Tuesday, August 11, 2015

To Him be the glory! 8/11/15

Day 220 - Reading the New Testament in one year.



Romans 11:19-36

 19 You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.” 20 Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by faith. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. 21 For if God did not spare the natural branches, he will not spare you either.

 22 Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of God: sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in his kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 23 And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. 24 After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!

 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[a] all Israel will be saved. As it is written:

 “The deliverer will come from Zion;
    he will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
27 And this is[b] my covenant with them
    when I take away their sins.”[c]
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[d] 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.

 Doxology
33 Oh, the depth of the riches of the wisdom and[e] knowledge of God!
    How unsearchable his judgments,
    and his paths beyond tracing out!
34 “Who has known the mind of the Lord?
    Or who has been his counselor?”[f]
35 “Who has ever given to God,
    that God should repay them?”[g]
36 For from him and through him and for him are all things.
    To him be the glory forever! Amen.

Supplied Life Devotional by Bill Freeman

Nullifying Christ August 11th

“Indeed I, Paul, say to you that if you become circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.” GALATIANS 5:2 For Christ to no longer “profit” us means that we nullify Christ. By speaking in this way, Paul brings out the serious conse- quences of losing the atmosphere of freedom. When saints are being compelled to conform to a spoken or unspoken standard or practice, this constitutes the loss of freedom (Gal. 2:3; 6:12). The saints had lost that precious freedom that preserves an atmosphere in which the love of God can freely flow from God to man, from man to God, and from man to man. To preserve the flow of the love of God in all its sweetness, we must preserve the atmosphere in which it can happen. This means that in the church life there must always be an atmo- sphere of freedom in which the love of God is able to flow among us. Love cannot flow where there is no freedom. When love does not flow, Christ has been nullified (cf. Gal. 5:2, 4 with verse 6). Where there is law, where there is obligation, where there is a legal mind-set, it not only chokes the flow of love, it makes it impossible for love to happen. For example, if I tell my wife, “I am your husband, I am your head; therefore you must love me,” the more I talk to her in this way, the more I make it impossible for her to love, even if she wanted to. How could she freely give love when I am demanding it from her? Love needs the atmosphere of freedom in order to exist. If freedom is not the atmosphere in our relationships, Christ and love are nullified. To love God and to love one another requires the atmosphere of freedom.


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