“For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all” (Romans 11:32). Read Romans 11:1-32. Throughout the Old Testament, the Bible speaks of the faithful remnant within ethnic Israel. It was always faith in God, not simply being Jewish, that ultimately saved anyone. Claiming that all Jewish people had faith in God would be like asserting that all churchgoers today are born-again. Of course, salvation is not dependent on either our ethnicity or church attendance. Our relationship with God is a matter of the heart. When the Jews hardened their hearts and rejected the Messiah, what did God do? He used their rejection to bring the Gentiles to salvation and to make His people envious, that they might come to their Messiah (see v. 11). God used Israel’s rejection of Jesus as a means of grace—not only for their good but for the good of the Gentiles. You see, our indescribable God is […]