Why Haven't Others Responded to the Call of Jesus Christ? Romans 9:1-13

01/14/15 • 54 min

In this passage, Saint Paul addresses a question that nearly every Christian wonders: Why haven’t my friends and family members, or even the majority of Mankind, responded to the call of Jesus Christ? Why are they set against coming to Church? Why don’t they believe in God? Is it their ignorance? Their stubbornness? Is it my fault? Or is it God’s fault? Did God predestine from the beginning of time that they would not believe and not be saved? Or did He just foreknow how they would respond?

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Email: In Ps 116:17, we read, “I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving...” Did the early Church begin calling the Lord’s Supper the “Eucharist” (thanksgiving) because they saw it as the fulfillment of this? Thanks, Steve.

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A few key points for today's discussion:1) This is Paul's Theodicy—i.e. his justification of the ways of God. 2) His purpose is to explain the ways of God in allowing the Gentiles to share in the Jews' privileges of the Covenant.3) The text never says that God predestines people to damnation.

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