July 08, 2022

 God With Us

Happy Friday

Content (taken from bible study tools) (Source/Website is below)

"Paul begins by surveying the spiritual condition of all people. He finds Jews and Gentiles alike to be sinners and in need of salvation. That salvation has been provided by God through Jesus Christ and his redemptive work on the cross. It is a provision, however, that must be received by faith -- a principle by which God has always dealt with humankind, as the example of Abraham shows. Since salvation is only the beginning of Christian experience, Paul moves on to show how believers are freed from sin, law and death -- a provision made possible by their union with Christ in both death and resurrection and by the indwelling presence and power of the Holy Spirit. Paul then shows that Israel too, though presently in a state of unbelief, has a place in God's sovereign redemptive plan. Now she consists of only a remnant, allowing for the conversion of the Gentiles, but the time will come when "all Israel will be saved" (11:26; see note there). The letter concludes with an appeal to the readers to work out their Christian faith in practical ways, both in the church and in the world. None of Paul's other letters states so profoundly the content of the gospel and its implications for both the present and the future."

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Romans cont.....

All Israel Will Be Saved

25 I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, 26 and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written:

1. God has a plan

2. I love God's loyalty to his people. 

3. Sometimes he allows us to have a measure of ourselves but he is faithful to bring us back in. I love the word engrafted, inclusion, and justification. Who are we to exclude, some people are barely near the olive tree.  

4. Salvation is not ours to give or take away. It belongs to God. It is beautiful it is within the inner man. God has a plan. We can never ever think we it belongs to us.

“The deliverer will come from Zion;

    he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.

27 And this is my covenant with them

    when I take away their sins.”

1. You cannot wish it away

2. You cannot work it away

3. You cannot think it away

4. But God can take our sins away

5. The deliverer (Jesus) will take them away

28 As far as the gospel is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 29 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable. 30 Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, 31 so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now[h] receive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you. 32 For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all.

1. They were not listening to God, so he gave mercy to a people from him. But they too will receive mercy. 

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