Children of Promise Or Rebellious Children

Maret 01, 2022

Children of Promise Or Rebellious Children

Children of Promise

or Rebellious Children

• The Children of Promise is the one who walks in power of the Spirit.

The Children of Rebellious Children is the one who are disobedient and they rely on their own strength to obey God which is impossible for them to obey God.•

Romans 9:1-26

[1]With Christ as my witness, I speak with utter truthfulness. My conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm it.

[2]My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief

[3]for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters. I would be willing to be forever cursed—cut off from Christ!—if that would save them.

[4]They are the people of Israel, chosen to be God’s adopted children. God revealed his glory to them. He made covenants with them and gave them his law. He gave them the privilege of worshiping him and receiving his wonderful promises.

[5]Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob are their ancestors, and Christ himself was an Israelite as far as his human nature is concerned. And he is God, the one who rules over everything and is worthy of eternal praise! Amen.

[6]Well then, has God failed to fulfill his promise to Israel? No, for not all who are born into the nation of Israel are truly members of God’s people!

[7]Being descendants of Abraham doesn’t make them truly Abraham’s children. For the Scriptures say, “Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted,” though Abraham had other children, too.

[8]This means that Abraham’s physical descendants are not necessarily children of God. Only the children of the promise are considered to be Abraham’s children.

[9]For God had promised, “I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”

[10]This son was our ancestor Isaac. When he married Rebekah, she gave birth to twins.

[11]But before they were born, before they had done anything good or bad, she received a message from God. (This message shows that God chooses people according to his own purposes;

[12]he calls people, but not according to their good or bad works.) She was told, “Your older son will serve your younger son.”

[13]In the words of the Scriptures, “I loved Jacob, but I rejected Esau.”

[14]Are we saying, then, that God was unfair? Of course not!

[15]For God said to Moses,

“I will show mercy to anyone I choose,

and I will show compassion to anyone I choose.”

[16]So it is God who decides to show mercy. We can neither choose it nor work for it.

[17]For the Scriptures say that God told Pharaoh, “I have appointed you for the very purpose of displaying my power in you and to spread my fame throughout the earth.”

[18]So you see, God chooses to show mercy to some, and he chooses to harden the hearts of others so they refuse to listen.

[19]Well then, you might say, “Why does God blame people for not responding? Haven’t they simply done what he makes them do?”

[20]No, don’t say that. Who are you, a mere human being, to argue with God? Should the thing that was created say to the one who created it, “Why have you made me like this?”

[21]When a potter makes jars out of clay, doesn’t he have a right to use the same lump of clay to make one jar for decoration and another to throw garbage into?

[22]In the same way, even though God has the right to show his anger and his power, he is very patient with those on whom his anger falls, who are destined for destruction.

[23]He does this to make the riches of his glory shine even brighter on those to whom he shows mercy, who were prepared in advance for glory.

[24]And we are among those whom he selected, both from the Jews and from the Gentiles.

[25]Concerning the Gentiles, God says in the prophecy of Hosea,

“Those who were not my people,

I will now call my people.

And I will love those

whom I did not love before.”

[26]And,

“Then, at the place where they were told,

‘You are not my people,’

there they will be called

‘children of the living God.’”

You see how God is patient and fair, that we are not justified by our works and goodness, that we cannot boast that God has chosen us his people not because we are worthy, we didnt choose God, God choose us, and show us his salvation and path towards him,

But what happen to those people who once known him and accepted him but choose to disobey God, there will be consequences for them unless they repent.

Rebellious Children

Numbers 14:1-12

[1]Then the whole community began weeping aloud, and they cried all night.

[2]Their voices rose in a great chorus of protest against Moses and Aaron. “If only we had died in Egypt, or even here in the wilderness!” they complained.

[3]“Why is the lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”

[4]Then they plotted among themselves, “Let’s choose a new leader and go back to Egypt!”

[5]Then Moses and Aaron fell face down on the ground before the whole community of Israel.

[6]Two of the men who had explored the land, Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, tore their clothing.

[7]They said to all the people of Israel, “The land we traveled through and explored is a wonderful land!

[8]And if the lord is pleased with us, he will bring us safely into that land and give it to us. It is a rich land flowing with milk and honey.

[9]Do not rebel against the lord, and don’t be afraid of the people of the land. They are only helpless prey to us! They have no protection, but the lord is with us! Don’t be afraid of them!”

[10]But the whole community began to talk about stoning Joshua and Caleb. Then the glorious presence of the lord appeared to all the Israelites at the Tabernacle.

[11]And the lord said to Moses, “How long will these people treat me with contempt? Will they never believe me, even after all the miraculous signs I have done among them?

[12]I will disown them and destroy them with a plague. Then I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they are!”

Their disobedience and Unbelief prevented them to Receive Gods blessing and Promise which resulted they were not allowed to enter the promise land.