Restored in Grace

One question at this point for the Roman church had to be: “So what about the Israel?” Gentiles were suddenly being welcomed into God’s family and the language was shifting away from talking about the Jews as God's covenant people, the heirs of His blessing and promises. Had Israel merely been replaced? Were they now hopeless? By no means! Salvation was always intended to be for everyone, both in the Old Covenant and in the New. The severing of their branches by their disobedience made it possible for everyone to be grafted in by faith and the fact that God grafted in the Gentiles proved not that the Jews were lost without hope, but that God could just as easily graft them back in. God had shown mercy to the Gentiles and by consigning the Jews to disobedience, He now can show them the same mercy.