The Lord's Day Bible Message Outlines
July 11, 2010
Pastor Dana Johnson
"do
not boast against the branches.... "
-Romans
11:18
do not boast against the branches.
But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the
root, but the root supports you.
1. We gentiles should not boast
against the branches (Israel) because we recognize Israel's
special status with God.
a. They are His people
Romans 11:1 - I
say then, has God cast away His people? Certainly not!
For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of
the tribe of Benjamin.
b. God has established eternal
purposes for Israel.
Romans 11:2, 29 -
God has not cast away His people whom He foreknew. Or do
you not know what the Scripture says of Elijah, how he
pleads with God against Israel, saying. 29For
the gifts and the calling of God are
irrevocable.
c. There still is a remnant of
believing, saved Jews.
Romans 11:5 - Even
so then, at this present time there is a remnant
according to the election of grace.
d. Beware of some theological
systems (Roman Catholic and some Protestant Reformed)
that insist that the Church has permanently replaced the
nation of Israel and has become the New
Israel.
2. We should not boast because we
recognize that,w ere it not for God's mercy, neither Jew nor
gentile would ever be saved.
Romans 11:30-32 - For
as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained
mercy through their disobedience, 31even so these
also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown
you they also may obtain mercy. 32For God has
committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy
on all.
3. We should not boast because we
recognize that God's mercy for both Jew and gentile was not
prompted by human behavior but arises out of His own eternal
counsels.
Romans 11:33-36 - 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? 35Or who
has first given to Him and it shall be repaid to him?"
36For of Him and through Him and to Him are all
things, to whom be glory forever. Amen.
4. We should not boast because we
recognize, sympathetically, that it is through Israel's
misfortunes we gentiles have this moment of
grace.
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Reference
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Israel
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Gentiles
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Romans 11:11
- I say then, have they stumbled that they
should fall? Certainly not! But through their
fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has
come to the Gentiles.
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Fall
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Salvation
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Romans 11:15
- For if their being cast away is the
reconciling of the world, what will their
acceptance be but life from the
dead?
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Cast
away
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Reconciliation
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Romans 11:22
- Therefore consider the goodness and severity
of God: on those who fell, severity; but toward
you, goodness, if you continue in His goodness.
Otherwise you also will be cut
off.
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Severity
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Goodness
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Romans 11:25
- For I do not desire, brethren, that you should
be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be
wise in your own opinion, that blindness in part
has happened to Israel until the fullness of the
Gentiles has come in.
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Blindness
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Fullness of the
gentiles
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5. We should not boast because we
recognize that, on an individual level, both Jew and gentile
are saved the same way.
a. By God's election.
Romans 9:16, 24 -
So then it is not of him who wills, nor of him who runs,
but of God who shows mercy. 24even us whom He
called, not of the Jews only, but also of the
Gentiles?
b. By faith.
Romans 10:12-13 -
For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for
the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him.
13For "whoever calls on the name of the LORD
shall be saved."
6. We should not boast because we
recognize that Israel has not been grafted into the
gentiles; but the gentiles into Israel.
a. The gentiles are partakers
in Israel's rich spiritual heritage.
Romans 11:17 - And
if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a
wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with
them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the
olive tree.
Romans 15:27 - It pleased them indeed, and they are their
debtors. For if the Gentiles have been partakers of their
spiritual things, their duty is also to minister to them
in material things.
See that heritage in
Romans 9:4-5 - Who
are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory,
the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God,
and the promises; 5of whom are the fathers and
from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is
over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.
b. The gentiles are supported by
Israel's rich spiritual heritage.
Romans 11:18 - Do
not boast against the branches. But if you do boast,
remember that you do not support the root, but the root
supports you.
(All
Scripture quoted is from the New King James
Version)
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