Author: OnePassion Ministries

Let us start with a word of prayer: Father in heaven, as we now come to Your Word, we know we are stepping onto holy ground. You speak continually to us through Your word that is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword. We pray that You would open our eyes that we would behold wondrous truths in Your Word. And as we look into Your truth, I pray that You would shape us, mold us, make us, prune us, nurture us, grow us, develop us, for Christ’s sake. Amen.

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I really want us to get our arms around this verse and really understand and I don’t want to belabor this. I want to keep our pace going through Romans. However, we come to certain verses that really require some explanation more so than other passages. And this just happens to be one of those verses that I think we really need to just pause for a moment because there are so many strands of theology that run through this text and intersect with this verse that we really need to have, I think, an accurate understanding of what this means.

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Alright guys, let me start with a word of prayer: Father, as we look into Your Word, give us clarity of insight and discernment, understanding, and then more than that, may these truths have great impact upon our soul, shape us, mold us, conform us yet further into the image of Christ. And so, we commit this to You. I pray for those who are watching by livestream and who watch this later as it is posted. May this lesson have eternal impact. We pray this in Christ’s name. Amen.

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I want to first begin by reading, starting in verse 6: “But it is not as though the Word of God has failed. For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel, nor are they all children because they are Abraham’s descendants, but ‘Through Isaac your descendants will be named.’ That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are regarded as descendants. For this is the word of promise: ‘At this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.’ And not only this, but there was Rebecca also when she had conceived twins by one man, our father Isaac, for though the twins were not yet born and had not done anything good or bad – so that God’s purpose according to His choice would stand, not because of works but because of Him who calls. It was said to her, ‘The older will serve the younger.’ Just as it is written, ‘Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.'”

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Alright, Romans chapter 9. Romans chapter 9, and we begin now this extraordinary chapter. So let me begin by reading the passage. If you’re taking notes, this is entitled, “Burdened for the Lost.” “Burdened for the Lost,” Romans chapter 9. We’re going to look at the first five verses today, we’re just going to put our toe in the pool of this extraordinary ocean of truth.

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Romans chapter 8, the last two verses, and I just hate to let Romans 8 go because this has been arguably the greatest chapter in the entire Bible. But just to let you know this, and we’ll be meeting next week, we have Romans 9 teed up and coming, and it’s going to be big boy football, okay? So, you are going to want to wear your shoulder pads as you come next week.

So, I want to start by reading the last two verses of Romans 8. We are going to look at verses 38 and 39. So, here they are: “For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Romans 8, I want to begin reading in verse 31. These are phenomenal verses. So, Paul writes, “What shall we say to these things?” And I want you to pay attention to the question marks, give attention to the questions as I read this. The title of this is “Seven Unanswerable Questions.” “What shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things? (question mark) Who will bring a charge against God’s elect? (question mark) God is the one who justifies. Who is the one who condemns? (question mark) Christ Jesus is He who died, yes, rather who was raised, who is at the right hand of God, who also intercedes for us. Who will separate us from the love of Christ? (question mark) Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” (question mark).

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