all right well let's uh just open with a
word of prayer and we're going to
continue today in this series uh I've
been teaching through Romans 9 10 and 11
this is the fifth uh installment or
session whatever you call it and it's
going to focus today on the whole idea
of the remnant okay which is a big big
theme in uh in these chapters so let's
just pray father we thank you for this
time we thank you for your word and uh
thank you for the depth and Riches of it
and how we are called to study it and
know it uh and how it builds us Lord
help my words whatever you've showed me
taught me Lord let it come in a way that
would help and build up those here in
this room and all those who are going to
watch this video uh somewhere or
sometime bashem Yeshua amen all right so
just a quick little review right Romans
9:10 and 11 started in Romans 9 of
course Paul's burden and then we got to
verse 6 this crisis has the word of God
come to no effect and we talked a lot
about what that means and what people
were saying and all what's happened to
the promises of Israel the Jewish people
to Jerusalem and remember Paul was
writing all this 10 15 years before the
destruction of Jerusalem in the temple
but it was like prophetically announcing
seeing this coming and what it would
mean for people who were reading the the
Bible which was the Old Testament at the
time right what we call and seeing all
these Promises of the glory and
restoration of Jerusalem and the Jewish
people coming back and instead the
opposite happened and he is going to I
told you he's going to lay out that this
word of God has not
failed but there's some surprises and
it's coming to pass in three big
categories paradigms you guys remember
what they are I'm just going to keep on
nailing it and hitting them the first
one is the remnant that's the one we're
going to focus on today the second one
is the Gentiles the Nations the new man
that was the big surprise right and then
the third one we're going to get to in a
week or two is Romans 11 the ultimate
fullness of all the promises of God in
this and then last week last two weeks
we focused on Romans 10 it's like Paul
kind of pauses and says well I'm I'm
teaching you all these big theological
things about the word of God and history
and prophecy but don't forget folks it
all happens in him in the gospel right
this simple gospel that we Proclaim that
we're sent out for and that's how it's
going to happen for the remnant for the
one new man and the ultimate fullness
it's all about him there's no dual
covenant where the Jewish people are
going to get saved by coming in through
a back door of Moses and the Torah
without Yeshua no no no it's all in him
remember Romans 10 okay um so today
we're we finished Romans 10 last week
we're going to start into Romans 11 and
I have to tell you I've been I hope you
admire my patience I love teaching
Romans 11 and I've taught it hundreds of
times and I love there's we're going to
get to some great stuff but I I've taken
my time getting there because there's
all this other stuff right you just got
to stop and and dig into and I'm
reminding you of something I've said
almost every time we're going to go into
the scriptures that Paul quotes remember
the iceberg principle right all of he
quotes hundreds of times in the Book of
Romans from the Tanakh from the Old
Testament and it it's the iceberg
through what the verse is just the tip
of the iceberg right he's not just sort
of you know randomly pulling things out
of this there's a reason and you got to
stop and if you want to enrich your
Bible study and your devotion you got to
stop and go wait a minute this is Isaiah
chapter 1 what's going on in Isaiah
chapter let's go back to those verses
and read them and the context and the
spirit of what's going on there oh
there's a whole other there's a whole
lot more that Paul's referring to right
we're going to do that Romans 11 1 2 1
and two I say then God has not rejected
his people has he may it never
be for I too am an Israelite a
descendant of Abraham of The Tribe of
Benjamin God has not rejected his people
whom he
forew okay um now he does this you know
it's kind of a rhetorical question you
know all that means he's he starts with
a question is God rejected his people he
ask the question so that he can answer
it right well what what's why is he
asking that question well that's the end
of we have to go back to the end of
Romans 10 and the last few verses of
Romans 10 he quotes from Isaiah 65 about
God reaching his hands out all day long
to an obstinate idolatrous Nation who
are rebelling against him and playing
the Harlot with all of that that's
Israel right and his judgment and
rejection of Israel right and he said
okay well guys what am I saying am I
saying that God's finished with Israel
that this is the last
word about Israel has God rejected no no
no no that's not what I'm saying let me
tell
you and the first thing is as we've been
studying it's the remnant The Remnant
and here he kind of gets into what this
whole Remnant thing is and we're going
to study this and also go back to the
end of Romans nine where he talks a lot
about the remnant too
um you
know his he said he asked the question
has God rejected his
people and then he says no may it never
be and then what does he say he says
basically look at me right I he doesn't
say well look at the Jerusalem Church
there's 10,000 people in the back there
and there's there God is Not rejected
there's a Remnant he doesn't say he says
I I am an Israelite a descendant of
Abraham of The Tribe of Benjamin
