Published: November 24, 2024 | Speaker: Chuck Hartman | Series: Romans - Part 58 | Scripture: Romans 11:11-16
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you're looking at verses 11-6 as Paul continues his discussion of his countrymen according to the Flesh in fact in verse 14 he literally simply calls them his flesh
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most of your Bibles probably say my fellow countrymen but literally he's just talking about his flesh the physical descendants of Abraham Isaac
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and Jacob Romans 11 beginning in verse 11 I say then they did not stumble so as to fall did they may it never be but by their transgression salvation has come
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to the Gentiles to make them jealous now if their transgression be riches for the world and their failure be riches for the Gentiles how much more
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will their fulfillment be but I am speaking to you who are Gentiles in as much then as I am and the apostle of the Gentiles I magnify my Ministry if
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somehow I might move to jealousy My Flesh my fellow countrymen and save some of them for if their rejection be the
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reconciliation of the world what will their acceptance be but life from the dead and if the first piece of the lump be holy the lump is also and if the root
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be holy the branches are as well let us pray father we do ask that your spirit would open our minds to hear your word
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and to understand we know that he is the one who guides us into all truth and also the one who prevents us from error we know that it is in your light
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that we see light and that light is brought by the unfolding of your word so we ask that again you would help us to understand the mind of Paul
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that you that you inspired from all his study of your scriptures with the infallibility of the holy spirit to guide us into the truth
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concerning your People Israel so we do ask to guide that you guide us and lead us into truth and keep us from error that we might be blessed and that we might be nourished and that our faith
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might be strengthened for we ask in Jesus name amen
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Israel as a people the Jewish people are an intriguing sociological study even apart from their identity as God's chosen people which of course a
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large percentage of the world over the history of mankind has not agreed with and yet we know from scripture that God has chosen them out of all the nations
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if we simply look at them as ancient ethnicity an ancient people their survival is quite amazing it's quite intriguing and it has caused a lot of
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conjecture as to the meaning of the Jewish people two Milestones two dates factor into that conjecture and that thinking
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concerning the Jewish people a. 70 when Jerusalem was destroyed by the Roman legion under Titus and the temple was leveled to the ground and the Jews
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dispersed but also ad 1948 when the state of Israel became a Sovereign Nation among the world nations
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in the modern world these two dates factor into a lot of Christian thinking and also Christian
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eschatology doctrine of of n things or last things what are we to make of the Jewish people and in particular what are we to make of these
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dates was ad70 the Fulfillment of eschatology the prist believes that you may not be familiar uh with what that
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means but essentially the the basic idea is that all that God had prophesied concerning Israel and as summarized by Jesus in the
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olvet discourse was fulfilled in time in ad70 with the destruction of the temple now in that view is also wrapped
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up some other views one of which is that Israel is no longer the people of God but they have been replaced by The Church of Jesus Christ that is also
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known as replacement Theology and there's also often with that predus view the idea that the kingdom is being brought in progressively by The Church of Jesus
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Christ these are all kind of related not not every person who believes in One Believes In the other two but they are associated logically and they put ad70 as the key
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date so the question was ad70 the Fulfillment of of
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of Prophecy that's what the dispensationalist teaches now it would appear that ad. 1948 is the reversal of
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ad70 we've heard recently about a an amazing political amazing political comeback this one puts that into the shade that the Jewish people would once again become a sovereign state among the
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nations of the world after almost 2,000 years of wandering and of pilgrims and of attempted
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of attempted Annihilation is quite amazing and that fact has intrigued Believers as we read the scriptures and we see God calling Abraham and making
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his Covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and saying in your seed shall the Nations be blessed there are many believers who think 1948 is the beginning of the end in fact
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up until 1988 when they had to kind of change their change their clocks there was the tendency to think that within a generation roughly 40
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years the end would come but we're going on what 80 years now that's two generations and it hasn't yet come we we see in the scriptures that
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neither the Predator view nor the dispensationalist view can work with Paul's view without a lot of duct tape and as we've talked about in Plum line
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what we're seeking when we read the scriptures is to understand what God is teaching us with the minimal amount of duct tape holding our doctrines together so what are these two dates and
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what do they mean what do we do with the state of Israel is it the fulfill M of Old Testament prophecy well I think you know that many people many Believers and
