God Has Not Rejected His People

September 18, 2016 · Romans

Series · Romans · Week 66 of 85

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The passage this message was preached from, in full, with every other passage it reached for.

Romans 9-11 the overarching passage for the sermon series, described as God's position paper on Israel

9:1 I tell the truth in Christ. I am not lying, my conscience testifying with me in the Holy Spirit,
9:2 that I have great sorrow and unceasing pain in my heart.
9:3 For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brothers’ sake, my relatives according to the flesh,
9:4 who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;
9:5 of whom are the fathers, and from whom is Christ as concerning the flesh, who is over all, God, blessed forever. Amen.
9:6 But it is not as though the word of God has come to nothing. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel.
9:7 Neither, because they are Abraham’s offspring, are they all children. But, “your offspring will be accounted as from Isaac.”
9:8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh who are children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as heirs.
9:9 For this is a word of promise, “At the appointed time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.”
9:10 Not only so, but Rebekah also conceived by one, by our father Isaac.
9:11 For being not yet born, neither having done anything good or bad, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him who calls,
9:12 it was said to her, “The elder will serve the younger.”
9:13 Even as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”
9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!
9:15 For he said to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”
9:16 So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs, but of God who has mercy.
9:17 For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
9:18 So then, he has mercy on whom he desires, and he hardens whom he desires.
9:19 You will say then to me, “Why does he still find fault? For who withstands his will?”
9:20 But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed ask him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?”
9:21 Or hasn’t the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor?
9:22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
9:23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
9:24 us, whom he also called, not from the Jews only, but also from the Gentiles?
9:25 As he says also in Hosea, “I will call them ‘my people,’ which were not my people; and her ‘beloved,’ who was not beloved.”
9:26 “It will be that in the place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’ There they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”
9:27 Isaiah cries concerning Israel, “If the number of the children of Israel are as the sand of the sea, it is the remnant who will be saved;
9:28 for He will finish the work and cut it short in righteousness, because the LORD will make a short work upon the earth.”
9:29 As Isaiah has said before, “Unless the Lord of Armies had left us a seed, we would have become like Sodom, and would have been made like Gomorrah.”
9:30 What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, who didn’t follow after righteousness, attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith;
9:31 but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, didn’t arrive at the law of righteousness.
9:32 Why? Because they didn’t seek it by faith, but as it were by works of the law. They stumbled over the stumbling stone;
9:33 even as it is written, “Behold, I lay in Zion a stumbling stone and a rock of offense; and no one who believes in him will be disappointed.”
10:1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved.
10:2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
10:3 For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God.
10:4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
10:5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.”
10:6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down);
10:7 or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)”
10:8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth, and in your heart”; that is, the word of faith, which we preach:
10:9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
10:10 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
10:11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.”
10:12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him.
10:13 For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
10:14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher?
10:15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!”
10:16 But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?”
10:17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.
10:18 But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.”
10:19 But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will…

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Romans 10:9-10

the central point of the chiastic construction: confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead and you will be saved

9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

10 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

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Romans 11:1

rhetorical question asking whether God has rejected his people, answered with 'may it never be'

1 I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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Romans 11:2

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew, used as the first main section heading

2 God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

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Romans 11:2-4

the passage about Elijah pleading against Israel, and God's response that He had kept 7,000 who had not bowed the knee to Baal

2 God didn’t reject his people, which he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says about Elijah? How he pleads with God against Israel:

3 “Lord, they have killed your prophets, they have broken down your altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.”

4 But how does God answer him? “I have reserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal.”

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Romans 11:5

at the present time there is a remnant according to God's gracious choice

5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

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Romans 11:6

if it is by grace it is no longer on the basis of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace

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.

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Romans 11:7-8

what Israel sought it did not obtain; God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not and ears to hear not

7 What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.

8 According as it is written, “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear, to this very day.”

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Romans 11:9-10

David's words that their table would become a snare and a trap and a stumbling block

9 David says, “Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, a stumbling block, and a retribution to them.

10 Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see. Bow down their back always.”

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Romans 11:11

they did not stumble so as to fall completely; by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous

11 I ask then, did they stumble that they might fall? May it never be! But by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

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Romans 11:12

if their transgression is riches for the world, how much more will their fulfillment be

12 Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?

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Romans 11:13-14

Paul speaking to Gentiles as apostle to the Gentiles, magnifying his ministry to move his countrymen to jealousy and save some of them

13 For I speak to you who are Gentiles. Since then as I am an apostle to Gentiles, I glorify my ministry;

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

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Romans 11:15

if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead

15 For if the rejection of them is the reconciling of the world, what would their acceptance be, but life from the dead?

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Romans 11:16

if the first piece of dough is holy the lump is also; if the root is holy the branches are too

16 If the first fruit is holy, so is the lump. If the root is holy, so are the branches.

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Romans 11:17-18

wild olive branches grafted in among the natural branches; do not be arrogant, the root supports you

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 root and of the richness of the olive tree;

18 don’t boast over the branches. But if you boast, it is not you who support the root, but the root supports you.

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Romans 11:19-21

branches broken off so that Gentiles could be grafted in; they were broken off for unbelief, you stand by faith, do not be conceited but fear

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

20 True; by their unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by your faith. Don’t be conceited, but fear;

21 for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, neither will he spare you.

