Okay, back to Romans chapter 11. Romans chapter 11, I would encourage you to, in your personal devotion, take a good, strong, hard look at Romans 11. Romans 8, 9, 10, and 11. We spent several weeks looking at these chapters. I'm taking the title for the message from what's said in verse 26. Romans 11, verse 26.

And so, Or likewise, all Israel shall be saved. Now, I love that word saved. A lot of times people use it as a slang word. But it's really a word of salvation. All of God's people, and that's the Israel of God here. Not talking about that Jewish nation. Talking about all the Israel of God. All those remnant according to the election of grace. All God's people shall be saved. He saves them with an everlasting salvation. Whatsoever God does, it's forever. He said down here, the gifts and calling of God are without change. God does not change. His purpose of salvation does not change. All Israel shall be justified, saved in the Lord. Sinners need salvation, don't they? I'm a sinner and I need salvation.

Now, it's debatable among some people, not here, but among some people, It's debatable about who the Israel is that's mentioned here because a lot of people in religious, fundamental religious circles try to make that fit to the nation Israel. It's certainly not that nation or country known as Israel in the Middle East. That's not what it's referring to. It's not talking about the Israel after the flesh.

That nation Like all other nations, all other nations, don't matter where you go, that nation, like all other nations, are made up of guilty, vile, wretched sinners who deserve nothing but judgment, wrath, and condemnation. That's what all of us deserve. The wage of sin is death. The soul that sinneth it shall die.

Notice in verse 22, it talks about the goodness of God the mercy of God, but also talked about the severity of God, or the justice of God, or the judgment of God. This Israel here that's mentioned in Romans chapter 11, verse 26, this Israel is the chosen elect sons of God. in that eternal covenant of grace, who make up the redeemed of the Lord, the elect of the Lord from all ages, the children of the covenant promise.

That's who he's talking about here. The children of the covenant promise. As we read last week in Revelation chapter 5, God will redeem a people out of every tribe, kindred, nation, tongue under heaven, redeemed with His precious blood, those for whom He chose in that eternal covenant. It's a covenant of love. It's a covenant of grace that's guaranteed and made sure by the surety of that covenant, the Lord Jesus Christ. Certain and sure, the remnant according to the election of grace, He saves His people with an everlasting salvation. Now, verse 25. Romans 11 verse 25, for I would not, brethren, writing to believers, beloved of God, that you should be ignorant of this mystery.

The gospel is a mystery. the workings of God's providence and his eternal counsel and purpose. It is a mystery. Known unto God are all of his work from the beginning, but to us, it is a mystery. As he says down here in verse 33, oh, the depth of the rich is both of the wisdom and knowledge of God. How unsearchable. are his judgments and his ways past finding out for who hath known the mind of the Lord or who hath been his counselor. God's gospel is a great mystery. His wisdom, His eternal purpose is a great mystery.

For I would not, brethren, that you should be ignorant of this mystery, lest you should be wise in your own conceit or be conceited with self-righteous pride, that blindness or hardness of heart in part has happened to those Jewish people until the fullness of the Gentiles come in. The fullness of the Gentiles come in.

Now the gospel of Christ is often called a mystery. Turn, hold your place there and find over here Romans 16, the last chapter in the book of Romans, Romans 16. I looked that word mystery up and it's used in the New Testament 22 times. 22 times the Lord calls the gospel a mystery. A mystery is something that has to be revealed. It's not made known naturally. Romans 16,

25. Now to him that is a power to establish you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ according to the revelation of the mystery. There's a revelation of the mystery. He's hid these things from the wise and prudent and revealed them unto babe which was kept secret since the world began but is now made manifest out by the scriptures of the prophets According to the commandment of the everlasting God, made known unto all nations for the obedience or to the obedience of faith, To God only wise be glory through Jesus Christ forever and ever. Amen. The gospel is called a mystery. God, he does things in a mysterious way. He worked all things after the counsel of his own will. Christ in you, the hope of glory.

