May 20, 2022
1SAMUEL 5-6:
Yesterday we saw the touching way that God
revealed to Samuel how to listen for God's voice, and at the same
time how He again warned Eli of impending disaster. Eli was
incredibly able to recognize the way the Lord works, but at the
same time was unconcerned about how God's words applied to him. Let
us not be like him! Observe this link to Romans: God's judgment
will come to us just as surely as it did to Eli's sons.
PSALM 93:
Like
the Gettysburg Address, sometimes the noblest thoughts are best
expressed with brevity.
ROMANS 2b:
In
yesterday's reading, Paul continued to prove that man is not
“basically good” (which one keeps hearing in Hollywood films and on
the television). Not only are we sinful, but we tend to be
self-righteous— which in itself is sinful. The ‘bad news’ is
compounded in these additional points: “A day of anger is coming,
when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. … There will be
trouble and calamity for everyone who keeps on doing what is evil—
especially for the Jews, but also for the non-Jews.”
Verse 12 is difficult so I suggest reading verse 12 from the PET before picking up reading at verse 13.
12 PET So people who already know the Law and break it are just the same as those who've never heard about the law and commit sin. Sinners who don't know the Law will be destroyed. Similarly, people who already know the Law and commit sin will be judged according to the law.
GNT Translation
note:
Rom 2:28 After all, who is a real Jew[and//,]
truly circumcised? It is not the man who is a Jew on the outside,
whose circumcision is a physical thing.