Category: Devotions

This is God’s plan that was enacted with the call the Abraham in Genesis 12 finding its fruition the salvation of Jews and Gentiles. What glory. What graciousness. What joy. God did not forsake His people Israel but Israel together with the Gentile world can be saved through the gospel of Jesus Christ. How undeserving we are and how merciful God is to condescend to save us!

The Apostle Paul testifies by his personal experience in his encounter with the ascended Christ on the Damascus road and was gloriously saved, “For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; 6 Who gave himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time.” (1 Timothy 2:5-6 ) He further testifies of his calling to service, “Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.” (1 Timothy 2:7).

Despite many differences with regard to choices of taste and preferences among believers, we should receive one another. A person should be received because Christ has received him. Christ has died for him. And therefore, he is precious in God’s sight. It brings glory and honour to God when we are willing to forbear and tolerate each others’ idiosyncrasies.

The Apostle Paul express his desire in prayer that the God of steadfast endurance and encouragement will the strong and the weak believers in Rome to live in peace and harmony looking to Christ Jesus as their example par excellence. Forging unity in worship of God.

God’s Word provides the believer with encouragement and comfort. The biblical characters like Joseph and David, Absalom and Ahithophel helps us to see godly men and also the ungodly. It provides for us admonition and it provides for us wisdom to a godly walk.

The knowledge of God and from God in Scripture is the highest knowledge, the apex of all knowledge. It is the basis or foundation of our faith. Faith comes by hearing and hearing by the Word of God. Dr Carl McIntire, the founder of the Bible-Presbyterian movement says “The genius of the Protestant faith has always been that the Holy Spirit speaks through the Scripture directly to the individual.” It is profitable for you when you appropriate it for yourself with prayer.

The Apostle Paul quoted Psalm 69:9, “For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.” Hendriksen said well, “The main lesson Paul is conveying is this: If Christ, the Holy One, was willing to take upon himself so much suffering, in the form of insults hurled at Him by His enemies, then should not we be willing to sacrifice just a little eating-and-drinking pleasure for the sake of our fellow-believers?”

The Apostle Paul exhorts the believers to practical piety to do good to your neighbour. Bless your neighbour and you will not be poorer for it. The mentality of the fallen man is to exact advantage or good from your neighbour. But the Christian ethos is to do good to your neighbour.

Romans 15:2 Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification. Do good to others is the exhortation of the Apostle Paul. Exercise charity and benevolence in your conversation and interaction with your neighbour. This is …

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The stronger believer ought to bear the infirmities of the weaker believer is the continuing exhortation of the Apostle Paul in this chapter. William MacDonald explains well, “Treat the weaker brother with kindness and consideration.” The reference here is between the difference in practices of eating habits and observing of holy days between Jewish and Gentile Christians.Disharmony arises that disrupts the peace in the body of Christ.