Dale Partridge - September 18, 2024


Romans 11_11-15: How Should Christians View Jews? PART 2 with Dale Partridge


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The Jews and Gentiles are interdependent in God's redemptive plan. They are not separate from one another, but in fact they are part of one another. God has made the Jews part of His plan for the Gentiles in order to make them jealous. This is a key point in Romans 11.

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00:00:00.960 Good morning, Saints. I have the honor and privilege of reading the Word of God to you,
00:00:07.460 which will be this morning's sermon text for Dale. So, if you wouldn't mind standing for
00:00:11.500 the reading of God's Word. I'm going to be reading Romans 11. I'm going to start in verse
00:00:21.340 11 and go through 16. I know on the liturgy it says 7, but Elder Corbin just did a wonderful
00:00:27.680 explanation of those verses, so we'll go to 11. And Dale started his sermon last week with
00:00:33.740 these verses, but he only got through the first two or three, so he's going to continue that
00:00:38.060 this morning. Hear the word of the Lord.
00:00:43.760 So I ask, did they stumble in order that they may fall? By no means. Rather, through their
00:00:52.980 trespass salvation has come to the gentiles so as to make israel jealous now if their trespass 0.98
00:01:01.380 means riches for the world and if their failure means riches for the gentiles how much more will 0.94
00:01:08.340 their full inclusion mean now i am speaking to you gentiles in as much than as i am an apostle 0.89
00:01:17.380 to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous
00:01:24.360 and thus save some of them.
00:01:27.600 For if their rejection means reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean
00:01:33.200 but life from the dead?
00:01:35.500 If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump, and if the root is holy,
00:01:41.640 so are the branches.
00:01:43.520 This is the word of the Lord.
00:01:45.180 Praise to you, God.
00:01:46.060 Well, welcome back to this particularly important chapter of Romans.
00:01:53.340 We have learned several things over the past several weeks, but through Paul, God is revealing
00:02:00.640 his sovereignty over salvation through election.
00:02:03.440 We know that's chapter 8, 9, and 10, really even through here 11 as well.
00:02:07.680 But we're also learning the revealing redemption to come and the relationship between the Jews
00:02:15.880 and the Gentiles. Now, as we know, I'm just going to give a kind of a quick zoom out 0.72
00:02:21.500 focus for a second. Chapter 8 told us that God is sovereign. He alone controls the salvation
00:02:28.320 of his people. God causes all things to work together for those who are called according to
00:02:33.200 his purpose. We know the fundamentals that that was the thesis of this entire section from
00:02:37.960 chapter 8, 9, 10, and 11. Chapter 9 told us that God's sovereign election is the reason
00:02:47.080 why only a remnant of Jews were saved. Chapter 10 told us that those Jews who were elect,
00:02:55.700 that were part of that remnant, rejected the gospel. Sorry, those Jews who were not elect,
00:03:01.680 not a part of the remnant, they rejected the gospel and they pursued a righteousness by works, 0.95
00:03:09.360 basically legalism. Chapter 11 so far answers the pressing question, well, if God has only
00:03:15.140 elected a remnant of Jews and he's left the majority of them to damnation,
00:03:24.400 then has God categorically cast off ethnic Israel? It's a reasonable question. 0.99
00:03:31.680 Paul anticipates this question
00:03:33.820 and he pursues to answer that question in chapter 11.
00:03:38.640 Now, Paul answered it simply by saying no,
00:03:43.040 and then he continued to communicate
00:03:45.560 what role the Jews play in God's redemption in the future.
00:03:50.640 How do the Jews, the Gentiles,
00:03:52.020 how does ethnic Israel and the nations work together? 0.54
00:03:56.240 And in doing so, he aims to eliminate pride 0.59
00:04:00.740 among Christian Jews and among Christian Gentiles. 0.61
00:04:05.880 This is really the core of this passage of scripture.
00:04:09.460 He wants to demonstrate kind of this interdependent play
00:04:13.280 between the Gentiles and the Jews. 0.99
00:04:17.220 They're interdependent on one another 1.00
00:04:18.880 in God's redemptive plan.
00:04:21.620 Now last week we discussed the very real historical
00:04:25.800 animosity between Gentile Christians and Jews.
