What is the Mystery of Israel's Salvation? Part Two

Romans 11:25-36

25: God’s work of grafting and partial blindness is a mystery

26-27: All Israel shall be saved

28: God reveals important ingredients of this mystery. Israel our enemy is God’s beloved, so Israel is our beloved too.

29 - God’s gifts and calling are without repentance

30 - Don’t forget our past history of living in unbelief.

31- Israel is still living in unbelief so our mercy helps them obtain mercy

32 - God considers all in unbelief for mercy on all

33 - All preachers when it comes to the person and work of God out to be humbled by these three verses

34 - God’s ways are past finding out. Who knows what’s next?

35 - Grace is about God giving to us and not the other way around

36 - Our salvation is all about the glory of God

Gentiles Grafted In, Part Two

Romans 11:17-24

17 - Unbelief breaks branches off

18 - Boasting indicates bad branches

19 - 20 - Not broken off, so …. But broken off because of unbelief

21- God spares not the arrogant because of unbelief

22 - Continuing to live by faith brings forth God’s goodness

23 - Living in belief grafts one in

24 - God desires His own chosen people to live by faith

Gentiles Grafted In

Romans 11:11-16

11 - Israel slipped but not forever

12 - Israel’s failures in faith brought faith to the Gentiles

13 - An honor to preach goodness to Gentiles

14 - Fulfilling Deuteronomy

15 - Both Jews and Gentiles resurrected to life

16 - Salvation starts in Israel and spreads to Gentiles

God Rescues a Remnant From Each Generation, Part Two

Romans 11:5-10

5 - God’s saved is a remnant of Jews from Paul’s day

6 - God saves by His grace, not man’s works

7 - God saves by election of grace whereas seeking by works fails to save

8-10 - Paul explains Israel’s unbelief and rejection of God

8 - Moses - Deuteronomy 29:2-6
8 - Isaiah - Isaiah 29:10-13
9-10 - David - Psalm 69:22

Further study of the reasons for Israel’s unbelief:
Isaiah 6:9-10
John 8:43
Acts 28:26
2 Corinthians 13:14-15
Ephesians 4:18
Ezekiel 12:2
I Samuel 6:16
Psalm 81:11-12
2 Kings 17:14
Romans 1:28



Salvation for All is Made Clear in Both the Old and the New Testament

Romans 10:1-5

1: Israel is not saved according to this statement. Paul says his desire is that all of Israel will be saved. This will not save them.

2: Jewish zeal fails to save them

3: Why are the Jews lost? Ignorance, self-righteous, refusal to turn to God

4: Christ ended the Law of Righteousness for Believers

5: The Law of righteousness is doing and living the Law
Leviticus 18:4-5 compares to Romans 10:5

God's Purpose in His Election

Romans 9:27-33

27-28 & Isaiah 10:22-23: A remnant of Israel shall be saved

29, & Isaiah 1:9: the Lord of the Sabbath saved a few from judgment which led to more being saved

30-33, & Isaiah 8:14; 28:16: Why Israel stumbled and Gentiles stood

30: Can we say Gentiles are saved by faith even though they did not follow the Law for righteousness? Yes

31: Can we say Jews are not saved even though they followed the Law for righteousness? Yes

32: Israel isn’t saved because they didn’t seek righteousness by faith. They sought righteousness by the works of the Law

33, Isaiah 14:28:16: Messiah is either a stumbling stone or the foundation stone

Proper Glasses Clarifies Potential Problems

Romans 9: 8-12: God’s Purpose Behind the Promise

8 - God’s Promised Children are Counted as Seed

9 - God Promised Sarah a Son, Counting Him as Seed

10 - God Also Gave Rebecca two sons

11 - Before They Were Born, Before They Did Good/Evil, God
Chose One Son over the Other

12 - God Said the Elder Will Serve the Younger

Genesis 25: 23
Deuteronomy 7:6-10
Deuteronomy 14: 2
Isaiah 43: 10
Malachi 1:3

Wearing Proper Glasses Gives Clarity to a Potential Foggy Understanding

Romans 9:1-8

vs. 1 - Paul speaks both sincerely and truthfully:
vs. 2 - About God’s people, Israel
vs. 3 - About God’s Kinsmen, Israel
vs. 4-5 - About the nation Israel
vs. 5
a. The adoption and Israel
b. The glory and Israel
c. The covenants and Israel
d. The Law and Israel
e. The service and Israel
f. The Provision and Israel
g. The fathers and Israel
vs. 6 - Some of Israel was God’s Israel, and some were not
vs. 7 - Not all of Israel were Abraham’s seed, but some were
vs. 8 - The children of the flesh are not God’s children. The children of promise are.