God is Faithful to his people. He is faithful to keep all his promises to his children. Download the free powerpoint and listen to the Youtube sermon at Bibleguy.org

1. God Is Faithful
to His People
Romans 11:1-10

2. GOD’S DISCIPLINE IS NOT
REJECTION

3. Luke 13:34–35 (ESV)
34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the
city that kills the prophets and
stones those who are sent to
it! How often would I have
gathered your children
together as a hen gathers her
brood under her wings, and
you were not willing! 5 Behold,
your house is forsaken. And I
tell you, you will not see me
until you say, ‘Blessed is he
who comes in the name of the
Lord!’ ”

4. Luke 21:24
24 They will fall by the
edge of the sword and
be led captive among
all nations, and
Jerusalem will be
trampled underfoot by
the Gentiles, until the
times of the Gentiles
are fulfilled.

5. Acts 1:6–8
6 So when they had come
together, they asked him, “Lord,
will you at this time restore the
kingdom to Israel?” 7 He said to
them, “It is not for you to know
times or seasons that the Father
has fixed by his own authority.
8 But you will receive power
when the Holy Spirit has come
upon you, and you will be my
witnesses in Jerusalem and in all
Judea and Samaria, and to the
end of the earth.”

6. GOD DOESN’T REJECT US

7. Romans 8:38–39
38 For I am sure that
neither death nor life,
nor angels nor rulers,
nor things present nor
things to come, nor
powers, 39 nor height
nor depth, nor
anything else in all
creation, will be able
to separate us from
the love of God in
Christ Jesus our Lord.

8. GOD HASN’T STOPPED LOVING THE
JEWS

9. Romans 1:16
16 For I am not
ashamed of the
gospel, for it is the
power of God for
salvation to everyone
who believes, to the
Jew first and also to
the Greek.

10. Romans 9:4–7
4 They are Israelites, and to them
belong the adoption, the glory, the
covenants, the giving of the law, the
worship, and the promises. 5 To
them belong the patriarchs, and
from their race, according to the
flesh, is the Christ, who is God over
all, blessed forever. Amen. 6 But it is
not as though the word of God has
failed. For not all who are
descended from Israel belong to
Israel, 7 and not all are children of
Abraham because they are his
offspring, but “Through Isaac shall
your offspring be named.”

11. Romans 10:1
1 Brothers, my heart’s
desire and prayer to
God for them is that
they may be saved.
Romans 10:21
21 But of Israel he says,
“All day long I have held
out my hands to a
disobedient and
contrary people.”

12. GOD HAS NOT REJECTED THE JEWS!

13. Romans 11:1–10
11 I ask, then, has God
rejected his people?

14. 11 I ask, then, has God
rejected his people? By
no means! For I myself
am an Israelite, a
descendant of Abraham,
a member of the tribe of
Benjamin.

15. 11 I ask, then, has God
rejected his people? By
no means! For I myself
am an Israelite, a
descendant of Abraham,
a member of the tribe of
Benjamin.

16. EVEN IN THE BLEAKEST HOUR GOD
ALWAYS HAS A REMNANT

17. 2 God has not rejected his
people whom he foreknew.
Do you not know what the
Scripture says of Elijah, how
he appeals to God against
Israel? 3 “Lord, they have
killed your prophets, they
have demolished your
altars, and I alone am left,
and they seek my life.”
I Kings 18-19

18. 4 But what is God’s reply to
him? “I have kept for myself
seven thousand men who
have not bowed the knee
to Baal.”

19. 5 So too at the present time
there is a remnant, chosen
by grace. 6 But if it is by
grace, it is no longer on the
basis of works; otherwise
grace would no longer be
grace.

20. THE ELECT OF ISRAEL RECEIVE IT,
THE REST GOD HARDENS

21. 7 What then? Israel
failed to obtain what it
was seeking. The elect
obtained it, but the rest
were hardened,

22. 8 as it is written,
“God gave them a spirit
of stupor, eyes that
would not see and ears
that would not hear,
down to this very day.”

23. 9 And David says,
“Let their table become a
snare and a trap, a
stumbling block and a
retribution for them; 10
let their eyes be darkened
so that they cannot see,
and bend their backs
forever.”

24. “The Jews considered God’s
Word, in particular the
Torah, to be their spiritual
sustenance --- which indeed
it was. But because of their
rebellious unbelief, that
Word became a judgment on
them, a stumbling block and
a retribution.”
John MacArthur

25. DOES GOD HARDEN US AS WELL

26. Romans 10:9–11
9 because, if you confess with
your mouth that Jesus is Lord
and believe in your heart that
God raised him from the
dead, you will be saved. 10 For
with the heart one believes
and is justified, and with the
mouth one confesses and is
saved. 11 For the Scripture
says, “Everyone who believes
in him will not be put to
shame.”