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Romans
Feb 25, 2009 15:01:03 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Feb 25, 2009 15:01:03 GMT -5
To the Romans 7: 7-25: The Problem of Indwelling Sin
7 So what shall we say? Is the law sin? No way! But I don’t know sin except through the law: for I didn’t know lust until the law said, ‘You shall not covet.’ 8 And sin, taking the opportunity through the commandment, awoke all lust in me: for apart from law sin is dead. 9 And I once lived apart from law, but when the commandment came sin was restored to life, 10 but I died and the commandment that leads to life (the other leads to death) found me: 11 for sin, taking the opportunity through the law, beguiled me and through it I was killed. 12 Thus indeed the law is holy and the commandment is holy and righteous and good.
13 So did the good become evil to me? No way! Rather sin, so that sin might be shown, accomplished death in me through the good, so that sin might be sinful to the extreme through the commandment. 14 For we know that the law is spiritual and I am fleshly, sold as a slave by sin. 15 For I don’t know what I do: for I don’t do what I want, but rather what I hate, this I do. 16 And if I do what I don’t want to, I agree with the law that it is good. 17 And now it is no longer I who does this but the sin that lives in me. 18 For I know that it doesn’t live in me, it is in my flesh, for what I want to do is present in me, and not to do the good: 19 for I don’t do the good that I want, but rather I do the evil that I don’t want. 20 And if I do what I don’t want, it is no longer I who does it but rather the sin that lives in me.
21 Therefore I find (in) the law, when I want to do good, that evil is present in me: 22 for I delight in God’s law with the inner man, 23 but I see another law in my members opposing the law of my mind and making me a captive to the law of sin which is in my members. 24 I am a most wretched man: who will rescue me from this body of death? 25 And thanks be to God through our lord Yeshua the Messiah. Therefore indeed I myself serve God's law with my mind, but the law of sin with my flesh.
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Romans
Mar 3, 2009 16:46:50 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 3, 2009 16:46:50 GMT -5
To the Romans 8: 1-17: Life in the Spirit
8 So now there is no condemnation for those who are in the Messiah Yeshua. 2 For the law of the spirit of life in the Messiah Yeshua has freed you from the law of sin and death. 3 For the law is powerless in that it weakens through the flesh, (but) God sent his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh and about sin he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 so that the righteousness of the law may be fulfilled in us so that we do not walk according to the flesh but according to the spirit. 5 For those who are of the flesh think according to the flesh, but those who are of the spirit think according to the spirit. 6 For thinking according to the flesh is death, but thinking according to the spirit is life and peace: 7 therefore thinking according to the flesh is inimical to God, for it doesn’t obey God’s law, nor can it: 8 and those who are in the flesh cannot please God. 9 But you aren’t in flesh but rather in spirit, since God’s spirit lives in you. And if someone doesn’t have the Messiah’s spirit, he does not belong to him. 10 And if the Messiah is in you, indeed the body is dead through sin but the spirit is alive through righteousness. 11 And if the spirit of the one who raised Yeshua from the dead lives in you, he who raised Yeshua from the dead will also make alive your mortal bodies through his spirit who lives in you.
12 So therefore, brothers, we are debtors not to the flesh, to live according to flesh, 13 For if you live according to the flesh, you are going to die: but if you kill the deeds of the body with the spirit, you will live. 14 For those who live by God’s spirit, these are God’s children. 15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery for being in fear again, but you received a spirit of sonship in which we cry, “Abba, father.” 16 This spirit witnesses with our spirit that we are God's children, 17 and if children, we are also heirs: heirs of God, co-heirs with the Messiah, since we suffered with him so that we may also be glorified with him.
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Romans
Mar 8, 2009 15:52:22 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 8, 2009 15:52:22 GMT -5
To the Romans 8: 18-30: The Glory That is to be
18 For I suppose that the sufferings of the present age are not worthy (compared) to the glory that will be revealed to us. 19 For the eager longing of creation awaits the revelation of the sons of God. 20 For creation was subjected to futility, not voluntarily but by force, in hope 21 that creation itself will also be set free from the slavery of corruption into the freedom of the glory of God’s children. 22 For we know that all creation is groaning and giving birth until the present: 23 and not only this, but also those who have the possession of the spirit, we and they are receiving the crown of sonship with each other, the redemption of our body. 24 For we were saved by hope: and hope that is seen is not hope: for does anyone who sees hope? 25 And if we hope in what we don’t see, we expect it patiently.
