Let’s Read Scripture together…
Here’s first blog
Today’s offered scripture!! Let’s view Together!
Yes you can read and discern scripture. Read on my fellow friends in Christ
Be ready to be edified by The Holy Spirit as he’ll help us hear well this scripture
Romans:11:
17 If some of the branches
have been broken off,
and you,
though a wild olive shoot,
have been grafted in
among the others
and now share in
the nourishing sap
from the olive root,
18 do not consider yourself
to be superior
to those other branches.
If you do, consider this:
You do not support the root,
but the root supports you.
19 You will say then,
“Branches were broken off
so that I could be grafted in.”
20 Granted.
But they were broken off
because of unbelief,
and you stand by faith.
Do not be arrogant,
but tremble.
21 For if God
did not
spare the natural branches,
he will not spare
you either.
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Ok. Ready? Let’s begin.
We gentiles
are the grafted in branches.
We are not to be arrogant
about it as if we are more deserving
Than those discarded.
But ever thankful-fearful- reverent-for the grafting in-approval of God!
Why were we approved?
Grafted into the branches-God’s family?
Our faith. It’s only by our faith-our obedience to God’s salvation plan that we are grafted in.
A caution. We too can be removed by unbelief.
Yes follow in blind obedience not knowing everything-not understanding everything (which is the true definition of faith).
We can’t know the unknowable God .
But we can try to know by what he reveals to us.
Stand blindly in faith that his word is truth.
Question: define arrogant.
(an insulting way of thinking or behaving that comes from believing that you are better, smarter, or more important than other people)
We today see areagance by:
To name a few…
*Reinterpreting scripture to fit an unholy situation… rewriting scripture’s intent. It’s purpose (which is corrective in nature.-to help us stay grafted in)
*Making decisions contrary to the word and expecting to stay grafted in! Think in holiness. Walk in holiness.
* expecting God to bless us when we clearly aren’t standing in faith.
*when treating God like a human. He’s God. He created humans. He’s perfection. We are imperfection.
Arrogant people aren’t able to stay grafted in friends.
When we think we can undo
what God has gone to the trouble to do
because of our elevated sense of worth
we are among all people-
fools.
Repent before the vine dresser gathers you up and tosses you on the burn pile.
(We are to be like sheep to God. To follow the shepherd. Sheep don’t lead the shepherd-the shepherd leads his sheep. )
Lastly in today’s discernment:
21 For if God
did not
spare the natural branches,
he will not spare
you either.
Listen. Shape up. Stand in the faith God presents. Not one you invent .
God bless all.
LORD. Help us to be strengthened to stand obediently
not arrogantly misled into
Being removed from thy branches. Let us feast upon thy root.
In Christ amen.