Sunday School Notes: For Oct 30, 2011: Romans Chapter 11

Posted on 30. Oct, 2011 by miltonhodges in Sunday School

Eastwood Sunday School: Romans – An Interpretive Outline.

This class is studying this book: Romans, An Interpretive Outline

Class Location: Fellowship Hall Class A

Class Date: October 30, 2011

Teacher: Milton Hodges

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God’s Future Plan for the Jews and Israel The Rejection of the Jews is not Total or Final and the Inclusion of the Gentiles as God’s People should produce Humility, Fear and Gratitude

I. Brief Review

A. Paul’s “radical” doctrine of salvation (Chapters 1 through 8 )

1. The Gospel is the power of God for salvation…for Jew and Gentile alike (1:16)
2. All men, both Jew and Gentile, are under God’s condemnation and wrath (2:9-12, 3:22b & 23)
3. The Law cannot save: Salvation, for both Jews and Gentiles, is by Justification which comes by God’s righteous Grace alone, thru Faith alone, in Christ alone (3:24 thru 5:21)
4. Justification produces Sanctification thru the work of the Holy Spirit for both Jew and Gentile (6:1 thru 8:39)

B. The Jew – Gentile problem: Can God be trusted?  Does God really keep his promises?

1. God had chosen Israel, not Gentiles (Deut. 7:6-11 & Jer. 31:33)
2. Paul understands and laments the condition of his kinsmen, that they had rejected Jesus, God’s messiah (9:1-5)
3. Paul gives the answer to the dilemma (9:6-8)
4. God, for His own Glory, as He always has, chooses or elects or selects those (i.e., “children of the promise”), both Jew and Gentile, who will be Justified, and He is not unfair in doing so (9:9 thru 9:29)

C. Israel’s unbelief is the immediate or proximate reason for their rejection by God as well as is the Gentile’s belief, which is the immediate or proximate reason, for their acceptance by God (9:30-10:21)

II. God has not rejected His people whom He chose (elected) both Jew and Gentile (11:1-32)

A. There is a Remnant of Israel (11:1-10)

1. I’m a Jew (11:1-2)
2. God’s answer to Elijah (11:3-6)
3. Elect Israel obtained the promise (11:7-10)

B. The Gentiles are grafted in (11:11-24)

1. Israel’s disobedience means salvation for the Gentiles
2. Inclusion of the Gentiles is to make the Jews jealous
3. Gentiles must take care not to become arrogant or proud but instead humble and thankful

C. The mystery of Israel’s salvation (11:25-32)

1. A partial hardening of Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles
2. God’s gifts and calling are irrevocable
3. God’s mercy to Jews and Gentiles

III. Paul’s Doxology (11:33-36)

A.  There is no one like God (11:33-35)

B.  Soli Deo Gloria (11:36)

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