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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Romans 9:1.

Romans 9:1
Excerpted from: Faith, Government, and the Calendar (Part 4)

Verse 4 is written in the present tense. I want especially to draw this to your attention. These things - the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises - these gifts and their accompanying responsibilities are also all still in force and effect. Those things were given to Israel.

Now please understand that the church has in no way replaced Israel in God's plan. Israel is still carrying on its responsibility to God, however weakly. It is Israel who distributes Bibles all over the world. It is Israel that sends out missionaries and evangelists. It is primarily Israelites who write, publish, and distribute all of these Bible helps like dictionaries, commentaries, concordances, and encyclopedias. The church, brethren, is a sub-set, a sub-section, a sub-unit, a remnant, which is exactly what Paul called us in Romans 11:4, meaning a small portion within Israel, and within God's plan.

Now the church is the primary focus in God's purpose right now, but Israel is still in existence, very much in existence, and we have a responsibility toward it within God's purpose. We are Israelites.

Romans 9:1-6
Excerpted from: The Purpose of the Church

What He is beginning to explain here now is that God has not gone back on what He said that He was purposing to do. Instead now, the Israel with whom He is working, is the Israel of God, and the great majority of those people have been elected, chosen out, called out of the Israelitish nation. However, there are certain numbers of Gentiles that He is also calling out in various parts of the world, but even here I would say that the vast majority of the Gentiles that He is calling out are those who are living in Israel, because that is mainly where the message has gone to.

Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Romans 9:1:

Matthew 10:5-7
Romans 2:14-15
Galatians 4:24-26

 

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