From Jerusalem to The Nations and Back Romans 11

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We're all different heights, I think it's very quickly, and then we'll pray and we'll get into the word
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So again, my name is Trevor Rubinstein. I'm born and was born and raised in a Jewish home in northern,
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Minnesota And I came to believe in Jesus at about 18 years old Well when
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I lived in Denver, Colorado, I always struggled. I was a troubled youth
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And the Lord really changed my life. He saved my life I mean that in a literal sense is where well as an eternal one
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And so really my goal and my focus has been to help reach the Jewish people with the gospel of Jesus Of course,
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I work amongst many people outside of the Jewish community and have historically but really this is the thing that the
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Lord had put on my heart and I'm so blessed to be able to do and we Minister to the
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Jewish people in Minnesota and and actually in Wisconsin, Iowa the Dakotas I cover a large area for an organization called chosen people ministries
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Which is a the oldest Jewish outreach organization in America the reason I cover such a large area is there's not a large
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Jewish population outside of the Twin Cities to garner a full -time missionary and So we're really blessed we're seeing many
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Jewish people come to faith and I'll actually even address that in this section of Scripture and Possibly what that means to us and so thank you guys again for allowing me to come it's always nice to get out of Minneapolis and And so it's a blessing to be here with you all this morning
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So let's pray out of our Lord God. We thank you and we praise your holy name Lord We are so honored that you allow us to enter into such a greatest salvation
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God father We thank you for your grace your mercy your love God, which is above all
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Understanding father and Lord today God Lord We ask that you draw us closer to you father that you encourage our faith you help strengthen us father and father that you
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Empower us to do your will God father be here be present with us speak to our hearts
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God father Give us a greater Appreciation of your love and of your ways
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We love you so much and we praise you in the name of Jesus bisham. Yeshua. Amen Amen So again, we're going to be in Romans chapter 11 today and in Romans chapter 11 starting in verse 1
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Paul answers one of my favorite questions Paul is writing predominantly to a
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Gentile audience How do we know that because Paul says that he is an apostle to the
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Gentiles even in this very section that we're reading today So as he's writing to the
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Gentiles There is a question that comes up because the church while its beginnings are exclusively
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Jewish all of the people who believed were Jews all of the apostles Jesus himself, of course and everybody that was present during the time of Pentecost were
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Jewish and then to their surprise the Lord was bringing in people that were not
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Jewish into the faith in Jesus and As time went on the faith amongst the non -jews the
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Gentiles exploded while the Jewish people had a much smaller place and so there were questions that were arising as is
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God done with these people has he moved on in their stubbornness believe me
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There's many times I wish I could move on in their stubbornness to reach another people group
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By the grace of God he answers this question as we enter into this section of scripture starting in verse 1
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Paul says I ask then has God rejected his people by no means
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For I myself am an Israelite a descendant of Abraham a member of the tribe of Benjamin God has not rejected his people who he foreknew
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Do you not know that the scripture scripture says of Elijah how he appeals to God against Israel Lord they have killed your prophets.
