Sermon Info
Sermon Date: 11/16/25
Series: Romans
Text: Romans 9:6-13
Title: “Him who calls ”
Preacher: Pastor Matt Erdman
Series: Romans
Text: Romans 9:6-13
Title: “Him who calls ”
Preacher: Pastor Matt Erdman
Announcements
After some fellowship, please highlight the information below to your group and have them check the weekly church email for more information/details.
- Christmas card making class, 11/22 1-3 PM. Sign up is required by 11/19 and $5 fee per person to be paid to Therese Jakob to supplies.
- Thanksgiving Eve service and pie sign up can be found in the weekly email! Service is on 11/26 beginning at 6:30 PM
- Restrepos will be hosting a Thanksgiving lunch on 11/27 from 12-3 PM, please RSVP to June by 11/22.
- The December monthly luncheon will be held on 11/30, this is also the same day as the Sunday school showcase tech rehearsal that will begin at 12:15 PM.
- If interested in Christmas caroling at two local retirement homes with other members of Woodridge along with lunch at Culvers following our worship service on Sunday, 12/7 please reach out to Pam Poglitsch.
- The church needs volunteers to clean the church and/or wash windows one day a month (on a Saturday or a Sunday). Contact Bryan St John if interested.
Questions
After some fellowship and prayer, read Romans 9:6-13
Paul writes this section to defend the unfailing power and character of God against an erroneous assumption. Discuss a time in your life where an erroneous assumption about how God ought to be or operate caused you to doubt or distrust him.
We ought not let our preferred anthropology (what we want to believe about human nature) set the boundaries for our doctrine of God. Has there been a time in your life where you’ve wanted to soften God’s sovereignty because it conflicts with your own prerogative or agenda?
Read Malachi 1:1-5 and Luke 14:25-27 and 1 John 3:15. How ought we to understand Romans 9:13 in light of these passages and the entire context of Romans 9:6-13?
The text describes how God in love counts children of the promise, even before they’ve done anything good or bad. Do you love in similar or dissimilar ways? In your relationships—marriage, parenting, discipling—do you functionally count people’s worth by their performance?
The song “Jesus our Judge and our Savior” is intense, yet faithful. How are we often prompted to downplay warnings of God’s judgment for the sake of our own comfort and convenience? Is there a fear of man or a love of approval that keeps you silent when you should speak? If you have less practice with that type of speech, how do you respond when other believers engage in it?
John 1:12-13 says we are born “not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” Likewise, Galatians 3:2-3 says “Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Describe a time you tried to manufacture spiritual vitality (in yourself or others) by human effort. What was the result and what did you learn from it?
How should we then live?
Bring to mind a fellow believer in your family or at Woodridge whose biblical convictions, tone, or stylistic differences weary or even irritate you. Repent and discern if any self-love must be put aside for you to approach them with charity first and critique second.
Paul writes this section to defend the unfailing power and character of God against an erroneous assumption. Discuss a time in your life where an erroneous assumption about how God ought to be or operate caused you to doubt or distrust him.
We ought not let our preferred anthropology (what we want to believe about human nature) set the boundaries for our doctrine of God. Has there been a time in your life where you’ve wanted to soften God’s sovereignty because it conflicts with your own prerogative or agenda?
Read Malachi 1:1-5 and Luke 14:25-27 and 1 John 3:15. How ought we to understand Romans 9:13 in light of these passages and the entire context of Romans 9:6-13?
The text describes how God in love counts children of the promise, even before they’ve done anything good or bad. Do you love in similar or dissimilar ways? In your relationships—marriage, parenting, discipling—do you functionally count people’s worth by their performance?
The song “Jesus our Judge and our Savior” is intense, yet faithful. How are we often prompted to downplay warnings of God’s judgment for the sake of our own comfort and convenience? Is there a fear of man or a love of approval that keeps you silent when you should speak? If you have less practice with that type of speech, how do you respond when other believers engage in it?
John 1:12-13 says we are born “not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” Likewise, Galatians 3:2-3 says “Did you receive the Spirit by works of the law or by hearing with faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh? Describe a time you tried to manufacture spiritual vitality (in yourself or others) by human effort. What was the result and what did you learn from it?
How should we then live?
Bring to mind a fellow believer in your family or at Woodridge whose biblical convictions, tone, or stylistic differences weary or even irritate you. Repent and discern if any self-love must be put aside for you to approach them with charity first and critique second.