1. a week-by-week Bible study for 2017 week 25: Romans 9:1-29

2. Bible study time A gentle proposal

3. Today’s class Reading the text (What does it say?)
Explaining the text (What does it mean?)
Applying the text (So what?)
Personalizing the text (Now what?)
Table prayer time (How can we help?)

4. Condensed ESV outline Righteousness introduced (1:1-17) (3)
Righteous wrath (1:18-3:20) (6)
Saving righteousness (3:21-4:25) (3)
Righteous freedom (5-8) (11)
Righteousness  Jews (9-11) (8)
Righteous living (12:1-15:13) (9)
Paul’s closing (15:14-16:23) (5)
Righteousness summarized (16:25-27) (2)

5. Review 1 All that God does is good All that God does is right
All that God does is holy

6. contradiction ≠ complexity
Review 2
contradiction ≠ complexity

7. Review 3: Israeli family history
Abraham (Sarah)
Ishmael
Isaac (Rebekah)
Jacob
Esau

8. syngenes

9. syn genes

10. Stay on the cart path

11. Homework
Write down what Romans 9:14-29 says and think about the implications of those statements. Extra credit: review Exodus 33; 8-9; Isaiah 28-29; Hosea Thought to keep in mind: God never got off of His path

12. Table prayer time See the “Weekly Update” at your table
Review and update prior prayer requests
Write down new prayer requests
Lean in, engage, and pray as a table
Clean up and move to the auditorium