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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 9:25-29 - Non—People and a Remnant

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Romans in Outline No. 96

1.1  GOD PLANNED TO INCLUDE GENTILES

(Two quotations from Hosea)

Romans 9:25-26

2.1  The lesson from Hosea

3.1  THE VIOLATED MARRIAGE

Hosea 1:1-11

Note the naming of the children:

4.1  “…Jezreel…” = “…Scattered…”

Afterwards: “God sows”

4.2  “…Lo-Ruhamah…” = “…Not…loved…“

Afterwards: “Pitied…loved”

4.3  “…La–Ammi …” = “…Not my people…”

Afterwards: “My people”

3.2  THE CONSEQUENT SEPARATION

Hosea 2:1-23

3.3  THE FINAL RECONCILIATION

Hosea 3:1-5

2.2  First quotation: Non–people become “…My people…”, “…Beloved…”

Romans 9:25

Hosea 2:23

2.3  Second quotation: Non–people become “…sons of the living God.”

Romans 9:26

Hosea 1:10

1 Peter 2:9-10

A people of mercy

1.2  GOD PLANNED TO INCLUDE THE JEWS, EVEN IF ONLY A REMNANT

(Two quotations from Isaiah)

Romans 9:27-29

2.1  First quotation: A remnant of Jews to be saved

Romans 9:27

Isaiah 10:22-23

2.2  God will trim the nation to a remnant

Romans 9:28

2.3  Second quotation: The remnant spares Israel the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah

Romans 9:29

Isaiah 1:9

3.1  THE GRACE SHOWN

Romans 9:29a

4.1  The Lord of Sabaoth

Sabaoth = “hosts”

4.2  The remnant

LXX: “A very small seed”

3.2  THE ALTERNATIVE JUDGMENT

Romans 9:29b

Romans 9:25-29

25 As He says also in Hosea: “I will call them My people, who were not My people, And her beloved, who was not beloved.” 26 “And it shall come to pass in the place where it was said to them, [‘You] are not My people,’ There they shall be called sons of the living God.” 27 Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel: “Though the number of the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea, The remnant will be saved. 28 For He will finish the work and cut [it] short in righteousness, Because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.” 29 And as Isaiah said before: “Unless the LORD of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We would have become like Sodom, And we would have been made like Gomorrah.” (NKJV)

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