A verse-by-verse Bible study class. This study covers Romans 9:30-10:4. These studies focus on what the Bible says, and what it means.  

Topics covered: The reasons that many children of Israel have rejected their Messiah -- Christ as a “stumbling stone” -- Prophecy in Isaiah of the Messiah as a “stumbling stone” -- The attempt of the early Christian church in Jerusalem to make Christianity a sect of Judaism -- The conflict between Paul and the Jerusalem church in Acts 15 -- Paul’s desire for the salvation of Israel -- Misplaced zeal -- Five ways that “Christ is the end of the law”.  

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A verse-by-verse Bible study class. This study covers Romans 9:24-29. These studies focus on what the Bible says, and what it means.   

Topics covered: God’s history of “calling ‘my people’, those who are not ‘my people’” -- Rejoicing when any sinner repents, even those whom we thought never would -- Preaching Christ to everyone, even those whom we think don’t deserve to be saved -- Jonah, an illustration of the wrong attitude to have -- Why the Jews reject the New Covenant salvation: the stumbling stone.  

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A verse-by-verse Bible study class. This study covers Romans 9:17-23. These studies focus on what the Bible says, and what it means.  

Topics covered: Overview (once again) of chapters 9 through 11 -- The difficulty of verse 18 exceeds that of verse 15, because it deals with God hardening (rather than having mercy) -- God exercises His sovereignty based on carrying out His purposes -- God exercises His sovereignty, consistent with His character -- Review of Exodus 33, from which verse 15 comes -- The history of the hardening of Pharaoh -- God’s purposes in hardening Pharaoh -- It’s OK to wrestle with God; it’s not OK to impugn His character -- God’s “pride” in His righteous and just character -- God’s sovereignty does not eliminate our responsibility to make the correct choices. 

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A verse-by-verse Bible study class. This study covers Romans 9:10-18. These studies focus on what the Bible says, and what it means.   

Topics covered: The example of the Jacob and Esau -- The difficult verses in this passage -- The references to “Jacob” and “Esau” as the nations that they became -- The purposes behind God’s elective choices -- Role of early Jewish Christians hindering the spread of the Gospel -- The wisdom, borne out in history, of God’s limiting the Christian Jews to a remnant -- The role of foreknowledge in God’s elective choices -- Our lack of standing to object to God’s elective choices.  

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A verse-by-verse Bible study class. This study covers Romans 9:1-9. These studies focus on what the Bible says, and what it means.   

Topics covered: The importance of teaching both “God’s sovereignty” and “human responsibility” -- Summary of chapters 9 through 11 -- Paul’s concern for the children of Israel -- Paul’s love for the children of Israel -- The blessings of God, poured out over Israel -- God’s sovereign choice concerning Israel in the Christian era -- Distinguishing the fate of the nation of Israel, versus the fate of individual Jews -- Christian salvation is given on an individual basis -- Examples of God’s sovereignty over election --  Isaac, the child of the promise.  

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A verse-by-verse Bible study class. This study introduces Romans 9. These studies focus on what the Bible says, and what it means.   

Topics covered: Summary of Romans to this point -- Overview of Romans 9 to 11 -- A difficult concept: Reconciling “God’s sovereignty” with “human responsibility” -- The Bible presents these concepts as compatible -- “God’s sovereignty” in chapter 9 -- “Human responsibility” in chapter 10 -- God’s wisdom in all these things.  

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A verse-by-verse Bible study class. This study covers Romans 8:31-39. These studies focus on what the Bible says, and what it means.  

Topics covered: The value of the question/answer format -- Proofs of God’s love for us -- The surety of justification for those in Christ -- Christ in the judgment seat, with the ability to condemn or save -- Why those in Christ will not be condemned -- The difference between how children of Israel face troubles, versus how Christians face troubles -- Paul, an example of a conqueror through adversity -- The courage of the Christian -- “More than conquerors”, or literally, hyper-conquerors -- The breadth of God’s love for us.  

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A verse-by-verse Bible study class. This study is the second of two studies that cover Romans 8:29-30. These studies focus on what the Bible says, and what it means.   

Topics covered: God’s involvement in His creation -- The link between foreknowledge and predestination -- The difficulty of reconciling election with free will -- A strategy for making peace with these concepts: Let God be God, and humans be human -- The many, many verses which affirm the role of our decisions in our salvation cannot be ignored -- The goal of our salvation: sanctification -- In verse 30, the entire process of the life of the Christian, from God’s point of view -- The Five Golden Links -- The calling spoken of in verse 30, an effectual calling -- The human steps of faith and sanctification omitted from verse 30 -- The implications of the word glorified being in the past tense: assurance.  

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A verse-by-verse Bible study class. This study is the first of two studies that cover Romans 8:29-30. These studies focus on what the Bible says, and what it means.   

Topics covered: Our salvation from God’s point of view -- A difficult concept: reconciling God’s sovereignty and human responsibility, with respect to salvation -- The testimony of the Bible: these concepts are not contradictory, but compatible -- This compatibility testified to by all the main authors of the New Testament -- The role of God’s foreknowledge on predestination -- Our inability to understand things from God’s point of view -- A strategy for making peace with these concepts: Let God be God, and humans be human -- The importance of teaching both God’s sovereignty and human responsibility -- The beauty of the truth of both of these concepts.  

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A verse-by-verse Bible study class. This study covers Romans 8:28. These studies focus on what the Bible says, and what it means.   

Topics covered: Romans 8:28 as a transition verse -- The original Greek phrase ordering -- The four phrases in the verse -- “All things work together for good” -- The scope of this phrase -- “And we know that” -- Do we “know” it? -- Why we should know it -- The phrases which each define/describe a Christian -- One phrase depicts human decision; one phrase depicts God’s election -- The literary construction of the verse, in its original phrase ordering -- How “those who love God” looks back to the previous chapters -- How “those called according to His purpose” looks forward to the next chapters.  

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