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Children of the Promise: Understanding God's Redemption 0:10 Good morning. Welcome to Stand on the Word. Thanks for joining me this morning. I'm still here in Southern California. We were here for the Prevost Stand Summit, a powerful gathering at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills. If you0:21 didn't catch any of it, you can still find it on the Stand Firm app. So go to the App Store, get the Stand Firm app. A powerful, powerful discussion. In fact, a lot of what we were talking about, at the0:33 summit, a lot of it focused on Israel, and that's what we're gonna be looking at here the next few days. Today, we're in chapter 9 of Romans, and this kinda flows right into chapter 10 and then0:45 chapter 11. So today and tomorrow is gonna be kinda part 1, part 2. Verse 8 of chapter 9, this means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise0:57 are counted as offspring. Paul's letter here to the Romans can be divided really into 3 parts. We have chapters 1 through 8. It's a focus on justification by faith alone. And and1:08 that, that truth continues throughout the entire letter that he wrote to the Romans, but that's the focus of the first 8 verses. Then here in these next 3 verses, chapters 9, 10, and 11, really1:22 kind of dispensational view of Israel, their past, present, and their future with God and how Gentiles, that's us, fit into that relationship. Now let me just stop for a moment1:34 and define the word dispensation. Dispensation is a theological construct. It it it's a means of organizing and understanding the word of God and his plan for mankind as1:45 presented in his word. And while God's promises transcend the dispensation, his interaction with mankind as and is different in various1:57 dispensations that we have in scripture. What Paul is communicating here is that God is no longer operating under the dispensation of the law as mankind has entered into the dispensation of2:09 grace upon the death, burial, and the resurrection of Jesus Christ, which then invited Gentiles into Jesus Christ, which then invited Gentiles into the promise of God and into the family of God. So in2:21 this context, Paul takes up a discussion of election and the sovereignty of God in both his choosing of Israel in the Old Testament and how his relationship with Abraham2:33 really announced his relationship, his coming relationship with the Gentiles, the entire world. So 1 more definition before we begin. I'm I'm gonna go back to our our central verse for today, verse 8.2:45 This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, right, the Jewish people he's talking about, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring. So what's the promise?2:58 What's a what's a child of the promise? In John chapter 1 verses 12 and 13, it says, but as many as received him, to them, he gave the right to become the children of God, even to those who believe in his name3:09 who were born not of blood nor of the will of man, but of God. God made a promise to Abraham for the redemption of all who would believe. They are the children of the3:21 promise of God's redemption. The promise from God is a is a restored relationship with him as our father, not through not through keeping the law, not trying to be good,3:33 but solely by his grace through the redemptive work of Jesus Christ, his son. That is a child of the promise. So Paul starts with a description first in the first part of this chapter of his3:45 deep, compassionate love for his fellow Jews. Verse 1, I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying. My conscience also bearing the witness in the Holy Spirit that I have great3:57 sorrow and continual grief in my heart for I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, for my countrymen according to the flesh. He's basically saying, if I could4:09 to bring them to Christ, I would trade place places with them. So he's speaking and he wants to make very clear. He's not abandoning his Jewishness. He has a deep abiding love for them. And and4:21 in fact, he goes in next in verse 4, and he he sets out the privileges, the, that that the Jewish people have, the distinction. Look at verse 4.4:33 Who are Israelites? To whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises of whom are the fathers4:45 and from whom according to the flesh Christ came who is overall the eternally blessed God. Amen. So he he list here, like, 8 things. First first 7, he talks about as the Jewish4:57 people, the the they had the adoption as God's people or his nation. They had the glory of God's presence. They had the covenants with God. He made the covenants with the Jewish people. They had the law from God.5:09 No other nation had a law given to them by God. They had the worship of God, the service of God, the tabernacle, the temple. They had the promises of God. Abraham was the 1 who received the promise, and then they had the5:21 patriarchs, the fathers. No other nation no other nation could claim the blessings that the nation of Israel had. But that was all to illustrate what5:33 was to come through them that would be a blessing to the entire world as we read in Genesis chapter 12. The very last thing, Christ came who was overall5:45 the eternally blessed God, the Messiah, the savior of the world came to the Jewish people. Verse 9, but it is not the word, but it is not that the word of God has taken no effect for they5:57 are not all Israel who are of Israel. Read this very carefully as you follow Paul. Nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham. But in6:09 Isaac, your seed shall be blessed. Alright? Not everybody of the flesh of Abraham is a child of the promise. Verse 8, that is those who are the6:20 children of the flesh, these are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as the seed. Being a child of the promise is not limited to those who are6:32 Jewish by blood, but those who by faith accept the promise of God. That's why we can call Abraham father. Verse 9, for this is the word of promise. At the6:44 this time, I will come and Sarah will have a child. So we're adopted into the family. Again, let me go to John chapter 1. But as many as received him, to them he gave the6:56 right to become children of God, even to those who believe in his name, who were born not of blood nor of the will of man, but of God. The adoption into the family of God overcomes7:09 the fact that we're alienated. We're we're restored into a relationship with him. In Romans chapter 3 verse 23, we read for all had sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. We can we've lost our standing with God7:20 because of what the first Adam did, but we are restored by faith if we believe in the promise into the family of God. Now7:33 let me, let me address something here because every human being, while created by God and bearing the