I would like to call your attention this evening to the 13th, 14th and 15th verses in the 11th

chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans, verses 13, 14, and 15 in the 11th chapter of Paul's

Epistle to the Romans.

For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the Apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify

my office.

If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some

of them.

For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world,

what shall the receiving of them be but life from the dead?

Now here we come to a new subsection in this section or division

which runs you remember from verse 11 to the end of verse 32.

We indicated that you can subdivide this division or section into certain subsections.

We've already dealt with the first subsection, which is verses 11 and 12.

We've seen there that the apostle lays down this general theme that he's going to consider

in the rest of the chapter and which arises out of this major theme which he's dealing with

in chapters 9, 10 and 11.

Now, having dealt therefore with the first subsection

in which he rarely lays down, as I say, the proposition that he is going to consider,

he now goes on to take that proposal or that intent a step further.

And he does so in the verses that I've just read to you.

Now I confess freely that I'm in a little difficulty to know exactly what to do with verse 15.

I mean by that from the pure standpoint of the division of the matter of the

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