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Sunday School Special : Romans - Lesson 55

Text: Romans 9:14-18
28 July 2024

SENIOR SUNDAY SCHOOL 28 July 2024

Text: Romans 9

Subject: “Is there unrighteousness with God? Romans 9:14

14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? Certainly not!

15 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whomever I will have compassion.”

16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who shows mercy.

17 For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.”

18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He wills, and whom He wills He hardens.

Romans 9:14-18

ANOTHER PROFOUND ASPECT OF GOD REVEALED

1. It has to do with the Mercy of God

2. This attribute of God is as profound as the doctrine of Election

3. Mercy and Election are closely related in this text

IS THERE UNRIGHTEOUSNESS WITH GOD?

1. This question is raised with reference the Election of God

2. It is also linked with the exercise of the “Mercy of God”

3. The short answer if “No!”

A REVELATION OF GOD TO MOSES

Then He said, “I will make all My goodness pass before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.”

Exodus 33:19

1. God declares some of His attributes to Moses

2. The graciousness of God

This is a reference to His mercy

3. The compassion of God

This is also closely related to His mercy

A HUMBLING TRUTH

1. Man may exercise his will

2. He may determine how he wants to run his life

3. But the mercy of God is not dependent on Man at all

4. This is a humbling truth and reality

THE EXAMPLE OF PHARAOH

13 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and stand before Pharaoh, and say to him, ‘Thus says the LORD God of the Hebrews: “Let My people go, that they may serve Me,

14 for at this time I will send all My plagues to your very heart, and on your servants and on your people, that you may know that there is none like Me in all the earth.

15 Now if I had stretched out My hand and struck you and your people with pestilence, then you would have been cut off from the earth.

16 But indeed for this purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.

Exodus 9:13-16

1. God’s word to Moses

2. Pharaoh and Egypt

a) God’s sovereign power is manifested
b) There is none like Him
c) Pharaoh in all his might is nothing compared to the LORD

TO SHOW MERCY OR TO HARDEN THE HEART

1. The LORD is sovereign

a) In His power
b) In His election
c) In His mercy

2. Man cannot determine

a) God’s actions
b) Certainly not the salvation that He can grant

OUR CHALLENGE

1. To grow in knowledge

2. To stand in awe

3. To be humble before the LORD