God has a plan to save his people Israel in the future, when Jesus returns and many of them accept them as their Messiah.

Gentile Christians are included in the people and promises of God. To highlight this, Paul uses the image of a wild olive tree and grafted in branches to note how God accomplishes this.

Paul anticipates a day in his end times theology when the Israelite people will respond in faith to Jesus Christ, which will occur at or around the time of the second coming.

Israel stumbled that by God's grace, salvation would be brought to the Gentile people.

Paul grounds his argument that believing Hebrews are the remnant of their day is defended using Old Testament Scripture.

In the Old Testament, remnant theology is the belief that God has kept a group, a remnant, despite the unbelief of his people. Paul applies that to speak of the Hebrew people in his day who have believed.

Paul addresses the stumbling block of spiritual complacency and unbelief.

A person can't call on Christ if they don't believe in him. They can't believe in him, if they've never heard about him. And, they can't hear about him if those who already believe, don't go.

The Hebrew Scriptures are quoted to show that we must rely on Jesus and his righteousness to be saved.

Paul, as a Jew who has believed in Jesus, shares his desire for Israel to put their faith in Jesus, their Messiah.

Israel's point of stumbling was comfort and complacency as the chosen people of God.

Paul quotes the prophet Isaiah to highlight God's saving based on God's desire to save his people and not their works. Likewise, it introduces notions of remnant theology, which he will develop later.

God is just in his choosing as true justice would be complete judgment with no options for grace or mercy. Rather salvation and God's choice is based on his merciful character.

God's choice is wrapped up in his grace evidenced in the person of Jesus and those who will respond in faith to him.

Paul goes to the Old Testament to highlight how God's choosing who will be is people is not based on a person's works, and is not ethnically tied.

Those chosen by God are those who have responded in faith to Jesus Christ.

Paul answers his rhetoric, that nothing can separate the believer from the love of God. The good life, is a secure life with great hope.

The good life is secure because the one who COULD bring a charge against us, has chosen instead to bear our penalty in love. Nothing can separate us from the love of God in Jesus Christ.

The good life is secure as it is seen to its end by God who fulfills our hopes. The Holy Spirit ministers to as as we patiently practice our faith.

The good life, life in the Spirit, looks forward to a future glory made possible only because of the inheritance we have in Jesus.