Message Notes

SENIOR SUNDAY SCHOOL 18 August 2024

Text: Romans 9

Subject: “The remnant will be saved”

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.”

Romans 9:25-29

INTRODUCTION

1. Two ancient prophecies were cited

2. The two prophets mentioned:

a) Hosea

b) Isaiah

HOSEA’S PROPHECY

1. He had three children

a) A son called “Jezreel” (name of a city where injustice prevailed)

b) A daughter called “Lo-Ruhamah” (No mercy)

c) A son called “Lo-Ammi” (Not My people)

d) Israel was called “Not My people”

2. They would later be called “sons of the living God”

a) Not by lineage

b) But by new-found faith in God

ISAIAH’S PROPHECY

1. Israel may have many people

2. But Israel had become like Sodom and Gomorrah

3. God could have destroyed Israel for its many sins

a) Idolatry

b) Wicked deeds

c) Violence

d) Injustice

4. God would save a remnant

a) Those who turned to God

b) Those who believed in the LORD and were faithful

PAUL’S POINT

1. Physical Israel is to be distinguished from spiritual Israel

2. Who would be truly saved?

a) The repentant

b) Those who find faith in God

c) Those who believe in the Lord Jesus as the Messiah

LESSONS FOR US TO PONDER OVER

1. Knowledge of the Scriptures

a) Correct

b) Deep and humbling truths

2. Turning to faith in the Lord

a) Humbly

b) Gratefully

c) To determine to be true to the Lord who has given us salvation