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They have demolished your altars and I am alone left and they seek my life
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But what is God's reply to him? I have kept for myself 7 ,000 men who have not bowed a knee to Baal So to at this present time there is a remnant chosen by grace
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But if it is by grace, it's no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise grace is no longer grace
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What then? Israel failed to obtain what it was seeking the elect obtained it
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But the rest were hardened as it is written God gave them a spirit of stupor eyes that they should not see and ears that they should not hear
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Down to this very day and David says let their table become a snare a trap a stumbling block and a retribution to them so in this section of scripture, we see a
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Continuation you see God made a promise in this new covenant promises
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Pastor Seth had read earlier today and this promise that he made of a new covenant of a greater
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Covenant and by greater what is meant by this is not that the Mosaic Covenant was bad
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But that it did not fulfill Ultimately eternal life in anybody
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It never created a sense or a place for the people to be able to dwell in Eternity with the
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Lord forever and ever it pointed to these things, of course in a deep way
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But it in itself was not able to accomplish it. So he created a much greater covenant and this covenant that he created is specifically as it states in the beginning a covenant that he shall make with Israel and with Judah and so we have this covenant that was specifically given to them and Something that is stated at the end of that new covenant is just like the
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Lord had created ordinances that there's a Sun and Moon and Stars in the sky and that the way the waves of the sea continue to roar
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He says that is assuredly as these things continue Israel will continue to be a nation before him this is actually a component to the new covenant the new covenant that then
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Jesus comes and Institutes the covenant in which he dies for our sins and then is raised
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Again so that those of us that trust in him though We die too will have eternal life in him and will also be resurrected this covenant of forgiveness of sins and eternal life the spirit coming to dwell in us as reiterated within that was not just initially given to Israel But also contains promises that God will not cease to work within his people
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But you see God always works within a remnant a small group within if you ever feel like a stranger in a strange land
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Like you as being a Christian don't seem to fit in with everything else that's happening in the world around you
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This is always how it's been You see because the Lord does not necessarily allow for dual
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Citizenship we give up our citizenship of this world to embrace our
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Citizenship of the kingdom of heaven. We're aliens here We're different than so much around us
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But he's always worked through a remnant through a small group within in Exodus chapter 23 verse 2
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Moses writes that the majority will do what is wicked and of course we understand this from the
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New Testament Scriptures where we are told that wide is the way that leads to destruction
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But narrow is the way that would lead to our Lord. And so It's always been through a remnant.
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We see this throughout history at the time of Noah God chose Noah out of a lost world to be able to preserve and to be able to continue the faith in the
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God of In the one true God I was gonna say God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob, but they didn't exist yet He chose
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Abraham out of the pagan world as the one man who was going to trust in The one true
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God he chose Joseph out of his brothers out of his twelve brothers to be able to maintain the promises of God he chose
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Moses at a time to where the people of Israel were lost in their
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Captivity to be able to lead them out again an individual in the presence of masses
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He chose the Levites at a time to where the people of Israel were
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Rebelling and worshiping a golden calf But yet there was a remnant a small group within that was willing to serve the one true
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God He chose David a very unlikely Individual even in the midst of the rebellion of the people of Israel of demanding a king
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God has always worked through a remnant and we
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Become part of that remnant. I love this section of Scripture in particular
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Because this section of Scripture is talking about Jewish people who
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God has preserved Even at a time to where much of Israel rejects the gospel.
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This is very personal to me I read this and I say oh my oh my lord
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You've included me in your scriptures what a beautiful amazing thing and We understand that God's choosing is based upon grace
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Not based on any form of merit. I love how Paul speaks of this
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In chapter in chapter 11 here verse 6 he says but if it is by grace
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It's no longer on the basis of works. Otherwise grace would no longer be grace. It's a
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Mathematical statement really fascinating statement. It says grace plus Anything is no longer grace
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And that interesting you add something to grace and then it's something different So simply he's he's showing that God is choosing his people simply by the
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Graciousness of his heart of his compassion for others We see this beautiful promise given in this very section of Scripture And of course
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Paul writes that we are saved by grace through faith and not of work so that no one can boast
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I look at myself in the situation I have the first person in my family's history to come to know
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Jesus really their history forever and What a fascinating thing because I am also was coming out of probably being the most depraved most horrible person in my family that I could ever have conceived of my my brothers are brilliant and very
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Successful and obedient to their parents I was such the opposite of that and yet the
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Lord allowed me to come into his kingdom by his grace Not by my works so that I have can have nothing prideful to hold on to See when the
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Lord made covenants with Israel. He actually gave them two primary land covenants He gave them the
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Mosaic Covenant the Mosaic Covenant came down from Mount Sinai with Moses and the Mosaic Covenant said if you
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Obey these things you'll be blessed, but if you disobey these things you will be cursed part of the reason of receiving the
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Mosaic Covenant is to recognize our own shortcomings and our own inability to live up to the holiness of God but yet he also gave the people of Israel the
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Abrahamic Covenant in Which had no condition upon it other than simply the
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Lord was going to offer grace to a specific people group because of the promises to their ancestors
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It's important for us to understand Later in the text as he quotes out of the book of Isaiah as we read in verse in verse 8 and out of the
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Psalms and verse 9 that the Lord has blinded his people and When we go on to this next section, you'll see why he blinded his people and again
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It just expands our understanding of the grace of God and this continues When we look into verse 11 actually
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I didn't read verse 10 specifically talks about his blindness which says let their eyes be darkened so that they cannot see and Bend their backs forever.
