THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 8:29-39 | ALL ARE CALLED, BUT FEW CHOOSE

Mike Balloun teaches today 01/02/21.

THE BOOK OF ROMANS CHAPTER 8:29-39
ALL ARE CALLED, BUT FEW CHOOSE

VERSES: 2nd Corinthians 2:8,5:19,10:12; Deuteronomy 1:34-35; 1st John 2:2,5:19; John 3:16

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Romans 8:29-39 are verses having to do with the love of God expressed in the working of good through all things towards those who are loving Him and called according to His purpose. That purpose being to have many sons. These verses also have to do with our love for God expressed through obedience to Him. Our love of God is dynamic and quantifiable by God Who searches our hearts. That love expressed towards God is determined by our following the spirit/Spirit in ‘child training’ obedience which leads us unto sanctification (spiritual and moral maturity, as seen in the life of Abraham Romans 4). The circumstances of life become training opportunities for those who love God. (He’ll mature us if we don’t resist.) For loving obedience leads to true sanctification, which is to say, our conforming to the image of Christ. (Verse 29) Romans 8:29-39 are clauses that are describing the experience of those who are fulfilling Verse 28 (“And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”). They are intended assurances for those who are actively loving God in the pursuing of Him according to His expressed purpose. These 11 verses are not to be considered general statements made unto all Christians alike. But in reality, they are generally miss-appropriated to be for the merely justified Christian who is not actively loving God in obedient faith.

Two ideas feed the wrong thinking behind these verses.
ignorance of God’s foreordained 2-part Atonement in Christ; eternal life and eternal glory
lukewarm presumption
The sincere Christian must ask himself these questions: Does the Holy Spirit teach anywhere in Scripture that certain loss will be the experience of a believer in Christ who continues in wicked behavior? Does the Holy Spirit confirm anywhere in Scripture that the believer in Christ will be rewarded according to his faithful works? The light of the full Gospel will shine in when the blinds are lifted from the window. All Christians shall be judged by Christ. (Romans 14:10-12, 2nd Corinthians 5:9-10, Hebrews 10:30). That Judgment principle will be according to good or evil works: (Matthew 16:24-27, Revelation 2:23; 22:12)

VERSES 29 & 30 “For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate (foreordained) to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.”

KEY WORDS…The word PREDESTINATION is used here wrongly, thus it is understood to mean that God has predetermined all that will happen. It is generally thought to mean ‘eternal life for some and not for others’. The better word would be FOREORDAINED which means to decree or appoint something beforehand. FOREKNEW/FOREKNOWLEDGE is an awareness of something before it happens or exists. To foreknow something does not mean it is necessarily foreordained or appointed to happen.

We understand from Paul’s Letters that God has set forth the Nation of Israel as typical/figures/examples of how He intends to deal with the Nation of the New Man/Christian. (1st Corinthians 10:6&11) The 10th Chapter of 1st Corinthians deals with Israel’s deliverance from Egypt and their following experiences on their way to inherit the Promised Land. Paul presents these happenings as types of a Christian’s spiritual experience. In that after a Christian’s deliverance, with promises of a future Kingdom inheritance set before us, there is the like possibility of a mirrored failure in obtaining God’s purposes of our redemption, as it was with Israel. (Paul warns of this presumptuousness in 1st Corinthians 10:12 “Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.”)

Another New Testament example of this same typology is Hebrews 3:18-4:6 where again the Holy Spirit warns the Christian of the dangers of presumption and unbelief which will disqualify the Believer in Christ, who like Israel, after having been delivered from the kingdom of bondage, and then receiving the promise of inheritance, then failed to obtain the promise. In type, dying on the right side of the Red Sea but on the wrong side of the Jordan River. (Having experienced the victory at the Red Sea, but remaining in the wilderness, not getting past the Jordan River to their intended inheritance. The anti-type is being justified but.....

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