Series: Romans Responding to Mystery 07/02/23

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Series: Romans

Responding to Mystery

Romans 11:33-36

The original audience of Romans had two struggles:

1) to understand grace and

2) to comprehend the universal nature of the gospel.

30 As you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through their disobedience, 31 so they too have now disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they also may now receive mercy. 32 For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may have mercy on all.

Romans 11:30-32

Real Christian faith begins with a realization of personal brokenness and a realization of one’s inability to fix it.

The irony of the gospel is we receive eternal life through the death of Christ whom we murdered.

Paul responds to the gospel message with a doxology or a prayer/song of praise.

Oh, the depth of the riches

and the wisdom and the knowledge of God!
How unsearchable his judgments

and untraceable his ways!
34 For who has known the mind of the Lord?
Or who has been his counselor?
35 And who has ever given to God, that he should be repaid?
36 For from him and through him and to him are all things.
To him be the glory forever. Amen.

Romans 11:33-36

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,
and your ways are not my ways.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
“For as heaven is higher than earth,
so my ways are higher than your ways,
and my thoughts than your thoughts.”

Isaiah 55:8-9

Today’s Takeaways:

God is bigger than you can imagine.

His ways and judgements cannot be known without divine revelation.

The more we understand His revelation, the more we should be inspired to worship.

Mystery does not decrease worship, it demands more.