Romans 9 to 11 Sermon at Camrose Baptist Church

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Romans 9 -11
The Mystery of Israel and
the Purposes of God

The Context of
Romans 9-11
• Date – c.55 a.d.
• Place – Multicultural
Rome (1m
inhabitants, 40,000 Jews)
• Recipients - Messianic
Jews and Christians from
the nations in world capital

The Reasons for the Letter
- Missionary – for
evangelism and support
– Pastoral – for unity and
understanding
– Apologetic - a doctrinal
statement
– Who? What? When?
Where?
– How? Where? Who?

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Introduction
• Paul’s project – the Good
News to all nations
• Paul’s practice – to the Jew
first
• Paul’s problem – the
unbelief of Israel

Previously….
8:28-30 Good News
God's predestines (29)
God calls (30)
God justifies (30)
God glorifies (30)
8:31-39 Our Assurance
In the face of adversity – (31)
in the face of need – (32)
in the face of accusation – (33)
in the face of guilt – (34)
in the face of hardship – (35)

Two Key Questions
• What about Israel?
– Why doesn’t Israel believe?
– Is Israel still God’s covenant partner?
• Can you trust God?
– Have His plans gone wrong?
– What of his promises to his elect/Chosen
people?

Two extremes to avoid
• God has finished with Israel – the church
is the ‘new Israel’
• Israel does not need to be believe in Jesus
in order to be saved

3 Key Affirmations
• Not ‘all Israel’ are ‘Israel’ (9:6)
• God has not abandoned Israel
(11:1)
• ‘All Israel’ will be saved (11:26)
• So…who is ‘Israel’?

The Meaning of ‘Israel’
• Ish – ra’ah El – the man who
sees/is seen by El
• Ish- zarah-El – the man who
strives with God
• Ish- yashar – El – the
man/upright with God
• Ish- sar – el – man-prince
with God

‘Israel’ and ‘Jew’
• Jew – from Judah – Judaean – vs.
Greek/Hellenism
• Boundaries of
Sabbath, circumcision, kosher food
• Israel – name of covenant people
• Paul uses ‘Israel’ in relation to God

Paul’s Sadness (9:1-5)
• The heart of the matter
(cf. 10:1)
• The promises of God to
Israel
• The physical line of the
Messiah

God's word has not failed!
• 9:6-13 Israel’s hardening is
God’s doing:
• The choice of Israel (‘election’)
is God’s doing, not based on
anything in us
• ‘Not all Israel are Israel’
– Isaac, not Ishmael (7-9)
– Jacob, not Esau (10-13)

9:14-29 Is this fair?
• God is sovereign, even
over Pharaoh (17)
• We are clay in his hands
(19-23)
• Anyone can become his
people (23-29)

The Fulfilment of the Law
• The Torah fulfilled in
Christ (10:4)
• Faith comes by hearing
(10:9-13)

The Remnant – ch. 11
• Elijah’s remnant (11:1-6)
• The Olive tree (11:17-24)
– The root – Patriarchs and Messiah
– Natural branches broken off
– Unnatural branches grafted in
– Natural branches re-grafted
• All Israel (?) will be saved
(11:25-32)
• Doxology (11:33-36)

Paul’s Gospel
• Creation and Fall (Genesis 1-11)
• Election of Israel to be a
blessing to the nations (Genesis
12-Malachi)
• Coming of the Messiah to
include the nations in promises
to Israel
• Return of the Messiah to restore
all things

Our Response
• Prayer for Israel
• Witness to Israel and all
nations
• Eager expectation of
future restoration
• Live each day in light of
his coming!

Types of Supersessionism
• Punitive supersessionism – Israel
punished for her rejection of Jesus
• Economic supersessionism – Israel
no longer needed in the purposes of
God
• Structural supersessionism –
Creation – Fall - Redemption -
Consummation (omitting Election of
Israel as Blessing to the
Nations)

Aims of Covenant
Theology
• To stress the moral obligations of Christianity
• To show God’s grace in including the Nations in the
Abrahamic blessings
• To deny that Israelites received the promises simply
because they were physical descendants of Abraham
• To demonstrate the unity of the divine economy of
salvation
• To explain the discontinuity between the Old and New
Covenants in scripture

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