Welcome to the Bible Study. I'm Stephen Lawson, President of One Passion Ministries.

And each week I will teach verse by verse through the passage of scripture

so that you can better understand the word of God

and put it into practice in your life. Join me now as we look together into this

section of the Bible. All right, Romans chapter 11. We're in verses 1 through 11 today, Lord

willing, if we can cover this, and the title of this Bible study is a chosen remnant.

A chosen remnant.

Let me begin by reading the text.

I say then, God has not rejected his people has he?

Question mark. May it never be exclamation point.

For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin.

God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew.

Or do you not know what the scripture says in the passage about Elijah, how he pleads with

God against Israel?

Lord, they have killed your prophets.

They have torn down your altars and I alone am left and they are seeking

my life. But what is the divine response to him? I have kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the need to bail.

In the same way then there has also come to be at the present time a remnant according to God's gracious choice, but if it is by

grace it is no longer on the basis of works otherwise grace is no longer grace.

In this study we begin a brand new chapter, Romans chapter 11, and we find here Paul's most complete teaching on the future of the nation

Israel. Now we might wonder why would this be important to us after all all of us except

for Dan here is is a Gentile and so why would we be concerned with Israel? What does this have to do with me?

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