The Fullness Formula: God’s Call to Israel and the Nations Together (Pt 5) | Ariel Blumenthal

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