| SUMMARY: | Paul anticipates the question or objection that will arise at this point. Someone might say, "Granted, there is a believing remnant but is Israel not finished as a nation?" Paul clearly answers. Certainly not! Israel's failure now has brought salvation to the Gentiles. God can and will reinstate her. Someday all Israel will be saved! |
| I. Introductory Question | VERSES 11:11-12 | |
| A. The Question: | I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? | (11a) |
| B. The Answer: | May it never be! | (11b) |
| C. The Explanation: | ||
| 1. Salvation for the Gentiles: | But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous. | (11c) |
| 2. Fulfillment for Israel | Now if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fulfillment be! | (12) |
| II. Salvation Has Come to the Gentiles | VERSES 11:13-24 | |
| A. Salvation Has Come to the Gentiles: | ||
| 1. The Address to the Readers: | ||
| a. The Readers: | But I am speaking to you who are Gentiles. | (13a) |
| b. The Writer’s Ministry: | Inasmuch then as I am an apostle of Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, | (13b) |
| c. The Writer’s Motive: | if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them. | (14) |
| 2. The Principles Stated: | ||
| a. Their Rejection and Acceptance Completes our Salvation: | ||
| (1) If: | For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, | (15a) |
| (2) Then: | what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? | (15b) |
| b. Our Holiness Comes through Israel: | ||
| (1) The Idea Stated: | ||
| (a) If: | If the first piece of dough is holy, | (16a) |
| (b) Then: | the lump is also; | (16b) |
| (2) The Idea Restated: | ||
| (a) If: | and if the root is holy, | (16c) |
| (b) Then: | the branches are too. | (16d) |
| B. The Warnings to the Gentiles: | ||
| 1. The First Warning: | ||
| a. If: | ||
| (1) First: | But if some of the branches were broken off, | (17a) |
| (2) Second: | and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them | (17b) |
| (3) Third: | and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree, | (17c) |
| b. Then: | do not be arrogant toward the branches; | (18a) |
| 2. The Second Warning: | ||
| a. If: | but if you are arrogant, | (18b) |
| b. Then: | remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you. | (18c) |
| 3. The Objection Made: | ||
| a. The Objection: | You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” | (19) |
| b. The Reply: | ||
| (1) The First Point: | Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, | (20a) |
| (2) The Second Point: | but you stand by your faith. | (20b) |
| (3) The Warning: | Do not be conceited, but fear; | (20c) |
| (a) If: | for if God did not spare the natural branches, | (21a) |
| (b) Then: | He will not spare you, either. | (21b) |
| C. The Conclusion: | Behold then the kindness and severity of God; | (22a) |
| 1. The Statement: | ||
| a. His Severity (Israel): | to those who fell, severity, | (22b) |
| b. His Kindness (Gentiles): | but to you, God’s kindness, | (22c) |
| 2. The Conditions: | ||
| a. For the Gentiles: | ||
| (1) If: | if you continue in His kindness; | (22d) |
| (2) Else: | otherwise you also will be cut off. | (22e) |
| b. For Israel: | ||
| (1) If: | And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, | (23a) |
| (2) Then: | will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. | (23b) |
| (3) Explanation: | ||
| (a) If: | For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, | (24a) |
| (b) Then: | how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree? | (24b) |
| III. All Israel Will Someday Be Saved | VERSES 11:25-32 | |
| A. The Introduction: | ||
| 1. Paul’s Desire: | For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery | (25a) |
| 2. Paul’s Reason: | —so that you will not be wise in your own estimation— | (25b) |
| 3. The Mystery: | ||
| a. The Hardening: | ||
| (1) What: | that a partial hardening has happened to Israel | (25c) |
| (2) How Long: | until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; | (25d) |
| b. The Salvation: | and so all Israel will be saved; | (26a) |
| c. The Scriptures: | just as it is written, “THE DELIVERER WILL COME FROM ZION, HE WILL REMOVE UNGODLINESS FROM JACOB.” “THIS IS MY COVENANT WITH THEM, WHEN I TAKE AWAY THEIR SINS.” (Isaiah 59:20-21) |
(26b-27) |
| B. The Present State of Israel: | ||
| 1. First: | ||
| a. The Viewpoint: | From the standpoint of the gospel | (28a) |
| b. Their Status: | they are enemies for your sake, | (28b) |
| 2. Second: | ||
| a. The Viewpoint: | but from the standpoint of God’s choice | (28c) |
| b. Their Status: | ||
| (1) The Statement: | they are beloved for the sake of the fathers; | (28d) |
| (2) The Reason: | for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. | (29) |
| C. The Comparison: | ||
| 1. Gentiles: | ||
| a. The Condition in the Past: | For just as you once were disobedient to God, | (30a) |
| b. The Condition Now: | ||
| (1) The Change: | but now have been shown mercy | (30b) |
| (2) The Reason: | because of their disobedience, | (30c) |
| 2. Israel: | ||
| a. The Condition Now: | so these also now have been disobedient, | (31a) |
| b. The Condition to Come: | ||
| (1) The Reason: | that because of the mercy shown to you | (31b) |
| (2) The Change | they also may now be shown mercy. | (31c) |
| 3. The Conclusion: | ||
| a. The Judgment: | For God has shut up all in disobedience | (32a) |
| b. The Reason: | so that He may show mercy to all. | (32b) |