A reminder of the 3 basic principles of

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Romans 1125-32
Repentant Israel to Be Saved

• A reminder of the 3 basic principles of
• the remnant
• 1. The physical remnant the continuity of the
  ethnic line of Israel and His promises to the
  patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob) Gen 121,2
  Gen 2624, 35 Gen 3510-12
• 2. The spiritual remnant salvation is by faith,
  and thus God will always maintain or raise up a
  believing remnant within the physical remnant
  Rom 96,7
• 3. All Israel will be saved during/following
  the Great Tribulation, those who survive will be
  saved by faith the 1000 year reign Zech
  138,9.

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Romans 1116-24
Repentant Israel to Be Saved

• Rom 1125 NKJV - For I do not desire, brethren,
  that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest
  you should be wise in your own opinion, that
  blindness in part has happened to Israel until
  the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.
• What is the caution here?
• Reflect back on Rom 1118
• Blindness here best translated as hardness
• The big sin of unbelief!
• II Cor 314 But their minds were blinded. For
  until this day the same veil remains unlifted in
  the reading of the Old Testament, because the
  veil is taken away in Christ.
• Rom 117-10
• What is the fullness of the Gentiles?
• Best translated here by abundance
• Luke 2124 And they will fall by the edge of
  the sword, and be led away captive into all
  nations. And Jerusalem will be trampled by
  Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are
  fulfilled.

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Romans 1116-24
Repentant Israel to Be Saved

• So is the fullness of the Gentiles the rapture,
  or another time in the history of the Gentile
  nations?
• How about post at the end of the tribulation?
• Or, at the end of the 1000 years?
• Zech 12-14 ? ? Armageddon ? ?
• Zech 1210 - "And I will pour on the house of
  David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the
  Spirit of grace and supplication then they will
  look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will
  mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and
  grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
• Define mystery - mysterion!
• Something concealed - now revealed.
• In context here?
• Other examples
• The Gospel I Cor 26-16
• Christ Himself I Tim 316
• The Church Eph 532
• The Rapture I Cor 1551
• Being ignorant of the mysteries of God a
  challenge to us?

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Romans 1116-24
Repentant Israel to Be Saved

• Rom 1126,27 NKJV And so all Israel will be
  saved, as it is written The Deliverer will come
  out of Zion, and He will turn away ungodliness
  from Jacob For this is My covenant with them,
  when I take away their sins.
• Isaiah 5920,21 And the Redeemer shall come to
  Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression
  in Jacob, saith the Lord. As for me, this is my
  covenant with them, saith the LORD My spirit
  that is upon thee, and my words which I have
  put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy
  mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out
  of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord,
  from henceforth and for ever.
• Notice, all (not some) will be saved Gods
  sovereignty!
• What all are we discussing here?
• Those Jews coming out of the Great Tribulation
  Matt 2413,14
• Same for Gentiles (sheep and goats) Matt
  2531-46

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Romans 1116-24
Repentant Israel to Be Saved

• Notice passive verb be saved.
• See Isaiah 4517 Jer 317-23, 3237-41 Ezek
  3422-31, 3721-28, 3925-29
• Hos 35 Amos 913-15 Mic 715-20 Zeph
  312-20 Zech 106-12
• Is active faith involved here?
• What is this ungodliness in Jacob?
• Relates to all works of ungodliness thoughts,
  deeds
• What about Zion?
• All the glorious manifestations of Israel's God
  were regarded as being issued out of Zion - the
  seat of His manifested glory - Psalms 147,
  1101,2 Isaiah 319 321
• The New Covenant - Jer 3131-34 Behold, the
  days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make
  a new covenant with the house of Israel and with
  the house of Judah - not according to the
  covenant that I made with their fathers in the
  day that I took them by the hand to lead them out
  of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they
  broke, though I was a husband to them, says the
  Lord. But this is the covenant that I will make
  with the house of Israel after those days, says
  the Lord I will put My law in their minds, and
  write it on

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Romans 1116-24
Repentant Israel to Be Saved

• their hearts and I will be their God, and they
  shall be My people. No more shall every man teach
  his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying,
  Know the Lord, for they all shall know Me, from
  the least of them to the greatest of them, says
  the Lord. For I will forgive their iniquity, and
  their sin I will remember no more
• Also see Jer 3238-40, Jer 5020 Ezek 3625-29
  Heb 88-12, 1016
• What about those born during the 1000 years, will
  they have the law placed in their minds and
  written in their hearts too?
• Rom 1128,29 NKJV Concerning the gospel they are
  enemies for your sake, but concerning the
  election they are beloved for the sake of the
  fathers. For the gifts and the calling of God are
  irrevocable.
• Why are they (the nation of Israel) enemies for
  your (our) sakes?
• But look at Israel beloved for the fathers
  (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob) sakes

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Romans 1116-24
Repentant Israel to Be Saved

• They are elected (Isaiah 418,9 Rom 94) and
  beloved
• but remember, this always relates to the work of
  the Lord Jesus Christ Eph 14,5
• Is there any room for anti-Semitism?
• How about these gifts?
• Here gift best relates to the divine gift of
  Grace
• Rom 515 But not as the offence, so also is
  the free gift. For if through the offence of one
  many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the
  gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus
  Christ, hath abounded unto many.
• Without repentance?
• God has no 2nd thoughts! Malachi 36 II Cor
  710
• Rom 1130,31 NKJV For as you were once
  disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy
  through their disobedience, even so these also
  have now been disobedient, that through the mercy
  shown you they also may obtain mercy.

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Romans 1116-24
Repentant Israel to Be Saved

• We Gentile believers who were disobedient to God
  (Rom 118-32 Eph 21,2) divine mercy was shown
  to them (us) and through them (us) to the nation
  of Israel who will receive mercy (Rom 1111-19
  II Cor 315,16)
• Notice how were reflects our position
• Rom 1132 NKJV For God has committed them all
  to disobedience, that He might have mercy on
  all.
• Gal 322 But the Scripture has confined all
  under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus
  Christ might be given to those who believe.
• Calvary - the great equalizer!!!!!!
• Stay tuned for Rom 1133-36 next week
• the sweet Benediction

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