Wayne Hilsden

"I ask, then, has God rejected his people?" - Romans 11:1 "His people." Even in their unbelief, Paul still calls Israel God's people. So should we.

"I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means!" - Romans 11:1 No wonder God has not rejected Israel as a people. His reputation is at stake. "For the LORD will not forsake his people, FOR HIS GREAT NAME'S SAKE, because it has pleased the LORD to make you a people for himself." - 1 Samuel 12:22

Heart AND mouth. Salvation isn't meant to be a secret. “If you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved." - Romans 10:9

Israel's survival isn't good luck. It's great grace. That goes for all of us! “If the Lord of hosts had not left us offspring, we would have been like Sodom and become like Gomorrah." - Romans 9:29

God specializes in renaming. Nobodies become sons and daughters. “Those who were not my people I will call 'my people,' and her who was not beloved I will call 'beloved.'" - Romans 9:25

"To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen." - Romans 9:5 The Messiah is a Jew. He still is. Beware, antisemites.

"I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart." - Romans 9:2 Paul never argued about Israel with a cold heart. Theology that doesn't break your heart isn't finished yet.

"For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord." - Romans 8:38,39 Paul listed everything he could think of, then added "anything else in all creation" to cover what he missed. That includes your messy Monday.

"No, in all these things we are MORE THAN CONQUERORS through him who loved us." - Romans 8:37 You're not stuck on this planet to be a mere SURVIVOR.

"Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us." - Romans 8:34 When His WORK was finished on earth, the Messiah didn't go into RETIREMENT. He PRAYS for us 24/7.

"He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?"- Romans 8:32 If He gave the BEST, He won't withhold the rest.

"If God is for us, who can be against us?" -Romans 8:31 Read it again and stress the IS. Not was. Not might be.

Foreknew. Predestined. Called. Justified. Glorified. "And those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified." Romans 8:30 God speaks of our future glory in the PAST tense. It's that settled.

"And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28 // Not all things ARE good. But all things WORK TOGETHER for good.

"Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words." - Romans 8:26 Can't find the words? Good. He can.

One drop of the Messiah's blood is worth more than all the gold of Fort Knox. Wayne Hilsden

Oh, that I was all heart and soul and spirit to tell the glorious gospel of Christ to perishing multitudes!

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No amount of praise is adequate to express the greatness of God's grace.