Romans (Part 29)

**Adam Wiggins** (0:00)
Y'all can have a seat.

**SPEAKER_2** (0:44)
I ask them, have they stumbled so as to fall? Absolutely not. On the contrary, by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous. Now, if their transgressions bring riches to the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more will their fullness bring?
Now, I am speaking to you Gentiles. In so far as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry. If I might somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them, for if their rejection brings reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance mean but life from the dead? Now, if the first fruits are holy, so is the whole batch, and if the root is holy, so are the branches. If some of the branches were broken off, and you, though a wild olive branch, were grafted in among them, and have come to share in the rich root of the cultivated fruit, and olive tree, do not boast that you are better than the branches. But if you do boast, you do not sustain the root, but the root sustains you, then you will say, branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.
If you remain in His kindness, otherwise you will be cut off. And even they, if they do not remain in unbelief, will be grafted in, because God is the power to graft them in again. For if you were cut off from your native wild olive tree, against nature, you were grafted in to a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted in to their own olive tree? I do not want to be ignorant of the mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you will not be conceited. A partial hardening has come upon Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles have come in.
As you once obeyed God, but now have received mercy through their disobedience, so they too now have disobeyed, resulting in mercy to you, so that they now may receive mercy. For God has imprisoned all in disobedience that he may have mercy on all.

**Adam Wiggins** (3:50)
Now I'm off, now I'm on. All right, here we go, good morning, Storyline. It is good to see you. Can you believe it's already the week of Thanksgiving? The year's just flying by. So unlike our beloved lead pastor, I am excited about some turkey this week. So I hope you are too, I hope you're ready for that. Hey, glad you're here this morning. My name is Adam, I serve as the group's pastor here at Storyline. If we haven't had a chance to meet yet, I'd love to meet you after the service, especially if you're new around here. The rest of our staff would love to meet you as well. But man, I'm so glad that you're here, and that we get to just worship Jesus this morning, and sing these incredible songs about God's love and His mercy and His grace that He has shown to us. And so as we go into Thanksgiving, and as we're thinking about what we're thankful for, surely that makes the cut. And this morning, we're actually finishing up Romans 11 We're finishing this chapter, and we're actually finishing Romans for the year. We'll pick it back up in January, and so I'm excited to open up God's Word and to listen to His voice with you this morning and hear what He would have to say to us. But before we dig into this chapter, actually, I want to begin with a rather raw question. And it might be a question that you think, you actually shouldn't ask this at church or during a sermon, but I think it's an important question. It's a question that we ask, and so here it is. When was the last time you questioned God's plan?
When was the last time you questioned God's plan? When life wasn't really going the way you think it should be going. Now, I'm willing to bet, if you're like me at all, at some point, you have questioned God. I know that I have, especially in moments in life or different seasons where we experience loss or grief or pain or just straight up confusion, where we begin asking God these questions and when we begin really maybe questioning even His plan. It's times when our careers may take a turn that we didn't expect, or a family member has a health crisis that we didn't expect, or maybe life just throws a ball at you and it has a curve on it, and you're left asking like, God, what are you doing? Like, what's your plan here?