Saturday, July 30, 2016

Romans 9:30–10:4



ISRAEL’S UNBELIEF

Romans 9:30–10:4


Rom 9:30 What does all this mean? Even though the Gentiles were not trying to follow God's standards, they were made right with God. And it was by faith that this took place. Rom 9:31 But the people of Israel, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded.
Rom 9:32 Why not? Because they were trying to get right with God by keeping the law instead of by trusting in Him. They stumbled over the great rock in their path.

What is the great rock, it was Jesus Christ. The Jews did not see Christ as their redeemer. Where the gentiles who had not been exposed the Mosaic Law accepted by faith. I thought it would be appropriate to put the laws that the Jews followed down so that we could see what they believed.



If you click on the hyperlinks, which could take a few hours, you will dumbstruck by the complexity of the “LAW”. When all they had to do was accept Jesus by faith. 

Rom 9:33 God warned them of this in the Scriptures when He said, "I am placing a stone in Jerusalem that makes people stumble, a rock that makes them fall. But anyone who trusts in Him will never be disgraced."


Rom 10:1 Dear brothers and sisters, the longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved. Rom 10:2 I know what enthusiasm they have for God, but it is misdirected zeal. Rom 10:3 For they don't understand God's way of making people right with Himself. Refusing to accept God's way, they cling to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. Rom 10:4 For Christ has already accomplished the purpose for which the law was given. As a result, all who believe in Him are made right with God.

Life Application New Testament Commentary:
The Israelite's did not understand the extent of God’s righteousness, how it would be achieved, and how it would be made available to all people (the point Paul explained in chapters 3–6). Instead, they were clinging to their own way of getting right with God by trying to keep the law. They were not creating some new kind of righteousness; rather, they wanted to achieve God’s righteousness by observing the law and their rituals. Once their minds were set, they could not see God’s way—that righteousness had been provided for them through faith in Jesus Christ, that the whole purpose of the law had been accomplished in him. Christ fulfills the purpose and goal of the law (Mat_5:17) in that he perfectly exemplified all that the law requires.

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