God’s Mercy, Living Sacrifices
Review
| 11:1-6 | The Remnant Remains in Israel |
| 11:7-10 | Israel Blinded by God |
| 11:11-15 | Israel’s Rejection To Jealousy |
| 11:16-24 | Be Warned Of Israel’s Rejection |
| 11:25-27 | All Israel Will Be Saved |
| 11:28-32 | Israel’s Rejection Was For God’s Mercy To All |
The Church is the New Israel
Jesus is the New Israel
The Church is the New Israel
Jesus is the New Israel
Matthew 2:14-15
14 When he arose, he took the young Child and His mother by night and departed for Egypt, 15 and was there until the death of Herod, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the Lord through the prophet, saying, “Out of Egypt I called My Son.”
Jesus fulfills Hosea’s prophecy attributed to Israel
Other Passages Showing Jesus As the New Israel
- Matthew 2:16-18, Persecuted While Young, Jeremiah 31:15
- Matthew 4:1-11, Tested in the Wilderness, cf. Deuteronomy 8:1-3
- Colossians 2:16-17, Jesus is the substance of the OT festivals and Sabbath
- 2 Corinthians 1:20, “For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen..”
- Galatians 3:16, Jesus is Abraham’s Child of Promise
The Church is the New Israel
- Galatians 3:29, Those in Christ are heirs of God’s Promise to Abraham
- Galatians 6:16, The Galatians Christians are called “The Israel of God”
- James 1:1, James write to “The Twelve Tribes” scattered aboard
- Romans 2:28-29, Circumsized Hearts make one a Jew
- Revelation 2:9; 3:9 - Judiazers are not Jews, but of the Synagogue of Satan
Romans 11:28-30
28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
Romans 11:28
28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.
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28 Concerning the gospel they [The Jews] are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they [The Jews] are beloved for the sake of the fathers.
Romans 11:29
29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.
Romans 11:30
For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,
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For as you [Gentiles] were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their [Jews] disobedience,
Romans 11:31
even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy.
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even so these [The Jew] also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you [The Gentiles] they also may obtain mercy.
Romans 11:32
For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
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For God has committed them all [Jew & Gentile] to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all [Jew & Gentile].
This is a summary of Romans 9-11. God gave Israel over to disobedience, crucifying Christ. This inaugerated the new covenant, bringing both Jew and Gentile under one covenant, to forgive the sins of all. This caused the Jews to be jealous (see the book of Acts). This jealousy was to break the stiff-necked Jews to accept Jesus as the Messiah.
THAT HE MIGHT
HAVE MERCY ON ALL
ROMANS 9-11
Romans 11:33-36
33 Oh, 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 has known the mind of the LORD?
Or who has become His counselor?”
35 “Or who has first given to Him
And it shall be repaid to him?”
36 For of Him and through Him and to Him are all things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
This section reflects Isaiah 40:9-31, when the book of Isaiah turns hopeful of a time when all will not be lost in Judah. From 1-39, Isaiah can be hard to get through because of Isaiah’s harsh preaching. But from 40-66, Isaiah speaks of the future. A future so bright, it would have been unthinkable during Isaiah’s day.
Paul takes the imagery of 40:9–31 and applies it to God’s mysterious ways he accomplished salvation for the whole world.
As John 3:17 says, “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.”
Romans 12-16
- 12:1-13 The Christian and the Church
- 12:14-21, The Christian and Society
- 13:1-7, The Christians and the Government
- 13:8-14, The Christians and Neighbor
- 14:1-15:4, The Christian and Weak Brother
- 15:5-13, The Christian and Unity
- 15:14-33, Paul’s Plans
- 16:1-16, Paul’s Commendations
- 16:17-27, Final Words
Paul has been charged with teaching that we should sin that grace may abound.
Romans 12:1-21
Romans 12:1-2
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:1-2
1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies 1 of God, that you present 3 your bodies a living sacrifice 2 , holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable 2 service 3. 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed 3 by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove 2, 3 what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
1 cf. 11:32 mercy
2 Our service to God engages our minds
3 priestly language “service” is λατρείαν, liturgy
Paul grounds our works in God showing us mercy
Leviticus 10:19-20
19 And Aaron said to Moses, “Look, this day they have offered their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, and such things have befallen me! If I had eaten the sin offering today, would it have been accepted in the sight of the LORD?” 20 So when Moses heard that, he was content.
Numbers 9:6-10
6 Now there were certain men who were defiled by a human corpse, so that they could not keep the Passover on that day; and they came before Moses and Aaron that day. 7 And those men said to him, “We became defiled by a human corpse. Why are we kept from presenting the offering of the LORD at its appointed time among the children of Israel?”
8 And Moses said to them, “Stand still, that I may hear what the LORD will command concerning you.”
9 Then the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 10 “Speak to the children of Israel, saying: ‘If anyone of you or your posterity is unclean because of a corpse, or is far away on a journey, he may still keep the LORD’s Passover.