ROMANS Study Guide

2) But God will likewise use the Gentile Church in His time to

provoke Israel to return to God through their Messiah Jesus.

3) Paul refers to the amazing promise of wh at Israel’s restoration

will mean to the Kingdom of God and to the gospel’s impact

on the world through their combined witness of Jew and Gentile.

a) Paul is saying that the removal of Israel brought the riches

of the gospel to the Gentiles… so what will their “fullness”

(Their restoration…literally their filling up with God’s Spirit)

mean to the World in regard to spiritual impact? Vs.12

b) Paul reminds the Romans that he celebrates his apostleship

to take the gospel to the Gentiles…but he wants to make

something very clear…his ministry has a goal of seeing God

provoke his people to jealousy so that as many as will - can

be saved. Vs. 13-14

c) If the rejecting of the Jewish nation allowed for the

reconciliation of the Gentile people to God…what will happen

when they are res tored… it will be nothing less than a

release of amazing resurrection life and power in witness to

the gospel. Vs.15

Rom 11:17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and became a sharer of the root and the fatness of the olive tree with them, Rom 11:18 do not boast against the branches. But if you boast, it is not you that bears the root, but the root bears you. Rom 11:19 You will say then, the branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in. Rom 11:20 Well, because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be high-minded, but fear. Rom 11:21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, fear lest He also may not spare you either! Rom 11:22 Behold then the kindness, and the severity of God; on those having fallen, severity; but on you, kindness, if you continue in the kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. Rom 11:23 And those also, if they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in. For God is able to graft them in again.