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So we come into verse 11. It makes this statement So I asked then did they speaking of Israel stumble in order that they might fall by no means
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Rather through their trespass salvation has come to the Gentiles So as to make
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Israel jealous now if their trespass means riches for the world and their
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Failure means riches for the Gentiles. How much more will their full inclusion mean?
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Now I am speaking to you Gentiles in as much as I'm an apostle to the
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Gentiles I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow
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Jews jealous and thus save some of them For if their rejection means the reconcile
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Reconciliation of the world what were their acceptance mean but life from the dead
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And so we see now the reasoning is God starts to explain why he blinded
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Israel well, because who was the new covenant for was for Israel and Judah and I don't know how many of you grew up with siblings, but I have a brother that's very close to me in age and we were very jealous of one another if I Received something that he didn't he got upset if he received something that I didn't
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I got upset But if something was promised to him and he didn't want it then
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I could have it. I Got a lot of hand -me -downs. He was older than I was But this is also very similar to how the new covenant worked because it's intended for Israel and for Judah and as they
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Reject this gift then it can be offered to others This is spoken of in the
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Song of Moses very early in scriptures in Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 21 in Deuteronomy chapter 32 verse 21
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God talks to Moses and has him write this down as to how his interaction with the people of Israel will go and then what his
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Reply to that will be it says this they have made me jealous with what is not
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No, God, they have provoked me to anger with their idols So make them jealous with those who are no people and will provoke them to I to anger by a foolish nations
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So in essence what the Lord is prophesying is as you go to other gods.
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I'm gonna go to other people and So you will see that this great gift that I have for you will be bestowed upon others
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We also see this in the scriptures in Matthew chapter 15 There's a very well -known story where there's a
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Canaanite woman who comes to Jesus and asks him to heal her daughter
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Jesus says to her that he was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel Again, the new covenant was to be given to Israel She replies with great wisdom and she said yes
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Lord but even the dogs get the crumbs off the master's table and With that he healed her daughter
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This is exactly how the Lord has worked is as Israel rejects the gospel
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Salvation comes to the nations and so every single person here who is not of Jewish ancestry your
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Salvation is a result of Israel's rejection so instead of being haughty and looking down upon them, we should be thankful and gracious to the
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Lord for allowing us to come into this greatest salvation and broken for the people of Israel in Recognizing in recognizing that their condemnation has resulted in our salvation
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This is our Lord. This is how he's worked We see this illustrated so clearly within the text and as it goes on and it talks about and Really broke down how this works.
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It said that that salvation comes to them because of Israel's rejection
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But in verse 12, he makes this fascinating statement He says now if their trespasses so as Israel rejects the gospel that that means that it's going to be riches for the world or for the nations if their failure means riches for The Gentiles how much more will their full inclusion mean think about this?
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Okay, just think about this This is a massive statement This is what Paul's saying that if Israel's rejection of the gospel means that it has an opportunity to spread throughout all the nations of the world people from every tribe language and tongue will have opportunities to come to know
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Jesus as their Lord and Savior entering into this promise of Forgiveness of sins and eternal life.
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He says that that if that happens when Israel rejects He says it's going to be greater than that when they accept a
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Fascinating statement greater than that. What's greater than that? Well, he tells us
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He's verse 15. He says for if their rejection means the reconciling of the world. What will their acceptance mean?
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but life from the dead You see I don't think that this is simply
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Talking about I don't think it's simply making a statement About being resurrected as individuals because we've believed in Jesus.
