 Shalom and praise the Lord. Welcome everyone to class Romans also like to welcome all e-learning students who will be listening to this lecture later on. On Monday we began studying Romans chapter 9 which is a little you know the print chapter compared to what Paul was basically talking about previously here he's been talking about you know the Jews but the God has forgotten about them but they're still in God's plan and purpose what is God's plan and purpose for the Jewish race for the people of Israel are they still in the plan and purposes of God you know now since the keys of authority or the church is now the chosen people who God has chosen to further his kingdom so where is the Jewish nation or where is the Jewish people in the midst of all this still God you know have so we see that Paul is very beautifully talking about this discussing about this in beginning chapters 9 he's going to continue discussing about this in chapters 10 and chapter 11 as well and he's from the very beginning he's making this whole point that you know when God says do Abraham do I and also Isaac that you know through your seed or you know says it's not through the universe seven says no are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham but in Isaac your seed shall be called and verse 8 it says that is those who are the children of flesh please are not the children of God but the children of promise accounted as the seed so Paul is very beautifully saying and bringing out the quoting Old Testament scripture saying it's not the generation from Abraham and Isaac that are you know counted as the chosen generation of those who are the children of promise but he's saying but you know the children of the promise of accounted as a seed which means those who receive the promise of being hairs or poor hairs with Christ Jesus or receive the inheritance of being justified and being righteous in God's side because of their faith in Christ Jesus it says the children of promise and it's not the you know lineage of the generations you know to the flesh would be called as the the children will inherit the blessing but it's the children of promise will inherit the blessing or will inherit the promises that God had promised Abraham and so he says these children of promise can also include the Gentiles even though they are not you know of the Jewish race so that is what he begins by speaking in verses 7 and 8 and then he talks about you know a predestination God's sovereignty God's full full knowledge and what we see when he mentions that you know the older younger Jacob I have loved but he saw I have hated and so we saw that it's not that God predetermines our choices but it's just that he foreknows our choices that we are going to make and you know based on his full knowledge he's here already you know declaring or stating or you know making known you know that the older shall serve the younger okay and so we we came right up till verse 15 where God says you know tell us Moses I will have mercy on whomever I will have mercy and I will have compassion on whoever I will have compassion and verse 16 says so then it's not of him who wills not of him who runs but of God who shows mercy so here again it's not that God is partial that he he shows his mercy and compassion to a few and you know others are subjects of his wrath know but his mercy and compassion extends to everyone and and his mercy we need to understand when you read this is not selective and partial God is not selective and partial in his expression of being merciful and compassionate but you know he's God was gracious to all slow to anger gracious compassionate and merciful and he extends his mercy and compassion to everyone and so here in this specific context when we're looking at Jacob's life you know what happened in Jacob's life was God's grace and compassion in his that God showed him and it was not a selective or a partial case so the focus is not on the person who makes the choice of saying you know yes to God or yes to Jesus Christ or yes to the gospel that they will receive God's mercy and compassion and the others are doomed for wrath no or here in this case it's not about Jacob who makes the choice of choosing you know a spiritual inheritance or you know giving that great significance to his birthright that he received so it's not the right choice that Jacob made and and he did what God was pleased with but we cannot say so Jacob was a hero but it was still you know God's mercy that and grace that was extended to him and then it was 17 he goes to talk about Pharaoh and so we'll discuss about that before we look at the rest of chapter 9 and I study on chapter 9 we'll just pause for the word of prayer so again one of you will lead us in prayer please anyone nobody wants to pray let's pray to heavenly father we come to you under the name of Jesus we thank you for this day we thank you for the crash we're about to have God I just gives it in a moment to your hands I bless it in the name of Jesus fill her with your power and strength and the nothing as she teaches us the word thought we just ask that you'll help us to open our mind and heart and listen to the word and accept it and be convinced about the truth in our heart Jesus so that we can