Dale Partridge - September 30, 2024


Romans 11_16-18： The Design of Israel and the Church with Dale Partridge


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00:00:00.960 This morning I'll be reading the sermon text for us today so if you would stand
00:00:05.960 with me for the reading of God's Word and open up your Bibles to Romans chapter
00:00:11.340 11. Dale's gonna be preaching verses 16 through 18. I'm gonna go back just a few
00:00:19.000 verses and start in verse 13 to add some more context. I'll be reading out of the
00:00:25.620 ESV, Romans 11, 13 through 18.
00:00:30.400 Hear the word of the Lord. 1.00
00:00:34.120 Now I am speaking to you, Gentiles. 1.00
00:00:37.740 Inasmuch, then, as I am an apostle to the Gentiles,
00:00:41.300 I magnify my ministry, 0.77
00:00:43.640 in order somehow to make my fellow Jews jealous,
00:00:47.880 and thus save some of them.
00:00:50.380 For if their rejection means the reconciliation of the world,
00:00:53.260 what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
00:00:58.180 If the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, so is the whole lump.
00:01:03.120 And if the root is holy, so are the branches.
00:01:06.720 But if some of the branches were broken off,
00:01:09.580 and you, although a wild olive shoot,
00:01:12.800 were grafted in among the others,
00:01:15.500 and now share in the nourishing root of the olive tree,
00:01:19.160 do not be arrogant toward the branches.
00:01:21.840 If you are, remember, it is not you who support the root, but the root who supports you.
00:01:29.620 This is the word of the Lord.
00:01:33.480 Well, amen.
00:01:36.340 And what a wonderful chapter Romans 11 is proving to be.
00:01:43.500 it's a delicate chapter that is communicating the relationship between Christians and Jews.
00:01:55.660 This is not something that is ethereal and has no application,
00:02:02.220 but we need to see how God has interconnected or made almost interdependent
00:02:10.580 the relationship of Jew and Gentile in his plan of redemption.
00:02:17.460 Now if you remember, the chapter has been broken down into three sections, okay? So
00:02:20.780 chapter verses 1 through 10 tell us of Israel's rejection is not total, but God
00:02:31.760 actually saves a remnant. 11 through 32 tell us that Israel's rejection is not
00:02:41.300 final, but their hardening, God's hardening of
00:02:46.040 them, is temporary and purposeful. In the last section, which is 33 through 36, it's
00:02:54.200 Paul's doxology of praise for this beautiful design of Gentile Jew interconnected plan of 0.71
00:03:03.680 redemption. Now, over the past few weeks, we learned that the Jews stumbling over Christ was 0.98
00:03:11.540 a covenant judgment. They were judged for their unfaithfulness, stumbling over Christ, 0.84
00:03:16.860 but it was also this divinely appointed means to redeem the elect Gentiles.
00:03:28.220 11.11, if you guys want to follow along, I'm going to go through some verses.
00:03:31.160 11.11 says, 0.94
00:03:34.380 Through their trespasses, salvation has come to the Gentiles. 0.98
00:03:41.120 We also learned that the redemption of the Gentiles or the nations, 0.94
00:03:44.220 We know that word Gentile in Greek means nations.
00:03:50.480 Okay, we know that the redemption of the nations 0.98
00:03:53.520 was designed to provoke the Jews to jealousy. 0.88
00:04:00.620 1111b says that the Gentile redemption 0.85
00:04:04.140 was to provoke them to jealousy.
00:04:08.140 13 to 14 says, I magnify my ministry
00:04:11.540 in order to somehow make my fellow countrymen jealous. 1.00
00:04:18.960 Okay, so we learned that the nations, the Gentiles, 1.00
00:04:24.020 will succeed in the provocation, the provoking of the Jews by how? 0.95
00:04:33.600 Well, it's by demonstrating the substance of the covenant promises made to them in us. 0.99
00:04:41.540 You want to make the Jews jealous?
00:04:45.240 Show the substance of the covenant blessings that were to them in us.
00:04:52.640 By this jealousy, Paul says, there will be a Jewish revival. 0.89
00:05:00.340 In the future, there will be a Jewish revival.