26 Just so the spirit assists our weakness: for we don’t know what we should pray, but the spirit himself intercedes with unutterable groans: 27 and he searches our hearts and knows what the mind of the spirit is, for he meets with God on behalf of the holy ones. 28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, who are called according to his purpose. 29 For he knew them in advance, and foresaw them changed into the likeness of his son, so that he would be the firstborn among many brothers: 30 and those he foresaw, he also called: and those he called, he also made righteous: and those he made righteous, he also glorified.
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Romans
Mar 11, 2009 13:49:53 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 11, 2009 13:49:53 GMT -5
To the Romans 8: 31-39: God’s Love
31 So what shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? 32 Since he didn’t spare his own son but handed him over for all of us, how can all things with us and him not rejoice? 33 Who will accuse God’s chosen ones? God is the one who makes righteous: 34 who is the one who condemns? The Messiah [Yeshua] who died, but then was raised, he who also is at God’s right (hand), who also appeals on our behalf. 35 What can separate us from the Messiah’s love? Trouble or difficulty or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or the sword? 36 As it is written that
For your sake we are put to death all day, we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
37 But in all these things we are more than conquerors though the one who loves us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life nor angels nor authorities nor things present nor things to come nor powers 39 nor heights nor depths nor any other creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in the Messiah Yeshua our lord.
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Romans
Mar 17, 2009 13:56:01 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 17, 2009 13:56:01 GMT -5
To the Romans 9: 1-18: God’s Election of Israel
1 I speak the truth in Messiah, I am not lying, my conscience bears witness with me in the holy spirit, 2 that my sorrow is great and the pain in my heart is unceasing. 3 For I myself have become a curse because of the Messiah to my brothers who were born with me according to the flesh, 4 who are the Israelites, to whom belong the sonship and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the law and the worship and the promises, 5 to whom belong the fathers and from whom the Messiah came in the flesh, may God be praised by them forever, amen.
6 And it is not that God’s word fell. For not all who are from Israel are Israel: 7 not that all the seed of Abraham is children, but rather, In Isaac your seed will be called. 8 That is, not the children of the flesh but the children of the promise will be counted as seed. 9 For the word of promise is this, At the right time I will come and Sarah will have a son. 10 And not only that, but also Rebecca conceived, in one sexual act, our father Isaac: 11 for not yet had those who were born done anything good or evil, so that God’s plan might remain according to choice, 12 not by works but by the one who called, it was said that The older will serve the younger, 13 as it is written,
Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.
14 So what shall we say? Is there unrighteousness with God? No way! 15 For he says to Moses,
I will have mercy on whom I have mercy and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.
16 Therefore it is not of the one who wills nor of the one who tries but of God who chooses. 1 For the writing to Pharaoh says that 'For this reason I raised you up, so that I might show my power over you and so that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.' 18 So therefore he has mercy on whom he wants, and hardens whom he wants.
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Romans
Mar 21, 2009 16:57:18 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 21, 2009 16:57:18 GMT -5
To the Romans 9: 19-29: God’s Wrath and Mercy
9 So will you say to me, “[So] how is there still any faultfinding? For does anyone oppose his will?” 20 O man, isn’t it rather that you are the one who is fighting God? Will what is made say to the maker, “Why did you make me this way?” 21 Or doesn’t the potter have authority over his clay, to make one vessel for honorable use and another for dishonor? 22 And if God wants to show wrath and make his power known, didn’t he come with much patience, a vessel of wrath restored for destruction, 23 and so that he might make known the riches of his glory as a vessel of mercy which was prepared for glory? 24 And he called us not only out of the Jews but also out of the gentiles, 25 as it also says in Hosea,
I will call ‘not my people’ my people and ‘unloved’ beloved: 26 and it will be in the place where they were told, ‘You are not my people,’ there they will be called sons of the living God.
27 And Isaiah cries out for Israel, If the number of the sons of Israel is as the sand of the sea, the remnant will be saved: 28 for the lord is bringing it about, he will do it swiftly on the earth. 29 And as Isaiah foresaw,
If the lord of Hosts had not left us seed, we would have been raised up like Sodom and he would have become like Gomorrah.
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Romans
Mar 24, 2009 15:57:48 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 24, 2009 15:57:48 GMT -5
To the Romans 9: 30-10: 4: Israel and the Gospel
30 So what shall we say? That the nations who didn’t seek righteousness have received righteousness, and the righteousness that is from trust, 31 and Israel, seeking the law of righteousness, did not attain the law. 32 Why? Because not by trust but as by works they stumbled on the stumbling stone, 33 as it is written,
Look, I set in Zion a stone of stumbling and a rock of offense, and he who trusts in it will not be put to shame.
