Dale Partridge - September 11, 2024


Romans 11_11-15： How Should Christians View Jews？ PART 1 with Dale Partridge


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00:00:01.000 Good morning, Saints. This morning I'm going to be reading the text for this
00:00:07.000 morning's sermon, so if you would please stand with me and open your Bibles to
00:00:12.200 Romans chapter 11. I'll be reading verses 11 through 15 this morning.
00:00:20.160 So I ask, did they stumble in order that they may fall? By no means. Rather,
00:00:28.160 Through their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles, so as to make Israel jealous. 0.98
00:00:36.380 Now if their trespass means riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for 0.97
00:00:41.940 the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion mean?
00:00:46.880 Now I am speaking to you as Gentiles.
00:00:50.800 Inasmuch, then, as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry.
00:00:56.660 In order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous, and thus save some of them.
00:01:03.440 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
00:01:12.120 This is the word of the Lord.
00:01:15.700 Amen. Well, good morning.
00:01:18.180 And I am excited to continue this series of Romans 11.
00:01:23.540 What a blessing I think it'll be to you.
00:01:26.240 Spent a significant amount of time studying.
00:01:28.240 This is a complicated text, by the way.
00:01:30.880 Romans 11 is very controversial.
00:01:33.620 And I believe we'll get to the bottom of it here shortly.
00:01:38.000 I think that this passage of Scripture is glorious.
00:01:42.180 Now, yeah, we could say that every passage of Scripture is glorious.
00:01:47.520 But I say that because at the end of this chapter
00:01:50.240 is the second longest doxology in the entire New Testament.
00:01:55.420 Now, the first longest is the doxology at the end of Romans.
00:02:01.500 And so this communicates something.
00:02:04.400 It really does.
00:02:05.800 To Paul, the words of this chapter deserve some sort of unique weight of praise.
00:02:13.400 We have to understand, why is there such a massive praise at the end of this chapter?
00:02:21.640 If we were to walk through this chapter in a dull, kind of darkened understanding of
00:02:27.260 this text and not arrive at the same degree of praise that Paul does, that would be strange.
00:02:33.700 Now, if you've been with us for some time, you know that Paul is answering the question,
00:02:38.960 if God had only saved a remnant of ethnic Israel, what is God's future plan for the Jews?
00:02:48.500 It's essentially what's trying to be addressed in this passage of scripture.
00:02:52.560 Where do they fit in on the grand plan of redemption?
00:02:58.360 I just want to back up for a moment just to remind you,
00:03:00.480 chapter 8 told us that God causes all things to work together for good.
00:03:07.280 For those who are called according to his purpose,
00:03:09.300 we know that God is sovereign over salvation through election.
00:03:14.760 chapter 9 told us that god's sovereign election is why only a remnant of israel was saved not
00:03:25.080 all of them were elect chapter 10 told us that those jews who were not elected rejected christ
00:03:33.940 and the gospel and pursued a righteousness by legalism or by works now here in chapter 11
00:03:43.000 the pressing question becomes, at this point, has God just totally cast off
00:03:49.560 ethnic Israel? Like, are they not even to be considered anything in the future of
00:03:59.060 the church? And this is a significant question, because if God had categorically
00:04:05.140 just pushed Israel away,
00:04:10.600 he would not have fulfilled many promises 0.96
00:04:14.300 that are in the scriptures made to his people
00:04:20.560 regarding their eternal preservation.
00:04:24.240 Now, ultimately, God's integrity is on the line,
00:04:27.880 and that's why Paul, I think, is defending
00:04:29.840 that we view Israel appropriately.
00:04:35.960 The key issue lies in understanding
00:04:39.520 to whom God made those promises.
00:04:44.760 Who was it?
00:04:47.800 Were these promises given to every single person
00:04:50.500 that was in ethnic Israel?
00:04:54.300 Was it just if you were born an Israelite of Abraham?
00:04:59.840 circumcision is that guaranteed that these promises were made to you
00:05:06.480 and the answer is no because we saw that in chapter 9
00:05:10.640 paul says that not all who are descended from israel are of israel essentially
00:05:19.040 well i'll even say this if you look back to your bible look back to 11
00:05:22.800 2 so chapter romans chapter 11 verse 2 paul also said this phrase god has not rejected his people
00:05:29.840 whom he foreknew.
