textbox center Jewish Hardness of Heart Romans 9:14-29

textbox center When you pass through deep waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through difficult rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. Isaiah 43:2

textbox center Deep calls to deep in the roar of your waterfalls; all your waves and breakers have swept over me. By day the Lord directs his love, at night his song is with me—a prayer to the God of my life. Psalm 42:7-8

textbox center 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 man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. Romans 9:14-16

textbox center 1. We have an erroneous view of what fallen people deserve from God.

textbox center For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God and are justified freely by his grace… Romans 3:23-24

textbox center Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned… Romans 5:12

textbox center For the 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.” Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. Romans 9:17-18

textbox center 1. We have an erroneous view of what fallen people deserve from God. 2. If anyone is lost, the blame is theirs. If anyone is saved, the credit is God’s.

textbox center Yet Pharaoh’s heart became hard and he would not listen to them, just as the Lord had said. Then the Lord said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding, he refuses to let the people go.” Exodus 7:13-14

textbox center …“Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” Romans 9:19

textbox center But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” Does the potter not have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use? 22 What if… 23 What if… Romans 9:20-23

textbox center 1. We have an erroneous view of what fallen people deserve from God. 2. If anyone is lost, the blame is theirs. If anyone is saved, the credit is God’s. 3. We have a limited view of the bigger things God is doing.

textbox center What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory know to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory—even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles. Romans 9:22-24

textbox center 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. Romans 9:25

textbox center It will happen in the very place where it was said to them, “You are not my people,” they will be called “sons of the living God.” Romans 9:26

textbox center Though the number of Israelites be like the sand by the sea, only a remnant will be saved. For the Lord will carry out his sentence on earth with speed and finality… Unless the Lord Almighty had left us descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah. Romans 9:27-29

textbox center 1. We have an erroneous view of what fallen people deserve from God. 2. If anyone is lost, the blame is theirs. If anyone is saved, the credit is God’s. 3. We have a limited view of the bigger things God is doing. 4. God’s mercy is seen clearly in the remnant, his justice is seen clearly in the rest.

textbox center …in judgment, remember mercy. Habakkuk 3:2

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textbox center 1. We have an erroneous view of what fallen people deserve from God. 2. If anyone is lost, the blame is theirs. If anyone is saved, the credit is God’s. 3. We have a limited view of the bigger things God is doing. 4. God’s mercy is seen clearly in the remnant, his justice is seen clearly in the rest. 5. God doesn’t do what he wants. God does who he is.