This is the Baymont podcast with Marty Solomon. I'm his co-host, Brent Billings. Today, we watch Paul transition from a larger argument to the massive implications for how we interact in this new kingdom.

Yep. Paul has spent the last 11 chapters of Romans arguing for unity in this blended family, struggling with the full and free inclusion of the Gentiles.

He opened with a theological treatise, which explained that all of humanity struggles with the same essential condition.

The good news pun intended is that this means it is the same faith that justifies us all. If we are all justified by the same faith and the same gift of grace, then there's no reason for division or exclusion of any group.

Although this is a hard pill to swallow and you are part of the group on the inside, Paul reminds his Jewish readers that God is the Potter, and he gets to decide what he does with his vessels.

So if he decides he wants to shower grace on vessels prepared for destruction, he gets to.

Paul moved on to explain that it's part of God's plan and always has been. They've made their share of mistakes in the past and learned this lesson before.

We Jews need to seize our calling to be a light to the Gentiles and welcome them in the family of faith, the children of Abraham.

Hey, we said that a lot quicker than an hour right there. Just summarize that up pretty nice.

Yes, well, hopefully that's just a call back to what the listeners understand from the last episode.

I hope so. If not, it was a waste of a long hour. It's not all fun and games for these Gentiles either.

They have to guard themselves against conceit and arrogance, reminding themselves of the kindness and sternness of God.

They have to remember, if they're Gentiles, if not for the grace of God, they are a wild olive tree, which doesn't belong.

And we have actually have a graphic representation of this, right, Brent?

It was slide in our show notes, a picture that we can look at.

Kind of a visual graph of how Romans has worked out. So we just kind of reviewed those three sections there.

So we've popped out graphic. You'll see there this idea that everyone has a place.

And you have chapters one through three in group one. We talked about three groups, one problem.

We have three groups. They all had the same problem. And then we had chapters four through eight.

And this idea of everyone being justified by faith.

So you have the same problem with all three groups of people, but one solution.

And then nine through ten, if that's true, what's true about God is that God chooses to bless and redeem everyone.

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