07/14/2024 – Day 042- Romans – Chapters 11 – 12
Previous cycle posts for Day #042:
07/12/20 – Covering Ch. #11 – “Israel’s Not Total” ; focusing on Luther’s Anti-Semitism late in his life.
07/19/20 & Reposted on 04/10/22 – a look at verse 12:2. The beauty again of a blog, we can trigger a group fellowship years later and/or globally.
For today, I am going to share Henry H. Halley’s chapter summaries in “Halley’s Bible Handbook” , 24th Edition, Copyright 1965:
“Israel’s Future Salvation, 11: 1-36
Israel’s Rejection of Christ is temporary. The days will come when all Israel shall be Saved (26). When or how that will be is not here stated. Nor is it stated whether it will be in connection with their Return to Palestine, but merely the bare fact that it will be. One of the darkest spots in the panorama of human history is the age-long Suffering of this Sorrowful, Disobedient people. But one day it will end. Israel shall turn in penitence to the Lord. And all creation shall give thanks to God for the Unsearchable Wisdom of His Providence.
Chapter 12. The Transformed Life
A Magnificent Chapter. In tone, it reminds us of Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount. Paul invariably closed any theological discussion with an earnest exhortation to a Christian Manner of Life. And so here. In previous chapters he has been insisting that our standing before God depends wholly on the Mercy of Christ, and not on our own Good Works. Here is equally insistent that that Mercy, which so graciously Forgives, is the very thing that supplies us with a powerful and irresistible Urge to Good Works, and Transforms our Whole Outlook on Life.
Humility of Spirit ( 3 – 8). This is specially for Church Leaders. So often position of Leadership, which should make us Humble, puffs us up. And so often a person with a certain Talent is inclined to disparage the value of different Talents possessed by others. (See more fully on 1 Corinthians 12-14)
Heavenly Qualities (9 – 21). Brotherly Love, hatred of Evil, specially within ourselves. Diligence, Joyfulness, Patience, Prayerfulness, Hospitality, Sympathy. Concern for that which is Honorable. Peacable. Without Resentment.”
Soli Deo Gloria!