so that the Gentiles may glorify God for His mercy. As it is written: “Therefore I will praise You among the Gentiles; I will sing hymns to Your name.”and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy. As it is written, “Therefore I will give praise to you among the Gentiles and sing to your name.”And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.and that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, Therefore will I give praise unto thee among the Gentiles, And sing unto thy name.
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… so as to fulfill Bible prophecy. We're learning about this in Romans 15, verses 8 to 13, that Jesus fulfills the promise of the fathers. How? Listen, my Jewish friends, listen. How would God communicate the Old Testament in the prophets, in the Hebrew scriptures, and how would you know the fulfillment of those prophecies if it wasn't for the person and the work of Jesus Christ? Notice this. Jews will either love Christ or hate him. Did you know that? They're not neutral on Jesus. talk to a Muslim. They have no hope of eternal life. If you're a Muslim here today, you have no promise of eternal life. You have no promise in your scriptures of the forgiveness of sins. And yet your doctrine is this. God does not have a son. That's written all the way around the Dome of the Rock Mosque in Jerusalem. You know the Golden Dome? It says all around it in Arabic, God is not begotten, nor does God have a son. Why does it say that? Because God does have a son. …
… And that the story of our salvation in our day must find its final resolution in the Messiah who has yet to arrive in Israel. Romans 15 9, Paul there quotes Psalm 18, which says, Therefore I will praise you among the Gentiles and sing to your name. Now that's very similar to Psalm 108 verse 3. Give thanks to you, O Lord, among the people. Sing your praise among the nations. Different language, exact same idea. Now why is that important? because Paul, in Romans 15, 9, quotes that idea from the Psalms as a way of describing the worldwide reign of Christ. The Apostle Paul read the Psalms and came to language like that and said, this is about Jesus. Jesus sang the Psalms, after all. This was his hymn book. So, this is not a fanciful interpretation. The pastor pulls a Jesus rabbit out of the hat. This is how the Psalms were meant to be read and sung. So, let's look at Psalm 108 again and think about Christ. …
You've just heard the very Word of God. Please be seated. Let's pray. Again, our Father, we look to You for assistance in helping us to understand Your Word, helping us to receive that Word, and to receive it gladly, not grudgingly, that our lives may be brought more and more into conformity with the image of Jesus, whom we serve. For we ask it in His name. Amen. As I mentioned earlier, Paul's treatment of this question of how we regard the weaker brother in things that are audiophorous, that is, of things that don't have any intrinsic or inherent ethical bearing, but which some people may or may not have scruples about was a matter so serious to the apostle that he dealt with it at great length here in Romans and also in his correspondence to the Corinthian church. Also it was part of the substance of his writing to the Galatians, and it was also very much at the center of the debate in the first century church of how the Jewish converts were to receive and deal with the Gentiles as the gospel was expanded to them, and they were given full membership in the New Covenant community. So this was a matter of great urgency to the apostle, And as we've seen already in chapter 14, that Paul reiterates the same point again and again, that you may find tiresome, but that he stresses so that we will indeed get the point that he is communicating. And so, let's again look at verse 19 that I went over briefly last week. …