00:05:07.360 11, 12, and 15 speaks of this revival. 0.95
00:05:10.340 it says, now if their trespasses meant riches for the world, and if their failure means riches for
00:05:20.020 the Gentiles, how much more will their full inclusion be? For if their rejection means 0.55
00:05:29.040 the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead?
00:05:36.620 Okay. What does that mean? We talked about this last week. It means
00:05:42.300 if bad brought about good, then good is going to bring about great.
00:05:51.900 If their rejection did this much, imagine what their acceptance will be.
00:05:58.360 It's also informed us about the broad sequence of events eschatologically,
00:06:04.860 talking about the end times it tells us in verse 25 a partial hardening has come 0.67
00:06:16.440 upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in gives you a little 0.79
00:06:25.680 bit of a sequence here so if the revival of the Jews is to be provoked by the 0.78
00:06:31.920 fullness of the gentiles coming in implying that all the gentiles are to come in then life from
00:06:39.680 the dead can't mean more gentiles coming from dead to life because all the gentiles that are
00:06:46.080 going to be saved already came in it has to be speaking to the general resurrection at the end 0.97
00:06:54.000 of time life from the dead the return of christ let me give you an example the redemptive history
00:07:01.920 If we want to put it on a timeline, it would look something like this. 0.92
00:07:05.540 God saves only a remnant of the Jews. 1.00
00:07:08.680 That already happened. 0.97
00:07:11.040 Their hardening toward Christ sparks a worldwide Gentile revival 0.99
00:07:16.980 through the Great Commission. 1.00
00:07:19.760 Jesus says, go get the Gentiles. 0.98
00:07:23.080 Go get the nations. 0.94
00:07:26.260 When that commission is fulfilled or completed,
00:07:28.660 that is the gospel has gone out to all the nations and the fullness has come in 1.00
00:07:35.720 it'll provoke a revival by jealousy in the Jews 0.89
00:07:41.020 and when that revival occurs I don't know how long it'll be the end of time will come Christ
00:07:48.380 will return the resurrection of the dead that's my general interpretation and many
00:07:54.060 historic theologians interpretation of this passage of scripture. Ultimately, when God calls
00:07:59.260 the nation of Israel to revival, it's going to be close to the end. I'm not talking weeks.
00:08:04.940 I'm talking maybe in a century. Who knows? But that's going to be a wonderful thing
00:08:11.260 to see the Jews in mass come to Christ. Now, the overall theme of this chapter is to understand
00:08:20.000 the divinely interconnected reality
00:08:23.500 between Jews and Gentiles.
00:08:27.280 That's what 11 is about.
00:08:30.800 Specifically, 0.61
00:08:32.240 how the Gentiles are to view the Jews. 0.97
00:08:38.320 This is important.
00:08:40.880 How are you supposed to view Jews? 0.97
00:08:46.840 Apostate Jews and believing Jews. 0.99
00:08:50.000 In fact, in my next sermon, you're going to see Paul offering a pastoral warning 0.99
00:08:58.680 about becoming arrogant or conceited toward the Jews.
00:09:04.080 As I've mentioned for several weeks now, this does not mean that we become Jewish sympathizers 0.92
00:09:12.180 in the sense of, we do hate and abhor Talmudic Judaism, 0.94
00:09:19.660 the rejection of Christ. 1.00
00:09:22.980 We are to hate that.
00:09:26.200 However, this should not harbor any special animosity,
00:09:32.300 but instead it should harbor a special pity.
00:09:36.920 We should have a special pity for the Jews. 1.00
00:09:40.500 And here's why. 1.00
00:09:42.000 This is key.
00:09:43.620 We have inherited what was promised to them.
00:09:51.420 We have inherited what was promised to them.
00:09:57.600 In America, it's easy to think that Christianity is kind of like this westernized, originated faith.
00:10:05.820 But Christianity is not a new religion.
00:10:11.120 It's the fulfillment of an old religion.
00:10:17.120 We need to understand Old Testament religiosity and how it connects with Christianity.