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perhaps even yourselves think that it is and they look to Israel the state of Israel as being the Fulfillment of the Old Testament prophecy to restore God's
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people from Exile but it is important to think of this both biblically and also perhaps um politically the state of Israel is a
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parliamentary democracy it is not a monarchy nor is it governed by a member of the House of David in fact they wouldn't know a member of the House of
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David if one pretended to be so because the genealogical records and the tribal records have long since been lost in addition the state of Israel is
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not a not a theocracy it's is governed by a parliament the knesset and among its citizens and even members of the knesset
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are non-jews and so it it is not a Jewish state in the sense of Israel of the Old Testament it is actually very far from
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that now I'm not speaking that they should not have a Sovereign Nation please do not misunderstand me I do not want anyone to think that I'm anti-semitic but it's very intriguing
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that the Jewish people have survived I think it is indicative of God's purpose though not necessarily clearly that we can understand what God is doing as
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Jonathan Edwards once say he has given us his scripture not Providence for us to be guided by and so Israel has survived the Jewish people have survived for Millennia now they
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have their own Nation but is that nation of fulfillment of Prophecy are we to consider that what Israel does in the world today
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should be accepted by Evangelical Christians regardless of its Merit and there are many in the church today who think that we must support everything
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anything the Israeli government chooses to do now it may not see significant to you but we do call Modern Day citizens of Israel
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of Israel Israelis we do not call them Israelites again that that may not be significant except to say that there's something different in the world today
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and has been for the last 2,000 years that is what Paul is talking about here and if we take the predus view and the dispensationalist view and we run them through the filter especially of Romans
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11 as well as other places but certainly Romans 11 I believe that neither one of them will come out correct it should also be noted that
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there is no priesthood in modern day Israel only a long continued rabet the rabbis are still teaching in Israel as they did in Jesus's day and
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Paul's day and that is the religious structure of modern Judaism there's no Temple although many in our country and in our church would like to see the
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temple rebuilt there because they consider that to be the full fulfillment of biblical of biblical prophecy failing to see that the temple is being built with living
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stones and so we have we have a a common understanding within American Christianity regarding what God is planning to do with his people
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Israel and it breaks out into a Maj majority View and a minority view the majority view says that God will restore his people is Israel as a
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separate entity to the church the minority view says that God is finished with Israel and that the ethnic descendants of Abraham Isaac and
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Jacob no longer have any part in God's Redemptive plans I think they're both wrong I think what Paul is saying In
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this passage and frankly I think it's fairly clear will deny both of those views that on the one hand God is not going to restore Israel as some separate
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theocracy apart from the Church of Jesus Christ the remains of Israel shall be saved in the same manner as the remnant but on the other hand God is not
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through with his people because the promise of God is without repentance as we'll read just a little bit longer here in in Romans and
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so I think it's important that we have an understanding that of what God is doing in the world and also to recognize where we don't have an understanding where we
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don't know what it is God is doing through his Providence and I think among that latter category is the reality of the existence of the state of Israel in
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the world today I don't honestly think that biblically we know what that means Christian evangelism is not illegal in the state of Israel but is
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certainly not welcome proing is illegal of any of under the age of 21 unless with their parents' consent and in order to preach the
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gospel in Israel you must go through a fair amount of government regulations and so it's not like the state of Israel is is opening its arms to welcome its
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Messiah Jesus it is not and and so maybe it will and we may surmise that the concentration of Jewish
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people in one nation is in preparation for what Paul is going to teach us here in Romans 11 but then we also have to remember there are probably more Jews in New York City in South Florida than
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there are in the state of Israel and so what God is doing is not necessarily clear to us but what we think he's doing needs to fit with what
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he said says in his word neither The prist View nor the dispensationalist view neither The View that says that Israel is out of the picture completely
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or the view that says Israel is very much in the picture only in the future neither of them will match what Paul is saying here and so as we look at this passage
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the question I think that Christians have asked and have answered in varied ways is is
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Israel still the people of God does Israel still have an identity independent of the
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Gentiles well Paul's view seems very strongly to me to say yes Israel does retain a an independent