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Romans 11:22

behold the kindness and severity of God; continue in His kindness otherwise you will be cut off

22 See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

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Romans 11:23-24

if they do not continue in unbelief they will be grafted back in; God is able to graft them in again

23 They also, if they don’t continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.

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

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Romans 11:25

the mystery that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in

25 For I don’t desire you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, so that you won’t be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in,

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Romans 11:26

all Israel will be saved; the deliverer comes from Zion and will remove ungodliness from Jacob

26 and so all Israel will be saved. Even as it is written, “There will come out of Zion the Deliverer, and he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

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Romans 11:27

God's covenant with them when He takes away their sins

27 This is my covenant with them, when I will take away their sins.”

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Romans 11:28

from the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake; from God's standpoint beloved for the sake of their fathers

28 Concerning the Good News, they are enemies for your sake. But concerning the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.

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Romans 11:29

the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable

29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

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Romans 11:30-31

Gentiles once disobedient now shown mercy because of Jewish disobedience; Jews now disobedient so that they may also be shown mercy

30 For as you in time past were disobedient to God, but now have obtained mercy by their disobedience,

31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that by the mercy shown to you they may also obtain mercy.

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Romans 11:32

God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all; used to address the universalist heresy

32 For God has shut up all to disobedience, that he might have mercy on all.

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Romans 11:33-36

closing doxology: oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God; from him and through him and to him are all things

33 Oh the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past tracing out!

34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?”

35 “Or who has first given to him, and it will be repaid to him again?”

36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things. To him be the glory for ever! Amen.

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Recap

The message in order, in a few minutes of reading.

This message was the closing installment of a series Pastor Eric has been working through on Romans 9-11, sometimes called God's position paper on Israel. He came back to a section he had skipped, chapter 11, and worked through its two controlling questions: has God rejected his people, and have they fallen beyond recovery? The answer to both, he argued, is an emphatic no.

What was said

Pastor Eric opened by reminding the congregation of the chiastic structure he had been using to read these three chapters. The whole construction, he said, is anchored at its center by Romans 10:9-10, the confession with the mouth and belief in the heart that God raised Jesus from the dead. Everything else in the passage, including the hard questions about Israel, has to be read in light of that center point. He also noted that what comes out of a person's mouth reflects what is actually in the heart, and that what God is offering at the center of all this is peace, rest, and salvation.

He then turned to chapter 11's first major movement: God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Paul makes this argument by pointing to his own story first, since he himself is an Israelite from the tribe of Benjamin whom God saved dramatically while he was actively opposing Christ. Paul then reaches back to Elijah, who cried out to God that he alone was left. God's answer was that he had kept for himself seven thousand who had not bowed the knee to Baal. Pastor Eric pressed on that detail: it is humbling to feel like the only faithful one and then discover you are one of seven thousand. The sovereignty belongs to God, and there is always a remnant, kept by grace and not by works.

The chapter's second movement is that Israel has not stumbled so as to fall irrevocably. Pastor Eric pointed out that their rejection of the Messiah, even the crucifixion itself, was the event through which salvation reached the Gentiles. God's purpose in this was partly to make Israel jealous, to show what genuine freedom in Christ looks like compared to the exhausting weight of a works-based system. He mentioned Steven Olsham, a Jewish professor at his seminary, whose Christian friends so clearly lived out their faith that it made him angry, then curious, and eventually led him to Christ. That kind of life, Pastor Eric said, is the mode of witness Paul has in mind.

From there he walked through Paul's olive tree metaphor. Wild branches, uncultivated weeds by nature, have been grafted into a cultivated root that goes back to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The warning that accompanies that image is for Gentile believers not to become arrogant toward the natural branches, broken off or still on the tree. It is not the grafted branch that supports the root. The root supports the branch. God, who broke off the natural branches so that others could be accepted, is fully able to graft them in again, and Pastor Eric said the congregation's posture toward Jewish people should be prayer and gentle, winsome witness rather than superiority.

Pastor Eric was careful about the chapter's most contested phrase, "all Israel will be saved." He laid out the three main ways systematic theologies read that phrase, ethnic Israel alone, ethnic Israel plus the church, or only the church, and said plainly that he does not know which is right. What he does know is that the deliverer comes from Zion and will remove ungodliness from Jacob, and that it is always by the blood of Jesus. He also addressed the subjunctive verb in the closing verses directly, using it to push back against the idea that everyone will ultimately be saved regardless of choice. The "may" is there on purpose. God's will is that none should perish, but human responsibility is not dissolved.

He closed by noting that Paul's own conclusion to the whole three-chapter argument is doxology. All good theology, Pastor Eric said, should lead there. The depth of God's wisdom and knowledge, the unsearchable quality of his judgments, the fact that all things are from him and through him and to him, those realities are what the argument finally produces. The call that came with it was for humility, the kind that sings "have thine own way, Lord" and means it.

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0:00 Speaker 3I'm just thinking it's almost time to begin here. And you people are lovely. The fellowship is lovely. And it's wonderful to gather in his name. This morning, we gather in the spirit of the Lord and we're gonna worship together.

0:17 We're gonna join our voices. We're gonna raise our voices up and worship God this morning. Is everybody ready? Okay. Give a good stretch.

0:28 Let's worship together.

0:29 Speaker 2Hands out of pockets.

0:34 Speaker 3Voices up. It's come alive. Amen. Great to see y'all this morning. Let's get the words up, and then we're gonna we're gonna fly away together this morning.

