Saturday, August 8, 2015

God's merciful. 8/8/15

Day 217 - Reading the New Testament in one year.




 Romans 9:16-33
16 It does not, therefore, depend on human desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. 17 For Scripture says to Pharaoh: “I raised you up for this very purpose, that I might display my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”[a] 18 Therefore God has mercy on whom he wants to have mercy, and he hardens whom he wants to harden.

 19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”[b] 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use?

 22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— 24 even us, whom he also called, not only from the Jews but also from the Gentiles? 25 As he says in Hosea:

 “I will call them ‘my people’ who are not my people;
    and I will call her ‘my loved one’ who is not my loved one,”[c]
26 and,

 “In the very place where it was said to them,
    ‘You are not my people,’
    there they will be called ‘children of the living God.’”[d]
27 Isaiah cries out concerning Israel:

 “Though the number of the Israelites be like the sand by the sea,
    only the remnant will be saved.
28 For the Lord will carry out
    his sentence on earth with speed and finality.”[e]
29 It is just as Isaiah said previously:

 “Unless the Lord Almighty
    had left us descendants,
we would have become like Sodom,
    we would have been like Gomorrah.”[f]
Israel’s Unbelief
30 What then shall we say? That the Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have obtained it, a righteousness that is by faith; 31 but the people of Israel, who pursued the law as the way of righteousness, have not attained their goal. 32 Why not? Because they pursued it not by faith but as if it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone. 33 As it is written:

 “See, I lay in Zion a stone that causes people to stumble
    and a rock that makes them fall,
    and the one who believes in him will never be put to shame.”[g]



Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

A focused ministry August 7th

“Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised nor uncir- cumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave nor free, but Christ is all and in all.” COLOSSIANS 3:11

Paul’s ministry was focused on Christ and the church. This focus came right out of the heart of God. It was hidden there. Paul makes this clear in Ephesians 3:9: “And to make all people see what is the administration of the mystery, which from the beginning of the ages has been hidden in God who created all things through Jesus Christ.” God had something hidden in Himself that He did not make known for a long time. This may be considered as God’s suppressed desire for the universe (Rom. 16:25-26). This desire is wholly focused in Christ. Paul understood this focus, and thus his ministry never deviated from making known the unsearchable riches of Christ through the church (Eph. 3:8-11).

When we see the focus of Christ in this universe according to the Lord’s use of Scripture and the apostles’ ministry, it is quite clear that the church is just Christ! What else could the church be? If “Christ is all and in all,” then the church, even logically, must be Christ. Understanding the church as Christ is very simple when we see that Christ is the centrality of the church, the content of the church, the reality of the church, and the expression of the church.

When we understand the church as Christ, this understanding issues in a focused daily life with many experiences of Christ. This is the meaning of Paul’s word in Colossians 2:2 — that the full assurance of understanding is unto an experiential knowledge of Christ. To experientially know Christ is to know Him increasingly as our relationship with everything.

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