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identity to the Gentiles but it is not independent of the Gentile savior Israel's Messiah Jesus
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Christ Paul continues throughout his letters to speak of the Jew and the Gentile the Jew and the Gentile at no point in time does he merge them together by identity into some third
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thing within the one body of Christ within the one Olive Tree there are Jewish branches natural and there are Gentile branches unnatural but there's
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only one Olive Tree and as we see in this passage in verse 16 there's only one lump there's only one
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only one root that fact alone defeats the entire system of system of dispensationalism that God has only one people but it does not necessitate the
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Predator position that that one people excludes the ethnic descendants of Abraham Isaac and Jacob and so I think those are the two principles the two the two polar
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extremes that we need to avoid on the one hand that there are two people of God that there is the People Israel and that there's the people the church
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that's not taught in scripture but on the other hand that there is no ethnic Israel remaining in God's plan or purpose I don't think that's taught either we may not be able to accurately
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understand what God is doing with his people Israel but I don't think we can read Paul without concluding that he is doing something and we heard last week
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from the passage just earlier in Romans 11 that it all times he keeps for himself a himself a Remnant that means today in
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2024 there is a remnant of Jewish Believers in the Messiah Jesus and there always has been that number may get down
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as low as 7,000 or 7,000 And1 if we count Elijah but there are and is a Remnant but that's not what God is
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ultimately purposing and that's what we're talking about here in this passage in Romans 11 that there is something uh more now to me and and um someone made the
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comment that uh I I made a comment in a Ser sermon I I used the word dispensationalist and I I kind of used it uh pejoratively yep that's how I use it and the longer I
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am in the word and the older I get the more pejoratively I use it Paul said If any man or Angel preach a different gospel than the one that I have brought let him be a
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cursed and I am more and more convinced that dispensationalism presents a different gospel it is a gospel of two salvations it's a gospel of Plan B it's
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a gospel that says that God's initial work through his son Jesus Christ failed and therefore God responded by establishing a new plan whereby on a
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simpler basis he would save the Gentiles until such time as he got all the Gentiles in that he wanted and then he would turn back to Israel and restore the davidic as well
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as the levitical framework of the nation that's not the gospel that Paul presents the gospel that Paul Paul
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presents is by no means a failure of God through Jesus Christ but rather a victory it is a gospel that defeats the powers and principalities of the Heavenly places and also ultimately
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brings down the Roman Empire it's the gospel of the Rock Cut without hands that crushes all of the world Empires represented by that statue it's the gospel of the man son of man going to
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the Ancient of Days and receiving all power and authority in Heaven and Earth it's the gospel of Israel's Messiah by whom the Gentiles are saved because of Israel's
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rejection it's all one plan plan a he's still working plan a he doesn't even have a plan B because he knows the end from the beginning and even the thought
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that something that God purposes to do would fail and that he would have to modify his plans is Blasphemous and yet that is what is
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believed by the majority of professing Christians in our country that's a problem because there's a fundamental misunderstanding of who
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is so yeah pejorative I don't think you'll ever hear the word come out of my mouth in anything but a pejorative manner does that mean that dispensationalists are not Christians I hope you know me well enough to know
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that I do not believe that I also believe that there are Christians within the Roman Catholic Church that there are Christians within the Anglican Church within the Greek Orthodox church and even the Presbyterian
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Church I do not think that we are saved by our Doctrine we are saved by grace through faith in Jesus Christ and I do think that in every manifestation of God's grace through Jesus Christ he has preserved a
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Remnant even in the Jewish community so no I I don't equate dispensationalism with being outside of Christ I think we're we are all subjects
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of Grace and not of intellect but I do think that there is an Insidious danger to the teaching that causes us to think of God in MA in a manner that is not
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worthy of him which is the definition of idolatry according to aw toer and so I do have a problem with that idea that God should be going with
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a plan a plan B he ask the question in verse 11 I say then they did not stumble as to fall did they now this if you under if you've
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listened to what he's been saying this links back to what he says in chapter 9:32 he says because they did not pursue it with by faith the righteousness of God he says they stumbled Over The
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Stumbling Stone so it would seem like in in verse 11 of chapter 11 Paul is denying what he said back in chapter 9 but he's he's not he's actually
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echoing Psalm echoing Psalm 37 what he's saying would bring to the Jewish mind this Psalm where the psalmist writes the steps of a man are
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established by the Lord and He Delights in his way when he falls he shall not be utterly cast down because the Lord is