00:05:33.560 Okay, so he qualifies it.
00:05:36.100 It's not that he rejected everybody.
00:05:39.740 He's not rejected those whom he foreknew,
00:05:42.880 which connects back to Romans 8, 28,
00:05:45.040 which we don't have time to get into.
00:05:46.080 You can go back and listen to those previous sermons.
00:05:48.020 But he qualifies this because he wants us to know
00:05:52.340 that his promises are not made entirely to ethnic Israel,
00:05:56.800 but rather to those specific individuals
00:05:59.860 that he foreknew before the foundation of the world.
00:06:01.840 And what this means is that ethnic Israel 0.75
00:06:04.920 is not the same as elect Israel. 0.89
00:06:07.980 That's the key point. 0.78
00:06:09.740 Ethnic Israel is not the same as elect Israel.
00:06:13.560 So at the opening of this chapter,
00:06:15.680 basically one through six,
00:06:17.300 Paul deals with potential misconceptions around the Jews,
00:06:22.540 demonstrating that God has not cast off Israel,
00:06:25.760 but has actually preserved a remnant, the true Israel, for himself.
00:06:36.020 And he relates it to the idea of Elijah and Elijah's day.
00:06:40.100 It seemed also like God had cast off Israel.
00:06:43.520 I'm the only one left, Elijah said.
00:06:45.480 And God says, no, I have reserved for myself 7,000. 0.97
00:06:49.760 Very similar time to a first century Jew who's sitting there going, 0.98
00:06:54.260 I'm a believer. Has God totally cast off Israel? Because I feel like I'm the only one. 0.99
00:07:02.300 Paul says no. Now last week in verses 7 through 10, we addressed the question,
00:07:10.100 why only a remnant? Why did God only save a remnant? Why did he harden his people? Why did
00:07:17.380 he spiritually blind his people, as he said? Why did they stumble over the stumbling stone?
00:07:27.140 Now, as we're going to see today, this answer includes multiple reasons. The first one was
00:07:34.020 from last week is something that should cause us all to pause with a little bit of reverence,
00:07:37.740 because the answer was, he did this because he was hardening, he did this hardening because it
00:07:42.840 It was a covenant judgment for their unfaithfulness to their God.
00:07:49.800 God blinded the majority of His people toward the Messiah because of their covenant unfaithfulness. 0.95
00:07:59.200 Now, as covenant members of the true Israel, I believe that the true Israel is all Jews, 0.90
00:08:05.260 elect Jews and elect Gentiles, all in one body, the Church of Christ, is the true Israel. 0.58
00:08:10.920 This should be instructive to us. And here's why. God has changed, certainly, the sealing 0.80
00:08:19.020 of the covenant from the blood of animals to the blood of Christ. We know that.
00:08:24.860 But God has not changed the mechanics of how covenant theology is administered.
00:08:32.660 It's still with blood. It's still with the priest. It's still with the temple.
00:08:36.360 It's still with a sacrifice.
00:08:37.940 It's still with a covenant blessings.
00:08:39.860 It's still with covenant curses.
00:08:43.360 And sadly, many Christians think that God no longer brings covenant judgments on his
00:08:47.360 people, and this is a mistake.
00:08:48.960 It's a mistake to think that way, that God's not bringing upon his covenant people, the
00:08:54.700 true Israel covenant lawsuits, that we have broken our faithfulness to our God.
00:09:01.100 We need to recognize that the persecution, the struggles of the church facing today,
00:09:08.780 like in the Old Testament, are often tied to covenant unfaithfulness.
00:09:15.300 Why are we having this election between these two candidates? 1.00
00:09:20.560 Why have we been judged as a nation, slaughtering babies, allowing homosexuality to run rampant? 0.99
00:09:31.100 divorce on the rise. Are these not connected to some sort of covenant judgment by God 0.99
00:09:40.940 for the church's unfaithfulness? I'll tell you what, I did not grow up in a generation
00:09:46.620 that spoke against these things. The generation before us very rarely spoke out against these
00:09:53.600 truths and it's why they are so rampant today. And if we don't speak about these truths,
00:09:59.380 All we're doing is kicking the can down the road, and we're leaving the fight to our children
00:10:03.920 and grandchildren.
00:10:06.960 And we're also leaving the curse of a society that is so corrupt and broken, in love with
00:10:12.400 wickedness and hatred of righteousness.
