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Through the Bible with Les Feldick
LESSON 1 * PART 4 * BOOK 25
ROMANS 11:1 - PART 2
Romans 11:13
"For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office."
Even people today have a hard time reconciling that. Romans 11:14
Romans 9:3,4a
Paul never lost that love for his fellow people, the Jews. Romans 11:15a
"For if the casting away of them (and blinding them) be the reconciling of the world,..."
Here the Apostle is writing to the Gentile believers at Corinth.
The world tonight is set aside from God, they're at odds with Him, they're enemies of God, and God has done everything possible to reconcile them to Himself. Now verse 19.
Now back to Romans 11, so Paul tells us that if all this reconciliation was accomplished because Israel rejected it, and now it's been given over to the Gentile world:
Romans 11:15b
The chapter about the "Dry Bones." Romans 11:15b
"...but life from the dead?
Because they're God's people, and He's getting them ready for His soon return.
Romans 11:16,17
We, as a no-good olive tree, have been grafted into the beautiful original which was Israel. Now, stop and think, How and through what man did the nation of Israel come about? Abraham. Not just Israel, but all the families of the earth. Now then we know that ever since this promise was given to Abraham until we get into Paul going to the Gentiles, Israel enjoyed the fatness of the root of Abraham. Israel was in the promises given to Abraham, but never lose sight of the fact that God also told Abraham he'd be a blessing to all the rest of the world also. God had to set Israel aside, broke them off from the fatness of root of Abraham, and He put in Gentiledom. I'm going to use the word Gentiledom as a group of people, the whole Gentile system has now been by the Grace of God, put into the place that Israel enjoyed in that Old Testament. We are merely feasting off that which God had promised the man Abraham. Now as the Gentile system has been feasting on all the blessings of the father of Israel, Abraham, that means that The Gospel (Reference I Corinthians 15:1-4) has been going to the Gentiles, he's had just as much opportunity at Salvation, and a relationship with God as Israel did back there. Romans 11:17-20a
"And if some of the branches (Israel) be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, (Gentiles) wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness (promises to Abraham.) of the olive tree; Boast not against the branches, But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee. Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. (that would be the Gentile boast) Well; because of unbelief they (Israel) were broken off, and thou standest by faith."
So continuing on in verse 20 Paul tell us:
Romans 11:20b-22
"Be not high-minded, (as a Gentile) but fear. For if God spared not the natural branches, (Israel, the good tree) take heed lest he also spare not thee. Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, (Israel) severity; (oh, absolutely God dealt with Israel severely because they rejected so much.) but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off."
But you see, we Gentiles are fast approaching that same place, where God is going to finally get fed up with the Gentile world system who are rejecting His offer of Grace, and who are rejecting His blessings, who are rejecting believing Who He is and what He is. The Jew. God is yet going to fulfill all the promises made to Abraham. I'm not talking about believers necessarily, I'm talking about the whole Gentile world. Verse 22 again:
Romans 11:22,23a
Romans 11:23b
"... for God is able to graft them in again."
God's not through with Israel. Sure they've been set aside for over 1900 years, but that's nothing in God's program. Romans 11:24a
"For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature,..."
Romans 11:24
"For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature (just opposite of what we normally do when we graft) into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, (the Nation of Israel) which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?"
If God took that which was natural, broke it off, set it aside and grafted in an old wild olive tree, the Gentiles, and He's been letting them enjoy all the possibilities of Salvation and blessing that Israel at one time had, but when they have rejected it, and rejected it, and rejected it, then God will do the same thing with the Gentiles that He did with Israel. He will cast them aside and He will set Israel back on that root of Abraham and Israel is going to go into the kingdom enjoying the blessings.

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