0:45 Speaker 2Okay. Here we go. Sun glad morning when this life is over, I'll fly away to a home on God's celestial shore I'll fly away I'll fly away oh glory I'll fly away when I die hallelujah by and by I'll fly away when the shadows of this life have gone I'll fly away. Like a bird from prison bars has flown, I'll fly away. Fly away, oh glory, I'll fly away.

1:43 When I die, hallelujah, by and by, I'll fly away. Just a few more weary days and then I'll fly away to a land where joy shall never end. I'll fly away.

2:25 Speaker 3That wake you up a little bit. Not that you were asleep. I it was me that was up here with foggy mind, and now we're climbing right out of the fog.

2:34 Speaker 1Let's sing victory in Jesus. Hymn number three fifty three if you wanna find your part.

2:38 Speaker 3There you go.

2:46 Speaker 2I heard an old, old story how a savior came from glory, how he gave his life on Calvary to save a wretch like me. I heard about his groaning of his precious blood's atoning, and I repented of my sins and won the victory. Oh, victory in Jesus, my savior forever. He sought me and bought me with his redeeming blood. He loved me heir I knew him and all my love is to him he plunged me to victory beneath the cleansing flood I heard about his healing of his cleansing power revealing how he made the lame to walk again and cause the blind to see and then I cried near Jesus come and heal my broken spirit then somehow Jesus came and brought to me the victory oh victory in Jesus my savior forever he sought me and bought me with his redeeming blood he loved me heir I knew him and all my love is to him he plunged me to victory beneath the cleansing flood I heard about a mansion he has built for me in glory and I heard about the streets of gold beyond the crystal sea about the angels singing and the old redemption story and some sweet day I'll sing up there a song of victory amen oh victory in Jesus my savior forever he sought me and bought me with his redeeming blood.

5:34 He loved me air I knew him and all my love is to him. He plunged me to victory beneath the cleansing glow. We're going up. Here we go. Oh, in Jesus, my savior forever.

5:58 He sought me and bought me with his redeeming blood. He loved me air. I knew him, and all my love is due him. He plunge me to victory he need the cleansing Wanna go up one more time? Anyway, alright.

6:26 Speaker 1Y'all can have a seat and we'll. Alright. Have a few announcements this morning. One of em is for Awana. Awana happens on Monday nights right here in this room.

6:35 There will be a big game circle going on right right after 06:00. Starts at six. So, beginning 06:10 beginning September 12 last week started. It's a great crowd of kids because they matter to God. We pour scripture into their minds to get it into their hearts and that's a fun time.

6:54 Middle school youth group started this past week and so middle school youth group is on Thursdays at 06:30. Anything you want to add from the back back there, Renzy? Just as it's written. Middle school, middle school youth group, Thursdays at 06:30 and high school breakfast is at seven: 4five am on Friday mornings and that is a great time. Believe it or not, it's a great time for high schoolers to come out.

7:19 Seven: 4five am high school breakfast, a blessing before the weekend. Today, started a girl study, high school, middle school, high school girls from 10AM to eleven. So, during the connect hour, they have a class that meets downstairs and there's a guy study that started today during my sermon, 09:30 to 10:30 that meets in Renzi's office and that was. It was it was well attended and that must have been one of em right there. Children's church started today downstairs during the 09:00 service.

7:53 The tots went downstairs and some of the potatoes went elsewhere. But the Peak Children's Church did start today and that's a good time. They get a good age appropriate Bible lesson. That is from kindergarten through fifth grade. Monday nights at First B happens during the same time as Awana.

8:11 Down the hall, fellowship hall, we do meal, music, and a message every Monday night. Carl is up to Luke five right now going through the book of Luke. So, if you're looking for a good old gospel truth, it'll be presented along with meal and music and that's the message. The women's retreat for the ladies of of the church and the community called the promises of heaven. They change everything.

8:34 It's happened in the third weekend in October. So, that's the fourteenth through sixteenth of October. It'll be up at the Heart 6 Ranch. So, that is happening. If you want to know more information, Anne Stalker is probably the best person to talk to but you can call the church office and we'll do the best we can, okay?

8:50 Everybody got that? And I think for all other announcements, precepts is meeting Thursday mornings at 09:00. But for all other announcements, they should be in the bulletin. Is there one more that I'm forgetting? Yes?

9:03 No? Speak narrow forever. Hold your peace. Okay. I thought I missed one but I guess I didn't.

9:10 Would you stand up and greet one another and we'll bring you back together with a song. Okay,

9:17 Speaker 3let's lift his name on high. One eighteen in your hymnal.

9:21 Speaker 1If you want

9:21 Speaker 3to follow your your harmony part,

9:25 Speaker 2his name is wonderful His name is wonderful. His name is wonderful. Jesus, my lord. He is the mighty king, master of everything his name is wonderful Jesus my lord he's the great shepherd the rock of all ages, almighty God is here. Bow down before him, Love and adore him.

10:11 His name is wonderful. Jesus, my lord. His name is wonderful. His name is wonderful his name is wonderful Jesus my lord he is the mighty king master of everything his name is wonderful Jesus my lord he's the great shepherd the rock of all ages, almighty God is he. Bow down before him, Love and adore him.

11:08 His name is wonderful. Jesus, my lord. Amen.

11:18 Speaker 3Amen.

11:18 Speaker 1I like to sing bass every once in a while. Scott just speaks up. It's good.

11:24 Speaker 3The greatest thing in all my life is loving our lord. Amen.

