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Date: January 19, 2025
Series: Romans – Grasping The Gospel
Sermon Title: Part 43 – What It Means to be Grafted in Christ
Scripture: Romans 11:17–32
Speaker: Pastor Mark Pospisil
Questions:
When it comes to plants and gardening, would you say you have a green thumb, a brown thumb, or something in between? What is the most challenging gardening project that you have undertaken?
Where do see God as a Gardner and using that metaphor throughout the Scriptures?
What does the idea of the vine and branches illustrate? Think of Jesus’ words in John 15.
When you read Romans 11:17-24, what do you understand the root, the branches, the wild olive shoot, the cultivated olive tree, and the wild olive tree to represent?
Read Romans 11:25. How would you explain in your own words “the partial hardening” that has come upon Israel? What is God’s plan for the Jewish people? How do we even see some of that unfold today?
What does Romans 11:26-27 reveal to you about God’s compassion and grace?
When you read Romans 11:29, what do you think is meant with the phrase “For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable?”
In Romans 11:30-32, we read extensively about God’s mercy that He shows towards us. How should we respond to this truth so that we keep from taking that mercy lightly?
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