Come and study Holy Scriptures with us as Father Stephen DeYoung teaches verse by verse on the podcast,

The Whole Council of God. Father Stephen is a former Protestant pastor and Bible teacher in the

Reformed Church, but now an Orthodox priest serving at Archangel Gabriel Orthodox Church

in Lafayette, Louisiana.

Okay, we'll go ahead and get started.

And when we get started here in just a moment,

we're going to be picking up near the end of St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans,

chapter 9, and we're going to be picking up in verse 30.

So we just have this last little bit here in chapter 9, which I probably should have gone over last time, but that's okay. We've got a long time last time.

And this does lead into what we're going to get into in chapter 10. So to get us caught up,

we had a little bit of a transition in chapters 8 and 9 so I won't go all the way back to the beginning

just to sort of reorient us to this section of the epistle that we're in

in chapter 8 we saw that St. Paul was sort of directly addressing the theme of inheritance

in us as heirs, co-heirs with Christ, Christ being the son of God proper, and us becoming

sons of God through grace.

And we talked about what that means in relation to the sons of God as the angels in the

Old Testament who served in God's counsel and how human beings are now placed into that role when they're glorified and how

that relates to our understanding of sainhood. This is sort of the destiny and the promise

for humanity for which humanity was created in the first place.

And now in Chapter 9, St. Paul has sort of moved on from there

to talking about the whole issue surrounding what's happened with what he's called Israel

according to the flesh.

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