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Although of course, that is a truth This is a much larger topic because it's talking about National Israel's rejection means the nations of the world come to believe in Jesus So we're talking big picture items and it says what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
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I believe he's referring to somehow Correlating with the return of our
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Lord We see this spoken of in multiple instances throughout
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Scripture in Zechariah chapter 12 Starting in verse 10.
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It makes this very important prophetic statement understanding that this section of Scripture is written hundreds of years before the birth of Jesus and Listen to the description that's given here
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Understanding that as we're reading this this is God speaking Hundreds of years before Jesus is born and I will pour out and it's an instance
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Let me explain the scenario Israel is surrounded by Jerusalem in particular surrounded by foreign armies about to get wiped out and this is what it states and I will pour on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas of mercy so that when they look on him
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Whom they have pierced they will mourn for him and actually that's a poor translation
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I'll correct that in a second is one mourns for his only child and And weep bitterly over him as one weeps for his firstborn.
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It actually states. It's not him It's actually me when they look upon me whom they pierce
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This is what God states and then they will mourn for him it states so this individual is both referred to by God as me and Him the
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God who's pierced then it goes on and states this in verse 11 and on that day the morning in Jerusalem will be great
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Is the morning of Hadad Ramon in the plain of Megiddo the land shall mourn each family by itself the family of the house of David by itself and their wives by themselves the family of the house of Nathan by itself and their
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Wives by themselves the family of the house of Levi by itself and their wives by themselves the family of the house of the shamites
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By itself and their wives by themselves all the families that are left each by itself and their wives by themselves
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These are all Jewish families descendants of Israel and they are repenting
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When they look upon God whom they pierced This is the depiction that we see prophetically in Scripture So if their rejection means your salvation
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Their acceptance somehow correlates with Jesus's return
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This is the promise given to Israel sometimes people will ask the question they'll ask well
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Why do you say that Israel is the chosen people they've rejected the gospel They're looking at it incorrectly chosen for what purpose
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Okay chosen for what purpose? Because Israel is chosen for multiple things.
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They preserved the Hebrew Scriptures they brought in the covenants the gifts and they
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Biologically brought in the Messiah and maybe even according to what the text looks like is they are also chosen
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To basically be the welcome wagon to usher in his return Let's continue in verses 16 through 24 of Romans chapter 11
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It makes this statement if the dough offered as firstfruits is holy
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So the whole lump and if the root is holy so are the branches
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But if some of the branches were broken off and you although a wild olive
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Shoot were grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree
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Do not be arrogant towards the branches if you are Remember, it's not you who support the root
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But the root who supports you and you will say branches were broken off so that I may be grafted in that is true
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They were broken off because of their unbelief, but you stand fast through faith
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Do not become proud but fear for if God did not spare the natural branches
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Neither will he spare you? Note, then the kindness and the severity of God Severity towards those who have fallen but God's kindness to you
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Provided you continue his kindness. Otherwise you two will be cut off Right and as it continues excuse me within the text in verse 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
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For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted
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Contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree How much more will these the natural branches be grafted back
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Into their own olive tree. So here's the statement very simply
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We have this olive tree, okay, which sometimes people will depict as Israel I don't think that's the most accurate way to understand this text because Some of the branches are cut off and in the context of this chapter, that's national
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Israel Not the remnant from within but national Israel we see is cut off.
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Others are grafted in What are they grafted into this is speaking of the New Covenant of Jesus the promise that he's offers us you become
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Part of what he promised part of his family truly brought into the kingdom of God This is what the people become grafted into in belief
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But interesting and I want to point this out Paul is writing this actually as the
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Apostle to the Roman Church Fascinating somehow the
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Roman Catholic Church came to the conclusion that their Apostle was Peter But according to Scripture Paul is the one that's writing to them.
