2020 for JESUS - Day 261: JESUS is THE GRACE... THE FAITH... GOD... CHRIST...

Romans 12:3-8

^3 “For by THE GRACE given me I say to every one of you:

Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought,

but rather think of yourself with sober judgment,

in accordance with THE FAITH  GOD has distributed to each of you. 

⁴ For just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function, 

⁵ so in CHRIST we, though many, form one body, and each member belongs to all the others. 

⁶ We have different gifts, according to THE GRACE given to each of us. 

If your gift is prophesying, then prophesy in accordance with your faith; 

⁷ if it is serving, then serve; if it is teaching, then teach; 

⁸ if it is to encourage, then give encouragement; 

if it is giving, then give generously; 

if it is to lead, do it diligently;

if it is to show mercy, do it cheerfully.”

2020 for JESUS - Day 260: GOD's MERCY... GOD...

 

Romans 12:1-2

A Living Sacrifice

12 “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of GOD’s MERCY, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to GOD—this is your true and proper worship. 

² Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what GOD’s will is—HIS good, pleasing and perfect will.”

2020 for JESUS - Day 259: JESUS is THE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD... LORD... GOD...

 

 

 

Romans 11:33-36

^{33 "}Oh, the depth of the riches of THE WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE OF GOD!
    How unsearchable HIS judgments,
    and HIS paths beyond tracing out!
^{34 '}Who has known the mind of the LORD?
    Or who has been HIS counselor?'
^{35 '}Who has ever given to GOD,
    that GOD should repay them?'
³⁶ For from HIM and through HIM and for HIM are all things.
    To HIM be the glory forever! Amen.'"

 

2020 for JESUS - Day 258: JESUS is THE DELIVERER... THE GOSPEL... GOD... GOD'S MERCY...

 

 

Romans 11:25-32

All Israel Will Be Saved

²⁵ I do not want you to be ignorant of this mystery, brothers and sisters, so that you may not be conceited: Israel has experienced a hardening in part until the full number of the Gentiles has come in, 

²⁶ and in this way all Israel will be saved. As it is written:

‘THE DELIVERER will come from Zion;
    HE will turn godlessness away from Jacob.
²⁷ And this is my covenant with them
    when I take away their sins.’

²⁸ As far as THE GOSPEL is concerned, they are enemies for your sake; but as far as election is concerned, they are loved on account of the patriarchs, 

²⁹ for GOD’s gifts and HIS call are irrevocable. 

³⁰ Just as you who were at one time disobedient to GOD have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience, 

³¹ so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may now receive mercy as a result of GOD’s MERCY to you. 

³² For GOD has bound everyone over to disobedience so that HE may have mercy on them all.”

 

 

2020 for JESUS - Day 257: JESUS is SALVATION... FAITH... GOD...

  

Romans 11:11-24

^11 “’Again I ask:  Did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, SALVATION has come to the Gentiles to make Israel envious. 

¹² But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their full inclusion bring!

¹³ I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles, I take pride in my ministry 

¹⁴ in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. 

¹⁵ For if their rejection brought reconciliation to the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead? 

¹⁶ If the part of the dough offered as firstfruits is holy, then the whole batch is holy; if the root is holy, so are the branches.

¹⁷ If some of the branches have been broken off, and you, though a wild olive shoot, have been grafted in among the others and now share in the nourishing sap from the olive root, 

¹⁸ do not consider yourself to be superior to those other branches. If you do, consider this: You do not support the root, but the root supports you. 

¹⁹ You will say then, ‘Branches were broken off so that I could be grafted in.’

²⁰ Granted. But they were broken off because of unbelief, and you stand by FAITH. Do not be arrogant, but tremble. 

²¹ For if GOD did not spare the natural branches, HE will not spare you either.

²² Consider therefore the kindness and sternness of GOD:

sternness to those who fell, but kindness to you, provided that you continue in HIS kindness. Otherwise, you also will be cut off. 

²³ And if they do not persist in unbelief, they will be grafted in, for GOD is able to graft them in again. 

²⁴ After all, if you were cut out of an olive tree that is wild by nature, and contrary to nature were grafted into a cultivated olive tree, how much more readily will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree!”

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.’ ^“

2020 for JESUS - Day 255: JESUS is THE ONE... GOOD NEWS... THE GOOD NEWS... LORD... FAITH... THE MESSAGE... THE WORD... CHRIST...

  

Romans 10:14-21

^14 “How, then, can they call on THE ONE they have not believed in? And how can they believe in THE ONE of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone preaching to them? 

¹⁵ And how can anyone preach unless they are sent? As it is written: ‘How beautiful are the feet of those who bring GOOD NEWS!’

¹⁶ But not all the Israelites accepted THE GOOD NEWS. For Isaiah says, ‘LORD, who has believed our message?’ 

¹⁷ Consequently, FAITH comes from hearing THE MESSAGE, and THE MESSAGE is heard through THE WORD about CHRIST. 

¹⁸ But I ask: Did they not hear? Of course they did:

‘Their voice has gone out into all the earth,
    their words to the ends of the world.’

¹⁹ Again I ask: Did Israel not understand? First, Moses says,

‘I will make you envious by those who are not a nation;
    I will make you angry by a nation that has no understanding.’

²⁰ And Isaiah boldly says,

‘I was found by those who did not seek me;
    I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me.’

²¹ But concerning Israel he says,

‘All day long I have held out my hands
    to a disobedient and obstinate people.’ “