLIDE 24 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- If God has made His sovereign
choice, then why does He find fault with the Jews? (vv.19-29)
SLIDE 25 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- If God has made His sovereign
choice, then why does He find fault with the Jews? (vv.19-29)
19 One of you will say to me: “Then why
does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?”
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Chapter 9: Four Questions
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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Chapter 9: Four Questions
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?
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22 What if God, although choosing to
show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the
- bjects of his wrath—prepared for
destruction?
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23 What if he did this to make the riches
- f 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?
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Chapter 9: Four Questions
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,” 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.’”
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Chapter 9: Four Questions
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:
“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only the remnant will be saved. 28 For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”
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Chapter 9: Four Questions
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.”
SLIDE 33 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- If God has made His sovereign
choice, then why does He find fault with the Jews? (vv.19-29)
SLIDE 34 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- If God has made His sovereign
choice, then why does He find fault with the Jews? (vv.19-29) – God is the potter and we are the clay
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- If God has made His sovereign
choice, then why does He find fault with the Jews? (vv.19-29) – God is not unjust if he treats some with mercy & some w/ wrath— b/c everyone truly deserves wrath
SLIDE 36 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- If God has made His sovereign
choice, then why does He find fault with the Jews? (vv.19-29) – God told and warned the nation
- f Israel that this would happen
SLIDE 37 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- What shall we say in conclusion?
(vv.30-33)
SLIDE 38 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- What shall we say in conclusion?
(vv.30-33)
30 What then shall we say? That the
Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith;
SLIDE 39 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- What shall we say in conclusion?
(vv.30-33)
31 but the people of Israel, who pursued
the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal.
SLIDE 40 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- What shall we say in conclusion?
(vv.30-33)
32 Why not? Because they pursued it
not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling
- stone. 33 As it is written:
SLIDE 41 Chapter 9: Four Questions
- What shall we say in conclusion?
(vv.30-33)
“See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble and a rock that makes them fall, and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”
SLIDE 42 Calvinism vs. Arminianism
SLIDE 43 Calvinism vs. Arminianism
–Romans 3:10-11
10 As it is written: “There is no one
righteous, not even one; 11 there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God.”
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Calvinism vs. Arminianism
total depravity
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Calvinism vs. Arminianism
total depravity predestination (God chooses us) we will choose God eternity security
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Calvinism vs. Arminianism
total depravity predestination (God chooses us) we will choose God prevenient grace to everyone we can choose God eternity security we can lose salvation
SLIDE 47 Calvinism vs. Arminianism
- In Scripture there is a tension
between God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility
SLIDE 48 Calvinism vs. Arminianism
- In Scripture there is a tension
between God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility –Philippians 2:12-13
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- In Scripture there is a tension
between God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility –Philippians 2:12-13
12 Therefore, my dear friends, as you have
always obeyed—not only in my presence, but now much more in my absence—
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- In Scripture there is a tension
between God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility –Philippians 2:12-13
continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
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- In Scripture there is a tension
between God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility –Philippians 2:12-13
continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
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- In Scripture there is a tension
between God’s sovereignty and man’s responsibility –Philippians 2:12-13
continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, 13 for it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
SLIDE 53 Calvinism vs. Arminianism
- The issue of God choosing us vs.
us choosing God will always remain a mystery
SLIDE 54 Calvinism vs. Arminianism
- The issue of God choosing us vs.
us choosing God will always remain a mystery –We will probably never solve the Calvinist vs. Arminian debate because God lives outside of time
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Calvinism:
predestination man chooses God saves
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Calvinism:
predestination man chooses God saves
Arminianism:
prevenient grace man chooses God saves
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predestination man chooses God saves prevenient grace foreknowledge
SLIDE 58 Calvinism vs. Arminianism
- The reality is that Biblically-
balanced people on both sides are much closer in practical application than we might think
SLIDE 59 Calvinism vs. Arminianism
- Whatever view you take—be
sure your view is Biblically
- balanced. In addition, when
criticizing the other view, don’t create a straw man and then shoot him down.
SLIDE 60 Calvinism vs. Arminianism
10 Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make
every effort to confirm your calling and
- election. For if you do these things, you will
never stumble, 11 and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
SLIDE 61 Chapter 10
- How did Israel miss the truth
about Jesus the Messiah?
SLIDE 62 Chapter 11
- Has God rejected and given
up on Israel?
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Conclusion : Romans 11:33-36
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the
wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
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Conclusion : Romans 11:33-36
34 “Who has known the mind of the
Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”
35 “Who has ever given to God,
that God should repay them?”
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Conclusion: Romans 11:33-36
36 For from him and through him
and for him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
