The following resource is from desiring God.org. Romans 9 1 to 5 I am speaking the truth in Christ.

I am not lying.

My conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit.

We'll come back to ask, why is he protesting his truth so strongly like that some

like he's afraid somebody's gonna doubt him? Yes he is. What is what's the truth?

I am speaking the truth, namely that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.

Why, Paul, you've grown to recognize these words, right? These are support and reasons given.

So what's the reason for your

anguish whenever you see these little words are just massively important. I have great sorrow

unceasing anguish and here's my reason for I could wish and we'll come back to that peculiar verb right there.

I think that's a very good English rendering of the peculiar Greek imperfect tense here,

I could wish.

Like, why didn't you just say, I wish?

I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ.

For the sake of my brothers. and cut off from Christ.

For the sake of my brothers,

my kinsman according to the flesh,

who does he mean? He means Jews. They are Israelites. To them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, the promises to them

belong the patriarchs and from their race according to the flesh is the Christ.

The Messiah. Christ means Messiah, who is God, overall, blessed forever. Amen. Now let's try to get the big picture of those verses before we spend some time on the details.

What's the main thing being asserted here that he's going to have to deal with?

There's a truth that he wants to say, and he's evidently concerned that people aren't going

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