therefore God has not rejected his
people you got stop and thinking about
that go that's
pretty pompous maybe a little arrogant
to say say all the promises of is to
Israel God has not rejected his people
because I believe because I have the
Holy
Spirit um have you ever thought that way
have you ever felt like maybe you're the
only one or the only true faithful one
who really gets
it it's kind of I think all of us go
through that if especially if you're
like a really successful anointed
minister with a big Ministry you know
you start to think like I'm it you know
and uh without me God couldn't do his
work and all that then what Paul does to
sort of back up and to and to strengthen
what he's trying to say he tells the
story of Elijah okay that's the rest of
verse two or don't you know what the
scripture says in the passage about
Elijah how he pleads with God against
Israel all right now this is you got to
go back to the story in First Kings
chapter 171 1819 the story of Elijah who
was really like the lone prophet okay
there he is prophesying to Ahab against
you know in the northern kingdom in
Samaria terribly idolatrous with Ahab
and
his what kind of wife I don't even want
to think of what I want to say about
Jezebel about Isabel you know and and
all the They terrible things and and
Elijah gets up there and says three
years there's going to be no no rain
until I say so and you know the story
right and three years comes and then God
speaks to him and what happens on Mount
Carmel right this incredible vict
victory Of Fire coming down on the wet
sacrifice you know all the story right
and then it's in in as the story
continues after this amazing Victory
right and they kill the people rise up
and Slaughter the 450 prophets of B okay
it's a big Revival it next thing says
that Jezebel well she had some spiritual
power this woman she was she heard what
Elijah did and she said that's um we got
to go kill him right it says Elijah got
to he just started running
away he's running away and God he brings
him to this
place HB Mount Si you know the story
right the wind the Rev and he ask him
this question okay um the question is
you know Elijah what are you doing here
and Elijah says he repeats something
that he had said earlier I have been I
have been very zealous for the Lord he
means himself just just him the god of
hosts for the sons of Israel have
forsaken your Covenant torn down your
altars and killed your prophets with the
sword and I alone am left and they seek
my life to take it
away wow I call this the Elijah complex
okay and God tries to rebuke him for it
I think
unsuccessfully um and you know what God
says and what Paul quotes in Romans 11
God's answer
is Elijah chill out
all right he didn't say that but that's
modern paraphrase okay modern California
paraphrase uh chill out relax I have
Reserve preserved
7,000 people in Israel who have not
bowed their knee to Bow you're not the
only
one
okay um you know this is a funny kind of
remember this is what Paul this is the
story that Paul is quoting and you got
to think about Paul you know I think he
felt like Elijah sometimes
you know he said in Colossians chapter 4
when he's giving these greetings and
talking about this and that people and
greet this guy and he
says this in verses 10 and 11 arist
arist arus my fellow prisoner sends you
his greetings also Barnabas and Mark uh
welcome him and yes Jesus Yeshua who is
called Justice it shows you that the
name Yeshua was a common name among
Jewish people back then these are the
only fellow workers from the kingdom of
God who are from the circumcision
did you catch that Paul in all of his
ministry okay he was raising up churches
and people and schools and disciples and
this that and for sending them out he
had I think it's two it depends how you
read it could be three there were two
other Jews he could have there's Timothy
too maybe you forgot Timothy oh three
all right from all of the Jewish people
there were two or three who were
faithful workers with him oh he felt as
a Jew pretty alone okay but he knew that
God was with him all right and I think
for all of us you know there's this
there's this lesson here that on the one
hand each one of us has to wake up every
morning and think the entire kingdom of
God depends on
me uh and maybe I that's a little
exaggeration but but but I've got a
calling there's a responsibility that
God has given me in this generation in
this place in this neighborhood in this
job and if I don't do it nobody else
will and I've got to get up and I've got
to read my Bible and I've got to pray
and I got to get out of all the negative
thinking and complain because it all
depends on
me
well sort of but you have to think that
way but on the other hand you start
praying like Yeshua taught us to pray
how did you just pray what's the first
words Our Father in Heaven the first
words you go oh wait it's not just me
it's not my Father in Heaven it's our oh
there's other people I got to pray for
them I've got brothers and sisters we're
together I'm not alone I'm not alone but
I am called and I have a responsibility
and it does depend on me you you just
one of these biblical balances you got
to kind of walk in right not fall into
the Elijah complex where you really
think it's just me I'm the only one you
know everything depends on me God what
are you going to do without me no no no
no don't think that way right but do
think that you you are unique and every
one of us needs to rise up and take
responsibility and then remember that
there's always 7,000 there's always