11:30 Speaker 2The greatest thing in all my life is knowing you the greatest thing in all my life is knowing you I want to know you more I want to know you more the greatest thing in all my life is knowing you the greatest thing in all my life is loving you the greatest thing in all my life is loving you I want to love you more I want to love you more the greatest thing in all my life is loving you the greatest thing in all my life is serving you greatest thing in all my life is serving you I want to serve you more I want to serve you more the greatest thing in all my life is serving you

13:29 Speaker 1Amen. Y'all can have a seat. I'm gonna invite the frontline team to come forward, please. And would you pray with me? God, we thank you for this time.

13:41 I feel the rhythms of life establishing themselves after school has started back up, and we are more and more in this valley, those who live full time in this valley, Lord, and I see our opportunity for the evangel going forth from here starting to wane a bit but I see a time where we come together and we learn to know more about you. We can feel and sense and share your love and then we serve, Lord. So I I think of this time of year as just when the home folks are here as being a time where you would grow us up and mature us. Give us your peace and your comfort and your rest, Lord, but we never wanna stop reaching out. So would you take some of what you have given to us that we're acknowledging you gave it and we're giving it back so that you would have your will done in your way starting right here in this one church of this capital c church in this valley, in this state, and beyond to reach the uttermost parts, the ends of the earth.

14:43 Lord, would you take these tithes and offerings, and would you multiply them to do your kingdom work? Would you advance the great name of Jesus and the gospel of peace available through his love and forgiveness in Jesus name. Amen. Thank you, Judy and Jennifer. Beautiful rendition of Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.

16:05 So, this morning, I am I'm going to go back to this. This is the the ending of the sermon series that I started a few weeks ago. I heard Sam Souther call it God's position paper on Israel from chapters nine through eleven and eleven deals a lot with Israel. So, I started this several weeks back. We went week after week going through the A, the B, the C, the D of this kiosk construction.

16:33 It's a way of thinking. It's a Hebrew way of thinking and a Greek way of writing too. That central point is the most important one. So the first week though, I covered these outer two points. Both of these outer two points affirm the central point at D.

16:50 So, it's A, B, C, D, C, B, A. What's funny about this, I I started this presentation and then I had a vacation in there when I was telling Carl where we were in the scripture. I said, just skip chapter 11. Go to twelve, twelve one and then, after he presented on twelve one and two, he did such a great job. I thought, man, am I going kill the momentum and go backwards or what?

17:10 Because 12 is where things really start to take off about how to serve, how to live this out rather than the theology behind what's going on and so, I was like, I'm going to go with Carl. Well, I'm not sure. I really am committed to going through these things in order. Which is it? So, I prepared a sermon for both.

17:31 On the way into church, Eric Walker was telling me a few weeks ago. On the way in, the day that we were out of town and Carl was preaching, she said, daddy, what's going on at church today? And she he said, oh, Carl's preaching today. She said, good. Because she said, A, B, C, D, C, B, A is not that complicated and I think we've got it.

17:57 I did not take any disrespect from that. I was so tired of this by the time we got away from it. I'm glad that we can come back to it now. Now, out of the two sermons, out of the two sermons that I had prepared, I felt this would be the weaker sermon. After Carl's presentation on one and two, I thought I'd grab one and two and go on down to about verse eight or so and that one is what I presented.

18:17 This one I had waiting in the wings but I am committed to doing these things in an orderly fashion. So, we're going back and picking up that which I skipped. Even if it was the worst of the two sermons, you're gonna get to hear that one now, okay? Actually, we went forward from the introduction. Remember the empathy that Paul had for the the for his people, the Jews.

18:37 He had such empathy for him. He said that if I could give my salvation away, if I could be a curse, anathema outside of God in order for them to accept it all, I would do that but Paul knew he had sin in his life that he had to pay for. He could not give up his salvation for that but he had the empathy that if he could, he would have. That's that first section. Sorrow for the lost status of the Jewish people because they had rejected Christ.

19:04 Now, the conclusion he got to and we covered that in the same sermon was praise and rejoicing at the unfathomable riches of God's wisdom and his knowledge. So, we cover both of those, the A sections in one sermon. B, would have been too long to cover both. I wanted to but I just couldn't get there. So, we did.

19:23 Is it God's fault? He answers that. The latter half of chapter nine, No. God has not failed Israel. Well, he's God.

19:31 So, he does not fail. What he set out to do with Israel, he chose them to be his people, wrote the whole Old Testament about their acceptance and their rejection and acceptance and rejection over and over and over again. He has not failed Israel and so, the next week, we covered all of this. Is it Israel's fault? And we determined by reading up that far, nine and ten primarily, the green part there.

20:00 We determined that, yes, it was Israel's fault because of a works based righteousness. So far at least. Now, they had taken the good that God had given, the blessing that he'd given to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and he they had reduced it to a legalistic set of rules that you had to either do or not do and they had walked away in their hearts. Their hearts were not circumcised as we see several times throughout. They were following all the trappings of the religion that God had presented them but they were not doing it with the heart.

20:36 They were seeking after God's favor by their righteousness but the optimistic thing about this is the very central point of what's going on is verse nine and verse 10 that say, if you confess with your mouth and Jesus says, lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. That's very optimistic. For this to be the absolute center point of this kiosk construction is incredibly hopeful because it leaves open the whosoever will may come. You will be safe for with the heart a person believes result in in righteousness and with the mouth he confesses resulting in salvation. So, the central point of all three of these chapters is salvation from the heart that will overflow out of the mouth.

