Romans 10:5

Like the fascination that attracts the gnat to the candle that burns its wings, people by nature fly to the law for salvation and cannot be driven from it. The law can do nothing else but reveal sin and pronounce condemnation on the sinner. And yet we cannot get men away from it, even though we show them how sweetly Jesus stands between them and it. They are so enamored of legal hope that they cling to it when there is nothing to cling to.

Main Point: Righteousness based on the Law requires perfection in thought, word, and deed.

I. The righteousness based on the Law requires perfect thoughts.
II. The righteousness based on the Law requires perfect speech.
III. The righteousness based on the Law requires perfect actions.

Romans 10:1-4

Main Point: Trust in nothing other than Christ alone for right standing with God.

I. Paul’s Persistent Prayer – 10:1.
II. Israel’s Ignorant Zeal – 10:2-3.
III. The Law’s Perfect Culmination – 10:4.

Application:

Romans 9:30-33

Main Point: Believe the Law and the gospel and turn to Christ alone for righteousness and salvation.

I. The The Law-Gospel Distinction.
II. The Faith-righteousness of the Gentiles – 9:30.
III. The Works-righteousness of the Jews – 9:31-33.

Application:

Romans 9:24-29

Main Point: The one true people of God is made up of those the Lord sover-eignly calls to faith from among both the Jews and the Gentiles.

I. The Identity of True Israel – 9:24.
II. The Mystery of Gentile Inclusion – 9:25-26.
III. The Prophecy of a Jewish Remnant – 9:27-29.

Romans 9:19-23

Main Point: God is just in saving some of the Jews and some of the Gentiles, known here as the vessels of mercy.

I. Man Putting God in the Dock – 9:19. 

II. God Putting Man Back in the Dock – 9:20-23.

Romans 9:14-18

Main Point: God is righteous in either granting mercy or judgment to sinners.

I. God is just in His exercise of sovereign mercy – 9:14. 

II. Moses and just mercy – 9:15-16.

III. Pharoah and just judgment – 9:17-18.

Application:

Romans 9:10-13

Main Point: God’s choice is not based on anything in those being chosen, but it is solely an act of His sovereign grace. 

I. One Twin is Chosen – 9:10 & 12. 

II. One Thing Made the Difference – 9:11 & 13.

Application: 

Romans 9:6-9, Jeff Duncan

Main Point: True Israel is the spiritual seed of Abraham. 

Main Point: Does my love for Jesus produce in me an intense burden for the lost?

Main Point: Since we cannot be separated from God’s love, we are more than conquerors in Jesus Christ.

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