What if God, although choosing to show His wrath and make His power known, bore with great patience the objects of His wrath – prepared for destruction? What if He did this to make the riches of His glory known to the objects of His mercy, whom He prepared in advance for His glory, even […]
Bible Study Devotional -Day 55 – Commentary Romans 9:19-21- Why did God make me like this?
Then why does God still blame us? For who can resist his will? But who are you, O man, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “Why did you make me like this?” “Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump […]
Bible Study Devotional -Day 54 – Commentary Romans 9:14-18 – Why does God show us mercy? Why does God harden hearts? What is God’s glory?
What then shall we say? Is God unjust? Not at all! For he says to Moses, “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.” It does not, therefore, depend on man’s desire or effort, but on God’s mercy. For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 53 – Commentary Romans 9:13 – Why did God hate Esau?
Just as it is written, “Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.” (Romans 9:13) I have trouble with this Passage. It hits me in the gut every time I read it! God is love (See 1 John 4:8), so how could God hate Esau? Neither of these twins were lovable. Jacob was a deceiver, and […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 52 – Commentary Romans 9:10-12 – What is the Biblical Doctrine of Election?
Not only that, but Rebekah’s children had one and the same father, our ancestor Isaac. Yet, before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad – in order that God’s purpose in election might stand: not by works but by him who calls, she was told, “The older will serve the younger.” […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 51 – Commentary Romans 9:6B-9 –What can we learn from Abraham in the Bible?
But, it is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel, and not all are children of Abraham because they are his descendants; but “Through Isaac shall your descendants be named.” This means that it is not the children of the flesh who […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 50 – Commentary Romans 9:1-5 – Why did Apostle Paul suffer for Christ? What are the advantages of being Jewish?
I speak the truth in Christ – I am not lying, my conscience confirms it in the Holy Spirit – I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, those of my own race, […]
Bible Study Devotional – Day 49 – Commentary Romans 8:38-39 – Who can separate us from the love of Christ?
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39) The Good News […]