Romans 9 is going to prove Justification and Salvation are ours, as we have faith in God, not any other.  It is not by the works of the law, but now grace, which give us the assurance needed to know we are in the light. This is seeing the power of predestination applied to all as all people matter to God.
 
9 I am telling the truth because I belong to Christ. The Holy Spirit tells my heart that I am not lying. Thank the Lord He is still the way, truth and life and we are assured of it as we abide in the vine; Jesus. To know the Holy Spirit is real is to be able to talk in His tongue, not the tongue of a nation, but the family of God. It’s like tongues in Acts 2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak in other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance. This is not normal this is heavenly language that comes for the Spirit of God Himself. One has to experience what it is like in order to appreciate what God can do in our minds that control the tongue. We all speak the language normally the way our parents talked and now we are apart of the family of God, it is natural to talk in His language or tongue.  ² I have much sorrow. The pain in my heart never leaves. As Christians we hurt every time we experience rejection of the Spirit of God and the pain never goes away, for we want others to experience Gods wonder and grace to forgive. ³ I could even wish that I might be kept from being with Christ if that would help my people to be saved from the punishment of sin. Here Paul is willing to sacrifice what he has to save someone else from the punishment of sin, willing to give his life that others might be saved. Remember Moses said in Exodus 32:31-32 and Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold. Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin, and if not, blot me out of thy book which thou hast written. These are strong words of dedication and commitment to the Lord in the natural realm. They are of my own flesh and blood. Lord help us to see that life is very personal and our tongues are our tongues to speak the way we want and how we feel. It is very difficult to put one in the same package as someone else. In fact, it is impossible for us to explain how someone reacts to the experience others have? Lord help me to relax in what I have experience as I abide in You. ⁴ They are Jews and are the people God chose for Himself. He shared His shining-greatness with them and gave them His Law and a way to worship. They have His promises. These are Jews Gods seed from Abraham and Jacob His chosen, adopted into the family of God. Not their own, but Gods as they obey the law to keep happy and blessed. Giving the right to glory in Gods ark of the covenant between the Cherubim and at Sinai the law. This was the glory of Israel to be guided by the Cloud by day and the fire at night. It is a covenant of peculiarity, or strange as it is a type of grace by the giving of the law, Obey the law and receive forgiveness by grace.  The Jews had the temple, altars, priest, sacrifices, feasts and the institution relating to them to be honored above all else. They knew they were serving the true God, not under bandage of sins rule by Rome. Thank the Lord their imagination, memory, consequences, reason were all wrapped up in affection towards God, as their spirits worshipped, reverenced, had faith and hope in God to answer their prayers. It was the law that gave them assurance of being delivered from evil. ⁵ The early preachers came from this family. Christ Himself was born of flesh from this family and He is over all things. May God be honored and thanked forever. Let it be so. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were followers of God and where the early preachers. For God blessed them in their humanity and made them Spiritual being as they obeyed the law. So, God sent His Son Jesus to live among us, but in the Old Testament He revealed the law to Moses which was given by God to be obeyed and when people did they were blessed beyond measure. Here, Jesus came as a Jewish man that was born as a human baby devoted to doing His Father Gods business. This was very humbling for here He was a part of the God head becoming a man, all for the sake of His following as a human being His Father, He could be dedicated to His Fathers will and not His own. It seems like greater the suffering, the greater the blessings the Lord give to those who put their trust in the Lord. It seems like suffering is a part of our lives and it allows us to call upon the Lord, so He can give us the assurance all is going to be OK for He is in control. All we have to do is let Him rule and reign in our lives.
⁶ I am not saying that God did not keep His promises. Not all the Jews are people God chose for Himself. God has not, nor will not lie, Ishmael Haggar son given to Abraham by his wife did, so did Esau for he trespassed and sinned against God. Lord help us to keep our word for it is our life. Lord help us in this age of Grace to make sure we keep abiding in the vine, so we can bear good fruit good for all including praying for our enemies. Everyone God created is not good, for some do not want God to rule and reign for they want to be like god, able to do whatever they want. The Jews are Gods, so is the Church as long as we trust and obey His law, His way, His truth and life, staying away from our way, or our truth and life. ⁷ Not all of Abraham’s family are children of God. God told Abraham, “Only the family of Isaac will be called your family.” What a revelation, not all children of Abraham’s are in the family of God, only those who remember who they are and what God created them for. Isaac had to be willing to give up his life to his father and we must realize we have to give up and surrender to the Lords will and not do whatever we think is OK! The Church today needs to learn John 15 so they can be assured of who they are and who they are following. God gave us two choices, we can either follow the Lord, or follow Satan and become addicted to all the forces of evil.  Grace needs to run in our vines as we are fixed upon following and serving the Lord and His plan for or lives. ⁸ This means that children born to Abraham are not all children of God. Only those that are born because of God’s promise to Abraham are His children. Lord help us to see we have to not accept the bond women Haggar and his son Satan worshipers, but be only married to God, forever growing in His grace, love and mercy to become a blessing and not a curse. It is so easy to see evil as good for the moment, but it reaps sorrow, pain and grief not knowing right from wrong. That is the reason we have to be born again to know the knowledge of God words, becoming more like Him, as we enjoy aiding in the vine, to produce good fruit for all. Lord help us to be taught how to love You by Your Holy Spirit, so we ae not our own, but Yours. ⁹ This was the promise God made: “About this time next year I will come, and Sarah will have a son.” Thank the Lord even though Sarah laughed, it became real for they both where beyond child bearing, but God is greater than any natural ability to perform. People are going to become a part of the family of God all down throughout history, for everyone needs help to walk in the light and see the awesomeness of the Lords handy work. Haggar was young and could bear forth children normally. But she lived in the flesh and the flesh is willing, but the spirit is hard to accept. Sin is sin and does not change because of who you are. We are fighting everyday who is going to control our thoughts and actions and behavior? God or Satan and Satan is having his way for who cares. What an attitude that is going to cause your behavior to be out of control, as you can’t accept the truth that Jesus is needed, to have a good mental attitude about who I am. Grace does not run in the blood, we have to become cleansed by the blood to become apart of the Kingly Race. Isaac was a child of promise, not of the will of the flesh, or the will of man, but of God.