proclaim the gospel boldly I pray for all my classmates give us a good wife a connection throughout the session and may your name be glorified through everything in Jesus name I pray amen amen thank you there we now so here in this verses verses 14 to verse 18 Paul is basically talking about you know or answering this question does election mean God is unrighteous so is God choosing few people electing few people Jacob over he saw you know choosing some people like Moses over Pharaoh or choosing the Israelites over Egypt you know is God's election meaning that God is unrighteous so he begins this whole you know passage or this short portion in chapter 9 where he says what shall we say that is there unrighteousness with God and then he goes on to rhetorical question he answers it says certainly not and then he talks about Moses you know God says I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy and I will show compassion on whom ever I wish have compassion and and then he goes on to say you know Paul says it's not of him who wills but not of him who runs but of God who shows mercy so it's not a Jacob because he made the right choice in choosing his birthright and valuing it and choosing the spiritual things and not just giving up his spiritual inheritance for for some fleshly you know cravings or desires but you know desiring for to be blessed by God desiring for spiritual inheritance to spiritual blessings says it's not because of the right choice that he made that God was showing which having compassion and mercy on him but it's because you know God extended his mercy towards him okay so we look at what he talks about Pharaoh in verses 17 and verse 18 so can somebody read that please anyone can read verses 17 and 18 Romans chapter 9 verses 17 and 18 for the scripture says to the fellow for this very purpose I have raised you up that I may show my father and you and that my name be declared in all the earth therefore he has mercy on whom he will and whom he wills he hardens thank you Jeffina so here God raised Pharaoh through whom it says you know God chose to fulfill his purpose and show his power okay so the question is did God harden his heart or did Pharaoh harden his heart did God harden Pharaoh's heart or did Pharaoh hard in his heart what does scripture say what does scripture say hello others there in the class God has hardened Pharaoh's heart God hardened Pharaoh's heart okay scripture says that Pharaoh hardened his heart and God also hardened Pharaoh's heart so we read in scripture that you know yes God hardened Pharaoh's heart and Pharaoh hardened his heart as well okay so if we say that you know God hardened Pharaoh's heart then if God did this then Pharaoh is not to be blamed yes or no the scripture says God hardened Pharaoh's heart so God hardened Pharaoh's heart and he used him to bring about his purposes so we can't blame Pharaoh okay so how do we understand this okay now going back to Romans chapter 1 we read that God you know gave them up to their depraved minds okay God did not make them like that but he did not prevent them from going that way which means you know they wanted to exchange the glory of God for the glory of man for the things of man so if you look at Romans chapter 8 even after knowing sorry Romans chapter 1 even after knowing the truth you know we read in look at Romans chapter 1 it says although they knew God they did not was 21 already and they knew God did not glorify him as God you know I know where they thankful but became futile in the thoughts and their foolish hearts were darkened and professing to be wise they became fools was 22 and 23 and exchange the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptful man and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things therefore God also gave them up to uncleannliness in the lust of their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves okay because exchange the truth of God for a lie and worship and serve the creature rather than the creator who is blessed forever amen for this reason God gave them up to wild passions so it's not that God made them you know to give into wild passions God did not create them to you know to live in all these lustful wild evil passions but it says that you know you know God gave them up because they desired to go that way and we also see that God did not prevent them from going that way because God has created us as free moral beings the free moral choice to choose so he says hey you want to do that you want to go that way you go that way so here we must understand you know this scripture passage in verse was a 17 and was 18 of chapter 9 in the light of other scriptures you know when we read that you know God hardened Pharaoh's heart or when Pharaoh chose to harden his heart so as Pharaoh chose to harden his heart which means that you know he made his own choice to be stubborn rebellious and not submit to the will and yield to will of God or to give in to what was God's plan and will for the people of Israel and so when he chose to stubborn and be rebellious God gave him up to that way okay so he chose to harden his heart to God that Moses was to the God that Moses was talking about and the miracles that Moses was doing in the name of the God that