290 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 2 - Book 25 - Hath God Cast Away His People? - Part 2

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 2 * BOOK 25 HATH GOD CAST AWAY HIS PEOPLE? - PART 2 In our last lesson we talked about how God has not cast aside his people Israel. They are still in God's program. They have been set aside for the past 1900 + years, and in the meantime God has turned to the Gentiles. A few Jews can be saved, and they are being saved, but as we'll see in the coming verses it's just a remnant, and God has always kept His remnant. So don't subscribe to the idea that God is through with the Jew. Romans 11:2b,3 You remember old Elijah's setting don't you? That was during the reign of King Ahab, and his wife Jezebel. Well here they are gathered on Mount Carmel, and Elijah is getting ready to test these gods of Baal. I Kings 18:26-29 (So Elijah torments them even more.) So Elijah approaches God: I Kings 18:36b-39 "LORD God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O LORD, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the LORD God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again. So Elijah proved to Israel that Jehovah was still the God of Israel. Elijah demanded that they kill the 450 prophets of Baal, and they did. I Kings 19:1,2 Then Jezebel sent a messenger unto Elijah, saying, `So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to morrow about this time.'" I Kings 19:4a Elijah tells God that he's the only one left. I Kings 19:14b Because God has always kept His remnant. Paul rehearses what took place back there in I Kings, Chapter 19, and he says in verse 4 of Romans 11. Romans 11:4 "But what saith the answer of God unto him? (Elijah) You can always pick them out because God has always kept a remnant. Now Paul goes on to say with regard to the Jew in this Age of Grace which is predominately Gentile. Romans 11:5 I just finished reading a book this past week about the testimonies of Jews who have become believers of this Grace Gospel. Romans 3:9,10 Romans 11:6a "And if by grace, (that Gospel by which we are saved according to I Corinthians 15:1-4) then is it no more of works: otherwise grace is no more grace." If they're going to be saved by this Gospel of Grace they have to drop all their works religion of Judaism. Romans 11:6b "...But if it be of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work." Romans 11:7 Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it and the rest were blinded." Now how can God do this? Let's go back to Romans Chapter 1, and let's review for a moment beginning with verse 23. Romans 1:23 Every one of the plagues was directed at one of the gods of Egypt. Romans 1:24 "Wherefore (because they fell into idolatry) God also gave them up to uncleanness..." What's God doing to them? God is judiciously causing mankind to even go deeper into his sins. Now we can't comprehend that, but that's what the Scriptures teaches, and when they went into a lower level of sin, you find in verse 26 God put them even lower. Why? Romans 1:26 That says that a Sovereign God judiciously said, "All right, if you want to live at that level, then go down one level lower." Now coming back to Romans 11 we have the same dealing with the Nation of Israel. Oh, they had every opportunity to know the will of God. Romans 3:1,2 "What advantage then hath the Jew? (remember by the time Paul is writing this Israel has already been blinded) or what profit is there of circumcision? (or being a practicing Jew? And here's the answer in the next verse) Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles (or The Word) of God." In other words, why did God come down so hard on the Nation of Israel in their unbelief? Because they had The Word of God. Israel wanted all those things promised from the Old Testament. They didn't want the suffering Saviour that was foretold in the Old Testament Who would suffer and die for the sins of Israel. A glorious earthly Kingdom over which the Son of God Himself would rule and reign, and Israel would be the top dog of all nations. Verse 7 again. Romans 11:7 Israel hath not obtained that which he seeketh for; but the election hath obtained it, and the rest were blinded." The believer. Now verse 8. Romans 11:8 Now verse 9, and again he's going back to the Psalms and quoting King David. Romans 11:9 Psalms 23:5 God's table. Israel was literally feasting at God's table, and they were getting all the blessings and ramifications of it, but that exalted position of literally sitting at God's table became a snare and a recompense, and it caused them to fall. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible