We Have No Bragging Rights | A SOAP Devotional by Pastor Jamie
Read Romans 11 https://www.biblegateway.com/ passage/?search=romans+11& version=NLT Romans 11:18- But you must not brag about being grafted in to replace the branches that were broken off. You are just a branch, not the root. Here Paul continues to wrestle (the meaning of the word Israel) with the meaning of the Good News being given to the Gentiles. He says the fact that many Jews had already chosen to reject the gospel opened the door for the Gentiles to walk through into a new relationship with Jesus Christ, but since they were merely grafted onto an already existing tree they had nothing to boast about. Paul weaves a complicated argument about how God has not and will not give up on His chosen people, Israel, even though many of them had given up on Him. We Gentiles need to be grateful that God's grace through Jesus Christ has been made available to everyone. Paul finds all kinds of ways to emphasize in his writings that none of us have anything to boast about when ...