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Paul is also an Apostle to the Gentiles and Something that he is noticing in the early church specifically even coming out of Rome is hatred of the
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Jewish people Because they look down upon them and their rejection and they start to speak ill of them
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We see this develop early early early in in Christian history Clearly Paul's addressing it here just fascinates me that he's writing to Rome because eventually the
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Roman Catholic Church Historically really brought in an institution of anti -semitism
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Seeing the Jews as the Christ killers the one who took the Lord's life Although in John chapter 10 our
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Lord is very clear that he lays down his own life. Nobody takes it from him
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So he's very clear that there is not any one person that's responsible for his death and actually
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Peter in Making an argument in Acts. He makes the statement that Jesus died by both
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Pontius Pilate and by and by Herod that he died by the
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Jewish court and Gentile court the idea is Jesus died by Everybody for everybody if he didn't die
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You wouldn't have the option to be able to enter into eternal life because there would have been no sacrifice that offered your forgiveness
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But instead the church demonized the Jewish people and this unfortunately caused
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Massive suffering and massive condemnation the Jewish people sometimes when we ask well
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Why don't they get it part of it is the Lord's blinded them? But then another massive component is historically the church did an awful job of representing
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Jesus to them because the Jesus that they were introduced to is at the end of a knife a sword a gun because it was told that you either believe in this or you die and sometimes they weren't even given the option of Conversion and were killed throughout their time in Europe This is an unfortunate tragedy that Paul is clearly addressing in this section of Scripture to not fall into this
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He taught the church Preemptively something that's wonderful about Scripture Scripture deals with problems prophetically and preemptively
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Not reactively, they don't find themselves in a different situation. So they react in some new way
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No scripture because God is God He knows past present and future deals with these problems and he's dealing with the problem of church
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Antisemitism right here and it's something that was real and a great tragedy and black eye for the church
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So the church that needed to be grafted in Right They were grafted into the olive tree what they are not natural to because this is something that comes through Jesus Biologically Jewish the promises of these things were
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Jewish the Gentiles coming into this generally didn't have a clear Understanding of the
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Hebrew Scriptures of the prophecies that spoke of him They were coming in from a very foreign place, but yet they were ready to accept it even being foreign grafted in But yet the
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Lord Loves them and always had a plan to bring in the nations through Israel It's a beautiful thing a powerful thing
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It's something that he makes out that he makes so clear here that I want all of us to understand this
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We know that God will keep his promises to you Partially because he kept his promises to Israel.
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He's not a promise breaker. We have evidence These people that were scattered throughout all the world for 2 ,000 years
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He brought back together just like the prophecies throughout Scripture said that he would
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This has never happened in world history, by the way, actually, that's not true. It has happened once before Twice in world history that we know of a people group has been taken out of their country
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Scattered through different parts of the world often in slavery and bondage and then eventually regathered to their nation
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Only twice in world history if we ever seen it both times. It was Israel This isn't something that happens
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But yet it happened with them why? Partially so that you can see that God keeps his promises to his people the
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New Covenant says Israel will never cease to be a nation before them Somebody questions whether or not the current regathering was done by God I often will give them a great challenge to their theology because what occurs is
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Israel is clearly Scattered because of their sin. It's a curse of God according to Deuteronomy 28 in Leviticus 26 and if they are scattered by their sin
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Because of a curse then is it possible for man to undo a curse of God by his own strength?
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Can I overcome God's curse by my own power and will? It's a great challenge for us theologically because Israel is not a religious nation
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It's not a godly nation today But God does not necessarily Gather them for that reason is it even states in Deuteronomy 29?
