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- 0:00Romans Chapter 11 let us pray. Our God, you are higher than any
- 0:10other. Yes, Lord, we worship you today
- 0:15in spirit and truth. Lord, we are asking for a divine
- 0:19touch today. God, we are asking for the
- 0:22fullness of the Holy Spirit filling us today.
- 0:26God, we are asking that you'll give us peace that surpasses all
- 0:30understanding. God, we are asking that you will
- 0:33give us our inheritance in Christ Jesus.
- 0:36Lord, we are asking that you'll help us to see this world all
- 0:41around us the way that you do all of the things that are
- 0:44happening everywhere, all around the globe.
- 0:47God, give us supernatural understanding.
- 0:51Help us to see that you are moving mightily on every
- 0:54continent. God Almighty, I pray in the name
- 0:58of Jesus for a zeal for your house.
- 1:01God, I pray for Jerusalem. I pray for the peace of
- 1:04Jerusalem. God, I pray for your prophecies
- 1:07to unfold right in front of our faces.
- 1:10God, help us not to miss it. God, we see the leaves that have
- 1:14appeared on the fig tree. God, we know that summer is near
- 1:18and we cry out. Come Lord Jesus, come the Spirit
- 1:23and the Bride say, come wash us clean.
- 1:28God, I pray that we will be your Saints.
- 1:33God that we will actually go out into the harvest.
- 1:37Lord, I pray that we will help people to come in to the fold.
- 1:42God, I pray that we'll hear your voice and obey.
- 1:45Lord Jesus, heal our broken bodies, heal marriages all over
- 1:50this globe. God, I pray for the prodigals to
- 1:53return. God, I pray for cancer to
- 1:56dissolve. God, I pray.
- 1:58For hypertension to release. God, I pray.
- 2:01I pray for Alzheimer's and dementia to be healed in the
- 2:05name of Jesus Christ. God, I pray for mental illness
- 2:09to dissolve, to go away. God, to be healed, Drive out
- 2:13every unclean and impure spirit in the name of Jesus Christ.
- 2:18God, bind the enemy and cast him into the judgment that you have
- 2:22a waiting for him, the eternal chains of utter darkness.
- 2:26God, I pray against all demonic warfare.
- 2:31God, I pray against all demonic activity in our houses and our
- 2:36cars and our workplaces in this nation all over the globe.
- 2:41God, bind the enemy, Father, cast him out.
- 2:44Cast them into the judgment. Father, I pray right now, God,
- 2:47that we will stand with Israel. God, I pray right now, in the
- 2:52name of Jesus, we will be found. God is people who love that
- 2:56nation, who love your people, regardless of all, all the
- 3:00atrocities. God, we stand with them, Father,
- 3:04knowing that you and your plans will come to fruition, that the
- 3:09Bible and all the prophecies will come to fruition and we can
- 3:14either get in line with it, Father, or get left behind,
- 3:18Father. And I pray in the name of Jesus
- 3:20right now, God, that we will see our need for Jesus Christ, see
- 3:27our need for salvation, see our need for you, God.
- 3:33And I pray, Lord, that you will bring everything into the
- 3:39accordance that you have designed, You have designated,
- 3:44God, that is well pleasing to you, and that you, Father God,
- 3:48will be supremely honored by our obedience and by our standing
- 3:55with your people. God, I pray, Lord Jesus, that
- 3:59you help us. Help us to know that you're
- 4:01fighting our battles. Help us to know that you're in
- 4:04it. Help us not to miss it, God.
- 4:07Help us not to be like the nations that rage God, but help
- 4:11us to honor the Son and to kiss the Son today.
- 4:17We love you Father, we love you Jesus.
- 4:22We worship you in spirit and truth.
- 4:25You are Lord and Holy Spirit. You guide us.
- 4:29I get out of the way, you teach us.
- 4:34In Jesus Christ, holy and precious name, I pray.
- 4:39Amen. Let's start in verse one.
- 4:45I say. Then has God castaway his
- 4:49people? God forbid.