00:10:27.440 It's the fulfillment of an old religion that we were not part of.
00:10:35.120 Now today, we're going to see Paul inform the Gentile believers of their station in the New Covenant. 0.89
00:10:41.120 In other words, we're going to see that while we have equality in the covenant, we do not have exactness in the covenant. 0.87
00:10:48.060 And I'm not a disby, okay?
00:10:49.740 I'm not talking about dispensationalism.
00:10:52.240 But while we have equality in the covenant, we don't have exactness in terms of station in the covenant.
00:11:01.600 The Jews do hold a unique position in the covenant.
00:11:08.060 They do. 0.93
00:11:08.740 and that should prevent Gentile arrogance. 0.98
00:11:15.420 Now to be clear, 0.98
00:11:16.920 now to be clear, I just lost my spot.
00:11:23.400 Now to be clear,
00:11:25.320 we really as Christians
00:11:28.260 need to reserve 0.99
00:11:33.840 hope for the Jews.
00:11:42.740 Again, their covenantal position isn't saying
00:11:45.500 that they have any greater eternal significance
00:11:49.800 or benefits. 0.99
00:11:51.860 There is neither Jew nor Greek nor slave nor free 0.94
00:11:53.820 nor male nor female.
00:11:54.660 We're all in one in Christ.
00:11:56.120 I get that.
00:11:58.060 But the degree of honor
00:11:59.620 is what I'm talking about.
00:12:02.120 there is a degree of honor.
00:12:07.200 The degree of honor given to anyone
00:12:09.380 from whom your existence was dependent.
00:12:14.860 It's, if I could kind of title it
00:12:17.280 as like a spiritual ancestral honor.
00:12:22.780 You can misread or misinterpret what I'm saying.
00:12:26.340 I hope that as I'm preaching, it'll become more clear.
00:12:30.020 Here, Paul says in verse 16,
00:12:35.220 If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also.
00:12:40.580 And if the root is holy, the branches are too.
00:12:47.280 There are really two camps of interpretation on this.
00:12:49.920 One says these are two analogies for two related but distinct different interpretations.
00:12:55.400 The other is that there are two analogies that are synonymous.
00:13:00.020 And they both mean the exact same thing said a different way.
00:13:03.420 I'm going to stand on the second one because I believe that's the most accurate.
00:13:09.320 I think it's more convincing.
00:13:10.720 I think scripture, Hebrew poetry back up that interpretation.
00:13:15.260 But how should we interpret those metaphors?
00:13:18.800 That's the key.
00:13:20.540 What is the dough?
00:13:22.900 What is the first part?
00:13:24.900 What is the root?
00:13:25.780 Now, as a general theme, it means that one part, if one part is holy,
00:13:34.780 the whole from that which it came from is also holy.
00:13:40.500 Basic principle, right?
00:13:42.680 It also is kind of communicated in 1 Corinthians 7,
00:13:49.320 which says
00:13:51.400 the children of one believing
00:13:53.300 parent
00:13:53.820 are holy
00:13:56.080 you're going to see how this connects in a minute
00:13:58.940 it says for the unbelieving husband is sanctified through his 0.97
00:14:01.400 wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her 0.95
00:14:03.280 believing husband for otherwise your children 0.99
00:14:05.400 are unclean but now they are holy
00:14:06.780 if the parent is holy
00:14:09.360 set aside
00:14:11.820 covenantally
00:14:12.960 then that which comes from the
00:14:15.580 parent is also holy
00:14:17.340 set aside
00:14:19.540 Covenantally.
00:14:21.700 The phrase, if the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also.
00:14:29.500 It's a reference to Numbers 15, 19 through 21.
00:14:33.580 Why don't you guys turn there?
00:14:35.200 Numbers 15, 19 through 21.
00:14:39.360 Right at the front of your Bible.
00:14:43.980 Numbers 15, 19 through 21.
00:14:48.620 Now I'm reading from the NKJV on this one
00:14:58.040 because I think it is most helpful.
00:15:01.520 It says,
00:15:02.160 When you eat of the food of the land,
00:15:06.080 you shall lift up an offering to the Lord.