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the one who holds his hands I have been young and now I am old yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken or his descendants begging bread though he fall
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he shall not be utterly cast down that is actually the word Paul uses here in Romans 11:1 Romans 11:1 they have not been utterly cast down
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have they may it never be now that right there should say something to the prist that though they have fallen and there's no denying that Israel has
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stumbled over Jesus Christ the Messiah no denying that but what Paul denies is that they have been utterly cast down which also means to the Predators
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they have not been utterly Cast Away that Psalm reminds Israel that in spite of the discipline of the Lord whereby they would be cast into Exile yet God
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still holds by the hand his people and will raise them back up again but it will be the Lord who does this and not
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themselves and so they may be cast down a view with which the dispensationalist
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but they are not Cast Away of you that is held by the prist so Paul does not deny that Israel has stumbled only that the Lord who
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fornew Israel would again raise her up that is what he is establishing but the the thing he is teaching and going to be teaching in Romans 11 is that God will
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not raise Israel up in the same condition it was before
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new when Israel is restored by the grace of God it will be within the Messiah Jesus and it will not be geographically limited to one place when we read of Jerusalem in the
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New Testament we read of two different Jerusalem the one that is which Paul PA in Galatians equates with Hagar the slave
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woman illegitimate and the one that's coming the New the New Jerusalem which John envisions in the last two chapters of his
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Revelation and they're vastly different places and the dispensationalist should read Revelation 21-22 and realize that though we think there should be a temple
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in Jerusalem today the word is very clear that there's no temple in the New Jerusalem and the reason is because Jesus Christ is the temple we are the Temple of the Holy
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Spirit built with living stones you see the church is not an alternative form of Salvation pending Jewish acceptance of
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the Messiah that's that plan B Attitude rather it is true that the remainder of Israel will come in the same way the remnant has been
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preserved in Acts 15 the Jerusalem Council the elders and the Apostles of Jerusalem are wrestling
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with the the influx of influx of Gentile Believers through the ministry of Barnabas and Paul they don't know what to do and Peter makes a very interesting
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comment in which he seems to to reverse the order of historical redemp rtion he says but we believed that we are saved
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through the grace of the Lord Jesus in the same manner as they are
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also to me that was always shocking that he would put it in that way it would seem for a Jew to say well we believe the Gentiles are s saved the same way we are that's what the judaizers were saying they were saying that the
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Gentiles need to come in through the works of the law through circumcision through the dietary observances the same way we are and Peter says no no we're
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Saved By The Grace Of The Lord Jesus the same way they are that that is a very remarkable understanding on Peter's part not because Peter was Peter but because of
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what he's actually saying is at the very heart of the Gospel that we are all saved the same way and that is by grace through faith in the Lord Jesus
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Christ I think dispensationalism is soundly refuted by verse 16 and I want to spend a little bit of time because it's an enigmatic phrase where he says if the first piece is Holy the lump is also and if the root be holy the
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branches are branches are too now what Paul is doing in this passage is he's hearkening back to the doctrine of the first fruits under the
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levitical system levitical system the idea of the first fruits and they would that they would be brought to the Tabernacle as offered to the Lord in other words they were holy meaning set
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apart we have to understand the word holy here not in a moral framework but rather in a religious framework that the first fruits were set
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apart and if Israel would Faithfully take the first fruits and present them to Yahweh then Yahweh would see to it that the rest of the Harvest was prosperous that they would not go
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wanting and their descendants would not beg bread beg bread so the first fruits is where most Scholars fail to
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fully comprehend what Paul means in verse 16 they want to identify for example what is the lump that he's talking about they want to identify the root I don't think that's the point
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I think what Paul is saying here first of all is that there is only one lump there is only one root there is only one
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Olive Tree we need to establish that so that we do not fall into the Trap of thinking that because Israel has disbelieved God's doing something different with Gentiles and then he's
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going to go back I've said this before but I have read a dispensationalist view in which there are in essentially two families of God God there is the father
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who is the groom of his bride Israel and there is the Lord Jesus Christ who is the groom of his bride the church that to me is just downright
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perverted there is only one God and there is only one people of God and within that people of God there are Jews and Gentiles brought together into one
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lump one root one Olive Tree so what is the gospel what Paul is not saying that God is God is reacting to what the Israelites are
