“God’s Chosen Family” (Romans 9:24–29)

“God’s Chosen Family” (Romans 9:24–29)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, August 5, 2018

Romans 9:24–29 (NIV)

24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? 25 As he says in Hosea:

“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,” 

26 and,

“In the very place where it was said to them,

‘You are not my people,’

there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’ ” 

27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

“Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,

only the remnant will be saved.

28 For the Lord will carry out

his sentence on earth with speed and finality.” 

29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

“Unless the Lord Almighty

had left us descendants,

we would have become like Sodom,

we would have been like Gomorrah.” 

1. In his loving sovereignty, God is calling and creating a spiritual family out of all of the families of the earth.

2. In his loving sovereignty, God is showing mercy to those who don’t deserve mercy and weren’t expected to receive mercy (the Gentiles).

3. In his loving sovereignty, God is showing mercy to only a remnant of those who were thought to deserve mercy (Israel).