This is Pastor Justin Westmoreland from the Fully Alive Athlete Pastor Channel, and this is a recording of the worship service for Trinity Presbyterian Church of Norman. You can find us online at trinitynorman.com

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Praise the Lord for the Son of God who the builders rejected but He has now become the cornerstone.

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Sermon: Romans 9:19-29 “Objections to Election Part 2: His-Story.”
Rev. Justin Westmoreland

30 What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
32 Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, 33 as it is written,
"Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense; and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame."

Review Questions:
1. How have you lived out the mistake of the runner who eats and drinks chalk, flags, and ribbons?
2. Regarding your relationship with God, what are the reasons you should put on blinders when you consider how God evaluates your works?
3. How is God’s treatment of the Jews and the Gentiles completely fair and righteous?
4. What are the lessons that we learn for our ministry today from the prophet Jonah and his ministry to Nineveh, Assyria almost 3000 years ago?
5. From the previous 29 verses of Romans 9, see how election influenced the status of people. How did Paul use the quotes from Isaiah about the stumbling stone to show how one’s response to Jesus is ultimately contingent upon God’s purpose in election? How might this encourage you in your faith and ministry?


“Our sin is what separates us from God, but it’s our self righteousness that keeps us from running to Him for the grace He willingly gives to all who come.”
--Paul Tripp, Instruments in the Hand of the Redeemer

“But that our righteousness is placed in the obedience of Christ, it is from hence, that we being incorporated into him, it is accounted unto us as if it were ours; so as that therewith we are esteemed righteous. And as Jacob of old, whereas he was not the first-born, being hid under the habit of his brother, and clothed with his garment, which breathed a sweet savour, presented himself unto his father, that in the person of another he might receive the blessing of the primogeniture; so it is necessary that we should lie hid under the precious purity of the First-born, our eldest brother, be fragrant with his sweet savour, and have our sin buried and covered with his perfections, that we may present ourselves before our most holy Father, to obtain from him the blessing of righteousness.”
--John Owen, The Doctrine of Justification by Faith