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doing he's not saying oh God is so surprised that they didn't understand and accept and accept Jesus again there are many dispensational writers who Ponder what
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would have would have happened had the Jews received Jesus as their Messiah the typical answer is that Jes Jesus would have set up the Throne of David he would have defeated the
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Romans in fact all of the things that Jesus disciples erroneously thought he was going to do right but now we have dispensationalist telling him telling us that's what he wanted to do in the first
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place if only Israel had accepted him he would have done all these things and then what about the Gentiles well one very famous dispensationalist a
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professor at Dallas Theological Seminary says very boldly in print that God would have simply come up with a different way to save the Gentiles
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do you listen to yourself when you write or do you find yourself fading in and out are you serious How can any anybody who's read the scripture write that and then send it to the publisher and yet that is the essential teaching of
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dispensationalism that it all rested on the fact that Israel rejected Jesus no God rejected
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Israel when Paul says you know we don't really hear the echo here but he says being the Apostle to the Gentiles
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he says I magnify my Ministry if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen My Flesh and save some of them ear earlier he said by their
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transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them jealous and we think okay we think of that from the standpoint of
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Romans but a Jew reading that would think of it from the standpoint of Deuteronomy Deuteronomy chter
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Deuteronomy chter 32 they have made me jealous with what is not God they have provoked me to anger with their Idols so I will make
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them jealous with those who are not a people I will provoke them to anger with a foolish a foolish Nation sorry folks that's us Gentiles
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we're the foolish Nation this is all prophesied Israel's rejection was prophesied because by God's rejection of
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Israel he would deliver the Gentiles this is a situation somewhat like back in Romans 9 pharaoh and the age-old question who hardened who first
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did did Pharaoh Harden his heart first the Armenians says Amen brother preach it or did God Harden Pharaoh's heart I'm not sure we're supposed to put a logical
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conflict between between the two what we do know is God hardened pharaoh and Pharaoh hardened his heart God rejected Israel and Israel rejected Jesus in
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other words Israel rejected God Israel had set up its own righteousness that was its Idol Torah its Idol was the law it set up its own
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and in doing so it provoked God to anger and so God had already said before they had even entered the land you will provoke Me by worshiping those who are
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not gods and you will anger me by your Idols therefore I will provoke you to jealousy with a people who are not my people I will anger you with a foolish
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Nation Paul's saying he done did it that's exactly what he's doing why should we be so surprised on in the one hand he's going to maintain for himself a Remnant that
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we might not be like Sodom that we might not be like gamorra and throughout the ages since he has done that but what is he doing and this is what makes
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anti-Semitism so anti-Semitism so horrible and that is that we do not understand that our purpose as Gentile Believers or I shouldn't say our purpose as Paul says
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it we we magnify the church magnifies its Ministry if by its Adoration of the one true God if by its communal
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fellowship if by the truth that it proclaims about God and its knowledge of the Hebrew Bible as well as the New Testament that the church provoke Jews
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to jealousy we might even add there Muslims Hindus and atheists do we ever consider the nature of the church today
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and ask the question are we provoking anybody to jealousy is there anything in our lives in our Doctrine and in our worship that others might look at and say boy I wish I had
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that particularly the Jews because we don't claim to be a different religion from Judaism we claim to be the fruition
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of Judaism we claim to be the Fulfillment of the scriptures not of replacement so let's finish by looking then at that at this verse 16 where he
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says if the first piece of dough be holy the lump is also if the root be holy the branches are too again so much ink is
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spilled in the commentaries trying to identify the the lump trying to identify
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Abraham David Jesus everybody can settle on that one cuz who's going to say no hey what what is it that what Paul means here again I don't think that's the right
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question I think what Paul is saying here is that God's start encompasses his finish that's what he's saying here is
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that what God begins he finishes that what he starts out with whether it be the call of Abraham okay that that can be the lump if you want it to be the first fruits or whether it be the
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davidic Covenant well that can be the first fruits too it doesn't really matter we know that Jesus is the first fruits from the dead the point is is that what God begins he will most
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assuredly finish and the beginning guarantees that the Holiness of the beginning guarantees the Holiness of the completion I am confident of this very
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thing that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus so God's rejection of Israel and
