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I Will Call You Beloved

Read Romans 9:22-29

 

For us to truly understand just how incredible God’s mercy is, it often has to be laid against his wrath. So often when God works in ways we don’t expect, we get lost in what we think we deserve. It is in those times we must be reminded that it is not about what we have done, because if it was what we truly deserve is wrath. It’s about God faithfulness in giving us his unbelievable mercy and grace.

 

  1. The religious Jews just couldn’t believe that Jesus was the Messiah because that meant God was saving many more gentiles than them. Have you ever seen religious people miss what God was doing, or what God was calling them to as his disciples because they were too focused on themselves? What has that looked like?

 

  1. In what ways do you think you could relate to this? Letting religion, or what you want or think you deserve, take too high a place in your faith?

 

  1. In verse 27 and 29 Paul brings up two times when the wrath of God fell hard on the Jewish people. How does reminding the Jews of their history and God’s wrath help point them to the truth of his mercy?

 

  1. How do you think this passage could help you stay more focused on God’s incredible mercy for you, and God’s longing to show his grace to a lost world?