God, The Jews, and You

Chapter 9-11 might best be summed up as God, the Jews and You as the apostle Paul here in Romans chapter 11 makes sure the church understands the message Paul has spent his life sharing with the Jews in every city he visited on his missionary journeys.

The jews in large part have rejected Paul’s message of salvation by grace where as the gentiles have largely accepted and embraced the message. The reason the religious Jews struggle with the Gospel is simple, the jewish people have for centuries been invested in a religious system that they interpreted provided salvation by works. If any religious group understood zeal it was the Jews.

Where as the non jewish world had no investment in a misinterpretation of the Old Testament for the simple reason they never studied it. No gentile even considered getting to heaven based on self righteousnesses as their own history was barbarianism.