00:10:15.080 So is the church going to be faithful?
00:10:18.300 Are we going to learn from the covenant judgments and disciplines of the Lord through repentance
00:10:24.080 and through faithfulness?
00:10:25.400 now today we encounter something remarkable in this text
00:10:32.380 once again we see god's absolute sovereignty over his people we're going to see that
00:10:39.100 you cannot go through romans chapter 8 chapter 9 chapter 10 chapter 11 and still reject the
00:10:46.340 doctrines of grace aka calvinism whatever you want to call it god is clearly sovereign it's like
00:10:53.420 in so many different dimensions that you see through these passages of Scripture.
00:10:59.080 Specifically, we're going to see today how God can use even covenant judgments,
00:11:06.220 even human disobedience, to bring about blessings and accomplish His redemptive purposes.
00:11:14.280 In other words, we're going to see how God can use punishment and sin to bring about
00:11:25.320 redemption and good in the world.
00:11:29.020 And we shouldn't be shocked, right?
00:11:30.340 What does the Bible say?
00:11:31.900 God causes all things, that includes bad things, to work together for good.
00:11:37.500 It's already been told to us, but we're going to see it play out here.
00:11:41.620 Again, I want to just give you a quick outline of Romans before we dive in.
00:11:45.280 Romans chapter 11, number 1 through 10, the focus is on the fact that ethnic Israel's
00:11:51.920 rejection is not total.
00:11:55.000 God has preserved a remnant. 0.89
00:11:56.740 The section we're in right now, which is 11 through 32, is that ethnic Israel's rejection
00:12:03.020 is not final, but it's a temporary hardening.
00:12:08.360 and verses 33 to 36 are Paul's great doxology. Now, let's just read verse 11, just get into it.
00:12:15.180 It says, I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? Question mark.
00:12:24.440 May it never be, but their transgression, but by their transgression, salvation has come to the 0.98
00:12:31.820 Gentiles, to make them jealous, to make the Jews jealous. All right. So I'm just going to pick a 0.99
00:12:40.080 bone real quick because sometimes pastors, well, I'm not going to say pastor. Sometimes people in
00:12:47.060 the church, not in our church, church at large, criticize pastors for being so meticulous with
00:12:52.540 grammar. You know, ah, going into the Greek, going into the Hebrew, you know, they'll say things like
00:12:58.400 just communicate the general principle that, you know, the outline theme. Don't go so deep
00:13:02.300 into the theological weeds. That's most of America, by the way. But here, Paul explicitly
00:13:09.640 makes a distinction between the scripture mentioning stumbling and how it's different
00:13:14.860 from falling. Okay, that is a very tight distinction. Stumbling implies a trip or a kind of a temporary
00:13:25.140 setback. Falling implies a complete collapse or failure. This is the kind of distinction that
00:13:34.380 Paul is catching here in prophecy. So when Jesus says, not an iota, not a dot, is going to pass
00:13:43.680 away, yeah, God cares about punctuation marks, truly. I remember in seminary, they would teach
00:13:51.660 just that. God cares about punctuation marks. Put it in the wrong space and you get a different
00:13:56.220 meaning. And it's important. So to answer Paul's question, no, ethnic Israel is not categorically
00:14:05.380 eliminated. It's not. This is important because it emphasizes that their hardening had a purpose
00:14:12.220 and it offers a future hope for Israel, ethnic Israel.
00:14:19.780 Which, again, needs a lot of explaining,
00:14:22.020 which we're going to talk about here in a minute.
00:14:26.580 The first section we know is about Israel's fall was not total.
00:14:33.460 Now we know this section is that it's about not being final.
00:14:37.300 So the apostle told us what happened.
00:14:40.100 They stumbled, but they did not fall.
00:14:42.220 That's the what.
00:14:44.280 And for the next several verses, he's going to tell us why it's not final.
00:14:50.160 Why it's not final.
00:14:52.180 So the first reason is listed in the second half of verse 11.
