With Christ as my witness, I speak with utter truthfulness. My conscience and the Holy Spirit confirm it. My heart is filled with bitter sorrow and unending grief for my people, my Jewish brothers and sisters. I would be willing to be forever cursed—cut off …
Bible Gem 208 – Where’s the Link? (Rom 9:1-5)
Bible Gem 207 – Solving the Puzzle of Romans 9-11
If you have not completed your own analysis of the Romans 9-11 and want the satisfaction of doing it yourself then don’t read any more of this Gem now. Read it when you have done your work and wish to compare it with mine. If …
Bible Gem 206 – Now for the Bit You Won’t Like (Rom 9:1-11:36)
Now is the time to ask you to do something I know you won’t like. My years of experience as a teacher tell me if we were all in the classroom you would groan (with creation) at this point. I am about to ask you …
Bible Gem 205 – The Problem of Romans 9-11 (Rom 9:1-11:36)
Go back and read Bible Gem 132 There seems to be a disconnect in Romans 9-11 with what went before it. So much so that people have challenged whether it is really Paul. Some people I have met skip out Romans 9-11 when reading their …
Bible Gem 204 – No Condemnation / No Separation (Rom 8)
Romans Chapter 8, What an amazing passage of Scripture! No condemnation > > > No Separation. Do you think it is a coincidence that Romans 8 opens with No Condemnation and closes with No Separation? In the previous chapters Paul has been discussing the effect …
Bible Gem 203 – Who or what can separate us from the love of God? (Rom 8:35-39)
Who can separate us from Christ’s love? Trouble / Distress Persecution / Hunger Nakedness / Danger / Sword? For I am convinced that neither: death nor life angels nor principalities things present nor things to come anything above nor anything below nor anything else in …
Bible Gem 202 – If God is on Our Side . . . continued (Rom 8:31-34)
What, then, can we say about all of this? If God is for us, who can be against us? The one who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for all of us-surely he will give us all things along with him, …
Bible Gem 201 – If God is on Our Side . . . (Rom 8:31-34)
What, then, can we say about all of this? If God is for us, who can be against us? The one who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for all of us-surely he will give us all things along with him, …
Bible Gem 200 – Foreknown, Predestined, Called, Justified and Glorified (Rom 8:29-30)
For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom he predestined, he also called; and those whom he called, he also justified; and …
Bible Gem 199 – All things work together for good (Rom 8:28)
And we know that he works all things together for the good of those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 Jacob cried: all these things are against me. Paul: all things are working together for good. So whose side …