“But it is not that the word of God has taken no effect. For they are not all Israel who are of Israel, nor are they all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but ‘In Isaac your seed shall be called.’ That is,…
“…of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who is over all, the eternally blessed God. Amen.” (Romans 9:5). Send article as PDF
“…my countrymen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom pertain the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service of God, and the promises; of whom are the fathers and from whom, according to the flesh, Christ came, who…
In an inspired attempt to communicate accurately his intense passion for the eternal spiritual well-being and bliss of his beloved Jewish kinsmen, Paul affirms in the strongest possible way the intense emotional distress and unceasing anguish of his heart when he writes: “I tell the…
“I tell the truth in Christ, I am not lying, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Spirit, that I have great sorrow and continual grief in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren,…
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:‘For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter’” (Romans 8:35-36)….
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us” (Romans 8:37). Send article as PDF
“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in…
“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.’ Yet…
Visualizing God’s providence as a chain with interlocking links helps in understanding it better. In the lives of a patriarch named Joseph and an orphan named Esther, all things—envy, cruelty, imprisonment, false accusation, famine, a beauty contest, assassination plots, a sleepless night, racial/ethnic hatred—were all…
