Sermon Notes : Romans 9:30 - 10:4

Rom. 9:30-10:4

 

-Why did Israel not attain to righteousness?

 

  I.  Israel did not purse righteousness by faith.

-righteousness = dikaiosune = forensic, right legal standing before God.

    a.  They pursued righteousness by the law.

-pursue = dioko = run swiftly after, hunt

-attained = katalambano = obtain, attain; race imagery, the pursuit of the goal.

-John 5:39

    b.  They pursued rigtheousness by works.

    c.  They stumbled over the Cornerstone.

-disappointed = ashamed, disgraced, humiliate.

 

 II.  Israel had zeal without knowledge.

-John 5:39; Luke 24:25, Acts 13:27

 

 III.  Israel sought to establish its own righteousness.

 

 IV.  Israel refused to see Christ was the end of the law.

     a.  Christ fulfilled the requirements of the law.

-end = telos = goal, conclusion, termination, end, fulfillment

-Matt. 5:17-18

     b.  Christ ended human effort in its futility.

 

 

 1.  We must pursue and receive righteousness by faith alone.

 2.  We can not make ourselves righteous by seeking to follow laws.

 3.  We must turn to Christ who has fulfilled the law for us.

Sermon Notes Romans 9:14-18 Is God Unjust?

Rom. 9:14-18

Is God Unjust?
   I.  God has mercy on whom He wills.
-mercy = eleeo = show pitty, mercy; the actions resulting from compassion and mercy
-compassion = oiktiro = show pitty, compassion; inner emotions

  II.  God's mercy doesn't depend on man's efforts.
-Job 7:7, Ps. 8:4
-wills = thelo = to will, to wish, desire, to want
-runs = trecho = to run, exert oneself, make effort
-will and runs = the sum of human efforts

 III.  God justly demonstrates His glory.
-Joshua 2:10
-harden = skleruno = make stubborn, to harden

Douglas Moo "In fact, Paul never offers - here or anywhere else - a 'logical' solution to the tension between divine sovereignty and human responsibility that he creates.  That he affirms the latter is, of course, clear; and we must never forget that Paul will go on in 9:30-10:21 to attribute the Jews' condemnation to their own willful failure to believe. Paul is content to hold the truths of God's absolute sovereignty - in both election and hardening - and of full human responsibility without reconciling them. We would do well to emulate his approach."