THE ROOT SUPPORTS YOU

SLIDE 1 OLIVE TREE branch with olives

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Romans 11:7 (NASB95)

7 What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but those who were chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;

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Romans 11:8 (NASB95)

8 just as it is written,

“God gave them a spirit of stupor,

Eyes to see not and ears to hear not,

Down to this very day.”

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Romans 11:11 (NASB95)

11 I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.

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Romans 11:12 (NASB95)

12 Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be!

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Romans 11:16 (NASB95)

16 If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.

The promise - Abraham Isaac Jacob.....then Israel

SLIDE 7 OLIVE TREE ROOTS

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Romans 11:17 (NASB95)

17 But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree,

SLIDE 9 OLIVE TREE GRAFTED BRANCHES

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Romans 11:18 (NASB95)

18 do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.

arrogant - don’t boast against, don’t rejoice against, don’t glory over

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Romans 11:19 (NASB95)

19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.”

SLIDE 12 BROKEN OFF BRANCHES GRAFTED NEW

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Romans 11:20 (NASB95)

20 Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear;

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Romans 11:24 (NASB95)

24 For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?

SLIDE 15 GROVE OF OLIVE TREES

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Romans 11:25 (NASB95)

25 For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;

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OLIVE TREE

symbol of peace

oil for anointing / oil for light

1 flower in 100 bears fruit

only cultivated olive tree bears fruit (cultivated grafted to wild)

contrary to nature - God grafted wild to cultivated

Possible story of Jotham and the trees ruling

SLIDE 18 OLIVE TREE branch with olives

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