God's Unchanging Purpose: Israel, Gentiles, and Redemption

let me read once more The Words which are found in Paul's epistle to the Romans in chapter 11 reading from verse 25 to verse 32 for I would not Brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery lest you should be wise in your own conceits that blindness in part is happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become in and so all Israel shall be saved as it is written there shall come out of Zion the deliverer and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob for this is my Covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins as concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sakes but as touching the election they are beloved for the father's sakes for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance for as ye in times past have not believed God yet have now obtained Mercy through their unbelief even so have these also now not believed that through your mercy they also May obtain Mercy for God has concluded them all in unbelief that he might have mercy upon all [00:02:50]

now we must say that because the parallelism of the verse demands it about the same people he says that they are beloved it doesn't mean that they are loving but that they are regarded as beloved for the father's sake it's birth it's passive in the birth instances now this is a vital point because as we shall see when we come especially to verse 32 it is a very essential Link in this great doctrine that the Apostle is laying down in verse 32 so what he is saying is that they are being regarded as and being treated as [00:08:17]

now then here is the explanation of why God does this and here is a great General principle of course for the gifts and calling of God are without repentance you see the whole character of God is involved in this matter that is why the Apostle has written these three chapters this is what I described it at the beginning of chapter 9 as being a great theodicy it is a kind of Defense of God and a justification of God's ways to man The Apostle has to do that because he seems to say at the beginning of chapter 9 it's this was talking about the certainty of God's promises doesn't the whole race of the Jews prove that this isn't true so now he's got to demonstrate this and here he is at last winding up the great argument he says the gifts and calling of God are without repentance that is an absolute it must be an absolute because God is God [00:23:52]

now the gifts and call or calling of God are without any regrets and this is because God is God God's purpose is an eternal purpose it's never a temporary one it's always an eternal purpose there are temporary aspects to it but the great purpose itself is as the gifts and calling of God these are never regretted he never changes his mind about this he never regrets what he's done what God has decided God has decided and God has and will carry through certainly there can be no change here that's the explanation says the Apostle of this whole problem of the Jew in the matter of Salvation And if you don't understand this he says well you'll remain of necessity in in the darkness you've got to look at these things in two ways the temporary and the ultimate temporarily they are regarded as enemies oh but in the Eternal in the matter of election in the matter of God's purpose their beloved God's purpose was always this and it can't change he has no regrets about it this is what he decided with the fathers and he made those lavish promises to them and this must be fulfilled [00:30:47]

now then there is the statement and we are therefore in a position once more to ask the question to whom does all this refer who is he talking about I reminded you that the authorized translators have have supplied the words they are as concerning the gospel they are enemies but as touching the election they are beloved who are they who's he speaking about well the answer to that question I think should now be quite clear to us in view of the statements that he's been making both in the prophecy itself and in these explanations that he's been given of the prophecy and why God works in this way and I think you all must agree that he is referring to the Israel that he mentioned in verses 25 and 26 I would not Brethren that you should be ignorant of this mystery lest you should be wise in your own conceits that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles become come in and so all Israel shall be saved and all that we've been looking at tonight is referring to these people the Israel this Israel that is now suffering from this temporary hardness and blindness this Israel that is going to be saved that's I think nobody can dispute this these verses are referring to those same people the Israel referred to in verses 25 and 26 [00:31:50]

now there then is a tremendously important statement in verse 28 and it is written in order to explain what he has just been saying now he says I put my great Prophecy Before you and I want you to understand it and this is what I'm really saying you are perplexed about their present position and you're drawing wrong conclusions and they are ignorant of their true position I have told you what's going to happen to them and I'm now telling you why it's going to happen to them they are only being regarded as enemies temporarily blindness in part for a time being temporary blindness this isn't permanent there is another principle operating behind that they are beloved for the father's sakes very well now there then is a very important statement but let's go on he in verse 29 now tells us why this is true about them why it is true that God regards them temporally as enemies but still from the standpoint of election and the fathers still loves them and regards them as beloved I'm talking of course not about individuals I am talking about the Jewish race as a whole [00:23:35]

