Through the Bible Day by Day - Romans 9:1 - 9:1

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Through the Bible Day by Day - Romans 9:1 - 9:1


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Longing for His Kinsmen

Rom 9:1-13

Our consciences should be continually bathed in the light and warmth of the Holy Spirit, Rom 9:1, that the inward witness may be maintained in its integrity. We must love as Moses and Paul did, Rom 9:3, before we can understand Exo 32:32 and Gal 3:10. The Hebrew nation was marvelously privileged by adoption as God’s firstborn, by having the Shekinah glory and by being called to maintain the witness of the Temple and its services, Rom 9:4. But these privileges were granted, not for the nation itself, but for the blessing of mankind. This is the meaning of election. There are elect races, elect nations, elect souls, that they may be able to impart of what they have received, and communicate whatever advantages have been entrusted.

The sorrowful admission must be made that a very large proportion of the Hebrew race had missed the privileges to which they were entitled, because they had regarded these merely as intended for their own comfort and enrichment, Rom 9:6. This was the outstanding difference between Esau and Jacob. It is plain that the hatred in Rom 9:13 means nothing more than relative repudiation, as it does in Mat 6:24 and Luk 14:26. No personal animosity can obtain in the nature of the God of love except that He withholds from the recreant soul the full manifestation and outflow of His love.