Romans 11:28-32
As regards the gospel, they are enemies for your sake. But as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. For just as you were at one time disobedient to God but now have received mercy because of their disobedience, so they too have now been disobedient in order that by the mercy shown to you they also may now receive mercy. For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may have mercy on all.
Tag: Election - Salvation through Faith by Grace
In Romans 9-11 we are given Paul's thesis on election. You might not like it, but the fact that God "elects" those He wants to save "by grace through faith" is clearly stated. In the above verses we have the driving words behind what Paul has written in the previous chapters. This is not just his summary statement of what he has just said - this is the goal he was driving his readers to understand. Note the following commentary on these verses:
Understanding the Bible Commentary Series:
"Israel is both God’s enemy and God’s friend. Israel is an enemy as far as the gospel is concerned, but loved on account of the patriarchs (v. 28; so Jub. 15:30; 22:9; 4 Ezra 3:13; 5:27). Gentiles once were objects of wrath (1:18ff.), but they are now objects of mercy because of their faith in the gospel. For Jews the issue is exactly the opposite: they once were objects of mercy because of their election and knowledge of the law, but they are now objects of wrath because of their disbelief in the gospel. Thus, God comes to his people in only one of two ways, in wrath or mercy. There is no third way. If we will not receive the mercy of God then we must face the wrath of God which would drive us to his mercy (Isa. 63:10–14). God’s mercy is the final word, for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable (v. 29)."
God, by grace through faith, choose those He wants to save. That grace wins no matter what. No one person (or nation) can fraught the gospel message and the plan of God. God is saving those He will by grace, through faith.
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