00:04:30.740 We read some of Martin Luther's writings. 0.94
00:04:34.880 I remarked that even Muslims show less animosity toward Christians than Talmudic Jews do. 0.85
00:04:43.040 The Jews hate Christians more than the Muslims do. 1.00
00:04:48.620 True. 1.00
00:04:50.280 Now, while we are to abhor as Christians the wickedness of Talmudic Judaism, 1.00
00:04:59.880 We are not called to have any special animosity toward them, 1.00
00:05:05.640 but rather we are to have a special pity for them.
00:05:10.260 Now, why? 0.97
00:05:11.980 Well, because God has interlinked the Jew and the Gentile in his redemptive purposes. 0.96
00:05:19.320 And we're going to see that come full circle today. 0.94
00:05:22.380 Last week, we also learned that while Jews stumbled over Christ, they did not fall.
00:05:27.180 There is that important distinction.
00:05:30.240 God has not categorically eliminated the Jews in his redemptive plan.
00:05:35.420 There's still a portion and a future reality that they are going to be included.
00:05:40.800 He has preserved for himself a remnant of the Jews, 0.97
00:05:45.120 but will leverage the salvation of the Gentiles to provoke Jews to jealousy 0.98
00:05:51.100 and ultimately the end of time. 0.98
00:05:54.640 And so this is going to be a very fun eschatological sermon.
00:05:58.320 You're going to get to see how some of the stuff works together. 0.96
00:06:00.940 So our task as Christians and our ministry as Christians is really to provoke the Jews to jealousy. 0.98
00:06:11.440 That's a big function of our Gentile ministry. 0.90
00:06:16.320 It's by allowing the Jews to see the substance of the promises made to them be manifest in us. 0.99
00:06:28.180 That is the way that we provoke them to jealousy. 1.00
00:06:32.820 You know all those promises made to you in the old covenant?
00:06:36.220 Look at them being fulfilled in us, that you might come and join the new covenant.
00:06:42.460 That is, that they should see how Christ is the fulfillment of the old covenant scriptures.
00:06:51.140 And that salvation that was promised to them, the true Israel within ethnic Israel, is only found in the new covenant church.
00:07:02.520 Now, in verse 12, Paul made this remarkable statement. 0.82
00:07:06.640 He says, now if their transgression is riches for the world, and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, 0.93
00:07:14.040 how much more will their fulfillment be? 0.85
00:07:17.600 It's a very profound statement.
00:07:20.600 That is, if their remnant was such a blessing to billions of Gentiles,
00:07:26.560 then how much greater will their full revival be? 0.99
00:07:32.000 If billions of Gentile Christians came from a remnant of Jews, what would happen to the Gentile 0.96
00:07:41.420 world, to the world at large, if a majority of the Jews came to Christ? That's an important 1.00
00:07:48.620 question that Paul is getting to. Now, this should cause us to have a unique hope for the Jews,
00:07:55.340 a unique hope for the Jews, that they might turn from their evil apostasy and turn to Christ. 0.95
00:08:03.120 That's a good desire to have as a Christian. Now, we're going to examine verses 13 through 15. I 0.57
00:08:08.760 thought that 16 really sits with 17, 18, and 19. So we're going to just get through 13 and 15 today
00:08:15.160 to understand how Paul's unique ministry to the Gentiles, as the apostle to the Gentiles,
00:08:20.440 is connected to kind of the provocation of the Jews to jealousy and their prophesied future
00:08:27.560 revival, okay? We're going to read verses 13 and 14. Actually, I'm going to read just 13. 0.56
00:08:36.160 It says, but I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. Inasmuch then as I am an apostle 0.94
00:08:43.300 of Gentiles. I magnify my ministry. Okay, the word Gentile in the Greek is ethnos. It's where
00:08:56.460 we get our English word ethnic, and it really means nations. It really helps you understand
00:09:05.020 this passage of scripture. When you read into the text in the English edition, nations, not just
00:09:12.360 Gentiles. And it's speaking about them being nations as separate from the Jewish nation. 0.52
00:09:22.760 So when Paul is an apostle to the Gentiles, he's an apostle to the nations as separate 0.88
00:09:29.960 from the Jewish ethnic Israel. And so what it really means to be a Gentile 0.91
00:09:36.960 is we are outside of God's covenant people.
00:09:44.040 That's how it would have been viewed
00:09:45.280 in first century Christianity under a Jewish mindset. 0.97
00:09:51.180 To the Jew, Gentiles are the godless people of the world. 0.96
00:09:56.560 Not necessarily as an insult while it was. 0.99
00:10:00.280 I'm just saying is that we had no God. 0.56
00:10:03.860 The God of Israel was not for them, the nations.
