November 26, 2023
Evening Service

The Remnant of Israel

Rom 11:1  I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

Rom 11:2  God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying,

Rom 11:3  "LORD, THEY HAVE KILLED YOUR PROPHETS AND TORN DOWN YOUR ALTARS, AND I ALONE AM LEFT, AND THEY SEEK MY LIFE"?

Rom 11:4  But what does the divine response say to him? "I HAVE RESERVED FOR MYSELF SEVEN THOUSAND MEN WHO HAVE NOT BOWED THE KNEE TO BAAL."

God is in charge and controls of whatever happens.

Rom 11:5  Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

Rom 11:6  And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Rom 11:7  What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded.

 

There were some of the Jews who believe, 3000 at Peter’s first message in Act 2:38.

Mercy and Grace has replaced the Law and Works for all to the Jew and Gentiles.

 

Rom 11:8  Just as it is written: "GOD HAS GIVEN THEM A SPIRIT OF STUPOR, EYES THAT THEY SHOULD NOT SEE AND EARS THAT THEY SHOULD NOT HEAR, TO THIS VERY DAY."

Rom 11:9  And David says: "LET THEIR TABLE BECOME A SNARE AND A TRAP, A STUMBLING BLOCK AND A RECOMPENSE TO THEM.

Rom 11:10  LET THEIR EYES BE DARKENED, SO THAT THEY DO NOT SEE, AND BOW DOWN THEIR BACK ALWAYS."

Gentiles Grafted In

Rom 11:11  I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles.

 

Rom 11:12  Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!

 

Rom 11:13  For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,

Rom 11:14  if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.

Rom 11:15  For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

Allegory of the root of the Olive Tree.

 

Rom 11:16  For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.

Rom 11:17  And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree,

 

Rom 11:18  do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

Rom 11:19  You will say then, "Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in."

Rom 11:20  Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.

Rom 11:21  For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.

 

Rom 11:22  Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off.

 

Rom 11:23  And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

Rom 11:24  For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

 

The Mystery of Israel's Salvation

Rom 11:25  For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

 

Rev 7:4  And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel were sealed: 

 

Rom 11:26  And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "THE DELIVERER WILL COME OUT OF ZION, AND HE WILL TURN AWAY UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB

Rom 11:27  FOR THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS."

Rom 11:28  Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

Rom 11:29  For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Irrevocable, God’s promises to those of Old and to us of today.

 

Gen 12:3  I will bless those who bless you, And I will curse him who curses you; And in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." 

 

Gen 15:18  On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates—

Gen 15:19  the Kenites, the Kenezzites, the Kadmonites,

Gen 15:20  the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Rephaim,

Gen 15:21  the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Girgashites, and the Jebusites."

 

 

Rom 11:30  For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,

Rom 11:31  even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy.

Rom 11:32  For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

God did not just give his only begotten Son, but also temporarily blinded his chosen people for the benefit of all.

 

Rom 11:33  Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

Rom 11:34  "FOR WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD? OR WHO HAS BECOME HIS COUNSELOR?"

Rom 11:35  "OR WHO HAS FIRST GIVEN TO HIM AND IT SHALL BE REPAID TO HIM?"

Rom 11:36  For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.