Jun 4, 2022
1SAMUEL 28-29:
Saul
came after David again with 3,000 men, and David showed his
integrity again and his daring. But even though Saul repented
again, David made the decision to get out of the country so that he
would not continually be in danger. He went to Achish the
Philistine king in Gath. The part about the raids upon three enemy
people groups is not one of the noble chapters of David's
life.
PSALM 106a:
Psalm 106 is a companion to 105, as it again is
a historical psalm. I see a very significant correspondence with
the section of Romans we are now reading. Can you see
it?
ROMANS 10a:
In
our second reading in Romans 9 we saw that the differing responses
of the Jews vs. the non-Jews to the Good News was already predicted
by God. The majority rejection of the Gospel by the Jews was no
surprise to God. People today continue to stumble over the ‘great
rock’ God has placed in their path.
GNT Translation notes:
Ps.106:26 So he [gave//have]
them a solemn warning that he would make them die in the
desert
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Rom. 10:6 But what the
scripture says about being put right with God through faith is
this: “You are not to ask yourself, Who will go up into heaven?”
(that is, to bring Christ down).
8
What it says is this: “God's message is near you, on your lips and
in your heart”—that is, the message [about believing//of faith]
that we preach.
10 For it is by our
[believing//faith] that we are put right with God; it is by our
confession that we are saved.
17
So then, [people believe through//faith comes from] hearing the
message, and the message [is conveyed//comes] through preaching
[about] Christ.
18
But I ask: Is it true that [the people of Israel//they] did not
hear the message? Of course they did—for as the scripture says:
[PET “The sun, moon, and all of the stars speak the news about God
to the whole world that He is the one who created everything. So
people have no reason
not
to know God.”//“The sound of their voice went out to all the world;
their words reached the ends of the earth.”]
19
Again I ask: Did the people of Israel not understand? Moses himself
is the first one to answer[, when he quotes God’s words]: “I will
use a so-called nation to make my people jealous; and by means of a
nation of fools I will make my people angry.”
20
And Isaiah is even bolder when he [quotes God, saying//says], “I
was found by those who were not looking for me; I appeared to those
who were not asking for me.”