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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 noted that the shadows of the Old Testament rituals were all fulfilled in the person and work of Jesus Christ on the cross. "The Word became flesh and dwelled among us" is telling us that the Shekinah glory of God 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 as their messiah, but so that the Shekinah glory could actually do what the Shekinah glory had been doing since Israel became the first client nation to God.
God's justice judged our sins and for that to happen they had to be imputed to Jesus Christ on the cross so that God's justice would be free to 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 mortal human body.
The Lord Jesus Christ in hypostatic union is the visible Shekinah glory. The Jew is first because Jesus Christ who is 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 from unfailing love 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 predicated on a spiritual reality.
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. That means we need God's help but God doesn't need any help.
That means that God's judicial righteousness that is imputed at salvation is not only the key to God's blessing but it is also the basis for God's royal family honor code. The principle is that only God's integrity advances God's glory in both angelic and human history.
Under God's 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 in the context of God's integrity the Law is incapable of making the Jew or anyone else righteous. The law demands an absolute standard of perfection 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. That means that 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 from the tomb. John 11:25-26;
Rom 9:5; This verse is a continuation of the description of the spiritual heritage of Israel with a few other things added.
It begins with the genitive possessive plural from the relative pronoun "hos" (whose). The antecedent is "my kinsman" in the last phrase of verse 3. A better translation of the plural as (theirs) that is used in the NIV and NET is better.
Then we insert the present active indicative of "eimi" (to be) because Paul's use of ellipsis implies the verb even though it is though it is actually not there. The verb is in italics in the KJV and YLT.
Next is a predicate nominative plural of "pateres" (fathers) with the generic use of the definite article "ho" that describes a group as a single entity "ho pateres" (the fathers).
This is a reference to the believing founders or patriarchs of the Jewish race. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are the founders of the Jewish race, the genetic line of the seed of Abraham because each one was born again and each one also attained spiritual maturity from their application of doctrine.
Paul emphasizes this as the basis for the origin of the Jewish race that separates the Jews from the Gentiles forever. That separation is the fact that the Jewish race originates from believing in the true God that resulted in the imputation of God's judicial righteousness.
This is one of the reasons why it was very hard for Paul to see his fellow countrymen reject Jesus Christ as savior because while they are Jewish by the genetic seed of Abraham they are not Jewish by being believers because they have not followed the pattern of Abraham's belief that is described in Gen 15:6.
While Isaac had a stepbrother, Ishmael, Isaac, the chosen one, is a believer. The same thing is true of Jacob and Esau. The difference between them is believer versus unbeliever.
Rom 9:5; "kai" (and) with the prepositional phrase "ek" (from) plus the ablative plural from the relative pronoun "hos" (whom) (from whom). Again the verb "eimi" (is) is inserted because of ellipsis.
Next we have a predicate nominative, "ho Christos" (the Christ). The generic use of the definite article "ho" makes it monadic so it emphasizes the uniqueness of the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
With this is an accusative neuter singular from the definite article "ho" (the) with "kata" (by or according to) plus the accusative singular from "sarx" (flesh) (according to the flesh).
" Eimi" (is) is in the static present tense that describes a perpetually existing situation so a better translation is (being). This is describing the hypostatic union of God and man in one person forever. Jesus Christ produces the action of becoming visible in the flesh.
The Shekinah glory is no longer manifested between the cherubs of the Ark of the Covenant in Israel because eternal God has now became true humanity in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He became true humanity so God is now visible to Israel and everyone else with the same results that existed under the principle of the Shekinah glory in ancient Israel. The participle describes the deity of Jesus Christ.
God manifested Himself as a cloud over the tabernacle by day and with a pillar of fire by night so Israel knew that the Shekinah glory of God was with them.
Many of the Israelites weren't very concerned about this because just like today with people being what they are under total depravity and negative volition from sin nature control of the soul they are only concerned about physical things.
So the old story that "If I could just see the Lord. If He would just come and touch me on the head. If I could just follow Him or walk around with Him a little while, everything would be all right" is 100 per cent wrong.
It is doctrine in the soul that makes the difference because it is doctrine in the soul that is our reality because if you are positive to doctrine you do not need the Lord Jesus Christ holding your hand because you have His thinking in your soul.
Then the preposition "epi"(over) with the genitive plural of "pas" (all), (over all) "Theos" (God). Again this is elliptical so it means "ruler over all God" referring to the second advent of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The incarnation that resulted in the humanity of Jesus Christ is how God dealt with sins of the world by imputing them to the Lord Jesus Christ and judging them on the cross.
But it also has a relationship to Israel. Israel would always have an excuse that they could not see the Shekinah glory because all they could see was the cloud or the pillar of fire that was above the tabernacle.
And since they couldn't actually see God's glory there was a stumbling block to their faith. So now God's Shekinah glory comes and it visible, but the same negative volition that existed in the Old Testament existed in the coming Jesus Christ so that actually being face to face with the Lord did not actually make any difference for Israel.
The incarnation and resultant humanity of Jesus Christ does not in any way reduce the second person of the Trinity. Jesus Christ as true humanity continues to be eternal God forever and as eternal God He still has all of the attributes of God as well as the attributes of His perfect humanity.
He is, then, the last Adam. "From whom are the fathers (the regenerate ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob], from whom is the Christ, the one who came in the flesh, the one who is the God who is ruler over all.
The rest of the verse is a command to praise, to recognize and to fulfill the very purpose for which the God established the Jews. It starts with a verbal adjective, "eulegetos" (praised).
This word is only used of God never of men. It is a verbal adjective that is derived from the adverb "eu" plus the verb "lego" that means to speak well of or to praise, to extol, to eulogize.
The Greek word "eulogeo" that is transliterated into the English word eulogize is equivalent to the Hebrew "baruk " means "being praised" or "being blessed."
It is used as liturgical formula that is used to praise the eternal glory of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Israel had it all. Never in all of history until the Exodus and the formation of the nation of Israel, and until the construction of the tabernacle, no people had ever had the personal presence of God among them in their nation.
That is because Israel was the first client nation and because they were a priest nation. This was to be to their advantage because this is the only race, the only nation, the only people who were ever founded or originated on the basis of a spiritual reality.
The Jews had everything going for them. But the principle remains: You can have everything in the world going for you and still destroy it all with negative volition. There are two opportunities for negative volition. The first is at salvation and the second is a persistent negative volition toward doctrine after salvation.
You can be aggressive about anything in the world but if you are passive toward doctrine in your soul its over. The exploitation of advantage is the exploitation of spiritual advantage. It is the spiritual advantage that counts.
Having all of the advantages without the advantage of doctrine in the soul is no advantage. We see this same principle currently playing out in the USA.
Next we have "eis ho" (into the) plus the accusative plural of "aion" (ages) that literally means " into the ages" but it is a Greek idiom that means forever.
This is followed by the liturgical conclusion, "amen" (amen) emphasizing the function of the process of converting gnosis resident in the left lobe of the soul into epignosis resident in the right lobe of the soul under GASP.
Only epignosis doctrine resident in the right lobe can be used for spiritual advance, for momentum, and for motivation, and for making life meaningful and worthwhile from having doctrinal capacity for life
Expanded Translation Rom 9:5; "From whom are the fathers [the regenerate ancestors Abraham, Isaac and Jacob], and from whom is the Christ, the one who came in the flesh, the one who is ruler over all, God extolled (praised) forever. Amen."