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Introduction
Throughout , Paul has been building the case that says, Israel rejected the Messiah.
Because of their rejection, God opened up salvation to the Gentiles.
The question remains, is God rejecting his people?
tells us that God still desires that Jews come to know Him through Jesus.
Isaiah says that God continues to hold out His hands to a disobedient and obstinate people—Israel.
A Remnant Chosen by Grace
Just like in the days of Elijah when God kept 7,000 who did not bow down to Baal, He has kept a remnant in the present day—chosen by grace.
Paul tells us that God is not finished with Israel.
In fact, when you come to the next couple of verses gives us some idea of what God is doing.
The first thing we need to do is look at the word “hardened.”
This is not the same word that Paul has previously used in 9:18.
This word means “God hardening permanently binds people in the sin that they have chosen for themselves.”
One J. Randal Price presents it this way in “The Prophetic Postponement in and Other Texts” (p.
136)
“This postponement in Israelite history is not so much an interruption of redemption as an extension of predicted hardening ().
The Exile, which was a punishment for national disobedience, has therefore been prolonged during the present age until the appointed time for Israel’s national (and spiritual) restoration (; ; ).”
To support this idea, Paul combines two texts— and .
Then he further supports this idea by quoting .
I want you to see a couple of words in Psalms.
First is the word translated “table.”
It could be translated “blessings.”
So the blessings God gave Israel became a snare and a trap for them.
This snare or trap ended up to be a “stumbling block” and a “retribution” or “judgement” for them.
Stumbled but not beyond recovery
Romans 11:11-
Because of Israel’s stumbling and falling, salvation was opened up to the Gentiles.
Paul says “because of their transgressions, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious.”
Yet God has always loved the Jews!
So if the Jews have fallen so that the world and Gentiles could be blessed, how much would God rejoice and bless them when they come to Him through Jesus?
The answer—A Lot!
Romans 11:13-
Tom Constable, Tom Constable’s Expository Notes on the Bible (Galaxie Software, 2003), .
The Apostle to Gentiles?
I always think of Paul as my Apostle—and he says he’s the apostle to the Gentiles.
But even as he saw the Gentiles come to Jesus in great numbers, Paul always had a desire that the Jews would be jealous and want to come to Jesus.
The Warning!
Consider. . .
Romans 11:22-
We—Gentiles—need to consider two things.
First we need to consider the kindness of God—the kindness the Gentiles have experienced.
Secondly we need to consider the sternness of God—the sternness to those who fell.
We love to focus on God’s Love, but we need to understand that God does not tolerate sin.
Yes, God opened up salvation to the Gentiles, but He still longs for Israel to be saved!
Romans 11:25-
God Still Has a Plan for Israel
I love this fact!
“The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.”
God’s gifts are irrevocable, and God will offer Israel mercy!
“For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that He may have mercy on them all.”
v 32.
Because of this Paul sings out the praises of God.
This passage reminds us how great and magnificent God really is:
God’s depths of God’s riches
God’s depth of God’s wisdom
God’s depth of God’s knowledge
Man can’t understand His judgments.
Man can’t trace out God’s paths.
Man can’t know the mind of the Lord.
No man has ever counseled God.
No man has ever give to God so that God owes man something.
All things are through God, to Him are all things.
To God be glory forever!
Amen.
The painful truth is that God does not need man.
God doesn’t learn from man.
God doesn’t answer to man.
Man NEEDS God.
God learns from God.
And mans answers to God.
Mankind is to give God the glory He deserves.
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