Romans: Rejection, Jealousy, and Acceptance-Romans 11:13-15
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13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
14 if I might somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.
15 For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
Introduction:
Redemptive history is a general term to describe the study of God's acts of redemption from creation to the present. All of redemptive history can be said to climax and culminate in the Cross, encompassing Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection.
When we look at this text through RH (all text should be viewed through this), we better see God’s sovereign and unfolding plan.
THE TEXT:
Paul is speaking to the Gentiles
He is admonishing them to not think that they are better than the Jews
He is pointing them to God’s plan of salvation
The Jews are not better than the Gentiles and visa versa
The falling of the Jews made way to the salvation of the Gentiles
Jealous=provoking (not ungodly envy)
GOD’S PLAN
Abraham, father of many nations
1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord appeared to him, saying, “I am God Almighty. Live in my presence and be blameless.
2 I will set up my covenant between me and you, and I will multiply you greatly.”
3 Then Abram fell facedown and God spoke with him:
4 “As for me, here is my covenant with you: You will become the father of many nations.
5 Your name will no longer be Abram; your name will be Abraham, for I will make you the father of many nations.
6 I will make you extremely fruitful and will make nations and kings come from you.
7 I will confirm my covenant that is between me and you and your future offspring throughout their generations. It is a permanent covenant to be your God and the God of your offspring after you.
Abraham is the father of the Jews. The Jews disobeyed God. The Jew rejected Jesus. But God had a remnant.
REJECTION, Apart of the plan?
Did they not hear? Did they not understand? Romans 10:18-19
18 But I ask, “Did they not hear?” Yes, they did: Their voice has gone out to the whole earth, and their words to the ends of the world.
19 But I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” First, Moses said, I will make you jealous of those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that lacks understanding.
a stupor (God is just in hardening hearts)
7 What then? Israel did not find what it was looking for, but the elect did find it. The rest were hardened,
8 as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that cannot see and ears that cannot hear, to this day.
Gentiles saved without customs
7 After there had been much debate, Peter stood up and said to them, “Brothers, you are aware that in the early days God made a choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles would hear the gospel message and believe.
8 And God, who knows the heart, bore witness to them by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he also did to us.
9 He made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.
10 Now then, why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the disciples’ necks that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?
a redemptive plan
13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles. Insofar as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
14 if I might somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.
15 For if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
Romans: An Introduction and Commentary 2. Admonition to Gentile Christians (11:13–24)
Life from the dead. The meaning may be that Israel’s conversion will be the immediate precursor of the resurrection, to coincide with the parousia of Christ