Section 11
God, the lump is for the satisfaction of God; it is offered to God as food for His satisfaction. A piece of lifeless clay cannot satisfy God. Only in the lump do we have the living element which satisfies God.
While the dough is for God's satisfaction, the root is for our satisfaction. Romans 11:17 says that we, "being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them and became a fellow-partaker of the root of the fatness of the olive tree." The lives of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in Genesis were the root of the fatness of the olive tree. The entire olive tree depends upon their fatness. Praise the Lord that we, the wild olive tree, have been grafted into God's cultivated olive tree that we might be fellow-partakers of its root of fatness! This is our enjoyment. God enjoys the dough; we enjoy the root. Both the dough and the root are of the plant life, the life which satisfies God and man. Both the wheat and the olive produce en joyment and satisfaction for God and man. Praise the Lord! Once again we see how deep a writer was Paul. Nothing in Romans is superficial.
In verse 17 Paul says that we, the Gentiles, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in and be came a partaker of the root. Grafting is a matter of life. For the branch of a wild tree to be grafted