image of God, is not a child of God. Now I know that's an expression we often7:44 hear, you know, we're all children of God. No. We're all creations of God, but we become children of God through the promise when we believe and we're adopted into the family.7:56 Jesus makes this distinction in John chapter 8 verse 44. Jesus was speaking to those who were opposing him, and this is what he said. For you are the children of your father, the devil, and8:08 you love to do the evil things that he does. He was a murderer from the beginning. He has always hated the truth because there is no truth in him. When he lies, it is consistent with his8:20 character for he is a liar and the father of lies. See, they did what they did because they were children of the devil. They were not children of the devil because of what they8:31 did. It came from within their nature. And so that's our nature outside of Christ. There's there's no middle ground. There I know we hate to see it this way.8:43 Many people like to see it this way, but it's very clear. Either we're children of God through the promise or we're children of the devil. Alright. Let's pick back up verse 15. For he says to Moses,8:55 I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion. So then it is not of him who wills nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy. Now9:08 we we've discussed in in Paul's letters. Paul lays out some very deep theological concepts in his letters. And and here, there's this discussion of election and the sovereignty of God. Now in9:20 this passage, many scholars see this not as a discussion of election of the individual, but rather of nations. Look at verse 18. Therefore, he has mercy on whom he wills, and he9:32 and whom he wills, he hardens. You will say then to me, why does he still find fault? For who has resisted his will? But indeed, oh man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him, reply9:43 against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it? Why have you made me like this? Does not the potter have the power over the clay from the same lump to make 1 vessel for honor and another for9:55 dishonor? This is 1 of those deep theological issues. How do we reconcile the sovereignty of God with the free the freedom of man and the,10:07 the of the of the human will? I mean, the free will of man and the sovereignty of God. How do we reconcile those? Both are clearly taught in scripture. Here's the answer. I don't know. I don't know. I10:19 think this and this is why I urge caution in these areas that are not totally clear based upon the totality of scripture. Now Paul, he wrote to the Corinthians, first Corinthians chapter 13 verse 12. He says, for10:31 now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I am known. We don't see everything right now. In in some10:42 things, we may not know this side of heaven. In fact, in chapter 11, we'll get to this the day after tomorrow, Paul writes this. He says, oh, the depth of the riches both of his wisdom and knowledge10:54 of God. How unsearchable are his judgments in his ways past finding out. For who has known the mind of the Lord or who has become his counselor?11:06 Again, there there are just some things that we will not fully understand this side of heaven. Verse 25. As he says also in Hosea, I will call them my people who were not my people, and11:18 her beloved who were not my beloved. And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, you are not my people. There they shall be called sons of the living God, children of the11:30 promise. So what about Israel, the Jewish people? Has the gentile church replaced them? I mean, that's really at the core of replacement theology. Look at verse 30. And these 311:42 these 3 chapters, by the way, that we're gonna be looking at today and tomorrow and, and on Wednesday. Very important, especially right now as there's a lot of, discussion about Israel.11:53 Verse 30. What shall we say then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have obtained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith. But Israel, pursuing the law of12:05 righteousness, has not attained to the law of righteousness. Why? Because they did not seek it by faith, but as it were by the works of the law, for they stumbled at the stumbling stone at as12:17 it is written, behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense, and whoever believes on and whoever believes I lost my place here. Just a second. And12:29 whoever believes whoever believes on him will not be put to shame. So Paul presents the present state of the12:40 Jewish people. Alright? So those who were not a people, they have become the people of God. We did not pursue righteousness,12:53 but we've obtained righteousness, but not by the law, but by faith. Israel pursuing righteousness by the law has not attained to it. Why? Because they didn't seek it by faith, but as it were by the works of the law, for13:02 they it by faith, but as it were by the works of the law, for they stumbled at the stumbling stone. What was the stumbling stone? Jesus. But Paul presents here the13:14 present state of the Jewish people, but but that's not the end of the story. Tune in tomorrow as we look at chapters 10 and then on into 11, and we13:26 see what Paul has to say about the future of Israel and the Jewish people. Father, we thank you for your word. And, Lord, we we live at such a time that we need your13:38 word. We need to understand your word. We need to stand upon your word because your word gives clarity in a time, Lord, of great moral, spiritual, political confusion.13:51 And, lord, your word, as followers of Christ, needed to be the ultimate guide for us. So we ask for the holy spirit to enlighten us, to guide us, and direct us through your word.14:03 And father, we pray that you would be glorified. And, lord, even now, we pray for the nation of Israel and the Jewish people. We pray against this rise of antisemitism. We pray also, lord, that as a nation14:16 of America, that, lord, we would align with your scripture, with your word, and what you have declared is forthcoming, that we as a nation would align with your word.14:28 And be with our leaders that, lord, they would have that understanding and that you would turn their hearts toward that which is true and that which is right. For we pray this in Jesus' name. Amen.14:41 Alright. Thanks again for joining me this morning, and until next time, keep standing on the word.14:49 Today's study comes from the Stand on the Word Bible Reading Plan available for free at frc dot org slash bible. By following along in just a few minutes a day, you15:01 can read through the entire Bible in just 2 years. Learn more and request the free reading guide at FRC dot org15:11 slash Bible.In this video 0:00 Children of the Promise: Understanding God's Redemption
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