Romans 9:1-13: Is God Faithful?
- Lance Lefler
- May 29, 2011
- Series: the Gospel
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You long to see family members and friends find Jesus. Paul the Apostle felt the same way about his fellow Jews who rejected Christ. He was so torn up over their unbelief, he wished he could be accursed from Christ on their behalf.
This raises a question.
If the church is God's people and it's mostly non-Jews, what about the Jews?? How can the people of God be mostly Gentile?
But that's not the big question.
Can we trust God to be faithful to the church, if he cast off the first people of God, the Jewish nation? If God set them aside, maybe he'll set us aside, too. In Romans 9-11 Paul is going to show that: 1) there is still a portion of Israel (as there always has been) that is faithful to God; and 2) though the nation of Israel as a whole has fallen into unbelief, one day they will experience spiritual renewal.
God has not cast off Israel. And he will not cast us off either.