You know what that's called? Turn over here to Colossians, the book of Colossians. Galatians, Ephesians, Colossians, Philippians, Colossians. chapter 1, Colossians chapter 1. He said, wherefore I made a minister, verse 25, Colossians 1, 25, according to the dispensation of God, which is given to me for you to fulfill the word of God, even the mystery, which hath been hid from ages and generations, but is now made manifest to the saints, To whom God will make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles, which is what?

Christ in you, the hope of glory. That's a mystery. Christ in you. He makes us new creatures in the Lord Jesus Christ. Listen to this scripture. 1 Timothy 3, 16. Without controversy, great is the mystery of godliness. God was manifest in the flesh. justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached as Gentiles, believed on in the world, and received up the glory. That's a great mystery, isn't it? God, Almighty, God who inhabited eternity, inhabited the body of a man, God made flesh, dwelt among us. The gospel is a mystery how God justifies the ungodly without lowering His standard of justice, that He can be a just God and Savior, that He can be just and a justifier. as we read in Romans 3,

26. God must reveal the hidden things of the gospel unto us or we'll never understand. By nature, we're ignorant, blind, hardened of heart until God opens our eyes to see Christ as the light of our salvation. The mystery of God hiding the gospel from the Jews and hardening their hearts, blinding their eyes is a mystery, but the purpose of God was done. to the blessing of the gospel being sent to the Gentiles. He worketh all things after the counsel of his own will. Who are we?

And Paul warns these believing Gentiles, Paul warns these believing Gentiles lest they be caught up in their own religious pride thinking they're somewhat better. As he says there in verse 25, lest you should be wise in your own conceits, conceited pride. Religious pride is the worst kind.

That blindness or hardness of heart in part has happened to Israel until all the fullness of the Gentiles come in. God's gonna save every remnant according to the election of grace among the Gentile nations and among the Jews as well. So, verse 26, and so likewise. All Israel shall be saved. Now this is talking about the remnant according to the election break.

As it is written, it goes right back to Isaiah 59. As it is written, there shall come out of Zion the Deliverer. Over in Isaiah 59, he calls him the Redeemer, shall come out of Zion to deliver and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob, sons of Jacob, believers are called sons of Jacob. Spiritual sons of Abraham for this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins their sins their sin Even so all the elect of God shall be saved and justified Among Jew or Gentile all the spiritual sons of Abraham the true Israel of God shall be justified with his blood Turn back to Romans chapter 5 justified by his blood no other way Not justified by the law, justified by His blood. Verse 6 of Romans 5.

For when we were yet without strength in due time, Christ died for the ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous man will one die yet perventure for a good man. Some would even dare to die. God commended His love toward us. And that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us, much more than being now justified. Saved by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. For when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his son. Much more being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life. He ever lived to make intercession for us. God's going to save His people from their sins. No doubt about that. So who is this Israel of God? Let's see if we can take the Word and find out. Turn back to Romans 2. Romans 2. Verse 28.

For he is not a Jew which is one outwardly, neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh. But he is a Jew. talking about a spiritual son of Abraham, which is one inwardly, and that circumcision is that of the heart in the spirit, not in the letter, not in the law, whose praise is not of men, but of God. Turn to Romans 9, Romans 9 verse 5, Romans 9 verse 5, whose are the fathers, of whom concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God-blessed forever, not as though the word of God had taken on effect, for they are not all Israel, which are of Israel, neither because they are the seed of Abraham are they all children, but in Isaac shall thy seed be called. That is, they which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted for That's pretty clear, is it not? Pretty clear.

Paul, when he writes to the Philippians, turn to Galatians, the book of Galatians, chapter 6. When Paul, he writes to the Philippians, said, We are the true Israel, which worship God in the Spirit, that rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. We are the true Israel, the true circumcision. Worship God in the spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh. Now, Galatians chapter six, verse 14.

