Did God Reject His People?

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 15 February 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Has God cast away the Jewish people? After several passages concerning the fate of the Jewish nation, in this sermon on Romans 11:1–4 titled “Did God Reject His People?” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones unfolds how Paul asks this question and then follows his answers with several pieces of evidence. Paul says that there is no way the Lord has cast out His chosen people because Paul himself is an Israelite. Paul is saying this not just as a nationalist or proselyte, but he shows his historical lineage which proves he is of Jewish descent. It is possible that some Jews will be saved because Paul was saved. There are a large majority of Jews that do not believe the true gospel. God did not cast them all away because He foreknew them. This means that God foreordained them and knew that they would be believing Christians. The Jews were a group of people that God took special interest in and had a special affection for. Israel was set apart by God for a purpose. If God cast them out, this would mean that God changed His mind and Christians know that the Lord does not change His mind as it is not part of His character.

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0:00.0	We come once more to a study of the 11th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans, and we
0:08.2	are just at the very beginning of the chapter.
0:10.5	We spent last Friday evening in some general introductory remarks, so that now we come to
0:17.7	the more detailed exposition. Let me read to you, therefore, some of these verses,
0:25.6	say the first four verses this evening. I say then, have God cast away his people. God
0:34.5	forbid, for I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
0:42.3	God hath not cast away his people which he foreknew.
0:47.0	What ye not what the scripture saith of Elias?
0:50.2	How he makeeth intercession to God against Israel, saying,
0:54.0	Lord, they have killed thy prophets and dig down thine altars,
0:58.7	and I am left to learn, and they seek my life.
1:03.0	But what set the answer of God unto him?
1:06.1	I have reserved to myself seven thousand men
1:09.1	who have not bowed the knee to the image of Bell.
1:14.7	Now, we gave a kind of general analysis of the chapter last week, and I reminded you that it can
1:21.1	be divided into three sections. The first section runs from the first verse to the tenth verse.
1:29.1	Then the second section goes from verse 11 to verse 32.
1:35.8	And then there's the final section, the final doxology, verses 33 to 36.
1:42.3	And I suggested that the division is along these lines,
1:46.2	that in the first section, verse is 1 to 10,
1:48.4	the apostle is demonstrating that the rejection of Israel is not total.
1:54.3	That in the second section, from verse 11 to verse 32,
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