- 4:57For I also am an Israelite, the seed of Abraham, the tribe of
- 5:02Benjamin. Paul here is wanting us to know
- 5:08that God has not turned his back on Israel, and neither should
- 5:13we. We do not have to agree with all
- 5:17of the practices. We do not have to agree with all
- 5:21of their strategies. We do not have to agree with the
- 5:25humanitarian, moralistic approach to it all, friends, but
- 5:31we need to know that the ethnic Jews that are in that literal
- 5:39geographical land, that are the seed of Abraham, have a very
- 5:44peculiar earthly ministry that will be carried out, friends.
- 5:50And you and I are grafted in as the wild that we're going to see
- 5:53here in this chapter that we've talked about a lot.
- 5:56But I want you to know that God has not turned his back on the
- 6:01Israelites. And we cannot try to explain
- 6:04them away in our moralistic approach and try to find reasons
- 6:11to not stand with Israel. It does not work that way.
- 6:17Two, God has not castaway His people which He foreknew What
- 6:25not what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he made intercession
- 6:33to God against Israel saying verse 3, Lord, they have killed
- 6:42your prophets, they've dug down your altars and I'm left alone
- 6:47and they seek my life. What God is wanting us to know
- 6:53what Paul is wanting us to know in this little passage here is
- 7:00it all the way back whenever Elijah was on the Mount Carmel
- 7:03whenever Elijah was running from Jezebel and they have whenever
- 7:07the wicked Kingdom was there in the prophets of all of the
- 7:11demonic satanic activity was in Israel.
- 7:15What did God say to Elijah verse 4?
- 7:21But what say the answer of God unto him?
- 7:24I have reserved to myself 7000 men who have not bowed the knee
- 7:32to the image of all, and there is a remnant there today.
- 7:37There is always going to be a remnant.
- 7:40You cannot exterminate that people group.
- 7:43You cannot wipe them off the map.
- 7:45Friends, all of the hostility towards Israel is satanic at its
- 7:51core and I want you to know that.
- 7:53And that is unapologetically what the Bible states.
- 7:57Friends, you cannot get rid of the Jews.
- 8:02We must be found standing with them, even if you do not support
- 8:08all of their actions. 5 Even so, then at this present time also
- 8:17there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
- 8:22So even in the Church age, Friends, there is a remnant of
- 8:30Messianic Jews who believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 8:34They have studied the Old Testament, they have studied the
- 8:37Scriptures, and they've come to the saving knowledge that Jesus
- 8:41Christ is the Lord. They are ethnic Jews, but they
- 8:46believe in Jesus Christ. And what a powerhouse of a
- 8:51combination. Friends 6 And if by grace, then
- 8:57it is no more works, otherwise grace is no more grace.
- 9:03But if it be of works, then it is no more grace, otherwise work
- 9:09is no more work. So what God wants the ethnic
- 9:14Jews who place their faith in the Lord Jesus Christ to know is
- 9:19that they cannot work their way into heaven.
- 9:23And there are many Christians who are trying to take on this
- 9:26Jewish roots. And I want you to know that you
- 9:30cannot work your way into a higher position with the Lord
- 9:35Jesus Christ. It is no more grace if you're
- 9:39trying to work around and trying to get some kind of super St.
- 9:46status. Friends, if you want to be the
- 9:49greatest, you must become the least.
- 9:52You must practice humility and become a martyr for the Lord
- 9:56Jesus Christ, but not by choice, but because He's called you in
- 10:01the very hostile territory. Seven.
- 10:06What then? Israel has not obtained that
- 10:11which he seeks for, but the election has obtained it and the
- 10:15rest were blinded. So now you can see that Israel
- 10:20has been blinded and we're going to study all throughout the New
- 10:24Testament where it says that God sends them a powerful delusion
- 10:28and Old Testament talks about them being blinded.
- 10:31And here you can see it is for our benefit.