But God forbid, that I should glory, save in the cross of the Lord Jesus Christ, whom the world has crucified unto me, and I unto the world. For in Christ Jesus circumcision availeth, neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision, but a new creature.

As many as walk according to this rule, What is that rule? You want a rule to walk by and live by? Glory only in the Lord Jesus Christ. As many as walk according to this rule, peace be on them and mercy upon the Israel of God. That's who the Israel of God is. Believers. Believers resting in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Now the reason that's given here that all Israel shall be saved or justified in Christ is because Not because I said so. What does it say there in that text, verse 26? Of so all Israel shall be saved as it is written, because God says so. Now that makes a difference, doesn't it? Who says so? God says so.

And we read, let me read it to you again, Isaiah 59. Don't turn there, let me just read it to you. And the Redeemer shall come out of Zion, excuse me, and the Redeemer shall come to Zion. talking about a prophecy of the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob. Jacob was a cheat, a supplanter, saith the Lord. This is my covenant, saith the Lord.

But here it says the deliverer shall come out of Zion, which is right, both. He came to Zion, and then the gospel comes out of Zion, out of the church. The message of salvation through Christ Jesus is a message that comes out of Zion. Zion is God's people, God's church.

And we preach and declare how that Christ died for our sins according to the scripture, how he accomplished righteousness for us and freely imputes that unto us, how he put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Now I love what it says here, the Lord Jesus Christ, there shall come out of Zion the Deliverer. Now what does the Deliverer do? He's our rescuer. He is our Redeemer. So the Lord Jesus Christ is called our Deliverer. Now turn to the book of Galatians one more time. Galatians chapter 1 this time. Galatians chapter 1. And keying on that word, deliverer. Galatians 1, verse 3.

Grace be unto you and peace from God the Father, and from our Lord Jesus Christ, who gave himself for our sins, that he might, what's that word? Deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God our Father, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen. He's our deliverer.

Can anyone else deliver us from the curse of the law? Think about this scripture. In Galatians chapter 3 it says Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law being delivered for us. He was delivered as a sacrifice for our sin and through that sacrifice we are delivered. from the penalty of sin, from the power of sin, from the presence of sin, as we're one with Him, from the power of sin, the penalty of sin, and the presence of sin.

There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer. The Lord Jesus Christ is our Deliverer. He's our Deliverer. In Matthew chapter 6, when the Lord taught His disciples to pray, Our Father which art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done, give us this day our daily bread, forgive us of our sin, lead us, guide us, and then He says, deliver us from evil. Now we need a Deliverer. The only one that can deliver us from our sin and the justice and judgment of God is the Lord Jesus Christ himself. He's called our deliverer, and then in Isaiah 59, he's called the redeemer.

You remember the story of Ruth and Boaz. Boaz was a kinsman redeemer who redeemed Ruth. And to be a kinsman redeemer, he had to have the right to redeem, being near kin. He had to have the will to redeem. He had to have the right to redeem. And the Lord Jesus Christ has the right to redeem. He was made flesh and dwelt among us. He has the will to redeem, doesn't He? And He has the power. He has power over all flesh to give eternal life to as many as the Father has given Him. So He's our Deliverer. He's our Redeemer. We are redeemed with His precious blood, right? Not with the blood of bulls and goats, but with His own blood. He redeemed us with His precious blood. God bought us with His own blood.

So He's our Deliverer, He's our Redeemer, He's our Savior. He's our Savior. He's God our Savior. Call His name Jesus, He shall save His people from their sin. A virgin shall conceive and be with child, and bring forth a child, and call his name Immanuel. What does that mean? God with us. So he is the Savior. He is God with us. You put those together, who is the Lord Jesus Christ? He's God, our Savior. What does He do? What does God our Savior do?