00:15:10.500 Of the first of your dough,
00:15:13.280 you shall lift up a cake as an offering.
00:15:17.380 From the first of your dough, you shall give to the Lord an offering throughout your generations.
00:15:23.740 Okay. 0.87
00:15:26.620 God commands Israel to perform what's called a heave offering. 0.99
00:15:31.260 You've heard that kind of heave and hoe. 1.00
00:15:33.120 You know, heave offering means to pick something up and hold it before the Lord. 1.00
00:15:39.680 Similar to a wave offering where you're waving something before the Lord.
00:15:43.800 and he commands Israel to perform a heave offering 0.56
00:15:50.700 to lift up a cake from the first of their dough
00:15:54.820 from the first of their wheat harvest
00:15:58.640 and the offering represents the sanctification of the whole harvest
00:16:04.240 if this is accepted by the Lord the whole lump is as well
00:16:09.540 it's basically the logic that's being used here
00:16:12.960 by dedicating the first part, they acknowledge that the entire crop came from God. It's all
00:16:20.720 God's, not just this cake, all of it. If the cake is the Lord's, then the harvest is the Lord's.
00:16:30.920 Essentially, again, if the first belong to God, the rest belong to God. Now, the key question is,
00:16:37.760 what does this first piece, and does the root mean in this metaphor?
00:16:45.540 Now, I stand with Robert Haldane, Martin Lloyd-Jones, Calvin, many others,
00:16:50.620 who believe that they represent the patriarchs, specifically Abraham.
00:17:00.300 Abraham is the cake. Abraham is the root.
00:17:03.260 but also Isaac and Jacob, you can argue there.
00:17:11.680 So what Paul is saying is
00:17:13.340 just as the first portion of the dough is offered
00:17:17.180 to God to sanctify the whole batch,
00:17:20.080 the holiness of the patriarchs
00:17:22.220 consecrates the whole nation.
00:17:24.740 You get that?
00:17:27.200 Just as the cake sanctifies the whole batch, 0.70
00:17:31.620 Abraham sanctifies the whole nation.
00:17:36.520 Again, if the parent is covenantally holy,
00:17:40.440 the child is covenantally holy.
00:17:44.680 When God accepts the part, he sanctifies the whole.
00:17:49.140 When God accepts Abraham, 0.59
00:17:51.280 he sanctifies the people of ethnic Israel.
00:17:56.280 Using very careful language here.
00:17:59.200 Why does this matter?
00:18:00.600 And what is Paul trying to tell us?
00:18:03.700 The apostle is using these metaphors to defend the claim
00:18:06.540 of a future revival of ethnic Israel.
00:18:10.680 You're going to see this in a second.
00:18:12.600 He's saying the remnant is not the end.
00:18:17.520 If God saved Abraham and Isaac and Jacob,
00:18:20.440 the first fruits, the root,
00:18:23.400 we should expect him to save the crop.
00:18:30.080 That's basically what's being communicated.
00:18:32.860 This truth really intersects with the basic tenets
00:18:35.860 of federal headship, representation, patriarchy,
00:18:38.960 all types of stuff.
00:18:41.660 If God saved the covenantal father,
00:18:44.620 he will save the line that follows. 0.91
00:18:48.380 Now, again, this doesn't mean that every Jew 0.92
00:18:49.920 is gonna be saved.
00:18:50.740 That's not what I'm saying.
00:18:52.340 But it does define a covenant line
00:18:55.200 in which we should expect salvation as the normative outcome.
00:19:02.480 That's why we should expect our kids to be saved, normatively.
00:19:09.900 What this tells us is that the entire plan of redemption
00:19:12.620 rests completely on God.
00:19:17.300 You cannot be going through Romans 8, 9, 10, and 11
00:19:21.900 and have room for man's free will.
00:19:27.340 You can't.
00:19:29.460 There is no room for man's uninhibited decisions
00:19:32.600 that end in some unorchestrated outcome.
00:19:37.280 No.
00:19:38.760 This whole thing has a grand plan
00:19:40.540 and it's operating to the T perfectly
00:19:44.120 according to God's will.