00:10:08.920 It was for only our nation, the Jewish nation.
00:10:11.960 That was the perspective there. 1.00
00:10:14.140 The Gentiles, the nations, were the unchosen, the unclean, the pagans, the heathens.
00:10:24.200 This was certainly the definition that Paul operated under in his childhood 0.99
00:10:29.520 and also in his early ministry, in his early adult years.
00:10:35.760 And I tell you this because it really offers a great context
00:10:39.400 for how this passage was written
00:10:41.900 and how it was also heard by a first century Roman church,
00:10:47.720 obviously mixed up with Jews and Romans together.
00:10:50.260 But I could literally translate this,
00:10:53.020 but I am speaking to you who were of godless nations
00:10:57.460 inasmuch then as I am the apostle to godless nations.
00:11:02.240 That's really how this could be read.
00:11:05.820 Young's literal translation puts it this way.
00:11:08.920 For to you I speak to the nations
00:11:12.040 inasmuch as I am indeed an apostle of the nations.
00:11:17.620 My ministration I do glorify.
00:11:20.180 I think, again, it helps you think like,
00:11:22.280 Paul's not just the apostle to this like people group
00:11:25.540 called the Gentiles.
00:11:27.460 No, he's an apostle to the nations, to the world outside of Israel.
00:11:35.000 And this is important because as modern Gentiles,
00:11:38.400 it's easy for us to have this spiritual pride
00:11:42.380 that is not present in the early church.
00:11:48.640 Let me give you an example.
00:11:52.480 The early church fathers, Justin, Clement, Irenaeus, Origen,
00:11:59.980 they had a general respect,
00:12:02.040 a general respect for the roots of Christianity in the Jewish world.
00:12:07.720 Now, as a Christian, well, let me clarify it this way. 0.83
00:12:13.480 Christianity became more Gentile-dominated 0.79
00:12:17.880 in the years after the crucifixion, after the epistles of Paul, and combine that with the 0.94
00:12:25.460 destruction of the temple in 70 AD, and you start to see that God only saved a remnant, and he 0.59
00:12:31.560 actually hardened the majority of the Jews. When all these things start to come clear, the Gentile 0.99
00:12:36.460 writings and the posture toward the Jews became more adversarial. So that's when you kind of saw
00:12:42.700 that birth of an adversarial tone of a Gentile world against the Jews. But Paul is trying to 0.88
00:12:50.680 warn the Gentiles about having some sort of unique animosity toward the Jews. In fact,
00:12:59.760 if you guys look down in your Bible, verse 20, he tells the Gentiles to not become arrogant.
00:13:07.860 Don't become arrogant.
00:13:10.940 In verse 25, Paul says,
00:13:13.500 he's writing these things 0.58
00:13:14.460 so the Gentiles don't become conceited. 0.91
00:13:17.880 Don't become arrogant. 0.60
00:13:20.040 Don't become conceited.
00:13:22.340 1 Peter 2.10,
00:13:23.920 it really needs to be a reminder 1.00
00:13:26.120 and at the forefront of a Gentile mind. 1.00
00:13:30.420 I'm gonna read it to you guys. 0.99
00:13:32.380 It says, once you were not a people,
00:13:35.360 but now you are God's people. Once you had not received mercy, but now you have received
00:13:44.500 mercy. Ephesians 2, 12, again to the Gentiles, remember that at that time you were separate 0.89
00:13:53.860 from Christ, excluded from the citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of promise 0.92
00:14:01.500 without hope and without God in the world. 0.99
00:14:06.920 So Paul is trying to remind us 0.96
00:14:10.040 who we were prior to God calling the Gentiles, 0.90
00:14:16.640 fulfilling the prophecy of Hosea, 0.99
00:14:18.860 that there will be a people that aren't my people 0.90
00:14:20.740 that will be my people.
00:14:23.260 Okay, the end of chapter 11,
00:14:27.360 Paul actually deals with this kind of mutual,
00:14:30.700 merciful perspective that Jews and Gentiles must have. Look down to verses 28. I'm going to read
00:14:39.300 it. 28 through 32. I'm going to be in the NASB 95. It says, as far as the gospel is concerned,
00:14:47.100 they, the Jews, are enemies for your sake, Gentiles. But as far as election is concerned, 0.90
00:14:56.540 they are loved on account of the patriarchs.