He saves His people from their sin. Call His name Jesus. He shall save His people from their sin. And our deliverer shall turn us away from ungodliness, the ungodliness of Jacob. Jacob by nature was a cheat and a supplanter. What did God do for him? You remember when Jacob met God and they had a wrestling match? In Genesis chapter 32, you remember? And he said unto him, what is thy name? And Jacob said, and he said, Jacob's my name. Now, we know the story of Jacob. His name means cheater, supplant, supplanter, conniver, guilty. And the Lord said, thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel.

For as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. We have that old Jacob nature, and we have that new nature, made new creatures in Christ, sons of God, the true Israel of God. A prince of God. He made us, has made us kings and priests unto our God. Unto him who loved us, and washed us from our sin, and has made us kings and priests unto our God. That's what we have in Christ.

He's called many times in Scripture the God of Jacob. For example, Isaiah 41. Fear thou not that worm Jacob, ye men of Israel, for I will help thee, sayeth the Lord, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. For I am the Lord, I change not. Therefore, you sons of Jacob are not consumed. We all have that Jacob, Adam, fallen, wretched nature that we're born with. We can't do a thing about it. But God makes us new creatures in Christ.

He calls us His Israel that He redeemed with His blood. Look at verse 27 now. Romans 11 verse 27. For this is my covenant unto them, this is my covenant unto them, Unto them, those people, the remnant according to the election of grace. This is my covenant unto them. God is a covenant God.

What does He do? What's He going to do? He's going to take away their sins. Now what do sinners need? They need their sins taken away. There's not one thing I can do about my sin. I've sinned against God. We've all sinned to come short of the glory of God. There's not one thing I can do to put away my sin. Not one thing. Thank God the Lord Jesus Christ appeared once in the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of Himself.

That's our hope, is it not? This is my covenant. You see that word covenant? Boy, that's a key word in Scripture. Our God is a covenant God. If you look this word covenant up, it's used more than 250 times. God is a covenant God. This is the everlasting covenant of grace. In the book of Hebrews, it talks a lot about it. Jesus Christ has made the surety of a better covenant, established upon better promises, The Lord Jesus Christ is the mediator of the new covenant, Hebrews 12,

24. There is one God and one mediator between God and men, that is the man Christ Jesus, the God of peace and brought again from the dead, the Lord Jesus Christ, that great shepherd of the sheep through the blood of the everlasting covenant. Aren't you glad we have a covenant God? who has guaranteed our salvation through the Lord Jesus Christ. David writes about it on his deathbed. He said, God had made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, ensure this is all my hope and all my salvation. And it's what the Lord has done for us.

Did you notice that in verse 27? This is my covenant unto them when, when, I shall take away their sin. Now how is sin put away? It doesn't say how are we going to take care of this problem. No, it's how I'm going to take care of this problem. When I shall take away their sin.

You remember Hebrews chapter 1 verse 3? Where it says that He by Himself purged our sin with His own blood. It's all His work, is it not? It says, what the Lord hath done for us, putting away our sin. I shall take away their sin. In the book of Hebrews, you read through the book of Hebrews and you run into that word, better, better, better. Christ is that better priest, with a better sacrifice, based upon a better covenant. Therefore, we have a better hope.

He obtained for us eternal redemption with his own blood. Not with the blood of bulls and goats. Our great high priest, the Lord Jesus Christ, obtained for us eternal redemption with his own blood. He appeared once in the end of the age to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself. Well, how thorough and complete is the blood atonement of Christ for his people? Does it partially cleanse them, temporarily cleanse them, Is it a part-time cleansing? No, he said, their sin, the blood atonement of Christ, by one offering he perfected forever them that are sanctified. And he says of them, because of that blood atonement of Christ, he says of them, their sin and their iniquity will I remember no more. Gone. You can't remember something that does not exist. They're gone. They're gone.

The blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleanses us from all our sin. Listen to this scripture, Jeremiah 50 verse 20. In those days and in that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none. And the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found. For I will pardon them whom I reserve. They're the reservation, pardon for those given to him in that covenant of grace.