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He gathers them not because of their righteousness But because of his grace his mercy and his promise to their ancestors
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Also, one of the things that he states is because of the wickedness of the nations that dwell there
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This is what Scripture tells us so we are Assured through the things that we see with Israel through his blessings upon them
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That he will keep his promises to you, but his promises to you aren't just simply physical
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His promise to you is if you trust in Jesus and his death for your forgiveness of sins
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You're forgiven and if you believe and confess that Jesus rose from the dead on the third day you too will be raised from the dead
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By the same spirit that rose him because the Spirit of God dwells in those who have put their faith and trust in Jesus You can't hold the
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Spirit of God down He's life If we continue and look in verse 25 through 32
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We see this in Matthew 11 lest you be wise in your own sight I do not want you to be unaware of this mystery brothers a partial hardening has come upon Israel and tell the fullness of the
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Gentiles has come in and this way all Israel will be saved as Is written the deliverer will come out of Zion He will banish ungodliness from Jacob and this will be my covenant with them when
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I take away their sins What we see here in this very section of Scripture is
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That the Lord is going to save Israel when says after The time of the
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Gentiles after the gospel goes throughout wherever it's going to go throughout the nations
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I happen to be dispensational why? Because the scripture talks about dispensations.
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This is a clear example of one of them God moves away from Israel so that he can save the nations and Then when he's done working throughout the nations he goes back to his people
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This statement about all Israel being saved is debated as to what exactly it means but clearly there seems to be an indication of a national turning of The people remaining in Jerusalem at least many of them and Zechariah seems to state all of them there at that point in time
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This is not talking about all the Jewish people throughout history because many
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Jewish people have gone to their grave rejecting Jesus and just like with any of us when we reject
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Jesus going into Eternity then we will not receive the eternal life that he offers us instead.
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We are going to be condemned This is just clear in Scripture Why does it seem cruel does it seem unfair?
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It's very simple if we break this down very simple When we think about the kingdom of God the heavenly realm the kingdom that our
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Lord is going to set up Is it a place of peace or war? I'm asking you guys you can answer
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Peace very clearly Okay, and who is the king of this kingdom?
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It's our Lord and So if you go into this kingdom in Opposition to that King then you have made the heavenly realm not a place of peace
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But a place of war by your simple presence. There's no place for you there You've chose to distance yourself from it by your own depravity
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This is what the Lord has set up for us. It's not that it's unfair. It's very fair There's a place of peace and there's a king who's going to rule it graciously and wonderfully and perfectly and if you do not
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Submit to that King if you do not put your faith and trust in that King then you would make that place a place of war
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It's just very simple It's not unfair by any means And so as the people of Israel at the end as it says that they turn to Jesus Recognizing the
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God whom they have pierced They themselves make a national turning that correlates with his return fascinating listen to the words of Jesus from Matthew chapter 23 starting in verse 37 as he's speaking to Israel.
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He says this Oh Jerusalem Jerusalem who is
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Jesus talking to very clear Jerusalem Who lives there the people of Israel the city that kills the prophets and stones those who were sent to it?
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How often I would have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings
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But you were not willing they've rejected me Okay, this is what he states during this time
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And then he goes on and say see your house is left to you desolate For I tell you that you will not see me again
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Until you say Baruch Haba B'Shem Adonai quoting out of out of Psalm chapter 119 blessed as he who comes in the name of the
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Lord Jesus says to the Jewish people in Jerusalem.
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You will not see me again until you welcome me That's what he says
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It's his words not mine So he's waiting partially for this national turning of Israel It's a fascinating section of history in eschatology that unfortunately is often overlooked this event typically within a pre -tribulational dispensational type of Eschatology would be understood to probably occur at the end of the tribulation somewhere around that time period where Jesus Physically returns with his bride.
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This is kind of the general understanding for the time frame You can correct me pastor if I'm wrong later
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Amen to correcting me later Wouldn't be the first time
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Goes on the text. Oh Let me explain this actually there's a prophetic shadow of this from King David King David is the king of Israel at some point in time all of the tribes of Israel decide this
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Decide to endorse his son his son Absalom as opposed to David and then when you get to 2nd
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Samuel chapter 19 Starting in verse 9. This is very similar to what we see happen with Jesus regarding his return to rain because what happens is
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Absalom and his men go to war with David and his men Absalom is killed by Joab Joab seems to kill everybody and and After he is dead.
