Hello my friends, my friends. Welcome back to the morning mindset. My name is

Carrie Green. If you're new with us, we're glad to have you here. It is time for

us to get our minds aligned with the truth of God and we're moving into Romans

chapter 9.

And Romans 9 is one of those passages I remember as a teenager anyway as I started reading

through the book of Romans, Romans chapter 9 was one that just didn't have much interest to me because he gets into all kinds of things that at that time were hard for me to understand, but now as an an adult I find this to be a very rich

passage of scripture because it teaches us a broader perspective of how God deals with

people and how he deals with nations and he's beginning to discuss what role in what place

the people of Israel having God's plan.

You see, because let's put this into a historical context.

Paul was writing in 1st century Rome.

Paul himself was a Roman citizen.

And during that time, Israel was a vassal state, so to speak,

under the hand of Rome.

And so Israel was, in essence, in slavery. They were a conquered people. And at the same time in Paul's context, Jesus had come the promised Messiah of Israel that prophets had been speaking about

for ages and the Israelite people had rejected Jesus as their Messiah.

They said he's not the one, he's not the promised one of God.

And so they rejected him.

And Paul, being a Jew, in fact a Jewish teacher who had converted to Christianity because

he believed Jesus was the Messiah, is now looking at his own people, the Israeli people, and he's saying,

what is the situation with them now?

Since they've rejected the Messiah, what's in store for them them and that's what he's beginning to

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