- 10:35Don't forget it. 8 According as it is written, God has given
- 10:41them the spirit of slumber eyes that they should not see, in
- 10:46ears that they should not hear unto this day.
- 10:49I don't know if you remember in Isaiah where it talks about that
- 10:53if God had not blinded them, or if God had not stopped up their
- 10:58ears, then everyone would be saved.
- 11:02And you might say to yourself, well, why does God not want
- 11:05everyone to save? And it is a very simple
- 11:10explanation. Satan is given the ability to
- 11:15roam, to reveal the wickedness that we hide deep down in our
- 11:20hearts. If God was to rend the heavens,
- 11:24people would run and try to hide themselves from his face.
- 11:29And every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that
- 11:32Jesus Christ is Lord. And it's much better to do it on
- 11:36this side than on the next. Friends, if you wait until after
- 11:42you die, you will be eternally separated from God Almighty.
- 11:47It'll be too late. Friends, do it now.
- 11:51That is what brings Him the most amount of glory.
- 11:55Glory, glory. Hallelujah is when we will serve
- 11:59Him now, out of choice. He could make us
- 12:02instantaneously, but He loves us too much to take away our free
- 12:08will. And even with all the
- 12:10destruction, disease and decay, all of the murder and all of the
- 12:14violence, friends, God still allows Satan to rule and to be
- 12:20the Prince of the heir, the ruler of this age.
- 12:24Because God gets the most glory when we choose Him, despite all
- 12:31of the deception. What a hard word, but what a
- 12:36simple concept. 9 And David said, Let their table be made a
- 12:43snare and a trap, a stumbling block, and repay unto them. 10
- 12:49Let their eyes be dark, and that they may not see, and bow down
- 12:53their back always. 11 I say, Then, have they stumbled that
- 12:58they should fall, God forbid, but rather through their fall
- 13:04salvation that's come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to
- 13:08jealousy. He just laid it all out plain as
- 13:12day, as plain as the nose on your face, as clear as a bell
- 13:18that God is allowing all of the deception and the blindness of
- 13:22the people so that the Gentiles can come in, friends.
- 13:25But it will not always be that way.
- 13:28There's coming a day and a time when the church will be taken up
- 13:32and out, and the Jews will have their earthly ministry as
- 13:37telling people all about Jesus Christ. 12 Now if the fall of
- 13:45them be the riches of the world and the diminishing of them, the
- 13:49riches of the Gentiles, how much more their fullness?
- 13:53So you can see here that God has an eternal plan for the ethnic
- 13:57Jews, that he's going to bring them into the saving knowledge
- 14:01of the Lord Jesus Christ. They will not always be blinded,
- 14:06friends. 13 For if I speak to you Gentiles, in as much as I am
- 14:14the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify my office.
- 14:19We know that Paul was sent to preach to the Gentiles after the
- 14:23Jews kept rejecting him in the synagogue's.
- 14:26And so now he's saying, I'm speaking unto you Gentiles, and
- 14:30what does he have to say to us? Fourteen, if by any means I may
- 14:36provoke to emulation them, which are my flesh, and might save
- 14:42some of them. So Paul was willing to be
- 14:45anathema, to be completely cursed, so that the Jews would
- 14:51come in. And here he is giving the
- 14:53Gentiles a very stern warning concerning their support for the
- 15:02Jews. And he wants us to know
- 15:04something. Let's lock in and pay attention.
- 15:1015 For if the casting away of them by the reconciling of the
- 15:15world, what shall the receiving of them be but life from the
- 15:21dead? So he wants us to know that it's
- 15:24coming around full circle, that God's going to get his glory in
- 15:29the Jews, and God has a very special place for them and for
- 15:36the land there. 16 For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is
- 15:43also holy, and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
- 15:49So he's going to show us here that the Jews are the tree, and
- 15:57that he has called us to be holy because he is holy.
- 16:01And he's going to show how they are the natural and how much
- 16:06easier it'll be for them to come back to God, and how much faster
- 16:12he is going to accept them when they do. 17 And if some of the
- 16:18branches be broken off, and you being a wild olive tree, were
- 16:22graft in among them, and with them partake of the root and the
- 16:27fatness of the olive tree, that is the Spirit of God.
