Text: Romans 10:1-3 10 Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved.
2 For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
3 For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Verse one; they obviously were not saved.
Verse two; zeal is not enough.
Verse three; our own righteousness isn't sufficient.
Olive tree
Romans 11:1-? I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
2 God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
5 Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace. Several thousand Jews were saved right after the cross.
7 What then? Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for.
But the election hath obtained it, those Jews that accepted Jesus as their Messiah) and the rest were blinded. They were blinded because of their unbelief.
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.
12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fullness?
13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office:
14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
Emulation= to compete for superiority.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?
16 For if the first fruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert grafted in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree.
The Root is Jesus
Isaiah 11:10 And in that day there shall be a root of Jesse, which shall stand for an ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and his rest shall be glorious.
Isaiah 53:2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.
Romans 15:12 And again, Esaias saith, There shall be a root of Jesse, and he that shall rise to reign over the Gentiles; in him shall the Gentiles trust.
Revelation 22:16 I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and the offspring of David, and the bright and morning star.
Bragging isn't from the root
18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root,(The root is Jesus) but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be grafted in.
20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear:
21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. Don't try to find your own righteousness as they did.
22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Can Jews be saved?
23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.
26 And so all Israel shall be saved: The whole tree will be saved as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob.
27 For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.
The covenant is the covenant of faith.
Righteousness through Jesus
Romans 10:9 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. This scripture applies to both Jews and Gentiles.
1 Corinthians 12:13 For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
July 6, Work day
Wednesday, Bible discussion, hair.
June 24 Rodeo
Fire Works @ Moffit Park
Lunch after Service.
Remember the brown box, building fund, bicycle, and sewing machine.
Cans and food donation.
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