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We read this text fascinating Listen to the words of David from what we just heard
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Jesus say says and all the people were arguing throughout the tribes of Israel saying the king delivered us from the hand of our enemies and saved us from the hand of the
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Philistine speaking of David and Now he has fled out of our lot or out of our land because of Absalom So when they endorsed
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Absalom David left then their armies fought Absalom's killed But Absalom whom we anointed over us is dead in battle now
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Therefore, why do you say nothing about bringing back the king then King David sent this message to Zadok and to Abiath of the priest
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So what happens is all the tribes of Israel are asking for Jesus to come back except for one
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What tribe is or excuse me asking for David to come back except for one what what tribe is David from?
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lion of the tribe of Judah Judah Judah is the only tribe listen to what he says
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Say to the elders of Judah Why should you be the last to bring the king back to his house when the word of all?
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Israel has come to the king every people group, but his own have asked for him sound familiar
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You are my brothers You are my bone and my flesh Why then should you be the last to bring back the king say to Amasa?
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Are you not bone of my bone flesh of my flesh God do so to me and more?
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Also, if you are not commander of my army from now on in the place of Joab and he swayed the hearts of all the men of Judah a national turning as One man, so they sent word return
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To the king both you and your servants and so the king came back to the Jordan and Judah Came to Gilgal to meet the king and to bring the king over the
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Jordan when his people asked for him This is what Jesus is saying when my people asked for me
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Is when I come back so as we continue in In in verse 28 it says as regard to the gospel they are enemies for your sake
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But as regard to election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers Again, God keeps his promises for the gifts and callings of God are irrevocable
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For just as you were at one time disobedient to God, but now have received mercy because of their disobedience
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Be thankful So they too have now been disobedient in order that the mercy
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That excuse me in order that by the mercy shown to you They may also now receive mercy for God has consigned all to disobedience
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That he may have mercy on all No different than you you're a sinner saved by grace
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The only thing is some of you Hopefully everyone here is elect
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If you put your faith in Jesus you are and so that would be the clear distinction that we have here
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Between what is occurring is simply? Whether or not they put their faith in the
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Lord, but what he's stating is very clearly that just like how Israel's Disobedience leads to the salvation of the nation's your own disobedient can lead to your salvation
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Because you recognize that you're a sinner who needs a Savior Very similar in what how he's speaking and then verse 33 through the end of the chapter states this oh the depth the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God how unsearchable or his judgments and how on Excuse me unscrupulous his ways for who has known the mind of our
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Lord or who has been his Counselor or who has given a gift to him that he might be repaid for from him and through him
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And to him are all things to him be the glory forever
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Amen, you see was even prophesied in Isaiah chapter 53 and 52 even preceding it that many people would not understand what the prophecies about Jesus meant
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In the people of Israel they they didn't have a firm grasp of what the Messiah would look like there was really no
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Concept coming up to the point of Jesus of a Messiah who was coming twice the first time he would come and die and then
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The second time he would return and rule and reign this concept did not exist
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So many of the Jewish people in their misconceived Eschatology missed the coming of the
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Messiah. I'm very cautious when it comes to eschatology
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I am I'm very cautious because my people missed the Lord because he didn't because Jesus did not fit their preconceived ideas
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There are things that we can clearly know from Scripture clearly Scripture speaks of many things that are going to have we know
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Jesus is coming back. We know he's establishing his kingdom We know that there is a rapture of the church
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We know that you have a promise of eternal life if you put your faith and trust in Jesus There's things that are unequivocable that we know because Scripture clearly speaks of these things
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But the problem is is sometimes we might try to perceive things that aren't in Scripture based on our own
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Understanding and I would say when it comes to eschatology be very loose with that Be very loose with that do not ever be dogmatic about the future things outside of what is clearly spoken of within Scripture Because God forbid you miss what the
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Lord's doing in whatever case or situation that is but so they actually the church
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I believe has kind of fallen victim of this because Historically the church did not see that there was any future for Israel because the nation of Israel didn't exist for over 2 ,000 years and The promises to Israel were seen as maybe just being spiritual or something else entirely because How could
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God fulfill these things when we know that Jesus could return at any time but yet in 1948 we saw that he does fulfill his promises just as he stated and people because they were
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Dogmatic in their eschatology. They still denounce the mere miraculous work of God and his promises, but you can see it
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You can see it. You can see he's not done You can trust in God's Word.
