the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Romans 11:5
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It is the same now. God has chosen a few people by his grace.
So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
Even so at this tyme ys ther a remnanaunt lefte thorow the eleccion of grace.
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
So it is at the present time: there is a remnant, chosen by grace.Romans 9:27;">[xr]
In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice.
It is the same now. There are a few people that God has chosen by his grace.
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
And so likewise at the present time, there is a remnant, according to the election of grace.
In the same way also at the present time there has come to be a remnant whom God in His grace has selected.
So therfor also in this tyme, the relifs ben maad saaf, bi the chesyng of the grace of God.
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
In the same way, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
It is the same way now. God was kind to the people of Israel, and so a few of them are still his followers.
So too then, at the present time there has come to be a remnant [a small believing minority] according to God's gracious choice.
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
In the same way, there are at this present time some who are marked out by the selection of grace.
It's the same way in the present age: there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
Thus, then, in the present time also there has been a remnant according to election of grace.
So also, at this time, a residue is left by the election of grace.
So also at the present time, a remnant is preserved, by the election of grace.
Euen so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
It is the same today, for a few of the people of Israel have remained faithful because of God's grace—his undeserved kindness in choosing them.
It is the same now. A few of the Jews are being chosen because of God's loving-favor.
So too at the present time there is a remnant, chosen by grace.
Euen so then at this present time is there a remnant according to the election of grace.
Even so at the present time a remnant is preserved, elected by the grace.
Thus, then, in the present season also, a remnant, by way of an election of favour, hath come into being.
Even so then, at this present time also, there is a remnant saved according to the election of grace.
Euen so at this tyme, there is a remnaunt, according to the election of grace.
It is the same way now: there is a small number left of those whom God has chosen because of his grace.
In the same way, then, there is also at the present time a remnant chosen by grace.
Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.
So in this way also at the present time, there is a remnant selected by grace.
So then, also in the present time a remnant according to election of grace has come into being.
So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been;
Eue so goeth it now at this tyme also wt this remnaunt after ye eleccion of grace.
in like manner at this time there is also a remnant chosen by the divine favour;
The Loyal Minority Does this mean, then, that God is so fed up with Israel that he'll have nothing more to do with them? Hardly. Remember that I, the one writing these things, am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham out of the tribe of Benjamin. You can't get much more Semitic than that! So we're not talking about repudiation. God has been too long involved with Israel, has too much invested, to simply wash his hands of them. Do you remember that time Elijah was agonizing over this same Israel and cried out in prayer? God, they murdered your prophets, They trashed your altars; I'm the only one left and now they're after me! And do you remember God's answer? I still have seven thousand who haven't quit, Seven thousand who are loyal to the finish. It's the same today. There's a fiercely loyal minority still—not many, perhaps, but probably more than you think. They're holding on, not because of what they think they're going to get out of it, but because they're convinced of God's grace and purpose in choosing them. If they were only thinking of their own immediate self-interest, they would have left long ago. And then what happened? Well, when Israel tried to be right with God on her own, pursuing her own self-interest, she didn't succeed. The chosen ones of God were those who let God pursue his interest in them, and as a result received his stamp of legitimacy. The "self-interest Israel" became thick-skinned toward God. Moses and Isaiah both commented on this: Fed up with their quarrelsome, self-centered ways, God blurred their eyes and dulled their ears, Shut them in on themselves in a hall of mirrors, and they're there to this day. David was upset about the same thing: I hope they get sick eating self-serving meals, break a leg walking their self-serving ways. I hope