you know he identified with or he was sent by okay so Pharaoh said I don't care you know I'm stronger and bigger than your God you know if your God can do miracles I also can my magicians can also do the miracle so since Pharaoh chose to harden his own heart God let him do it and that is what scripture means when it says God hardened Pharaoh's heart okay you know God cannot do anything that is evil so he can't harden Pharaoh's heart which means if he does that you know it's it's something wrong that God is doing and he ceases to be God because God is pure and holy that's outside of his nature he can't do it so when scripture says that God hardened Pharaoh's heart it basically means that Pharaoh was hard-hearted and God just allowed him to do his own will go his own way make his own choice so as Pharaoh chose this it only became an opportunity for God to display his greatness and power so he doesn't mean that God hardened Pharaoh's heart then to after that to display his own righteousness his own holiness his own greatness and power which means it's failing and it's going against God's very nature and his core being of who he is he doesn't do that but can irrespective of people just show his glory his power his greatness he doesn't have to you know harden Pharaoh's heart then show his glory and greatness and power but because Pharaoh chose to do this God just used that as an opportunity to display his glory his greatness and power what if Pharaoh had not hardened his heart we can ask if they were not hardened his heart God would have still shown his glory his greatness and his power okay and then we see that you know I'm saying Moses Paul builds on further in this we look at verses 19 to verse 24 so it says if God relax why does he still find Paul so the next part where Paul is discussing or he knows this question will rise up in the mind of his leaders he's saying hey the leaders will say if God is going to elect and choose people then you know if he's choosing and he's showing his power and glory then why does he still find fault in people when they do wrong so if God used his glory and power by harden Pharaoh's heart then you know why does he still find fault with Pharaoh so that is a question that can come up in the minds of the leaders but we know that God did not harden Pharaoh's heart he just let him you know choose whatever he wanted to choose to his own will his harden his own heart and he used him to just show his glory and display his power and his greatness okay so verses 19 to verse 24 can somebody read that please you will say to me then why does he still find fault for who has resisted his will but indeed oh man who are you to reply against God will the thing formed say to him who formed it why have you made me like this does not the potter have power over the clay from the same lump to make one vessel for honor for honor and another for dishonor what if God wanting to show his rot and to make his power known endured with much long suffering the vessels of rot prepared for destruction and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had prepared beforehand for glory even yeah verse 24 as well Rosalind please even us whom he called not of the Jews only but also of the Gentiles amen thank you Rosalind so Paul is developing his thought and hence he's asking another question in verse 19 the question he asks you know the ones he thinks his audience will also ask his writing to the Jews and Gentiles so he's you know he's thinking about the mind of the readers and what questions will arise so he's asking a question which he thinks his audience will also ask he says you will ask to me or say to me then why does he still find fault for who has resisted his will okay so if we say that God harden Pharaoh's heart then God cannot find fault with Pharaoh if God was doing it through Pharaoh and Pharaoh will have no choice he cannot resist the will of God so this is you know an obvious question that people will ask if this was the way things happened but we read in verse 20 but indeed oh man who are you to reply against God will the thing form say to him who formed it why have you made me like this so Paul's reply you know or he's replying by showing how disrespectful such a question can be because first of all yes God cannot harden Pharaoh's heart it's Pharaoh who harden his heart and he says we can't even ask such a question to God because such a disrespectful this respectful question so in other words you know he's presenting a picture of a porter as he explains in the next verse he says the porter from the same lump of clay he can divide it into two portions with one lump he can create a vessel for honorable purpose okay like a nice showpiece that looks very grand that looks very beautiful and with the other lump he can make something simple now as the porter is making these pots the clay has no say the clay cannot say a porter please make you know make me for an honorable purpose okay the clay has no say so in this sense God is going to you know unfold his plan and purposes through different individuals that he chooses in that sense but like you know the difference is unlike the lump of clay the clay has no free will like human beings have a free will to choose okay so God is