Chapter 9-11 Part 3              November 22, 2020

V9:27-29 The four of the remnants of Israel that shall be saved - God is not done with his people: Those of Israel Israel, which are of Israel. The two future remnants

Ø     Isaiah 10: 20-21 End of the seven year tribulation entering into the Thousand year reign of Christ. At the end of the Great Tribulation Israel will not be as the sand of the sea.

Ø     Isaiah 10:22-23 After the Thousand year reign of Christ that will enter eternity with the Lamb

Ø     Revelation 20: 1-3, 7-9 The consumption of  Isaiah 10:22

·        A past remnant Romans 11:2-4 Elijah in 1kings 19:1-18

·        The remnant today Romans 11:4 - The Church age of grace 

·        The remnants for preservation of the nation of Israel. God would have totally destroyed Israel if it had not been for these remnants.

Let it be known Gentiles, God will always have His remnant among the Jews who will be saved

V9:30-33 See V22-24

·        The Gentile Christians only knew of coming to Christ by faith they knew little or nothing about keeping the law.

·        Israel as a nation only saw the physical keeping of the law as the way to righteousness and they failed to achieve righteousness because of the weakness of flesh (See V8:3)

·        See Isaiah 8:13-15 If the Jews feared the LORD, their Messiah, Christ, he would be their sanctuary, their salvation.

·        When Christ came He did not come to conquer the Gentile nations and restore the nation of Israel. He came to save them (both individual  Jews and individual Gentiles) He came as Lord not LORD.

·        The Jews as a nation could not except that their Messiah came to die on a cross to make Gentiles co-sons of God (in Christ) with them. Israel could not get past the physical to see the spiritual.

You can understand how the Gentile Christians could wonder if God had chose them over the nation of Israel.

V10:1- Paul again expresses his love he has for Israel; but not as a nation but as individuals. He is talking to his brothers in Christ, mainly Gentile Christians

·        Note They be saved.  

·        To be spiritual sons of God (See Vs 9:6b, 2:28-29)

V2 Matthew 15:8 The Jews passionately sought after God; but they did not follow the knowledge of God they knew. They received the oracles of God, they had the history of the fathers (V9:5). Imagine the witness of Joseph that was passed down.  That knowledge was put aside.

Paul is speaking about the Jews of the day he wrote the letter and also the Jews of today

V3 What they wee ignorant of: God's righteousness

·        Righteousness is being perfectly right in every itty bitty detail of everything or being God.

·        They claimed their righteousness was good enough, they did not know to be righteous they had to be completely right in everything they did and every thought they had.

·        because they considered that they were righteous enough on their own they did not submit to God's righteousness spoken of in V4

Remember the stumblingbloock, the stone of stumbling

When you believe in Christ unto salvation you are submitting to God's righteousness. The righteousness of the law will lead to Christ if you believe. The Jews stumbled over accepting Jesus Christ as their Messiah . The Messiah wanted would never allow Himself to suffer at the hands of mere men and be hanged on a tree..

2Corinthians  5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

V5-7 Under the law sacrifice for sin had to be made over and over and over. Receiving the righteousness of God by faith is believing Christ had to die and raise from the dead once and only once and those who believe in Him have to accept His one-time sacrifice only once.

Romans 1:17; Philippians 3:9; Hebrews 7:27, 9:28

Adding anything to salvation by grace through faith alone is saying that  Christ's one-time sacrifice, death, burial and resurrection was not sufficient enough to satisfy God's demands and He would have to come again. Deuteronomy 30: 9-14 God's word was always close to Israel  It was not far off.  Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. (Romans 4:3, Genesis 15:6)

V8-11 The word of faith that Paul preached (the Gospel) leads to righteousness of God,. The Jews had to acknowledge the stumbling block (Isaiah 28:16), the one spoken of in Acts 2:26 to be The Messiah.

See Deuteronomy 30:14 salvation was only a confession and belief away from Israel. Matthew 15:8. 

V12-13 The word of faith Paul preaches: it is the same for both Jews and Gentiles. Believe, believe

V14-17 The Gospel must be preached so it can be heared and believed.

V18- But not everyone who hears will believe

·        1Corinthians 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness; See Isaiah 53:1

·        The Jews who do not believe have no excuse it was heard throughout the world See Acts 2; Col 1:6