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Carl Westerlund :: Romans 11:7-10 - Judicial Blindness

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Romans in Outline No. 104

1.1 THE CONTRAST BETWEEN THE ELECT WHO RECEIVED RIGHTEOUSNESS AND THE REST WHO WERE HARDENED

Romans 11:7

2.1  What Israel failed to attain

Romans 11:7a

2.2  The place of the election

Romans 11:7b

2.3  The hardening of the rest

Romans 11:7c

1.2  THE CONFIRMATION FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT

Romans 11:8-10

2.1  The word from Deuteronomy and Isaiah

Romans 11:8

Deuteronomy 29:4 allusion

Isaiah 29:9-10 allusion

3.1  ISRAEL IS UNABLE TO UNDERSTAND GOD’S WORD

3.2  THIS DEAF–BLINDNESS IS JUDICIAL

3.3  THIS CONDITION HAS LASTED A LONG TIME

3.4  JUDICIAL BLINDNESS LASTED INTO CHRIST’S DAY

Matthew 13:14-16

John 12:40

3.5  JUDICIAL BLINDNESS WAS PRESENT IN PAUL’S DAY

“…to this very day.”

2 Corinthians 3:12-18

2 Corinthians 4:3-4

2.2 The word from David

Romans 11:9-10

Psalm 69:22-23 quote

PSALM 69 — AN IMPRECATORY PSALM

3.1  DAVID’S EXPERIENCE

3.2  THE MESSIANIC ELEMENT

4.1  Psalm 69:4John 15:25

4.2  Psalm 69:9aJohn 2:17

4.3  Psalm 69:9bRomans 15:3

4.4   Psalm 69:21Matthew 27:34; 27:48

4.5   Psalm 69:25Acts 1:20; Matthew 23:38

4.6   Psalm 69:26Isaiah 53:4

3.3 THE IMPRECATION

Romans 11:7-11

7 What then? Israel has not obtained what it seeks; but the elect have obtained it, and the rest were blinded. 8 Just as it is written: “God has given them a spirit of stupor, Eyes that they should not see And ears that they should not hear, To this very day.” 9 And David says: “Let their table become a snare and a trap, A stumbling block and a recompense to them. 10 Let their eyes be darkened, so that they do not see, and bow down their back always.” (NKJV)

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