Saturday, August 8, 2015

Is God unjust?…..No way!!!

Day 216 - Reading the New Testament in one year.



Romans 9:1-15

 Paul’s Anguish Over Israel
9 I speak the truth in Christ—I am not lying, my conscience confirms it through the Holy Spirit— 2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. 3 For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my people, those of my own race, 4 the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption to sonship; theirs the divine glory, the covenants, the receiving of the law, the temple worship and the promises. 5 Theirs are the patriarchs, and from them is traced the human ancestry of the Messiah, who is God over all, forever praised![a] Amen.

 God’s Sovereign Choice
6 It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel. 7 Nor because they are his descendants are they all Abraham’s children. On the contrary, “It is through Isaac that your offspring will be reckoned.”[b] 8 In other words, it is not the children by physical descent who are God’s children, but it is the children of the promise who are regarded as Abraham’s offspring. 9 For this was how the promise was stated: “At the appointed time I will return, and Sarah will have a son.”[c]

 10 Not only that, but Rebekah’s children were conceived at the same time by our father Isaac. 11 Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad—in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: 12 not by works but by him who calls—she was told, “The older will serve the younger.”[d] 13 Just as it is written: “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.”[e]

 14 What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! 15 For he says to Moses,

 “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy,
    and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”[f]


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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