21:19 So, you will be saved. Absolute center of that construction and there it is again. It's about the heart and out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks. And just stopping right there just for a second to say, if what is coming out of your mouth is venom and cursing and aggravation and frustration, don't be fooled. That's what's in your heart.

21:43 Okay? If what's coming out of your mouth, if if you can't help but communicate your aggravation to people, then, you are aggravated in your heart. What God's offering is peace, what he's offering is rest, what he's offering is comfort, and love, and salvation. So, that's the central point and I love that if we keep that clear about everything else that we're studying today, this has to be central to it, alright? Belief in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead with salvation in mind, a ransom for many.

22:16 So, here we are again. Is it Israel's fault? Came next in the latter part of chapter 10 and yes, it is because of their failure to believe. Now, they believe that there would come a Messiah but when he actually came, they did not believe in him. So, yes, it is Israel's fault that they stand separated from God at that time.

22:40 By failure to believe. Now, whosoever believes will be saved is a central point and God has not failed Israel. So, we are today going to cover this. Is it God's fault? Again, now, if you want to, it it's helpful to me to think of this as that top B section was about the past and this next B section is about the future.

23:03 So, it's about what God had done in the past and what God will do in the future for his chosen people. If you had to break the chapter down, I I see it in two, mainly two categories and they're characterized by a verse in each one of em. This is verse two of chapter 11. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. God has not turned his back on his people whom he foreknew.

23:30 The second one was, they have not fallen irrevocably. They have not fallen so as not to rise again. Irrevocably, this is not something that is to be forever. So, those two sections, I think, to me, make the most sense as the way to think about this and as I looked at these two, I know that the temptation for this chapter is to systematize and when you systematize things, say, you do it in this particular systematic theology or this one or this one, you're going to come up and you're going to put periods where there are no periods. You're going to put an exclamation point on places where he's saying it in passing as information.

24:09 I ask you today to apply this biblical passage to your own life today. Try your best to think about it. Now, it does answer questions about God's chosen people, the people, Israel, the Jews. Some people say it also includes the church in that and some people say it doesn't include Israel at all anymore that we are Israel. So, there are a lot of different ways that you can think about it politically.

24:34 I know a lot of you have made up your mind politically about this. I'm not saying I haven't but for this passage, let it touch you in your heart today. That's what I'm asking you for because I believe that in the in the whole of chapter 11, we see two things that are overwhelmingly true. He wrote this as an encouragement to those who were believers in Jesus in the church whether they be pagan flavored, Gentiles, or Jewish flavored Christians, okay? Hope and humility to me are what come out of this, the strongest.

25:04 So, here we start in Romans eleven one. He uses a rhetorical question, rhetorical question. Actually, you can see it in Greek demands a no response but I say then, God has not rejected his people, has he? May it never be. Meganoito, absolutely not.

25:21 No, he hasn't. Uh-uh. No way. God forbid. He does not break promises and the promises that he made to his people will be accomplished.

25:31 So, that's the way he starts off. That's pretty strong. May it never be. For I too, Paul says, am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. He's saying, he has not rejected his people because I'm one of his people and he has not rejected me.

25:48 Now, he was dramatically saved as he opposed the church. So, was it Paul's works that got him in with God to the point where he would be saved? No. He was actually opposing Christ, persecuting Jesus. Jesus said, and he was miraculously and graciously saved on that road to Damascus and so he says, God has not rejected his people.

26:12 He has not rejected me and I go everywhere that I go into the synagogue and express what God showed me about all of the Old Testament passages and all of the prophets and everything else pointing to where Jesus is the savior, the Messiah. So, no, he has not rejected his people. His people are his people. For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew or do you not know what the scripture says in the passage about Elijah?

26:43 How he pleads with God against Israel. Do you all remember the passage? Do you not know? Do you know? The passage about Elijah.

26:51 If you think about it, Elijah lived in a time with Ahab and Jezebel. Not a very good leadership for the country. Incredibly selfish, incredibly contra God, always against anything that his prophets had to say. They were bloodthirsty, criminal, awful leaders. Do you not know what the scripture says in the passage about Elijah?

27:16 How he pleads with God against Israel? Because they were a rough, rough people with some horrible leadership. Lord, they have killed your prophets. They have torn down your altars and I alone and left and they are seeking my life. Did you hear the I alone?

27:35 Now, I know a lot of y'all were here last week. Remember the story about Ironsides? I closed the sermon with the story about Ironsides where he said, lord, I guess I'm the only person that would have done that. There's a little bit of that going on with Elijah right here. He knew that he had been faithful.

27:49 He knew he had not and what would not bow the knee to Baal but he's praying to God and said, they've killed your prophets. They've tore down your altars and only me, lord. It's just me. I'm your lone one left and they're seeking my life. And the divine response or Paul says, but what is the divine response to him?

28:09 And God says, I have kept myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee to Baal. I have kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee to Baal. So, is that hopeful? Yes. When he feels like he's the absolutely only one and then he cries out to God and God responds, amen.

28:31 God's listening. That's hopeful and when he does, what he responds is, there are 7,000 that have not bowed the knee. If you're feeling alone and then you feel figure out that you've got 7,000 more troops, you feel like God might do something mighty. That's hopeful. It's also humbling to feel like you're the only one and find out you're one out of 7,001.

28:54 Or maybe more. 7,000 some people we I take it to be 7,000. It says 7,000 but seven is a number of perfection and thousand is a great number. So, there's a great perfect fullness, a perfect number that I have chosen for myself who have not yet bowed their knee to Baal. There's always a remnant.