also unfolding his plans and purposes through different individuals okay and unlike the clay you know that has no free will we human beings do have a free moral will to choose okay so here there is a very interesting intercession or an interplay of God's predetermined plan and man's free will to choose okay so for Pharaoh God had already had a purpose that through the leaders that is through Pharaoh and Moses you know God would display his power and mighty works okay so his and through them his fame would go through all the nations and God would deliver his people God would fulfill his plan of redemption or the plan that he purposed you know how he would deliver his people out of Egypt now this was God's plan and no one could stop God's plan but that's not that but that does not do away with the free will of choice in either Moses's case or Pharaoh's case okay what if Moses said God I don't want to go back and speak to a Pharaoh or I don't want to set the Israelites the Hebrew people free out of Egypt you know God that that would have not stopped God's plan and purpose he would still have gone ahead and you still have used somebody else okay but what if Pharaoh had you know you know hardened his heart like Pharaoh had sorry Pharaoh hardened his heart you know and you know if Pharaoh had hardened his heart would God have been able to fulfill his plan and purpose yes God did that irrespective of Pharaoh you know making a choice to harden his heart so irrespective of whatever choice Pharaoh or Moses would have had God would still have fulfilled his plan and purpose to deliver his people as he had spoken and promised to Abraham and he would have done it at that time because that was the Cairo's moment because he had promised Abraham for 400 years of course it delayed by 30 years because of what Moses had done okay so the thing is that the more Pharaoh hardened his heart it gave more opportunity for the power of God to be displayed and it gave more opportunity for the fame of God to be known okay now since God had purpose beforehand to deliver his people and his plan was being unfolded of course the election of God was there the full knowledge and the predetermining will of his plan was also at work yet Pharaoh had his own choice to harden his heart okay so there was God's plan and purpose that he had even before the foundation of the world okay it was he was unfolding his election he had full knowledge of what is going to happen and also he had this predetermining will of his plan that was put to work okay and in spite of all of these things we see that yet Pharaoh had his own choice to harden his heart okay so there is this analogy of the porter and clay but there is a difference between the clay and the human beings so what Paul is saying in his verse 21 that there are vessels of honor and there are vessels of dishonor or he's asking the question are there vessels of honor or there vessels of dishonor and verse 22 he's saying there is vessels of thought and vessels of mercy okay so he's referring to people which means he's saying that people end up receiving God's judgment or people end up receiving his mercy okay but it does not mean that God has already predetermined some vessels or some people for wrought and some people for mercy no it's not true because it's you know God is a God who's loving he's God is love he can't hate he loves everyone so it's not that God predetermines some vessels or some people for wrought and some people's for mercy but what Paul is basically saying here is that based on our choices you know we end up either receiving the wrath of God because we end up receiving the judgment of God for our actions the sin that we do or we end up receiving the mercy of God for in for example in Pharaoh's case and Moses and the Hebrew people and the Egyptians the Pharaoh and the Egyptians ended up receiving the wrath of God because they didn't want they were stubborn and rebellious okay and the Moses and the people of Israel or the the Hebrew people they ended up receiving God's mercy not because they were better than the Egyptians but it was because they yielded and submitted to God so in the same case he's talking about Jacob and Esau okay Esau because of his choice ended up with judgment receiving the wrath of God and Jacob not that he was perfect ended up receiving his mercy but because of this choice he ended up receiving the mercy of God so in every case you know all of them are God's creation okay and it's not that they were pre-appointed for wrath but he says in verse 22 God endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction yes God had already planned that there would be destruction for those who do not receive him or those who do not you know continue in their sin God had already planned that there would be destruction for them but it was not that he said okay we did not receive me so take this wrath take this judgment okay but it says he endured with much long suffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction why did he endure with long suffering if there were already vessels predetermined for destruction you know God did not have to endure with long suffering if he had already predetermined that hey these people are going to receive my wrath