2020 for JESUS - Day 256: JESUS is GOD... LORD... GRACE...

 

 

Romans 11:1-10

 

The Remnant of Israel

11 "I ask then:

Did GOD reject HIS people? By no means! I am an Israelite myself, a descendant of Abraham, from the tribe of Benjamin. 

² GOD did not reject HIS people, whom HE foreknew. Don’t you know what Scripture says in the passage about Elijah—how he appealed to GOD against Israel: 

³ ‘LORD, they have killed YOUR prophets and torn down YOUR altars; I am the only one left, and they are trying to kill me’? 

⁴ And what was GOD’s answer to him?

‘I have reserved for MYSELF seven thousand who have not bowed the knee to Baal.’

 ⁵ So too, at the present time there is a remnant chosen by GRACE. 

⁶ And if by GRACE, then it cannot be based on works; if it were, GRACE would no longer be GRACE.

⁷ What then? What the people of Israel sought so earnestly they did not obtain. The elect among them did, but the others were hardened, 

⁸ as it is written:

‘GOD gave them a spirit of stupor,
    eyes that could not see
    and ears that could not hear,
to this very day.’

⁹ And David says:

‘May their table become a snare and a trap,
    a stumbling block and a retribution for them.
¹⁰ May their eyes be darkened so they cannot see,
    and their backs be bent forever.’ ^“