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Category Archives: Election
Election: Romans 11, Part 5 (“Israel has experienced a hardening”)
(Rom 11:25-27) I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And … Continue reading
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Election: Roman 11, Part 4 (“you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in”)
(Rom 11:16a) If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; Paul sees the Gentiles and Jews as part of the same whole. The faithful Jews are the firstfruits sacrificed at the … Continue reading
Election: Romans 11, Part 3 (“salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious”)
(Rom 11:11) Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. Paul makes two points. His second is that … Continue reading
Election: Romans 11, Part 2 (“God gave them a spirit of stupor”)
(Rom 11:7-8) What then? What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened, 8 as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see … Continue reading
Election: Chapter 11, Part 1 (“God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew”)
(Rom 11:1-2a) I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Paul now explicitly … Continue reading
Election: Romans 10, Part 3 (why didn’t Israel believe?)
(Rom 10:18) But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” Paul quotes Ps 19:4, which speaks of God’s self-revelation through … Continue reading
Election: Romans 10, Part 2 (“faith comes from hearing the message”)
(Rom 10:11-13) As the Scripture says, “Anyone who trusts in him will never be put to shame.” 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile–the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on … Continue reading
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Election: Chapter 10, Part 1 (“righteousness for everyone who believes”)
(Rom 10) Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. Paul returns to the thought that began chapter 9, his desire for Israel to be saved. He is not changing subjects, … Continue reading
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Election: Back to Romans 8
Reflect back on chapter 8 — (Rom 8:29-31) For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. 30 And those he predestined, he also … Continue reading
Election: Grace According to Calvin
Thanks to Jerry Starling, here’s a commentary on election from Calvin himself. Not that Calvin. That Calvin isn’t funny at all Is there a lesson here?
