ROMANS 11:13-24 BLESSING FROM REJECTION. Paul speaks personally to the Gentiles to remind them even though the Jews rejected Christ, God only for a time has rejected them. He intends a time of Israel’s restoration. We are brought into the blessings of God’s grace because through Israel came promises and the fulfillment of them when the Lord Jesus Christ came. He is the Root of David. The “olive tree” has its root in God Himself.
Some of the tree has been broken off it is true. But the blessing to us Gentiles is that like a branch from another tree of a similar kind, a wild olive tree, a branch can be grafted, so we who are Gentiles can be grafted into the tree of our Lord Jesus Christ and get our new life from God through Him who is a Jew. Our life as a branch depends on the blessing that came first to Israel.
We should never, therefore, despise or overlook the Jews as being finished with God or God being finished with them. He is going to put new life back into Israel when He grafts them back into the tree and they will again be fruitful to God. I must never look down on their failure but I must be careful that I do not fail, because He can cut off anyone who is not fruitful if He chooses.
“O Righteous God, I am thankful for the nation Thou did choose from among the nations of earth to bring Thy blessing to us all. We had no claim on Thee but by Thy sovereign grace we who were “no people” are now the children of God by faith in Jesus Christ. I do not forget the fact that through Thy earthly people the Lord Jesus Christ came and brought the blessing of eternal life to all who believe. Thanks so much for not forsaking me and for not totally forsaking Israel. May the day soon come when the Lord sits on the throne of David and the glory of God is seen all across the earth coming from that small place on the world’s center. In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, Amen.”