- 16:31This oil, friends, This Is Us being able to partake in all of
- 16:36the the heavenly celestial promises and riches that are
- 16:41available to us. And it is all through the Jews,
- 16:45friends, He chose them, Father Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, he
- 16:50chose them and then through their disobedience, we got to
- 16:54come in. But he's going to after the
- 16:57fullness of them to come that are to come in from the
- 17:00Gentiles. He's going to turn them around
- 17:05and get them to admit that they merge the Messiah and to see
- 17:09their need for Jesus Christ as the long-awaited Messiah and
- 17:13they will put their faith in Him and they will be with us forever
- 17:18more. God's not done with the Jews,
- 17:22friends. It is the fatness of the olive
- 17:25tree. It is the root.
- 17:27They are the root. They are the tree. 18 Boast not
- 17:31against the branches, but if you boast, you pair not the root,
- 17:35but the root you. So the Jewish tree supports us
- 17:40Gentiles. The Gentiles do not need to be
- 17:42the ones found persecuting the Jews.
- 17:47Far be it from us as the Church to ever turn our backs on the
- 17:52Jews. They support US19 You will say
- 18:00then the branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
- 18:04What pride and arrogance to think that we have superseded
- 18:09the Jews in any way, shape or form.
- 18:13The Messiah came through the Jews.
- 18:15The Scriptures came through the Jews.
- 18:18Most of all the New Testament writers.
- 18:21We're all Jewish friends. You need to know God has a plan
- 18:26for the Jews. He has not done away with them,
- 18:29period 20. Well, because of unbelief, they
- 18:35were broken off. And you stand by faith, be not
- 18:40high minded, but fear. Work out your salvation with
- 18:45fear and trembling. Do not be prideful, do not grow
- 18:49arrogant, because God has chosen you and he has blinded them. 21
- 19:01For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed,
- 19:06lest he also spare you not. What a passage we can wrestle
- 19:18with some theology. Is he saying that those that
- 19:23have been grafted in can be cut back off?
- 19:26Yes, he is friends. He is saying that there are some
- 19:32who got grafted in and because of their high minded
- 19:37pridefulness, the apostate church gets cut out.
- 19:42They've tasted in the goodness and they have seen that the Lord
- 19:47is good. And then they turn away friends,
- 19:50and they are cut back off and thrown into the fire.
- 19:54And the branch that produces no fruit in the branch that
- 20:00produces bad fruit, are both cut off and thrown into the fire. 23
- 20:1222 Behold, therefore the goodness and severity of God on
- 20:17them which fell severity, but towards you goodness, if you
- 20:23continue in his goodness, otherwise you shall be cut off.
- 20:28It cannot be more plain, friends.
- 20:30And we can wrestle with it and we can try to talk about once
- 20:34saved, always saved and all of the of the like.
- 20:38And this predestination and election has been talked of many
- 20:42times, friends. But God already knows what we're
- 20:44going to do. And there are many who have
- 20:47tasted in the goodness of God. There are many who have been in
- 20:54the midst of the Holy Spirit, but because of unbelief and
- 20:58because of pride and because of choosing the world over God,
- 21:04they are cut off and thrown into the fire, and it is severity.
- 21:10Friends 23 And they also, if they abide not still in
- 21:18unbelief, shall be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in
- 21:23again. So the Jews will be grafted back
- 21:27into the natural tree after the fullness of the Gentiles come
- 21:31in. 24 Four, If you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild
- 21:40by nature and were grafted in contrary to nature into a good
- 21:45olive tree, how much more shall these, which be the natural
- 21:50branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
- 21:55It'll be so much easier whenever the Jews who have all of the Old
- 21:59Testament background of all the prophecies, just like Paul who
- 22:04was a Pharisee of the Pharisees, when he finally came to the Lord
- 22:10Jesus Christ honestly and was not delusioned by envy, he saw
- 22:17that all the scriptures were fulfilled, all of the law was
- 22:21fulfilled. And that is why it'll be so much
- 22:24easier for the Jews to be grafted in.