29:15 In fact, I think that's the next verse. In the same way then, there has also come to be at this present time, a remnant. Now, he is saying pretty directly analogy here. He saying that at that evil time, that evil time, evil time of Elijah and Ahab and Jezebel, he said, in the same way now, at this time, there has come to be at this present time, a remnant according to God's gracious choice. Paul would consider himself a part of that remnant along with the other apostles who have been raised Jewish but then seen Jesus for who he was, the Messiah, the Christ.

29:51 There has also come to be at this present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice but if it is by grace, then it is no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise, grace is no longer grace. When God set up at the top, I have kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bailed bowed the knee to Baal. He's saying that it's my business. I'm the one who has done it.

30:12 The sovereignty of God does play in there. Each of these guys had the choice to bow their knee to Baal. He said, I am keeping them strong. Those who have stood firm, they do so by my will and my way. If it's on the basis of grace, it's no longer on the basis of works.

30:30 Otherwise, grace is no longer grace. Praise God. What then? What's the response to that if grace is grace, it's grace. What then?

30:39 What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained. Now, why? Because he's already covered this that they were seeking it by their rituals and by their regulations and without heartfelt understanding. They were seeking it by the trappings of religiosity and not by their circumcision of the hearts where they have given themselves to God. What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained but those who were chosen obtained it and some of those were of that land, that ethnic line of Israel.

31:13 Paul himself was and would have included himself in that chosen few and the rest of them were hardened. Just as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see, and ears to hear not or eyes to see not and ears to hear not down to this very day. Now, when he was writing that, think about Paul. Paul, this very, very Orthodox and religious Jew that had been trained at the feet of Gamaliel that had all of this understanding and then was arrested on that road to Damascus changed completely and becomes Jesus's servant, an apostle to the Gentiles. Now, he's the apostle to the Gentiles, understands his role very, very well but where does he start in every city he goes to?

32:01 In the synagogue. He always starts with the people who are supposed to know God because of his word, because of his choosing, because of the roots that he had put down for them and Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, I would say, Jesus also. Just as it is written, God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes to see not, nears to hear not, down to this very day but that doesn't stop Paul from witnessing to him. It doesn't stop Paul from continuing to carry the evangel, the gospel, and all of the proto Euangelion, the pre gospel stuff that got all of the figures and all of the traditions, what they were pointing towards. He shares that with them all of the time.

32:39 Down to this very day, he says, even using David, let their table, that is the trappings of their religious meals, sir systems, let their table, their traditions become a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a repute retribution to them. Let their eyes be darkened to see not and bend their backs forever. That doesn't sound hopeful. I'll I'll have to admit that. But David is seeing the wanderings and the wayward heart that tradition can bring.

33:22 He was somewhat of a nontraditional king, wasn't he? I say then, they did not stumble in such a way so as to fall completely and irrevocably, did they? I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall completely away from God. Did they? Meganoito, may it never be?

33:43 Absolutely not. God forbid. Unthinkable, inconceivable. No. They did not fall away and so that they could not arise again but by their transgression, by the fact that they rejected, which was forecast ahead of time that they would do, by the fact that they rejected Jesus, salvation has come to the Gentiles.

34:08 I've all throughout the Old Testament. The Old Testament's hard anyway but it's hard for me because you see that they were supposed to be this great light unto the world, this light to the Gentiles. Yet, what happened with the Jewish people is they turned inward and they didn't give up the blessing. They hoarded the blessing of God and so we see without any outlet whatsoever, they harden themselves to the point that they were just broken They fell. They fell away from what it was really about.

34:43 They they trusted in their traditions instead of the heart of God for others which was forecast. It was part of what was going to happen. By their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles. Actually, you could even list this by their transgression, their actual arrest, seizure, and kangaroo court with Jesus. Actually, crucifying the Christ is what brought salvation to the Gentiles.

35:09 Are you with me? To make them jealous God has a purpose. Paul had a purpose Their transgression brought salvation to the Gentiles to make them jealous. Do you know what it's like to be caught up in an overwhelming religiosity where everything you do is ordered and has to be and the failure rate on that is awful and the freedom that's available in Christ is what is actual and real. That would make me jealous.

35:44 Actually, Steven Olsham was a professor at the college in my seminary and he was Olsham was a Jewish guy from a Jewish family and he started hanging out in college with some guys that were Christians and they were gentle and they lived out their Christianity well in front of him and it made him mad. It made him mad that they lived life so well, yet they did none of the things that he had been raised to do every single day of his whole life and he started looking into it more and more. He listened to the claims of Paul. He listened to the claims of the New Testament and he converted to Christianity and now ministers among his people. Those ethnic Jews.

36:26 So now, if their transgression at that time is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be? The greater Stephen Olsham for as an example, he understands Torah and now he really understands it. He really gets it. How much richer will that fulfillment be? And it says there, it's multiple, it's plural, but I'm speaking to you who are Gentiles, Paul says.

36:51 Primarily, I'm talking to the pagan flavored Christians, the ones who came out of paganism into the church, the Ecclesia and not as much right now to the the Jews because if they're Jews and they understand their Judaism, they know that they gotta keep on reaching out to their brothers and sisters of the flesh but the Gentiles have it had had a tendency to feel superior and Paul is asking for their humility here. I'm speaking to you who are Gentiles and as much as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry so that if somehow, I might move to jealousy, my countrymen, and save some of them. I want to show them what this whole light of the nation's business was about. I want to show em who this Isaiah 53 servant, suffering servant was. I want to provoke them and save some of them.

