I would like to call your attention this evening to verses 25, 26 and 27 in the 11th

chapter of Paul's Epistle to the Romans.

For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise

in your own conceits, that blindness in part has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles

become in. And so all Israel shall be saved. As it is written, there shall come out of Zion,

the deliverer, and shall turn away of godliness from Jacob.

For this is my covenant unto them when I shall take away their sins.

Now we are looking at this great statement contained here,

and which I have already described to you as the Apostle's way of expressing his absolute certainty about the restoration of the Jews to the kingdom of God and to the Christian Church. He puts it,

as I've shown you, in the form of a prophecy. And last Friday

night we were drawing out some of the implications of that fact. Now then, we can come,

therefore, to the actual statement itself this evening. Here is a statement which is not only of great and vital

importance, but one which is in many ways very difficult. And the result is it has been the subject

of much controversy, much difference and disagreement of opinion. Now that is so for a number of reasons, the form in which

the apostle puts it, I suppose, being the main reason for that. However, it beerves

us therefore to examine it very carefully. And I trust we've all been praying together as I was trying to pray for you just

now that we may be enlightened of the Spirit. It's such an important statement. Now, the

apostle gives his prophecy in the last part of verse 25 and the first part of verse 26.

Then in the second half of verse 26 and in verse 27, he supports it and substantiates it

by quotations from the Old Testament.

In other words, he's following his usual method, makes his statement, proves it, confirms,

shows that in a sense it's not a novelty by means of his quotation from the Old Testament.

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