ROMANS CHAPTER 9 THE BELIEVING JEW AND GENTILE; THE CHURCH OF THE NEW MAN

Mike Balloun teaches today 01-09-21.

THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 9
THE BELIEVING JEW AND GENTILE; THE CHURCH OF THE NEW MAN

VERSES: Jeremiah 18:1-12; Matthew 16:16,18; Psalm 2:7-8

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The doctrinal Truths of both Jews and Gentiles being called to an imputed righteousness before God and then furthermore called as one to sonship based solely upon faith in Jesus Christ’s 2-part Atonement has reached its climax in spiritual understanding in Chapter 8. Now, in Chapters 9-11 we get to the motivation for which Paul wrote this, his most lengthiest letter. Let’s review briefly the historical setting. The Jews who had started the Church in Rome were lay proselytes that came back from Pentecost. (Acts 2:10) So the returning Jews to the Assembly at Rome were part of an assembly that was generally Jewish that began to receive Gentile believers in their Messiah into its group. After these developments, it happened that the Emperor Claudius banned Jews from Rome and so then the congregations became solely Gentile. Over those years, the Gentiles developed the idea of replacement theology in that the Jews’ persecution and expulsion was seen as sort of a confirmation of God that the Gentile Church was to replace Israel as God’s favored in the earth. Then, when Nero became Emperor, he wanted the Jews to return to Rome some 13 years later, for mostly financial reasons. Upon their return, they were not readily received back into their previous Assemblies, as there arose a theological split or divide between Gentile and Jewish believers in Christ. It was mainly to address this grave problem that Paul wrote this Letter to Roman believers, no doubt at the request of believing Jews who had been banned and now were returning to Rome. One such example being Aquila, and his wife Priscilla, tentmakers whom Paul had met and stayed with in Corinth. (Acts 18:1-3; Romans 16:3) 

Paul had not started the church of believers in Rome, and although he had wanted to travel there, he had never been. His connections there were limited.

He needed to establish himself to them in the ministry of the revealer of the mystery of the kingdom of heavens on which is the basis of the New Man. He is not going to preach the Gospel in this letter per se, for these Romans are saved, but lays down the groundwork of some of the necessary basics of the Gospel (not the entirety) so that he might, after having gained their confidence as competent and unbiased, that then in the 9th through the 11th Chapters he might fully expound on the critical error (to be discussed) and needs of the Roman believers. 

Thus, in the First Chapter of Romans, he writes of the natural and openly sinful nature of Gentiles when unaffected by God’s brooding Spirit. In Chapter 2, Paul begins to establish the common ground for Jews and Gentiles in that Jews also are as sinful as Gentiles, only they are more secretive about it. And so in Chapter 3, we see that on the basis of their both being equally judged and condemned sinners, naturally alien from God, that ALL are under the Wrath of God as un-righteous sinners. Thus, Paul proceeds to establish God’s willingness to extend His forgiveness to them both through the means of justifying faith alone in Him. Chapter 4 introduces the main character to the theme being developed; Abraham, whom Paul expounds upon as a Gentile without circumcision or the Law that extended God-liked kind of faith towards Him, resulting in an imputed righteousness, revealing that the Jew and the Gentile are on the same undeserved ground with God. Paul declares that they are ‘all sons of Abraham, not by being Abraham’s seed or by works of the Law, but by faith through grace. Therefore, in the eyes of God, there are not two groups, Jew and Gentile, but ONE by faith in Christ. In Chapter 5, he declares all men, both Jews and Gentiles, are sinners before God as all men are of the first Adam’s seed, and in a like manner, all men are justified in Christ the 2nd Adam by faith. Both Jew and Gentile are again put on the same ground in the free gift of Christ’s Atonement, in that though sin reigned in death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ. And whereas faith was the theme of the first 4 chapters, here in this chapter, he introduces the power of the Holy Spirit in hope and love in answer to Christ’s Atonement. He’s still expounding on the idea of Gentiles and Jews standing before God as the same now in the grace of Christ. Chapter 6 introduces the idea of service to God after regeneration, and discusses the downside of backsliding.......

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