00:14:55.740 Just look at the second half of verse 11. 0.98
00:14:57.420 It says, but by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make them, the Jews, jealous. 0.97
00:15:09.500 So yes, they were unfaithful. 0.76
00:15:12.220 yes God is judging them yes God has blinded them and hardened their hearts against Christ and yes 0.81
00:15:23.020 God has only preserved in ethnic Israel a remnant of elect Jews but here Paul affirms
00:15:33.340 this kind of great thesis it's Romans 8 28 we've said it a couple times God causes all things to
00:15:40.140 together for good for those who love him and are called according to his purpose he's going to
00:15:43.340 reaffirm his thesis that's the thesis of these next chapters of 8 9 10 and 11. and he's essentially
00:15:52.700 saying even ethnic israel's judgments have been worked together for good even this extreme reality
00:16:04.780 that God is spiritually blinded. His people, his national people will be worked together for good.
00:16:15.180 That's how sovereign God is. And this brings up a great topic most Christians do not understand.
00:16:24.080 When the Bible says that God is sovereign, it does not mean that God is only sovereign over
00:16:28.660 that which is good. It means that God is also sovereign over that which is bad and evil.
00:16:39.280 Now we know this to be true. Why? Because we're not blind Bible interpreters.
00:16:51.920 Is God sovereign over the fall of man? Certainly. It says that Christ was crucified before the
00:16:58.100 foundation of the world? Was God not sovereign over the flood of Noah? Was God not sovereign
00:17:04.060 over the bloody wars of the Old Testament? Was God not sovereign of the boils on Job's skin
00:17:09.480 and the death of his children? He was. Was God not sovereign over the leprosy of Naaman,
00:17:17.520 the adultery of David, the physical blindness of the beggar in John 9.3? 0.99
00:17:21.740 Was God not sovereign over the spiritual blindness of the Jews? 0.96
00:17:27.580 Was God not sovereign over the crucifixion of Christ? 0.91
00:17:32.520 He was.
00:17:34.180 God's not sovereign just over that which is good.
00:17:37.220 God is sovereign over that also which is bad.
00:17:40.520 And we know that Jesus is even sovereign over the wind and the waves.
00:17:57.120 Peter says, I think it's Peter, who is this man?
00:18:02.800 Even the wind and waves obey him.
00:18:04.700 and for that reason we can rightly say that every deadly tornado and tsunami has been sovereignly 1.00
00:18:14.380 permitted by the will of god christians we do not believe in dualism this is a very stupid doctrine 0.98
00:18:26.380 that's alive and well in our generation dualism where there's kind of this ongoing cosmic battle 0.98
00:18:32.060 between God and the devil
00:18:33.280 and victory alternates between them on the day.
00:18:36.720 Not today, Satan. 1.00
00:18:38.720 Stupid, okay? 1.00
00:18:40.740 Stupid. 1.00
00:18:41.920 Martin Luther once said, 1.00
00:18:43.980 quote,
00:18:44.860 even the devil is God's devil.
00:18:48.160 He may not do anything unless God has permitted it
00:18:51.260 and commands him to do it.
00:18:53.000 And so the devil is held in check by the power of God
00:18:56.580 like a prisoner in chains
00:18:58.000 who can only go as far as God allows him to go
00:19:01.900 and not a step further, end quote.
00:19:05.300 What does Jesus say at the end of Matthew 28?
00:19:08.560 All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.
00:19:16.160 All of it.
00:19:17.680 Nothing can come to pass without the permission of God.
00:19:23.960 There's so much complexity theologically
00:19:26.940 around God's sovereignty and man's responsibility
00:19:29.400 and is God responsible for sin?
00:19:31.600 and I've done several sermons talking about these realities that you can go back and listen to.
00:19:35.880 I can't address them all here. How is this connected to our passage in Romans?
00:19:42.160 Well, Paul is showing us how God uses even tragedy, even disobedience,
00:19:50.740 even judgment to bring about his people's greatest blessing for his greatest glory.
00:19:59.000 R.C. Sproul once said,
00:20:01.240 quote, God wills evil in the sense that he is willing to allow it to occur.
00:20:07.540 But it is a crucial distinction to make that God does not delight in evil as evil.
00:20:14.740 Rather, he ordains that evil to exist for the good that he will bring out of it.
00:20:23.180 End quote.
00:20:24.500 Very well said.
00:20:28.000 That is exactly the type of situation that we are discussing here in 11 through 12.
00:20:37.440 And by the way, I know the sermon was supposed to go through 15 or verse 16.
