Riches of the Gentiles

Sermons of Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 21 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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According to the apostle Paul, why are the Jewish people permitted to stumble? In this sermon on Romans 11:11–12 titled “Riches of the Gentiles,” Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones takes up this difficult question. He says that ultimately God allowed the Jewish people to stumble and reject the gospel of Jesus Christ in order that the gospel might go to all the nations. Because they rejected the gospel, the early church spread the gospel from the land of Israel and it went to the whole world. At the same time, Paul himself was Jewish by birth and a believer of Christ. This shows that not all Jews rejected Jesus. What of the future of the Jewish people? Dr. Lloyd-Jones says that in the future there will be a great revival among the nation of Israel and many will come to a true knowledge of Jesus and His gospel. They will put their faith in their long-awaited Messiah. The apostle Paul argues that just as it was a blessing to the Gentiles that Israel stumbled over the gospel, it will be an even greater blessing when the people of Israel believe and come into the church of Jesus Christ.

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0:00.0	The words to which I should like to call your attention this evening are to be found in Paul's
0:04.5	Epistle to the Romans in Chapter 11, verses 11 and 12.
0:09.7	Verses 11 and 12 in the 11th chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.
0:15.7	I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall?
0:19.5	God forbid.
0:21.1	But rather, through their fall, salvation is come unto the Gentiles,
0:26.2	for to provoke them to jealousy.
0:29.0	Now, if the fall of them be the riches of the world,
0:32.3	and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles,
0:36.2	how much more their fullness. I was explaining last
0:41.0	Friday that these two verses form the first subsection into which we can divide this second
0:50.6	great division of this 11th chapter of this epistle to the Romans.
0:55.7	We divide the whole chapter into three divisions.
0:58.5	Division 1, verses 1 to 10, division 2 versus 11 to 32, division 3, verse 33 to the end of the chapter.
1:07.7	In division 1, the apostle deals with the subject that the rejection of Israel is not total.
1:17.2	Now, in this second division, his theme is that the rejection of Israel is not final.
1:23.6	And we then further subdivided up this division into a number of subsections, indicating that
1:30.3	the first subsection consisted of these two verses 11 and 12.
1:36.3	Now, we've started our consideration of this subsection.
1:41.3	And in doing so, I indicated that in verse 11, which is a most important verse,
1:48.0	the Apostle states the theme which he's going to consider in the remainder of the entire chapter.
1:56.3	That's where the theme is stated in verse 11. From thereon, he works it out in detail as is his custom.
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