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By: Curtis Baker

Over the last several weeks, we have been trying to follow the apostle Paul through a very difficult series of teachings in Romans chapter nine. In this section, which will go all the way to the end of chapter eleven, Paul is having a conversation with an imaginary person who he has created to represent the Jewish position in the context of the first century.   He has done this in the hope of answering what he knows to be Jewish questions in light of his statement in 9:1-5 that most people of the Jewish faith have been cut off from a covenant relationship with God. This raises questions about God’s faithfulness and fairness to Israel that Paul knows need to be addressed. So having done some of that now, as we resume our study in 9:30, we see that that a summary question is being asked. “What then shall we say?” Or another way of putting it would be to say, “What have we learned from what you have said so far?”

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