- 22:26They don't have to start like you and I.
- 22:30They don't have to start all the way back in preschool.
- 22:34They can come quickly and easily because they have all the
- 22:40background of the Old Testament which pointed to Jesus Christ.
- 22:44They've been taught it their whole life, and when they come
- 22:49to the saving knowledge, it'll be easy.
- 22:55Nothing is impossible with God. 25 For I would not, brothers,
- 23:04that you should be ignorant of this mystery, unless you should
- 23:08be wise in your own conceits. That blindness in part is
- 23:14happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become
- 23:19in. So there you can see friends,
- 23:23that God knows the number, and God is not slack, and one day is
- 23:27like 1000 and 1000 is like a day.
- 23:30And do not think that God is slow.
- 23:34Do not think that God is dead or asleep.
- 23:38God is waiting for the fullness to come in, friends, and He
- 23:42knows who's going to be there. 26 And so all Israel shall be
- 23:49saved, as it is written. There shall come out of Zion the
- 23:54Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
- 23:59So there you can see, friends, that God's heart is for the
- 24:02entire nation of Israel, and it does not mean that every Jew in
- 24:06every Israelite is going to be saved.
- 24:10But what he is saying is that the entire nation will see Jesus
- 24:15Christ as their Messiah and whether they place their faith
- 24:21in Him or not will be up to them.
- 24:24Individually they have the free will to do so, but they will see
- 24:29that they need not wait on another.
- 24:32And that will happen during the seven-year Tribulation, friends.
- 24:39And Israel will experience 3 1/2 years of peace.
- 24:43Not the world, but they will experience that 3 1/2 years of
- 24:47peace to rebuild the temple so that the Antichrist can sit in
- 24:52it and demand to be worshipped as God, the abomination of
- 24:56desolation. Friends, you can see it, and
- 24:59it's all foreshadowed in Daniel by Antiochus Epiphanes with the
- 25:03slaughtering of the sow's blood on the altar.
- 25:07And you're going to see an image made of the Antichrist and the
- 25:12statue, and people are to worship it.
- 25:14And you're going to see that the Jews at that time will see that
- 25:17they need not wait on another, and they're going to realize
- 25:21that Jesus is their Messiah, period. 27 For this is my
- 25:30covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
- 25:35Praise God, he has a plan for them. 28 As concerning the
- 25:41gospel, they are enemies for your sakes.
- 25:45But as touching the election, they are beloved for the
- 25:49Father's sakes. So there you can see, friends,
- 25:53their hostility towards Jesus Christ LED you and me and the
- 25:57whole world into salvation, if we'll choose it.
- 26:02But there's coming a day and an hour when God's chosen people
- 26:06will come in and we cannot turn our backs on Israel.
- 26:12Everything that is happening right now, mainstream news and
- 26:15politics, everything is fulfilling prophecy, whether you
- 26:20want to admit it or not Period. 29 For the gifts and calling of
- 26:30God are without repentance. So there you can see, friends,
- 26:36that God has a calling out. God gives us amazing gifts of
- 26:43salvation, friends, and we need to repent.
- 26:47We need to admit that we need Jesus Christ more than we need
- 26:53the next breath and our lungs. And God here has a plan, not
- 27:00only for us, but for the Jews as a whole. 34 As in, for as you in
- 27:07times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy
- 27:12through their unbelief, so there it is.
- 27:15The unbelief of the Jews has led to our salvation.
- 27:19Praise God, Hallelujah, aren't you just, aren't you thankful
- 27:22that He didn't just choose the Jews and then save the Jews and
- 27:29then usher them into eternity and left all of us Gentiles
- 27:33behind to have to suffer separated from Him for all of
- 27:40eternity because we did not come to Him through Jesus Christ?
