1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:06,160 How's everyone doing? Awesome. If it's your first time here, welcome to 2 00:00:06,160 --> 00:00:10,440 Hosanna Christian Fellowship. And if it's your 100th time here, awesome. I'm glad 3 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:17,520 to see you guys. Today, Pastor Nathan unfortunately is sick. He's not dying. 4 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:24,040 He's okay. But he is sick, so he asked me to take over the study today and to share 5 00:00:24,040 --> 00:00:29,320 with you guys. For those of you who don't know who I am, I am Pastor Rick Ice. I am 6 00:00:29,320 --> 00:00:34,400 the youth pastor here. I'm also his assistant pastor. And so the reason you 7 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:38,080 don't see me very often, and I say this every time, is because I'm down the street 8 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:42,400 with the youth. We're only in here once a month, sometimes for rare occasions like 9 00:00:42,400 --> 00:00:48,000 this, twice a month. But with that, today we're gonna have a really good blessed 10 00:00:48,000 --> 00:00:54,000 study in Romans chapter 11. We're gonna be actually summing up what happened from 11 00:00:54,000 --> 00:00:59,480 chapter 9 to chapter 11 in Romans, and then doing this conclusion of this whole 12 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:06,360 main point that Israel is still important, and we need to let God's Word 13 00:01:06,360 --> 00:01:11,920 be the thing that changes our world view. That is the main points of today's 14 00:01:11,920 --> 00:01:16,800 study, and honestly as Christians is the main point to life. We as Christians 15 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:21,320 should be trying to be more Christ-like and live in God's wisdom, not changing 16 00:01:21,320 --> 00:01:25,680 God's Word to our own wisdom. Because guess what? A lot of problems come when we 17 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:31,080 do our own will through our own wisdom. But with that, we're gonna go ahead and 18 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:36,360 pray and start and get into worship. So, dear Heavenly Father, we just thank you 19 00:01:36,360 --> 00:01:40,400 so much for your Word. We thank you so much for this opportunity to gather 20 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:45,760 today and just have true fellowship and worship and truly praise you for who you 21 00:01:45,760 --> 00:01:50,760 are, Lord. I pray that you would bless today, that you would let your Word just 22 00:01:50,760 --> 00:01:56,000 sit in our heart and change us, Lord. Help us to apply your Word to our lives and 23 00:01:56,000 --> 00:02:00,360 live for you today. In Jesus' name we pray, amen. For those of you that are like, 24 00:02:00,360 --> 00:02:03,280 why isn't this a Memorial Day service? Why aren't we doing something 25 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:09,560 specifically on Memorial Day? Well, I didn't have enough time from when I was 26 00:02:09,560 --> 00:02:14,840 asked to teach. Nothing on Pastor Nathan. Poor guy is sick. So what I'm actually 27 00:02:14,840 --> 00:02:18,440 gonna be doing, and I think it's really important in his really God-ordained 28 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:24,720 study today, is continuing where youth has been in Romans. So please open your 29 00:02:24,720 --> 00:02:29,560 Bibles to Romans chapter 11. Again, that's Romans chapter 11 and the verse is verse 30 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:38,320 25. Now, to make this study under...understandable for you guys to get what's 31 00:02:38,320 --> 00:02:43,160 going on, I kind of have to break down and give you context of what the youth 32 00:02:43,160 --> 00:02:48,120 has been going over for like a month and a half. So good luck. Ready? This is a TLDR 33 00:02:48,120 --> 00:02:52,640 right now. You're gonna learn everything from chapter 9 to chapter 11 of Romans. 34 00:02:52,640 --> 00:02:59,560 Okay. So starting off, chapter 9 has Paul talking about how he would even trade his 35 00:02:59,560 --> 00:03:04,760 own salvation for the salvation of the Jews, his people, Israel themselves, 36 00:03:04,760 --> 00:03:09,880 because unfortunately they aren't saved. As a nation, this idea, they aren't 37 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:13,880 following God. They've crucified their own savior and they've turned away from 38 00:03:13,880 --> 00:03:18,280 Jesus, and Paul is letting his heart be known. He's like, man, I would trade my 39 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:23,320 own salvation so that my own people would know Jesus their Lord and their 40 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:29,280 savior, their Messiah. And from there, it shows that God's Word hasn't failed 41 00:03:29,280 --> 00:03:33,880 because Paul answers, and as he does in Romans, he answers objections. And one of 42 00:03:33,880 --> 00:03:38,320 the objections is, well, if Israel isn't saved, then God's Word is false, right? 43 00:03:38,320 --> 00:03:43,360 And Paul brings up the whole idea of Israel versus spiritual Israel and the 44 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:47,560 promise of Israel that God gave to Abraham, how it's not actually the 45 00:03:47,560 --> 00:03:53,160 physical nation of Israel only, but the true people, the sons of Abraham, 46 00:03:53,160 --> 00:03:58,480 is anyone who believes in Jesus, who has the same faith as Abraham. 47 00:03:58,480 --> 00:04:04,240 Then it gets into God's selection is just and fair. You find out, 48 00:04:04,240 --> 00:04:08,000 this is all in chapter 9 of Romans, we find out that we're all sinners 49 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:14,240 deserving hell, Jew and Gentile, and he made a way for all to be free, 50 00:04:14,240 --> 00:04:18,680 and he's chosen us through his foreknowledge. And especially in chapter 51 00:04:18,680 --> 00:04:22,080 9, that gets confusing. Some people are like, oh, his foreknowledge, 52 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:28,040 what does that mean? It literally means God is God. God knew everything before 53 00:04:28,040 --> 00:04:34,560 it existed. God does not exist within time. He knew, and he chose us who would 54 00:04:34,560 --> 00:04:40,760 choose him. So from there, Paul continues to talk about Israel isn't saved 55 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:44,240 because they missed out on the point of the law. They had the law, 56 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:50,520 they lived it, but unfortunately, they didn't see that Jesus was the point 57 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,240 of the law. They got to the end of the law and was like, oh, so I'm good 58 00:04:54,240 --> 00:04:57,600 enough, I fulfilled it. They're kind of like that rich young ruler that goes up 59 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:01,280 to Jesus and is like, hey, what do I have to do to be saved? And he's like, 60 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:03,600 well, you know, don't lie, don't do all these things. He's like, oh, 61 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:06,520 I've kept all of them. And the simple fact that one of them was don't lie, 62 00:05:06,520 --> 00:05:11,320 and he says, I've kept all of them. I'm like, okay, you broke one right there. 63 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:18,600 But that idea is Israel themselves, he gives this idea that unfortunately, 64 00:05:18,600 --> 00:05:22,200 they missed out on their own savior because of their own idea of 65 00:05:22,200 --> 00:05:27,160 self-righteousness. They saw the law and said, we fulfilled it. 66 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:31,240 But the truth is, no one can fulfill the law. We've all fallen short of the glory 67 00:05:31,240 --> 00:05:37,560 of God. Then chapter 10 of Romans starts to talk about and explain further why 68 00:05:37,560 --> 00:05:41,600 Israel isn't saved, how they missed out on the law, literally saying that they 69 00:05:41,600 --> 00:05:46,160 didn't submit to God's righteousness. They had zeal, they had passion and drive 70 00:05:46,160 --> 00:05:50,840 to live for God, but they fell short because they did not submit to his 71 00:05:50,840 --> 00:05:56,480 righteousness, instead replaced it with their own. They saw the law and went, 72 00:05:56,480 --> 00:06:01,280 oh, we're good enough, God. Look, we love you, we lived for you, we did it. 73 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:05,080 It's like, well, no, you failed, you've fallen short. Have you... 74 00:06:05,080 --> 00:06:08,680 And Jesus even breaks it down. Have you hated someone, your brother in your 75 00:06:08,680 --> 00:06:12,920 own heart? Yeah, you have murdered them in your heart. It's more than just not 76 00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:18,360 physically doing the action. It's also the intent in falling into sin there and 77 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:22,800 gets into a lot of the idea of serving God with our mind, but that is an earlier 78 00:06:22,800 --> 00:06:28,760 section of Romans that we will not be going through. But the idea is really 79 00:06:28,760 --> 00:06:33,400 righteousness of works is how Israel failed. They thought they were righteous 80 00:06:33,400 --> 00:06:38,160 through their own works and their own actions, but the truth is exactly how you 81 00:06:38,160 --> 00:06:42,240 and I are saved, how we trust in Jesus, it's through faith. This is how you gain 82 00:06:42,240 --> 00:06:49,120 God's righteousness. And Paul explains how anyone who believes in Jesus will be 83 00:06:49,120 --> 00:06:55,600 saved. Anyone who believes in the name of Jesus will be saved. And God's 84 00:06:55,600 --> 00:06:59,880 righteousness and his salvation will be given to that person who believes in 85 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:06,520 Jesus. Paul also encourages the people to share the gospel message, verse 15 in 86 00:07:06,520 --> 00:07:10,040 chapter 10. You can read, it's not gonna go up, it's just, you can read it, 87 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:13,960 but it talks about how beautiful the feet of those who bring the good news. 88 00:07:13,960 --> 00:07:18,120 And I love this idea, right? This is a call back to an Old Testament verse, 89 00:07:18,120 --> 00:07:23,600 but the idea is like someone back then, they had to run around, you know, 90 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:28,920 or ride a horse. But the idea of someone bringing good news, this news bearer, 91 00:07:28,920 --> 00:07:34,520 their feet, which has traveled a long distance in open-toed sandal shoes, right? 