THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 11:22-36 GOD’S GOODNESS AND SEVERITY

Mike Balloun teaches today. 02-13-21.

THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 11:22-36
GOD’S GOODNESS AND SEVERITY

VERSES: Hosea 2:1-23; Matthew 13:38-39, 22:2-14; Isaiah 1,11:11, 59:20-21; Job 2:1-6; Hebrews 8:8-13

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VERSE 22 “Behold therefore the goodness (loving mercy) and severity (justice and holiness) of God: on those indeed who fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continuest in (His) goodness; else thou also shalt be cut off.” These final verses in Romans 11 have Hosea 2 in view; see verse 19… “And I will betroth thee unto me forever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in judgment (severity), and in loving kindness, and in mercies (goodness).” Where God ‘then betroths Israel unto Him forever’, is only after ‘Jacob’s Trouble’ and at the beginning of the Millennial Kingdom. What is shown in Hosea 2:1-23 is that two principle attributes of God, expressed by Paul in Romans 11, do not at all oppose one another, but declare the balance of His Majestic Character; that of Righteousness and Justice on the one hand and Love and Mercy on the other. The first 13 verses of Hosea 2 have to do with the severity of God, in His, the Husband’s righteousness and judgments on Israel during their estrangement climaxing in ‘Jacob’s Trouble’. Hosea 2:14 begins His alluring loving kindness and mercies towards His wayward wife at the beginning of that great and final trouble (Matthew 24:21) directing her in His comforting protection out into the wilderness. (Revelation 12:14) This is comparative to the days following the redemption out of Egypt (verse15). And after 3 ½ years of purifying her, then at Christ’s Return…verse 23…“And I will ‘sow’ her (His restored wife) unto me in the (Millennial) earth (and they shall come forth as many as the sands of the sea), and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy (for two thousand years); and I will say to them (the Nation of the New Man) which were not my people (while Jacob was not estranged), Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.”

Israel has historically recognized God’s demand for justice and righteousness and emphasized it, but wrongly sought it by way of trying to establish their own righteousness, outside of faith, in their continued failed observance of the Law of Moses. This to the want of His unmerited Mercy that was all the while being pointed to and provided outside the Law. But they, in their long-standing and persistent stubbornness, being chastised from head to toe (Isaiah 1), finally contracted God’s righteousness and judgment in exponential severity, being cut off. (For what purpose would God continue to chastise them if they were already bruised head to toe and still not submitted to Him? This brings about their sure future demise during the time of Jacob’s Trouble.) In misunderstanding God’s severity towards Israel, modern-day Christendom, having received that Mercy and minor grace of justification outside the Law, has emphasized His love and mercy at the expense of fear and devotional service unto sanctification and have attributed all his Righteous Judgment to have been expended upon stiff-necked Israel for their not receiving and crucifying Christ. They think that ‘since we Gentiles have received Christ as Savior, we are the rightful recipients of His Loving Kindness and Mercy.’ Not rightly discerning the designs and workings of God, they then have wrongly overemphasized His love and mercy unto themselves. And in a similar way, as Israel settled into a false sense of religious superiority; so the like presumption has now robbed the Gospel Church of the wisdom and knowledge found only in gratefulness and the reverential fear of Him. Drawing upon the power of grace in devoted obedience to His Christ’s commands, constitutes to them a continuation in His Goodness, lest the same severity be experienced in their being cut off.

Christianity over the centuries has experienced the leavening of traditions of religiously-minded men, the flesh, lust, and law. The dark ages were days of salvation by works of the flesh (rote ritual/outward works) in the Catholic church (the Catholic Church being the predominant representative of Christianity at that time). The fullness of 3 measures of religious leaven; by man-appealing doctrines of increasing darkness over centuries answers to today’s lukewarm Christendom. (Matthew 13:33) Which can lead us to no deeper sanctifying spiritual growth relationship with God (the like error of Israel before) beyond merely the merciful gift of justification, which is most assuredly required by God to maintain one’s standing in God’s Goodness, declared throughout the unleavened......

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