Romans 9 and the OT: Who is the King?
Romans 9 and the OT: Who is the King?
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1. What happened to God and his people? Romans 9.1-18
Sermon preached at Christ the King on Sunday 21 July 2013
Series: Who is the King? And what has happened to his people? A short history of God and his people. A study guide can be downloaded here.
Bible Readings: Exodus 6.1-9; Psalm 90; Romans 9.1-18; Matthew 1.17-25
Why Paul is upset about the apparent unbelief of Israel, and an introduction to the back story of why Christ came and whether Israel will be saved.
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2. Patriarchs and Promises. Genesis 17, Galatians 3
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on Sunday 28 July 2013
Series: Who is the King? And what has happened to his people? A short history of God and his people. A study guide can be downloaded here.
Bible Readings: Genesis 17.1-22; Galatians 3.1-29; Matthew 2.1-12
How the blessing promised to Abraham comes to all and what the blessing is, and what we ought to do about it.
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3. A Kingdom of Priests. Exodus 19, 1 Peter 2
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on Sunday 4 August 2013
Series: Who is the King? And what has happened to his people? A short history of God and his people. A study guide can be downloaded here.
Bible Readings: Exodus 19.3-6; 1 Peter 2.1-10; Matthew 2.13-18
God fulfills a promise to Abraham by forming a nation (Jacob's family) to be near him as his treasured possession, to praise him and to declare his praises as his priests.
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4. Who is the King? 1 Samuel 8, Acts 17
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on Sunday 11 August 2013
Series: Who is the King? And what has happened to his people? A short history of God and his people. A study guide can be downloaded here.
Bible Readings: 1 Samuel 8.1-9; Acts 17.1-9; Matthew 3.1-12
God as the rejected King and Saul as God's chosen and rejected King and God's big purpose to have a king over his people and the world. What is involved in having God's King over us.
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5. The King and the Kingdom 2 Samuel 7
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on Sunday 18 August 2013
Series: Who is the King? And what has happened to his people? A short history of God and his people. A study guide can be downloaded here.
Bible Readings: 2 Samuel 7.8-16; Romans 1.1-6; Matthew 3.13-17; Luke 1.32-33; Ephesians 2.1-22; Hebrews 11.10,16; 12.22-end; Rev 21.1-4, 22-end
David establishes a City and brings the Ark of God to the city so religion and government is centralised in the same place. God promises David that his kingdom will endure forever and his son will build a House for God.
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6. Where is the King? Ezekiel 43
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on Sunday 25 August 2013
Series: Who is the King? And what has happened to his people? A short history of God and his people. A study guide can be downloaded here.
Bible Readings: Ezekiel 43.1-9; Acts 13.44-52; Matthew 4.1-11; Readings referred to: 1 Kings 9.3; 1 Kings 11.9-13; 2 Kings 17.7-23; 2 Kings 23.26-27; 2 Kings 25. 8-12; Jeremiah 3.16; Ezra 1; Ezekiel 43.7-9; Revelation 3.14-22; Romans 11.21; Matthew 7.21
After Solomon, the division of the kingdom, the destruction of the temple and Jerusalem, the removal of God's people from God's presence, and then the return from exile, has God returned to the new temple? Have any of the new promises been fulfilled?
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7. God is King Again
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on Sunday 1 September 2013
Series: Who is the King? And what has happened to his people? A short history of God and his people. A study guide can be downloaded here.
Bible Readings: Ezekiel 34.11-24; Psalm 97; 1 Timothy 6.11-16; Mark 8.27 - 9.1.
Passages referred to in the sermon can be seen or downloaded here.
After 450 years of silence and expectation, God the King returns to his people, gathers the two parts of the kingdom to himself and enters the city, stops the temple and is rejected again, but is raised from death and declares himself as the one with all authority in heaven and on earth.
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8. King of the Nations Matthew 28, Acts 28
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on Sunday 8 September 2013
Series: Who is the King? And what has happened to his people? A short history of God and his people. A study guide can be downloaded here.
Bible Readings: Joel 2.28-32; Psalm 98; Acts 28.17-31; Matthew 4.12-17.
Passages referred to in the sermon: Acts 2.36; 9.15; 10; 11.19; 13.1; Gen 12.3; Isaiah 49.6; Romans 15.8-13; Matthew 28.18.
What the King did after he was raised, how he did it and why he sent his gospel to the nations.
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9. The Gentiles are in the Right? Romans 9
Sermon preached at Christ the King Willetton on Sunday 15 September 2013
Series: Who is the King? And what has happened to his people? A short history of God and his people. A study guide can be downloaded here.
Bible Readings: Isaiah 49.5-7; Psalm 99; Romans 9.16-33; Matthew 8. 5-13
Why isn't Israel flocking to the Messiah? Not because the promises failed, in fact all those to whom the promises were given received God's mercy - including Gentiles. The difference was that one group trusted God to put them in the right and the other wanted to do it themselves.