00:20:42.840 We're only going to get through 11 and 12 today. 1.00
00:20:44.900 God has ordained the Jews to stumble 1.00
00:20:51.400 that by their transgression 1.00
00:20:55.000 salvation has come to the Gentiles 0.99
00:20:58.080 to make them jealous 1.00
00:20:59.460 in other words
00:21:01.200 God ordained and used their rejecting of the gospel
00:21:05.380 pay attention here 1.00
00:21:07.000 to cause an international collecting of the Gentiles
00:21:11.860 think about that
00:21:14.900 God has caused their rejecting of the gospel 0.95
00:21:19.240 to cause an international collecting of the Gentiles. 1.00
00:21:21.900 I don't know about you,
00:21:22.720 but you can see this in Paul's ministry.
00:21:24.160 He's like, I'm going to go to the synagogue
00:21:26.160 and I'm going to watch them reject me 1.00
00:21:28.700 and spit me out to the Gentile world 1.00
00:21:30.880 and I'm going to go to the Gentile 1.00
00:21:32.100 and all these people are going to come to Christ. 1.00
00:21:35.160 It's a theme.
00:21:38.780 They were persecuted and rejected
00:21:40.980 and cast out the apostles. 0.99
00:21:44.900 God ordained and used the Jews' rejecting of the gospel 0.99
00:21:52.540 to cause a collecting of the Gentiles. 1.00
00:21:56.380 That's an amazing thing. 0.97
00:22:00.640 And this international, this is what makes it even more amazing,
00:22:04.840 this international collecting of the Gentiles, 1.00
00:22:07.460 God will use for the ethnic provoking of the Jews. 0.99
00:22:11.700 What? That's amazing. 1.00
00:22:14.900 the Jews reject Christ, sends him out to the Gentiles. 1.00
00:22:22.020 The Gentiles come in mass, provoking at some point in the future, 0.99
00:22:27.560 the Jews to come in mass. 1.00
00:22:30.240 It's an amazing way.
00:22:32.020 And you can start to see when you think about it,
00:22:34.760 why at the end of this chapter, Paul goes,
00:22:36.540 oh, for all things are from him and through him and to him.
00:22:43.240 And to him be the glory forever and ever.
00:22:45.200 Amen.
00:22:45.340 You can see that who can understand the riches and knowledge and deepness and greatness of God.
00:22:51.720 Who works in ways that are higher than our ways.
00:22:55.240 As high as heavens are above the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, says the Lord.
00:23:01.060 There's no way that I'm coming up with that plan.
00:23:04.600 That is such a outside, upside down economic shift of the way that I think.
00:23:10.160 It's the up is down and the down is up and the last is first and the first is last and the weak is strong and the strong is weak.
00:23:15.840 This is total upside down flesh economy.
00:23:19.140 It's an amazing way that God is redeeming his elect. 0.92
00:23:26.820 And so we're going to see that ethnic Israel's remnant is not final.
00:23:32.760 the nation of israel won't always reject christ as they did
00:23:38.720 when this book of romans was written or as they do today
00:23:42.120 and the next verse paul asks a profound rhetorical question in verse 12 and it's for the gentiles
00:23:50.680 it's for us to consider he says in verse 12 now if their transgression is riches for the world
00:23:59.400 and their failure is riches for the Gentiles,
00:24:04.000 how much more will their fullness or fulfillment be? 0.96
00:24:10.240 It's like if their bad is good and their weakness is strength,
00:24:16.200 how much more will their strength be to us?
00:24:21.200 It's an amazing way to think about the redemptive plan of God.
00:24:27.760 In other words, if through, pay attention, this is important, if through the remnant of ethnic Israel, including the 12 apostles, there has been such an immense blessing to the world, there's like 2 billion Christians in the world. 0.96
00:24:46.320 The vast majority of them are not Jewish. 0.53
00:24:49.020 if through the remnant of ethnic Israel
00:24:54.180 this rejection of the Jews
00:24:56.860 only saving a remnant 1.00
00:24:58.440 there has been such an immense blessing to the world
00:25:01.020 how much greater will the blessing be to the Gentiles
00:25:05.440 when God restores the fullness
00:25:07.520 of the nation of Israel
00:25:10.780 in the future
00:25:12.880 and I'm going to say the fullness of the elect of the nation of Israel
00:25:19.740 That's my theological brain dinging right there.
00:25:23.940 This is big because Paul just prophesied something that's very important to the American church,
00:25:34.000 to the modern church.
