“God’s love for humanity and His great desire to see all humanity saved” on Sabbath afternoon’s lesson is reflected in: Hymn 76, “O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go”, Hymn 77, “O Love of God Most Full”, Hymn 78, “For God So Loved Us” and in Hymn 79, “O Love of God, How Strong … Continue reading –>
Read Romans 11:11-15. What great hope does Paul present in this passage? In this passage, we find two parallel expressions: (1) “their [the Israelites’] fulness” (Rom. 11:12) and (2) “the receiving of them [the Israelites]” (Rom. 11:15). Paul envisioned the diminishing and the casting away to be only temporary and to be followed by fullness and reception. This is … Continue reading –>
Read Romans 11:1-7. What common teaching does this passage deny clearly and irrevocably? In the first part of his answer to the question, “Hath God cast away his people?” Paul points to a remnant, an election of grace, as proof that God has not cast away His people. Salvation is open for all who accept it, … Continue reading –>
Read Romans 10:1-4. Keeping in mind all that came before, what’s the message here? How could we, today, be in danger of seeking to establish our “own righteousness”? Legalism can come in many forms, some more subtle than others. Those who look to themselves, to their good deeds, to their diet, to how strictly they keep … Continue reading –>
Read for This Week’s Study: Romans 10, Romans 11. Memory Text: “I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin” (Romans 11:1). This week’s lesson covers Romans chapters 10 and 11, with a focus especially on chapter 11. It’s important … Continue reading –>
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV Romans 9 is not about Jacob or Esau being predestined for salvation or not. It is about the role they were to play. Some … Continue reading –>
Further Thought: Read Ellen G. White, “Later English Reformers”, pp. 261, 262, in The Great Controversy; “Faith and Works”, pp. 530, 531, in The SDA Encyclopedia; Ellen G. White Comments, pp. 1099, 1100, in The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 1. “There is an election of individuals and a people, the only election found in the word of God, where man is elected … Continue reading –>
“What shall we say then? That the Gentiles, which followed not after righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith. But Israel, which followed after the law of righteousness, hath not attained to the law of righteousness. Wherefore? Because they sought it not by faith” (Rom. 9:30-32). What’s the message here, and, more … Continue reading –>
Key Thought: It is important to seek to understand God’s will to save both Jew and Gentile alike and how He chooses people to reach the lost.. Lesson 10, December 9, 2017 1. Have a volunteer read Romans 9:12-15 a. Ask class members to share a thought on what the most important point in this … Continue reading –>
Welcome to Singing with Inspiration for another week. Sunday’s lesson study shows us that “God needed a missionary people to evangelise a world steeped in paganism, darkness, and idolatry. Hymn 365, “O Zion, Haste” shows us this also. Hymn 607, “God of Grace and God of Glory”, Hymn 108, “Amazing Grace” and Hymn 109, “Marvellous … Continue reading –>
Does God harden hearts? The context of the opening Bible verse for this week’s lesson is God’s supreme power to rule the world and to decide which of the human race qualify for salvation. Romans 9:18 says, “Therefore hath he mercy on whom he will have mercy, and whom he will harden” How do we … Continue reading –>
In Romans 9:25 Paul quotes Hosea 2:23, and in Romans 9:26 he quotes Hosea 1:10. The background is that God instructed Hosea to take “a wife of whoredoms” (Hos. 1:2) as an illustration of God’s relationship with Israel, because the nation had gone after strange gods. The children born to this marriage were given names signifying God’s rejection and punishment of idolatrous Israel. … Continue reading –>