and these people are going to be destroyed the fact that God was enduring with much long suffering the fact that he was waiting for these people to repent and did not want them to end up in destruction shows that he was he's a God of grace and compassion and mercy that he is a God who is patient and long suffering and he's not somebody who's just predetermined some people for wrath and some people for mercy okay so in this whole thing where does sovereignty come and you know God is sovereign he does what he wills and where does a free will of man come so we can ask this question hey where does the will of God come or the sovereignty of God come and where does a free will of man come okay now the sovereignty of God is predetermined by the purpose which he has that those who will reject him will be this destroyed okay or they will end up in destruction so God in his sovereign will the sovereignty of God already predetermined the purpose which is those who will reject him will be destroyed or be disrupted but that is a sovereignty of God that he predetermined the purpose but each vessel you know or each vessel means each one of us experience God's enduring mercy long suffering and God is extremely patient with each of us or each vessel but if we still don't receive his mercy if we still don't make a choice our free will to choose and we don't choose his mercy we don't choose his grace we don't choose his forgiveness we don't choose repentance and submission and surrender then we end up coming under the sovereignty of God's predetermined purpose that is we will end up paying people who have rejected him and hence we are in a place where we will receive destruction or we will be destroyed okay so it's not God's sovereign will that he has chosen some people for a lot more it's God's sovereign will that he determined the purpose that those who reject him those who don't yield to him and surrender to him even after you know he shows them or endures with them patiently um and has mercy upon them and is extremely patient with them irrespective of that way in their free model we'll choose to you know reject him then the end result for them is destruction but for those of them who you know uh continue to be stubborn and heart hearted but God is enduring with them be patient with them and you know if they finally accept him then they are going to be vessels of not God but vessels of honor or vessels that will receive his mercy and his compassion okay I hope you understood what I'm trying to say yes so here you know each vessel experiences God's enduring mercy long suffering God is extremely patient with each vessel but if they still did not receive his mercy they will end up receiving what is for them you know what he uh predetermined or what his sovereign will for them was that you know they will end up in destruction but God did not determine the choice they will make but God determined the judgment that they will face okay so similarly those who receive his mercy they will experience his glory as we read in verse 23 says that he and that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy which he had prepared beforehand for glory okay so those he knows the foreknowledge he has and he knows he knows he's going to choose you know to receive his mercy they would experience his glory so there is a sovereignty of God and the free will of man and both of them come together okay so ultimately God's purpose is still fulfilled while man is going about making his free choice so this is like an amazing working of the purpose of God so irrespective of the choices you and I make you know God in his sovereign will and what his plan and purpose his plan and purpose will still be further his it will still fulfill his plan and purpose irrespective of whatever choice you and I are going to make again verse 24 he says even us whom he called not of the Jews only but also of the gentiles so now he's saying everything I said is not only for the Jews but also the gentiles which means God's sovereign purpose is at work not only among the Jews but also for the gentiles so those who say yes to God become those whom he has called or become those who are vessels of his mercy okay they they they know the riches of his glory they would receive his mercy so he's saying that those who say yes to God become those whom he has called so going back to what Paul was explaining you know God's purpose of what he had spoken to the Israelites is not void okay so that means you know the Jews are saying hey God gave us the the law the covenants the promises the the prophets the the forefathers you know all where us so you know is that all void is that of nothing now so he's you know he's you know going back to what Paul was explaining that God's purpose of what he had spoken to the Israel Israelites is not void he was speaking of those of the promise okay and not of the descendants of the flesh he was speaking of the children of promise and he was speaking of his predetermined purpose that would take place for both the Jews and Gentiles or to everyone who would say yes to his call so all those who say yes to his call all those who receive his call will receive his mercy will receive his favor will be part of the blessings of and the