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Text -- Romans 11:1-14 (NET)
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Israel’s Rejection not Complete nor Final
11:1 So I ask , God has not rejected his people , has he? Absolutely not ! For I too am an Israelite , a descendant of Abraham , from the tribe of Benjamin .
11:2 God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew ! Do you not know what the scripture says about Elijah , how he pleads with God against Israel ?
11:3 “Lord , they have killed your prophets , they have demolished your altars ; I alone am left and they are seeking my life !”
11:4 But what was the divine response to him ? “I have kept for myself seven thousand people who have not bent the knee to Baal .”
11:5 So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace .
11:6 And if it is by grace , it is no longer by works , otherwise grace would no longer be grace .
11:7 What then ? Israel failed to obtain what it was diligently seeking , but the elect obtained it. The rest were hardened ,
11:8 as it is written , “God gave them a spirit of stupor , eyes that would not see and ears that would not hear , to this very day .”
11:9 And David says , “Let their table become a snare and trap , a stumbling block and a retribution for them ;
11:10 let their eyes be darkened so that they may not see , and make their backs bend continually.”
11:11 I ask then , they did not stumble into an irrevocable fall , did they? Absolutely not ! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles , to make Israel jealous .
11:12 Now if their transgression means riches for the world and their defeat means riches for the Gentiles , how much more will their full restoration bring?
11:13 Now I am speaking to you Gentiles . Seeing that I am an apostle to the Gentiles , I magnify my ministry ,
11:14 if somehow I could provoke my people to jealousy and save some of them .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE |
Salvation |
ESCHATOLOGY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT, I-V |
Rome |
Israel |
GRAFT |
Quotations and Allusions |
Elijah |
Predestination |
ELECTION |
Gentiles |
Election of Grace |
Call |
Emulation |
GRACE |
Grace of God |
God |
PSYCHOLOGY |
PROVOCATION; PROVOKE |
Benjamin |
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