(13) For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as i am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry, (14) if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh and save some of them.   (15) For if their being cast away is the reconciling of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?  (29) For the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. (30) For as you were once disobedient to God, yet have now obtained mercy through their disobedience, (31) even so these also have now been disobedient, that through the mercy shown you they also may obtain mercy.  (32) For God has committed them all to disobedience, that He might have mercy on all.

Luke records in several places in the Acts of the Apostles that Paul has been chosen to minister to the Gentiles.  After Paul has been struck blind on the road to Damascus, Jesus appeared in a vision to Ananias, a disciple at Damascus, and told him to go and lay his hands on Paul

(Acts 9:15) But the Lord said to him, “Go, for he is a chosen vessel of Mine to bear my name before Gentiles, kings and the children of Israel.”

In today’s reading, The Apostle Paul is addressing the Gentiles in Rome.  Paul magnifies his appointed position as apostle to the Gentiles stating that this was his role in God’s plan.  Paul further writes that the acceptance of the gospel by the Gentiles would not only bring them salvation but Paul’s ministry to them might provoke such envy among the Jews that they would imitate or even better, appropriate, the gospel and be saved.  This regeneration of Israel is “life from the dead”.  Paul further states that even though Israel has rejected Jesus Christ as the fulfillment of the Scriptures, God has not rejected Israel.  (verse 29)

Paul’s use of you in verse 30 is referring to Gentiles who might doubt that God has included Israel in a glorious future.  The Gentiles are warned that they have also been disobedient and they are not to be over inflated with pride in their present position of reconciliation to God through free grace, justified by faith.  God has not given up on His chosen people and has a plan for their salvation.  All have been disobedient and this serves to magnify God’s mercy.