Message Notes

Senior Sunday School 15 December 2024

Text: Romans 11

Subject: “The gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable” Romans 11:29

28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers.

29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience,

31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy.

32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

Romans 11:28-32

JEW AND GENTILE RELATIONSHIP

1. A tension exists

2. Negative responses to be avoided

a) Hostility

b) Animosity

c) They are potentially deadly

CONCERNING THE GOSPEL

1. They are “enemies”

2. Unbelieving Jews can be hostile

a) They prosecuted the Lord Jesus

b) They persecuted believers

c) The danger of hostile actions to be borne in mind

CONCERNING THE ELECTION

1. They are “beloved”

2. For the sake of the fathers

a) Patriarchs

b) Good Jewish believers

GIFTS AND CALLING OF GOD

1. They are truly irrevocable

2. The calling of Abraham

3. The Gift of the Covenant to Abraham and David

GENTILE BELIEVERS ARE REMINDED

1. The past
Disobedient to God (Romans 1; Ephesians 2)

2. The present

a) The mercies of God were extended

b) The Jews rejected the Gospel

c) The Gentiles believed

d) The turning point (Antioch, Pisidia Acts 13)

THE PRESENT DISOBEDIENT JEWS

1. The roles have been switched

a) The Jews are disobedient

b) Mercy extended to the Gentiles

2. Through the mercy of God extended to the Gentiles

a) Hopefully, the Jews would turn to God

b) The Jews need to know how much they need the mercy of God

c) If they turn to God, they too would be saved

VITAL LESSONS

1. Salvation

a) Includes all of mankind

b) Jews and Gentiles

2. What is needed to find salvation

a) Understanding the mercy of God

b) Turning away from sin

c) Believing in the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

3. A heart for evangelism

a) This needresent the Gospel clearly can be learned