1. Did God’s Word fail Israel?
Romans 9-11
Did God’s Word fail Israel?

2. 9:30 to 10:4, Israel’s unbelief
God’s Sovereignty
Human responsibility
Israel’s future 11 9 10
9:30 to 10:4, Israel’s unbelief
10:5 to 10:13, for everyone who believes
10:14 to 18, faith comes by hearing
10:19 to 21, Israel’s refusal to believe
1-10, Remnant chosen by grace
11-24, Gentiles grafted in
25-32, Israel’s future salvation
33-36, Praise God for his wisdom and his ways
1-5, Paul’s sorrow
6-18, God’s choice
19-29, God’s sovereignty

3. Did God’s Word fail? Sometimes we:
Misinterpret God’s Word
Cannot understand God’ ways.
Our responsibility is to believe, and to preach the Word.
Some promises will be fulfilled in the future.

4. Romans 9: Sovereignty of God
1-5, Paul’s sorrow over Israel’s condition
6-19, God ensured that His will was done.
Isaac, Jacob, Pharaoh
19-29, God’s sovereign right to act
Potter and the clay
Hosea

5. 9: Key verses
6 But it is not as though the word of God has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, 
14 What shall we say then? Is there injustice on God's part? By no means! 
20 But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? 

6. 10: Human responsibility
9:30 to 10:4, Israel’s unbelief
10:5 to 10:13, for everyone who believes
10:14 to 18, faith comes by hearing
10:19 to 21, Israel’s refusal to believe

7. 10: Key verses
9 if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved. 
14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? 17 So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

8. 11: the Remnant 1-10, Remnant chosen by grace
Elijah, 7,000
11-24, Gentiles grafted in
25-32, Israel’s future salvation
Fullness of the Gentiles
All of Israel
Zechariah 13:8,
33-36, Praise God for his wisdom and his ways

9. 11: Key verses
25 b a partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written,
“The Deliverer will come from Zion,     he will banish ungodliness from Jacob”; 27 “and this will be my covenant with them     when I take away their sins.”

10. Did God’s Word fail? Sometimes we:
Misinterpret God’s Word
Cannot understand God’ ways.
Our responsibility is to believe, and to preach the Word.
Some promises will be fulfilled in the future.
a. The tribulation, 2nd Coming, Millennial kingdom