- 27:4731 Even so, have these also now not believed that through your
- 27:53mercy they also may obtain mercy?
- 27:57So again, if you go back, he said that it was the jealousy of
- 28:03seeing the Gentiles coming in to eternity that is going to
- 28:07provoke the Jews to give their life to the Lord Jesus Christ.
- 28:1432 For God has concluded them all in unbelief, that he might
- 28:19have mercy upon all. 33 Oh, the depth of the riches, both of the
- 28:25wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable are his
- 28:31judgments and his ways past finding out.
- 28:35So Paul breaks out into worship. He breaks out into praise.
- 28:40He breaks out into astonishment in awesome wonder over how God
- 28:48operates. We cannot put God in a box.
- 28:53He is the great I am. Friends, you cannot tell God to
- 28:58work in a moralistic way. You can't do it.
- 29:03Friends, if you try, you're going to be put to dismay
- 29:08whenever we will not come to the Father through His Son Jesus
- 29:11Christ. You're going to be put to shame
- 29:14when you try to work your way into heaven.
- 29:16Friends, you are going to be completely ridiculed whenever
- 29:21you try to come to God and tell Him how He should behave.
- 29:26God is in heaven and does whatever he pleases friends, and
- 29:29all we need to do is submit. All we need to do is get out of
- 29:34our own way. All we need to do is trust in
- 29:38all of the promises contained in the book.
- 29:41Get in the book. It's ignorance of the word of
- 29:43God that is the biggest problem in the world today.
- 29:46People want to be spoon fed little Nuggets, friends, and
- 29:50they are not willing to get into the Word of God and feast on his
- 29:54flesh and drink His blood and know the Word of God from
- 29:58Genesis to Revelation and know it over again and again and
- 30:03again and again and again. And God will be well pleased to
- 30:07give you all of his plans for the ages for all time sake.
- 30:12And his name is Jesus Christ. Here Paul is breaking out.
- 30:20God is unsearchable. God has riches.
- 30:23God is deep. God has wisdom and knowledge.
- 30:27God's judgments are past finding out 34 For who has known the
- 30:37mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor, 35 or who
- 30:42has first given to him, that he shall be repaid unto him again.
- 30:4736 will end here. 4 of him, and through him and to him are all
- 30:55things, to him be glory forever. Amen, Amen and Amen and Amen,
- 31:02friends. Everything is by God and for God
- 31:07and to God, and the best thing we can do is get out of our own
- 31:12ways of trying to tell God what to do.
- 31:16We just get in line with what He's already doing all around us
- 31:21and we submit to Him. We say yes and Amen to all of
- 31:26His ways, even if we don't like them.
- 31:29And God has broad enough shoulders to be able to shoulder
- 31:35all of your hurts, all of your worries, all of your wanderings,
- 31:40all of your frustrations and angers.
- 31:43Take it to Him today. Tell him that you don't like the
- 31:47way that he's doing things, but just know it'll never amount to
- 31:51anything except for him showering you with understanding
- 31:56and love because you'll see that His ways are past finding out
- 32:02you're going to swim in the deep end for 10 lifetimes and never
- 32:06ever figure God out. You can't box a man.
- 32:09You can't package them and sell them friends.
- 32:15He is, I am. He's the only uncreated and we
- 32:23just say yes and Amen to all of his ways.
- 32:26I hope you've been blessed by this amazing chapter here in the
- 32:30Word of God. I hope you can see that we have
- 32:33to be found standing with Israel.
- 32:37I hope that you can see that God's not done with them.
- 32:43Hope you can see that God loves you despite all of your flaws.
- 32:50He loves you despite all the things that you've said.
- 32:54You're not bound. If you woke up this morning,
- 32:56you're not bound to your past. You can make it right with God
- 33:01today. Get off of the hateful ignorance
- 33:08and get in line with God's loving plan.
- 33:13Be found in Him and Him and you. Love you.
- 33:22I'm praying for you. We'll see you back here
- 33:29tomorrow. God bless you.