00:19:48.300 That's why Paul ends this chapter by saying,
00:19:51.960 for from him and through him and to him are all things.
00:19:59.780 All things. 0.98
00:20:03.580 He's also preparing the Gentile mind to understand their station. 0.98
00:20:10.620 The Jews have a unique station in the covenant. 0.90
00:20:15.540 Remember Romans 9, 4 through 5. 1.00
00:20:19.760 They are Israelites, and to them belong adoption. 1.00
00:20:25.180 The glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. 0.98
00:20:30.980 To them belong the patriarchs.
00:20:34.060 And from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all.
00:20:39.920 end quote. The elect Gentiles are now in the covenant, but Ephesians 2 says we were strangers
00:20:46.140 to the covenant. We were alienated from the love of God, but the Jews were not. 0.96
00:20:58.820 That's the difference. That's the point the apostle is trying to get in verses 17 and 18. 0.94
00:21:04.220 Pay attention.
00:21:04.880 Read with me.
00:21:08.280 But if some of the branches were broken off,
00:21:10.680 and you, being a wild olive shoot,
00:21:14.080 were grafted in among them
00:21:15.500 and became partakers with them
00:21:19.100 of the rich root of the olive tree,
00:21:21.000 do not be arrogant toward the branches.
00:21:27.460 But if you are arrogant,
00:21:28.800 remember that it is not you
00:21:30.120 who supports the root,
00:21:32.480 but the root supports you.
00:21:37.640 All right.
00:21:39.580 The imagery here is two olive trees, okay?
00:21:43.180 You have two olive trees.
00:21:44.540 You got a healthy, cultivated olive tree,
00:21:47.920 and then you have a wild olive tree.
00:21:51.780 If you know anything about horticulture,
00:21:54.060 you quickly learn that a wild olive tree
00:21:58.360 bears very little fruit, if any.
00:22:02.480 compared to a cultivated counterpart.
00:22:06.280 The imagery is intended to show
00:22:09.760 that the remnant came about by God cutting off natural branches, 1.00
00:22:18.740 Jews, and putting you into the place 0.99
00:22:23.400 which was first designed to nurture a Jew. 0.97
00:22:26.280 You know why you're there? 0.98
00:22:36.480 Because you're inheriting the promises made to the Jews. 0.94
00:22:42.440 Your covenant health is derived from Jewish descent. 0.86
00:22:49.340 This should produce, at some degree, some sort of Gentile humility.
00:22:53.300 Some degree. 0.65
00:22:53.840 It should, again, have some sort of spiritual ancestral honor.
00:23:00.280 I don't know the details.
00:23:03.200 I'm just saying it should spawn off some sort of humility.
00:23:08.560 Which is why in verse 18, the apostle says,
00:23:10.820 Do not be arrogant toward the branches.
00:23:14.920 Now, when he says the branches,
00:23:17.020 he means both Jewish believers that are connected to the vine 0.99
00:23:21.480 and the ones that have been cut off. 0.91
00:23:26.200 Think about that.
00:23:29.480 He's not just talking about Jewish believers.
00:23:32.380 Don't be arrogant toward them. 0.86
00:23:34.180 But also the apostate branches. 0.90
00:23:39.740 It's like a death row inmate
00:23:41.580 being pardoned at the expense of another death row inmate
00:23:47.600 who lost their pardon.
00:23:48.760 than boasting in the freedom while mocking the one who lost it. 0.96
00:23:56.940 It's ridiculous. 0.87
00:24:00.040 The Jews were in covenant as a nation with Abraham as their covenant father, 0.97
00:24:05.080 but by their unbelief, God cut off certain branches 0.96
00:24:12.400 and then graciously grafted in Gentiles into those places. 0.98
00:24:21.620 We now have Abraham as a father, not genetically, but by faith.
00:24:28.680 He has become our adopted father.
00:24:33.600 My expectation is that maybe Gentile pride had already began setting in to the early church
00:24:41.560 And the apostle, by the power of the Holy Spirit, wrote this to remind the foreign nations
00:24:47.440 of how their blessing came forth.
