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Study Section10: Chapter 9 - Salvation Illustrated in Israel- God’s
Salvation of a Remnant
10.1 Connect
I have traveled to Israel twice in the past. I love seeing the places that Jesus walked and
where He ministered. I have been to Mars Hill where Paul preached to the Greeks. I have
stood on Mt. Nebo where Moses looked at the Promised land, and where he died. I have
toured Petra, where someday in the future God will preserve and miraculously protect his
chosen people during the last half of the Tribulation period. While in Israel we noticed that
very few people believed in Jesus the Messiah. For the most part, Israel continues to this
day to reject Yeshua as the Messiah of Israel. While it is a thrill to see the sites in Israel, it is with great
sadness that one observes the lives in Israel that, for the most part, are lived in anticipation for a coming
Messiah.

Paul was distraught at the fact that his brothers, Israel, had not trusted Christ as he had. He was even
willing that if he could exchange places with them, he would be willing so that they could be saved. But,
of course, this is not possible. No person can believe for another person. Paul concludes this chapter with
that important thought that righteousness before God comes by personal faith in Jesus Christ. Each of us
must exercise our free will and bend it to the sovereignty of God for salvation.

10.2 Objectives

1. Students should be able to explain how salvation is Illustrated in Israel in that God brings only a
remnant to salvation.

2. Students should be able to discuss the difference between “Law Righteousness” and “faith
righteousness.”

6.3 The Passage: Romans 9:1-21

Truth I speak in Christ, I do not lie, my conscience bearing witness to me in the Holy Spirit, that
it is a great sorrow to me and endless pain to my heart. For I would wish to be under curse I
myself from Christ on behalf of my brothers, of my relatives according to flesh, who are
Israelites, of whom is the adoption and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law
and the worship and the promises, of whom are the fathers and out of whom is the Christ
according to flesh, the one who is over all things God praised unto the age, amen.

Paul’s deep desire was that the Jewish nation would come to trust in Christ as he had.

But it is not as though the Word of God failed. For not all who are out of Israel, these are Israel; neither
that they are seed of Abraham all children, but ‘In Isaac it will be called to you a seed.’ This is not the
children of the flesh, these are children of God but the children of promise as reckoned unto seed. For a
promise is this word, ‘According to this season I will come and there will be to Sarah a son.’ But not only,
but also Rebecca out of having one act of sexual intercourse, Isaac our father; for not yet having been born
neither doing anything good or bad, so that the elected purpose of God might remain, not out of works but
out of the one who calls, it was said to her that ‘The greater will serve the lesser,’ just as it has been
written, ‘Jacob I have loved but Esau I have hated.’ Therefore, what shall we say?

There is not justice with God? May it never be! For to Moses he says, ‘I will have mercy, on whomever I
have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I have compassion.’ Therefore then, not the one who
wills not the one who works but the one who has mercy of God. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh that,
‘For this reason I brought you to power so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.’ Therefore
then, on whom he wills, he has mercy but whom he wills, he hardens.
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