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http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KzE2zdO_bRA/TaIwddffBVI/AAAAAAAABN4/AaCoKedChaw/s1600/Romans+1+16.bmp http://whenyouwalkalongtheway.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/clothed-in-christ.jpg For in the gospel a righteousness from God is revealed, Romans 1:17a http://mudpreacher.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/from-faith-to-faith.jpg a righteousness that is by faith from first to last Romans 1:17b abraham night sky.jpg just as it is written: “The righteous will live by faith.” Romans 1:17c Sin Salvation Sanctification Setting aside Israel Service Salutation 1:1-3:20 3:21-5:21 6-8 9-11 12-15:13 15:13-16:27 Outline of Romans http://rlv.zcache.com/sinner_forgiven_tshirt-p2357635585054257683m1f_400.jpg Romans 3:10 (from Psalms 14:1, 53:1, 143:2) As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one;” Sin Salvation Sanctification Setting aside Israel Service Salutation 1:1-3:20 3:21-5:21 6-8 9-11 12-15:13 15:13-16:27 Outline of Romans Picture_150133231_std.jpg and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus. Romans 3:24 3050307072_c298faf2d2.jpg For we maintain that a person is justified by faith apart from the works of the law. Romans 3:28 Sin Salvation Sanctification Setting aside Israel Service Salutation 1:1-3:20 3:21-5:21 6-8 9-11 12-15:13 15:13-16:27 Outline of Romans http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TsFVUxPiKgw/Te1hMFoX2EI/AAAAAAAAAKE/r4jIPEkCBbU/s1600/dead2sin.jpg In the same way, count yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus. http://www.christian-wallpaper.com/backgrounds/Therefore-there-is-now-no-condemnation-for-those -who-are-in-Christ-Jesus.gif http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_UPMkXLWTxB0/S-sgQb2pmQI/AAAAAAAAE8A/QPQeVz_hohM/s1600/romans-8_28.gif http://gracewaymedia.com/images/00023065_nv.jpg Romans 8:31b http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_EF7CEGIbIKc/TK1Se0SzLYI/AAAAAAAADqA/14G8Jhuw2NQ/s1600/Romans+8+-+38-3 9.jpg Sin Salvation Sanctification Setting aside Israel Service Salutation 1:1-3:20 3:21-5:21 6-8 9-11 12-15:13 15:13-16:27 Outline of Romans 414050.jpg heart of stone.png The mystery of Israel’s Hard Heart http://www.artihidupku.com/home/images/stories/24-paul-writing-a-letter-to-timothy-36x36.jpg I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit— I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race, the people of Israel Romans 9:1-4a http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/images/israel/nasaisrael.jpg The advantages of Israel the Jews Theirs is the adoption as sons theirs the divine glory the covenants the receiving of the law the temple worship and the promises Theirs are the patriarchs and from them is traced the human ancestry of Christ, who is God over all, forever praised! Amen. Romans 9:4b,5 http://theloquitur.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/NewsBriefsIssue14.jpg It is not as though God’s word had failed. Romans 9:6a For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. Romans 9:6b,7a http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-S9S_e9EAGhA/Tsp_DWdKhdI/AAAAAAAAANg/axNbt0R4wSo/s1600/ArtBook__012_01 2__JacobBlessingHisSons____.jpg 26669.bmp Jacob vs. Esau http://www.eborg3.com/Bible-Alp habetical/H/600-HagarIshmaelAbraham.JPG Isaac vs. Ishmael http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-R6oURkB6TNI/TsmHzie_5eI/AAAAAAAABwg/xQZL9bdi-xs/s1600/judge1.jpg What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! Romans 9:14 God is in authority! God has an amazing plan! http://jackbaumgartner.files.wordpress.com/2010/12/img_6732.jpg For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” Romans 9:15 Exodus 33:19 http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_hQ9RJD9U2T8/TRYl3qIl6SI/AAAAAAAAAEI/2JCQm8Khz1s/s1600/In-The-Potter%2 527s-Hands.gif But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for noble purposes and some for common use? Romans 9:20,21 Isaiah 29:16 45:9 http://pastorcarolmora.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/gods-game-pl an.jpg http://pastorcarolmora.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/gods-game-pl an.jpg Jews reject Gospel to Gentiles Romans 9:22-24 http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6Vw-62YnWMs/S84ECdKmZcI/AAAAAAAABeM/m2GoKbC48XQ/s1600/illustration+of +the+apostle+Paul+teaching.jpg Explaining this mystery is going to take some work! Now wait one minute, you mean to say that the unrighteous Gentiles found righteousness and the Jews could not? What’s up with that? Romans 9:30,31 Works based religion Did not recognize Jesus Did not realize the Law had been fulfilled in Jesus They were looking for God every place but their hearts Almost all of them refused His revelation to them The rest were hardened by God (temporarily)! horse-cart Works Grace Faith thru Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. Romans 9:32a 757708294_7e21351ade_b They stumbled over the “stumbling stone.” Romans 9:32b http://www.artihidupku.com/home/images/stories/24-paul-writing-a-letter-to-timothy-36x36.jpg Romans 10:1,2 Brothers, my heart’s desire and prayer to God for the Israelites is that they may be saved. For I can testify about them that they are zealous for God, but their zeal is not based on knowledge. http://www.divinemercyinc.com/Easter5.jpg Since they did not know the righteousness that comes from God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness. Romans 10:3 “Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. Matthew 5:17 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-XJf8h 2Hh-H8/TbGzNKQRUNI/AAAAAAAABWg/hU83x3_Yv28/s1600/LambofGod.