1 Brothers, the desire and prayer of my heart to God for them is salvation. 2 For I bear witness about them that they have zeal for God, but not with knowledge: 3 for they don't know God's righteousness and try to establish their own [righteousness], they don't obey God's righteousness: 4 for the Messiah is the goal of the law for righteousness to each one who trusts.
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Romans
Mar 30, 2009 14:07:04 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Mar 30, 2009 14:07:04 GMT -5
To the Romans 10: 5-21: Salvation for All
5 For Moses writes of the righteousness that is from [the] law, that the man who does it will be sought among them. 6 And the righteousness from trust says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will go up to heaven?’, that is, to bring down the Messiah: 7 or, ‘Who will go down to the abyss?’, that is, to bring the Messiah up from among the dead. 8 But what does it say?
The word is near you in your mouth and in your heart,
that is, the word of trust that we proclaim. 9 For if you confess the lord Yeshua with your mouth and believe in your heart that God raised him from among the dead, you will be saved: 10 for it is believed in the heart for righteousness, and it is confessed with the mouth for salvation. 11 For scripture says, Each who trusts in him will not be put to shame. 12 For there is no difference between Jew and Greek, for the same lord is lord of everyone, rich towards all who call on him:
13 For each one who calls on the name of the lord will be saved.
14 So how will they call on one whom they didn’t trust? And how will they trust one whom they haven’t heard of? And how will they hear unless someone preaches? 15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written, How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news of [the] good things.
16 But not everyone obeyed the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has believed our report? 17 So trust is from hearing, and hearing through the Messiah’s word. 18 But I say, isn’t it that they didn’t hear? Remember,
Their voice goes out to the ends of the earth and their words to the bounds of the inhabited world.
19 But I say, isn’t it that Israel didn’t understand? First Moses says,
I will make you jealous of what is not a nation, I will anger you for a witless nation.
20 And Isaiah also says boldy,
I was found [by] those who didn't seek me, I was visible to those who weren't looking for me.
21 And about Israel he says, All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contradicting people.
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Romans
Apr 3, 2009 14:40:40 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 3, 2009 14:40:40 GMT -5
Romans 11: 1-10: The Remnant of Israel
1 So I say, won’t God abandon his people? No Way! For I myself am an Israelite, from the seed of Abraham, the tribe of Benjamin. 2 God will not abandon his people whom he foreknew. Or don’t you understand what it says in the scripture about Elijah, when he pleads to God for Israel? 3 Lord, they killed your prophets, they destroyed your altars, and I alone remain and they are seeking my life. 4 But what does the oracle tell him? I have preserved for myself seven thousand men, who have not bowed the knee to Baal. 5 Therefore thus even in the current time there is a remnant as if chosen by grace: 6 and if by grace, it is no longer by works, or else grace would no longer be grace. 7 What then? What Israel sought, it did not attain, but the chosen attained it: and the rest were hardened, 8 as it is written,
God gave them a spirit of numbness, eyes that don’t see and ears that don’t hear until the day, today.
9 And David says,
Let their table become a snare and a trap and a stumbling block and a retribution for them. 10 Their eyes were blinded in order not to see and their back bends through everything.
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Romans
Apr 8, 2009 12:37:05 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 8, 2009 12:37:05 GMT -5
To the Romans 11: 11-24: The Salvation of the Gentiles
11 So I say, isn’t it that they stumbled in order to fall? No way! But rather by their transgression salvation came to the gentiles to make them jealous. 12 And if their transgression is riches for the world and their failure is riches for the gentiles, how much more will their fullness be.
13 And I speak to you gentiles: therefore, as much as I am the apostle to the gentiles, I glorify my service, 14 so that somehow I may make (the people of) my flesh jealous and save some of them. 15 For if their rejection is the restoration of the world, what will their acceptance be if not life from the dead? 16 And if the first portion* is holy, so is the lump (of dough): and if the root is holy, so are the branches.
17 And if some of the branches and you, a wild olive, were grafted onto them and share in the richness of the olive’s root, 18 don’t boast against the branches: for if you boast, you don’t support the root but it supports you. 19 So will you say, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted on?” 20 Good: they were cut off through lack of trust, and you stay through trust. Through fear, don’t think yourself the highest: 21 for if God didn’t spare the natural branches, he will not spare you. 22 So behold the mercy and severity of God: severity to those who fell, but on you is God’s mercy, if you remain in mercy, there you will also be cut off. 23 And they, if they don't remain in their lack of trust, will be grafted in again: for God is powerful to graft them in again. 24 For if you, by nature a wild branch, are cut off and the natural branch is grafted in again to the cultivated tree, how much more will the natural branches be grafted in to their own tree?
