OUR FATHER TO WHOM BE GLORY FOREVER

Romans chapter 11 verses 25 -  36 says this;

25 For I do not desire, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in. 26 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written:

“The Deliverer will come out of Zion, 

and He will turn away ungodliness from Jacob;

27 For this is My covenant with them,

When I take away their sins.”

28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

33 Oh, the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and His ways past finding out!

34 “For who has known the mind of the Lord?

Or who has become His counselor?”

35 “Or who has first given to Him

And it shall be repaid to him?”

36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.

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OUR FATHER WHO 

Romans chapter 11 verses 11 - 25 says this;

 11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. 12 Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!

13 For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, 14 if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them. 15 For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?

16 For if the firstfruit is holy, the lump is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.

19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.” 20 Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either. 22 Therefore consider the goodness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness. Otherwise you also will be cut off. 23 And they also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 For if you were cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, who are natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

In this passage, the Apostle Paul discusses the dispensations that governed the natural descendants Abraham and that governed the gentiles. The elected ones of God are then given access to the family of God through faith but in order for faith to by conveyed to the Gentiles, the natural descendants of Abraham rejected the message of salvation as it was conveyed to them and the gentiles were able to be grafted into the family of God.

Paul warns that if the natural children of Abraham could be cut off from the tree, so could those who were grafted in from wild sources and thus the gentiles should be humble and fear God. 

Paul also describes how glorious the grafting in of gentiles in to the family of God and if so, how much more glorious is the grafting in of the those who were naturally growing on the olive tree that is Israel.

Amen.

 OUR FATHER WHO ELECTS HIS OWN

The book of Romans chapter 11 verses  7 -  10 says this;

 7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. 

8 Just as it is written:

“God has given them a spirit of stupor,

Eyes that they should not see

And ears that they should not hear,

To this very day.”

9 And David says:

“Let their table become a snare and a trap,

A stumbling block and a recompense to them.

10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see,

And bow down their back always.”

Amen.

 OUR FATHER WHO IS FAITHFUL TO HIS PEOPLE

Romans chapter  11 verse 1 - 6 says this;

1 I say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not! For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he pleads with God against Israel, saying, 3 “Lord, they have killed Your prophets and torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they seek my life”? 4 But what does the divine response say to him? “I have reserved for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” 5 Even so then, at this present time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. 6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Amen.

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 OUR FATHER WHO WOULD FOUND  BY PEOPLE WHO WERE NOT HIS PEOPLE

The book of Romans chapter 10 verses 14 - 21 says this;

14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? 15 And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written:

“How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace,

Who bring glad tidings of good things!”

16 But they have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” 17 So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

18 But I say, have they not heard? Yes indeed:

“Their sound has gone out to all the earth,

And their words to the ends of the world.”

19 But I say, did Israel not know? First Moses says:

“I will provoke you to jealousy by those who are not a nation,

I will move you to anger by a foolish nation.

20 But Isaiah is very bold and says:

“I was found by those who did not seek Me;

I was made manifest to those who did not ask for Me.”

21 But to Israel he says:

“All day long I have stretched out My hands

To a disobedient and contrary people.”

The Apostle Paul  surveyed the scriptures and in this passage showed where the prophets had long before foretold of  the ground movement that would be employed to propagate the good news of the provision that God had made for the salvation of mankind. From the prophet Isaiah in chapter 52 verses 7 where he exclaims how beautiful were the feet of those who brought good news. In Psalm 19, the mechanics of the dispensing and recieving of the gospel is described as a sound that goes throughout the earth seeking out those who had not yet heard.

Paul then discusses the point of  Israel's rejection of entreaties of their God and which provided the opportunity for the Gentiles to find God even though they were not serving or even seeking Him.

Paul finds the words of prophets who foretold that the children of Israel would be disobedient to the gospel and that they would spurn God's outreach to them. This would then justify the dispersion of the good news of salvation to the ends of the earth and that this displacement would ultimately stir the Israelites to jealousy as the gentiles are enfolded into the family of their God.

Amen.

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