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oYIOC8 2c_3I/TZPgM3_7eYI/AAAAAAAABC8/zkiO0piBbzM/s1600/Ark_Covenant.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-jIV7Io0Y0Qk/TdC8uySO-VI/AAAAAAAAELA/HbkQrZeyTPk/s1600/2008.04.08%2BFu lfilled%2521%2B%252820%2525%2529.jpg Christ is the end of the law so that there may be righteousness for everyone who believes. Romans 10:4 http://www.wallacepathwaysart.c om/images/moses.jpg http://ecuador4u.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/stairway_to_heaven.jpg But the righteousness that is by faith says: “Do not say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down) Romans 10:6 Deuteronomy 30:11 http://www.periwinklepapillon.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/GettyImages_98355975.jpg “or ‘Who will descend into the deep?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead). Romans 10:7 Deuteronomy 30:12 http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1P0_qUrzApw/TRC0oBdODOI/AAAAAAAAAnw/ZRaMKHMAXa0/s1600/Heart_in_Hands. jpg But what does it say? “The word is near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart,” that is, the word of faith we are proclaiming: Romans 10:8 Deuteronomy 30:13 http://api.ning.com/files/GKL2GUXjk-59GOahq8sWHLpDVcLhxXt8zzGt71ECnN2*xanxfeAi6KiOBIo4xZmEJ3f8G RQibz2spBP3f65yt68V3spoTqQM/16.jpg Romans 10:9 http://libaw.com/shutterfaith/wallpaper/jesus-one-way-the-only-way.jpg http://libaw.com/shutterfaith/wallpaper/jesus-one-way-the-only-way.jpg For there is no difference between Jew and Gentile—the same Lord is Lord of all and richly blesses all who call on him, Romans 10:12 http://www.missionresearchcenter.org/map_01.gif How, then, can they call on the one they have not believed in? And how can they believe in the one of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? http://www.missionresearchcente r.org/map_01.gif Romans 10:14 Apostle%20Paul%202333517590_428b53de7d_o.jpg But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did: “Their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” Romans 10:18 skymt_payne_big.jpg The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard. Their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. Psalm 19:1-4a General Revelation Apostle%20Paul%202333517590_428b53de7d_o.jpg Again I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says, “I will make you envious by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding Romans 10:19 (Deuteronomy 32:21) Churches of 70 ad.png “I will make you envious by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding Romans 10:19 Jews 12.8 to 18.2 million ~0.2 to 0.3% Christians to Jews Over 100 to 1 But concerning Israel he says, “All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.” Romans 10:21 http://www.ellenwhite.info/imag es/chapt-illus/PK/RH-JeremiahPreaching_DSC_0008.jpg exodus32.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/56/Brooklyn_Museum_-_Jesus_Wept_(J%C3%A9sus_ple ura)_-_James_Tissot.jpg "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! Luke 13:34 SPECIAL Revelation http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6Vw-62YnWMs/S84ECdKmZcI/AAAAAAAABeM/m2GoKbC48XQ/s1600/illustration+of +the+apostle+Paul+teaching.jpg Well, if God were like us, he would be correct! But praise be that God is NOT like us! Wait till this guy hears what God has in store for the Jews! It will blow his mind! Well, that has got to be the end of God’s dealing with the Jews! They rejected His every attempt to reach them! Apostle paul Romans 11:1 Paul I ask then: Did God reject his people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 12-tribes-silouette1 abraham God did not reject his people, whom he foreknew. Romans 11:2a Don't you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah--how he appealed to God against Israel: elijahfire.jpg Romans 11:2b-4 elijah-in-cave1 Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me. New_Exodus_lowf I have reserved for myself seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 1 Kings 19:18 Apostle paul So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. messiah_building Romans 11:5 And if by grace, then it is no longer by works; if it were, grace would no longer be grace. Romans 11:6 lamb_God.jpg grace http://evnn.de/images/887.