WHEN THE CHURCHED WON’T BELIEVE
Romans 9.1-5
Romans: Faithful To Save – Part 1 of 10
Romans 8.29 “… in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (esv)
FACED WITH SURPRISING UNBELIEF, WE MUST …
REFUSE TO LET OUR Hearts Be Hardened
v. 1 “I am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying …” (esv)
v. 2 “… I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.” (esv)
Matthew 10.34–36 “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother … a person’s enemies will be those of his own household.” (esv)
v. 4 “… to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises.”(esv)
REFUSE TO LET OUR Convictions Be Compromised
v. 3 “For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.” (esv)
2 Corinthians 5.17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.” (esv)
James 2.19 “You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that—and shudder.” (niv)
v. 5 “Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ …” (niv)
v. 5b “… the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.” (esv)
John 1.12 “But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God …”(esv)
Galatians 3.13 “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us …” (esv)