00:25:36.200 Paul just prophesied that a great number of elect Jews will in the future come to Christ. 0.86
00:25:45.100 And it hasn't happened yet, certainly. 1.00
00:25:48.740 I mean, the Jews hate Christians. 1.00
00:25:54.380 They hate Christ. 1.00
00:25:57.140 In fact, I think they hate Christ more than almost any other religion. 0.92
00:25:59.860 We're closer. 0.92
00:26:01.020 The Muslims appreciate Christ far more than Talmudic Judaism appreciates Christ. 0.79
00:26:09.120 Why is this important? 0.88
00:26:11.540 Well, if you haven't been on social media,
00:26:14.980 there is quite a debate currently
00:26:18.340 over how Christians and Americans should view Israel and the Jews.
00:26:25.040 It's a big conversation.
00:26:27.340 Crazy stuff being said online.
00:26:30.620 There's a movement of Christian anti-Semites, 0.69
00:26:37.100 Hitler sympathizers, Holocaust deniers, etc.
00:26:41.360 There's a whole thing out there.
00:26:44.500 Now, there's always been conflict between Christians and Jews. 0.99
00:26:48.340 it's a thing. You can look throughout church history. There's all types of historical records
00:26:54.720 on this. One of those historical records is written by our very own reformed Martin Luther,
00:27:01.740 okay? Martin Luther is a great and godly man, but has said some really intense things
00:27:08.640 about the Jews. I'm going to read one of them to you. He says, quote, 1.00
00:27:15.200 First, their synagogue should be set on fire, and whatever does not burn up should be covered 0.51
00:27:21.540 or spread over with dirt, so that no one may ever be able to see a cinder or stone of it. 0.98
00:27:29.260 And this ought to be done for the honor of God and of Christianity, in order that God
00:27:34.640 may see that we are Christians. Secondly, their homes should likewise be broken down and destroyed, 0.96
00:27:42.860 For they perpetuate the same things there that they do in their synagogues. 1.00
00:27:48.300 For this reason, they ought to be put under one roof or in a stable like gypsies in order 1.00
00:27:54.300 that they may realize that they are not masters in our land, as they boast, but miserable 1.00
00:27:59.640 captives as they complain incessantly before God with bitter wailing. 0.90
00:28:04.720 We are at fault in not slaying them.
00:28:08.720 Rather, we allow them to live freely in our midst
00:28:11.860 despite their murderous, thieving, and lying nature, end quote.
00:28:16.700 Okay. 0.65
00:28:19.700 It's mostly bad.
00:28:21.800 There are some true statements in there, but there's mostly bad,
00:28:25.060 and there's some unchrist-like realities that are mixed in with some true realities. 0.91
00:28:31.380 True realities is that you go, yeah, there's synagogues.
00:28:34.580 But in the Old Testament, what does God say to do to people that worship a false god? 0.95
00:28:41.200 Well, it's to tear down their idols in their high places.
00:28:44.800 So you can see that there's a remnant of truth in there, but the vast majority of how that
00:28:49.460 is handled is not correct, not biblical and not Christ-like.
00:28:55.100 And so Gentile Christians having a correct view of the Jews is actually very important.
00:29:02.320 And this is why Paul is saying this and getting into this passage and the following week's
00:29:11.820 passages.
00:29:13.240 I want to make an important distinction.
00:29:15.640 Many people believe that Jews and Christians worship the same God.
00:29:22.480 We do not.
00:29:24.240 We do not worship the same God.
00:29:27.340 Now, others use this term Judeo-Christian.
00:29:33.180 Okay, that's a very new term, by the way.
00:29:35.020 It's like a post-1945 term.
00:29:37.560 Like you'll never see people using a Judeo-Christian worldview as a phrase prior to 1945.
00:29:43.960 Now, again, these statements are, is there some truth to them? 1.00
00:29:49.600 Certainly.
00:29:50.960 But they're complex.
00:29:52.460 And I think it's important to have some distinctions.
00:29:54.660 Jesus said that God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and in truth.
00:30:05.600 Now, we know that John 14, 6, Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life, and no man comes to the Father except through me.
00:30:14.800 1 John 2, 23 says, no one who denies the Son has the Father.
00:30:21.700 Full stop, right?
00:30:23.780 No one who denies the Son has the Father.