00:15:02.580 For God's gifts and call are irrevocable.
00:15:06.600 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God
00:15:11.720 have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience.
00:15:17.880 So they too have now become disobedient
00:15:21.300 in order that they too may now receive mercy
00:15:25.440 as a result of God's mercy to you.
00:15:28.360 It's this like weaving together of an interconnectedness
00:15:33.420 that the Jews' salvation, the Gentile salvation, 0.53
00:15:37.780 are interdependent upon one another.
00:15:41.160 God has masterfully woven that story together.
00:15:47.640 Now, 1.00
00:15:48.480 the jews rejection of christ is evil it's wicked their false worship of god is completely vile 1.00
00:16:02.020 but such were some of you that's the kind of posture that paul is getting at we have to 0.82
00:16:10.420 recognize that a revival in Japan and Russia, they're wonderful, but it does not carry the
00:16:21.380 same unique weight as a future revival of ethnic Israel. There is something prophetically connected
00:16:31.700 to the future revival of Israel that's vital for Gentiles, the nations, to understand.
00:16:40.420 So, our hope for the fulfillment of the Great Commission and our hope that we might Christianize 0.96
00:16:48.900 the nations through the proclamation of the gospel, it should be done with the Jews in mind.
00:16:57.060 Not excluding them, but seeing them that at the end, when this part of the commission is fulfilled,
00:17:05.420 the Jews are going to come and Christ will return. That's essentially what we're going 0.68
00:17:09.600 to see here in a minute. And so, this doesn't mean that the church directs all of our attention
00:17:20.000 to Israel, ethnic Israel. Doesn't mean that we care about every single war and fight that's
00:17:26.500 happening in the Middle East. Okay, that's not what I'm saying here. Now, according to 1125,
00:17:33.420 5. The Jewish revival that Paul is prophesying here is not going to happen until the fullness 0.94
00:17:41.020 of the Gentiles has come in. This revival will not occur until all of the Gentiles that are 1.00
00:17:51.440 going to be saved, that are elect, have been saved. I spent so much time on that word, 0.98
00:17:57.860 fullness this week. And there are some other interpreters that will say, well, the majority
00:18:04.400 come in. I don't know. The passage seems to be very clear. There will be a completed number
00:18:13.080 of Gentile Christians that come in, and then God will shift his focus towards the Jews. 0.77
00:18:21.140 mass revival. And then we will see in a second, the resurrection from the dead,
00:18:29.100 which I believe is the final return of Christ.
00:18:34.000 Now, you are going to see also in verse 13. Well, I'll back up for a second.
00:18:43.140 Let's just read 13b and 14. It says,
00:18:49.220 inasmuch that I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry. If somehow I might move
00:18:56.140 to jealousy, my fellow countrymen to save some of them. Now, if I could translate this, it would say,
00:19:02.660 since I am the messenger or the sent one, the apostolos in the Greek, to the nations, 0.97
00:19:09.020 I stress my ministry as a way to make the Jews jealous. Now, if you've ever read the book of 1.00
00:19:17.660 Acts, you know that Paul has been given a unique ministry. He's on the road to Damascus. He's
00:19:22.040 blinded by the Lord. The Lord gives a message to Ananias, and Ananias understands why Paul was
00:19:29.580 saved. And it says, God says, Jesus says to Ananias, go to Paul, for he is a chosen instrument
00:19:39.100 of mine, to bear my name before the Gentiles, before the nations, and kings, and the sons of
00:19:48.140 Israel, for I will show him how much he must suffer for my name's sake. That's Acts 9, 15-16.
00:19:59.600 Now, because of the provocation of the Jews by the redemption of the Gentiles, Paul makes much 0.85
00:20:05.860 of his ministry. That's his purpose. He wants to provoke the Jews to jealousy, to see their 0.92
00:20:15.860 revival. Now, let me give you an example. If we knew that a future revival of Americans
00:20:24.980 would come by a present missionary movement to Mexico. 0.96
00:20:35.000 It would be great for us to say,
00:20:36.420 hey, you know what?
00:20:36.900 I'm going to make much of my ministry.
00:20:38.720 If two million Mexicans must be saved 0.65
00:20:42.440 before there's a revival in America, I'm in.
00:20:45.540 It also shows a desire, a biblical support
00:20:49.160 of a love for your own countrymen.
00:20:52.940 Paul has a desire to see his people to be saved.
