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LESSON 3 * PART 4 * BOOK 24
ROMANS 9:25-10:21
Remember in the last lesson we closed with verse 17, and I commented that God doesn't expect someone to respond until He speaks it. No, he didn't start until God says, "Build an ark." And then Hebrews Chapter 11 says:
Hebrews 11:7
Hebrews 11:8
When God said for him to, and so it is all the way up through Scripture that when God speaks it and men respond to it, then God sees it as faith. Paul has brought it out to the Gentile world and now God lays that responsibility upon Gentiles to believe the Gospel which Paul calls "My Gospel:"
Romans 2:16
"In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to my gospel." He also calls it "The Gospel of the Grace of God." In addition he calls it "that Gospel which I preach among the Gentiles."
Romans 16:25
Now then, Paul is going to come back once again, to Israel's situation in verse 18.
Romans 10:18,19a
Israel - the Jews) Yes, verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. Israel did not know. The Old Testament was full of prophecy. You know, people are no different today with Paul's letters. Well, Israel was no different. No nation on earth has been so saturated with this Word of God, the Bible, as Americans. That world ruler. So Israel was the same way.
Romans 10:18,19
Yes, verily, their sound went into all the earth, and their words unto the ends of the world. Why did they hate Paul so? Deuteronomy 7:6
"For thou art a holy people unto the LORD thy God; the LORD thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth."
"...I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people."
Exodus 19:6
"And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation, These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel.:"
Now let's look atActs Chapter 22, and here Paul is speaking to this great Jewish crowd in Jerusalem. Here Paul is rehearsing his salvation experience, and it's emphasized three times in this Book of Acts. Moses prophesied that another nation would come into fellowship with your God, and you would hate them for it." Christians or Jewish people who are professed believers in Christ. Why don't they want these people in Israel? Now verse 20:
Romans 10:20
Remember Paul is writing to Gentiles at Ephesus, he's writing to us.
Ephesians 2:11,12
"Wherefore remember, that ye being in time past (Old Testament) Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; (In other words the Jews referred to the Gentiles as uncircumcised.) That at that time (Old Testament economy.) ye (Your Gentile forefathers) were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world;"
Ephesians 2:13
Now coming back to Romans Chapter 10, and reading verse 20 again.
Romans 10:20
The Gentiles. Those very same people. Beginning with Adam and Eve, no one of the human race ever seeks God. No human being ever seeks God. God is always the Seeker, God always makes that first move, and He is the One that prompts the human being to respond. Let's go back to John's Gospel, Chapter 3, and let's begin with verse 17.
"For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world: but that the world through him might be saved. (God's not willing that any should perish) So every child of Adam detests the light, they don't want the light, and they're condemned already Jesus says. Now reading on verse 18:
John 3:18-21
All right, we're talking about that same light.) and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. Just like Lydia that we read about in the last lesson, it was God Who opened her heart. It wasn't Paul who opened her heart, but rather God. Remember Peter back in Matthew Chapter 16, Jesus and the Twelve were up in northern Israel, and He ask the question:
Now let's come back to Romans Chapter 10, and verse 21.
Romans 10:21
"But to Israel he saith, `All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.'"
Here God brought about supernaturally the Nation of Israel, didn't He? Immediately God begins to deal with those Israelites as now His chosen set-apart nation. Then Israel was given the tabernacle, He has jelled them as a nation of people. God has substantiated every thing, and they're ready to go into the Promise Land. But what do the people do? They said, "Send in the spies, because we can't believe God." God had told Moses and Israel that He would drive out the Canaanites with hornets. Let's begin in verse 7:
Hebrews 3:7-12
So [God said] I sware in my wrath, They shall not enter into my rest). Hebrews 3:15-19

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