Posts from 2016 (Page 7)

Be subject to governing authorities. God instituted government. If you resist government you resist what God appointed. Rulers are not a terror to good conduct, but to bad. Our authorities are God’s servant for our good. Government carries out God’s wrath on the wrongdoer. Be subject not only to avoid God’s wrath but for the sake of conscience. This is why we pay taxes. Pay to all those what is owed them – taxes, revenue, respect, and honor. Owe no…

By the mercies of God present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, as your spiritual worship. Don’t be conformed to this world, but transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good acceptable and perfect. Don’t think more highly of yourself than you ought, but soberly according to the measure of faith God has assigned. Members don’t all have the same function,…

God has not rejected His people. Paul is an Israelite – descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has not rejected His people whom He foreknew. Elijah appealed to God against Israel, but God’s reply was, “I have kept for myself 7,000 men who have not bowed the knee to Baal.” At the present time there was a remnant, chosen by grace. If by grace it’s no longer on the basis of works; otherwise grace would no longer…

It was Paul’s heart’s desire and prayer to God for Israel that they may be saved. Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. Moses writes about righteousness that is based on the law, the person who does the commandments shall live by them. The righteousness based on faith says that the word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart; because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and…