Today's encouragement comes from Romans 10:19, where Paul wrote these words:
“But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, ‘I will make you jeal-ous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish nation I will make you an-gry.’ " (ESV)
Sometimes we modern Christians forget how furious the first-century unbe-lieving Jews were, at the fact that they could see (before their very eyes), that the God of the OT was given to the Gentiles through faith in Jesus Christ; and that they got left out in the cold.
. . . But “jealousy” is a powerful emotion; and the Lord God of glory would (and does) use it, to yet draw His elect unto Himself: from among the Jews as well as the Gentiles.
[Puritan quote of the day: "A Christian conquers, even when he is conquer-ed.” —Richard Sibbes, in, "The Bruised Reed"]
Sometimes we modern Christians forget how furious the first-century unbe-lieving Jews were, at the fact that they could see (before their very eyes), that the God of the OT was given to the Gentiles through faith in Jesus Christ; and that they got left out in the cold.
. . . But “jealousy” is a powerful emotion; and the Lord God of glory would (and does) use it, to yet draw His elect unto Himself: from among the Jews as well as the Gentiles.
[Puritan quote of the day: "A Christian conquers, even when he is conquer-ed.” —Richard Sibbes, in, "The Bruised Reed"]