00:30:29.360 Whoever confesses the Son has the Father also, end quote. 0.99
00:30:33.440 So the Jews deny the Son, and therefore, they do not have the Father. 1.00
00:30:40.840 So yes, they worship, but everybody worships. 0.98
00:30:46.240 Okay, everybody worships, but their worship is not worship to Yahweh.
00:30:51.580 It's not.
00:30:52.800 there's only one way to worship Yahweh, and that is through Christ.
00:30:59.500 Now, at the very least, because there's, you know, some strong arguments out there.
00:31:03.860 At the very least, if you want to say that there's a theological argument that they do worship Yahweh,
00:31:08.540 at the very least, it's not received by Yahweh.
00:31:14.220 Romans 10.2 says, they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
00:31:19.120 It's misdirected passion.
00:31:21.320 It's misdirected worship.
00:31:23.480 What they're worshiping is not God.
00:31:27.300 It's a God of their own making.
00:31:30.640 Because God says, you want to worship me?
00:31:33.120 It comes through my son Christ.
00:31:36.800 That is the only way to the Father.
00:31:40.020 And so where their worship is going is nowhere.
00:31:43.880 It's not to where they intend it to go. 1.00
00:31:46.620 the Jews worship a God that rejects Christ. The Jews worship a God who hates Christ. 0.95
00:31:58.680 These are real factual statements. Imagine someone trying to reach a particular mountaintop, 1.00
00:32:04.100 but they refuse to take the only path that leads there. Okay? You're standing at a mountain.
00:32:09.220 They want to reach the mountaintop. They refuse to take the only path that leads to the top.
00:32:14.800 that's basically what the Jews are doing.
00:32:19.380 They have a passion to climb 0.98
00:32:21.320 and possibly the same mountain as the Christians,
00:32:25.260 if you want to interpret it that way. 0.99
00:32:27.120 But all their effort leads them nowhere
00:32:29.100 because Jesus is the only path to the Father. 0.99
00:32:34.000 So yes, the Jews are apostate. 1.00
00:32:39.920 The Jews, I'll say Talmudic Judaism 1.00
00:32:43.060 is wicked pagan idolatry. When you start to look into it, study it, it's amazing how antichrist 1.00
00:32:51.480 it is and how legalistic it is and how totally confused it is to the scriptures. And yes,
00:33:02.780 we should hate it. We should hate it in a way that we hate Hinduism and Islam and all the other 1.00
00:33:11.040 things because they are false paths to God. We can all agree on that. We shouldn't feel 1.00
00:33:20.240 that we have some sort of connected brotherhood like, oh, you know what? It's not so bad for
00:33:25.420 the Jews. I'm like, no, they reject Christ. It is very bad for the Jews. Without Christ, 1.00
00:33:31.980 you're going to hell. And so you have to, in one lens, see that truth.
00:33:37.300 and in the other lens, another truth, which we'll talk about in a second. 0.60
00:33:45.040 Now, what Paul is trying to convey to the Gentiles is this.
00:33:48.680 If the hardening of the Jews has already resulted in the salvation of billions of Gentiles,
00:33:56.860 imagine the glorious outcome when the Jews experience a revival and turn to Christ.
00:34:03.840 this is kind of touching on this other side during seminary i had to read some jewish scholars to
00:34:12.560 understand some of the contextual realities of the old testament i read some writings of rabbis
00:34:18.320 their comprehension in some ways of the old testament is really rich very robust
00:34:24.580 thinking in a way that's hard for an american to think
00:34:29.060 or a modern person even to think. 0.59
00:34:33.660 I expect that if millions of Jews came to Christ, 0.58
00:34:40.080 their comprehension of the gospel, 0.54
00:34:42.580 their teaching of the gospel,
00:34:44.320 their proclamation of the gospel
00:34:45.840 would radically bless the world.
00:34:49.900 I think they would have a systematic understanding
00:34:52.280 of the gospel that surpasses most Americans.
00:34:55.620 They would grasp it in a way and have the historical reality connected in a way that would bless many Gentile Christians in ways that we can't understand really at this time.
00:35:13.000 One thing that I thought about is this prophecy of a future revival of Jews requires something.
00:35:30.260 It requires the remarkable survival of Jews, of Israel.
00:35:38.780 God's preservation of the Jewish people is actually fascinating.
00:35:43.000 It's extraordinary.
00:35:45.700 They are the longest standing people group
00:35:48.420 to maintain their cultural identity in the world.
