In Romans 11, the Apostle Paul reveals God’s Word as a thrilling symphony across the ages as he unveils God’s master plan to save both Jews and Gentiles. Like a master pianist, Paul goes from one end of Scripture to another, moving across the keys of history to expose the beauty of salvation. In so doing, he is following his Maker’s pattern, as Louis Gaussen states, “The Creator is glancing across the range of keys, stretching over three-score centuries, and then He makes it known to our fallen world.” 

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How does Romans 11 reveal the Word of God as a symphony across all the ages? This thrilling chapter unveils God's plan for the Jews and the Gentiles, but the Apostle Paul goes all over the Bible to explain God's love for the Jews and the Gentiles. There's a book that I highly recommend, Lewis Gowson, God Breathed. It's about the inerrancy of the Bible, Theonustia, that the Bible is God breathed and you can see this in Romans 11. What Gowson says is that the Bible is God speaking in man, God speaking by man, God speaking as man, God speaking for man, and it's really an unveiling of the history of salvation.

And Lewis Gowson just beautifully explains all over this book the beauty of the authority of scripture. And he describes God as a skillful musician with many instrumentals, many sounds, many personalities, many places. And he says that God in the Word of God is executing a long score musically by himself. And he plays like a funeral flute. He plays like a shepherd's pipe, like he calls it a merry fife, or a trumpet that summons into battle.

Gowson is explaining what it means that scripture is God-breathed, that it is actually the breath of God. It's in the simple and majestic narratives of Moses. It's in the royal wisdom of Solomon. It was Peter, it was Isaiah, it was Matthew, it was John, it was Moses. And he says, yet it was God.

And then he says the Bible has lessons for all conditions of life. It brings us upon the scene of the lowly, then on the great. It reveals equally both the love of God and it also the wrath of God and the miseries of rejecting God, it addresses itself to children. He says this, it is often children that show us the way to heaven and the great things of Jehovah. He says it addresses itself to shepherds, to herdsmen.

He lifts up his voice in kings, in scribes. He lifts his voice in man's wretchedness and humiliation, weaknesses unveiled, falls, recoveries, inward experiences, parables, familiar letters, theological treatises, celestial visions, practical councils, rules of life, solutions in cases of conscience, judgments of God, sacred hymns, predictions of future events, narratives of the things that passed long ago and still are happening today to give us this delightful view of God's mastery over history all the way to its last page. You see this majestic unity. He calls it indefinable charm of the Word of God. And it's as if Paul is a master pianist moving across the keys of history from Genesis to Revelation, exposing the beauty of salvation and God's plan to rescue all mankind, both Jews and Gentiles.

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