Today when I was reading Romans some things made a lot more sense to me and I want to share some of those things.
Some of it was from the Spirit and some of it was from reading in a different translation out of the New Living translation.
It was talking about where we’re justified by faith – not only by the law. When I say the law, I’m referring to the 10 commandments and other things in the OT. Whether we’re Jew or Gentile, we’re all guilty of breaking God’s law. So, pretty much every person on the face of the earth. It’s a fact, we see every day in our world. God made a way for Jews and Gentiles to be saved from the law of sin. In and of ourselves, it is impossible to fulfill God’s law. But God made a way by sending His son Jesus Christ, the Messiah. (Yeshua is Jesus in Hebrew)
Jesus fulfilled everything that was required by the law. All we have to do is have faith and trust Jesus can cleanse our sins because He died and God raised Him from the dead. It is important to study the law because it shows what we’re incapable of, but what God is quite capable of. It has never been about what we can do, but what God has done. We can trust God because of what He says He will do, because He always does.
It’s like when Abraham trusted God and God credited his trust as though it was righteousness. He believed God would do what He said He would do. Not that Abraham was observing a law or rituals. God’s new covenant through Jesus Christ is where all you have to do is put your trust in Jesus, the Messiah of the world for Jew and Gentile alike. As Christians we have to realize we are saved because of the Jewish people. Jesus was a Jew. We overlook this way too often. He observed the Jewish laws and fulfilled them. Jewish people need to realize not all Christians are out to get them, or make them change their traditions. Throughout history, as in the case of the Crusades, so-called Christians have done horrible things to the Jewish people. We need to become one, as Paul states, “One new man,” Christian and Jew together or Jew and Gentile alike, however you would like to put it. We need to come together and take the good news to the world for the glory of God, Amen.
If you’d like to read Romans 3 and 4 in the New Living translation, please click here.
I know it's not Christmas time but these videos go great with the subject. They talk about Abraham and where he lived in the land that would correlate with the birth of Jesus.
Some of it was from the Spirit and some of it was from reading in a different translation out of the New Living translation.
It was talking about where we’re justified by faith – not only by the law. When I say the law, I’m referring to the 10 commandments and other things in the OT. Whether we’re Jew or Gentile, we’re all guilty of breaking God’s law. So, pretty much every person on the face of the earth. It’s a fact, we see every day in our world. God made a way for Jews and Gentiles to be saved from the law of sin. In and of ourselves, it is impossible to fulfill God’s law. But God made a way by sending His son Jesus Christ, the Messiah. (Yeshua is Jesus in Hebrew)
Jesus fulfilled everything that was required by the law. All we have to do is have faith and trust Jesus can cleanse our sins because He died and God raised Him from the dead. It is important to study the law because it shows what we’re incapable of, but what God is quite capable of. It has never been about what we can do, but what God has done. We can trust God because of what He says He will do, because He always does.
It’s like when Abraham trusted God and God credited his trust as though it was righteousness. He believed God would do what He said He would do. Not that Abraham was observing a law or rituals. God’s new covenant through Jesus Christ is where all you have to do is put your trust in Jesus, the Messiah of the world for Jew and Gentile alike. As Christians we have to realize we are saved because of the Jewish people. Jesus was a Jew. We overlook this way too often. He observed the Jewish laws and fulfilled them. Jewish people need to realize not all Christians are out to get them, or make them change their traditions. Throughout history, as in the case of the Crusades, so-called Christians have done horrible things to the Jewish people. We need to become one, as Paul states, “One new man,” Christian and Jew together or Jew and Gentile alike, however you would like to put it. We need to come together and take the good news to the world for the glory of God, Amen.
If you’d like to read Romans 3 and 4 in the New Living translation, please click here.
I know it's not Christmas time but these videos go great with the subject. They talk about Abraham and where he lived in the land that would correlate with the birth of Jesus.
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