May 31, 2022
1SAMUEL 21-22:
Yesterday we heard the touching story of David
and Jonathan's deep friendship, and how Jonathan realized, at last,
the secret plot that his father, Saul, had against David. Jonathan
seems to have been a prophet, for he realized that he would not
succeed his father as king.
PSALM 104a:
This
is a companion with Psalm 103. This psalm also starts and ends with
the same refrain as the one in Psalm 103. This poem expounds on the
majesty of God.
ROMANS 8a:
Paul
said something in 7:5 that he felt needed to be explained from
verse 7 to the end of chapter 7. (Of course there were no chapters
or verses when Paul wrote it.) He said that the Law “aroused evil
desires.” How could something good seemingly do something evil? Be
sure to always link what Paul was saying before this explanation
with what comes after it. Give the part after that explanation
(chapter 8) priority. Keep in mind that the explanation that Paul
makes (along parenthesis (after 7:7) about how evil desires work)
is not supposed to be our pattern for living now. Our pattern for
living is explained in this chapter!
GNT Translation
notes:
Rom.
8:9 But you [no longer//do not] live as your human nature tells you
to; instead, you live as the Spirit tells you to—if, in fact, God's
Spirit lives in you. Whoever does not have the Spirit of Christ
does not belong to him.
14
Those who are led by God's Spirit are God's
[sons//children].
15 For the Spirit that God
has given you does not make you slaves and cause you to be afraid;
instead, the Spirit makes you God's [sons//children], and by the
Spirit's power we cry out to God, “Father! [(Abba)] my
Father!”
19
All of creation waits with eager longing for God to reveal his
[sons//children].
23
But it is not just creation alone which groans; we who have the
Spirit as the first of God's gifts also groan within ourselves as
we wait for God to make us his [sons//children] and set our whole
being free.