Romans 9:19-33 Are you disappointed?

19You will say to me then, “Why does He still find fault? For who resists His will?” 20On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, “Why did you make me like this,” will it? 21Or does not the potter have a right over the clay, to make from the same lump one vessel for honorable use and another for common use? 22What if God, although willing to demonstrate His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction? 23And He did so to make known the riches of His glory upon vessels of mercy, which He prepared beforehand for glory, 24even us, whom He also called, not from among Jews only, but also from among Gentiles.

25As He says also in Hosea,

            “I WILL CALL THOSE WHO WERE NOT MY PEOPLE, ‘MY PEOPLE,’

            AND HER WHO WAS NOT BELOVED, ‘BELOVED.’”

      26“AND IT SHALL BE THAT IN THE PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, ‘YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE,’

            THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED SONS OF THE LIVING GOD.”

      27Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “THOUGH THE NUMBER OF THE SONS OF ISRAEL BE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA, IT IS THE REMNANT THAT WILL BE SAVED; 28FOR THE LORD WILL EXECUTE HIS WORD ON THE EARTH, THOROUGHLY AND QUICKLY.”

29And just as Isaiah foretold,

            “UNLESS THE LORD OF SABAOTH HAD LEFT TO US A POSTERITY,

            WE WOULD HAVE BECOME LIKE SODOM, AND WOULD HAVE RESEMBLED GOMORRAH.”

      30What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, attained righteousness, even the righteousness which is by faith; 31but Israel, pursuing a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law. 32Why? Because they did not pursue it by faith, but as though it were by works. They stumbled over the stumbling stone,

33just as it is written,

            “BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION A STONE OF STUMBLING AND A ROCK OF OFFENSE,

            AND HE WHO BELIEVES IN HIM WILL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED."

He called you and now He calls you beloved! For if you believe you are a son of the living God.

Look around you Christian and see how fast this world if falling into the abyss. I read an article yesterday about a minister who recited an opening prayer at the democratic national convention, she was jeered, booed and the chant turned into Bernie, Bernie, Bernie. The article went on to say at the previous DNC convention they tried to remove God from their national platform. The author went on to say after each night of these conventions there was a very loud thunderstorm. Was it Gods response to their ungodly behavior?

Paul went on to explain the Gentiles didn't seek righteousness but obtained it through faith.

Did you?

He also said those who seek righteousness through works didn't obtain it because they didn't have faith.

Do you? 

Do you believe in Him? Then you will not be disappointed!

Blessings, David 

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