HOPE FOR THOSE WHO’VE REJECTED JESUS
Romans 11.11-24
Romans: Faithful To Save – Part 8 of 10
Romans 9.2-3 & 6 “… I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart … for the sake of my brothers … But it is not as though the word of God has failed.” (esv)
Genesis 12.2–3 “… I will bless you and make your name great … and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” (esv)
v. 13 “Now I am speaking to you Gentiles.” (esv)
TRUTH & TACTICS FOR GOSPEL RECEPTION:
TRUTH: ISRAEL’S REJECTION ISN’T Final
TACTIC: STRIVE FOR Enviable Community
v. 11 “Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery?” (niv)
v. 15 “… if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?”(csb)
vv. 13–14 “… I make much of my ministry in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them.” (niv)
TRUTH: OUR ACCEPTANCE ISN’T Natural
TACTIC: STRIVE FOR Awestruck Humility
vv. 16–17 “… if the root is holy, so are the branches … you, although a wild olive shoot, were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree …” (esv)
v. 24 “… you were cut from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree …” (esv)
vv. 20 & 22 “Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. Consider … the kindness and sternness of God …” (niv)
v. 20 “… you stand fast through faith.” (esv)
v. 23 “And even they, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God has the power to graft them in again.” (esv)
Luke 1.37 “For nothing will be impossible with God.” (esv)