In this summary we will find the ultimate goal of God in keeping the covenant is the same as in saving Gentiles. God's wisdom in the way He keeps the covenant with Israel is to strip them of any sense of boasting before God. just as He does in the saving of Gentiles.
Every one, whether Jewish or non-Jewish must be humbled and have no grounds for boasting in themselves before God. As we stand before God (as He is everywhere present, we are always standing before Him) God's goal is to shut our mouths from boasting before Him because He alone deserves all the praise and glory. We must never think too highly of ourselves than we ought. We have been bought by Jesus at immense price. As we read in Revelation again and again about the angels and saints bowing to God the Father, Son (the Lamb) and Holy Spirit in continual praise and worship with little thought to ourselves, we are reminded how unworthy we are of the grace God has given us and how worthy He is to receive all praise and honor, wisdom and strength forever.
God's Wisdom in Destroying Human Pride
Look at Romans 11:25-27.
"For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in." (vs, 25)
Here Paul is warning the Gentiles not to be proud about being ingrafted into the cultivated olive tree (Israe) by faith, because they can be cut out of the tree just as some unfruitful Israelites were because they lacked faith, while those natural Israelites who turn from unbelief to believe in the gospel and put their faith in Jesus, their Messiah, will be grafted back in.
"And so (in like manner as the Gentiles) all of Israel shall be saved, as it is written, 'There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.' (vs 26-27)
PT. 6
In this summary we will find the ultimate goal of God in keeping the covenant is the same as in saving Gentiles. God's wisdom in the way He keeps the covenant with Israel is to strip them of any sense of boasting before God. just as He does in the saving of Gentiles.
Every one, whether Jewish or non-Jewish must be humbled and have no grounds for boasting in themselves before God. As we stand before God (as He is everywhere present, we are always standing before Him) God's goal is to shut our mouths from boasting before Him because He alone deserves all the praise and glory. We must never think too highly of ourselves than we ought. We have been bought by Jesus at immense price. As we read in Revelation again and again about the angels and saints bowing to God the Father, Son (the Lamb) and Holy Spirit in continual praise and worship with little thought to ourselves, we are reminded how unworthy we are of the grace God has given us and how worthy He is to receive all praise and honor, wisdom and strength forever.
God's Wisdom in Destroying Human Pride
Look at Romans 11:25-27.
"For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in." (vs, 25)
Here Paul is warning the Gentiles not to be proud about being ingrafted into the cultivated olive tree (Israe) by faith, because they can be cut out of the tree just as some unfruitful Israelites were because they lacked faith, while those natural Israelites who turn from unbelief to believe in the gospel and put their faith in Jesus, their Messiah, will be grafted back in.
"And so (in like manner as the Gentiles) all of Israel shall be saved, as it is written, 'There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob. For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.' (vs 26-27)
see Pt. 7
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