REVIEW

REVIEW Chapters 1 - 8 Our FAITH :: Individual - 1-3 Sin: Mankind’s Condition - 4-5 Salvation: God’s Plan of Justification - 6-8 Sanctification: God’s Plan for Conformity

REVIEW Chapters 9 - 11 Israel’s HOPE :: National - 9 Israel - In the Past - 10 Israel - In the Present - 11 Israel - In the Future

Bible Study Principle #1 is Context

Bible Study Principle #1 is Context …meaning, if you don’t understand how what you're reading relates to the whole of scripture, then you are in danger of misapplying the information.

A Burden for Israel Romans 9:1-5

Why so burdened Paul? Rom 9:1  I say the truth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost,  2.  That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.

KEY POINT The burden of Christian enlightenment is the awareness of the value of a soul

Israel’s Lostness v3. For I could wish that myself were accursed from Christ for my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh:

Israel’s Lostness Exo 32:30-33  And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto the LORD; peradventure I shall make an atonement for your sin.  (31)  And Moses returned unto the LORD, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.  (32)  Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin--; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.  (33)  And the LORD said unto Moses, Whosoever hath sinned against me, him will I blot out of my book.

Israel’s Lostness Act 20:23 Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me. 24 But none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I might finish my course with joy, and the ministry, which I have received of the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.

KEY POINT For a Christian it is necessary that our emotions and actions reflect God’s love for the human soul.

Israel’s Lostness 1Co 9:19 For though I be free from all [men], yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more. 20 And unto the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law; 21 To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law. 22 To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all [men], that I might by all means save some. 23 And this I do for the gospel's sake, that I might be partaker thereof with [you].

Israel’s Lostness It’s possible to want salvation for the lost more than the lost want salvation for themselves …so until they do, let it drive you to pray.

Israel’s Without Excuse 4 Who are Israelites; to whom [pertaineth] the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service [of God], and the promises; 5 Whose [are] the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ [came], who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

Israel’s Without Excuse God extended to them the following gifts: Adoption – the gift of acceptance into his divine family - Ex 4:22, Deut 7: 14: 1, 7:6-9, Jer 31:9

Israel’s Without Excuse God extended to them the following gifts: His Glory – the gift of his presence

Israel’s Without Excuse God extended to them the following gifts: His Glory – the gift of his presence Guided in the wilderness - Ex 12:21-22, 24:16-17; 29:43; 40:34-38

Israel’s Without Excuse God extended to them the following gifts: His Glory – the gift of his presence Guided in the wilderness - Ex 12:21-22, 24:16-17; 29:43; 40:34-38 / Revealed in the tabernacle - Ex 40:34-48

Israel’s Without Excuse God extended to them the following gifts: His Glory – the gift of his presence Guided in the wilderness - Ex 12:21-22, 24:16-17; 29:43; 40:34-38 / Revealed in the tabernacle - Ex 40:34-48 / Revealed in the temple - 1 King 8:10-11

Israel’s Without Excuse God extended to them the following gifts: His Glory – the gift of his presence Guided in the wilderness - Ex 12:21-22, 24:16-17; 29:43; 40:34-38 / Revealed in the tabernacle - Ex 40:34-48 / Revealed in the temple - 1 King 8:10-11 / His Glory departed - Ezek 10:4-19

Israel’s Without Excuse God extended to them the following gifts: His Glory – the gift of his presence Guided in the wilderness - Ex 12:21-22, 24:16-17; 29:43; 40:34-38 / Revealed in the tabernacle - Ex 40:34-48 / Revealed in the temple - 1 King 8:10-11 / His Glory departed - Ezek 10:4-19 / His glory will return (2nd Advent) - Hag 2:2-9

Israel’s Without Excuse God extended to them the following gifts: The Covenants – the gift of his binding promises

The Covenants with Israel 1. Abrahamic Covenant - Summarized by God’s promise to build a large nation that will bless the world. Gen 12:1-3 - That they will inherit a land mass that will belong to them forever Gen.15:1-17 - That they will be God’s family forever Gen.17:1-14

The Covenants with Israel 2. Mosaic Covenant - Ex 19-20 Summarized as God’s giving of the law that the Nation might have a godly standard by which to live.

The Covenants with Israel 3. Davidic Covenant II Sam 7:12-16, 23:5, 2 Chron 13:5, 6 Summarized as God’s promise to establish an eternal kingdom through the line of David.

The Covenants with Israel 4. Everlasting Covenant - Jer 31:31-34   Summarized as a promise of a coming national salvation

The Covenants with Israel Jer 31:33 But this [shall be] the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34 And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the LORD: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the LORD: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.

The Covenants with Israel 5. The New Covenant - Matt 26:26-30 Summarized as a promise that Christ will fellowship with his people again in his kingdom

Israel’s Without Excuse God extended to them the following gifts: The Law – the gift of God’s word Rom 7; Gal 3:17-18.

Israel’s Without Excuse God extended to them the following gifts: The Service - the honorable gift to serve him and his people

Israel’s Without Excuse God extended to them the following gifts: The Messiah - the gift of being the seed of the very Christ.

KEY POINT In light of God’s love and blessing, the Nation of Israel is without excuse for not following Christ.

What is it that is keeping you from following Jesus today?