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nZ9nZdBfNQo/TZdmk7YOQ9I/AAAAAAAAHT8/Q7 yiUOeR6Og/s1600/elijah-in-cave1.jpg Yet I reserve seven thousand in Israel--all whose knees have not bowed down to Baal and all whose mouths have not kissed him. 1 Kings 19:18 “I am the only one left” 0.2% 3,000,000 Jews vs. ~ 6,000,000 Jews in Israel 0.2% BF1 So is this “righteous remnant” of Messianic Jews, saved by grace, all that is left of “Israel?” Or are they just a peculiar, but minor part of “The Church?” What about the rest of the Jews? Is God just done with them? Apostle%20Paul%202333517590_428b53de7d_o.jpg What then? What Israel sought so earnestly it did not obtain, but the elect did. The others were hardened, as it is written: “God gave them a spirit of stupor, eyes so that they could not see and ears so that they could not hear, to this very day.” Romans 11:7,8 Deuteronomy 29:4 Isaiah 29:10 David in wilderness of Ziph.jpg Psalm 69:22,23 And David says: “May their table become a snare and a trap, a stumbling block and a retribution for them. May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see, and their backs be bent forever.” Romans 11:9,10 What is going on here? God is hardening them, making them blind to Him? http://justfoodnow.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/butter-melting-in-a-pan1.jpg http://thumbs.ifood.tv/files/u12/fried_egg_breaking.jpg Heart of stone 2.png i246549705_88466_2.gif 01marathon_slide16 01marathon_slide16 Again I ask: Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Romans 11:11a evangelism_1024x768 Not at all! 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Romans 8:28 http://static.flickr.com/67/199942418_02bc406de2.jpg GOD CAN Paul preaching.jpg I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I make much of my ministry in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. Romans 11:13,14 Gentiles Jews 0870_Jesus_world_christian_clipart.jpg For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? http://www.jewsonfirst.org/images/baptist_messianic1.jpg http://www.zimeye.org/wp-conten t/live_images/2012/01/Mattia_Sbragia_002.jpg Romans 11:15 Then he said to me, “Prophesy to these bones and say to them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Sovereign LORD says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. Ezekiel 37:4,5 If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1004/1451115562_b67f284ef5.jpg if the root is holy, so are the branches. http://www.arthursclipart.org/nature/nature/tree%20roots.gif Romans 11:16 olive%20tree%20in%20fiels_1 olive%20tree%20in%20fiels_1 If some of the branches have been broken off, Romans 11:17a OliveTree_NazVillage_fjenkins_043010_140sm-crop OliveTree_NazVillage_fjenkins_0 43010_140sm-crop and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, If some of the branches have been broken off, Romans 11:17a olive%20branch OliveTree_NazVillage_fjenkins_043010_140sm-crop OliveTree_NazVillage_fjenkins_0 43010_140sm-crop do not boast over those branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. Romans 11:17b,18 olive%20branch OliveTree_NazVillage_fjenkins_043010_140sm-crop OliveTree_NazVillage_fjenkins_0 43010_140sm-crop You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but be afraid. Romans 11:19,20 olive%20branch http://i.mobavatar.com/what-s-on-your-mind/be-afraid-be-very-afraid-1.jpg For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either. Romans 11:21 http://www.turnbacktogod.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Jesus-Lion-and-Lamb.jpg Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, Romans 11:22a timber provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. Romans 11:22b OliveTree_NazVillage_fjenkins_043010_140sm-crop OliveTree_NazVillage_fjenkins_0 43010_140sm-crop And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. Romans 11:23 olive%20branch olive%20branch http://www.joe-ray.com/site/motherland/the_road_back_to_tradition_begins_with_a_graft/ image http://www.joe-ray.com/site/motherland/the_road_back_to_tradition_begins_with_a_graft/ image After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, Romans 11:24a olive-tree-grafting how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree! Romans 11:24b church103 Mystery%20LOGO Romans 11:25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part 15 until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. (Unbelieving) http://www.xor.co.uk/Images/LifeCentre2.jpg Total Believers over all time return-of-christ Romans 11:26,27 And so all Israel will be saved, as it is written: “The deliverer will come from Zion; he will turn godlessness away from Jacob. And this is my covenant with them when I take away their sins.” Zechariah 12:10a "And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. holysprt Jerusalem silloette Jerusalem jesus_nailed They will look on me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son. Zechariah 12:10b jews_with_torah How hot will it have to get to melt the hearts of the Jews towards their Messiah? Flame-05 Flame-05 Flame-05 Flame-05 Flame-05 Pretty Darn hot! http://itsamystery.com/itsamys07.jpg Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments, and his paths beyond tracing out! Romans 11:33 Temple mount without temple Temple mount with temple Is God done with Israel? Lord returns No! Jesuscallingyou Jesuscallingyou If God is willing to go this far to bring His people back to Him, do you really think there is ANYONE He cannot or is not willing to reach? Who have you written off as UNREACHABLE?