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In the Bible room today, we continue reading the book of Romans with Session 5. Here are the summaries of chapters 10 and 11.

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Romans

Session 5

Chapter 10. Sent

Fellow believers, here is my heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel:

• That they will be saved; I have seen that they sincerely desire
• To know God, but they do not know what it means to live right
• Before God, as they are trying to live without God; They have
• Not brought themselves into a relationship with Him; Christ
• Has fulfilled the law in order that everyone who believes can
• Live rightly in God; Moses wrote that the people who try to
• Follow the law fully, must commit their whole life to the law;  
• But the life of faith says, do not try to bring Christ down from
• Heaven, or bring Him up from the dead; What it says is that
• You have the word within you–in your mouth and in your
• Heart, and this is the word of faith that we preach, that if you
• Confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your
• Heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be
• Saved; For with the heart, one believes and is made right with
• God, and then you can declare your salvation; 
• The Scripture says everyone who believes in Him will not be
• Shamed, and this applies for both Jews and Greeks, for the
• Lord will bless everyone who seeks to know Him;
• Everyone who seeks the Lord shall be saved;
• How would it be possible for those who do not believe in Him
• Find salvation in Him? Or, how could they believe if they have
• Never heard of Him? And how could they hear of Him unless
• There is a preacher? And how could there be a preacher unless
• One is sent? As it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of
• Those who bring glad tidings of good things!’
• But not everyone has obeyed the gospel, for Isaiah says: ‘Lord,
• Who has believed our report?’ Hearing the word of God brings
• Faith; But, I ask, ‘Have they not heard?’ Yes, they have heard:
• The word has gone out all over the world;
• Then I ask, ‘How could Israel not know?’ Moses has said:
• ‘I will cause you to be jealous of a people who are not even a
• Nation,’ And Isaiah wrote: ‘I was found by people who never
• Looked for me.’ But to Israel he says: ‘For a long time I have
• Extended My hands to you, but you have been disobedient and
• Contrary.’

Chapter 11. Riches

This is what I would say to the question: Has God given up on His people?

• Definitely not! For I also am an Israelite, descended from
• Abraham from the tribe of Benjamin; God has not given up on
• His people whom He has always known;
• Have you heard of Elijah, how he spoke to God against Israel,
• Telling God how Israel had killed all the prophets, torn down
• His altars, and Elijah was the only one left, and they were
• Intending to kill him; But God told Elijah that He had marked
• For Himself seven thousand men who have not worshipped
• Baal; And, to this day, there is a remnant according to the grace
• Of God; So, if the remnant remains by grace, then it is no
• Longer of works, otherwise, grace would not be grace;
• Those of Israel whom God has chosen have obtained grace,
• But the rest have become hardened; To this very day, God has
• Made them sleepy, and they cannot hear or see, just as it is
• Written; And David wrote: ‘Let their table become a snare and
• A trap, a stumbling block, and let their eyes be dark and they
• Will always be bent over;’ I say then, shall they stumble and
• Fall? Definitely not! But through their failure, salvation has
• Come to the Gentiles; If their failure brings blessings to the
• World, to the Gentiles, then much more will they be filled;
• I am speaking to you, Gentiles, for I have been called to
• Minister to you; But my hope is that as I minister to you, some
• Of my own people will be saved; If their rejection will bring
• Reconciliation to the world, then their acceptance will then
• Lead from death into life; If the root is holy, so are the
• Branches; And if some branches are broken off, then you, being
• Like a wild olive tree, are grafted in among them, you will
• Enjoy the blessings of the root; But do not speak against the
• Branches, but remember that the branches do not support the
• Root, as it is the root that supports the branches; Then, you can
• Say that ‘branches were broken off that I might be grafted in;’
• Because of their unbelief, they were broken off, but you live by
• Faith; However, do not be proud, but be fearful, since God may
• Deal with you as He did the branches he broke off;
• Remember that while God is good, He is also demanding:
• He was demanding for those who failed, and He will be good
• Toward you if you continue in the faith; But if you do not, He
• Will break you off as He did those who failed; Likewise, He can
• Restore those who have fallen, and graft them back in with the
• Branches as when they believed; If you were a branch from a
• Wild olive tree, and were grafted into a good olive tree, how
• Much more will these, who are of the natural branches, be
• Grafted back into their own olive tree; Now, I want you
• Gentiles to understand how this mystery came about lest you
• Should get an elevated opinion of yourselves: Israel had become
• Hardened against God, so He allowed His blessing to come to
• You, the Gentiles; Israel will be saved, for as it is written:
• ‘The Deliverer will come out of Zion, and clear the evil from
• Jacob, this I promise to them when I remove their sins;’
• You may question the Jews over some things of the gospel,
• But they are still God’s chosen people, and that will never
• Change; You were once away from God, but you have received
• His mercy as they had turned away from Him; So, now, these
• Who had been disobedient have received God’s mercy the same
• As has been shown to you; For God has shown His mercy to all
• Whom He had condemned by their disobedience;
• Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of
• God! We can never know His ways and how He makes His
• Decisions! ‘For who has known the mind of the Lord?’
• For all things have come by and from Him, to whom be all
• Praise. Amen.

End of Session 5 of the book of Romans.