Romans 11
Romans 11
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| Audio study from Romans 10 to Romans 13 http://www.hisholychurch.net/kkvv/7thbatch/13-04-07Romans-x3.mp3 |
| V3 To understand the "digged down thine altars" we need to understand the altars of Clay and Stone represent a system of social welfare for the nation of Israel that established the social bonds of righteousness that kept them a moral and strong nation. |
| V4 When they chose to have rulers who could exercise authority setting up systems of legal charity they were making the error of Balaam which is when people "bowed the knee to the image of Baal". |
| V7 When the "election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded" is a reference to the truth that people will only see the truth by the grace of God. |
| V8 "Let their table be made a snare"[1] is a reference to the dainties of the king which we should not have an appetite for. That would include the legal charity of rulers like FDR and LBJ and their New Deal and the Corban of the Pharisees. |
| V10 Is a reference to the fact the people's wantonness and sloth will return them to the Bondage of Egypt where they had to bow down their back alway. |
| V12 Their fall is their trespass[2] that makes them the merchandise of the world as surety for the constitutional order of Caesar because they loved them as benefactors. The chose the covetous of his Corban over the righteousness of God. |
| V13 Paul is simply saying because he is an ambassador to the gentiles like the Romans he will be recognizing[3] more ministries.[4] Because Jesus commanded his ministers to make the people organize themselves in a network of tens the Church would be able to do what he talks about in Romans 12:13 |
| V14 Paul is talking about his own people emulating what the Christians [a.k.a. followers of Christ] are doing, that they might be saved, because being a Jew does not make you a part of the olive tree. |
| V15 The Jews who rejected Christ and chose Caesar were out of the kingdom.[5] And those who did not get the Baptism of Christ were cast out of His kingdom, as foretold by Christ because the Pharisees judged it okay to cast out the followers of Christ who did get baptised. |
| V16 It was only those who bore the fruit of true faith who would be the kingdom as Jesus took it from those who would reject Him. [6] |
| V17-19 continues to talk about room for the Gentiles to become a part of that kingdom. |
| V20 It is the fruit of faith seen in the works of those who repent and seek the righteousness of God that bears witness.[7] |
| V21-32 Explains the importance of repentance which is thinking different than the world that relies on the force, fear, and fealty and the covetous practices of the world and their systems of "legal charity" provided by those men who call themselves benefactors instead practice Pure Religion through the fervent charity by way of faith, hope and charity and the perfect law of liberty. |
| V33-36 To see the truth, have the courage to repent and follow the Way of righteousness is a gift from God by grace. |
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1 ¶ I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew. Wot ye not what the scripture saith of Elias? how he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying,
3 Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my life.
4 But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal.
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
6 And if by grace, then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace. But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded
8 (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.
9 And David saith, Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, and a stumblingblock, and a recompence unto them:
10 Let their eyes be darkened,[8][9] that they may not see, and bow down their back alway.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall[2] of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify[3] mine office[4]:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree;
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off<1581>.
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again.
24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved:[10] and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
28 As concerning the gospel, they are enemies for your sakes: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sakes.
29 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.
30 For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:
31 Even so have these also now not believed, that through your mercy they also may obtain mercy.
32 For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.
33 ¶ O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!
34 For who hath known the mind of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor?
35 Or who hath first given to him, and it shall be recompensed unto him again?
36 For of him, and through him, and to him, are all things: to whom be glory for ever. Amen.
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Footnotes
- ↑ David warned, "Let their table become a snare before them: and [that which should have been] for [their] welfare, [let it become] a trap." Psalms 69:22
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 3900 ~παράπτωμα~ paraptoma \@par-ap’-to-mah\@ from [[3895] meaning fall away]; n n AV-trespass 9, offence 7, sin 3, fall 2, fault 2; 23
- 1) to fall beside or near something
- 2) a lapse or deviation from truth and uprightness
- 2a) a sin, misdeed
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 1392 δοξάζω doxazo [dox-ad’-zo] from 1391 {opinion, judgment, view); v; TDNT-2:253,178; [{See TDNT 197 }] AV-glorify 54, honour 3, have glory 2, magnify 1, make glorious 1, full of glory 1; 62
- 1) to think, suppose, be of opinion
- 2) to praise, extol, magnify, celebrate
- 3) to honour, do honour to, hold in honour
- 4) to make glorious, adorn with lustre, clothe with splendour
- 4a) to impart glory to something, render it excellent
- 4b) to make renowned, render illustrious
- 4b1) to cause the dignity and worth of some person or thing to become manifest and acknowledged
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 1248 ~διακονία~ diakonia \@dee-ak-on-ee’-ah\@ from 1249; n f AV-ministry 16, ministration 6, ministering 3, misc 9; 34
- 1) service, ministering, esp. of those who execute the commands of others
- 2a) of the office of Moses
- 2b) of the office of the apostles and its administration
- 2c) of the office of prophets, evangelists, elders etc.
- 3) the ministration of those who render to others the offices of Christian affection esp. those who help meet need by either collecting or distributing of charities
- 4) the office of the deacon in the church
- 5) the service of those who prepare and present food
- ↑ John 19:15 But they cried out, Away with [him], away with [him], crucify him. Pilate saith unto them, Shall I crucify your King? The chief priests answered, We have no king but Caesar.
- ↑ Matthew 21:43 "Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."
- ↑ Matthew 7:16 "Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?"
- Matthew 7:20 "Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them."
- James 2:17 Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
- James 2:20 But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
- James 2:26 For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
- James 3:17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
- ↑ King David writes, "Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake." Psalms 69:23 The phrase "continually shake" is another way of saying easily triggered or even angered.
- ↑ Eyes darkened
- Psalms 69:22 "Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap. 23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake."
- Ecclesiastes 2:14 "The wise man’s eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all."
- Matthew 4:16 “The people which sat in darkness saw great light; and to them which sat in the region and shadow of death light is sprung up.”
- Romans 11:10 "Let their eyes be darkened, that they may not see, and bow down their back alway"
- 2 Corinthians 6:14 "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?”
- Job 34:22 "There is no darkness, nor shadow of death, where the workers of iniquity may hide themselves."
- Matthew 6:23 “But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!”
- 1 John 2:10 "He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him. 11 But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes."
- John 3:19 "And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God." See Born again.
- ↑ 2474 ~ʼΙσραήλ~ Israel \@is-rah-ale’\@ of Hebrew origin 03478 ^לארשׁי^; adj AV-Israel 70; 70 In the Hebrew the term Israel meant God prevails but when a person was call Israel it meant "he shall be a prince of God"
- 1) the name given to the patriarch Jacob (and borne by him in addition to his former name)
- 2) the family or descendants of Israel, the nation of Israel
- 3) Christians, the Israel of God (#Ga 6:16), for not all those who draw their bodily descent from Israel are true Israelites, i.e. are those whom God pronounces to be Israelites and has chosen to salvation