The Daily Fountain Devotional Thursday, September 15, 2022
The Daily Fountain Devotional Thursday, September 15, 2022
Thursday, September 15, 2022
TOPIC: SALVATION TO THE GENTILES
TEXT: Romans 11:11-24
11 I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy. 12 Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness? 13 For I speak to you Gentiles, inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I magnify mine office: 14 If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them.
15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead? 16 For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches be broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wert graffed in among them, and with them partakest of the root and fatness of the olive tree; 18 Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.
19 Thou wilt say then, The branches were broken off, that I might be graffed in. 20 Well; because of unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by faith. Be not highminded, but fear: 21 For if God spared not the natural branches, take heed lest he also spare not thee. 22 Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off. 23 And they also, if they abide not still in unbelief, shall be graffed in: for God is able to graff them in again. 24 For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert graffed contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be graffed into their own olive tree?
The Daily Fountain Devotional Thursday, September 15, 2022
INTRODUCTION TEXT
It was not God's desire that the hardened Jews, be lost. He did not predestine them to be hardened neither did He cause them to be hardened. God did not cause them to stumble so that they might fall; it was their choice. Howbeit, their hardening of heart did not endanger the salvation of the spiritual Israel, for the spiritual remnant accepted Jesus and continued on. In fact, those who were the spiritual remnant of Israel were also Jews by heritage. It was this remnant that proclaimed the gospel to Israel.
The good news that came out of the hardening of heart of Israel was that the gospel was speedily preached to the Gentiles (Acts 13:46-48; 18:6). When the message of the grace of God came to them to deliver them from their own imagined fears and ceremonial religion, they eagerly accepted the freedom of the gospel.
Their conversion sparked jealousy in the minds of those who thought they were more righteous than the Gentiles (Acts 10:19; Deut. 32:21; Acts 13:46). As it stands now, do we preach the gospel to the unreached? The Lord has given us a task to reach out to everyone. You are saved to save others.
Prayer: May God give us the grace to reach out to the unsaved and the zeal to stand on our faith.