Romans 9:1-5

God sent the Messiah to the Israelites. Their  initial rejection was our salvation. He will not forget His own.

We choose who we will serve, God or the traditions of men, choose wisely.

Romans 9:1–5

9 I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, 2 that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my countrymen according to the flesh, 4 who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; 5 of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.

Paul speaks as one who belongs to Christ and has experienced God’s promises. Despite his role as apostle to the Gentiles, Paul is still grieved that his fellow Jews, God’s chosen people through His promises to Abraham, have not widely accepted Jesus as their Messiah.

Paul echoes Moses’ prayer in Exodus 32:32, showing solidarity with his people by wishing to share in their punishment or take the punishment for them. He longs for the salvation of his fellow Jews.

Paul describes six benefits or privileges that rightfully belonged to Israel as God’s chosen people: joining God’s family (adoption), experiencing His presence (glory), entering into relationship with Him (covenants), receiving His revelation (law), worshiping at His temple (service), and inheriting His blessings (promises). God made His presence known at the tabernacle and later the temple. Isaiah interpreted this “glory”  as the Holy Spirit among them. Faithlife Bible.

At the end of chapter 8 Paul established that: (1) God has a purpose for believers, (2) nothing can prevent that purpose from being fulfilled, and (3) no one can separate God’s people from His love. But what about the Jewish people? God had a purpose for Israel and God had said He loved Israel. Yet Israel appears to be excluded from God’s program. Paul addresses this problem in chapters. 9–11. 

Paul’s pain was so great that he was willing, if possible, to be separated from Christ if it meant Israel could be united to Him. Paul lists some of the great privileges of Israel. For example, they were called Israelites. Israel was the name given to their ancestor Jacob as an expression of God’s favor. Their supreme privilege was that the Messiah came through them. eternally blessed God: Jesus Christ is God in the flesh. NKJ Bible.

Genesis 17:2 And I will make My covenant between Me and you, and will multiply you exceedingly.”

Deuteronomy 29:14 “I make this covenant and this oath, not with you alone,

Luke 1:72 To perform the mercy promised to our fathers and to remember His holy covenant,

Acts 3:25 You are sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, ‘And in your seed all the families of the earth shall be blessed.’

Ephesians 2:12 that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.