NEW TESTAMENT 5
Romans 11:1-36
Lecture 24
Paul took chapter 10 
•	to prove God is not finished with Israel.  This chapter is not talking about the___________________________. Paul is addressing a literal future for a literal nation.  He called five witnesses to prove there was a ___________________________in God’s plan for the Jews.
The Two Preceding Chapters
•	Might indicate to Jews that God is ___________________________to His promises to Israel. Paul will defend his position by stating two facts:
•	1. There is a ___________________________left in Israel (11:1-10) and
•	2. The rejection of Israel is not permanent but is to issue in a restoration (11:11-32).
11:1
•	Paul uses ___________________________as an example that God has not rejected all Israel. The rejection is ___________________________and not total. Paul is proof that there is a remnant of Jewish believers.
11:2-10 The nation rejected God, 
•	but God has not rejected___________________________.  One time Elijah felt that the nation had totally deserted God except for him.  
•	He discovered there was a remnant of ___________________________believers (See 1 Kings 19: 10 & 14). (v3).  He discovered there were 7,000 beside himself. 
In Romans 2:1-3 
•	Paul used the Gentiles to prove the ___________________________guilty of sin, but here he used the Gentiles to assure Israel of a future restoration.  His logic is beautiful. 
•	When the ___________________________rejected the Gospel, God sent it to the Gentiles and they believed  and were saved.
11: 5-6
•	Paul makes an application and an affirmation: “So too it is by___________________________, it is no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer be grace.” As the 7,000 were faithful in ___________________________day, so were the Christian Jews like Paul. 
11:7-8
•	What about the rest of the Jews? What had happened to them? The had sought to be ___________________________by works of law. Instead they were hardened. Paul supports this charge by appealing to ___________________________29:10 and Deut 29:4 in verse 8.
11:9-10
•	Paul quotes Psalm 69:22-23 to continue with his argument.
11:11-24: The Salvation of the Gentiles. 
•	Paul’s picture of the unbelieving ___________________________brought another question to his mind: “So I ask, have they stumbled so as to fall? By no means!” (v11). 
•	His ___________________________in verse 11-12 provide the key to the rest of chapter 11. He has three main points:
Points 1 – 3
•	1.Through the ___________________________of Israel, salvation has come to the Gentiles.
•	2. Through the salvation of the Gentiles, Israel will be provoked to jealousy.
•	3. Through the ___________________________of Israel, great blessings will come to all.
•	Not only was the rejection of Israel partial, but it was temporary.
11:13-16
•	Paul addressed his Gentile readers in his role as an ___________________________to the Gentiles. His ministry was intended to provoke the Jews to jealousy and that some of them would be saved.
•	V. 15 shows the enthusiasm that the salvation of the Jews would mean for the world. 
•	He introduces the first fruits of ___________________________and the root of the tree to support his hope of the ultimate salvation of Israel. 
From looking at the future, 
•	Paul next looked to the past to show Israel’s ___________________________heritage. From the beginning, Israel was a special people, set apart by God.  
•	Paul used two ___________________________to prove his argument that God was not finished with the Jews.
11:16 - The reference here 
•	is Numbers 15:17-21. The first part of the dough was to be offered up to God as a symbol that the entire ___________________________belonged to God.  
•	The same idea is involved in the Feast of the Firstfruits, when the priest offered a sheaf to the Lord as a token that the entire was His (Lev 23:9-14).  
•	The basic idea is that when God accepts the part He sanctifies the whole.
This is a symbol 
•	of the nation Israel (Jer 11:16-17; Hosea 14:4-6).  Remember that Paul is not talking about the ___________________________of individuals and God, but the place of ___________________________in the plan of God.
11:16 
•	The roots of the tree support the tree; again, this was a symbol of the ___________________________who founded the nation.  
God made His covenants
•	 with Abraham, ___________________________, and Jacob, and He cannot deny them or change them. Thus, it is God’s ___________________________to Abraham that sustains Israel even today.
11:17-24
•	Paul’s allegory of the olive tree is to warn the Gentiles against ___________________________over the Jews. As said above the olive tree represents true Israel (believers). The broken branch is the unbelieving ___________________________while the believing Gentiles are the ones who have been grafted into the tree.
Why Can’t Gentiles Boast?
