LET GRACE BE GRACE! (5 OF 7)
Scripture: Romans 11:1-10
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Let Grace Be Grace! (5 of 7)
Series: Questioning God
Jonathan McLeod
Romans 11:1-10
So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace (vv. 5-6).
LET A COOKIE BE A COOKIE!
Sometimes my wife tries to make cookies with healthier ingredients. But how much can you change a cookie and it still be a cookie? To me, a cookie is supposed to be sweet. I say, ''Let a cookie be a cookie!''
What a cookie is or isn't is subjective. But to the apostle Paul, what grace is and isn't is black and white. And the meaning of ''grace'' is incredibly important because over and over again in his letter to the Romans, Paul states that we are saved by grace.
If we are saved by grace, that means salvation is a gift. It's undeserved. We aren't saved by God's grace plus our works. You can't add works to grace, ''otherwise grace would no longer be grace'' (v. 6). Paul is saying, ''Let grace be grace!''
How does the concept of grace make you feel? Should anyone-regardless of what they've done-be saved by grace? Does salvation by grace lead to a passive Christian life?
CHOSEN BY GRACE
In chapter 10, Paul says that the Jews of his day had heard and understood the gospel, but most of them had rejected it. Now in chapter 11, Paul brings up the question ''Has God rejected [i.e., given up on] his people [i.e., the Jews]?'' (v. 1).
Paul's answer is ''No!'' He says, ''God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew'' (v. 2). To ''foreknow'' is to ''chose ahead of time.'' Here Paul is talking about group election (i.e., election of the nation as a whole), not individual election.
''The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the faith of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest ...
Series: Questioning God
Jonathan McLeod
Romans 11:1-10
So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace. But if it is by grace, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace (vv. 5-6).
LET A COOKIE BE A COOKIE!
Sometimes my wife tries to make cookies with healthier ingredients. But how much can you change a cookie and it still be a cookie? To me, a cookie is supposed to be sweet. I say, ''Let a cookie be a cookie!''
What a cookie is or isn't is subjective. But to the apostle Paul, what grace is and isn't is black and white. And the meaning of ''grace'' is incredibly important because over and over again in his letter to the Romans, Paul states that we are saved by grace.
If we are saved by grace, that means salvation is a gift. It's undeserved. We aren't saved by God's grace plus our works. You can't add works to grace, ''otherwise grace would no longer be grace'' (v. 6). Paul is saying, ''Let grace be grace!''
How does the concept of grace make you feel? Should anyone-regardless of what they've done-be saved by grace? Does salvation by grace lead to a passive Christian life?
CHOSEN BY GRACE
In chapter 10, Paul says that the Jews of his day had heard and understood the gospel, but most of them had rejected it. Now in chapter 11, Paul brings up the question ''Has God rejected [i.e., given up on] his people [i.e., the Jews]?'' (v. 1).
Paul's answer is ''No!'' He says, ''God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew'' (v. 2). To ''foreknow'' is to ''chose ahead of time.'' Here Paul is talking about group election (i.e., election of the nation as a whole), not individual election.
''The Lord your God has chosen you to be a people for his treasured possession, out of all the peoples who are on the faith of the earth. It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the Lord set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest ...
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