The Gifts and the Calling of God are Irrevocable

Hey friends, did you know it was through the Jews’ disobedience that salvation was offered to us Gentiles? Indeed, see what the apostle Paul says about that:

28 Concerning the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but concerning the election they are beloved for the sake of the fathers. 29 For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. 30 For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, 31 even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy. 32 For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.
~Romans 11:28-32

Now consider Amir Tsarfati’s commentary on that passage:

Aren’t you thankful for God’s mercy toward us and toward His chosen people? Our salvation is brought to us because of His faithfulness to the Jews. It should be through our faithfulness that the Jewish people see their Messiah! May the body of Christ live such that the Jewish people are provoked to jealousy!

11 I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation has come to the Gentiles. 12 Now if their fall is riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness!
~Romans 11:11-12

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