92 00:07:34,520 --> 00:07:38,720 There's no like nice vans or Doc Martens or anything. No, gross, nasty, 93 00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:44,560 crusty toes covered in mud and sweat and grime. How beautiful are those feet that 94 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:49,560 bring the good news? And that is the truth of those who bring the gospel. 95 00:07:49,560 --> 00:07:53,440 Doesn't matter how, man, if you want to join evangelism, do it. Don't be like, 96 00:07:53,440 --> 00:07:58,520 oh, I'm gonna give it so bad. Who cares? The message is beautiful and that's the 97 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:02,760 important part. It doesn't matter how you look and how you're, oh, my toes are 98 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:06,920 disgusting and gross. I can't give the gospel correctly. Who cares? If that 99 00:08:06,920 --> 00:08:13,000 person needs the good news, which they do, then it's gonna be beautiful. 100 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:16,920 And then Paul handles objections that people might have about the Jews missing 101 00:08:16,920 --> 00:08:21,920 the gospel message. In verse 18 of 10, he asks, did they not hear? And he even 102 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:24,840 answers his own question. He goes, yeah, they heard. And he quotes some Old 103 00:08:24,840 --> 00:08:28,240 Testament verses. Then you also have verse 19, and he's like, did Israel not 104 00:08:28,240 --> 00:08:31,840 understand? And he's like, yes, they did. They understood. The problem is, 105 00:08:31,840 --> 00:08:35,520 is God couldn't have made it any more clear. Like, God's like, hey, 106 00:08:35,520 --> 00:08:38,960 there's so many verses that goes, hey, you guys were disobedient and I'm gonna 107 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:45,640 make you jealous through Gentiles. He is clear. God has never been more clear on 108 00:08:45,640 --> 00:08:50,080 how, honestly, it just really is their own self-pride and self-righteousness 109 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:57,120 that made the Jews miss out on Jesus. Then chapter 11 starts, and Paul asks this 110 00:08:57,120 --> 00:09:01,360 very important question. Has God rejected his people? And that's a fair 111 00:09:01,360 --> 00:09:07,000 question up to this point because for two chapters, we focused on how Israel 112 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:11,600 themselves, the nation, is not saved and how Jews have messed up and they've done 113 00:09:11,600 --> 00:09:16,200 all of this stuff by their own works and their own righteousness. So has God 114 00:09:16,200 --> 00:09:22,760 rejected all Jews for all time? The answer is obviously no because the guy 115 00:09:22,760 --> 00:09:29,520 writing this, Paul, is a Jew. If you didn't know that, the early church were 116 00:09:29,520 --> 00:09:35,560 Jews. God has not rejected his people. But instead, as we will find out later, 117 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:42,520 has put a partial hardening on Israel, the nation itself, and later on, 118 00:09:42,520 --> 00:09:48,760 they will come back to him. Then another question comes up is, have they stumbled 119 00:09:48,760 --> 00:09:54,360 as so far to fall? And this word stumbled means to transgress and to 120 00:09:54,360 --> 00:09:59,560 misstep. So by their transgression, they misstep. And the idea of fall is to fall 121 00:09:59,560 --> 00:10:06,480 and to ruin, to never be saved ever again. And as we've gone through in chapter 11 122 00:10:06,480 --> 00:10:12,000 and as it will conclude here in chapter 11, again, the answer is no. Salvation has 123 00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:19,600 come to us Gentiles from the denial of the Jews of Israel to Jesus. They denied 124 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:25,800 him and from that, salvation has come to us and even as pointed out early on that 125 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:33,000 salvation that came to us, the point of our salvation, is to make Israel jealous. 126 00:10:33,000 --> 00:10:39,280 It's not only to have a relationship with God, but the Jews should look at us and 127 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:45,800 be jealous because guess what? We have a relationship with their God. He is our 128 00:10:45,800 --> 00:10:53,760 God now too, but he was Israel's ruling God. They were a nation ruled by him and 129 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:59,400 now we have relationship with him. It is so much deeper and it should be, I said 130 00:10:59,400 --> 00:11:01,840 this with the youth, they'll probably remember this, it's kind of like when 131 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:06,120 you're in high school and you had your crush, right? You had this crush that 132 00:11:06,120 --> 00:11:10,880 you're just, they were so cute, so amazing. They were the best football player or 133 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:15,600 whatever it was, best cheerleader and then they start dating someone else. And the 134 00:11:15,600 --> 00:11:21,260 first question you ask is, what does that person have that I don't? That's the same 135 00:11:21,260 --> 00:11:26,880 idea. Not only Israel, but people in your life should look at the relationship you 136 00:11:26,880 --> 00:11:31,960 have with Jesus and they should be jealous. They should go, what is it you 137 00:11:31,960 --> 00:11:38,880 have that I don't? And then we get to go, Jesus. We get to point them to Jesus and 138 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:44,400 that's the thing, the Jews are missing out on this, but they haven't fallen to 139 00:11:44,400 --> 00:11:50,360 ruin. Our salvation is actually to get them jealous and make them look into 140 00:11:50,360 --> 00:11:55,880 Jesus, their Savior and Messiah, and then come to knowing faith in him. And then 141 00:11:55,880 --> 00:12:01,520 Paul deals with prideful Christians because guess what guys, we're human. One 142 00:12:01,520 --> 00:12:08,800 of the biggest, most common sins that we commit is pride. It really is. It's right 143 00:12:08,800 --> 00:12:16,240 behind selfishness. It's really close. And Paul deals with this idea where 144 00:12:16,240 --> 00:12:22,400 Christians start getting haughty and prideful and puffed up thinking that 145 00:12:22,400 --> 00:12:27,840 they're better than Israel because we have relationship with God. And he gives 146 00:12:27,840 --> 00:12:32,000 this analogy of grafting branches into trees and if you don't know gardening, 147 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:36,400 it's like literally taking, cutting off a branch of one plant and then taking a 148 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:40,400 healthy branch from another, attaching it and wrapping it and letting it mend and 149 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:47,760 grow this branch into this plant. And the idea that Paul gives here is 150 00:12:47,760 --> 00:12:54,240 that us Gentiles, we're a wild olive branch. We're not a part of God's tree, 151 00:12:54,240 --> 00:13:02,600 his branch, not to start. And then Israel through unbelief was cut off or taken 152 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:08,160 off of this plant and we through faith and belief were grafted on. And he 153 00:13:08,160 --> 00:13:18,440 specifically says, the root feeds the vine, not the other way around. So if you 154 00:13:18,440 --> 00:13:23,680 Christians think I'm better than Jews, Paul's like, yo, you're just a branch. 155 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:29,560 You can't do anything without the roots giving you the nutrients that you need to 156 00:13:29,560 --> 00:13:36,040 even make the fruit that you make. On top of that, you weren't even on this tree 157 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:41,320 naturally. Paul ends that section by going, and how much more natural if the 158 00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:45,120 natural branch puts their faith in God again, if Israel, how much more natural 159 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:49,680 would it be for them to be grafted back on? Because they naturally belong there. 