37:46 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, so far, the chosen people of God have been of this one race, of this one little small sect and their rejection spreads it out to the whole world. What will their acceptance be but life from the dead? Amen. If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also and if the root is holy, the branches are too. Now, he goes into an agricultural metaphor here and I don't know anything about horticulture whatsoever.

38:18 I mean, I understand grafting in from this but I hadn't ever done it and I've never really successfully raised anything. That's my brother's business. I'll fix the lawn mower. You cut, you know, you you plant the grass. If some of the branches were broken off and you being a wild olive and actually a better translation for wild olive is an uncultivated weed.

38:40 If you and uncultivated weed were grafted in among them and you became a partaker with them of the rich root of this olive tree that goes way back, you know, goes back to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, God's promise and his covenant with his people. Some of the branches were broken off and you being this wild olive or uncultivated olive. You are grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root, the sap of this olive tree. Humility. Do not be arrogant toward the branches, not the ones that have fallen on the ground and not the ones still attached to the tree which they were in community with at the church at Rome.

39:25 They're in community with some of the branches are still on the tree. Do you get that? You get the metaphor? Do not be arrogant toward the branches but if you are arrogant, remember that it's not you who supports the root but the root supports you. We run the risk as Christians of divorcing ourselves completely from the Old Testament and all the promises of God if we bash that.

39:50 Does that make sense? God does not, he's not slack concerning his promise. He's going to follow through on his promises. Don't be arrogant. There's humility there.

40:00 If you are arrogant, remember that it's not you who supports the root. Your Jewish heritage is very very important. It's grounded. The promises of God. The root supports you.

40:11 You will say then that branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in and that could lead one to pride. Well, they had a faulty system and so they have fallen away but I'm good and I'm here. Paul goes on, says, quite right. They were broken off and and they were broken off because of their unbelief. They rejected God's way but you stand by your faith and it's by grace through faith.

40:37 It's still God's grace. You stand by your faith. So, do not be conceded. There's humility. But fear.

40:46 For think about this, if God did not spare the natural branches, he cannot spare you either. It's by grace. It's his grace. Now, that for an eternal security guy, I will admit, I'm an eternal security guy. Absolutely.

40:59 Once you are saved, you are always saved and you can't be plucked out of the hand of God. Nothing can separate you from the love of Jesus but that is a fairly strong warning right there, right? Behold then, the kindness and the severity of God To those who fail, it's severity because they were sincerely seeking after God by their works and it's severe and it's hard. It's hard to see folks in this community who are incredibly devout but wrong. But to you, God's kindness.

41:34 If you continue in his kindness, perseverance, otherwise, you also will be cut off. If you get away from the heart of God, if you get away from the gospel, the generations after you will not even know what it was about. If it's all religiosity and tradition, what should we do then with words of warning? As eternal security folks, should we just skip over them? No.

41:58 When he says, be careful lest you fall. What should you do? Be careful lest you fall. Stick with him. Persevere.

42:07 Go on through it. In humility and they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, the other thing is, if you start bashing them, well, they just had this. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I'm the one that's right because my heart is right before God. He says, but wait a second, if they if they do not continue in their unbelief, they'll be grafted back in. For God is able to graft them in again.

42:34 He's the one who split them off so that you could be accepted and he can put em right back. So, don't get so hardy. For if you were cut off from what is by nature, a wild olive tree or an uncultivated herb or weed and you were grafted contrary to nature. Was it contrary to your nature that God saved you? Yes.

42:55 So, if you could be saved contrary to your nature into a cultivated olive tree, this great root, root of Jesse. Actually, there's a play on words too. Did y'all know Netzer is the word in Hebrew for root and Nazareth is drawn straight from that Hebrew root. Nazareth, Jesus of Nazareth. Jesus, the root of the root.

43:14 I just like that. So, how much more than will these who are natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? It's much easier for a plant that is that plant to be grafted into that plant again. Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the promises made to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will stand true. And those branches that have fallen, God can graft back in.

43:41 So rather than considering our status right now and thinking that we have survived and they have not. Let's pray that God would graft them back in. Let's reach out to them with the good news of the gospel in a gentle and humble way with a winsome lifestyle. For I do not want you brethren to be uninformed of this mystery. Oh, it actually is a mystery.

44:05 Now, when we try to put a period where God doesn't put a period, when we try to say that something that is somewhat ambiguous is exactly this way, I think we do God a disservice. It is a mystery and Paul admits it right here. For I do not want you brothers and sisters to be uninformed of this mystery so that you will not be wise in your own estimation. Humility. That a partial hardening and it's only partial because there is a remnant that a partial hardening has happened to Israel just until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

44:40 So, I can see from this, I see that at the end of human history, the end of human time that after the fullness of the Gentiles have come in, I see a massive conversion of Jews to Jesus. That's what I see and that goes along hand in hand with a couple of different systematic theologies but I I think it stands out right there. A partial hardening has happened for your benefit Gentile Christians until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in and so, all Israel will be saved. Now, right here, all Israel is where the systematic theologies diverge. Some say that all Israel means only ethnic Israel that's pure and has been kept pure.

45:21 Some say, all Israel is all of those ethnic Israel, Israel, and the church, Ecclesia added together and some say, it is just the Ecclesia, the called out ones, Christians, has nothing at all whatsoever to do with the Jewish ethnic race. I don't know. I don't know. I'm not sure. I do know that all Israel will be saved though because that's what it says.

