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2 2. COLOSSIANS 3:9-12 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. Here there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. Therefore, as God s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.

3 DEUTERONOMY 7:6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. The LORD your God has chosen you out of all the peoples on the face of the earth to be his people, his treasured possession. 3.

4 We call predestination God s eternal decree, by which he compacted with himself what he willed to become of each man. For all are not created in equal condition: Rather, eternal life is foreordained for some, eternal damnation for others. -John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion BK. III. Ch. 21: sec. 5 4.

5 God once established by his eternal and unchangeable plan those whom he long before determined once for all to receive into salvation, and those whom, on the other hand, he would devote to destruction. -John Calvin Institutes of the Christian Religion BK. III. Ch. 21: sec. 8 5.

6 ROMANS 9:18, God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden. Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for disposal of refuse? 6.

7 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath prepared for destruction? What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? 7.

8 I. This Interpretation of Romans 9 Presupposes a Picture of God Who Doesn t Look Like Jesus Christ. 8.

9 HEBREWS 1:3 The Son is the radiance of God s glory and the exact representation of God s being. 9.

10 I JOHN 4:8 God is Love 10.

11 I JOHN 3:16 This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for one another. 11.

12 I JOHN 2:2 He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world. 12.

13 II PETER 3:9 The Lord is... not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance. 13.

14 I Corinthians 15:22 As all died in Adam, so all are made alive in Christ. 14.

15 II. The Passage Isn t Talking About Individual Salvation or Damnation 15.

16 ROMANS 9:6 It is not as though God s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 16.

17 III. The Conclusion of Romans 9 Points in a Different Direction 17.

18 ROMANS 9:30-32 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. 18.

19 Romans 11:20 they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Romans 11:23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 19.

20 IV. This Interpretation Misuses The Potter-Clay Analogy 20.

21 JEREMIAH 18:3-6 So I went down to the potter s house, and I saw him working at the wheel. But the pot he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands; so the potter formed it into another pot, shaping it as seemed best to him. Then the word of the LORD came to me. He said, Can I not do with you, house of Israel, as this potter does? declares the LORD. Like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand, house of Israel. 21.