they go blind staring in their mirrors, get ulcers from playing at god. The next question is, "Are they down for the count? Are they out of this for good?" And the answer is a clear-cut No. Ironically when they walked out, they left the door open and the outsiders walked in. But the next thing you know, the Jews were starting to wonder if perhaps they had walked out on a good thing. Now, if their leaving triggered this worldwide coming of non-Jewish outsiders to God's kingdom, just imagine the effect of their coming back! What a homecoming! But I don't want to go on about them. It's you, the outsiders, that I'm concerned with now. Because my personal assignment is focused on the so-called outsiders, I make as much of this as I can when I'm among my Israelite kin, the so-called insiders, hoping they'll realize what they're missing and want to get in on what God is doing. If their falling out initiated this worldwide coming together, their recovery is going to set off something even better: mass homecoming! If the first thing the Jews did, even though it was wrong for them, turned out for your good, just think what's going to happen when they get it right! Behind and underneath all this there is a holy, God-planted, God-tended root. If the primary root of the tree is holy, there's bound to be some holy fruit. Some of the tree's branches were pruned and you wild olive shoots were grafted in. Yet the fact that you are now fed by that rich and holy root gives you no cause to crow over the pruned branches. Remember, you aren't feeding the root; the root is feeding you. It's certainly possible to say, "Other branches were pruned so that I could be grafted in!" Well and good. But they were pruned because they were deadwood, no longer connected by belief and commitment to the root. The only reason you're on the tree is because your graft "took" when you believed, and because you're connected to that belief-nurturing root. So don't get cocky and strut your branch. Be humbly mindful of the root that keeps you lithe and green. If God didn't think twice about taking pruning shears to the natural branches, why would he hesitate over you? He wouldn't give it a second thought. Make sure you stay alert to these qualities of gentle kindness and ruthless severity that exist side by side in God—ruthless with the deadwood, gentle with the grafted shoot. But don't presume on this gentleness. The moment you become deadwood, you're out of there. And don't get to feeling superior to those pruned branches down on the ground. If they don't persist in remaining deadwood, they could very well get grafted back in. God can do that. He can perform miracle grafts. Why, if he could graft you—branches cut from a tree out in the wild—into an orchard tree, he certainly isn't going to have any trouble grafting branches back into the tree they grew from in the first place. Just be glad you're in the tree, and hope for the best for the others. I want to lay all this out on the table as clearly as I can, friends. This is complicated. It would be easy to misinterpret what's going on and arrogantly assume that you're royalty and they're just rabble, out on their ears for good. But that's not it at all. This hardness on the part of insider Israel toward God is temporary. Its effect is to open things up to all the outsiders so that we end up with a full house. Before it's all over, there will be a complete Israel. As it is written, A champion will stride down from the mountain of Zion; he'll clean house in Jacob. And this is my commitment to my people: removal of their sins. From your point of view as you hear and embrace the good news of the Message, it looks like the Jews are God's enemies. But looked at from the long-range perspective of God's overall purpose, they remain God's oldest friends. God's gifts and God's call are under full warranty—never canceled, never rescinded. There was a time not so long ago when you were on the outs with God. But then the Jews slammed the door on him and things opened up for you. Now they are on the outs. But with the door held wide open for you, they have a way back in. In one way or another, God makes sure that we all experience what it means to be outside so that he can personally open the door and welcome us back in. Have you ever come on anything quite like this extravagant generosity of God, this deep, deep wisdom? It's way over our heads. We'll never figure it out. Is there anyone around who can explain God? Anyone smart enough to tell him what to do? Anyone who has done him such a huge favor that God has to ask his advice? Everything comes from him; Everything happens through him; Everything ends up in him. Always glory! Always praise! Yes. Yes. Yes.
So in the same way at the present time there is a remnant chosen by grace.
Not much has changed since then. There are a few Israelites who have remained faithful to the brand. This brand is based on grace and kindness from God,
In the same way then, there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice.