*The part offered to God
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Romans
Apr 20, 2009 15:22:51 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 20, 2009 15:22:51 GMT -5
To the Romans 11: 25-36: The Restoration of Israel
25 I don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, of this mystery, lest you be thinking in yourselves, that the stubbornness of part of Israel has come until the fullness of the gentiles enters 26 and thus all Israel will be saved, as it is written,
The deliverer will come from Zion, he will banish ungodlinesses from Jacob. 27 And this is a covenant with me, when I remove their sins.
28 Concerning the good news they are enemies to you, but concerning choice they are beloved because of their fathers: 29 for God’s gifts and calling are irrevocable. 30 For just as when you were disobedient to God, now you have received mercy through their disobedience, 31 thus also they have disobeyed the mercy shown to us, so that they might also be shown mercy. 32 For God called all in disobedience, so that he might show them mercy.
33 Oh the depth of God’s riches and wisdom and knowledge: as his judgments are unsearchable and his ways unfathomable.
34 For who has known the lord's mind? Or has anyone been his counselor? 35 Or who gave anything to him, and it was returned to him?
36 For from him and through him and for him are all things: to him be the glory forever, amen.
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Romans
Apr 20, 2009 15:55:54 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 20, 2009 15:55:54 GMT -5
To the Romans 12: 1-8: The New Life in Christ
1 So I urge you, brothers, through God’s mercies, to set your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, your logical act of worship: 2 and not to be conformed to this age but to be transformed by the renewal of the mind so that you think what is God’s good and pleasing and perfect will.
3 For I tell you through the grace given to me with all that is in you not to have a higher opinion of yourself than you should but rather to think in order to be sensible, as God measured a measure of trust to each person. 4 For just as we have many members in one body, but the members don’t have their own function, 5 so the many of us are one body in Messiah, and the members are as one to each other. 6 And we have different spiritual gifts according to the grace given to us, either prophecy according to the faith, 7 or service in service, or he who teaches in teaching, 8 or the encourager in encouragement: the giver in generosity, the leader in zeal, the one who acts mercifully in acts of mercy.
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Romans
Apr 20, 2009 16:46:44 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 20, 2009 16:46:44 GMT -5
To the Romans 12: 9-21: Rules of the Christian Life
9 Love is not hypocritical. Hate evil, cling to good, 10 loving brotherly love for each other, paying honor to each other, 11 not lazy in zeal, living in the spirit, serving the lord, 12 rejoicing in hope, standing firm in trouble, bearing fruit in prayer, 13 sharing the needs of the holy ones, practicing hospitality. 14 Bless those who persecute [you], bless and don’t curse. 15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. 16 Think the same for one another, not thinking yourselves highest but being humble with the humble. Do not be wise against each other. 17 Never return evil for evil, take care to do good before all men: 18 if what is outside you is able, be at peace with all men: 19 do not take revenge on each other, beloved, but give place to anger, for it is written, Revenge is mine, I will repay, says the lord. 20 But if your enemy is hungry, feed him: if he is thirsty, give him a drink: for by doing so you pour coals of fire on his head. 21 Don’t be conquered by evil but conquer evil with good.
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Romans
Apr 23, 2009 15:04:47 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 23, 2009 15:04:47 GMT -5
To the Romans 13: 1-7: Obedience to Rulers
1 Let every soul obey the authorities set over them. For there is no authority except that from God, and they are set there by God. 2 Therefore he who resists authority resists what God appoints, and those who resist will receive judgment on themselves. 3 For rulers are not a fear to good deeds but to evil. And you want not to fear authority: do good, and you will have commendation from them: 4 for he is God’s servant to you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid: for not without reason does he bear the sword: for he is God’s servant, a condemnation for wrath against him who does evil. 5 Therefore it is necessary to obey, not only because of wrath but because of conscience. 6 For thus you also bear burdens: for they are God's servants to bear fruit in this very thing. 7 Pay your debts to everyone, tax to whom tax (is due), revenue to whom revenue (is due), fear to whom fear (is due), honor to whom honor (is due).
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Romans
Apr 24, 2009 17:28:39 GMT -5
Post by Child of Immanuel on Apr 24, 2009 17:28:39 GMT -5
To the Romans 13: 8-10: Brotherly Love
8 Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another: for he who loves fulfilles the other law. 9 For 'Do not commit adultery', 'Do not be proud', 'Do not steal', 'Do not covet', and any other command, are summed up in 'Love your neighbor as yourself.' 10 Love does not do evil to its neighbor: therefore love is the fulness of the law.
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