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DOES GOD PLAY FAVORITES? (1 OF 2)
by Chuck Booher
Does God Play Favorites? (1 of 2)
Series: That's Not Fair
Chuck Booher
Romans 9
Woman who finds Genie…Her ex-husband always gets it better than her.
Do all roads lead to heaven?
We are in a society that believes that all roads lead to heaven.
What about Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam? Does that sound fair?
I live a good life and do the best I can? Does that sound fair?
Do God play favorites?
God has chosen the best way for people to come to know Him and His love.
Salvation by definition is living life on earth in a relationship with Him now and then on into eternity.
To live life with Him now and then to go to heaven
To understand this chapter we need to know the context
Paul knows the Jewish people in His audience think they are the ones God has chosen because they are the right racial group.
Yet they see more of them do not believe in Jesus than do.
They know that means the ones who do not will go to Hell.
How can that be fair?
In Romans 8 we are told that God has foreknowledge of who will choose Him and who will not.
So in His omniscience (which means He knows everything) and in His love He has decided that anyone who will choose to come to know Him and go to heaven.
In Romans 9 Paul tells us, God gets to make this decision.
In Romans 10, Paul tells us what He has decided to do.
Romans 10:9-10 (NASB)
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
IF-means you have a choice
God has decided to give you a choice.
Two things come together for us to be saved
One: a Public Declaration of Jesus as Lord (that He is the maximum authority in your life)
Cultural background of Jesus as Lord…
in Roman times this could and often did cost people everything.
Matthew 10:32-33 (NASB)
32 ''Therefore everyone who confesses Me before ...
Series: That's Not Fair
Chuck Booher
Romans 9
Woman who finds Genie…Her ex-husband always gets it better than her.
Do all roads lead to heaven?
We are in a society that believes that all roads lead to heaven.
What about Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam? Does that sound fair?
I live a good life and do the best I can? Does that sound fair?
Do God play favorites?
God has chosen the best way for people to come to know Him and His love.
Salvation by definition is living life on earth in a relationship with Him now and then on into eternity.
To live life with Him now and then to go to heaven
To understand this chapter we need to know the context
Paul knows the Jewish people in His audience think they are the ones God has chosen because they are the right racial group.
Yet they see more of them do not believe in Jesus than do.
They know that means the ones who do not will go to Hell.
How can that be fair?
In Romans 8 we are told that God has foreknowledge of who will choose Him and who will not.
So in His omniscience (which means He knows everything) and in His love He has decided that anyone who will choose to come to know Him and go to heaven.
In Romans 9 Paul tells us, God gets to make this decision.
In Romans 10, Paul tells us what He has decided to do.
Romans 10:9-10 (NASB)
9 that if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved;
10 for with the heart a person believes, resulting in righteousness, and with the mouth he confesses, resulting in salvation.
IF-means you have a choice
God has decided to give you a choice.
Two things come together for us to be saved
One: a Public Declaration of Jesus as Lord (that He is the maximum authority in your life)
Cultural background of Jesus as Lord…
in Roman times this could and often did cost people everything.
Matthew 10:32-33 (NASB)
32 ''Therefore everyone who confesses Me before ...
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