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Romans 11
The Future of Israel
Key Issues
•Verses 1-4 – Has God cast away His people?
(i.e., Israel?)
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class=3DBB style=3D'position:absolute;left:-4.43%'>•Verses 5-6
– The remnant
•Verses 7-=
10
– Israel failed to find righteousness by their wor=
ks;
their failure was a result of their disobedience and <=
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'>failure
to receive their righteousness by faith.Chapter 11 Summary
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class=3DBB style=3D'position:absolute;left:-4.43%'>•Remnant of
Israel
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class=3DBB style=3D'position:absolute;left:-4.43%'>•Elect of
grace
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class=3DBB style=3D'position:absolute;left:-4.43%'>•Israel
hardened
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class=3DBB style=3D'position:absolute;left:-4.43%'>•Gentiles =
receive
salvation
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class=3DBB style=3D'position:absolute;left:-4.43%'>•Israel en=
vious of
Gentiles
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class=3DBB style=3D'position:absolute;left:-4.43%'>•Israel to=
be
saved
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style=3D'visibility:hidden'>•
Remnant
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class=3DBB style=3D'position:absolute;left:-4.43%'>•Elijah=
217;s
day (1 Kings 19)
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class=3DBB style=3D'position:absolute;left:-4.43%'>•Paul̵=
7;s day
(Romans 11:5)
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class=3DBB style=3D'position:absolute;left:-4.43%'>•Our day
(Messianic Jews)
•What happ=
ened to
the majority of the Jews?Spiritually Hardened
•Israel failed to find =
what
they were seeking. (i.e., righteousness by keeping the
Law for the sake of righteousness before God)
•Israel’s
disobedience and failure to receive by faith, they became
spiritually impotent.
•They couldn’t he=
ar
or see the Gospel, or grasp the meaning of the message of =
Christ.
Spiritual Hardened
•<=
/span>The further we move away from God, or the <=
/span>=
deeper into sin that we sink, the harder it would =
=
seem it is to be saved.
•<=
/span>Hardening is in a sense the judgment of God =
upon those who will not hear. At least this is the=
=
understanding of the “hardening of
Israel”.
•The hardening is only partial. (v25) There will =
come a time of Israel’s salvation. (Not a sp=
ecial track of salvation for the Jews, but the opening <=
/span>of their “eyes” to “see” t=
heir
Messiah.
Spiritua=
lly
Hardened unto Salvatio=
n?
<=
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style=3D'font-size:88%'>•Are Gentiles “spiritually hardened”?&#=
13;
•Are Gentiles apart from Christ doomed for hell? =
Are Jews apart from Christ doomed for hell?
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•Does God elect some, but not elect others to =
salvation? Are we chosen, or elected, unto =
salvation?
•Gentiles / Jews
<=
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style=3D'font-size:86%'>•The world
<=
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style=3D'font-size:86%'>•Sinners / Predestined?
<=
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style=3D'font-size:86%'>•Hardened? No.
•1 Cor 1 and 2
– natural persons
– heart sin-harden=
ed;
but not God hardened.<=
/span><=
span
style=3D'font-size:86%'>•God’s chosen people
<=
span
style=3D'font-size:86%'>•Covenant people
<=
span
style=3D'font-size:86%'>•Sinners / Predestined?
<=
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style=3D'font-size:86%'>•Hardened? Yes
•Why? So th=
at
salvation might come to the=
Gentiles, and make the Jews envious unto salvation.Who is Israel?
•Who is Israel? (Rom. 2=
:29)
One who is one “inwardly”, who is circumcised =
of heart.
•Rom. 9:6-8 (True Israe=
l =3D
children of the promise)
•Circumcised heart (Deut. 10:16; 30:=
3;
•Was Abraham an Israeli=
te?
(No; he was from the geographic region of “Ur of the =
Chaldeans”
Ge. 11:28)
Who is Israel?
<=
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class=3DBB style=3D'position:absolute;left:-4.43%'>•Ethnic Is=
rael?
Spiritual Israel?
•Who is be=
ing
talked about in Romans 9-11? Ethnic or spiritual?
<=
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style=3D'visibility:hidden'>•
Election
/ Grace / Predestined/ Chosen
•Rom. 9:16 – &#=
8220;it
(salvation?) depends not on human will or exertion, but on
God,…”
•Rom 9:22 – “vessels of wrath prepar=
ed
for destruction” (who is this?) Possibly Israel? God’s
patience with these vessels of wrath is done so that the
“riches of His glory” might be made known to the=
m.
(i.e., “envious”? – ala, Chapter 11)
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span
style=3D'visibility:hidden'>•
Why
can’t we “hear” or “see” or =
“understand” apart from God?
•1 Cor. 1:18-31
(“For the word of the cross is folly to those who are
perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.”
v18)
•1 Cor. 2:6-16
(“The natural person does not accept the things of =
the
Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able <=
/span>to
understand them because they are spiritually discerned.=
221;
v14)
Grafting
•Gentiles are warned to not be boastful of their =
position in Christ.
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•Jews were boastful in their being chosen, and took for granted their sinfulness, and the =
warnings by Moses of what would happen if they neglected to pursue God.
•If God can break off the natural branches and graft in “wild” branches; how much eas=
ier to
graft in the
“natural” branches back in?
Grafting wild into cultivated
•Was Paul a “ci=
ty
boy” who didn’t understand the process of grafting?&=
#13;•A process=
for
olive tree grafting was such that when a cultivated tree no longe=
r produced
fruit, there was a process of grafting in a wild branch=
to
revitalize the cultivated tree.
The root of the tree
•Root is holy and sup=
ports
the tree as a whole.
• Jesus (th=
e root?)
=3D the root of Jesse
<=
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class=3DBB style=3D'position:absolute;left:-4.18%'>•Abraham, =
Isaac
and Jacob (the root)?
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