160 00:13:49,680 --> 00:13:53,960 We're just wild branches that were put on through faith. And thank God we're put on 161 00:13:53,960 --> 00:13:58,640 through faith. And that was his plan, but don't be puffed up and think you're 162 00:13:58,640 --> 00:14:04,760 better because we're all on an even playing ground. We're all sinners saved 163 00:14:04,760 --> 00:14:11,040 through faith. That is it. So now we're caught up. There's the context of quite a 164 00:14:11,040 --> 00:14:18,600 few months of study. I really recommend go home, read Romans chapter 9 through 11, 165 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:22,320 this whole section. I recommend if you haven't done a study through Romans, do 166 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:27,280 it. But it'll give you a better, deeper understanding. I really just did a TLDR 167 00:14:27,280 --> 00:14:31,600 and just gave you what gives you enough context to understand where we're at 168 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:37,920 because there's way more than I can cover in this small time. So now if you 169 00:14:37,920 --> 00:14:42,680 would turn or look at Romans chapter 11 verse 25, we will get into this end of 170 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:47,720 this beautiful section of Paul dealing with the current state of Israel, how 171 00:14:47,720 --> 00:14:55,000 they've fallen, and the future plans God has with them. So verse 25 says, 172 00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:59,560 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that 173 00:14:59,560 --> 00:15:05,800 you would not be conceited. A partial hardening has come upon Israel until 174 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:11,560 the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And in this way all Israel will be 175 00:15:11,560 --> 00:15:16,720 saved as it is written. The deliverer will come from Zion. He will turn 176 00:15:16,720 --> 00:15:21,920 godlessness away from Jacob and this will be my covenant with them when I 177 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:31,640 take away their sins. So Paul summarizes verses 11 through 24 in this last 178 00:15:31,640 --> 00:15:35,560 section right here. He's summarizing, he's talking about how there's literally a 179 00:15:35,560 --> 00:15:41,440 partial hardening that has been put on the nation of Israel. And we see that 180 00:15:41,440 --> 00:15:47,480 nowadays. Israel as a nation does not believe in Jesus. I unfortunately have 181 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:52,520 not been to Israel yet, but it's the only thing that a lot of Israel 182 00:15:52,520 --> 00:15:58,520 takes advantage of apparently is the tourism side of Jesus. They make profit 183 00:15:58,520 --> 00:16:02,360 off of Jesus, but they don't make the ultimate profit of salvation through 184 00:16:02,360 --> 00:16:07,920 Jesus because they haven't truly put their faith as a nation in Jesus. And 185 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:13,240 that's something that we need to pray for, right? Israel hasn't turned to their 186 00:16:13,240 --> 00:16:21,880 Savior who is the end of the law. But notice it says it's a partial hardening, 187 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:26,720 not a full hardening. Because remember, Romans, well you don't remember, kids, 188 00:16:26,720 --> 00:16:34,360 remember Romans chapter 11 verse 11 part A says, I ask then have they stumbled so 189 00:16:34,360 --> 00:16:43,160 far as to fall? Absolutely not. Israel is not fully in ruin. There is plenty 190 00:16:43,160 --> 00:16:50,120 of prophecies that talk about Israel coming back to God and the whole nation 191 00:16:50,120 --> 00:16:56,320 being ruled by Jesus. But this hardening is interesting. They really got what they 192 00:16:56,320 --> 00:17:04,160 wanted. Israel didn't want a Savior that died for them. If you knew the context of 193 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:08,240 Israel and the Jews at the time, they were under oppression from Rome and they 194 00:17:08,240 --> 00:17:14,600 wanted a ruling reigning tyrant of a, just not tyrant, but like war leader, 195 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:19,160 man's man, gonna kick Rome out by himself and sit in rule and reign forever in 196 00:17:19,160 --> 00:17:24,600 Israel. That was the idea, right? The idea of like the Holy Goliath in a sense. 197 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:30,560 That's what they wanted. No one that can beat him, this amazing powerful man. Which 198 00:17:30,560 --> 00:17:35,520 Jesus is amazing and powerful, but he had to come to die for our sins and they 199 00:17:35,520 --> 00:17:40,600 didn't want that. Remember, they missed out on the whole point of the law that 200 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:46,000 God gave them. They missed out on the fact that they could not do it on their 201 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:51,360 own, that their righteousness wasn't good enough. So of course they had Jesus 202 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:59,640 killed. They killed their own Messiah, their own Savior. It's really similar to 203 00:17:59,640 --> 00:18:05,360 Pharaoh. They hardened their own heart first and so God has given them a 204 00:18:05,360 --> 00:18:12,600 partial heartening. He said, fine, you want this? Have it. And that's a very, very 205 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,800 real and dangerous thing to look at in our lives is be careful what you wish 206 00:18:16,800 --> 00:18:23,400 for. Because if you are gonna turn, yes, you can be fully saved I believe, but if 207 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:29,200 you will go into sin, God's not gonna go against your free will and he'll let you 208 00:18:29,200 --> 00:18:33,380 and he'll also let you have the repercussions of that sin. Yes, not the 209 00:18:33,380 --> 00:18:38,680 ultimate. He has died for your sins. You have salvation in hell, but if you go 210 00:18:38,680 --> 00:18:43,100 cheat on your wife or your spouse, he's gonna let all the things happen. You 211 00:18:43,100 --> 00:18:50,640 might get unfortunate diseases. You will get found out. God punishes those who he 212 00:18:50,640 --> 00:18:55,960 loves like a good father should. He corrects us so that we come back to him. 213 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:02,040 And Israel has really messed up, messed up. They're like, they literally killed 214 00:19:02,040 --> 00:19:06,320 their own savior. And the crazy part to think about is God knew all of that 215 00:19:06,320 --> 00:19:11,720 beforehand and he still loves them because they're only partially hardened. 216 00:19:11,720 --> 00:19:18,840 We know from Old Testament prophecies in Ezekiel and Jeremiah and in so many other 217 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:24,920 prophets that speak of Israel truly coming back and living for God and 218 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:29,160 believing in Jesus and as we saw as Pastor Nathan taught in Revelation 219 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:36,360 chapter 7 and 14, speaking of the 144,000 the Jews who come from each tribe to 220 00:19:36,360 --> 00:19:41,640 live under Jesus and believe and they have his name written on their foreheads. 221 00:19:41,640 --> 00:19:46,480 That is the moment that we see in the future of Israel truly turning back and 222 00:19:46,480 --> 00:19:55,800 living for God. So the crazy part is though this hardening is until the 223 00:19:55,800 --> 00:20:02,160 fullness of the Gentiles has come in. And this idea here, some people debate a 224 00:20:02,160 --> 00:20:06,320 little bit on it and they like, oh I remember reading this one where they 225 00:20:06,320 --> 00:20:10,360 even said thought the fullness of the Gentiles was a bad thing. Like till 226 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:14,080 because there's Old Testament verses that talk about the fullness of the sin 227 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:19,480 of the Canaanites until they weren't judged until their sin was full. And so 228 00:20:19,480 --> 00:20:23,400 they take it that way but the problem is the context of everything that has been 229 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:28,800 from chapter 9 to here is salvation to the Gentiles is a good thing and it's to 230 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:34,600 make Israel jealous. So then when the fullness of the Gentiles comes in, the 231 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:39,480 full amount of those that are to be saved, God will switch his focus from 232 00:20:39,480 --> 00:20:46,080 Gentiles back to Israel and we see that in Revelation. Now I'm not gonna dive 233 00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:51,520 into eschatology, that is you guys want to be here for four hours, the 234 00:20:51,520 --> 00:20:57,040 connections into that but yes the idea here especially the word fullness means 235 00:20:57,040 --> 00:21:03,400 the full number. So the full number of those Gentiles that will be saved, it 236 00:21:03,400 --> 00:21:09,320 really is the fact that we will be saved. The full number has come to this count 237 00:21:09,320 --> 00:21:15,760 and then as Paul says all Israel will be saved which we find in Revelation chapter 238 00:21:15,760 --> 00:21:22,000 7 and 14. And this idea of all Israel will be saved really is exactly that, the 239 00:21:22,000 --> 00:21:28,720 nation. You guys, we talked about this last week. This means that all Jews will 240 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:33,760 be fully living for God and the nation Israel itself will be living under his 241 00:21:33,760 --> 00:21:37,840 rule and reign. I don't believe personally that there will be a king in 242 00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:42,120 Israel or a politician, I believe it will be them fully surrendered to God through 243 00:21:42,120 --> 00:21:48,880 the Revelation times. Paul even quotes Isaiah 59 verse 20 and 21 and 244 00:21:48,880 --> 00:21:54,320 Jeremiah 31, 31 through 34, two prophecies concerning the future covenant of God 245 00:21:54,320 --> 00:21:58,560 with Israel and this covenant is classified as the new covenant which 246 00:21:58,560 --> 00:22:02,680 we'll talk about a little bit later but it literally is that a promise, right, a 247 00:22:02,680 --> 00:22:07,120 covenant is a promise or agreement to do something which can also be one-sided. 