Jun 3, 2022
1SAMUEL 26-27:
Yesterday we heard the story of the cur Nabal
and his intelligent and beautiful wife, Abigail. After Nabal was
struck down by the Lord, Abigail became one of David's
wives.
PSALM 105b:
Today’s psalm is for teaching and reminding
each generation of the children of Israel about the great things
God has done for the Jewish people.
ROMANS 9b:
Note
that we have entered a difficult section of Romans. Romans 12
starts with, “Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view
of God’s mercies, …” But if you look back at what goes right before
that in chapter 11, that doesn’t seem to be what Paul is going back
to with the word ‘Therefore’. Can you find what Paul was going back
to and how the sections we will read for the next few days fit
together?
NLT Translation notes:
Ps.
105:37 The LORD [then] brought his people out of Egypt, loaded with
silver and gold;
and
not one among the tribes of Israel even
stumbled.
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Rom. 9:24 And we are among
those whom he selected, both from the Jews and from the
[non-Jews//Gentiles].
25
Concerning the [non-Jews//Gentiles], God says in the prophecy of
Hosea,
“Those
who were not my people,
I
will now call my people.
And
I will love those
whom
I did not love before.”
30
What does all this mean? Even though the [non-Jews//Gentiles] were
not trying to follow God’s standards, they were made right with
God. And it was by [their fully believing//faith] that this took
place.
32 Why not? Because they were
trying to get right with God by keeping the law instead of by
[fully believing his promises//trusting in him]. They stumbled over
the great rock in their path.
[Here
the NLT was inconsistent. Before now they have used ‘believe’ and
‘faith’ to translate the same root ‘pistews’ And now they used
‘trust’. Of course, every word of every language has a range of
meanings. I have no problem with translating ‘pisteos’ as ‘trust’,
per se. It is just that using ‘trust’ here does not help us see the
continuity of what Paul has been saying in this book. I would be
quite happy to go back through all of Romans and change ‘fully
believing’ to ‘fully trusting’. It is important we keep the
cohesion between v.32, 33, and 10:4.]
33
God warned them of this in the Scriptures when he
said,
“I am placing a stone in Jerusalem that makes
people stumble,
a
rock that makes them fall.
But
anyone who [believes//trusts] in him
will
never be disgraced.”
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