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Rom.11:25 For I don't desire you to be ignorant, brothers,{The word for "brothers" here and where context allows may also be correctly translated "brothers and sisters" or "siblings."} of this mystery, so that you won't be wise in your own conceits, that a partial hardening has happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

Here the apostle Paul gives us the answer to his writings to these brothers and sister, for them not to become conceited by their own wisdom, human wisdom. How many have done just that since these words were penned? Setting themselves up as leaders over subjects in powerful positions, destroying spiritual, and physical lives in the name of Christ Jesus as God's spiritual Israel upon earth!

Proverbs 16:2 All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; but Yahweh weighs the motives.

Only conceit in self-wisdom would condone such conduct in Christ Jesus, but why? Simply put, Paul's words above, they had nothing that was not given them by God's own hard works, and not their own. They had been grafted into something so wonderful and holy it was a mystery for thousand's of years even to God's own prophets, now delivered too them freely by God's kindness. Where was the boasting, where was the oppression by wrath of the Old Law, where was their sins, gone! Yes, gone freely without their own good works, their own good name, but in God providing them the precious everlasting blood of Christ Jesus.

Proverbs 20:9 Who can say, "I have made my heart pure. I am clean and without sin?"

If self-works of goodness were enough why didn't one prophet, king, judge of God redeem themselves become the righteousness of God replacing the law? No, not one out of millions of Israel could step forward with such a claim, and yet, Israel became conceited in her own righteousness, by wisdom declared through the writings of the prophets. Israel declare herself righteous, subsequent, a holy tree of God's planting. She was proud in here heritage, so proud her own lust for self-rightness caused the very death of God's Son they claimed to honor and worship, could this happen to the Gentiles?

Jeremiah 13:27 I have seen your abominations, even your adulteries, and your neighing, the lewdness of your prostitution, on the hills in the field. Woe to you, Jerusalem! you will not be made clean; how long shall it yet be?

Yes, within short order we have nation building by the uses of Christ words, we find massive institution(s) oppressing people under its power and control of some man, or men seated at the top of government-religion. We have the pattern of flesh throughout the history of mankind, not the kingdom of God as spouted by these self-proclaimed Christ by conceited religion(s). Bragging in position how they are God's chosen, how only their religion is righteous and clean so goes the way of the wicked heart for self-glory, and so go the blinded humans under them wanting sight worship in works of law a profound, and powerful tool of light to mislead the nations away from the Kingdom of God.

Ezekiel 22:26 Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my Sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.
1 Corinthians 12:3 Therefore I make known to you that no man speaking by God's Spirit says, "Jesus is accursed." No one can say, "Jesus is Lord," but by the Holy Spirit.

Ephesians 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without blemish before him in love.

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