248 00:22:07,120 --> 00:22:11,680 Thank God it can be one-sided because God makes covenants with us and we fail 249 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:14,720 all the time and he's like hey look just put your faith and trust in me and I'll 250 00:22:14,720 --> 00:22:23,080 take care of the rest. But all of these prophecies here are pointing to Israel 251 00:22:23,080 --> 00:22:27,480 no longer living in sin but living for their Savior, fully coming back to Jesus 252 00:22:27,480 --> 00:22:31,760 and the question is why does Paul summarize this? Why is it so important 253 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:37,480 for him to summarize verses 11 through 24? He says this, he doesn't want us to 254 00:22:37,480 --> 00:22:45,320 be ignorant of this truth so that we will not be conceited. Conceited here, this 255 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:51,000 word means wise in your own estimation, basically saying relying on your own 256 00:22:51,000 --> 00:22:59,920 wisdom and Paul destroys this idea of what honestly conceited prideful 257 00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:04,120 Christians and even conceited prideful people who think they're Christians have 258 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:07,040 come up with which I don't know if you've heard too much about but it's 259 00:23:07,040 --> 00:23:13,520 called replacement theology. It's the idea that the modern church, the Gentile 260 00:23:13,520 --> 00:23:18,800 Church, has fully replaced Israel in all of the Old Testament prophecies that 261 00:23:18,800 --> 00:23:23,960 have not come to be and not come to pass. They fully believe that Israel now no 262 00:23:23,960 --> 00:23:31,160 longer matters. We are spiritual Israel, we are better. But Paul is like guys I 263 00:23:31,160 --> 00:23:35,760 just told you no you're just a wild olive branch what are you thinking? You 264 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,720 don't make the plant holy the roots do and the roots are my covenants with the 265 00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,920 patriarchs of Israel so at part of my French shut up like that's the idea is 266 00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:50,240 shut up and stop thinking that you're better than everyone else. Stop being 267 00:23:50,240 --> 00:24:00,120 conceited and thinking in your own way. Stop relying on your own wisdom. Man how 268 00:24:00,120 --> 00:24:08,360 hard is that as a human being? How often do we fail and fall to our own pride and 269 00:24:08,360 --> 00:24:13,920 our own wisdom? How often we do we do something without asking God first and 270 00:24:13,920 --> 00:24:16,520 we're like oh no yeah this is perfect and we're like oh I broke my leg that 271 00:24:16,520 --> 00:24:22,800 wasn't smart. I mean honestly ask yourself do you always make the best 272 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:31,160 choices? Nope neither do I. Perfect example because I love the Bible how 273 00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:35,760 honestly the beauty of it is it shows the flaws of all of the followers of 274 00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:42,680 Jesus. David a man after God's own heart also the dude who slept with it committed 275 00:24:42,680 --> 00:24:49,960 adultery killed killed the man though Bathsheba's husband. Horrible father. Man 276 00:24:49,960 --> 00:24:54,120 like there's it shows the issues but one of the ones that's really funny to me is 277 00:24:54,120 --> 00:25:00,040 Abraham. For those of you the patriarch Abraham who the new covenant was 278 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:05,600 promised to Abraham or yeah no sorry Abraham who the the Abrahamic 279 00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:09,000 covenant was promised to who'd have many sons he had to have many nations bless 280 00:25:09,000 --> 00:25:14,480 through him. Yeah you guys remember when he was promised a child and what did he 281 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:19,800 do before Isaac showed up? He slept with his handmaiden Hagar and created 282 00:25:19,800 --> 00:25:27,360 Ishmael. Ishmael who then was blessed by God but was not the promised son. You 283 00:25:27,360 --> 00:25:30,880 know what's really interesting about that? It's believed today that all of 284 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:38,000 Arabs especially even those that are Palestinian are descendant of Ishmael. 285 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:44,160 You guys know what's going on nowadays right? Free Palestine's going on and 286 00:25:44,160 --> 00:25:50,320 there's a lot of hatred against Israel. Yeah that's a family issue created back 287 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:56,080 when Abraham did something in his own wisdom. When he gave in to oh yeah 288 00:25:56,080 --> 00:25:59,160 because yeah if you want to say oh Sarah was the one who came up with the idea 289 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:05,240 yeah well I mean Abraham did the deed. Abraham definitely failed and did in his 290 00:26:05,240 --> 00:26:11,360 own wisdom. Abraham's choice really is biting 291 00:26:11,360 --> 00:26:15,360 biting Israel in the butt right now unfortunately and we need to be praying 292 00:26:15,360 --> 00:26:19,720 for them and we'll talk about that a little bit but Paul doesn't want us to 293 00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:25,160 miss this truth because of our own understanding or lack of understanding. 294 00:26:25,160 --> 00:26:30,480 Sometimes we listen to our own wisdom not God's and now we have things like 295 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:36,800 replacement theology but Proverbs 3 verse 5 through 6 says this, trust in the 296 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:43,680 Lord with all of your heart and do not rely on your own understanding in all 297 00:26:43,680 --> 00:26:53,600 your ways know him and he will make your paths straight. This is very important as 298 00:26:53,600 --> 00:27:02,680 a Christian we are called to be biblically minded. This means we let the 299 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:09,280 Bible, God, His Word which is good for correction, reproof, training for 300 00:27:09,280 --> 00:27:18,120 righteousness, we let Him teach us how to think and live instead of what is done 301 00:27:18,120 --> 00:27:23,800 nowadays in modern times where people go I don't like that one I don't like that 302 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:29,520 one I like this one I'll keep this one. No we listen to God's truth and His 303 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:35,880 words and if we disagree with God's Word guess what you need to change your mind 304 00:27:35,880 --> 00:27:43,800 not the other way around because guess what God is all-knowing. How all-knowing 305 00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:49,480 are you? Think about this week and think about all the decisions you made and how 306 00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:58,400 many were wrong how many were bad. We should be trusting God because He is God. 307 00:27:58,400 --> 00:28:06,680 So the truth is Christians don't replace Israel we should be supporting them we 308 00:28:06,680 --> 00:28:11,240 should be loving on them we should be literally making them jealous of our 309 00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:18,400 relationship with their Lord that's the crazy it's their Savior he came through 310 00:28:18,400 --> 00:28:22,200 them and promised to them and thankfully to us as well but we have that 311 00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:27,120 relationship with him that is what should be going on we should be loving 312 00:28:27,120 --> 00:28:32,440 them like Jesus loved the church so that it makes them see that we have something 313 00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:36,520 different than they do we have their Lord and Savior we have a relationship 314 00:28:36,520 --> 00:28:48,000 with him. So in this Romans 11 18 says do not boast that you are better than 315 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:52,760 those branches but if you do boast you do not sustain the root but the root 316 00:28:52,760 --> 00:29:01,600 sustains you. Again we are simply a wild olive branch that has been grafted into 317 00:29:01,600 --> 00:29:08,360 the to God's plant. We don't make this plant holy we aren't special it's 318 00:29:08,360 --> 00:29:13,400 Christians who think Israel doesn't matter or even nowadays you're hearing 319 00:29:13,400 --> 00:29:18,960 all of this pushback against Israel let Israel die oh pro-Palestine and you know 320 00:29:18,960 --> 00:29:26,440 what I honestly can say I hate about the whole pro-Palestine thing is I truly 