that's the first thing that Paul there's
always been a Remnant there's always
been an organic chain of faith in Yeshua
among the Jewish people throughout
history many of them were lost into the
churches and this and that but they've
been there God preserved it okay just as
he preserved the davidic line through
the Kings through the Exile all these
things God knows what he's doing with
his Remnant okay the second thing that
we we learn from this is that you know
God works through this is the principle
of God he works through one he works
through 300 in Gideon's time he works
through a small Remnant right Yeshua in
John 17 prays he says I don't pray for
the world I pray for these those who
have you've have given them your word
they've known you I pray for them
so that means Yeshua we were just
interceding a lot here for the situation
the Middle East when we're looking down
in the Middle East on Israel or Lebanon
what we should see first if we're in
Yeshua he feels and sees his body right
and maybe one
person
right it may be 10 people but God says
pray for them because that's how he's
going to work he's going to also do a
lot of other things as he's God right
but don't look at that look at that body
you're going to you're praying for
another country you're praying for
Israel find the body find the one person
the 10 people find out what they what
their needs are pray for them Jews and
Arabs The Remnant God works through the
remnant and you know we yonas kept on
mentioning DNA today in our P there's
something in the DNA of the remnant for
every tribe tongue and nation that
that's the deposit of God that's where
the covenants of God are and for Israel
Paul is saying you know I don't know if
you caught this it was if you know
another place here Paul says very
proudly in a good way I'm in Israel I'm
a Jew I'm of The Tribe of Benjamin do
you remember when he used that language
elsewhere in his letters one other place
maybe two Philippians chapter 3 what is
how does he use it there he says though
I myself might have confidence in the
flesh this is Philippians 3:4 and 5 if
anyone else has a mind to put I am
circumcised the eth day of the nation of
Israel of The Tribe of Benjamin a Hebrew
of Hebrews as to the law the Torah a
Pharisee but then what you know what the
next verse is but all this I count as
rubbish compared he uses in Philippians
it's negative it's a negative
Counterpoint all this Jewish stuff all
this glory of
the here in Romans 11 it's the
opposite Paul knew what he was doing he
knew when it came to preaching the
gospel and a lot of things of the
kingdom of God
jewishness what a John the Baptist say
if God wants to raise up children of
Abraham from the stones he can don't
count on your on your your pedigree
you're Jewish you can't it's not it's
not going to help you on the other hand
Paul says there's a Remnant and it's
significant and we need you need to
understand it and God has a deposit
there and it's a positive thing okay
that's how it is in in Romans 11
um let's go
to the other place in Romans 9:10 11
where Paul really
emphasizes these this teaching about the
remnant okay and that's at the end of
chapter nine I skipped this when I
taught uh chapter nine verses
27-29 okay and here he's quoting Isaiah
uh
10 um where the word of Remnant in
Hebrew for
those okay is repeated five six seven
times in just a few verses in Isaiah
Romans 9:
27-29 Isaiah Cries Out concerning
Israel though the number of the sons of
Israel be like the sand of the sea it is
the remnant that will be
saveda for the Lord will execute his
word on on the earth thoroughly and
quickly and just as Isaiah foretold
unless the Lord of
sabot itot had left us a posterity a
Remnant we would have become like Sodom
and would have resembled gamorra okay
I'm going to read to you what the first
part those first verses according which
is Isaiah 10: 20- 22 Isaiah 10:2
remember this is the iceberg principle
okay now in that day the remnant of
Israel and those of the House of Jacob
who have escaped will never again rely
on the one who struck them but will
truly rely on the Lord the Holy One of
Israel a Remnant will return the remnant
of Jacob to the Mighty God for though
your People Israel may be like the sand
of the sea only a Remnant within them
will return here in Isaiah it says
return Paul in R said we'll be saved
okay keep those two words in mind return
and be saved a destruction is determined
overflowing with righteousness the
context of Isaiah 10 is Isaiah preaching
uh about Assyria coming Assyria already
judged the northern kingdom and he's
saying God is going to bring Assyria to
judge also the southern Kingdom Judea
ultimately because of the repentance of
Isaiah and and King Hezekiah the
judgment is stopped right I don't know
186,000 Assyrian soldiers die outside
Jerusalem in one night imagine that kind
of Deliverance but then ultimately
there's the the next generation is
Babylon which becomes the judgment and
that's what these prophets were were
preaching about when they talked about a
Remnant they weren't talking about a
spiritual remnant
okay they were talking about a real
physical Remnant a group of survivors
folks okay that that that God was going
he he judged Samaria and the northern
kingdom scattered them he's going to
judge Judea the southern Kingdom in the
time of Jeremiah right and that happened
in the Babylonian
exile and then and this is what we got
to remember when we're reading the New
Testament it's about to happen again
okay and we got to to or to understand
what Paul's saying and what he's
