A Remnant According To Election (Rom 9) - Paul M. Williams

Romans 9 Paul's great heaviness and continual sorrow of heart was for his own kinsmen according to the flesh.  Such was his great love for his nation that he wished himself were accursed from Christ for his people Israel.  Nationally, they had not come into the salvation of Messiah with only a remnant being saved.  Paul in seeking to reconcile this fact with the faithfulness and justice of a covenant keeping God, demonstrates from history that God has always chosen to call by election showing mercy to whom He will, calling for Himself not only a remnant from Israel but a people also from among the Gentiles!! Admittedly, this ninth chapter of Romans is a very difficult passage of Scripture over which many have argued and debated.  In seeking to be faithful to the text of Scripture, we endeavour to exegete the passage faithfully!!