God’s Covenants: Romans 9:1–11:36
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Overview
Part Eight of Barnhouse’s monumental commentary tackles Romans 9:1 – 11:36. Entitled God’s Covenants, Part Eight shows that Paul’s main purpose in these chapters is to demonstrate that his great teaching on justification, sanctification and the assurance of the believer, set forth in the first eight chapters, is not to overlook the blessing or restoration which is to come to his ancient people, Israel. These chapters show that God has not cast off His people, but that His ultimate purpose includes the fulfillment of every promise made to them. Among the 19 messages in Part Eight are “Paul’s Desire for Israel,” “Children of the Promise,” “God’s Disobedient People,” and “When God Hardens Hearts.”
Top Highlights
“Isaiah received a revelation from God in these terms: ‘This people have I formed for myself; they shall show forth my praise’ (Isa. 43:21).” (Page 9)
“ At once we see, therefore, that the selection is tied to the promises of God and not to the fleshly line of Isaac.” (Page 26)
“‘of their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed for ever.’” (Page 20)
“We must ever take the humble position before God, ever seek to do the will of God, and ever understand that our own will is not the best thing for us if there is in that will any deviation from the perfect will of God. Constantly we must turn to the Word of God to know His will in order that we may be obedient to it.” (Page 44)
“There are two men in the Bible, Moses and Paul, who honestly were prepared to ask God to send them to hell if only others could be saved. Here is a love that can come from but one source. Such a love does not arise in the heart of man by nature. It comes only from Jesus Christ.” (Page 3)
- Title: God’s Covenants: Romans 9:1–11:36
- Author: Donald Grey Barnhouse
- Publisher: Eerdmans
- Publication Date: 1963
- Pages: 176
Donald Grey Barnhouse (1895-1960). Probably the best known and most widely followed American Bible teacher during the early middle decades of this century. Born in Watsonville, California, he gained his training in a broad variety of institutions including Biola, Princeton Seminary, Eastern Seminary, and the University of Pennsylvania. In 1927 Barnhouse accepted the pulpit of Tenth Presbyterian Church in downtown Philadelphia, and it was from this church, where he continued the rest of his life, that he built his national and international empire. As early as 1928 and continuing through most of his career he spoke over radio networks of up to 455 stations, using the Bible expository method of teaching. The popularity of these broadcasts and later telecasts led to many invitations to conduct Bible conferences, and the increasing demand of these conferences led him, after 1940, to be absent from his pulpit six months a year. Also serving as an outlet for his sermons, Bible studies, essays, and editorials were the two magazines which he founded and edited, Revelation (1931–49) and Eternity, which continues to the present.
Barnhouse’s theology was an eclectic yet independent mix of dispensationalism, Calvinism, and fundamentalism. As a dispensationalist he developed elaborate eschatological schemes, yet he departed significantly from much dispensationalist teaching. His fearless and brusque attacks upon liberal Presbyterian clergymen led the Philadelphia Presbytery to censure him in 1932, yet he opposed the fundamentalist concept of separation, and in his later years gradually grew more mellow in his relations with the Presbyterian Church and the National Council of Churches.