prophesying you got to kind of we got to
get in a time machine realize this is
not just about me and personal salvation
okay he's prophesying about God's
judgment on Israel you remember we
started way back I think in the first uh
session you know we read from acts 21-22
when Paul came back to Jerusalem and and
a riot they wanted to kill this guy
remember that and what what happened
what were they screaming when they
realized who he was when he came back to
the temple at Jerusalem they they were
screaming this is the man who in every
place all over the diaspora is teaching
our people against Moses against the
traditions and against this place the
temple right because starting with
Yeshua and then his disciples he was
clearly prophesying just like Jeremiah
that in our generation and it took 30
years after the time of Yeshua 25 30
years that
Jerusalem the temple is going to be
destroyed again there's going to be
terrible terrible judgment just as in
the time of
Jeremiah Jeremiah talks about women
eating their fetuses terrible terrible
disgusting things of poverty of death
and destruction in Jerusalem and they're
say he's saying it's going to happen
again so when Paul he quotes these
things about a Remnant he not just
talking about well there's going to be
some Jews who get saved and believe in
Jesus all right he's saying
that God is about to destroy Jerusalem
and Judea again but he's always going to
preserve a Remnant there will be this
seed that cones a group of
survivors right and folks this is I mean
for for we as Jewish people this is like
you know I was thinking about this as I
Was preparing I thought you know this is
it's it's in our Jewish DNA this remnant
surviv
mentality or or reality I mean this
country Israel today is is a is a
Remnant country folks I'm I'm an
ashkanazi Jew which mean sorry about
that an ashkanazi Jew which means you
know from central eastern Europe okay I
grew up in the United States my
mother's side are third generation
Americans my father's side but
ironically my wife and I we discovered
uh that our ancestors came from more or
less the same area in the Ukraine okay
like 150 years ago okay hers came here
in the first Aliah in the 1880s why did
they come here because it was such
because of the Dead Sea and the spas and
the hotels no and the homos no they came
here they were fleeing pges you've heard
this word lately is be they've called
what happened in Amsterdam a few weeks
ago a Pome I think it's a little
overblown to call it a Pome whatever but
they're using a word of what happened in
Eastern Europe especially throughout the
generations when especially around
holidays like Easter when the ukrainians
and this would go to church and get
drunk and blah blah blah and then they
would go and let's go burn the Jews and
kill the Jews you know that was like the
sport and uh they were never the
ukrainians and the poles and these
people they were it was violent but it
was always short-lived I guess when they
you know when The Hangover left them um
they were not they were not they were
not systematic
fanatic ideologues like the Germans
right the Germans it was like when the
Germans do
something uh and that's what the H you
know the Nazi Holocaust became but there
was just these waves of pograms all the
time and so the people were fleeing that
her ancestors came here and we're
pioneers of the of the kib the kibuts
and this that she's fifth generation on
her mother's side which is very old for
for an Israeli but I think of her and I
think of me I you know I'm I'm this
close to having been not been here
because my ancestors you know another
stream of them they were in Europe and
they're gone they burned in the the
ovens of awit or something we don't know
all right but I was this close I mean
all of us in this country and those who
fled from you know 1948 and 49 from the
war and and the the Islamic Jihad and
all this stuff we're we're a we are a
Remnant okay and this you got to think
when you're reading this that it's not
just talking about the spiritual side of
it that there's not just going to be a
small group of of Jewish Believers
that's that's true but he's saying this
when when he says the remnant is going
to be saved this is the preparation for
the climax that we're going to come to
in Romans 11:25 and 26 when he says all
Israel will be saved not just the
remnant the whole nation is going to be
saved and when most Christians read that
they think oh sometime in the future if
if they have a positive view of the the
God's covenant with Israel they haven't
gotten a PhD in replacement theology
which you actually have have to have in
order to read Israel out of the Bible uh
like that you have to be very smart and
very well educated to do that um I'll
tell you a funny story if we have time
about that in a little bit uh and when
he said when he writes all Israel be
saved he's not just talking about
spiritual things he's talking about
Deliverance
salvation there's going to be War
there's going to be destruction all the
na Zechariah we all the nations coming
up against Jerusalem when Yeshua returns
he's going to save us in every dimension
of the word every all the promises
spiritual physic it's all going to come
together at this amazing amazing
climax
of salvation of the remnant and of of
God's people okay so that's um
that's the the teaching today that's the
remnant it is about us every one of us
like Paul saying I am an Israelite I'm
this I'm whatever but I'm called I have
the promises of God I have faith I have
the word of God it depends on me