00:35:52.780 It's just a fact.
00:35:54.980 What makes it even more remarkable
00:35:56.420 is that they've done so in the midst of exile
00:36:01.640 and persecution and global dispersion.
00:36:05.260 It's pretty amazing. 0.71
00:36:06.720 They're a small country
00:36:09.220 and they have more cultural identity
00:36:12.280 than any other country that exists.
00:36:17.640 It was a phrase that Jews use around the world.
00:36:21.940 You find a Jew in America,
00:36:23.940 and they'll say to one another, 0.91
00:36:26.160 you know, next year in Jerusalem, next year in Jerusalem. 0.75
00:36:31.040 Like, imagine moving away from Germany
00:36:37.160 13 generations ago, and you're still saying,
00:36:40.800 you know, next year in Germany, next year in Germany.
00:36:45.140 No, people lose their heritage in the new country that they join.
00:36:53.500 That doesn't happen with the Jews. 1.00
00:36:55.300 It's pretty amazing.
00:36:57.900 China, India, Greece, they've all had longstanding cultural histories, 1.00
00:37:01.340 but none have withstood the time and the adversity like the Jews have.
00:37:04.760 their multi-generational staying power, it's really miraculous. And it's actually helpful
00:37:13.180 for the Gentiles. Why? Because their survival is living proof of a future gospel prophecy. 0.97
00:37:23.140 Like, they're still there. In fact, if they weren't there, I'd be really struggling to
00:37:28.700 figure out how this prophecy would pull together. But there's an identified group of people that
00:37:34.680 God says will be a revival at some point in the future.
00:37:40.840 I think the central point, as I close here, is setting up to essentially make this. 0.89
00:37:47.580 Gentile Christians are not to have any special animosity toward Jews, but rather pity, okay? 0.66
00:37:59.480 thing. We're to have animosity, frustration towards evil. But to hate the Jews is not, 0.95
00:38:14.880 I believe, what Paul is saying. I believe Paul is saying, have pity on them.
00:38:19.840 Because by their judgment came your good. 0.98
00:38:22.720 And so, yes, Gentile Christians are to hate the Jews' rejection of Christ. 0.79
00:38:29.340 Yes, they are to pray and work for the Jews' reception of Christ. 0.99
00:38:36.120 It's a good thing to go into Islamic nations and Hindu nations and Jewish nations 0.71
00:38:42.940 and preach the gospel to them.
00:38:46.020 Truly, our desire should be to fulfill God's will, which is what?
00:38:52.720 Provoke them to jealousy.
00:38:55.460 It's kind of an interesting thing, right?
00:38:58.080 We're actually called to provoke them to jealousy.
00:39:00.680 How do we do that?
00:39:02.740 We should want to display our knowledge of the scriptures,
00:39:05.320 our covenant peace with God, by grace, through faith in Christ.
00:39:10.780 Ultimately, they should see the substance of the promises made to them in us.
00:39:16.960 That make sense?
00:39:18.660 they should see the substance of the promises
00:39:21.740 that were made to them and their scriptures in us.
00:39:26.660 They should see the expectations
00:39:28.500 of the old covenant fulfillments
00:39:29.940 in the new covenant church.
00:39:35.100 And God says when we display those realities,
00:39:38.300 he will at some point open up their eyes
00:39:41.920 to see the gospel.
00:39:44.140 Amen?
00:39:44.980 Amen.
00:39:45.640 Let's pray.
00:39:48.820 Father, we thank you for your wondrous, incredible ways.
00:39:53.580 Lord, we ask that you would give us humility
00:39:55.200 to hate the things that you hate,
00:39:58.360 but also to have pity on those
00:40:00.000 who have rejected Christ.
00:40:04.180 Lord, we pray that we would, as a church, 0.99
00:40:07.440 provoke the Jews to jealousy. 0.96
00:40:09.740 And Lord, that you would bring about a revival, 0.91
00:40:12.680 a greater than a remnant 1.00
00:40:13.780 of ethnic Jews that come
00:40:16.740 and bless the world
00:40:19.040 with a great comprehension of the gospel.
00:40:22.000 We ask that you'd give us
00:40:23.260 peace, wisdom
00:40:25.400 as we handle these texts,
00:40:27.520 as we navigate through these issues.
00:40:30.780 We thank you for the truth.
00:40:32.080 In Jesus' name, amen.