00:24:53.260 Robert Haldane, Presbyterian minister, wrote this in the 1800s.
00:25:00.580 He says, the Jews received no advantage from the Gentiles, but rather the Gentiles have
00:25:06.260 received much from the Jews from whom the gospel came forth.
00:25:10.300 its first preachers being Jewish
00:25:13.280 and of men whom even Christ himself
00:25:17.320 as concerning the flesh came. 0.94
00:25:20.600 Covenantally, the Gentile believers 0.99
00:25:23.180 become the children of Abraham
00:25:24.800 and all the blessings they enjoy 0.74
00:25:27.680 are in virtue of the relationship with him, a Jew.
00:25:32.920 Our father of the faith is Abraham.
00:25:36.020 I believe this is kind of a lesson that's adjacent to the fifth commandment.
00:25:46.260 Honor your father and mother.
00:25:49.740 As a general principle, it's crucial that we don't forget who we came from.
00:25:59.660 Who bore us?
00:26:02.080 How did we get here?
00:26:03.080 even if they don't have a distinct relationship with us.
00:26:09.200 We are standing upon the shoulders of theological giants
00:26:14.520 who are standing on the shoulders of theological giants.
00:26:20.820 I never knew Calvin.
00:26:23.020 There's some weird stuff that he said,
00:26:25.120 but I'm not going to dishonor him.
00:26:27.580 He did a great work for the church.
00:26:29.660 we don't chop down at our roots.
00:26:36.800 We don't hate America or the founding fathers
00:26:41.180 while embracing the beautiful freedom that we have as a nation.
00:26:50.360 We have to honor our Christian forefathers, our Christian foremothers.
00:26:54.880 We don't want to get into a place where we just kind of start tearing down things
00:26:59.020 without asking, why are they there?
00:27:04.140 Why is that fence there?
00:27:07.440 Why has it been this way for so long?
00:27:11.200 Is it wise for us to go and just pave our own ways?
00:27:16.960 12 generations got it wrong, maybe.
00:27:23.620 We have to recognize that we're not some isolated
00:27:25.940 or disconnected circumstance,
00:27:30.020 but that God has made us a part of a heritage web,
00:27:37.200 spiritually, physically, nationally, whatever.
00:27:42.440 There's a quote that I often say,
00:27:44.020 is that a man who doesn't know history
00:27:46.260 is like a leaf that doesn't realize he's part of a tree.
00:27:53.260 So what's the application? 0.96
00:27:55.940 First, again, I want to say that we don't want to have a special animosity toward the Jews, but a special pity.
00:28:04.660 We should have an urgent hope for their revival. 1.00
00:28:09.320 Second, an unconverted Jew is never going to understand why we care about their future. 1.00
00:28:15.700 They're just not going to grasp that. 1.00
00:28:17.960 But this prophecy that blesses the world 1.00
00:28:20.280 is dependent upon the Israeli people 0.97
00:28:25.180 existing in some identifiable nature.
00:28:29.800 Nationally, ethnically, I don't know.
00:28:32.980 But in order for this to come about, 1.00
00:28:35.100 there has to still be Jews somewhere 0.55
00:28:37.780 where there's a revival of them.
00:28:42.240 For that reason, we should have some degree of interest
00:28:46.480 in their ethnic survival.
00:28:51.440 They lay it in the hands of the Lord.
00:28:54.120 They're being judged left and right.
00:28:56.700 They've had the most tumultuous history.
00:28:59.720 Constant fights for their wickedness. 0.98
00:29:06.920 They're blasphemers. 0.71
00:29:10.480 They hate the Messiah.
00:29:13.040 They love legalism. 0.72
00:29:15.340 They've invented their own way to salvation.
00:29:18.180 And for those who die in it will be judged eternally.
00:29:22.200 We get this.
00:29:25.020 But also the promises of scripture are dependent upon them surviving. 0.57
00:29:31.540 And it's for the good of the Gentiles, for the world, life from the dead. 0.90
00:29:37.240 Instead, there's this balance of understanding the hatred for the blasphemy and apostasy 0.94
00:29:46.620 that comes from the Jewish nation. 0.94
00:29:48.640 And also realizing that we're connected to that root.
