Our Romans Study For Kids continues…
Romans 9:14-18
14 What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!
15 For He says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
16 So then it does not depend on the man who wills or the man who runs, but on God who has mercy.
17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I raised you up, to demonstrate My power in you, and that My name might be proclaimed throughout the whole earth.”
18 So then He has mercy on whom He desires, and He hardens whom He desires.
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Read Romans 9:14. How does this verse begin? Circle the correct answer.
with a question with a statement with a lie
Read Romans 9:14 again. How does Paul answer the question, “There is no injustice with God, is there?”
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THINK ABOUT IT….
Can we ever say that God is not fair?
Read Romans 9:15. What did God say to Moses? Fill in the blanks below to answer.
“I will have __ __ __ __ __ on whom I have __ __ __ __ __, and I will have __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ on whom I have __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __.”
Look up and read Deuteronomy 33:19 to see when God say this to Moses. Now read Deuteronomy 32:1 to see the context in which God says this to Moses. The children of Israel had not waited on Moses or God. They instead made a gold image of a calf and began to worship it. God could have destroyed the entire nation right then, but He didn’t. Instead He showed them mercy. They did not deserve it. They did not earn it, but God gave it anyway, because He had chosen them.
Read Romans 9:16. What does it depend on to be a child of the promise? (Romans 9:8) Circle the correct answer.
the man who wills the man who runs God who has mercy
Read Romans 9:17-18. Have you ever thought about how God demonstrated His power through a Pharaoh who did not serve Him or love Him?
Look up and read Exodus 7:8-13 and answer the following questions:
When Moses told Aaron to throw down his staff and God turned it into a serpent Pharaoh told his magicians to do the same thing. Were Pharaoh’s men able to turn their staffs into serpents? Circle your answer.
Yes No
What happened to the serpents that were made by Pharaoh’s men? Circle your answer.
the magicians serpents slithered away
Aaron’s serpent ate the magicians serpents
the magicians serpents killed Aaron’s serpent
watch the video below now.
At the beginning of this video we hear Pharaoh’s magicians calling out names. These names are all names of some of the god’s that the Egyptians worshiped. The Egyptians worshiped many false gods. They even believed that Pharaoh was a god to be worshiped. The true God begins here with the staff of Aaron to begin to show Israel, Egypt, and all the surrounding nations that He is the One and Only True God.
Look up and read Exodus 7:14 – 10:10 and Exodus 12:29-30 to learn about all the plagues that God sent to Egypt.
Watch the video below now.
Each of these plagues represented the false gods that the Egyptians worshiped. God had specifically chosen these plagues and He was using the hardness of Pharaoh’s heart to show the children of Israel and all of Egypt that He alone was God. Through these plagues He was showing them that He was more powerful than any of the gods they worshiped.
Look up and read Exodus 14:5-31 to learn about the end of Pharaoh.
Watch the video below now.
Do you remember that the Egyptians also worshiped Pharaoh as a god? So God used the hardness of Pharaoh’s heart and the splitting of the Red Sea to once again show that He alone was God. He showed His power and authority over all rulers, all gods, and over all creation, like the sky and the seas.
Look up and read Joshua 2:1-13 and answer the following questions. Circle your answers:
Had other nations heard about what God had done in Egypt?
Yes No
Go back and read Romans 9:17. Had God displayed His power throughout the whole earth?
Yes No
THINK ABOUT IT….
If Pharaoh would have let the children of Israel go when Aaron’s staff was turned into a serpent and ate his magicians serpents do you think the whole earth would have heard about it?
They most likely would not. God raised Pharaoh up and used his hard heart to show the whole earth who the real God is. God also showed the world during this time that we did not have to be a child of Jacob, Isaac, or Abraham to become a child of His.
Anyone who believed in Him and obeyed Him could be His. It is still the same today. Our salvation has always came through faith. Simply believing God and taking Him at His word.
Rahab was not child of Jacob, Isaac, or Abraham but she was saved because she believed God.
Look up and read Matthew 1:1-6. Whose name do you see listed as part of the family of Jesus? Rahab! That’s right.
Do you believe God? Are you a part of the family of Jesus? Remember it is believing the gospel that saves us all.