•	They are wild olive shoots who were engrafted (17-18).
•	They should understand the ___________________________branches (Israel) were broken off because of their unbelief and take notice so they don’t presume upon God. (19-22)
•	They should be aware that God can graft anyone He desires into the tree, provided they don’t persist in their unbelief (23-24).
Paul saved his best witness 
•	for last. He proved that the very ___________________________and work of God were involved in the future of Israel.  
•	Men may dispute prophecy and differ in their interpretations, but let every man realize that he is dealing with God’s___________________________, Israel.
What has happened 
•	to Israel is all part of God’s___________________________, and He knows what He is doing.  
•	The binding (or hardening, (v. 7), of Israel as a nation is neither total nor final; it is ___________________________and temporary.  
•	How long will it last? “Until the fullness of the Gentiles” has come (v. 25).  
11:25 - There is a “fullness” for Israel
•	 (v.12) and for the Gentiles.  Today, God in His ___________________________is visiting the Gentiles and taking out a people for Himself and for His name (Acts 15:12-14).  
•	This present age is primarily for the Gentiles. When this age has run its course, and the fullness of the Gentiles has run its___________________________, then God will deal once more with Israel.
What is the basis for this claim?
•	Paul says that it is a “mystery”, a special insight into God’s saving plan given to him by revelation. The content of this revelation was that a hardening had come upon part of the Jews “until the number of the Gentiles” had come to Christ. Then Israel would be___________________________. (v26).
There are 4 Major Interpretations
•	Of this statement: 
1. All men, Jew and Gentile, 
•	will ultimately be saved. None will be___________________________. 
•	This universalist point of view appeals to the so called “___________________________hope” of verse 32.
2. “All Israel” means the church, 
•	the new Israel of God. It ___________________________the word, ‘Israel” rather than seeing it as reference to the Jewish people.
3. The conversion of Israel
•	 will take place at the Lord’s return. Variations of this is found in Premillenialism and Postmillenianism explanations of the return of Christ.. 
4. “All Israel” 
•	Indicates the great turning of Israel to Christ, without specifying that every individual ___________________________will be converted. This refers to the meaning  “full number of___________________________” as not indicating every Gentile, but a great turning.  
•	But some of the Jews living when He returns will see Him, believe and be saved.  
11:26 – 27  -- The reference here
•	is Isa 59:20-21 and 27:9 and you ought to read Isa 60 to complete the picture. God has ___________________________to save His people, and He will keep His promise. 
•	There are those who interpret this as meaning salvation to individuals through the Gospel, but is my conviction that the prophet has the ___________________________conversion in mind. 
Paul asserts the truth
•	about God’s nature.  “I am the ___________________________and I change not” is from Mal 3:6. Read Num 23:19. 
•	God’s gifts to Israel and God’s calling of___________________________, cannot be taken back or changed, or God would cease to be true to His own perfect nature. 
The fact that Israel
•	may not live up to her gifts or ___________________________as an elect nation, does not affect this fact one bit. God will be ___________________________with Himself and true to His word.
Paul continues to remind
•	the Gentiles that they have a spiritual obligation to the Jews to “___________________________them” to jealousy.  (Rom 10:19, 11:11, 14).  Israel’s hardness is only “in part” (v. 25).  
•	This means that individual Jews can be saved. God has included “all in unbelief”—Jew and Gentiles—so that all might have opportunity to be saved by___________________________.  “There is no difference”.  
If God can save Jews
•	 by grace and mercy today, why can’t he do it in the future?  
•	Remember that God chose the ___________________________so that the Gentiles might be saved. In thee shall all ___________________________of the earth be blessed,” was God’s promise to Abraham (Gen 12:1-3).  
The tragedy
•	was that Israel became ___________________________and failed to share the truth with the Gentiles. 
•	But God declared that both Gentile and Jew were all sinners and___________________________. 
•	This meant that God could save both because of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross.
11: 33-36 -Paul had contemplated
•	God’s great plan of salvation for all mankind and all Paul could do was to break into a hymn of praise.  
•	As someone has remarked, “___________________________becomes___________________________!”  
•	Only a God as wise as our God could take the fall of Israel and turn it into salvation for the world!  His plans will not be aborted or will His purpose lack fulfillment.