Eastside Baptist Church, Winfield, Alabama
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
“Who Is the True Israel?” (Romans 9:6–9)
Pastor Cameron Jungels
Eastside Baptist Church
Sunday AM, June 3, 2018
Romans 9:6–9 (NIV)
6 It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.” 8 In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. 9 For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”
1. An unexpected turn of events: Gentiles are being saved, but most Jews are rejecting their Messiah.
2. The problem of God's faithfulness: has God reneged on his Word?
3. The solution to the perceived problem of God’s faithfulness is a proper understanding of God's ways of grace: not all who are Israel are Israel.
4. The historical illustration of God's ways of grace: the promised seed is through Isaac not Ishmael. There are physical descendants who are not spiritual children.
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