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114 lines
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## God Has Not Rejected Israel
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I say then, has God rejected His people? May it never be! For I too am an Israelite, a seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
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###### 2
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God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Or do you not know what the Scripture says in _the passage about_ Elijah, how he appeals to God against Israel?
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"Lord, they have killed Your prophets, they have torn down Your altars, and I alone am left, and they are seeking my life."
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But what does the divine response say to him? "I have left for Myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to Baal."
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In this way then, at the present time, a remnant according to _God's_ gracious choice has also come to be.
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But if it is by grace, it is no longer of works, otherwise grace is no longer grace.
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###### 7
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What then? What Israel is seeking, it has not obtained, but the chosen obtained it, and the rest were hardened;
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just as it is written, "God gave them a spirit of stupor, Eyes to see not and ears to hear not, Down to this very day."
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And David says, "Let their table become a snare and a trap, And a stumbling block and a retribution to them.
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###### 10
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Let their eyes be darkened to see not, And bend their backs forever."
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## Gentiles Grafted In
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I say then, did they stumble so as to fall? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation _has come_ to the Gentiles, to make them jealous.
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Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness be!
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But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,
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if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them.
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For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will _their_ acceptance be but life from the dead?
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And if the first piece _of dough_ is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.
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But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became a partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree,
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do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast against _them_, _remember that_ it is not you who supports the root, but the root _supports_ you.
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You will say then, "Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in."
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Quite right! They were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be haughty, but fear,
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for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either.
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Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God's kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off.
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And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able 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 were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural _branches_ be grafted into their own olive tree?
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## All Israel Will Be Saved
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For I do not want you, brothers, to be uninformed of this mystery--so that you will not be wise in your own estimation--that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in;
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and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written, "The Deliverer will come from Zion, He will remove ungodliness from Jacob."
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"And this is My covenant with them, When I take away their sins."
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From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of _God's_ choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers;
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for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
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For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience,
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so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy.
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For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all.
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Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are His judgments and unfathomable His ways!
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For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who became His counselor?
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Or who has first given to Him that it might be repaid to him?
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For from Him and through Him and to Him are all things. To Him _be_ the glory forever. Amen.
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