April 30 - Romans 10:18-11:4

 

10:18

Did they not hear?

            Paul quotes Psalm 19:4 – look at the speech language throughout Psalm 19!

            See also Exodus 19:8

What were they to hear?

            How are we saved?

            Who is to be saved?

10:19-20

Did Israel not understand?

            Understand what? Who was to be saved, and how they were to be saved!

            Deuteronomy 32:21

                        Part of the Song of Moses

                                    Part History

                                    Part Prophecy

Isaiah 65:1

            These words are in response to Israel’s prayer in Isaiah 63:15-64:12

10:21

Isaiah 65:2

 

What is Paul’s point as he speaks here about Israel?

Romans 11:1-4

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? Absolutely not! For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew. Or don’t you know what the Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he pleads with God against Israel? Lord, they have killed your prophets and torn down your altars. I am the only one left, and they are trying to take my life! But what was God’s answer to him? I have left seven thousand for myself who have not bowed down to Baal. 

 

Elijah – 1 Kings 17-19

            Famine/Drought

                        Hiding at Wadi Cherith

            Widow of Zarephath

                        Oil and Flour

                        Dead Son

            Confronting Ahab

            Sacrifice at Mount Carmel

            Threatened by Jezebel

            Flight to Horeb

                        Instructions from the LORD’s Soft Whisper

Romans 11:5-6

In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace. Now if by grace, then it is not by works; otherwise grace ceases to be grace.

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