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her rejection of God's Messiah was planned with the intention of saving the Nations but again that does not defend
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the Predator's view that Israel is thereby rejected thereby rejected completely Paul doesn't teach that but while Israel remains in the hardness of
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its heart and the blindness of its eyes God's purpose is evident that it is a time at which he is bringing in the Gentiles that he is grafting in the
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unnatural wild branches of Gentile pagans into the one Olive Tree but Paul looks at God's end game and
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he's astounded I honestly think that Paul wrote here in this passage when he says for if there rejection be the reconciliation of the world what will
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their acceptance be but life from the dead he kep he keeps writing in chapter 11 he keeps writing but I think at that moment something is building up inside his mind and especially his heart that
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will explode in verse 33 of this chapter oh the depths of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God how unsearchable are his judgments and
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unfathomable his ways Paul doesn't know the end game but what he does know is that God will not reject Israel
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whom he fornew what he does know is that the promises of God are without repentance what he does know is that even though God will remain retain for himself a Remnant age after age after
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age and that a hardening has come over the his flesh his fellow countrymen that the day will come when that will be removed
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and all he can say is an argument from the Lesser to the greater so when we ask the question what of ethnic
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of ethnic Israel what of Paul's flesh again there's no evidence here or elsewhere in Paul's writings that Israel has been absorbed into the church on the
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contrary it it is the unnatural branches that have been absorbed into Israel if iians 2 we were once a far off we were without God and without hope in the
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world right but he has brought us near we were outside the Commonwealth of Israel but in Christ he has made the two into one flesh into one man so it's not
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the Jews that are Cast Away it's us Gentiles who are grafted in that one lump that one branch that one Olive Tree
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of which we are now graciously aart we derive the same spiritual life life that flowed into Abraham that flowed into Moses that flowed into David now flows
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into us in Jesus Christ but Paul is thinking well that's great that a bad thing a negative thing Israel being rejected by God how can we find any good
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where's the lining of that cloud he says wait what think about this if their rejection means reconciliation for the world what will their acceptance be
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well I can't think of anything other than life from the dead I can only think of Resurrection I can only think of eternal life NeverEnding life powerful life
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Abundant Life and that is what Paul says here he he doesn't know the end game he's not picking a date he's not saying this is how it's going to look he has nothing about the Rapture and the tribulation
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and all the things that we get into our heads he simply says man if the rection of Israel means this to the to the world what can their acceptance mean but
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life from the dead I think with reason some scholars believe that what he is talking about here is indeed the resurrection and I don't think it is unreasonable for us to think that
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between the time when God removes the hardening of the Jewish eyes and hearts and masses and masses upon of of Jews come to God through Jesus their Messiah
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our Messiah and Lord but that would pretty much be the end when all Israel is saved Jesus Christ will have defeated
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all the enemies the last one being death and at that point he will turn and give the kingdom to his father that God might be all in
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all so only life from the dead can describe Israel's eventual acceptance but I think as Gentile Believers we ought to for the sake of
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the gospel Paul says consider them enemies but for the sake of the promises to the Patriarchs beloved we don't know what the end game
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and anybody who says they do is lying but what we do know is it will be glorious it will be beyond what has already occurred that somehow the grace
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that God has poured out to the Gentiles will be even more magnified if IED by his restoration of his people Israel perhaps 1948 is a foretaste of that I
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don't know but what I do know is that when when it comes to pass it will be to the glory of his grace let us
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pray father we do give you all the glory for your for your salvation and we do acknowledge that nothing comes to pass but by your Eternal will and your Eternal purpose
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and even and even Israel's rejection of Jesus Christ is in fulfillment of Deuteronomy 32 your rejection of rejection of Israel father I pray that the behavior
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of your people the church would truly be such as would generate jealousy in the unbeliever whether Jew or Gentile whatever religion
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or none at all that we might live in such a way in love and faithfulness by which we provoke the world world to jealousy and they do
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indeed challenge us regarding the hope that is within us that we might give a defense we ask father that you would do this for your glory and for the exaltation of Jesus Christ and the joy
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of his church for we ask it in his name amen please rise for the benediction from Romans
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15 now may the God who gives gives perseverance and encouragement grants you to be of the same mind with with one another according to Christ Jesus that with one Accord you may with one voice
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glorify the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ amen