Making it through Romans Chapter 9

Having taught all the way through Romans Chapter 9, there's one phrase the Body of Christ should not have been able to say when they read Romans 9:1 through Romans 9:33, and that's "Paul's definitely talking about me, here."

This was previously mentioned in a different manner in other blog posts, but having made it through to the end of Romans Chapter 9, if you by chance attend a ministry, religion, church, or denomination, and you are learning to some degree, (or by a massive degree) that for example, in verse 14 of Romans 9, "What shall we say then?" the "we" is the Church, the Body of Christ, and Paul is going further and further with us in this chapter....you may want to put on the brakes in that ministry attendance.

Or the "vessels of wrath" vs "vessels of mercy" in Romans 9:22 are saved people in the Church the Body of Christ, vs. Lost people today, and Paul keeps talking about us us us, and me, me, me in the BOC as a wonderful vessel of mercy, specifically in Romans 9? No. (And this does occur, most unfortunately.)

And probably the most twisted verse, verse 24, "Even us, whom he hath called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?" (Those Gentiles, being me, me, me of course..) However to think this through to it's proper completion, we would understand we are saved members of Christ's Body now, neither Jew nor Gentile in identification. Gentiles did answer the "call" to join up into the Prophetic program God had long set up, such as Cornelius. We're not in Romans 9, as, once again, previously mentioned in an earlier blog.

Don't let others plant you into where you don't belong in the bible. As mentioned earlier in those blog posts, it will make a mess when you get to Romans 10:9-10, and just keep building up a bigger snowball effect as you go down the road.

Let Romans 9 be about Israel, Israel's issues and God's plan's and purposes for them, and especially for their faithful remnant that God will make a nation out of, his Little Flock. You don't need to fit yourself into there, you don't need to place what God's doing for his Body in there, you can let Prophecy and Mystery be different and allow Paul to explain that to the Romans so that they can be stablished by the time we all get to Romans 16:25-27.