321 00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:30,280 believe it's a demonic push because there's no logic no comments and 322 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:36,040 nothing in this to where if you bring up any of the truths they don't know any of 323 00:29:36,040 --> 00:29:40,360 the truth lies are just being peddled to make people think oh it's fine if you 324 00:29:40,360 --> 00:29:46,360 guys don't know Palestine right Palestine this strip the Gaza Strip 325 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,560 that's part of Israel that they're fighting over is ruled by Hamas a 326 00:29:50,560 --> 00:29:55,360 terrorist organization that actually broke off from Palestinian 327 00:29:55,360 --> 00:29:59,480 government they're doing their own thing they're wild and they believe in Sharia 328 00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:05,680 law and an extreme version of that which literally kills people for unbelief 329 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:10,380 kills women if you do anything wrong if you think that like oh church oppresses 330 00:30:10,380 --> 00:30:15,440 women or not church but America oppresses women which is a lie go to 331 00:30:15,440 --> 00:30:19,680 Palestine I dare you try and walk around with your head uncovered try to walk 332 00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:25,760 around how we're dressed here instantly dead instantly there was I hate the fact 333 00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:30,240 that this happened but there was these two influencers on social media there 334 00:30:30,240 --> 00:30:33,320 were cyclist influencers it was a married couple they wanted to prove that 335 00:30:33,320 --> 00:30:37,160 Palestine is great and there's no problems they flew over and rode their 336 00:30:37,160 --> 00:30:47,680 bikes killed killed by Palestine by Hamas how crazy is that but people in UCLA 337 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:52,000 pro-hamas free them they're fighting genocide I'm like no Hamas is for 338 00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:59,160 genocide they were only created to kill all Jews that is Hamas but you know what 339 00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:04,600 that doesn't mean that doesn't mean that every Palestinian is wrong there are 340 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:09,760 people on the Palestine side that don't believe in this that are slaves to their 341 00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:17,320 own terrorist group what we should be as Christians is praying that Hamas is 342 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:25,680 dismantled and even get this as Jesus said pray for our enemies praying for 343 00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:30,560 the salvation of Hamas because if you think about if everyone saw our 344 00:31:30,560 --> 00:31:36,760 relationship with Jesus is when jealous and came to know Christ think think how 345 00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:43,800 the world would be if everyone actually had a relationship with Jesus read you 346 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:49,240 can read it in Revelation how beautiful it would be but we need to start now we 347 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:53,840 need to have our relationship and living by God's wisdom not thinking we're 348 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:59,900 better than others not boasting being thankful that God saved us and sharing 349 00:31:59,900 --> 00:32:03,280 that salvation with others and letting our relationship with Jesus be known to 350 00:32:03,280 --> 00:32:07,240 everyone around us praying for our enemies especially those that go against 351 00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:14,160 Israel so remember there was this partial hardening and God will redeem 352 00:32:14,160 --> 00:32:19,240 Israel in the future this isn't a ultimate and I'll be all hey they're 353 00:32:19,240 --> 00:32:24,520 gone we're this olive branch that has been grafted in but we're called to make 354 00:32:24,520 --> 00:32:31,000 people jealous with our salvation and when our time has come when the Gentiles 355 00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:34,440 has come the beautiful thing is God will move back to Israel and Israel truly 356 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:43,080 will live for them the Israel as a nation will be under God again and for 357 00:32:43,080 --> 00:32:47,640 those of you that are like man Israel other horror I'm like one of my favorite 358 00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:50,440 things to point out to people at this point about Israel to show that God's 359 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:54,880 hand is still on them they are one of the smallest nations smallest people 360 00:32:54,880 --> 00:33:00,720 group have been around forever right in that sense have been around longer than 361 00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:04,560 any other nation group hey where's Rome right now this mighty powerful nation 362 00:33:04,560 --> 00:33:08,400 gone and destroyed Ottoman Empire gone and destroyed you want to talk about 363 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:13,560 World War two Germany powerhouse Germany is barely compared to where it used to 364 00:33:13,560 --> 00:33:20,160 be but if you look at Israel smallest nation who is the most persecuted 365 00:33:20,160 --> 00:33:26,280 nation of history and is still alive has gone through multiple attempts of 366 00:33:26,280 --> 00:33:32,640 genocide and is still around and thriving yeah that's by God's work 367 00:33:32,640 --> 00:33:37,440 because he has promises for them in the future because if God was done with 368 00:33:37,440 --> 00:33:41,920 Israel Israel would not be around anymore honestly if we as the Christian 369 00:33:41,920 --> 00:33:46,840 Church replaced them Israel wouldn't be a nation anymore they'd be gone but God 370 00:33:46,840 --> 00:33:51,080 has future promises that he kept to them and we'll talk about that continuing on 371 00:33:51,080 --> 00:33:55,000 here in Romans 11 but if you disagree with what I've talked about guess what 372 00:33:55,000 --> 00:33:59,400 I'm just teaching you what the word says you're disagreeing with God which means 373 00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,320 you need to sit down and you need to have a talk with God and change your 374 00:34:03,320 --> 00:34:11,920 mind you need to listen to what he says not what you feel so Romans chapter 11 375 00:34:11,920 --> 00:34:17,040 verse 28 through 29 says regarding the gospel they are enemies for your 376 00:34:17,040 --> 00:34:21,480 advantage but regarding election they are loved because of the patriarchs 377 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:27,200 since God's gracious gifts and callings are irrevocable so Paul gives a current 378 00:34:27,200 --> 00:34:32,840 status update right pastor Nathan if you knew he went back you know before I was 379 00:34:32,840 --> 00:34:37,400 even here so like 16 years ago when they would do trips to like Man Thai Utah and 380 00:34:37,400 --> 00:34:41,760 do some cool trips he would vlog and he'd give you little updates and like 381 00:34:41,760 --> 00:34:45,200 status update of where the group's at doing their missionary trip that's this 382 00:34:45,200 --> 00:34:48,960 idea right here Paul's like hey here's the status update here's how they're 383 00:34:48,960 --> 00:34:55,240 feeling Israel regarding the gospel yeah they're enemies they failed Israel is 384 00:34:55,240 --> 00:34:58,880 turned from Jesus there they literally are the ones who had Jesus crucified 385 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:05,000 they had the law but they missed out on the gospel and Romans chapter 9 31 through 386 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:09,640 32 says but Israel pursuing the law of righteousness has not achieved the 387 00:35:09,640 --> 00:35:13,840 righteousness of the law why is that because they did not pursue it by faith 388 00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:18,600 but as if it were by works they stumbled over the stumbling stone 389 00:35:18,600 --> 00:35:23,560 Israel has missed the point of the law they literally it says they stumbled 390 00:35:23,560 --> 00:35:28,920 over the stumbling stone their transgression their mess-up was 391 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:32,560 literally being so proud that they were looking up and if any of you been 392 00:35:32,560 --> 00:35:35,920 hiking you know you're looking up on a new trail you haven't been on and you 393 00:35:35,920 --> 00:35:41,400 hit that random rock and you trip and stumble that's the idea they missed the 394 00:35:41,400 --> 00:35:48,880 end of the trail the whole point Jesus think of it this way you're driving on a 395 00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:54,880 road that road has a massive gap at the end but you see off to the right there's 396 00:35:54,880 --> 00:36:04,440 a guy with an airplane the Jews were on this road the law driving on it as fast 397 00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:10,600 as they could trying to jump the gap but guess what no one can make it you can't 398 00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:16,440 make it but if they just saw the little stop sign right next to the guy with an 399 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:22,000 airplane named Jesus and they put their faith and trust in him he