In this way then, at the present time, a remnant according to God's gracious choice has also come to be.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
at this present: Romans 11:6, Romans 11:7, Romans 9:27
election of grace: The election which proceeds from the mercy and goodness of God. Romans 11:28, Romans 9:11, Ephesians 1:5, Ephesians 1:6
Reciprocal: 1 Kings 19:18 - Yet I have left 2 Kings 19:31 - For Ezra 9:8 - a remnant Isaiah 4:2 - them that are escaped Isaiah 6:13 - But yet Isaiah 10:22 - though thy Isaiah 28:5 - residue Isaiah 37:31 - take Isaiah 44:1 - O Jacob Isaiah 65:8 - General Isaiah 65:9 - mine elect Jeremiah 30:11 - though Jeremiah 31:7 - remnant Jeremiah 44:14 - for none Ezekiel 6:8 - General Ezekiel 12:16 - I will Daniel 12:1 - thy people Joel 2:32 - and in Amos 3:12 - so shall Micah 4:7 - I will Micah 5:7 - the remnant Zephaniah 2:7 - the remnant Zechariah 3:2 - a brand Zechariah 14:16 - that every Malachi 3:2 - who may abide Matthew 7:14 - and few Matthew 19:25 - Who Matthew 20:12 - borne Matthew 20:15 - it Mark 13:20 - for Acts 2:47 - the Lord Acts 17:34 - certain 1 Corinthians 15:10 - by Ephesians 1:4 - as Ephesians 2:5 - grace ye Colossians 3:12 - as 1 Thessalonians 1:4 - Knowing 2 Thessalonians 2:16 - through 2 Timothy 1:9 - not Titus 2:11 - the grace Hebrews 3:16 - not 1 Peter 1:2 - Elect 1 John 2:19 - they might Revelation 7:4 - an
Cross-References
After he begot Salah, Arphaxad lived four hundred and three years, and begot sons and daughters.
Salah lived thirty years, and begot Eber.
After he begot Nahor, Serug lived two hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and begot Terah.
I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know."
So I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up from that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites.
And let them be ready for the third day. For on the third day the LORD will come down upon Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.
Now Mount Sinai was completely in smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire. Its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain [fn] quaked greatly.
Then the LORD came down upon Mount Sinai, on the top of the mountain. And the LORD called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
The LORD is in His holy temple, The LORD's throne is in heaven; His eyes behold, His eyelids test the sons of men.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Even so then at this present time also,.... In which the apostle lived, the time of preaching the Gospel, the accepted time, the day of salvation, which then was, and also now is; at that time when the Gospel was sent unto the Gentiles, and God took out of them a people for his name; when multitudes of them were converted, and embraced the faith of Christ; and when the Jews in general had rejected the Messiah, killed the Lord Jesus, persecuted his apostles, and contradicted and blasphemed the Gospel; yet still God had made a reserve of some among them, for himself:
there is a remnant; alluding either to Isaiah 10:21, or to the oracle delivered to Elijah, saying, "I have reserved", or "left", c. 1 Kings 19:18, that as God had reserved for himself, in Elijah's time, a number of persons, who had not gone into the idolatrous worship of Baal, when the greater part of the Israelites did, so he had taken care to make a like reserve in the apostle's time, when the bulk of the Jewish nation had refused the Messiah, and despised his Gospel. This is a further proof, that God had not cast away all the people of the Jews and that as Elijah was not the only worshipper of the true God in his time, so the apostle was not the only instance of grace among that people now; there was a number of them; the number of the disciples after our Lord's ascension, was an hundred and twenty; upon the first sermon preached by Peter, three thousand were converted, and added to them; after that, they are said to be about five thousand, and still multitudes were added, both of men and women, and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith; so that before the dispersion of the church at Jerusalem by a persecution, there might be at least such a number called by grace, as God had reserved in Elijah's time; though these, when compared with the generality of the nation, which remained in unbelief, were but a few, and therefore called a "remnant", or a "reserve", as the word may be rendered; for these were a set of men, whom God had reserved and preserved in his Son, and in the covenant of his grace, from everlasting; and had kept a watchful eye over them in time, reserved them in his providence, and saved them to be called; and by calling them, had reserved them by his grace, and preserved them by his power, from the general unbelief, impenitence, blindness, and ignorance, which prevailed over the people of the Jews; which reserve was not owing to their superior goodness, they being in no wise, with respect to nature, birth, and privileges, better than those who were not reserved; nor to the disposition of their minds and wills, their minds and consciences being defiled, and their wills naturally as obstinate and perverse as others; nor to any good works done by them, since works before calling are not properly good, and those after are the fruits of that grace: but this reverse was made,