promises of Abraham and will also this will be able to experience the glory of God so in the next set of verses that we will be reading all shows from the Old Testament scriptures that God had already planned and purposed to bring the Gentiles in that means he's saying hey God's plan and purpose for you know bringing in the Gentiles to be part of the kingdom of God or the kingdom of heaven which the Jews thought only they were part of the kingdom of heaven they were only going to be part of the messianic banquet and not the Gentiles but Paul is saying hey you know the Gentiles also being children of promise is not you know something that God purposed a plan later on but something that even was spoken of or prophesied in the Old Testament scripture okay so God's plan and purposes was not only for the Jews but also for the Gentiles okay so we read verses 25 to verse 29 which quotes the prophecies from the prophet Hosea and Isaiah quoting how God had already spoken that you know the Gentiles will also be part of the promise of the kingdom of God before we move on to verses 25 to 29 anyone has any questions any questions is it all clear their understanding about predestination predetermining sovereign will of God the free will choice of man everything clear any questions okay they're no questions and we'll move on to verses 25 to verse 29 and somebody please as he also as he says also in Hosea I will call them by me my people who were not my people and her beloved who was not beloved 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 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 for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth and Isaiah said before unless the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed we would have become like Sodom we would have been made like Gomorrah. Amen thank you John Paul so Paul is quoting from both Hosea and the prophet Hosea and the prophet Isaiah so he's quoting from Hosea chapter verses 25 and 26 he's in these verses 25 and 26 he's quoting from the prophet Hosea that God had already spoken that those who are not called as my people I will call them my people so here those who are not called as my people regarding to the Gentiles God says he will call the Gentiles as his own people to show that God had so Paul is basically showing that God had already purposed that the Gentiles would be called his people and they would be called his beloved and there would be sons and daughters of the most high God okay so just as how he had spoken ahead of time about Jacob and Esau and just how he had spoken ahead of time that he would set his people free from peril in the same way Paul is saying you know he had spoken ahead of time about the Gentiles being his sons and daughters okay so so you see how beautifully Paul is you know just bringing about his discussion or his argument of presenting his thoughts okay and he says at the same time concerning his own people you know Paul quotes from Isaiah saying that though the number of the children of Israel be as a sand to the sea a remnant will be saved okay was 28 for he will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness because the Lord will make a short work upon the earth though the number of the children of Israel be as a sand of the sea the remnant will be saved okay so the remnant will be saved this passage is quoted from Isaiah chapter 10 verses 22 to 23 it speaks first to God's work in saving a remnant from the coming Assyrian destruction okay the suffering of God's people at the hand of the Assyrians and others would make them feel as if they were you know would be certainly destroyed but God assures them that this is not the case that he will preserve his remnant okay so you know and he says we would become have we would have become like Sodom and Gomorrah you know Sodom and Gomorrah were completely destroyed when God judged them so this quotation is from Isaiah chapter 1 verse 9 it shows us that you know that as bad as a Judah state was because of their sins it could have been worse if God had not shown his mercy upon them if God had not showed his mercy upon them none of them would have survived at all and like Sodom and Gomorrah were both totally destroyed not even a small remnant would be there to carry on you know the the the generations that were there okay so even in the midst of judgment Paul is saying that you know God showed his mercy to the people of Judah okay so the the word the merciful promise is clear but you know it says if only a remnant will survive will survive at least a remnant a remnant will survive and will you know constitute the hope of restoration so here basically Paul is presenting two cons contrasting thoughts one is the Gentiles okay where we never thought that God had anything for the Gentiles but you know he actually planned and spoke that they too will be his sons and daughters and then it talks about his own people his trials Paul can you please mute your mind thank you Paul okay so he's presenting two contrasting thoughts here one is a Gentiles where you know where the Jews never thought that God had anything to do with the Gentiles but we see that he actually planned and spoken that they too will be the sons and daughters and then talking about