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He literally will fulfill everything that he says Literally, it'll happen
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And there will be no question Going back to scriptures to the proof of God's Word in your lives
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So what we have here is something beautiful Something beautiful you can see that God so loves you
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That he gave his only begotten Son to die for you But also that he allows his own people to reject him so you can be saved
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We see it But yet we need to be broken -hearted for the people of Israel when we are told to pray for the peace of Jerusalem truly you're
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Praying for the peacemaker to return You're praying for their hearts to be changed.
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I can tell you this fascinating fact, and maybe I've shared it here before In America today, we're seeing a decline of faith in Jesus Okay, we're seeing it.
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It's happening, but amongst the Jewish people. It's the opposite Jewish people in America are exploding in faith
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So out of seven and a half million Jewish people in America about seven million of them are professing
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Jesus today We've never seen numbers like this to give you a rough estimate for what this would look like And looks like it throughout history and in different times and even this is a high number, but but in Israel There's almost the same amount of Jewish people
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It's about seven million And there's 50 ,000 people who profess Jesus America a million out of the almost the same amount as 50 ,000 in Israel You're seeing a move of God here, so what does this mean?
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What does it mean for us? well we know at the end that there's a national turning of Israel because as the end of the age of the
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Gentile seems to be accomplished according to the scripture this blindness begins to be lifted from Israel And I think that maybe we're seeing it now
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So don't hesitate in your faith convictions and focusing on the Lord more and more don't wait for tomorrow
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To be able to fulfill the things that you believe that the Lord is calling you to do to further his kingdom and sharing faith
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With others in serving the church and being able to live out a life that represents our
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Lord properly Don't wait till tomorrow because if we believe in God and we see his signs. It's not happening in the far distant future
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It's happening soon The greatest clear sign that we have of the return of Jesus is a national turning of Israel.
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We're seeing it today Let's pray Abba Father God Lord. We thank you
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Lord. We thank you for how good you are to us Father we ask that you help increase our faith
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God our trust in you Lord we are honored in privilege
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Lord that you have allowed us To enter into so great a salvation father, and it is with great cost
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Lord father and so we ask Lord that that resonate with us father that you truly value us
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God father of giving your son for us Lord and Lord God father.
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We are thankful Lord that you again Lord have allowed so many To not see the truth so that we can
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God and so we pray for those Lord who don't know you Lord we pray that you will do a work in their lives father
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Lord if we are entering into the end of the age of the Gentiles God Lord We pray for a great harvest amongst the
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Gentiles amongst the nation's God Father by your grace and your mercy like how each and every one of us was saved
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God Lord We pray that you will have that same grace and same mercy upon upon countless individuals
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God Lord we do pray for the peace of Jerusalem father for your son for Jesus to return
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Because Jesus when you return All will be made well
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And so Lord we desperately need you we recognize that we can't do things well on our own
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Father when we try to rule things it doesn't go well, but when you do it's perfect We recognize that father and pray for the salvation of your people
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God and for your return Lord we ask father that you use us powerfully father to further your kingdom
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God that you empower us to do So to be able to spread your gospel to share with others this great truth father this opportunity for peace with you and eternal life
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Father this greatest gift that's ever been offered to humanity God Lord you we ask father that you give us the strength in the means
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To be able to present your truth father to others around us God father empower this church
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God to be a light Father to be a light to the community God father so that they will recognize in their need that there's a place to go
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That you have set up your body Father to be able to serve the people around father to be able to show who you are
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God and Lord we ask for that empowerment here today Father we're so blessed and honored father
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Lord we love you so much Let us never forget what you've done for us
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Let us never father ever God Move away from your calling in our lives
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Lord because what you have for us is greater than what any of us could desire for ourselves in Jesus name