Romans: Arrogance+Disobedience=Mercy Romans 11:13-32
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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?
16 Now if the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,
18 do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.
19 Then you will say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”
20 True enough; they were broken off because of unbelief, but you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but beware,
21 because if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
22 Therefore, consider God’s kindness and severity: severity toward those who have fallen but God’s kindness toward you—if you remain in his kindness. Otherwise you too will be cut off.
23 And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut off from your native wild olive tree and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?
25 I don’t want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited: A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, The Deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.
28 Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage, but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,
29 since God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.
30 As you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through their disobedience,
31 so they too have now disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they also may now receive mercy.
32 For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may have mercy on all.
Introduction:
Israel (2 groups-remnant and hardened)
Remnant
1 I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel?
Hardened
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.
Israel (2 groups-natural and spiritual)
4 They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the temple service, and the promises.
5 The ancestors are theirs, and from them, by physical descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, praised forever. Amen.
6 Now it is not as though the word of God has failed, because not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
Recap
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?
16 Now if the firstfruits are holy, so is the whole batch. And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
What’s Happening in the Text?
grafted branches (vs. 17-24)
Gentiles are grafted in
there are some branches still attached and some being grafted in (v. 17)
17 Now if some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated olive tree,
The grafted ones should not boast that they are better than the fallen branches because their only strength comes from the root of the tree (vs 18)
18 do not boast that you are better than those branches. But if you do boast—you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you.
WE CAN BE ARROGANT OR LOFTY BECAUSE WE’VE BEEN SAVED. LET US LOOK AT THOSE WHO DON’T KNOW JESUS AS IF HE IS CALLING THEM TO HIMSELF.
16 From now on, then, we do not know anyone from a worldly perspective. Even if we have known Christ from a worldly perspective, yet now we no longer know him in this way.
The grafted one should not boast because they can be broken off just like the other ones. (v. 21)
21 because if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
1 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.
2 Every branch in me that does not produce fruit he removes, and he prunes every branch that produces fruit so that it will produce more fruit.
Hardened Israel will be back grafted in (v. 23-24)
23 And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God has the power to graft them in again.
24 For if you were cut off from your native wild olive tree and against nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these—the natural branches—be grafted into their own olive tree?
the hardening was a partial (v. 25)
25 I don’t want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited: A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
the hardening made way for Gentile salvation (v. 25-27)
25 I don’t want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited: A partial hardening has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
26 And in this way all Israel will be saved, as it is written, The Deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this will be my covenant with them when I take away their sins.
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28 Regarding the gospel, they are enemies for your advantage, but regarding election, they are loved because of the patriarchs,
29 since God’s gracious gifts and calling are irrevocable.
30 As you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through their disobedience,
31 so they too have now disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they also may now receive mercy.
32 For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may have mercy on all.