And you, you Gentiles, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree. Here’s the picture, and then we’ll read the verses together. Here’s the picture. Here’s the root, the patriarchs, the covenant of fathers.
They grow, up comes this trunk and mixed branches. This is Israel rising out of the fathers with the covenant that God made with them in Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Some of the branches were broken off. They were faithless. They were broken off and therefore weren’t enjoying what comes from.
The root. They’re broken off. And you Gentiles, you were branches of a wild olive tree. You had nothing. Sort of spets the the idea. They’re broken off, and this is contrary to nature. This is you didn’t do that. ⁓ you did the opposite. You would take a good deal and you would graft it on English. But he takes this wild olive branch and he grafts it into this good rich olive tree.
And he says this, you were grafted in among them. Mm-hmm. And if some of the branches were broken off, and you being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and fatness of the olive tree. Do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root. But the root
supports you.
You would say you know you know, you would say they didn’t say I’m saying you would say branches were broken off that I might be grafted in.
Well said because of unbelief they were broken off and you stand or are connected with by faith do not be haughty.
But fear
Be awe filled. Be hmm careful now. But fear for if God did not spare the natural branches, that is the branches that really belong, your physical Jews did not belong. ⁓ for God did not spare the natural branches. He will not spare you either.
Therefore, consider the goodness and the severity of God on those who fell, that’s Israel in mass, on those who fell, severity, but towards you, Gentiles, goodness. If you continue in his goodness, huh?
Otherwise you also will be cut off.
Why are the Jews out, those that are out? Why are they out? Because they’re faithless. That doesn’t mean that God no longer, well, I know I made promises to Abraham and Isaac and Jacob’s kids, but yeah, they’re gonna keep. No. The promise he made to them was real. And for them to gain those promises and those blessings, they just had to hold on to God.
And they wouldn’t. So you don’t get them. God’s promises are not fulfilled outside himself. They’re fulfilled in union with him. And if they’re faithless, they no longer belong to him. They choose the alienation. God didn’t choose it.
So they’re out because they wouldn’t stay with God who showed himself in and as Jesus Christ. And he says to the Gentiles, Note the severity of God. They don’t get the blessings because the blessings are connected with Him and they won’t have it, so they don’t get them. And you? Same is true of you. He said 23, and they also.
If they do not continue in unbelief, will be grafted in for God is able to graft them in again. God’s not done with the Jews.