The

scripture text for this morning's message is from Romans chapter 11

verses 23 through 29

And even they if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in.

For God has the power to graft them in again.

For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted back into their own olive tree?

Lest you be wise in your own conceits, I want you to understand this mystery, a partial hardening is come upon Israel

until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

And in this way all Israel will be saved.

As it is written, the deliver will come from Zion.

He will banish ungodliness from Jacob.

And this will be my covenant with them

when I take away their sins.

As regards the gospel, they are enemies of God for your sake,

but as regards election, they are beloved for the sake of their forefathers, for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.

Let's pray together. We say it from the bottom of our hearts. You never failed us. We have failed you. And it makes us tremble to think about grace and mercy.

Day and night. never leaving us, never forsaking us.

So we say thank you.

And we resolve with the power of your Holy Spirit to put all conceit out of our lives, all boasting over the broken off branches of Israel,

all pride and presumption, ethnocentricity, racism that would may not be

up over another.

And to that end we want to understand what Paul meant

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