would fly them 400 00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:27,560 across the gap but they missed out they keep trying to jump it and so many 401 00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:34,320 people nowadays still are but Israel one day thankfully will choose the pilot but 402 00:36:34,320 --> 00:36:40,320 according to the gospel or regarding gospel their enemies but according to 403 00:36:40,320 --> 00:36:45,920 election they're loved because of the patriarchs because of the patriarchs 404 00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:51,800 Abraham Isaac and Jacob because of their their those men's faith in God and the 405 00:36:51,800 --> 00:36:54,600 covenants that God has created with them through that love and that bond in that 406 00:36:54,600 --> 00:36:59,320 relationship Israel is still loved today one of the reasons I believe Israel is 407 00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:03,960 still around and why we believe as a church that Israel is important and will 408 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:11,720 is is Israel in all of these Old Testament prophecies from their faith 409 00:37:11,720 --> 00:37:16,200 in God God made covenants with them the Noahic covenant the Abrahamic covenant 410 00:37:16,200 --> 00:37:20,360 the Mosaic covenant the Davidic covenant and the new covenant and the new covenant 411 00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:24,920 which we're a part of that allows faith through Jesus for us to enter in which 412 00:37:24,920 --> 00:37:30,040 is beautiful because this new covenant Jeremiah 31 31 through 34 Paul already 413 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:37,480 quoted he already talked about how guess what this prophecy yes has been partially 414 00:37:37,480 --> 00:37:42,400 fulfilled with the acceptance of us of us going to Jesus we are a part of that 415 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,680 new covenant but also will be fulfilled in the future with Israel coming back to 416 00:37:46,680 --> 00:37:54,840 him when Israel will no longer be in sin from there we see that he says that God's 417 00:37:54,840 --> 00:38:02,640 gifts are irrevocable and this is truly why God has not given up on Israel first 418 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:09,640 Samuel 15 29 says furthermore the eternal one of Israel does not lie or 419 00:38:09,640 --> 00:38:20,360 change his mind for he is not man who changes his mind guys that said he would 420 00:38:20,360 --> 00:38:26,320 bless Israel and he's gonna do it God said it it will happen we're going 421 00:38:26,320 --> 00:38:32,340 through Genesis right now we see the power of God's word he spoke and created 422 00:38:32,340 --> 00:38:41,840 everything he's not gonna go back on his own word he's not like man and honestly 423 00:38:41,840 --> 00:38:47,000 this is comforting to us Christians if you're hearing this you should be 424 00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:52,840 comforted because God says he will be our provider our comforter our Lord and 425 00:38:52,840 --> 00:38:57,800 Savior he says he holds us in his hand we are saved by him through simply 426 00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:03,240 putting a faith in Jesus so believe it because God doesn't lie or change his 427 00:39:03,240 --> 00:39:10,320 mind he is not like man so concerning Israel be praying for them pray and 428 00:39:10,320 --> 00:39:14,800 share the gospel so that the time the Gentiles can end and we can go back to 429 00:39:14,800 --> 00:39:19,560 him focusing on on Israel and moving forward pray for these end times because 430 00:39:19,560 --> 00:39:23,960 guess what comes after that all of us all of spiritual Israel living with God 431 00:39:23,960 --> 00:39:32,200 on the new heavens and new earth heaven eternal with our Lord and Savior now 432 00:39:32,200 --> 00:39:38,960 this also means in your hard times and dark times in life you need to still 433 00:39:38,960 --> 00:39:45,120 continue to trust God and his promises because he doesn't lie he doesn't change 434 00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:54,440 his mind now continuing on Romans 11 30 through 32 says as you once disobeyed 435 00:39:54,440 --> 00:40:00,760 but God sorry as you once disobeyed God but now have received mercy through 436 00:40:00,760 --> 00:40:06,620 their disobedience so they too have now disobeyed resulting in mercy to you so 437 00:40:06,620 --> 00:40:11,480 that they may also now receive mercy for God has imprisoned all in 438 00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:20,000 disobedience so that he may have mercy on all the idea here is everyone has 439 00:40:20,000 --> 00:40:27,680 been trapped has been imprisoned in disobedience to God everyone has done it 440 00:40:27,680 --> 00:40:32,900 Gentiles have been disobeying God from the start we were following demonic 441 00:40:32,900 --> 00:40:36,600 leaders we were following anyone especially back in the old times I truly 442 00:40:36,600 --> 00:40:40,040 believe and we can if you want to talk about it later we can I believe a lot of 443 00:40:40,040 --> 00:40:45,600 the old gods of Gentiles were just demons fallen angels tricking humans into 444 00:40:45,600 --> 00:40:52,880 following after them and doing horrendous evil things but that's for a 445 00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:58,960 sidebar conversation that would take a long time but but we have gained 446 00:40:58,960 --> 00:41:03,760 salvation through Jesus and this is what we need to remember everyone has 447 00:41:03,760 --> 00:41:10,000 disobeyed but everyone can receive salvation through Jesus and as 448 00:41:10,000 --> 00:41:15,040 beautiful as Gentiles we've received it through Israel's denial Romans 9 30 what 449 00:41:15,040 --> 00:41:19,800 should we say then Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have obtained 450 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:26,000 righteousness namely the righteousness that comes from faith we right giving 451 00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:30,300 this idea disobeyed God from the beginning we weren't following after his 452 00:41:30,300 --> 00:41:35,960 righteousness we were following after selfishness in our own game if you look 453 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:41,160 at a lot of the old old gods of other Gentile religions it's all selfish stuff 454 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:44,940 let me please this person so they do this for me let me please this God so 455 00:41:44,940 --> 00:41:47,440 they do that for me let me please that God so they do that for me it's all 456 00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:53,160 selfishness it wasn't seeking after righteousness but Israel did pursue 457 00:41:53,160 --> 00:41:58,520 righteousness but again like we've said it wasn't God's righteousness they 458 00:41:58,520 --> 00:42:04,600 pursued Romans 10 3 since they are ignorant of the righteousness of God 459 00:42:04,600 --> 00:42:09,280 they attempted to establish their own righteousness they have not submitted to 460 00:42:09,280 --> 00:42:16,040 God's righteousness this is Israel's disobedience like we've said 461 00:42:16,040 --> 00:42:24,120 self-righteousness I'm good enough I can make it but the beautiful thing is all 462 00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:31,320 of us humans are now placed in the same spot trapped in our disobedience stuck 463 00:42:31,320 --> 00:42:36,880 no one's better than the other Romans 3 23 for all have sinned and fall short of 464 00:42:36,880 --> 00:42:41,240 the glory of God we've all failed we're all stuck we're all in the same boat 465 00:42:41,240 --> 00:42:50,080 same level playing field guess what though this is actually a beautiful 466 00:42:50,080 --> 00:42:57,160 thing this makes God's salvation in his mercy morally fair and morally right 467 00:42:57,160 --> 00:43:02,160 because he's not giving one group of people special treatment we're all in 468 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:07,080 the same place on the same boat deserving of help and he has offered us 469 00:43:07,080 --> 00:43:13,480 mercy to everyone you simply just need to put your faith and trust in him and 470 00:43:13,480 --> 00:43:19,360 this defeats a major thing where people go oh God's not morally just in saving 471 00:43:19,360 --> 00:43:25,040 some people will know others like yeah no he is he offered it to everyone and 472 00:43:25,040 --> 00:43:29,440 every single second you're alive you have an opportunity to give your faith to 473 00:43:29,440 --> 00:43:33,880 him to put your faith and trust in Jesus the only reason you're in hell if you go 474 00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:39,760 to hell is because you chose it God gave you this beautiful beautiful mercy and 475 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:45,040 this opportunity to do it and it's morally right but you still have to put 476 00:43:45,040 --> 00:43:51,120 your faith in Jesus if you don't he lets you be trapped in your disobedience he 477 00:43:51,120 --> 00:44:02,320 lets you stay there but that's the thing God guys I God is so good and so like he 478 00:44:02,320 --> 00:44:09,440 is all-knowing just thinking of how amazing and great all of his plan is 479 00:44:09,440 --> 00:44:14,440 from before everything ever happened had this entire plan planned out and it is 480 00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:22,280 going extremely well we read here what happens with Paul or we read continue to 481 00:44:22,280 --> 00:44:26,480 read what