'God's Sovereignty - Man's Responsibility'

Last time in Romans 9 we looked at Paul's burden for his own people - the Jews and his pain and anguish that the majority of them had not accepted Jesus as the Messiah. In that chapter Paul seeks to answer the question why this is the case. He does this by showing that throughout history God had repeatedly demonstrated that he operates by divine choice - Issac had been chosen over Ishmael and Jacob over Esau. From this we discover the difficult and inscrutable doctrine of God's sovereign election. This a doctrine that our finite human minds cannot fully grasp or understand but we are called to let God be God and to accept it believing that the judge of all the earth will do right.

In chapter 10 we come to the other side of the coin - human responsibility. Romans 9 teaches divine election while chapter 10 teaches human responsibility. The Bible does not teach us how we can fully reconcile this apparent paradox. Instead this is again something we are called to accept by faith while we seek to be obedient to the call to proclaim the gospel to all.

  1. Pursuing The Wrong Path To Salvation
  2. Declaring The Only True Path To Salvation
  3. The Necessity Of Proclaiming The Way Of Salvation