45:49 God, would you have us understand where we are and consider our place in you, realizing it's by grace that we are saved alone, that you have justified us by faith, and everyone you have justified will be glorified. Lord, we don't know who those people are. Your central point here being, whosoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Would you allow us as your believers to live out a life and be able to answer clearly as to your grace so that more would come in to the fullness. Amen.

46:22 The deliverer comes from Zion. He will remove ungodliness from Jacob and this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins. So, who is Israel? Everyone whose sins have been taken away. I don't know how he does it.

46:35 I just know that he does it. It's always by the blood of Jesus. The Old Testament Jews had to look forward to a Messiah who would come. The provision that God would make. They had stories like Abraham and the provision of the ram and all of the other sacrificial system pointing towards the Messiah.

46:55 We have the whole New Testament pointing back to the Messiah. This special time that Paul was writing was right in that transitional era. It's a difficult time to be alive. Paul articulates it very well for both ages. This is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.

47:15 Now, from the standpoint of the gospel, they are indeed enemies for your sake. Do you get that? The Jews are indeed enemies. Paul knows this because he has been reaching into the synagogue everywhere he's been for the last twenty two years and he has been rejected almost out of hand but there's always a trickle of Jewish remnant that will go with him. From the standpoint of the gospel, they are enemies for your sake.

47:39 The people of Rome that were in this church would face people and rejection from Jews. They are enemies for your sake from the standpoint of the good news of the gospel but from the standpoint of God and from his choice, their beloved for the sake of their fathers. God remembers his people. He remembers his covenants. He remembers what's going on and he is the one who does the hardening so that it would spread out.

48:07 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. Now, when I see this, most often that I see this verse used, it's almost always in a missionary or a pastor's prayer letter when they have fallen into some sort of sin and they want to continue ministering. They say, the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. That's not from the context. You'll see that that's not what that is, right?

48:28 God has made an offer and once you have accepted the gift of eternal life, he's not going to take it back and he has made an offer through his people and none of the promises that were ever made to Israel have ever been revoked. The gifts in the calling of God are irrevocable. For just as you, Gentile Christians, just as you, once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their Jewish disobedience. So, these also now have been disobedient though they were God's chosen people and they have now gone against Jesus and been disobedient to what they should have known that because of the mercy shown to you, they may also now be shown mercy. Paul was saying that the influx of all these Gentile Christians coming in should provoke Israel to jealousy and it should bring them to accept the facts of Jesus's life, death, resurrection, and be shown the mercy of God.

49:31 Because of the mercy shown to you, they also may. If you can't see that's green instead of yellow, that may there is a subjunctive verb. It's dependent upon two wills. It's not just the will of God. The will of God is that no one should perish but that all should come to know him and to eternal life but he leaves your responsibility intact with that little subjunctive right there.

49:55 He may show mercy to because central point of the whole lesson, whosoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. Alright, I think that's it. The very last verse, I want you to see the May in there also because there is a fairly popular heresy in the past few years. You might have heard of it. Love Wins was a book that Rob Bell wrote a while back and it is very popular and very convenient because it it says that love wins.

50:23 God's love eclipses all. It trumps everything and everyone will eventually come to a saving knowledge of Christ and be saved and heaven is for everybody. There's no such thing as hell and that is heresy. It is flat heresy. It's not even a new heresy.

50:38 It's an old but very popular and very convenient one. If you don't want to have to live your life in a holy and separate way, it's convenient to think that your neighbor will spend eternity with you and Jesus. This verse actually has a subjunctive verb right there too. For God has shut up all in disobedience, all are sinful, right? We know that.

51:00 There's no unrighteous, no, not one. For God has shut up all in disobedience so that he may show mercy to all. He may. Now, because of Jesus but dependent upon your will, he will not disturb your responsibility for making that choice. I think that's the last verse.

51:18 So, is it God's fault? No. God cannot be held liable or accountable. God has not failed Israel and no, he still has not rejected them such as for them to be rejected forever because whoever believes will be saved and I think that's it. Judy, would you come up?

51:36 Scott, would you mind coming on back up? And we'll sing, have thine own way, lord. I think there's some humility here too. Because when we think we know and we get really, really hearty and aggravated. Are we really letting God have his way?

51:53 Are we really trying to have our own? So, as you look over these verses, consider them, consider how it is and sing em out if you mean em.

52:03 Speaker 3Amen. Amen.

52:12 Speaker 2Have thine own way have thine own way thou art the potter I am the clay mold me and make me after thy will while I am waiting yielded and still have thine own way lord have thine own way search me and try me master today whiter than snow lord wash me just now as in thy presence humbly I bow have thine own way lord have thine own way wounded and weary help me I pray Power, all power, surely is thine. Touch me and heal me. Savior, divine. Have thine own way lord have thine own way hold o'er my being absolute sway filled with thy spirit till all shall see Christ only

54:03 Speaker 1always living in me and the last couple of our last slide is what immediately follows this in the text and I covered it several weeks ago but just listen to what Paul comes up with. All good theology should lead to doxology. This is a hopeful thing in spurring us on the humility and then Paul says, oh, the depth of the riches, both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his judgments and unfathomable his ways. For who has known the mind of the Lord or who become has become his counselor or who has first given to him that it might be paid back to him again.

54:47 For from him and through him and to him are all thanks. To him be the glory forever. Amen. Amen.

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