happens from Paul thinking about God's plan and righteousness and 482 00:44:26,480 --> 00:44:33,600 amazingness verse 33 oh the depth of the riches and the wisdom and the knowledge 483 00:44:33,600 --> 00:44:40,780 of God how unsearchable his judgments and how untraceable his ways for who has 484 00:44:40,780 --> 00:44:45,120 known the mind of the Lord or who has been his counselor and who has ever 485 00:44:45,120 --> 00:44:51,520 given to God that he should be repaid for from him and through him and to him 486 00:44:51,520 --> 00:45:04,600 are all things to him be the glory forever amen God is God for some reason 487 00:45:04,600 --> 00:45:10,160 we tend to forget that the beautiful thing here is some of your Bibles you'll 488 00:45:10,160 --> 00:45:13,880 notice they put little headers at the top of certain sections to give you an 489 00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:20,600 idea of what's being said literally this one is called the hymn of praise a song 490 00:45:20,600 --> 00:45:25,160 of praise this idea of just praising God because Paul has just explained through 491 00:45:25,160 --> 00:45:30,440 Romans how everyone is a sinner and failed and then we've all fallen short 492 00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:34,520 but then Jesus died for us and gives us our righteousness and then handles the 493 00:45:34,520 --> 00:45:38,600 issues here in 9 to 11 of yeah and then we have these issues of the of Israel 494 00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:42,400 no they haven't fallen away completely but they have been partially hardened 495 00:45:42,400 --> 00:45:46,320 but God still has a plan to redeem them and just the simple thoughts I like I 496 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:50,280 imagine Paul sitting there writing all this down to the churches in Rome and 497 00:45:50,280 --> 00:45:59,440 it's just like God you are so amazing your plan is morally just and fair and 498 00:45:59,440 --> 00:46:03,040 you've trapped us all in the same spot you've taken care of everything you are 499 00:46:03,040 --> 00:46:07,520 so you are God and he just broke out into praise like that's what I imagine 500 00:46:07,520 --> 00:46:12,880 happened here in this section where he's just like God is good man who know the 501 00:46:12,880 --> 00:46:17,360 riches and depths of his wisdom and knowledge no one can compare think of 502 00:46:17,360 --> 00:46:21,280 the smartest person you've ever known or ever heard of yeah no they don't even 503 00:46:21,280 --> 00:46:31,120 have 1% of God's knowledge oh he is so amazing God is smarter than anyone who 504 00:46:31,120 --> 00:46:39,160 has ever or will ever live what human could have planned salvation like God 505 00:46:39,160 --> 00:46:44,840 has what human would have thought of all of this to trap every single person in 506 00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:49,120 disobedience put them all in the same spot and then come and die for them 507 00:46:49,120 --> 00:46:55,160 these people that he had the total authority to just wipe out but instead 508 00:46:55,160 --> 00:47:00,040 loved us so much and came up with this whole elaborate plan so that while 509 00:47:00,040 --> 00:47:05,160 working within free will human free will he gave us salvation all because he 510 00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:12,560 loved us God is God and we see that he did this even before creation he planned 511 00:47:12,560 --> 00:47:16,920 this out Ephesians chapter 1 3 through 4 blessed is the God and Father of our 512 00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:21,420 Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the 513 00:47:21,420 --> 00:47:26,880 heavens in Christ for he chose us in him before the foundation of the world to be 514 00:47:26,880 --> 00:47:31,760 holy and blameless in love before him I've said this to you guys before but 515 00:47:31,760 --> 00:47:38,760 God is all-knowing verse 34 of Romans 11 for who has known the mind of the Lord 516 00:47:38,760 --> 00:47:44,760 or who has been his counselor God doesn't need help he planned everything 517 00:47:44,760 --> 00:47:49,120 out before he even created it because he's all-knowing my favorite thing to 518 00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:55,680 say is I truly believe God doesn't have to think God just knows he is all 519 00:47:55,680 --> 00:48:02,560 knowing there's nothing else for him to learn to think about he knows everything 520 00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:08,280 man don't we wish we could be that way and sometimes we act like we're that way 521 00:48:08,280 --> 00:48:17,680 but the truth is he is that way he is all-knowing think about this God didn't 522 00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:22,720 need human counsel to do anything for instance do you guys know that Jupiter 523 00:48:22,720 --> 00:48:28,280 has such a dense and heavy gravity field that it deflects almost all meteors that 524 00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:33,000 come to earth we just look at the planets go oh that's real cool God thank 525 00:48:33,000 --> 00:48:36,320 you God's like yeah I actually made that planet specifically to keep you safe 526 00:48:36,320 --> 00:48:43,360 from just being destroyed by asteroids think about that when you think about 527 00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:48,720 the vastness of the universe I'm knowing the attributes of God I go okay God 528 00:48:48,720 --> 00:48:53,120 there's a reason you know it I don't but there's some reason why there's 529 00:48:53,120 --> 00:48:57,000 millions of universes and millions of stars and all these things there's a 530 00:48:57,000 --> 00:49:01,720 reason and one day in heaven I pray we'll know I can't wait I'm excited just 531 00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:11,080 picking God's brain but here's the truth then if God is God and no one can counsel 532 00:49:11,080 --> 00:49:18,080 him he is all-knowing trust him in his plans we already went over this if you 533 00:49:18,080 --> 00:49:21,760 read God's Word and you're like now I believe something different so God's 534 00:49:21,760 --> 00:49:27,560 Words wrong no you're wrong you're not smarter than the all-knowing God creator 535 00:49:27,560 --> 00:49:32,120 of everything guess what I say that because there's times where I'm like oh 536 00:49:32,120 --> 00:49:39,200 god I'm definitely smarter than you I got this see how that turns out my wife 537 00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:45,200 can attest there sometimes I do things and she's like really but here's the 538 00:49:45,200 --> 00:49:51,160 idea truly trust him and if there's something that's hard that you're like 539 00:49:51,160 --> 00:49:54,960 man I just I don't know there's something that some part of the Bible or 540 00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:59,720 I just I I can't run my brain about it study it don't just leave it there don't 541 00:49:59,720 --> 00:50:02,200 just be like oh I don't understand this so therefore I'm gonna disagree with it 542 00:50:02,200 --> 00:50:06,400 no try and learn what God's getting at in the point of it and if you need help 543 00:50:06,400 --> 00:50:10,760 come talk to count counselors you can tell I'm in youth mode come talk to us 544 00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:16,960 counselors no talk to your local pastors talk to even your guys you can counsel 545 00:50:16,960 --> 00:50:22,000 one another like there's no special Holy Spirit compared into me compared to you 546 00:50:22,000 --> 00:50:27,080 were all the same God has just called me to be up here talking but you might have 547 00:50:27,080 --> 00:50:29,800 wisdom and knowledge that can bless the person next to you because the Holy 548 00:50:29,800 --> 00:50:37,000 Spirit lives inside you just like he lives inside me so trust him because 549 00:50:37,000 --> 00:50:42,240 he's the one who gives us salvation and planned everything out now this last 550 00:50:42,240 --> 00:50:50,480 section here for him through him and to him are all things this is actually a 551 00:50:50,480 --> 00:50:55,080 really simple idea and I love it because it's it's from this him the idea is from 552 00:50:55,080 --> 00:51:04,320 him everything every single little thing ever was planned out by God I remember 553 00:51:04,320 --> 00:51:10,640 all knowing all knowing God he knew knew that Israel was gonna disobey and he had 554 00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:13,440 a plan for it to redeem them in the future he knew that they would kill 555 00:51:13,440 --> 00:51:16,880 Jesus and he's like okay yes that's the plan and so Jesus's death is a sacrifice 556 00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:20,520 for all human beings he knew that the Romans would be in charge at the time and 557 00:51:20,520 --> 00:51:26,280 how they would react he knew everything he knows what's going on in your life 558 00:51:26,280 --> 00:51:35,400 right now he knows everything and God created the plan of salvation even before 559 00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:42,400 the foundation of the world so from him then you have through him the truth is 560 00:51:42,400 --> 00:51:48,520 everything every single thing was made through him and his beautiful idea is 561 00:51:48,520 --> 00:51:53,420 it's even held together right pastor Nathan talked about this last Sunday the 562 00:51:53,420 --> 00:51:57,520 idea of God is holding this universe and I like how he says it dissolves right 563 00:51:57,520 --> 00:52:02,440 the idea of the universe dissolving I personally I agree I think I'll