The Glory of God's Grace (Romans 11:13-36)
John Parker, 23rd October 2016Part of the Study of Romans series, preached at a Fordham Sunday Service service
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11:14 in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.
11:15 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
11:16 If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.
11:17 If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root,
11:18 do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you.
11:19 You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in."
11:20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid.
11:21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.
11:22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off.
11:23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again.
11:24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!
11:25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in.
11:26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: "The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
11:27 And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins."
11:28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies on your account; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs,
11:29 for God's gifts and his call are irrevocable.
11:30 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,
11:31 so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of God's mercy to you.
11:32 For God has bound all men over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.
11:33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out!
11:34 "Who has known the mind of the Lord? Or who has been his counselor?"
11:35 "Who has ever given to God, that God should repay him?"
11:36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever! Amen.
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