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Discover the Arts! Each day a different image from the Literary, Performing, or Visual Arts representing a portion of Scripture plus an explanation with links 2016 August 31
Ezzelin and Meduna (1779)
John Henry Fuseli (1741-1825)
Romanticism Style
Sir John Soane's Museum, London, England, United Kingdom
Image Source: Web Gallery of Art
Explanation: In Romans 9 Paul tells us about the great heaviness and continual sorrow which he has because of the Israelites who do not continue in the covenant and the promises of God (1-5).
God's promises are still in effect, but being an Israelite is not enough to make them part of the covenant. It depends on God's choice. This was true with his choice of Sarah's son Isaac and with his choice of Rebecca's son Jacob (6-13).
This does not make God unrighteous. As God told Moses, "I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. " It does not depend on what men want or on what they try to do; it is up to God to show mercy if he wishes. In Pharaoh's case, God's choice was to show his power in Pharaoh, not to have mercy on him (14-18).
But some will ask why God finds fault, since no one can resist his will. But it is improper to criticize God since he creates us, and he has the power (authority) to make us as he wishes us to be. On some, he had wrath. On others, he had mercy As God said through Isaiah, only a remnant of Israel will be saved even though they are as numerous as the sands of the seas (19-29).
The Gentiles found righteousness because they attained it by faith. Israel did not find righteousness because they sought it through the works of the law. For them, Christ became a stumblingstone, not their Savior (30-33).
[Sermons: William Still. John Piper. Various. ]
[Illustration: Today's painting was chosen to symbolize the deep sorrow which Paul felt over the fate of Israel, as described in today's chapter. ]
RESOURCES
[THEMATICALLY AND CHRONOLOGICALLY RELATED SCRIPTURES:
Romans 9:1-5: 2 Corinthians 3:7-18; 2 Corinthians 11:21b-29; Galatians 3:19-20; Ephesians 2:11-22; Philippians 3:2-11; 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16.
Romans 9:6-13: Galatians 4:21-31; Ephesians 1:3-23.
Romans 9:14-18: Ephesians 2:1-10.
Romans 9:19-29: 1 Corinthians 4:6-7; 2 Corinthians 3:4-6; Galatians 3:21-25; Ephesians 1:3-23; Philippians 3:17-21; Colossians 1:24 - 2:3; 1 Thessalonians 5:1-11; 2 Thessalonians 2:1-12.
Romans 9:30-33: 1 Corinthians 1:18-25; 2 Corinthians 3:12-18; Galatians 2:15-21; Galatians 3:21-25; Galatians 5:1-12; Philippians 3:2-11; 1 Thessalonians 2:13-16. ]
NOTE: The parallels above are based in a very small part on my own research but principally on the following sources:
Fred O Francis and J. Paul Sampley, Pauline Parallels, Second Edition. (Minneapolis, Minnesota: Fortress Press, 1984).
Most of the material on Hebrews is from an online article titled Pauline parallels in Hebrews taken from Charles H. Welch and Stuart Allen Welch, Perfection Or Perdition? An Exposition Of The Epistle To The Hebrews, (London: Berean Publishing Trust, 1973). ]
[ CHRONOLOGY: GENERAL. Patriarchs (Traditional). Judges # 1. Judges # 2. Kings # 1. Kings # 2. Prophets # 1. Prophets # 2. NT # 1. NT # 2. NT # 3. ]
[ MAPS: Maps # 1. Maps # 2. Maps # 3. Maps # 4. Maps # 5. ]
[ COMMENTARIES, ETC: GENERAL: Bible Study Tools; Bible Hub: Study Light; Blue Letter Bible // PSALMS: Monergism: Precept Austin: The Treasury of David; John Gill; John Calvin - Volumes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ MUSIC: GENERAL: The Cyber Hymnal // PSALMS: Genevan Psalter (Instrumental). VARIOUS ARTISTS: Micha'el Ben David. Sons of Korah. Fernando Ortega. Janet Isaac Morrison. Music of the Bible Revealed - Suzanne Haik-Vantoura. Dr. David Erb. Gregorian Chants. ]
*** For Additional word studies use one of the Greek Interlinear Bibles below. ***
Romans 9
3. Election (Romans 9:1 - Romans 11:36) - 55 A.D. Corinth
1 I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,
2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.
3 For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:
4 Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;
5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.
6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
7 Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.
8 That is, They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God: but the children of the promise are counted for the seed.
9 For this is the word of promise, At this time will I come, and Sara shall have a son.
10 And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;
11 (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)
12 It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.
13 As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.
14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid [do not let it be].
15 For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.
16 So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.
17 For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
18 Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth.
19 Thou wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?
20 Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?
21 Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?
22 What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
23 And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,
24 Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?
25 As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people; and her beloved, which was not beloved.
26 And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.
27 Esaias also crieth concerning Israel, Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved:
28 For he will finish the work, and cut it short in righteousness: because a short work will the Lord make upon the earth.
29 And as Esaias said before, Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, we had been as Sodoma, and been made like unto Gomorrha.
30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith.
31 But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness.
32 Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith, but as it were by the works of the law. For they stumbled at that stumblingstone [stumbling stone];
33 As it is written, Behold, I lay in Sion a stumblingstone [stumbling stone] and rock of offence: and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.
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