his own people Israel you know God had to actually do a rescue act okay he had to cut short his work so that some of them can be saved and be with him if not all will be destroyed like Sodom and Gomorrah okay so he left he did leave back a remnant of few people when the Syrian army had invaded though he said he would you know destroy his people though he would punish them by sending them the Assyrians and the Babylonians he did save a few a remnant a few people he did say if he just showed his grace and his mercy so Paul is saying that God had already spoken about it earlier when he spoke it to the prophets and God's purposes continues to be fulfilled and this is what he had spoken and this is what he will fulfill okay so says even as he did this in the case of you know he spoke about this saying the Gentiles would be called as people God is fulfilling that now and that there would be a remnant in his even as he did that when the Assyrians had invaded you know so Paul is assuring that his Jewish brothers hey God is going to has a remnant of Jews who have chosen him and he is not given up on his people he is not forgotten on his people he would you know work with his people and bring them back into the kingdom of God okay so what is the conclusion what is happening to the Jews and he presents this in in verses 30 to 33 so can somebody read that please Romans chapter 9 verses 30 to 33 what shall we say then that Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained to righteousness even the righteousness of faith but Israel pursuing the law of righteousness has not attained to the law of righteousness why because they did not seek it by faith but as it were by the works of the law for they stumbled at that stumbling stone as it is written behold I lay it in Zion a stumbling stone and rock of offense and whoever believes on him will not be put to shame amen so what is the conclusion Paul is coming back to righteousness by faith and again talking about how the the Jews you know the Jewish race is trying to pursue righteousness by keeping the law so he's saying the Gentiles they have the righteousness or they have the right standing of grace through faith and the Jews who had the promises the covenants who are the law you know there's with the forefathers there's whether the promises that they're given to you know instead of receiving righteousness by faith are continuing to receive it by the law or by keeping the law and he's saying by keeping the law they cannot they are going to be a stumbling block they are stumbling over Christ okay so they're trying to do it in their own means and they're not able to do it and they are stumbling over Christ okay so Paul is saying yes I have love for my people I wish they would be saved but you know the only way they would be saved is for them to receive righteousness by righteousness through faith and not by righteousness by keeping the law but if they're doing that you know they cannot receive righteousness and they will be stumbling over Christ okay so just a brief recap of Romans chapter nine in Romans chapter nine we see that Paul says what is God doing with the Jewish people he recognized how privileged the Jews are you know and what about the promises he made to them he says God is working through the church at the moment the promises of God haven't failed and will not fail he first states that the promise to them is fulfilled through the children of promise that means those who receive righteousness by faith they become children of promise and not the seed but the children of promise and second he says the purposes of God will be fulfilled because God is sovereign he will go about doing what he has purposed in spite or or in the regard of man's choices and he talks about Abraham Jacob Esau Moses and Pharaoh and he says the Jews want to establish their own righteousness based on the law instead of receiving it by faith they want to pursue it by the votes of the law and God is not going to override that but he says you know he's not going to override that and by doing that they're going to be a stumbling block over Christ and this is how he ends Romans chapter nine okay any questions any questions so Romans chapter nine okay there's no questions we have to have the next set of assessments assessment two which is chapters five six seven and eight so can we suggest a date for that please anyone quickly can we suggest a date uh sometime next week is it okay would you like to have it next Tuesday or next Tuesday is a holiday for us or by by a bit college will function okay can we have it next Wednesday is 25th okay you can submit it on 27th is that fine or you want to have it on Monday what about the rest of the class can we have some so can I post it next or 27th okay can I post it on 27th then y'all can submit it on uh sorry 25th then you can submit it on 7th is that fine and that's fine okay sorry Paul John Paul I was saying it's okay yeah we can yeah it's fine okay what about Paul yeah it's fine with me also okay fine okay so then uh the next second assessment will be on I posted on 25th y'all can submit it on 27th okay thank you everyone for joining class um have a blessed weekend um and I'll see you on Monday thank you thank you first thank you