slightly 564 00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:10,160 different I don't think it dissolves guys what happens when an atom splits big 565 00:52:10,160 --> 00:52:15,080 boom if we look at atoms and what they're made of electrons neutrons 566 00:52:15,080 --> 00:52:22,960 protons logically they should not exist the protons in the middle should not be 567 00:52:22,960 --> 00:52:26,320 attracted to each other they should be repelling each other the electrons not 568 00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:30,360 only should be crashing into the nucleus right crashing into those positively 569 00:52:30,360 --> 00:52:35,760 charged molecules they shouldn't be just nicely going around and following in a 570 00:52:35,760 --> 00:52:38,680 perfect circle and staying still and once they got close to each other they 571 00:52:38,680 --> 00:52:43,160 should repel each other it makes no sense logically within human 572 00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:47,800 understanding unless you go oh God said he's holding all things together he is 573 00:52:47,800 --> 00:52:52,400 holding the universe together and I believe in Revelation in the end time 574 00:52:52,400 --> 00:52:56,720 when it's time for this world and his universe to go I think he just lets go 575 00:52:56,720 --> 00:53:06,600 and it's multi-universe atomic bomb all gone that's just a fun theory that I have 576 00:53:06,600 --> 00:53:11,660 but it's beautiful because he's the one that holds it together and science of 577 00:53:11,660 --> 00:53:15,120 course I believe it's called the strong nuclear force is what they call it 578 00:53:15,120 --> 00:53:18,160 because they have no idea what holds atoms together they're just like oh 579 00:53:18,160 --> 00:53:23,280 we're just gonna give it a name and just not talk about it it's God because guess 580 00:53:23,280 --> 00:53:33,760 what through him are all things through him the power everything even salvation 581 00:53:33,760 --> 00:53:41,240 is only through God because guess what if honestly think about this if we you 582 00:53:41,240 --> 00:53:44,500 as a human had a people group that you were in charge of and they sinned 583 00:53:44,500 --> 00:53:50,200 against you you're more like most likely to be art I'm done with you I'm done I 584 00:53:50,200 --> 00:53:54,960 like I'm glad I thank God all the time that I am NOT God because I know how 585 00:53:54,960 --> 00:53:59,080 horrible and selfish I am and I'm like man I would have ended humanity a long 586 00:53:59,080 --> 00:54:05,000 time ago just being honest but God is so loving that he's waiting for the 587 00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:08,280 fullness of the Gentiles to come in so that Israel can also come back and he 588 00:54:08,280 --> 00:54:13,720 will have full his people in total living for him and what's crazy when as 589 00:54:13,720 --> 00:54:17,680 Nathan was going in Revelation even after the millennial reign of Christ and 590 00:54:17,680 --> 00:54:23,800 this beautiful idea of everyone living under Jesus he still gives people the 591 00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:28,000 free will choice to live for him or not because he loves us and won't force us 592 00:54:28,000 --> 00:54:31,860 to live with him he'll let us make our choice well he'll let those people at 593 00:54:31,860 --> 00:54:40,280 that time make their choice because God loves us then so we had from him through 594 00:54:40,280 --> 00:54:46,760 him and the idea of to him to him are all things guess what all of creation 595 00:54:46,760 --> 00:54:51,920 salvation the plan of salvation itself everything our creation as human beings 596 00:54:51,920 --> 00:55:00,600 is all to his glory it's all made for him and his glory and for exactly that 597 00:55:00,600 --> 00:55:06,180 as it says to him are all things all things should be praising him and giving 598 00:55:06,180 --> 00:55:10,960 him his glory our salvation everything should be just totally to him and it 599 00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:18,080 should be how we live everything to him in the understanding of he made 600 00:55:18,080 --> 00:55:22,080 everything so the the simple idea of you and I sitting here in this room is 601 00:55:22,080 --> 00:55:26,360 simply because he decided to make everything and keep everything around 602 00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:30,280 and keep humans around until we got around and then from that he's also 603 00:55:30,280 --> 00:55:34,400 holding us all together and letting us knowing that we'd make mistakes and sin 604 00:55:34,400 --> 00:55:37,360 and fall and create things like replacement theology and go against 605 00:55:37,360 --> 00:55:40,800 God's plan he still loves us and holds us together so that we can come back to 606 00:55:40,800 --> 00:55:46,160 him and all of this is so that it's for his glory so that in the end he will 607 00:55:46,160 --> 00:55:50,240 have a people that truly chose him love him and live for him and then he will 608 00:55:50,240 --> 00:55:53,880 rule and reign with them in the new heaven and new earth in glory with 609 00:55:53,880 --> 00:56:01,120 people who give him praise and worship every day every hour who love him it's 610 00:56:01,120 --> 00:56:06,720 all for his glory so in closing guys 611 00:56:08,000 --> 00:56:16,120 Israel still matters it really does the nation matters why because God said so 612 00:56:16,120 --> 00:56:24,880 and God is God his prophecies in to redeem Israel the fulfillment of them 613 00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:30,680 we see in Revelation God is God he said so we need to trust him and we need to 614 00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:34,320 be praying for those that are pro-Palestine we need to be praying for 615 00:56:34,320 --> 00:56:38,840 those that are in Palestine and Israel dealing with this horrible terrorist 616 00:56:38,840 --> 00:56:43,080 group that's just there to genus to do the genocide of is of all Jews that's 617 00:56:43,080 --> 00:56:47,960 all they're there for that's all Hamas wants we need to be loving them praying 618 00:56:47,960 --> 00:56:51,600 for them and for those when we see because my natural tendency right when I 619 00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:56,420 see some of the dumb stuff going on in UCLA and the encampments all that I just 620 00:56:56,420 --> 00:57:01,360 the horrible part of me is like you guys are just dumb I don't want to love you 621 00:57:01,360 --> 00:57:05,240 but guess what God could say it could have could have he didn't thank God 622 00:57:05,240 --> 00:57:10,720 could have said that about us he gave me you guys are dumb I don't want to die 623 00:57:10,720 --> 00:57:15,640 for you but he loved us and did it anyways and that's the love that he's 624 00:57:15,640 --> 00:57:21,600 called us to love them with and to love Israel with to bless Israel with and to 625 00:57:21,600 --> 00:57:30,120 guess what make them jealous of our relationship with their Lord also don't 626 00:57:30,120 --> 00:57:36,600 fight against God's Word God is God guys stop dumbing him down in your mind in 627 00:57:36,600 --> 00:57:41,740 your life which I am so guilty of there's I'm right there with you of like 628 00:57:41,740 --> 00:57:46,040 oh god I'm gonna do this plan and it's like why didn't I consult you first why 629 00:57:46,040 --> 00:57:51,300 didn't I think about your word and your will in my life God is God and trust him 630 00:57:51,300 --> 00:57:57,120 and if you disagree if you're like no I want to think this way you're in the 631 00:57:57,120 --> 00:58:03,120 wrong you need to trust God you need to love him and you need to let him change 632 00:58:03,120 --> 00:58:11,360 your worldview and how you live so again remember God is God there's no one like 633 00:58:11,360 --> 00:58:17,240 him he created everything he never changes and he never lies his plans will 634 00:58:17,240 --> 00:58:23,060 come through and even if that plan is for us to wait and trust it and bless 635 00:58:23,060 --> 00:58:31,640 Israel in their disobedience so with that we'll pray and have worship oh dear 636 00:58:31,640 --> 00:58:37,760 only father we thank you so much for your word which sometimes is extremely 637 00:58:37,760 --> 00:58:45,520 convicting but is good it is always good or your word which guides us which is a 638 00:58:45,520 --> 00:58:51,840 lamp unto our feet and light unto our path Lord your word which shows us who 639 00:58:51,840 --> 00:58:56,920 we are as humans as sinners and how we need you have the law itself the end of 640 00:58:56,920 --> 00:59:01,800 it points to Jesus we thank you and we trust you Lord and I I just pray for 641 00:59:01,800 --> 00:59:07,280 anyone whose heart is against your word and your their heart is is against 642 00:59:07,280 --> 00:59:12,600 Israel because of just what the public nation is saying and what I believe 643 00:59:12,600 --> 00:59:17,800 demons and the devil is pushing on people in this culture I pray against 644 00:59:17,800 --> 00:59:23,120 those those those evil lies Lord and I pray for them truly to let their heart 645 00:59:23,120 --> 00:59:29,520 just trust you for you to let your Holy Spirit work on their heart to let them 646 00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:34,600 truly accept your word and love you Lord and father I pray that as we go out 647 00:59:34,600 --> 00:59:40,320 today we truly trust that you are God that we live for you that we love you 648 00:59:40,320 --> 00:59:45,360 that we trust you with all of your plans and all of your truths in our lives Lord 649 00:59:45,360 --> 01:00:12,600 we thank you in Jesus name we pray amen