Israel and GOD’S MERCY
Structure:
a. 9:1-5, They are Israelites
b. 9:6-13,
God’s plan might continue
c. 9:14,
What then are we to say?
d.
9:15-16, I will show mercy to whom I will
d’.
9:17-18, He has mercy upon whom He will
c’. 9:19,
You will say to me then?
b’. 9:20-23,
does the potter have control
a’. 9:24-29,
Israelites – in numbers vs. saved.
Text: 9:1-18
The benefits of Israel, to them belong:
1. adoption
2. glory
3. covenant
4. Giving of the Law/Torah
5. worship
6. promises
7. patriarchs
8.
Messiah/Christ
True children
– through Isaac, through Jacob:
Promise to Abraham, promise to Rebekah vs. the results of
these promises more than 1000 years later – v.13 “Jacob I loved, but Esau I
hated.”
Mercy and
compassion of God does
not depend on human will or exertion (9:16; cp. Eph. 2:8-9).
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