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"In this way all Israel will be saved," Romans 11:26.

All Israel? Who is *all* Israel? It is the Israel that includes the fullness of Gentiles. The Israel that includes Jews and Gentiles, both, and. In this way? What way is that? This way: All Israel's salvation comes not all at once. In the present, a partial hardening exists among the Jews against the gospel. (Partial? Right. A goodly number of Jews do come to faith in Christ in the now, but not a majority.) At present God grafts wild Gentile branches into his cultivated olive tree stock. In this way. So, in the new covenant, God extends mercy on all, Jews and Gentiles.

We visit with a brother or sister today in the joy of God's salvation. And together we praise God for his mercy in Christ.