Hallelujah I got to get up and do it
until until I as long as I have breath
God's got a purpose for me right to
believe that but not to fall into the
Elijah complex and think that it's all
depends it's just me no we're a team
there's a lot of other people we join
Unity we prayed a lot about unity all of
that uh and second that the remnant is
this principle of how God works in the
world in every country in every place
you know if you're if you want to
support missions in some country you got
to you find if there's two Believers in
that country among that people group
that's where you start you start praying
for them you start supporting them you
say okay how are we going to bring the
gospel to this people through them
that's how God's going to work right he
has always worked through that the
remnant principle and then third
remember that it's as it
continues this remnant of Israel idea is
not just an idea it's something that God
is is is doing throughout history with
our people we're a people that is a sign
of God's judgment and God's blessing
okay and he but he's promised that there
will always be these survivors he's not
going to eliminate he's not finished
with us until right and because of the
remnant we're going to see this either
next week or the or the following um he
when he says in verse 16 Romans in
chapter 11 he says if the lump is Holy
then the whole dough is Holy if the root
is Holy that's the remnant okay if this
little piece is Holy then the whole
thing is all right and what that means
for who we are today and how God's going
to work and bring this all together in
an amazing he is bringing it together in
an amazing way bashem Yeshua I'll tell
you a funny story I do have a few
minutes about this
uh um sort of replacement last week when
I was in that country at that conference
uh meeting different uh people who are
serving and sharing the gospel um
they're from different nations but
they're working in in Middle East mostly
in in Muslim countries and uh they
talked about how with the what they call
the mbb you all know what that means the
Muslim background believer as opposed to
in the Arab in the Arab world like in
Israel or in Lebanon you have also um a
a group used to be a lot larger but a
lot of them have have left but of of
traditional Christians Greek Orthodox
Catholic marinite in uh and Protestant
much of it is cultural you know we know
from our our brothers here there a lot
of the evangelism that they do is also
to to these sort of cultural Christians
um but these folks were comparing their
their experience with both groups when
it comes to
Israel you know because listen when you
go out in these in these countries and
you're sharing the gospel or you want to
share the gospel with a Muslim person
you know generally the handbook doesn't
say that you know the first thing you
should say is Hi you know Yeshua loves
you he's the son of Abraham Isaac and
Jacob the god of Israel you know that's
not how you start in your gospel
presentation to a muslim okay at least
that's what the handbooks say right okay
um and why don't we start in Romans 11
and God's promises to Israel and how he
let Jud no you kind of you don't start
there unfortunately not only do most
people not start there they never get
there it's it's something you kind of
want to just avoid and it's a lot easier
to preach a very sort of Gentile
Christian Christianity replacement
theology Jesus you know personal
salvation
but what happens then is then there's
all this influence from Islam and the
culture that becomes very anti
anti-israel they were telling us what
we've heard and known for for a long
time that it's actually among these two
groups of Arabs or lebanes or whatever
that it's the Muslim background
believers who have a much easier time
embracing God's promises to Israel and
they're saying yeah and they say I said
this I said when you know when a Muslim
very often comes to Faith uh it's like
they put a Target on their chest that
says shoot me I mean their families
their their neighborhoods it's very
dangerous okay so you're a dead man
already to put another Target on your
back it says God loves Israel all right
shoot me again you know they've died to
that fear right and so they're just
willing to go all the way with with
God's truth whatever it is the other
thing is that they're they're so fresh
to the
scriptures right and they've been
reading the Quran all their life and now
they realize the Quran is full of all
this weird stuff and lies and twists of
of the Bible they're so excited about
the word of God they read Romans 9:111
it's like wow a man God praise God let's
pray for Israel they were saying it just
happens very naturally that but with the
with those from the traditional
Christian background they've got these
Century even if they're cultural these
centuries of all this CH this teaching
which is very
complex I mean to read Romans 11 what we
just read today I say then has God
rejected his people uh no I mean to take
that and have it mean something else you
have to be very
smart very well trained you need at
least a master's degree in theology
probably a PhD okay to read Romans 25
and says all Israel be saved and to make
that Israel be the church okay you you
need to be very very well
educated okay if you're just a normal
person like Paul
who was also well educated but anyway he
didn't have a master's or PhD from these
seminaries and uh it's just it it was
just a good reminder from these from
these missionaries to see how they're
experiencing the different groups of of
people amen