Friday August 5 – Romans11:11-24

It ain’t over till it’s over. Those who have chosen wrongly still have choices to make, and meanwhile provide cautionary tales for Gentiles about what not to do with our own choice or chance. The object lesson is meant to teach, change, not simply punish.

Try a couple of metaphors about the relationship of Jews and Gentile Christian. Imagine part of a leavened dough offered to God, blessing the whole. Imagine roots and branches of an olive tree – with some pruned, others grafted.

The promise – and the threat – is that God’s not finished pruning or grafting. Some may yet be cut, and others may yet be grafted back. That is intended to apply to Jews and to Gentiles in Paul’s view – and there is no ground for us to get uppity toward Jews!

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