1. What is the overall theme of Romans 9 and 10?
2. Of whom was Paul speaking when he said in Romans 9:3, “I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh”?
3. What sentiment similar to Paul’s did Jesus express in Matthew 23:37?
4. What point was Paul trying to get across to the Israelites when he said that they were the ones “to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises” (Rom. 9:4-5)?
5. Where, according to Ephesians 1:3, are “all spiritual blessings” to be found?
6. In Romans 9:6 Paul stressed that while the people of Israel were lost, something was not to blame. What was that “something”?
7. What did Paul mean when he wrote in Romans 9:8, “Those who are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God; but the children of the promise are counted as the seed”?
8. What promise did God make to Abraham in Genesis 12:1-3?
9. What point was Paul making in Romans 9:21 when he asked, “Does not the potter have power over the clay, from the same lump to make one vessel for honor and another for dishonor?”
10. What, according to Romans 10:1, was the “desire and prayer” of Paul’s heart?
11. Of whom was Paul speaking when he said Romans 10:2, “For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.”
12. What point is made in Hosea 4:6 regarding the importance of an adequate knowledge of God’s Word?
13. What did Paul mean when he wrote in Romans 10:4 that “Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes”?
14. What, according to Romans 10:9-10, is one of the requirements set forth in the Bible for a person’s salvation?
15. What, according to Romans 10:17, is another requirement set forth in the Bible for a person’s salvation?
16. Romans 10:13 teaches that a person is saved when he or she “calls on the name of the Lord.” How, according to Acts 22:16, does a person do that?
17. How, according to Acts 2:38 and Acts 22:16, is a person forgiven of his or her sins?
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