Verse 28, verse 29, as concerning the gospel, all men by nature are enemies to God. The carnal mind is enmity against God. As concerning the gospel, they're enemies for your sake. But a touching election, their beloved of the Father's sake. Now you think about Saul of Tarsus. Saul of Tarsus hated, he said, I was a Jew, a tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews. Saul of Tarsus hated the Lord Jesus Christ and hated the gospel. He was an enemy, right? An enemy to believers. He wasn't an enemy to God. God has set His love and affection on him from all eternity. He's touching and concerning election. He's beloved of the Father.

God met that man in the Lord Jesus Christ on his road to destroy believers, and God made him the Apostle Paul and sent him to preach the Gospel of God. We're reading the words God gave him right here in the book of Romans. Where he said, you remember how Romans began, turn to Romans chapter 1, Paul a servant, verse 1, Romans 1, 1, Paul a servant of Jesus Christ, called an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, which he'd promised afore by his prophets in the Holy Scriptures, concerning his son Jesus Christ, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh, and declared to be the Son of God with power according to the spirit of holiness by the resurrection from the dead. God saw Tarsus was an enemy to God's people, so he met the Lord Jesus Christ.

And God made him a trophy of his grace, an object of his love, and sent him forth to preach the gospel. The natural man, whether Jew or Gentile, The natural-minded enmity against God will not receive the things of God, loving darkness rather than light. But concerning God's elected grace, there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

I don't know who the elected God are. Someone told Charles Spurgeon one time, well, you believe in an election, why don't you just go around and preach to the elect? And he said, I don't know who they are. Therefore, I'm going to go preach the gospel everywhere. And his elect, his sheep, do what? They hear his voice. That's how you know you're one of God's elect. You hear the gospel and believe it. And you love it. And you embrace the Lord Jesus Christ as all of your salvation.

Beloved, for the Father's sake, for the gospel's sake, in closing, verse 29, The gifts and calling of God are without change. What God has purposed to do from eternity, He will do it. He said, I've purposed it, I've spoken it, I've brought it to pass, I will do it. The gifts and calling of God are without change. Without change. God does not change. His purpose of salvation does not change.

The gifts and calling of God, now think about this. Those two things, those two words, the gifts, notice that's plural. The gifts and calling of God are without change. Now you think about the gifts of God. Peter writes about it. We have the exceeding great and precious promises of God. Every good and perfect gift comes from God.

Faith is called the precious gift of God, right? Eternal life, the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. We have all things, God who spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all. How shall he not with him also freely give us all things? You see, the gifts and calling of God are without change. Think of everything that God's given us. All the promises of God in Christ are yes, and in Him, and amen, and to the glory of God by the Lord Jesus Christ. Turn back to Romans 5 for just a moment. Romans 5. We have the gift of righteousness.

Verse 16, and not as by one that sins, so also is the gift For the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses under justification. For by one man's defense, death reigned by one much more, they which received the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness. shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ. Therefore, as the offense of one judgment came upon all to condemnation, even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men to justification of life. For by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.

We have the gift of righteousness freely imputed unto us. We have the gift of faith. It's called the precious gift of faith. We have the gift of eternal life, and it's all freely given unto us. Listen to this. 1 Corinthians 2, verse 12. Now, we have received not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Freely given to us. Freely. And then, everything we have. Repentance is called the gift of God. Faith is called the gift of God. Righteousness is called the gift of God. Eternal life is called the gift of God. Salvation is called the gift of God.

He keeps giving and giving and giving, doesn't He? Look at verse 29 again, Romans 11. For the gifts and calling of God are without change. God calls us with the Gospel. He called us out of darkness into His marvelous light that we should show forth the praises of Him who called us out of darkness into His marvelous light. It's God who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace. Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable gift. Verse 29, For the gifts and the calling of God are without change, without alteration. God's purpose will be done. He works all things after the counsel of His own eternal will and purpose.