{"id":24,"date":"2013-11-10T05:14:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T05:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=24"},"modified":"2013-11-11T05:18:28","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T05:18:28","slug":"romans-1527","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/?p=24","title":{"rendered":"Romans 15:27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romans 15:27<\/b> – 27\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews\u2019 spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings.<\/p>\n

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Recently a man reminded me of the resentment that many have toward Jews, men with the belief that all the Jews are prosperous and that they are greedy and hoard money to themselves, to the lack of those who are not Jews.\u00a0 He fully expected me to share his resentment toward Jews.\u00a0 When I did not join in with him, his expression seemed to be saying that he thought me obtuse; my impression of him was that he certainly was not.\u00a0 <\/b><\/p>\n

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Certainly the Lord has blessed the Jews, even as they have been punished for their rebellion and disobedience.\u00a0 As we look through Old Testament times we see that even when the Jews were in exile because of their disobedience, God often blessed them wherever they went.\u00a0 Abraham, Moses, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and Joseph, amongst others, were blessed while their country was being judged for the sins it had committed.\u00a0 Certainly the Lord showed favor to His children then, but what about now?\u00a0 What about throughout history leading up to now?\u00a0 If it is so that the Lord shows favor to the Jews, then what are we to make of it?\u00a0 We can choose to be jealous and hate them for the favor they have received, or, we can wonder what God is teaching us through this.\u00a0 Romans 11:39 teaches us that gifts from God are irrevocable.\u00a0 So is it possible that God, who has chosen, from His love, to bless the Jews, continues to do so (including His 20th<\/sup> century restoration of the nation of Israel, as He promised)?\u00a0 God does not love and then take His love away from us at every sin we do.\u00a0 Instead, He continues to love us, and to pursue us, always urging us back to the path to Him.\u00a0 Even if takes a couple thousand years, our God is relentless in His love! His Word, the bible, makes it clear that God had made a promise to Abraham and after these thousands of years, His promise still stands\u2026amazing!<\/p>\n

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Romans 15:27 states that we owe a great debt of spiritual blessings to the Jews whom God first chose to be the priests that would reveal Himself to the world.\u00a0 It is they who cherished and guarded the words of God that we might have them now.\u00a0 It is through them that our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ was revealed, and His future as a man on earth, was predicted.\u00a0 Weren\u2019t all the apostles Jews?\u00a0 In the Old Testament we find a great revealing of God and His promises to us.\u00a0 Haven\u2019t we looked deeply into the writings of the Old Testament books and received insight, blessings and comfort?\u00a0 Certainly what the apostle Paul wrote, that we owe the Jews a great spiritual debt, is true.\u00a0 Paul was stating that the gentiles should gladly give of their blessings of this world to Jews, who gave us, from God, blessings from heaven.\u00a0 What was given back does not compare to what God has given to us through them!\u00a0 In gratitude for what God has given through the Jew to the gentile, the gentiles were asked to give what is temporary and fleeting for the permanent, eternal and secure.<\/p>\n

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What we learn is that God may bring punishment to a country for the sins it has committed, but He still loves those He has chosen to love (Hmmm, this brings to light why the marriage between a man and a woman illustrates the relationship between God and His church, and is therefore sacred, and not to be severed).\u00a0 He has loved Israel, that was His choice and His will, and not something they deserved.\u00a0 His love is given because He is a loving God and it is who He is to give love; none of us deserve His love.\u00a0 God gave us the bible to reveal Himself and His ways so that we might know Him.\u00a0 In it, what He reveals and commands are strips of the veil between us and the Holy of Holies.\u00a0 As we learn His word, these strips are being removed to see Him more clearly. \u00a0He has chosen to reveal Himself to all who would want to know Him (and likewise to give those who don\u2019t love God what they want, their own lives free of Him and living in darkness of knowledge of Him 1 Corinthians 2:14). \u00a0Now as a husband, or wife, should not divorce their spouse because they fail to do their household chores as frequently as they ought to, likewise God does not divorce us because we don\u2019t live perfectly as we ought to. God continues to love.<\/p>\n

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When we must discipline our children, it is not something we look forward to.\u00a0 Likewise the discipline is not evidence of our lack of love for our children, but rather a very strong effect of that love.\u00a0\u00a0 We may tell a child that he must stay in his room for the rest of the night, but it doesn\u2019t mean we don\u2019t bring the child a dinner to eat while exiled to his room.\u00a0 We continue to love and bless the child even while we discipline him.\u00a0 If we, who are imperfect do this, isn\u2019t this an example of how our perfect Father in heaven is?\u00a0 Indeed, God had exiled the Jew for their rebellion.\u00a0 He has given salvation to the gentile, who have shared His gospel to the world, when it was initially meant to be a blessing the Jew would do.\u00a0 Yet, in the disciplining of the Jews, God\u2019s love and blessings are still seen.\u00a0 Also consider, that even now, with Israel as a nation once again, the restoration of the Jew is being birthed by God.\u00a0 The dispensation of the gentile is ripe and ready for harvesting, and the favor and knowledge of God is beginning to be restored to Israel.<\/p>\n

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God has said of Israel in Genesis 12:3 \u201cI will\u00a0bless\u00a0those\u00a0who\u00a0bless\u00a0you, and\u00a0whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be\u00a0blessed through you.\u201d\u00a0 God\u2019s promises don\u2019t disappear.\u00a0 To be jealous of, and hate the Jew, is to bring cursing on oneself, or one\u2019s country.<\/p>\n

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To all, the fact that the Jew continues to be blessed by God is proof of the wonder of God\u2019s love, first to the Jew, and also to us.\u00a0\u00a0 Also, however, the disciplining of Israel is a warning to us.\u00a0 What is the greatest sin in the world?\u00a0 We can think of a lot of very terrible sins!\u00a0 Yet, what is the worst sin?\u00a0 It is the rejection of the grace of God, offered only through Jesus as recorded in the bible.\u00a0 While we are here on earth, if we reject Jesus and want no part of Him, then God honors that decision throughout eternity.\u00a0 However if you do not now claim Jesus as your Lord and Savior, He continues to love and call to you.\u00a0 It is not too late.\u00a0 If you do know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, then as we strive not to sin, yet surely do, we have the confidence that He will continue to love and forgive us.\u00a0 Just as He has with the Jew.\u00a0 John 1:9 \u2013 2:2 \u201cIf we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins\u00a0and purify us from all unrighteousness.\u00a0If we claim we have not sinned,\u00a0we make him out to be a liar\u00a0and his word is not in us.\u00a0 My dear children,\u00a0I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate\u00a0with the Father\u2014Jesus Christ, the Righteous One.\u00a0He is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not only for ours but also for the sins of the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So, God continues to use the Jew to teach us.\u00a0 Even now they show us that God has loved us, from eternity past, and He continues to offer us hope.\u00a0 As God has kept His promise to Israel, so will He keep His promise of peace between Him and us, if we accept His offer of peace.\u00a0 His offer of peace is extended only through the Son of God, Jesus Christ.\u00a0 Praise God who makes a way where there is no way!\u00a0 Praise our God who continues to love Jews and thereby gives us a living illustration of a God whose love is faithful and ever seeks us out.\u00a0 Praise our just and righteous God who loves beyond measure!\u00a0 Praise God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Romans 15:27 – 27\u00a0They were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have shared in the Jews\u2019 spiritual blessings, they owe it to the Jews to share with them their material blessings.   Recently a man reminded me of the resentment that many have toward Jews, men…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7,8,10],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirations","tag-god","tag-jesus","tag-romans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/25"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}