JACOB AND ESAU, CALLED

Sunday Morning - May 24, 1998

Text: Genesis 25:22-23 "And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to inquire of the LORD. 23. And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger."

CALLED AND ELECT

Romans 9:10-26 "And not only this; but when Rebecca also had conceived by one, even by our father Isaac;

NOT YET BORN BUT IN THE FAMILY

11. (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

THE ELECT ARE BELOVED

13. As it is written, Jacob have I loved, but Esau have I hated.

RELATIVELY SPEAKING

CAN GOD DO THIS? YES!

14. What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.

IN THE PURPOSE OF ELECTION

15. For he saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion.

WE HAVE NO PART IN ELECTION

16. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that showeth mercy.

PHARAOH DECLARED

17. For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might show my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

WHO WILL RESIST HIS WILL?

18. Therefore hath he mercy on whom [any vessel in the lump] he will have mercy, and whom he will he hardeneth. 19. Thou [vessel] wilt say then unto me, Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?

O MAN OF THE ONE LUMP

20. Nay but, O man [vessel of the lump], who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing [clay vessel] formed [out of the same lump] say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus?

ONE LUMP, TWO VESSELS

21. Hath not the potter [The Lord] power over the clay [Saved], of the same lump [The body of Christ, Rebekah] to make one vessel unto honour [Jacob], and another unto dishonour [Esau]?

VESSELS OF DISHONOR

22. What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels [of clay of the same lump] of wrath fitted to destruction [waste, ruin]:

VESSELS OF HONOR

23. And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

JEW AND GENTILES

24. Even us, whom he hath called, not of [not all of the Jews] the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles? 25. As he saith also in Osee, I will call them my people, which were not my people [Gentiles]; and her beloved, which was not beloved. 26. And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God."

A HOLY NATION

THE ELECT

Romans 9:11 "(...the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)"