now then here is a tremendous statement it's said about exactly the same people you You' got two ways of looking then at the Jews and this is as true tonight as it was when the Apostle wrote this 1900 years ago and more you can say this about the Jewish race and Nation tonight exactly as he said it then looked at from the standpoint of the Christian church and the preaching of the Gospel they are still outside they are still Cast Away they are still enemies regarded as enemies but that isn't the end of the story God also looks at them from the standpoint of his own Eternal election his great principle of election and there says the Apostle they are regarded as beloved why well not because of themselves but for the sake of the fathers you see the perfect parallel in the two sides of this statement looked at from the stpoint of the preaching of the Gospel one two enemies why for your sake three on the other side looked at from the standpoint of election one beloved two why for your sakes for the sake of the fathers three now then you see he's got a perfect parallel in the two parts of the statement [00:18:24]

now we must say that because the parallelism of the verse demands it about the same people he says that they are beloved it doesn't mean that they are loving but that they are regarded as beloved for the father's sake it's birth it's passive in the birth instances now this is a vital point because as we shall see when we come especially to verse 32 it is a very essential Link in this great doctrine that the Apostle is laying down in verse 32 so what he is saying is that they are being regarded as and being treated as [00:08:17]

now then here is a tremendous statement it's said about exactly the same people you You' got two ways of looking then at the Jews and this is as true tonight as it was when the Apostle wrote this 1900 years ago and more you can say this about the Jewish race and Nation tonight exactly as he said it then looked at from the standpoint of the Christian church and the preaching of the Gospel they are still outside they are still Cast Away they are still enemies regarded as enemies but that isn't the end of the story God also looks at them from the standpoint of his own Eternal election his great principle of election and there says the Apostle they are regarded as beloved why well not because of themselves but for the sake of the fathers you see the perfect parallel in the two sides of this statement looked at from the stpoint of the preaching of the Gospel one two enemies why for your sake three on the other side looked at from the standpoint of election one beloved two why for your sakes for the sake of the fathers three now then you see he's got a perfect parallel in the two parts of the statement [00:18:24]

now the gifts and call or calling of God are without any regrets and this is because God is God God's purpose is an eternal purpose it's never a temporary one it's always an eternal purpose there are temporary aspects to it but the great purpose itself is as the gifts and calling of God these are never regretted he never changes his mind about this he never regrets what he's done what God has decided God has decided and God has and will carry through certainly there can be no change here that's the explanation says the Apostle of this whole problem of the Jew in the matter of Salvation And if you don't understand this he says well you'll remain of necessity in in the darkness you've got to look at these things in two ways the temporary and the ultimate temporarily they are regarded as enemies oh but in the Eternal in the matter of election in the matter of God's purpose their beloved God's purpose was always this and it can't change he has no regrets about it this is what he decided with the fathers and he made those lavish promises to them and this must be fulfilled [00:30:47]

now then here is a tremendous statement it's said about exactly the same people you You' got two ways of looking then at the Jews and this is as true tonight as it was when the Apostle wrote this 1900 years ago and more you can say this about the Jewish race and Nation tonight exactly as he said it then looked at from the standpoint of the Christian church and the preaching of the Gospel they are still outside they are still Cast Away they are still enemies regarded as enemies but that isn't the end of the story God also looks at them from the standpoint of his own Eternal election his great principle of election and there says the Apostle they are regarded as beloved why well not because of themselves but for the sake of the fathers you see the perfect parallel in the two sides of this statement looked at from the stpoint of the preaching of the Gospel one two enemies why for your sake three on the other side looked at from the standpoint of election one beloved two why for your sakes for the sake of the fathers three now then you see he's got a perfect parallel in the two parts of the statement [00:18:24]

now the gifts and call or calling of God are without any regrets and this is because God is God God's purpose is an eternal purpose it's never a temporary one it's always an eternal purpose there are temporary aspects to it but the great purpose itself is as the gifts and calling of God these are never regretted he never changes his mind about this he never regrets what he's done what God has decided God has decided and God has and will carry through certainly there can be no change here that's the explanation says the Apostle of this whole problem of the Jew in the matter of Salvation And if you don't understand this he says well you'll remain of necessity in in the darkness you've got to look at these things in two ways the temporary and the ultimate temporarily they are regarded as enemies oh but in the Eternal in the matter of election in the matter of God's purpose their beloved God's purpose was always this and it can't change he has no regrets about it this is what he decided with the fathers and he made those lavish promises to them and this must be fulfilled [00:30:47]