00:20:54.980 He said this in the beginning of chapter 10.
00:20:57.880 He said it in the beginning of chapter nine.
00:21:01.080 Now, there's a mistake to be made here. 0.84
00:21:04.900 I don't want you to believe that Paul would have us as Gentiles
00:21:08.340 believe that our salvation is kind of incidental,
00:21:12.100 you know, or simply some necessary detour
00:21:14.820 to achieve the ultimate goal of redeeming the Jews.
00:21:19.700 That's not how Paul views this at all.
00:21:22.920 It's impossible to look at the life and ministry of Paul and think that.
00:21:27.380 Paul loves the Gentiles because they're God's people, as equally as the Jews were.
00:21:34.060 He is there to save the elect, and they're all one in Christ.
00:21:41.900 We know that, right? Galatians 3.28, there is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor
00:21:50.680 free. There is neither male nor female. You are all one in Christ. This is the words of Paul.
00:21:55.980 And so it's not that, hey, I don't really care about Mexico. I'm just going to go save them
00:22:01.340 just so I can save Americans. That's not what's being said there. No, it's that God designed it
00:22:07.060 in a way that he's got many elect over here that will provoke Paul's people, the Jews,
00:22:15.400 to an ultimate revival at the end of time.
00:22:19.300 Paul goes on to verse 15 and he says,
00:22:22.620 for if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world.
00:22:30.140 If their rejection is the reconciliation of the world.
00:22:35.340 Okay, so what is God doing?
00:22:38.180 He's reconciling the world right now.
00:22:42.560 This is again, kind of an optimistic eschatology.
00:22:45.400 that there is a great work that God is doing.
00:22:49.560 He is fulfilling the Great Commission through the means of the church.
00:22:54.300 And it says, comma, what will their acceptance be but from life from the dead? 0.80
00:23:03.760 Okay, look down at your Bible real quick to verse 15.
00:23:07.160 You see the word for.
00:23:10.100 Okay, you see the word for.
00:23:11.100 the word for informs us that this sentence is an explanation of a previous statement
00:23:19.100 it's an explanation clause now if you zoom out you're going to see that verses 13 and 14 are
00:23:25.680 really like a parenthetical statement you can kind of take them out and you could actually
00:23:31.420 continue just going 12 skipped 13 and 14 and it connects right to 15 i'm going to read it for you
00:23:38.220 I'll read 12 and 15 together.
00:23:42.180 Now, if their transgression is riches for the world 0.98
00:23:45.380 and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, 0.99
00:23:47.700 how much more will their fulfillment be? 0.82
00:23:49.620 For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world,
00:23:52.380 what will their acceptance be but from life from the dead?
00:23:56.760 Sorry, I'm tongue twisting today.
00:23:59.980 So this is what's called an analogical argument.
00:24:03.880 And I want you to see how cool this is.
00:24:06.700 The logic is that if a negative situation, like the Jews rejecting Christ, brought positive
00:24:15.520 outcomes, Gentiles coming to Christ, then a positive situation, Jewish acceptance, will 0.89
00:24:24.460 bring about an even more extraordinary outcome, life from the dead. 0.96
00:24:28.880 Basically, if bad brought about good, then good's going to bring about great.
00:24:34.700 That's as simple as it's being said there. 0.90
00:24:38.560 Now, more specifically, it says that a Jewish acceptance will be life from the dead.
00:24:49.020 Now, there are several interpretations of that passage, what that means.
00:24:54.280 But I believe it's speaking to the final resurrection at the end of time.
00:24:59.980 Here's why. 0.95
00:25:00.400 If the revival of the Jews is to be provoked by the fullness of the Gentiles, 0.87
00:25:09.140 implying that there's no more Gentiles to be saved, 0.73
00:25:12.960 then life from the dead can't be speaking of a greater Gentile revival. 0.99
00:25:20.580 That's already done. 0.99
00:25:22.520 It's already been completed.
00:25:24.480 The fullness has come in already.
00:25:26.080 So it has to be speaking about another resurrection.
00:25:31.960 Well, it's speaking about the final resurrection, resurrection from death to life.
00:25:39.600 In other words, redemptive history works like this. 0.73
00:25:45.300 God saves a remnant of Jews 1.00
00:25:48.100 who spark a worldwide revival of Gentiles 0.99
00:25:53.500 by God's sovereign election and redemptive plan 0.99
00:25:57.120 who will eventually, when the fullness comes in,
00:26:01.940 provoke a revival of Jews
00:26:03.900 where their election and fullness will come in.
