Message Notes

SSS 4 6 May 2018
Text: Romans 9:27-29

CITING HOSEA
Romans 9:25-26; Hosea 2:23

1. The Call of God

2. His sovereign will

a) Israel

b) Gentiles

CITING ISAIAH
Romans 9:27-29; Isaiah 10:22-23; Isaiah 1:9

FOCUS ON ISRAEL

1. Promise of God to bless the children of Israel

2. Imagery employed

a) Number of the children of Israel as the sand of the sea

b) This has been fulfilled

SPECIAL FOCUS ON THE REMNANT

1. The remnant will be saved

2. Not the whole but the remnant Romans 9:27

MAKE A SHORT WORK UPON THE EARTH

1. Two different views about life on earth

a) It will carry on indefinitely

b) It will end one day

2. God’s Plan
Romans 9:28

a) He will finish the work

b) He will cut it short

c) It will be done in righteousness

3. Concerning Israel

a) Lord of Sabaoth (Lord of hosts)

b) Like Sodom and Gomorrah

c) Except for the Lord’s grace to leave “a seed”