00:29:55.340 And you get to balance out those realities in time.
00:30:00.740 God has intertwined not just your current redemption, but your descendants' redemption 0.86
00:30:11.420 as Gentiles into this Jewish tree, olive tree. 0.62
00:30:23.140 We are children of Abraham by faith. 0.50
00:30:27.540 But what God is saying is that there's going to also be natural branches on that tree.
00:30:33.840 You're going to see that over the next couple of weeks.
00:30:37.140 There's going to be, we've only seen a cake and we've seen the fruit of the remnant,
00:30:45.080 but there's going to actually be a massive tree with branches, with grafted in Gentiles, 0.98
00:30:51.660 natural branches of Jewish roots,
00:30:55.500 people from every tribe, nation, and tongue,
00:30:58.440 all having equality of eternal reality,
00:31:01.480 but not exactness in the covenant position.
00:31:08.240 There's some degree of honor that the Gentile nations 0.53
00:31:11.060 have to look and go, hey, the gospel came from you. 0.98
00:31:16.280 The patriarchs came from you.
00:31:18.200 The covenants came from you.
00:31:20.540 The priesthood, the scriptures came from you.
00:31:24.500 The Messiah, Christ, came from you.
00:31:30.580 How do you deal with the tension that Jews hate Christians?
00:31:35.860 How do you deal with the tension that Jews are incredibly influential
00:31:40.380 in many of the wrong ways in the world?
00:31:43.220 any of the greatest
00:31:46.900 movies and Hollywood places that we see
00:31:51.740 they're influenced by Jews
00:31:53.180 they're an incredible people in the sense of their ability to produce
00:31:56.420 but when you don't have Christ
00:32:00.940 some of the biggest pornography companies in the world 0.96
00:32:04.400 are owned by Jews 1.00
00:32:06.020 when you don't have Christ 1.00
00:32:08.600 you have lots of wickedness that comes out of 0.87
00:32:12.680 this heritage. How do you balance it? Paul is constantly trying to give us this balance. 0.99
00:32:25.420 Pray for the revival and hope for Israeli restoration. At the same time, defend.
00:32:37.100 and be an apologist against the wickedness of Talmudic Judaism. 0.99
00:32:46.980 I'm simply saying that essentially God, again, has intertwined 0.99
00:32:51.140 and made us interdependent in some beautiful redemptive plan.
00:32:56.060 In fact, I think he does this, that he might see us more sanctified in it.
00:33:00.940 But the church becoming one in Christ requires filing and shaving and cutting off much of our sinful nature, our pride. 0.88
00:33:19.640 Unifying in the name of Jesus is what God is doing in this grand redemptive plan between the Gentiles and the Jews. 0.88
00:33:28.580 Amen? 1.00
00:33:29.320 Amen.
00:33:30.020 Let's pray.
00:33:30.940 Father, we thank you, Lord, for this text,
00:33:35.380 for the beautiful, mysterious plan of redemption,
00:33:43.280 the interplay between Abraham and the covenants 0.71
00:33:47.560 and the Jews and the remnant and the Gentiles
00:33:51.920 and the revival.
00:33:52.800 Lord, I know that I wouldn't write that story.
00:33:57.960 But Father, as far as the heavens are above the earth,
00:34:00.700 your ways are higher than my ways
00:34:02.160 and your thoughts higher than my thoughts.
00:34:06.600 Lord, we ask that you would give us a spirit of humility,
00:34:09.780 a spirit of understanding,
00:34:12.580 the means to grasp the proper posture
00:34:18.260 of hating the wickedness of apostasy
00:34:20.620 while also desiring the revival to come to Christ.
00:34:24.220 Lord, let us have a
00:34:30.940 humble posture
00:34:33.440 that realizes that we have been given a gracious gift
00:34:37.140 grafted in
00:34:38.620 to the covenant of grace.
00:34:43.360 We thank you in Jesus' name. Amen.