Romans 9
By Pastor Brad
Who’s Your Daddy?
Just because you are born into the family doesn’t necessarily mean you’re getting any inheritance. In verse 6 of chapter 9 it says, “For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children.”
Why is it that in Genesis 22, God only refers to Abraham as having only one son? Then God said, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love….”
But Abraham had two sons, Ishmael and Isaac. The first, Ishmael, was Abraham’s fleshly attempt to help God get’r done. The second, Isaac, was God’s promise to Abraham that He would get’r done.
God doesn’t acknowledge the things that we’ve done in our own flesh. Those things that we keep trying to get him to bless even when we know that it’s our doing.
Have you ever found yourself saying to God, “Lord, please bless this thing that I’ve done for you? I know it’s been all me, but I did it for you and I’m asking you, I’m begging you to bless it.”
That’s a little bit where Abraham was. Sarah had not yet provided him a son and so, Abraham was impatient and took measures into his own hands. And as you look at the scriptures you see that the blessing was not upon Ishmael, but given through Isaac. That’s why Isaac was referred to as Abraham’s only son.
From my favorite commentary I also found the following great stuff.
The word “Israel” means, “governed by God,” and not all who claim to be of Israel are governed by God. So, too, not all who claim the name “Christian” are Christians.
Yowza!
When God says He will do something,
it will always be in His time
and in His way.
It’s comforting to know that God will take us, faults and all, and use us in the way that He has called us. If we claim to be of Israel, then we must be governed by God. Thus, being adopted into the family, and now able to share in the inheritance as a child of God.
Click here to read Romans chapter 9.
