Introduction to Romans 9

No passage in the Bible may give you as much trouble as Romans 9. And no passage can give you as much hope in the promises of God.

[willlopez]

I am eagerly waiting for the rest of this. For who hopes for what he sees? But if you hope for what you do not see, you wait for it with patience.

[Biblecia]

Thanks, pastor John. Such a blessing...as always, brother.

[Belmont-wzgg]

It does clear up the question of what happens to those who never hear the gospel and find Jesus.

[AntoniaSheldrake]

I'm leading a Bible study in Romans 9 on Thursday to a group of female uni students and would love to teach it well, in full conviction of this hard passage. give me more, quickly!

[valorietompkins]

AWESOME TEACHING SIR OF ROMANS 9.... WISDOMS... THANKS AGAIN GOD BLESS YOU

[adamboyd]

when was pastor John here in Houston? I would have gone to hear this in person. :(

[MuppetExplains]

Wait...it just ends here!?! Please, leave a links to following videos completing his teaching!!!

[camilasouza]

Anyone knows where to find this full preaching?

[grayandholly]

Pastor John says that he is using the neu.Annotate app. How does he connect it to get it to project onto the screens?

[thehardertheyfall]

I fear Matthew 7:21 and Revelation. 3:16

[DH-klob]

But the question is why do you trust Paul?

[madelyngutierrez]

There is no Romans 8:47 nor 9:47 did I get the scripture# wrong? UGH. This is a great message.

[johnellis]

Romans 10
1 The Hebrews are blood brothers to me, and surely good-will do I have for them. On my mind they truly are, and I pray to the Lord on behalf of them for deliverance and salvation.

2 I will witness for them, that a zeal for God they truly have, but not is it based on a knowledge of reality.
3 For they will not except the fact that they have been blessed with more then they deserve from the Lord, the true standard of righteousness.

As a grateful giving heart destroys the thought that we deserve more then we have, which destroys the root cause of all sin, the envious desire for what those more intelligent have. For it was envy of God that caused Adam to bring lies into the world, and to curse the earth with an intelligence dictatorship, as he believed this lie of Satan, “...you will be like God, knowing good mixed with evil.”

And because of this, their own ingrate standard of righteousness do they seek to accomplish, for the grateful giving heart that comes from the Lord, this they are not willing to except or be in submission to.

4 The ultimate goal therefore of the harmless Law of God is the Lord Christ, a perfect conformity to right by all those with absolute trust. 5 Moses because of it wrote, “The Lord God I am, be in obedience to my standard of right that comes from the Ten Commandments. For by the fulfillment of it, a man shall live because of it.”

6 For it is by having faith born of gratitude toward God, that we receive a giving heart that can keep the Law of God. For are these words not clearly impressed upon the mind of yours, “Who will go up into the heavens? Those that are in Christ anchored solid.” 7 and, “Who must be brought low, and who must suffer crucifixion? Those that Christ from death shall set free.”

8 And so, what must be proclaimed now by you? The words are in the mouth of yours, and in the spirit mind of you, for they are his words, he that establishes within you the power of conviction and absolute trust. This is the true gospel that must be proclaimed.

9 For if this absolute conviction is confessed by the mouth of yours, “God Almighty, he is the Lord Jesus, ” and faith is established by the thought in you that the heavenly Father had him returned to life from the dead, then for an absolute, you shall be saved.

10 For it is by thought that we bring to life a saving faith, one that is born of gratitude toward God, and it is by our mouth that an absolute commitment is expressed by a grateful heart. And this is what salvation is all about.

11 The words then of Scripture, “All who have my power of conviction and self-determination in them will never be a fool, one I will dishonor and disown.”

12 Never then is there discrimination, for Israelites and Gentiles are one and the same to him. For he is Lord of all, being rich to all those who call on him. 13 All surely, for whoever calls out in sincere appeal the name of the Lord, he shall be saved.

14 How then can one appeal to God in all sincerity who has not absolute trust? How then can one have the power of conviction who has nothing concrete or absolute upon which to anchor a conviction? And how then can one build one absolute upon another, and in this way expand the mind into the real world, without light? For light is that which forces the darkness to give way, an absolute so self-evident it paralyzes the brain, and forces the god-ego to go away

15 How then can brain paralyzing self-evident facts be proclaimed if no one is sent? As it is written, “How timely and beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, the new reality, the good that purifies one from all evil.”

16 But not hardly a Hebrew is now willing to obey the good news, for it exposes their fake morality as an illusion of good, and makes those with excessive wealth most upset. Isaiah no doubt had the same problem, for he cried out, “Lord, who has conviction or trust in the words heard from us?”

17 For it is by excepting the word of God as absolute, and by using things known to be true, to establish unknown things as equally true, by this shall come the light that forces darkness to give way. For light is self-evident, and so overwhelming that it purifies the mind of evil, by exposing all our pretenses of good that have us self-deceived and fooled into doing evil.

For in actuality light, the absolute reality the forces darkness to give way, this is the word of Christ.

18 But may it be said that never, not once, was there a true understanding of the will of God and his harmless nature? On the contrary for, “Unto all the earth went out the voice of the stars and the Universe, unto the ends by the inhabited land the word of them.”

19 And also it may be said that never were the Hebrews without the light they needed to force the darkness to give way, for at the very beginning Moses forewarned them of their exile to Babylon, “I will provoke to jealousy you by those who are not my nation, by a people living in deep darkness and darkest shadow, where even light is like darkness, I will create intense anxiety and hostility in you.

20 Isaiah then was quite bold and called out, “I was found by these of mine who did not seek, and visible and known I made myself to those who never asked.”

21 For then to the Hebrews he said, “All the day long I hold out the hand of mine to a people of complete disobedience, and a people of total abstinence.”