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Adult Forum February 23, 2014

Adult Forum February 23, 2014. Religious Diversity in Paul’s World: Romans 9-11. Adult Forum. Last week: Romans 1-4, how God justifies non-Jews Today: Romans 9-11, the relationship among Paul’s groups Next week: Paul and women in the early Chur ch. Romans 9-11.

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Adult Forum February 23, 2014

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  1. Adult ForumFebruary 23, 2014 Religious Diversity in Paul’s World: Romans 9-11

  2. Adult Forum Last week: Romans 1-4, how God justifies non-Jews Today: Romans 9-11, the relationship among Paul’s groups Next week: Paul and women in the early Church

  3. Romans 9-11 How Paul reconciled the diversity in his world: • Jews who don’t follow Jesus; • Jews who followed Jesus and opposed Paul; • Jews who followed Jesus and supported Paul; • Non-Jews who followed Jesus.

  4. Summary of Romans 9-11 Paul: God plans in very crooked ways God has chosen to redeem the non-Jews through the faithfulness of Jesus. Jews who don’t see that are well meaning but undiscerning. At the end, all Jews will be saved (along with non-Jewish Jesus followers).

  5. Romans 9:1-5Paul’s Love and Respect for All Jews I am speaking the truth in Christ-- I am not lying; my conscience confirms it by the Holy Spirit-- 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and destroyed by Christ for the sake of my own people, my kindred according to the flesh. 4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises; 5 to them belong the patriarchs, and from them, according to the flesh, comes the Messiah, who is over all, God blessed forever. Amen.

  6. Romans 9:6-29God’s Unsearchable Ways God’s plans are crooked – choosing second born sons; hardening Pharaoh’s heart . . . and choosing to redeem non-Jews through the faithfulness of Jesus before all Jews have accepted Jesus as Messiah

  7. Romans 9:30-31 NRSV “What then are we to say? Gentiles, who did not strive for righteousness, have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith; 31 but Israel, who did strive for the righteousness that is based on the law, did not succeed in fulfilling that law.”

  8. Righteousness in Romans Refers to God’s righteousness in bringing non-Jews into right relationship with God. Remember the theme in Romans 1:16-17? 16For I am not ashamed of the gospel; it is the power of God for salvation to all the faithful, first to the Jew, then to the Greek. 17For the righteousness of God has been revealed in it, from faithfulness to faithfulness, as it is written: “The righteous one will live out of faithfulness.”

  9. Romans 9:30-31Amplified and Paraphrased What are we to think about the fact that non-Judean non-Jews, who had no idea that God had plans for bringing them into God’s household, became children of God through the faithfulness of Christ, but other Jews, pursuing the same goal of bringing non-Jews into God’s household but through the Law, did not succeed? (Amplified paraphrase 9:30-31)

  10. Romans 9:32-10:3 Jews who try to bring non-Jews into the household of God through conversion . . . Stumbled over God’s plan . . . And EVEN THOUGH they may have said nasty things about me (Rom 3:8) . . . They are well meaning . . . But do not understand God’s plan.

  11. Romans 10:4 NRSV For Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

  12. Romans 10:4 NRSV Amplified Paraphrase For the point of the Law is Christ for fulfilling the righteousness of God with respect to all the non-Judean Jews. For Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes.

  13. Romans 10:5-11:16 10:5-21 Scripture supports Paul’s argument 11:1-2a “I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew.” (NRSV) 11:2b-10 A remnant is still faithful to God’s plan. 11:11-16 Rejection of Jesus as Messiah in God’s plan to bring non-Jews into righteousness.

  14. Romans 11:17-25Analogy of the Olive Tree 11:17-25 Non-Jewish Jesus followers are like olive branches grafted onto an olive tree, Israel. God pruned off some branches to make room for the new branches. Non-Jews better not get uppity: God can switch things around! 11:25 “So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.” (NRSV)

  15. Romans 11:26-36 11:26, 29 “And so all Israel will be saved; as it is written, ‘Out of Zion will come the Deliverer; he will banish ungodliness from Jacob’ . . . for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” (NRSV) 11:33-36 “O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways! 34 ‘For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?’35 ‘Or who has given a gift to him, to receive a gift in return?’36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.” (NRSV)

  16. Adult ForumFebruary 23, 2014 Religious Diversity in Paul’s World: Romans 9-11

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