00:26:07.880 And in that revival of Jews,
00:26:09.940 there will be a greater edification of the Gentiles.
00:26:14.800 We will know the gospel more 0.89
00:26:17.120 but it will essentially lead quickly to the return of Christ and the resurrection from the dead,
00:26:26.940 the final resurrection from the dead. That took me an hour to just think through,
00:26:35.360 but the vast majority of theologians that hold an optimistic eschatology would hold that position.
00:26:40.960 And I believe it's logically and grammatically the only fair take of the text.
00:26:48.220 Ultimately, when God calls the nation of Israel to faith, when that happens,
00:26:53.560 when the covenant judgments cease for their remnant, 0.99
00:26:59.700 and when God brings in all of the Gentiles, the very last Gentile to believe, 0.99
00:27:06.060 the last person, let's put it this way, 0.96
00:27:09.820 the last person to come to faith will be a Jew. 1.00
00:27:13.920 The last person to come to faith, 0.99
00:27:15.720 the last elect person will be a Jew, not a Gentile. 1.00
00:27:19.980 The Gentiles will be brought in 1.00
00:27:21.580 and then the Jews will be resurrected 0.96
00:27:25.240 or will be revival and then the resurrection will come. 0.80
00:27:29.800 So again, this is, I'm already closing up
00:27:32.220 because this is a shorter sermon
00:27:33.420 because the text is a shorter text.
00:27:36.060 So again, the Great Commission must be fulfilled.
00:27:41.900 It must be fulfilled.
00:27:45.100 The Great Commission, go get the nations. 1.00
00:27:52.960 Go get them Gentiles. 1.00
00:27:57.200 And its fulfillment will be the revival of the Jews that will culminate in the return of Jesus and the final resurrection. 1.00
00:28:04.760 So there's work to do.
00:28:06.060 there's work to do.
00:28:08.720 There's studying to do.
00:28:11.980 There's evangelism to do.
00:28:13.980 There's pastoring to do.
00:28:16.880 There's church planting to do.
00:28:23.120 And you can see why at the end of chapter 11,
00:28:27.360 there's this second greatest doxology
00:28:30.240 in the entire New Testament.
00:28:32.000 Because Paul sees this.
00:28:34.560 Paul sees this beautiful plan of
00:28:36.480 God only electing a remnant. 0.81
00:28:42.660 God's sending that remnant out to save billions of Jews or Gentiles. 1.00
00:28:49.320 Those billions of Gentiles provoke 0.98
00:28:51.740 a revival in the Jewish ethnic world of Israel 1.00
00:28:57.300 that will lead to a final return of Christ
00:29:01.720 and the resurrection of the whole world.
00:29:03.560 you start to see how God has put together the Israel of God, the true elect church of God,
00:29:13.820 the people from every tribe, nation, and tongue in this masterful weaving together
00:29:19.540 of the Jews and the Gentiles, interconnected, interlinked, interdependent of one another
00:29:26.520 and how Paul has been uniquely chosen
00:29:30.880 as the apostle to the nations.
00:29:35.520 Wouldn't you end that chapter in praise?
00:29:39.520 My goodness, the Lord is using me,
00:29:43.140 my writings to the nations
00:29:46.020 to provoke a universal redemption.
00:29:50.200 What an amazing thing.
00:29:52.280 And when I say universal,
00:29:53.260 I'm talking about universal of the elect.
00:29:56.520 Amen? Amen. Let's pray.
00:30:01.540 Father, we thank you, Lord, for the blessing of this great truth.
00:30:09.020 Lord, that we might have the order of operations set straight in our mind,
00:30:13.200 that we are aligned with scripture.
00:30:16.480 That, like Paul, Father, you would give us a passion to magnify the Great Commission.
00:30:23.280 that we might get the gospel out to the nations.
00:30:30.420 And Father, that you would come quickly
00:30:33.360 or that you would bring the fulfillment 0.96
00:30:37.740 and the fullness of the Gentiles in. 0.97
00:30:41.540 That we might see that revival 0.97
00:30:43.280 that our great, great, great, great grandchildren
00:30:45.540 might see that revival of the Jews
00:30:49.640 and the return of your son.
00:30:52.400 We ask all this in Jesus' name.
00:30:55.020 Amen.