according to the election of grace; God's choice of these persons before the world was, which is the source and spring of all the blessings of grace, both in time eternity: hence these persons were put into the hands of Christ, secured in an everlasting covenant, took special care of by divine Providence, were called by grace, justified, sanctified, and at last glorified: and this choice is owing to grace, for not men's choice of God's grace, but God's choice, owing to his, own grace, is here meant. The Pelagians would have it, that this election is the choice which man makes of the grace of God: whereas such is the enmity of mans nature, and will against God and his grace, that he would never make choice of that, if the grace of God did not first make choice of him, and lay hold upon him: grace here, does not design the object of the choice, but the cause, spring, and motive of it, which is not any habit or quality in men, as faith and holiness, for these are fruits and effects of electing grace, and so not causes, motives, or conditions of it, but the free love and favour of God in his own heart; and shows the sovereignty and freeness of election, which is no ways depending on the will and works of men, but upon the sovereign good will and pleasure of God.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
At this present time - In the time when the apostle wrote. Though the mass of the nation was to be rejected, yet it did not follow that all were to be excluded from the favor of God. As in the time of Elijah, when all appeared to be dark, and all the nation, except one, seemed to have become apostate, yet there was a considerable number of the true friends of God; so in the time of Paul, though the nation had rejected their Messiah, though, as a consequence, they were to be rejected as a people: and though they were eminently wicked and corrupt, yet it did not follow that all were cast off, or that any were excluded on whom God had purposed to bestow salvation.
A remnant - That which is left or reserved; Romans 9:27. He refers here doubtless, to that part of the nation which was truly pious, or which had embraced the Messiah.
According to the election of grace - By a gracious or merciful choosing, or election; and not by any merit of their own. As in the tinge of Elijah, it was because God had reserved them unto himself that any were saved from idolatry, so now it was by the same gracious sovereignty that any were saved from the prevalent unbelief. The apostle here does not specify the number, but there can be no doubt that a multitude of Jews had been saved by becoming Christians, though compared with the nation - the multitude who rejected the Messiah it was but a remnant. The apostle thus shows that neither all the ancient people of God were cast way, nor that any whom he foreknew were rejected. And though he had proved that a large part of the Jews were to be rejected and though infidelity was prevalent, yet still there were some who had been Jews who were truly pious, and entitled to the favor of God. Nor should they deem this state of things remarkable, for a parallel case was recorded in their own Scriptures. We may learn from this narrative,
(1) That it is no unparalleled thing for the love of many to wax cold, and for iniquity to abound.
(2) The tendency of this is to produce deep feeling and solicitude among the true friends of God. Thus, David says, “Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because they keep not thy law;” Psalms 119:136; compare Jeremiah 9:1; Luke 19:41.
(3) That in these darkest times we should not be discouraged. There may be much more true piety in the world than in our despondency we may suppose. We should take courage in God, and believe that he will not forsake any that are his true friends, or on whom he has purposed to bestow eternal life.
(4) It is of God that all are not corrupt and lost. It is owing only to the election of grace, to his merciful choosing, that any are saved. And as in the darkest times he has reserved a people to himself, so we should believe that he will still meet abounding evil, and save those whom he has chosen from eternal death.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Romans 11:5. Even so then at this present time — As in the present day the irreligion of the Jews is very great; yet there is a remnant, a considerable number, who have accepted of the grace of the Gospel.
According to the election of grace. — And these are saved just as God has saved all believers from the beginning; they are chosen by his grace, not on account of any worth or excellence in themselves, but through his goodness are they chosen to have a place in his Church, and continue to be his people, entitled to all the privileges of the new covenant. The election of grace simply signifies God's gracious design in sending the Christian system into the world, and saving under it all those who believe in Christ Jesus, and none else. Thus the believers in Christ are chosen to inherit the blessings of the Gospel, while those who seek justification by the works of the law are rejected.
