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In our verse by verse study of Romans last time we completed our Expanded Translation of Rom 9:4; Who are Israelites to whom belong the adoption as adult sons and the glory and the giving of the Law and the rituals and the promises.
We see from this verse that God is holy. That means that God has integrity.because God's holiness is comprised of God's righteousness and His justice.
God did not attain His Holiness or integrity from some sort of achievement. God has integrity but it was not attained, it wasn't developed because God's integrity is eternal, absolute, infinite and it has always been a part of His perfect essence.
God's integrity is not simply the absence of evil, it is the sum total of His perfection. That means that God's integrity or the holiness is neither maintained nor attained, it is part of God's immutable, eternal essence.
God's essence cannot be better or worse for God is eternal, immutable, and unalterable as an absolute being who is eternally consistent. God's holiness or integrity is composed of His perfect righteousness and justice.
God's righteousness is perfect, therefore not only does God's righteousness reject sin, human good and evil but it also provides varying systems of condemnation in administering punishment for sin, human good and evil.
The principle whereby creatures observe God's justice is that God's righteousness demands perfect righteousness, and what God's righteousness God demands God's justice executes.
God's righteousness can only demand perfect righteousness; God's justice can only demand perfect justice.
Therefore the spiritual heritage of Israel in the past dispensation was designed for their justification through faith in Christ, not for their arrogance, their self-righteousness, and their rejection of the God of Israel.
All believers, Jew or gentile with arrogance plus self-righteousness reject God's plan of grace. Human self-righteousness is actually an arrogant rationalization that is based on the irrationality of comparing one's strength with another's weakness.
Righteousness cannot be built or constructed on unrighteousness. Therefore justification can only be built on God's imputed judicial righteousness.
Everything that God does to bless us is inevitably built on the foundation of His imputed judicial righteousness and not on any system of self-righteousness that we develop. That means that self-righteous do gooders try to satisfy God in blasphemous arrogance with their human good works.
God's grace provides all that God's integrity demands for the human race through Jesus Christ, the God of Israel. Jesus Christ is the basis for the spiritual heritage of Israel and, it is also the basis for the spiritual heritage of the Church as God's royal family.
The verse also describes God's integrity and the Shekinah glory. Jesus Christ, the God of Israel became humanity as the son of David for the express purpose of fulfilling the Levitical offerings and atoning for all personal sins on the cross.
The shadows of the Old Testament rituals were all fulfilled in the work of Jesus Christ on the cross. "The Word became flesh and dwelled among us" is telling us that the Shekinah glory became flesh.
Jesus Christ, the God of Israel became true humanity so that the Shekinah glory would not only be apparent and seen by the Jews, for acceptance or rejection, but so that the Shekinah glory could actually do what the Shekinah glory had been doing since Israel became a client nation to God.
God's justice judged our sins that had to be imputed to Jesus Christ on the cross so that God's justice could impute His own judicial righteousness to anyone who would believe in Jesus Christ to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.
Why the Jew first? Because the one who hung upon the cross was the son of David who was the fulfillment of the Davidic covenant so He was a Jew. He was also the Shekinah glory that was now manifested in a human body.
The Lord Jesus Christ in hypostatic union is the visible Shekinah glory. The Jew is first because the prince ruler of the Church is a Jew. Paul, the greatest theologian the Church has ever seen is also a Jew.
The writers of the New Testament were Jews. The heritage of the Jews is given to the Church to create motivation and momentum in our advance to maturity. So it is and always will be the Jew first.
At the cross God condemned our sins in Jesus Christ so that He could commend doctrinal truth in the soul, to the Jew first and also to the Gentile.
Psa 85:10; "Grace and truth have met together; righteousness and reconciliation have kissed each other." When the Gospel is presented, God's unfailing love that is expressed through His grace and doctrinal truth meet.
There is nothing man can do to destroy or compromise God's integrity. Man's self-righteousness does not glorify God, but God's imputed judicial righteousness justifies man at salvation.
God's integrity gains nothing from man's righteousness, but man gains everything from God's integrity when God imputes His very own judicial righteousness to man at the moment of salvation.
The pattern for this and the heritage of Israel began in Genesis 15:6. The Jewish race was not founded upon Abraham's physical human genetics but rather his spiritual life.
God does not gain from man, man gains from God. The very birth of the Jewish race explains that principle. The origin of the Jewish race was a spiritual factor.
There is no point in angelic or human history where God's integrity is compromised or advanced by self-righteousness. God's righteousness is not established by man, but man's integrity is established by God. Therefore we need God's help. God doesn't need any help.
That means that God's judicial righteousness that is imputed at salvation is not only the key to divine blessing but it is also the basis for the honor code of God's royal family. From this the principle that only God's integrity advances God's glory in both angelic and human history emerges.
Under divine provision man can glorify God but man cannot advance God's glory. God's glory pre-existed the angels and man.
The unbelieving Jew distorted the law that is the spiritual and the establishment heritage of Israel. No one was ever saved by keeping the law. It delineated principles of establishment and freedom, it portrayed the person of Christ, but it was not an instrument of salvation.
Put another way, the law is incapable of making the Jew righteous in the context of God's integrity. The law demands a capability of perfection and an absolute standard that is beyond man's ability.
Therefore the law cannot produce righteousness in the Jew and it cannot produce anything equivalent to God's perfect and eternal righteousness.
The law can only condemn the Jew and demonstrate his inadequacy and inability to save himself. The law is an instrument of condemnation; the only instrument of salvation is the substitutionary judgment of Jesus Christ on the cross that was followed by Jesus' resurrection. John 11:25-26;
Rom 9:5;