{"id":418,"date":"2008-10-09T06:00:19","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1002things.com\/?p=418"},"modified":"2022-03-26T16:42:05","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T22:42:05","slug":"romans-1119-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=418","title":{"rendered":"Romans 11:19-21"},"content":{"rendered":"

19\u00a0<\/sup>You will say then, \u201cBranches were broken off that I might be grafted in.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

20\u00a0<\/sup>Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

21\u00a0<\/sup>For if God did not spare the natural branches, He may not spare you either.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

Gentiles are strangers (Ephesians 2:5<\/span><\/a>).<\/h3>\n

branches broken off \u2014 the nation<\/u> of Israel<\/h3>\n

I might be grafted in \u2014 Gentile nations<\/h3>\n

thou standest by faith \u2014 there is no personal merit that earned Gentiles their opportunity \u2014 faith excludes boasting (Romans 3:27<\/span><\/a>)<\/h3>\n

fear \u2014 Gentiles should fear stumbling as Israel did.<\/h3>\n

Incalculable harm has been done by those who have attempted to apply our text primarily to individuals. An individual who is once grafted into Christ by faith can never be broken off from Christ. He is not going to be a mutilated trunk in Heaven forever … When it is seen that Paul is speaking of the Jews’ being removed nationally, to be replaced nationally by Gentiles, we are fully prepared for that which will follow in a few verses. \u2014 Barnhouse, page 144.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

19\u00a0You will say then, \u201cBranches were broken off that I might be grafted in.\u201d 20\u00a0Well said. Because of unbelief they were broken off, and you stand by faith. Do not be haughty, but fear. 21\u00a0For if God did not spare … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-verse-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6651,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/6651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}