Dale Partridge - September 18, 2024


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


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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.